Interested to know what others were sticking on your walls growing up – which pop stars, cars, sports people, bands, movies were going up on your walls? Anything other than posters also?
A lot of posters from Kerrang, photos of my friends, things printed from the Internet. I also had lots of wind-chimes and shiny things like that hanging up!
Mildew, mostly. People don’t appreciate double glazing enough.
i wish i had a wall like this
my mum wouldn’t let me saying that i wasn’t brought up to look like i was poor (even though we were)
Peeling flock chip wallpaper and mould.
Nothing. My older sister ruined the walls of her bedroom with bluetak and sellotape so by the time I was old enough to want posters mum said no.
pretty much this, only: swap Dave Grohl for Kurt Cobain, add in a sprinkle of MCR and choose Green Day posters that focus more on Tre Cool.
But yeah, I had many of the exact same posters you have here.
A lot of them were ripped out of Kerrang, or bought them from HMV. Sometimes I’d even be fancy and print them myself.
We used to make each other homemade collages on poasterboard with loads of photos of our friendgroup and little messages. I so wish I’d kept those now!
It really depends on how old I was. When I was really young it was mainly Batman and Pokemon stuff. When I was a teenager it was loads of skating posters, WWF wrestlers, Max Power, [this poster of Christina Aguilaera](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vl0w76e-L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg) that was on the inside of my wardrobe door etc.
My parents had a printer, so memes and nudes mostly. I dread to think how much I cost them in ink
My 1st poster was Adam Ant as Prince Charming. Then Culture Club and the Thompson Twins. I then moved on to U2. Finally, before leaving home it was Sisters of Mercy, the Mission, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus etc. Oh, and black bin bags to cover the 80s wallpaper! They went onto my bedsit walls. My school books were also covered in the same timeline.
Bernie Slaven, Tony Mowbray and Stuart Ripley.
Cindy Crawford and Level 42 posters.
No, YOU’RE not cool!
I put a couple of photos of cars but pretty boring. I like putting important pictures as my Lock Screen and Home Screen of my devices. Like my metal detecting finds.
Blue paint and Wallace and Gromit wallpaper boarders (previously Thunderbirds). And I can not forget the blutak marks from where the posters kept falling off…
Printed out anime and manga pictures alongside Karrang posters and lyric collages. How I ever got a girl back (and stayed) I’ll never know.
At uni, a giant poster of two zebras copulating that was the cover for The Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad Touch single. Pretty sure that’s what bagged me my husband.
A giant rastaszied photo of Laurel and Hardy which took up one whole wall. Used the school printer to print off all 100 or so pages and then Blu tacked them all on the wall. And lots of fhm, MTB uk, a few Lynn Hill posters and kerrang posters on the wall.
Damp mould
Donny Osmond !!
Liverpool FC, oasis and Pamela Anderson lol
Jesus. If someone ever kidnapped and murdered billy joe, that’s what I imagine their room would be like.
Britney Spears posters and some Vice City posters including the fold out map insert that came with the game.
Late 80s early 90s, so all Goth posters. Sisters of mercy, nephilim, a massive Cult one, creaming jesus, cranes. Actually no US bands, thinking about it. apart from some Christian Death flyers
Edit. Just remembered, before I got into music early teens, I had a single poster of a lamborghini countach from athena. Still love the bands, couldn’t care less about cars.
Walls and ceilings were covered in new kids on the block posters. Still have posters up but inside my wardrobe. I’m not ashamed of my fangirling lol
I had some of those exact posters.
I’ve moved on to band prints and tour posters in actual frames now, like a grown-up.
Mostly posters from Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Terrorizer.
Teenage years my walls were covered in MaxPower posters Escort Xr3i’s, Escort Cosworth, Sierra Cosworth, Renault Williams, Nissan Skyline, Mitsubishi Evolution~Tommi Mäk edition, Nissan Skyline to name a few 😍 I wish I had kept them for my future son! I still have some of the model cars though, he has them on his bedroom window.
A Bram Stoker’s Dracula movie poster, about a zillion pictures cut out of empire and premiere magazine of Gary Oldman, Extreme, The Beatles, various Kerrang posters and pictures, pictures of my friends, my dog, and loads of hippy teenage girl crap like wind chimes, spooky witchy images, incense sticks and so on…. And the obligatory wood-chip nasty textured wallpaper which was peeling back, and mouldy bits around my single glazed bedroom window.
Growing up in the 90s/early 00s, I had posters from Terminator, Aliens, The Usual Suspects, Offspring, Soul Asylum, Garbage and Pink Floyd, some little paintings of WW1 and WW2 warplanes, an etching of a pangolin and an antique flintlock musket.
Transitioned from pictures of horses from magazines and then pictures of characters from SpongeBob from magazines 😅
Mine looked like yours. When I was 13 I wanted the walls painted a dark colour but compromised with mum to have a mix of dark purple and lilac. I covered two of the walls in posters, pictures of my favourite bands from Kerrang magazine or print offs of images I found online. When we were moving home and trying to sell the house I refused to pull it all down so the photographer just didn’t take photos of those walls. Mum would apologise to everyone coming in to view the house lol
In the new house I was banned from using posters so I put my favourite posters in the inside of my wardrobe.
honestly not too different from the picture in the OP, but my room was an attic conversion so the posters went all across the slanted ceilings too.
mostly band posters from kerrang, metal hammer, rock sound etc, plus some CoD and GTA posters, and some Chelsea/football stuff too – newspaper backpages, player cutouts from calendars, world cup wall charts etc.
made for a perfect background for mirror selfies on myspace profile pics and webcam chats on msn.
I also remember taking down my big hayley williams poster once because I was too embarrassed when my mum commented on it.
Football posters at first but as I entered my teens they were replaced with girls and rave flyers,literally plastered every inch of my room in flyers.
This looks like my old bedroom except I had a few more FMH and Loaded posters. There was also were Evil Dead 2 and Dragonball Z posters
Kerrang and Sidewalk posters and that IKEA tick shelf.
A working clock with a Clare Grogan Smash Hits cover face pic as the dial, as you do, and as I would again..
Poorly filled, cracks old pain and pinholes from where we used pins to use bed sheets a curtains
A 5ft x 6ft poster of the Slipknot surrounded by loads of other posters from Kerrang and metal hammer.
My mum absolutely hated this giant poster and refused to come into my room as it scared her 😂
Nothing, not allowed to damage the wallpaper.
Hey OP, not sure if you’ve heard of a band called Green Day. I think you might like them.
Shit ripped out of the middle pages of Kerrang. So basically this without the creepy Jessie doll.
Loads of rave flyers. World Dance, Helter Skelter Dreamscape etc etc. I wasn’t old enough to go to most of the classic raves in the 90s but I used to collect the flyers from my local record shop.
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A lot of posters from Kerrang, photos of my friends, things printed from the Internet. I also had lots of wind-chimes and shiny things like that hanging up!
Mildew, mostly. People don’t appreciate double glazing enough.
i wish i had a wall like this
my mum wouldn’t let me saying that i wasn’t brought up to look like i was poor (even though we were)
Peeling flock chip wallpaper and mould.
Nothing. My older sister ruined the walls of her bedroom with bluetak and sellotape so by the time I was old enough to want posters mum said no.
pretty much this, only: swap Dave Grohl for Kurt Cobain, add in a sprinkle of MCR and choose Green Day posters that focus more on Tre Cool.
But yeah, I had many of the exact same posters you have here.
A lot of them were ripped out of Kerrang, or bought them from HMV. Sometimes I’d even be fancy and print them myself.
We used to make each other homemade collages on poasterboard with loads of photos of our friendgroup and little messages. I so wish I’d kept those now!
It really depends on how old I was. When I was really young it was mainly Batman and Pokemon stuff. When I was a teenager it was loads of skating posters, WWF wrestlers, Max Power, [this poster of Christina Aguilaera](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vl0w76e-L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg) that was on the inside of my wardrobe door etc.
My parents had a printer, so memes and nudes mostly. I dread to think how much I cost them in ink
My 1st poster was Adam Ant as Prince Charming. Then Culture Club and the Thompson Twins.
I then moved on to U2.
Finally, before leaving home it was Sisters of Mercy, the Mission, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus etc. Oh, and black bin bags to cover the 80s wallpaper! They went onto my bedsit walls.
My school books were also covered in the same timeline.
Bernie Slaven, Tony Mowbray and Stuart Ripley.
Cindy Crawford and Level 42 posters.
No, YOU’RE not cool!
I put a couple of photos of cars but pretty boring. I like putting important pictures as my Lock Screen and Home Screen of my devices. Like my metal detecting finds.
Blue paint and Wallace and Gromit wallpaper boarders (previously Thunderbirds). And I can not forget the blutak marks from where the posters kept falling off…
Printed out anime and manga pictures alongside Karrang posters and lyric collages. How I ever got a girl back (and stayed) I’ll never know.
At uni, a giant poster of two zebras copulating that was the cover for The Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad Touch single. Pretty sure that’s what bagged me my husband.
A giant rastaszied photo of Laurel and Hardy which took up one whole wall. Used the school printer to print off all 100 or so pages and then Blu tacked them all on the wall. And lots of fhm, MTB uk, a few Lynn Hill posters and kerrang posters on the wall.
Damp mould
Donny Osmond !!
Liverpool FC, oasis and Pamela Anderson lol
Jesus. If someone ever kidnapped and murdered billy joe, that’s what I imagine their room would be like.
Britney Spears posters and some Vice City posters including the fold out map insert that came with the game.
Late 80s early 90s, so all Goth posters. Sisters of mercy, nephilim, a massive Cult one, creaming jesus, cranes. Actually no US bands, thinking about it. apart from some Christian Death flyers
Edit. Just remembered, before I got into music early teens, I had a single poster of a lamborghini countach from athena. Still love the bands, couldn’t care less about cars.
Walls and ceilings were covered in new kids on the block posters. Still have posters up but inside my wardrobe. I’m not ashamed of my fangirling lol
I had some of those exact posters.
I’ve moved on to band prints and tour posters in actual frames now, like a grown-up.
Mostly posters from Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Terrorizer.
Teenage years my walls were covered in MaxPower posters Escort Xr3i’s, Escort Cosworth, Sierra Cosworth, Renault Williams, Nissan Skyline, Mitsubishi Evolution~Tommi Mäk edition, Nissan Skyline to name a few 😍 I wish I had kept them for my future son! I still have some of the model cars though, he has them on his bedroom window.
A Bram Stoker’s Dracula movie poster, about a zillion pictures cut out of empire and premiere magazine of Gary Oldman, Extreme, The Beatles, various Kerrang posters and pictures, pictures of my friends, my dog, and loads of hippy teenage girl crap like wind chimes, spooky witchy images, incense sticks and so on…. And the obligatory wood-chip nasty textured wallpaper which was peeling back, and mouldy bits around my single glazed bedroom window.
Growing up in the 90s/early 00s, I had posters from Terminator, Aliens, The Usual Suspects, Offspring, Soul Asylum, Garbage and Pink Floyd, some little paintings of WW1 and WW2 warplanes, an etching of a pangolin and an antique flintlock musket.
Transitioned from pictures of horses from magazines and then pictures of characters from SpongeBob from magazines 😅
Mine looked like yours. When I was 13 I wanted the walls painted a dark colour but compromised with mum to have a mix of dark purple and lilac. I covered two of the walls in posters, pictures of my favourite bands from Kerrang magazine or print offs of images I found online. When we were moving home and trying to sell the house I refused to pull it all down so the photographer just didn’t take photos of those walls. Mum would apologise to everyone coming in to view the house lol
In the new house I was banned from using posters so I put my favourite posters in the inside of my wardrobe.
honestly not too different from the picture in the OP, but my room was an attic conversion so the posters went all across the slanted ceilings too.
mostly band posters from kerrang, metal hammer, rock sound etc, plus some CoD and GTA posters, and some Chelsea/football stuff too – newspaper backpages, player cutouts from calendars, world cup wall charts etc.
made for a perfect background for mirror selfies on myspace profile pics and webcam chats on msn.
I also remember taking down my big hayley williams poster once because I was too embarrassed when my mum commented on it.
Football posters at first but as I entered my teens they were replaced with girls and rave flyers,literally plastered every inch of my room in flyers.
This looks like my old bedroom except I had a few more FMH and Loaded posters. There was also were Evil Dead 2 and Dragonball Z posters
Kerrang and Sidewalk posters and that IKEA tick shelf.
A working clock with a Clare Grogan Smash Hits cover face pic as the dial, as you do, and as I would again..
Poorly filled, cracks old pain and pinholes from where we used pins to use bed sheets a curtains
A 5ft x 6ft poster of the Slipknot surrounded by loads of other posters from Kerrang and metal hammer.
My mum absolutely hated this giant poster and refused to come into my room as it scared her 😂
Nothing, not allowed to damage the wallpaper.
Hey OP, not sure if you’ve heard of a band called Green Day. I think you might like them.
Shit ripped out of the middle pages of Kerrang. So basically this without the creepy Jessie doll.
Loads of rave flyers. World Dance, Helter Skelter Dreamscape etc etc. I wasn’t old enough to go to most of the classic raves in the 90s but I used to collect the flyers from my local record shop.
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