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now own by which the 17-year-old you or 1984-era you would be absolutely shocked and possibly horrified?

I think the 17-year-old me (from 1988) would beat me senseless if he saw these:
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Association - Greatest Hits
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
ABBA Gold
Paul McCartney - Band On The Run

I always liked "Classic Rock", some "Pop" and a lot of Classical/Baroque before and right along with all the "Alternative" genres which I really didn't discover until I was 18(blame living in the South). Don't be embarrassed Otters. You can't beat The Ass

These are the albumns my good friends were listening to back in the day (at the time I was actually in the closet you might say for my fondness of New Wave ). I ended up buying these on CD for nostalgic reasons and making a MP3 compilation.

AC/DC - B

[quote]Originally posted by Grayson
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Bee Gees Greatest Hits. I'd always disavowed disco in all it's forms. But I think getting into early house in the late 80s and various electronica in the early 90s gave me some appreciation of them...albeit in a kind of kitchy, ironic sense. Other than th

You guys crack me up! Ya know, I own a copy of every album mentioned so far in this thread (either vinyl, CD or both). [:p]

I have never given a damn what anyone thought of my admittedly bizarre musical tastes. I have always listened to whatever I l

In my older years, I had purchased some CD's from Electric Light Orchestra, having disavowed ever having one of their records during the whole new wave era. I think I still have a lot of the snobbery that came with the new music then, but I'm a little mo

Electric Light Orchestra is great. I have their "best of" in my collection.

ABBA-Gold/The Visitors
Carpenters-Gold (Actually the only cd that both myself and my parents own, who would have thought that!!)
Joni Mitchell-Court and Spark/Blue/Hissing of Summer Lawns

And then there are the cds that I use to own on vinyl but got

It's interesting to see people on a new wave board praise Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Journey, and, heaven help us, the Bee Gees (!) while U2, R.E.M., the Police, Sting and the Talking Heads have scorn heaped upon them. It's not everyone or the same always play

[quote]Originally posted by scramjet
[br]It's interesting to see people on a new wave board praise Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Journey, and