as well as some of the college radio stuff like REM, OMD, INXS, and other all-caps groups.

In the music crit business we call that the Caps Lock Era.

Okay, we don't but now I will.

(I also refer to the early Beatles music as their Pronoun Era.)

I'm still ashamed I bought the Wilson Phillips album. I wasn't even in high school at the time.

I was never really ashamed of any of my high school favorites, which were mostly Pink Floyd and the Who and the Dead. It was the early 80s, but I guess I didn't know it?

I did have a brief flirtation with ... New Wave? Electronic stuff? I don't even know what to call it -- Romeo Void, Depeche Mode, Yaz, etc. It didn't last long, and I also discovered Joni Mitchell in high school, so.

Styx is another band I loved as a kid that I've slowly been getting back into....

Styx was the second rock concert I ever went to. (Warrant being the first.) (Man, Alaska sucked for seeing big acts.)

I'm still ashamed I bought the Wilson Phillips album. I wasn't even in high school at the time.

Now you can pretend you bought it thanks to Harold & Kumar!!

Now you can pretend you bought it thanks to Harold & Kumar!

Heh.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD ON! FOR ONE MORE DAY!

Wow. Still the funniest thing ever.

I own a lot of stuff now I'd have been DEAD before owning in high school.

I own a lot of stuff now I'd have been DEAD before owning in high school.

Yeah, my love of bandom always seems a little squirmy when my twelve-year-old doesn't even like Fall Out Boy. He adores My Chem, though!

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD ON! FOR ONE MORE DAY!

Wow. Still the funniest thing ever.

Every time I see it, I end up laughing until I cry. Oooh! I should DL that to my itouch so I can watch it whenever I need a laugh.

I do wonder whether the soundtrack to Grease would hold up. Not so much the big production numbers, but some of the songs that played in the background while the plot was going on -- songs like "Those Magic Changes" and "It's Raining on Prom Night."

I recently put the CD on my iPod, and think the answer generally is no, they don't.

My big musical skeletons in the closet are lots and lots of fusion, art rock, and (to a lesser extent) Tangerine Dream/Jean-Michel Jarre type synthesized space rock. Some of the art rock still sounds good (I'm a huge King Crimson fan to this day), but I haven't dared the fusion in a long, long time. The last time I tried any Yes or Emerson, Lake & Palmer, I couldn't believe I had ever been into the stuff (the latter more than the former).

Of course, I was also listening to lots of new wave and punk at the same time. One thing that hasn't changed is that my tastes are very wide, and the obsessive completist in me keeps them pretty deep too. The downside is a lot of vinyl that will never be worth trying to sell (e.g. ELP, Jean-Luc Ponty, etc.).

I'm still ashamed I bought the Wilson Phillips album.

Ahaha! I had that one, too, though I disposed of it years ago. My brother will deny it now, but we totally co-owned Richard Marx - the one with "Right Here Waiting" on it.

I don't exactly have tommyrot's phenomenon going on, but there's some of my middle school music I'd rather listen than HS/college. For example, I'd rather listen to NKOTB than Pearl Jam. Unless you're talking early PJ compared to late NKOTB, then it's a tossup.