Seems to me that the vast majority of folks tend to identify "their music" as the music that they listened to roundabout their days in high school.

 

What were the 5 or 10 bands you would say you listened to the most during your high school years?

I had a lot of classic rock bands and the like that I jammed on a good bit around high school - Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors - but for the sake of making this interesting, I'll strike those and go with bands that were actively putting out music while I was in high school. Points if you can guess what years I was in high school based on my list.

 

Barenaked Ladies

Beastie Boys

Ben Folds Five

Pearl Jam

Radiohead

Smashing Pumpkins

Soundgarden

Third Eye Blind

Weezer

Whiskeytown

N*Sync

Backstreet Boys

98 Degrees

LFO

Boyz II Men

Stones

Pink Floyd

Led Zepplein

The Who

Yes

ELP

Jethro Tull

James Gang

Eagles

KISS

Van Halen

Styx

Queen

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grassroots, Steppenwolf, Bee Gees, The Guess Who

The Beatles

Rolling Stones

Paul McCartney & Wings

Queen

Chicago

America

Grand Funk Railroad

Eagles

Three Dog Night

Electric Light Orchestra

Fleetwood Mac

Earth, Wind, & Fire

War

I had a lot of classic rock bands and the like that I jammed on a good bit around high school - Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors - but for the sake of making this interesting, I'll strike those and go with bands that were actively putting out music while I was in high school. Points if you can guess what years I was in high school based on my list.

 

 

Barenaked Ladies

Beastie Boys

Ben Folds Five

Pearl Jam

Radiohead

Smashing Pumpkins

Soundgarden

Third Eye Blind

Weezer

Whiskeytown

Your list is similar to mine so I would guess 1992-1995.

Alice Cooper

Pink Floyd

Van Halen

AC/DC

Sweet

J Geils Band

Supertramp

Rolling Stones

The Cars

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Kansas

Foreigner

 

 

Unless my dad was driving. Then it was:

Conway Twitty

Loretta Lynn

Dolly Parton

George Jones

etc.

Pearl Jam

Guns 'n Roses

Stone Temple Pilots

Alice In Chains

Hootie & The Blowfish

"Alexander The Great & The Gang

The Roman Aqueducts

Aristotle, Plato, & Socrates

Prophets Of Israel

The Greekers"

 

- mcpapa

Your list is similar to mine so I would guess 1992-1995.

 

I was a little after that. 1995-1999.

"Alexander The Great & The Gang

The Roman Aqueducts

Aristotle, Plato, & Socrates

Prophets Of Israel

The Greekers"

 

- mcpapa

Rolling Stones

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

Deep Purple

Wishbone Ash

America

Yes

The Who

CSN&Y

Black Sabbath

Jethro Tull

Uriah Heep

Alice Cooper

Aerosmith, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, kiss, ted nugent, Bruce Springsteen, ELO, Queen, Hendrix, Van Halen....