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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. 08:35 - Apr 30 with 8501 viewsGlasgowBlue

No picking bands in order to look cool. Your genuine top 5 listened to.

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ABBA
Slade
Blondie
ELO

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:34 - Apr 30 with 2193 viewsBLUEBEAT

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:01 - Apr 30 by r2d2

Ive been meaning to ask. Your avatar is from a mod box set. Have you got said box set? Its quite rare nowadays and worth a few bob.


The Moment appear on that comp.

Suffolk’s greatest mod band.

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:56 - Apr 30 with 2173 viewsBlueNomad

In 5th/6th Forms

Slade
Bowie
The Who
Bad Company
Led Zeppelin

In Upper 6th Lynyrd Skynyrd arrived and bang!!
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 14:04 - Apr 30 with 2171 viewsBluespeed225

Hitting Chantry in 77, so it was probably,
Showaddywaddy
Blondie
The Specials
The Jam
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 14:12 - Apr 30 with 2168 viewsr2d2

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:17 - Apr 30 by Lord_Lucan

No I haven't I'm afraid.

Rarely see them for anything less than £100.


Yep. Thats about the price. Discogs occasionally get 1 but always expensive.
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 14:15 - Apr 30 with 2164 viewsr2d2

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:34 - Apr 30 by BLUEBEAT

The Moment appear on that comp.

Suffolk’s greatest mod band.


Didnt realise they came from Suffolk. Yes they are on that set.
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 14:28 - Apr 30 with 2160 viewsBluespeed225

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:34 - Apr 30 by BLUEBEAT

The Moment appear on that comp.

Suffolk’s greatest mod band.


Was Steve Rinaldi in the band? Saw him in the Drum when it was trying to be a music venue.
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 14:49 - Apr 30 with 2148 viewsEpiphone

ABBA
ELO
Genesis
Pink Floyd
Queen
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:22 - Apr 30 with 2131 viewsGodzilla

Probably:
Queen (pre-punk LPs)
Buzzcocks
The Boys
Sham 69 (being honest)
Ultravox (John Foxx led)
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:30 - Apr 30 with 2123 viewsStochesStotasBlewe

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 10:25 - Apr 30 by Lord_Lucan

High School is a long time for a kid and people change massively over 5 years, At the start of high school I was listening to Abba and Queen.

I have decided to list what I was listening to in the final couple of years - 4th / 5th form.

The Jam
The Who
Stranglers
The Chords
Purple Hearts

Special mention to AC/DC who were a constant secret pain in my Mod life.


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We have no village green, or a shop. It's very, very quiet. I can walk to the pub.

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:31 - Apr 30 with 2123 viewsLord_Lucan

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:22 - Apr 30 by Godzilla

Probably:
Queen (pre-punk LPs)
Buzzcocks
The Boys
Sham 69 (being honest)
Ultravox (John Foxx led)


I think Buzzcocks and Sham would be in my 6 - 10 list along with XTC

The Buzzcocks were closet Mods really, I bumped into Steve Diggle a few years back on a boat going up the Thames watching a Sex Pistols tribute band. It was the same boat that The Pistols played on the Thames in 1977 before getting arrested by the River Filth.

Sham69, what can I say? That's Life album is brilliant.

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:48 - Apr 30 with 2106 viewsLord_Lucan

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:30 - Apr 30 by StochesStotasBlewe

There a bit of rocker screaming to get out 🤟


I must say that this was a constant problem. As you remember back then you simply could not be anything inbetween, a glance at my record collection would have meant losing Ace Face status!!

Nowadays I would be happy watching AC/DC resplendent in a boating blazer.

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:50 - Apr 30 with 2103 viewsChurchman

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 11:27 - Apr 30 by Lord_Lucan

Nice mix NSO, I have listened to all of those relentlessly over time although I was never a huge fan of Quo.

I did though recently read Francis Rossi's autobiography (highly recommended) and started to listen to the music again and actually they are better than people think.

Hope you are well by the way.


Status Quo Live 1977 is one of the best live albums ever made, in my totally biased opinion and a few sane people’s too. A double album that’s worth a listen. At that time they had the original Frantic Four line up and hadn’t copped out. A proper live band, I saw them live for the first time that year and it was mental. As one music paper described, it was like having you brain pulled down through your nostrils.
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:53 - Apr 30 with 2102 viewsPlums

New Model Army
Dogs D’Amour
Iron Maiden
Queensryche
Skid Row

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 17:46 - Apr 30 with 2083 viewssolemio

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 12:50 - Apr 30 by Northstandoldie

Quo were (and are) a lot more diverse than folks think, they are not the '3 chord wonders' that people say. As for the others I included both Ian Dury and Squeeze because of their lyrics, Difford and Tillbrook were one of the best songwriting duos out there. The Stranglers were different..... a punk band that could actually play Greenwood on the keyboards was a master. I couldn't leave the pistols out... as a punk they stood for everything our generation felt at the time.
As for myself I'm ok if extremely bored what with my Copd and the fact my job entailed me delivering medication to both care homes and joe public I was always going to be told to self-isolate and that's the case... gives me a chance to catch up on boxsets!
Worst thing is... I can't go fishing!!


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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 17:52 - Apr 30 with 2079 viewsxrayspecs

The Smiths
Iron Maiden
Marillion
U2
Simple Minds

Xrayspecs
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 17:54 - Apr 30 with 2077 viewsleitrimblue

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 13:34 - Apr 30 by BLUEBEAT

The Moment appear on that comp.

Suffolk’s greatest mod band.


Haverhills greatest mod band. I actually bought a shed full of lambrettas from Adrian Holder in the early 90,s
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:01 - Apr 30 with 2067 viewsClapham_Junction

Blur
Bryan Adams
Pulp
Lighting Seeds
Queen
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:07 - Apr 30 with 2060 viewsr2d2

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:48 - Apr 30 by Lord_Lucan

I must say that this was a constant problem. As you remember back then you simply could not be anything inbetween, a glance at my record collection would have meant losing Ace Face status!!

Nowadays I would be happy watching AC/DC resplendent in a boating blazer.


I know what you mean. Im a real old Mod, but l have a thing for Iron Maiden. I must confess to having all their albums.
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:10 - Apr 30 with 2057 viewsSwansea_Blue

Not entirely sure tbh, but think it'd be something like

Status Quo
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Guns N Roses
Marillion

Last 2 in 6th form more than comp.

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:14 - Apr 30 with 2053 viewsSwansea_Blue

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 15:50 - Apr 30 by Churchman

Status Quo Live 1977 is one of the best live albums ever made, in my totally biased opinion and a few sane people’s too. A double album that’s worth a listen. At that time they had the original Frantic Four line up and hadn’t copped out. A proper live band, I saw them live for the first time that year and it was mental. As one music paper described, it was like having you brain pulled down through your nostrils.


Quo were the band that first weaned me onto 'proper' music (not chart crap) when I was about 9 or 10. I put them on my list just for that reason, but was pretty soon on to Maiden and Metallica.

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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:30 - Apr 30 with 2047 viewsrfretwell

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 10:10 - Apr 30 by Guthrum

Genres mainly - New Romantic, rock/metal, folk and '60s. Didn't start getting into specific bands until I was in the 6th Form, when it was Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Sisters Of Mercy, The Beatles.


Deep Purple, Led Zep, Edgar Broughton Band, Ten years After, Genesis all the great rock bands. Saw loads live around Suffolk and Essex. On our Lambrettas from Ipswich to Essex Uni, Felixtowe Pier Pavilion, the Edmonton Sundown North London. Anyone go to the Weeley Rock Festival? Great times.
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:52 - Apr 30 with 2038 viewsChurchman

The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 18:14 - Apr 30 by Swansea_Blue

Quo were the band that first weaned me onto 'proper' music (not chart crap) when I was about 9 or 10. I put them on my list just for that reason, but was pretty soon on to Maiden and Metallica.


I liked Iron Maiden and Metallica too, but never saw them live. Other bands I enjoyed at the time were Thin Lizzy (deafening live) and Deep Purple. While I like many different genres of music I’ve always liked bands with no nonsense raw energy.

Those were the days of small venues, mouldy old cinemas, warm flat beer if you could get any (and pitch up with a few inside in case you couldn’t), the waft of cigarettes and other stuff, speakers from the stage to the roof stacked up, high tech? a spotlight if you were lucky. The band tooling on when they were ready. Happy days
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 19:04 - Apr 30 with 2032 viewsjontysnut

Started school with top 40, Bolan, Wizzard etc, moved onto bit of Hawkwind, Yes, Floyd, Deep Purple, discovered Dr Feelgood, then the Damned and The Jam. All in 5 years 72-77
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 19:27 - Apr 30 with 2020 viewsPecker

Queen
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
REO Speedwagon
Simple Minds
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The 5 bands/ acts you listened to most at high school. on 20:09 - Apr 30 with 2003 viewsazuremerlangus

Madness (early stuff)
Queen
ELO
Blondie
The Beatles

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