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I was born in 1975. Graduated high school in 1994. I was a very awkward kid, but for most of the time didn't know it. I just simply had no inkling to take interest in the other person. And that included, most notably for me now, fashion and music. Musicwise, I was only interested in new age/smooth jazz/fusion type stuff. I had a local radio station that played that, and I loved it, as did most of my peers' parents. They were the ones I wanted to emulate.
So, with that said, I was listening to David Lanz and (and without) Paul Speer, Ray Lynch, John (Barlow) Jarvis (now, with the middle name, I think he's country), Checkfield, Yellowjackets, Acoustic Alchemy, and on and on. That radio station and my Nintendo NES were all I cared about.
Now, in middle adulthood, I am all over the place. I didn't grow with the smooth jazz, etc. past about 1992, because all of a sudden there were GIRLS in the neighborhood. Pretty girls. Often hanging out in swimsuits. Often with me. And I wanted to be like them. So, I very slowly opened my mind to the pop and rock of the day.
There, my parents and I started getting into the local listener-supported, free-form radio station. They had their blues fix, and I kind of got to liking a mix of college rock (cool with the right crowd) and klezmer (still uncool). Ever since then (early 90's), I have enjoyed free-form and college radio stations like that, whatever the era.
I think my 80's nostalgia, which is very real and very painful at times, started about 5 years ago. I had always been aware of some of the stuff of the 80's, all the way back to my childhood in the 80's. But in recent years, I started focusing on the 80's, trying to imagine myself in one of the "cool crowds". What kind of stuff would I listen to? Today, from the 80's, I love The (English) Beat the most. Even beyond their hits, there are lots of songs I can get into. Also New Order, Men at Work, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and certain tunes by The Waterboys, General Public, The Kinks, Men Without Hats, XTC, New Order, Joy Division, and others.
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