I went to the supermarket, guess what I bought?
Oh yeah
Anyway, there's a thread about Japanese music somewhere in which Evol raves about experimental weirdos and myself about Shonen Knife and Mono. But I'll mention what music that I listened to in my late teens that is still relevant to me now and I still enjoy immensely. Mind you this comes from someone that saw SY live for the first time at age 19 in 1991, and ran away after three songs. Check youtube for footage of the Ein Abend In Wien festival, it was bizarre. SY was the headliner, and I didn't know them yet. And they were loud and made a lot of noise including screw drivers used on their guitars, and we were tired.
The Cure. I don't listen to whatever they released after Disintegration. But nearly everything until then (and including) is cool, but especially those first albums, up till Faith or even Pornography. When I was 16, I had this immense poster of Robert Smith' head above my bed from the Kiss Me era. I still get nightmares
Neil Young, especially with Crazy Horse. Still remember the first time I heard him, Rocking In The Free World was the song. It was used in some documentary we were watching in class, during Economy or Social Studies. I was dozing as usual, but was wide awake all of a sudden. Start with Weld probably if you want it loud, but my favourite remains Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and After The Gold Rush.
Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young), and whatever Crosby and Nash did solo or together in the late sixties and early seventies. It started my fascination with listening to live bootlegs, just imagine what gear was used back in those days.
Nick Cave. Start as I did with Let Love In and/or Murder Ballads and work your way down and then up again
Janis Joplin
Joy Division. Actually started listening to New Order first but Joy Division remains top notch no matter how many times I've heard it.
It's funny that you have Use Yr Illusion. Now that's something I never listen to anymore. Never been a big Nirvana fan either, I preferred Smashing Pumpkins but only the first two albums. And lateron Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
I could name some more perhaps (Dinosaur Jr/Sebadoh, dEUS and Magnapop) but those are the most important ones.
Then there's a lot of music that I wouldn't have liked back then that I do like now.
The neo-classical music like Nils Frahm and Lubomyr Melnyk
The jazz music like Nina Simone, Chet Baker or whatever. Still don't like the freakjazz though and to me even most of Miles Davis falls under it.
The post-rock. I wonder if I would have liked Lift Your Skinny Fists if I had heard it at age 16
The freak-out avantgarde experimental punk stuff. There's still a lot of that that I don't like to hear albums of, but live is a true experience such as Glenn Branca. Or The Ex. But many of their albums are cool as well.
Then there's a lot that I liked in my teens that don't do it for me anymore
Green Day. Oh my god that they still exist (accidentally watched them on MTV during the EMA awards). Good for them but I've no interest in listening to them, new or old work
Same with The Offspring I've a CD of them and wonder why
Pixies I also no longer enjoy listening, but that's because of overdoseingly hearing them too much.