Music! Albums that kept you going during your school years.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:36 pm

you lot have no idea how lucky you were to have access to music-machines, whatever the type/model... back in my days at Hertford ( read Borstal), we had communal radio in the day-room ( only on at tea-time in the week-end) and radios in the LVI and UVI studies - again, only usable in the evening, and at week-ends. Fondest memories are Sunday evenings listening to the top 40 from Radio Caroline - played all the " verboten" records not aired by the Beeb - notoriously, Gainsbourg.

Otherwise, raised on the Beatles, Stones, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, the whole of Tamla Motown and Bob Dylan.

Now an unashamed fan of Eminem, H.C.Peppers and Robbie ( bless his little socks )

marty · Post by **marty** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:00 pm

Stone Roses/Happy Mondays - always on in Peele in the early 90s.
later on moved on to Radiohead's The Bends, REM - Automatic for the people/Out of Time, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Oasis and my personal favourite - The Doors - still one of the best bands ever, along with Pink Floyd

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:44 pm

Pink Floyd - oh yeah! Although I listened to them more at Uni as the chaps in my tutor group one of their ablums on quite often. Had a nostalgia moment over Christmas and pulled out all the old tapes - sadly they weren't quite as good as I remembered them.

tobeconfirmed · Post by **tobeconfirmed** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:51 pm

later on moved on to Radiohead's The Bends, REM - Automatic for the people/Out of Time, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Oasis and my personal favourite - The Doors - still one of the best bands ever, along with Pink Floyd

Those two REM albums are so good, listening to 'Shiny Happy People' as we speak! Can anyone think of a happier song? Maybe 'Friday I'm in love' by the Cure or 'Must be talking to an angel' by the Eurythmics

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:08 am

tbs wrote:
later on moved on to Radiohead's The Bends, REM - Automatic for the people/Out of Time, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Oasis and my personal favourite - The Doors - still one of the best bands ever, along with Pink Floyd
Those two REM albums are so good, listening to 'Shiny Happy People' as we speak! Can anyone think of a happier song? Maybe 'Friday I'm in love' by the Cure or 'Must be talking to an angel' by the Eurythmics

Shiny Happy People is a bit cheesy but it's a damn good song!

How about Beautiful Day by U2 - or Bright Side of the Road by Van Morrison...

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:02 am

all happy harcore music is happy! and hardcore...

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:12 pm

Scary teachers... heh-heh. That's part of the "Don't smile until Christmas" rule; along with "Don't start out by trying to get them to like you / be your friend" - or so I'm told.

FrogBoxed · Post by **FrogBoxed** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:30 pm

The Smiths and the Cure... played constantly in the dorm/day room during my juniors. Not my choice at the time, but I found myself buying albums recently... I got home, put them and "wham" I was back in the dorm - rock hard bed, wardrobe walls, parquet flooring (splinters mandatory) and all!

tobeconfirmed · Post by **tobeconfirmed** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:42 pm

The Smiths and the Cure... played constantly in the dorm/day room during my juniors

'Close to me' - one of the best songs ever!

Mike B · Post by **Mike B** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:12 pm

In my time - early 60s - we didn't get much access to contemporary music so what we had was precious, a link to the real world outside. I fell in love with pop music at the age of 12 - the Braun under the blanket, Radio Lux fading in and out - but all leisure time listening was controlled by the senior boys. They were mad about pre GI Elvis, Gene Vincent and 50s rock stalwarts so that's what we listened to - it was an education. What got me through at first was Buddy Holly, then of course the Beatles and the Stones and Dylan. It was weird being at a place like CH in the mid-60s. In the holidays we'd be off to the Marquee to see The Who, Small Faces, Moody Blues and - a big CH favourite - Spencer Davis. Back at school we were cut off from most pop culture - though I remember listening to Radio Caroline down at Doctor's Lake during my stint in the so-called Pioneer Corps. Banned from the day room during Sunday afternoon HOOB, we'd sit on the bench outside and listen to the music leaking from inside where the prefects were putting their feet up. It was a unique experience to listen to Desolation Row in those circumstances, wearing the same clothes as Henry James bleeding Sumner Maine himself probably pulled on back in the nineteenth century. I left at the end of 1965, before my time, aware of how badly I was missing out.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:58 am

Mike B wrote:In the holidays we'd be off to the Marquee to see The Who, Small Faces, Moody Blues and - a big CH favourite - Spencer Davis.

Those must have been interesting times!

I remember a couple of us sneaking away from C.H. one Saturday evening to see the Jam play at the Lyceum (must have been 1978, I think).

A great gig, and no-one missed us.

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:59 pm

during CH, hmmm let me think.....

pretty much all of my Iron Maiden albums
"" "" "" "" "" Guns 'n Roses ""
Led zep 1,2,4 and 'presence'
floyd - dark side of the moon (coincidentally, mr mason has the poster in his physics classroom)
most Offspring
Joni Mitchell - [laugh and i will KILL you]
AC/DC - if you want blood... [no, that's actually what it's called]
deep purple - in rock, machine head
black sabbath - paranoid
Rage Against the Machine - mostly RATM
Madness - heavy heavy hits
van halen - van halen
Clapton - earlier stuff, mostly cream
bob marley - earlier stuff

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:10 pm

Richard Ruck wrote: I remember a couple of us sneaking away from C.H. one Saturday evening to see the Jam play at the Lyceum (must have been 1978, I think).
A great gig, and no-one missed us.

A couple of girls in my year habitually did that kind of thing too. They'd sign in in house at lock up on Saturday night and then slip out again to get the last train up to the big smoke, go to a club and then get the first (ish) train back to school in time for Band practice/Chapel.

It's a wonder they never got caught.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:12 pm

Deb GP wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote: I remember a couple of us sneaking away from C.H. one Saturday evening to see the Jam play at the Lyceum (must have been 1978, I think).
A great gig, and no-one missed us.
A couple of girls in my year habitually did that kind of thing too. They'd sign in in house at lock up on Saturday night and then slip out again to get the last train up to the big smoke, go to a club and then get the first (ish) train back to school in time for Band practice/Chapel.

It's a wonder they never got caught.

What's a "lock-up", if you don't mind me asking? Not sure I remember such a thing, although it may well have existed in my time....

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:17 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
Deb GP wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote: I remember a couple of us sneaking away from C.H. one Saturday evening to see the Jam play at the Lyceum (must have been 1978, I think).
A great gig, and no-one missed us.
A couple of girls in my year habitually did that kind of thing too. They'd sign in in house at lock up on Saturday night and then slip out again to get the last train up to the big smoke, go to a club and then get the first (ish) train back to school in time for Band practice/Chapel.

It's a wonder they never got caught.
What's a "lock-up", if you don't mind me asking? Not sure I remember such a thing, although it may well have existed in my time....

It was the time when you had to be back in house - before it was locked...