So it's 31st December 1989

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Thrasher73 wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

1989. My senior year of high school. These would have been my Top 10 cassettes to have in my locker and in my Walkman, in no particular order.

Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
State of Euphoria - Anthrax
Get Your Wings - Aerosmith
So Far, So Good, So What - Megadeth
Long Cold Winter - Cinderella
Zoso - Led Zeppelin
Appetite for Destruction - GnR
Among the Living - Anthrax
Peace Sells - Megadeth
...And Justice for All - Metallica

Great list! We would’ve been best friends in high school!

Yep. Pretty much every band on that list was a recommendation from high school buddies. I've mentioned before, since I had no older siblings to guide me in the ways of cool music, I relied on the guys I hung with to say "Hey man, check these guys out".

And I don't know if it was a Philly thing, but we had no problem playing something from Cinderella and following it up with an Anthrax song. Hair bands and thrash bands meshed pretty well in the crowd I hung with. There was no big separation between the styles. It was all "metal" to us.

It was a little different at my school. There were some metal heads that were you’re true arcane steel guys that thought the hair bands were gay, then others like me that liked it all.

I preferred the hair stuff. But I'm a bit younger, and hair metal stayed relevant a little longer in Finland.