In the Rock of Life series I will be recounting my music listening history throughout the years. Each year, starting with 1982, I will describe what I was listening to at the time and then pick my “Album of the Year”. Some (arbitrary) rules: the album will have been released in that year, although some could be from late in the prior year. It must be an album I actually listened to back then, not an album I discovered later. It can’t be a “greatest hits” album.
As someone who runs an indie tape label, it's maddening that we're selling cassettes for $10 almost forty years later. Would love to trot out a $28 cassette 😂
Interesting. I must have taken a detour around 1980, but by 1986 I was completely immersed in New Wave, so I missed all of the mainstream rock at the time. I started getting caught up many years later. I'm a bit older, so it's interesting to get your perspective.
In '86 I remember the Van Halen and Peter Gabriel albums getting the most attention. The albums I was enjoying the most at the time were Club Ninja by Blue Oyster Cult, Life's Rich Pageant by R.E.M., Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden, and Candy Apple Grey by Husker Du.
As someone who runs an indie tape label, it's maddening that we're selling cassettes for $10 almost forty years later. Would love to trot out a $28 cassette 😂
Interesting. I must have taken a detour around 1980, but by 1986 I was completely immersed in New Wave, so I missed all of the mainstream rock at the time. I started getting caught up many years later. I'm a bit older, so it's interesting to get your perspective.
In '86 I remember the Van Halen and Peter Gabriel albums getting the most attention. The albums I was enjoying the most at the time were Club Ninja by Blue Oyster Cult, Life's Rich Pageant by R.E.M., Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden, and Candy Apple Grey by Husker Du.