I was in high school in the mid-eighties. Pink Floyd was huge and so was Sabbath and Maiden--I can remember that on our soccer team The Trooper was the official get pumped song. In college I started to get into the horn--played trumpet, and listened to loads upon loads of jazz. Now at the ripe age of thirty-three, I find myself playing Brahms and Satie and Ludwig Van
Of all the 80s stuff that I listend to I still love that early Floyd sound, not Sid Barret early, but Ummagumma, Meddle, and one of my all-time-favorites, Animals.
