OMG, I feel *so darn old* right now. The Kelly's were when I was in highschool, and 'Blue' came out when I was already off to the pre-Uni year (only makes sense in my neck of the woods)... and Him, gosh, highschool and the early years of Uni were filled with these things. I half-expect you now to mention Smashing Pumpkins so I can admit with a long-ago remembered sneer that back when that was hot in high school I was too anti-trendy to listen to bands that ripped off the oldie-but-goodies...
For me, I grew up on my father's vinyls (The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, ABBA, two Muppet albums -shuttup, they still rock- and Bonny M.) and later Disney cartoon-musicals (which I taped off the TV with clever use of earphones cables and lots of stubborness)... but when I was a kid I liked early '80s now-ex-YU pop bands as well as YU pop-folk, a fact I will never forgive myself for (but drat it all, I was a *kid*, it's supposed to be OK to be stupid at that age). The came pop-rock, rock (not hard rock, though - ick), then nu-metal then ska and punk (yay!) and all permutations of ska-punk-rock with a side-order of the occasional hardcore live show... but musicals have remained a fave of mine, as well as the oldie-but-goodies.
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For me, I grew up on my father's vinyls (The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, ABBA, two Muppet albums -shuttup, they still rock- and Bonny M.) and later Disney cartoon-musicals (which I taped off the TV with clever use of earphones cables and lots of stubborness)... but when I was a kid I liked early '80s now-ex-YU pop bands as well as YU pop-folk, a fact I will never forgive myself for (but drat it all, I was a *kid*, it's supposed to be OK to be stupid at that age). The came pop-rock, rock (not hard rock, though - ick), then nu-metal then ska and punk (yay!) and all permutations of ska-punk-rock with a side-order of the occasional hardcore live show... but musicals have remained a fave of mine, as well as the oldie-but-goodies.