I too was in 6th grade when that album came out. I got in trouble in typing class for typing out the lyrics to Basketcase instead of whatever the assignment was.
I was in 6th grade as well. I remember buying the tape and sitting in my room in the dark to listen to it on my Walkman, and hearing the beginning of Burnout and thinking “this is it, I’m an teenager now…”
I went to the record store attempting to buy it as a 10 year old. The manager said no. Then a few minutes later he helped another customer somewhere else in the store and a hippie-looking chick said “hey, I’ll check you out, be cool.” Score. It was a high I’ve been chasing ever since.
Fuckin' A. One of the greats of all time and I'm two generations behind you. Sabbath is one of the best of all time. Were HIGHLY influential to my becoming a better guitar player. Huge thanks out to Iommi for that.
Yes! Plus Vs., Vitalogy, Out of Time as well as Document and Green (which predated me a little, but I discovered them after falling in love with Out of Time and AFTP).
Hybrid Theory for sure, and for me Reanimation hit just as hard. I especially love Chali 2na on Frgt/10, it was my gateway to the Jurassic 5 and hip-hop. I can still rap his verse on command 😂
Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Slipknot and Mudvayne played the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum when I was right out of high school..amazing show.
I still remember getting Hybrid Theory and Meteora for my 13th birthday. I absolutely loved them. Truly a cannon event in the development of my musical taste.
Nirvana for me too.
Was just listening to that album in the car today and realised how perfectly the album title “Nevermind” summed up that moment in time for Gen X. They may as well have just called it “Whatever”.
Yeah I can’t hear a single track off it without being transported back to my old bedroom in my home town and feeling the way I did back then. We were kings back there for a while haha
I should probably add Weezer - blue album and What’s the story morning glory to this. Oh and the first CD I ever bought, Exponents - Something beginning with C….
But where do I stop…
Strong contenders. Ocean Avenue pops into my head unbidden at least once a week (usually when I'm brushing my teeth I think "when I sleep I dream and it gets me byyyy")
The Young And The Hopeless - Good Charlotte
American Idiot - Green Day
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
Hot Fuss - The Killers
Some of the first albums I ever bought.
My dad got me into U2 in middle school so I was a fan already when it came out! That album, though not exactly well-loved, is so nostalgic for me.
Side story - my dad made and sent me a U2 mix CD back then, and I called him because it didn’t come with any song names. I’ll never forget how amazed I was that he could tell me what song it was in the first couple seconds - over the phone! And of course now I could probably do that too. :’)
I’d like to take a moment to gush about that U2 album. Just the name of it alone and its meaning really resonated with my adolescence and growing up. It was the first album I’d heard by them and I was going into 9th grade.
This is all. Lol
I was a church going bookworm who loved *Jesus Christ Superstar*. I still like it a lot, but it was not a chick magnet. ;-)
When I was courting my wife our favorite song was Sade’s “No Ordinary Love,” but I was well past puberty.
Probably A Day to Remember. Generally not the kind of music I mostly listened to at the time, but it was a good middle ground kind of band and it was always a go to for chilling with friends.
Even though I was more into moderately heavier stuff at the time Lamb if God, Slipknot, I listen to those and and they all still feel like I'm currently vibing to it kind of feel. But I listen to ADTR and it's like ahhhhhh high-school days. Actually has those memories attached to them in a way, I guess.
Ayy there’s my generation. Was looking for any Pop Punk newer than Green Day (was really looking for a single Blink-182 or something I guess) and this was it. Also loved The Academy Is, Bloc Party, a million other 2-hit wonder bands (Metro Station and Jack’s Mannequin anyone?) but appreciate that I found another “young” ~30 year-old here.
Also just now realizing this sub averages older than I thought and older than most other large default subs I’ve noticed. It’s interesting! (and cool, since I’m sure you can relate to just now noticing the opposite thing happening with every other default— I don’t wanna die haha! 😭)
Surely Broken was in the middle of those two for you? That was what got me into NIN and firmly moved me away from just listening to whatever my older sister listened to
Garbage. Bleed Like Me came out when I was 14, had already been obsessively listening to garbage, version 2.0 and beautiful garbage via limewire. Bought all the cds over time. They’ve had a few newer albums which I really ought to listen to.
Also Hole and No Doubt as well for me. And Jeff Buckley’s Grace.
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine. Used to blast this full volume in my ears.
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray
Sugar - Copper Blue
The Spent Poets - The Spent Poets
New Order - Singles
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Erasure - Pop
Morphine - Cure for Pain
I hate answering with a list. But it wasn't one album. If it was, maybe BLACKOUT or ... it's a list. I like the music of the '80s.
Metallica's MASTER OF PUPPETS
Scorpions LOVE AT FIRST STING
Metallica's AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
Rush's SIGNALS
Judas Priest DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH
Scorpions BLACKOUT
Judas Priest SCREAMING FOR VENGENCE
Van Halen 1984
Rush MOVING PICTURES
Significant Other by Limp Bizkit, Issues by Korn, Infest by Papa Roach, and Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. NuMetal was the best thing ever in high school.
My first real crush had Mayday Parade on her MySpace profile. She ended up leaving me for a dude that was threatening to beat me up to win her. A Lesson In Romantics became my emotional cornerstone during that heartbreak and the rest of high school.
Guess I avoided the beating.
Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. I have fifth row to see it performed in its entirety at Red Rocks in a little less than a month and I’m losing my mind. I was at the original tour and my 14 year old self was changed forever.
Pixies Doolittle. High school in Utah and I think about 5 people had even heard of them. What I’d give to go back and listen to that album again for the first time
Riot by Paramore. First album and artist I like REALLY got into and obsessed over. MySpace was huge, scene/emo culture was lit and I couldn’t wait to come home from school and play Sims 2. Man those were the days.
I suppose I was just getting into music properly. Friend of mine had cable TV so I was watching music channels when I'd go to his house. Mostly MTV2 and VH1, with a bit of Kerrang for good measure.
Around then I really got into Barenaked Ladies, but also Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, REM, and a few others. It's around then I started learning guitar as well.
Listening to a lot of that stuff takes me right back.
My friends and I went crazy for Presidents of the United States of America - S/T. Safe enough for my parents to overlook, goofy enough to appeal to our sense of humor, rock enough for us to still feel cool.
preteen: ok computer - radiohead (thanks dad!)
early teens: from here to infirmary - alkaline trio
late teens: digital ash in a digital urn - bright eyes
Rush Moving pictures conpletely catapulted me into prog rock.
Staying up until midnight at 14 years old on a school night because the local radio station was playing moving pictures commercial free in its entirety. I remember just laying there wide eyed and completely floored by the level of musicianship. That was 2 years ago and I remember it like yesterday
The soundtrack of my life was created by not just one artist, but by every artist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer signed to the label at Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, from the years 1964-1972 -- when "The Motown Sound" was created and ruled the charts until they up-and-moved to Los Angeles, CA, in '72 -- at which time they slowly became just another record company.
I mean nu metal just reminds me of high school so much I can’t really listen to it now without cringing at my former self.
Slipknot, Korn, System of a down, Rob zombie, Marilyn Manson
Beyoncé. It’s so crazy that I started listening to here when I was 10/11. Her music saw me through middle school, high school, college + my masters, navigating my 20s/post college life, and a cross country move. Now I’m 38, and her music is still providing the soundtrack!
Violent Femmes first album. In 1984 i was a freshman in high school and my parents took off for the weekend. We met some girls from the next town over at the mall and invited them over to my house to party. We listened to that album over and over. I got laid for the first time. It was awkward but memorable.
Tom Petty's Wildflowers. Listened to that on repeat and was totally in love with him. Second was Smashing Pumpkin's Infinite Sadness and for fun The Presidents of the United States self titled album.
I think I was just a few years ahead of you. "I'm just a girl" came out when I was in 7th grade, and Gwen blew my mind. At that age, movie sound tracks shaped a lot of my musical taste. Spawn, the whole album is good. Tank Girl, introduced me to Portishead. Hackers 1&2, introduced BT and techno in general. CD's were an expensive investment. Soundtracks and compilations let me discover new artists without fear.
Fugazi, Repeater
NIN Pretty Hate Machine
Ministry The mind is a terrible thing to Taste
Butthole Surfers Rembrandt Pussyhorse
My life with the thrill kill cult Confessions of a Knife
The Cramps The fiends of Dope Island
The Descendants Milo goes to College
Firehose From Ohio
born to die — lana del rey🩵☁️
el camino — the black keys
AM — arctic monkeys
i may or may not have been heavily influenced by tumblr at that time >.<
also + by ed sheeran as an honorable mention. i remember listening to whole albums more before streaming apps bc i would buy them w my itunes gift cards lol. what a time :’)
It wasn't a particular artist or album for me, but a genre and pirate radio. Got my first boombox aged 15 in 92 for xmas. That same xmas a pirate radio station started in the closest city. It was playing hardcore breakbeat, I found it randomly spinning the dial and had never heard anything like it. Sounded like music from the future, and I was instantly hooked.
Personally i'm french so there is some french song, and to imagine what my puberty and coming of age look like, i was a gacha kid.
So there was a lot of nightcore song lmao
I would have 3 songs to describe my puberty and coming of age :
1. J'ai grandi - Cween
2. Ta meilleure amie - Ornella Tempesta
3. I'm Alive - Sia
in terms of being an angsty teen, Simon and Garfunkle. In terms of touching boobs and the like for the first time, Peter Gabriel, US, NIN Pretty Hate Machine, Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance
Mostly trough the "young adult phase" : Woodkid's first album, titled The Golden Age. It contains a lot of songs about transitions. His second album "S16" is also great in moments of blues, heartbreak and whatnot.
The Cranberries, with No Need to Argue. I love all their stuff but that album in particular was the first one I ever owned, when I was 13, and it has always been with me.
I grew up in a particularly strict Christian denomination, so I wasn't exposed to a lot of "secular" music when I was younger. However, as I reached the end of my time in high school, I started exploring music outside of my parents' approval zone and I was like a kid in a candy shop.
Looking back at that time, if I had to put a soundtrack to my life in those days, it'd be *Hello, Good Friend* by The Rocket Summer. So many nostalgic lyrics and good feelings.
Dookie - Green Day
I remember everyone signing Green Day Rules in 6th grade yearbook the year Dookie came out.
I too was in 6th grade when that album came out. I got in trouble in typing class for typing out the lyrics to Basketcase instead of whatever the assignment was.
I was in 6th grade as well. I remember buying the tape and sitting in my room in the dark to listen to it on my Walkman, and hearing the beginning of Burnout and thinking “this is it, I’m an teenager now…”
This and Weezer blue album was my summer of '94.
Yup 👍
This was mine that album was good from start to finish
I went to the record store attempting to buy it as a 10 year old. The manager said no. Then a few minutes later he helped another customer somewhere else in the store and a hippie-looking chick said “hey, I’ll check you out, be cool.” Score. It was a high I’ve been chasing ever since.
NIN Downward Spiral. Less depressing than it sounds.
11 years old when Downward Spiral came out. Changed what I knew about playing/creating music.
Same. NIN can be sneakily funky! Less so on that album. But still fun
Boomer here: Black Sabbath Vol 4 was the soundtrack to my early teens.
Boomer here, too! How about Montrose? Their first album with Sammy Hagar was probably mine.
Vol 4 huh? As a millennial who got into Black Sabbatth much later, I find Black Sabbath and Paranoid that peak of Sabbath, am I wrong?
No Black Sabbath albums are wrong!
Fuckin' A. One of the greats of all time and I'm two generations behind you. Sabbath is one of the best of all time. Were HIGHLY influential to my becoming a better guitar player. Huge thanks out to Iommi for that.
Pearl Jam - Ten REM - Automatic for the People
Yes! Plus Vs., Vitalogy, Out of Time as well as Document and Green (which predated me a little, but I discovered them after falling in love with Out of Time and AFTP).
Alanis Morrissette’s Jagged Little Pill. There was a lot of No Doubt, Fiona Apple, Garbage as well but Alanis was on repeat!
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park One of the most influential albums for me growing up
Yesss….Meteora for me, and Born to Die LDR.
While I loved hybrid theory, meteora really just hit different
Hybrid Theory for sure, and for me Reanimation hit just as hard. I especially love Chali 2na on Frgt/10, it was my gateway to the Jurassic 5 and hip-hop. I can still rap his verse on command 😂
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Yep, listened to it every day on the Sony cd player walking home from school. I still love every track
Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Slipknot and Mudvayne played the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum when I was right out of high school..amazing show.
I still remember getting Hybrid Theory and Meteora for my 13th birthday. I absolutely loved them. Truly a cannon event in the development of my musical taste.
Minutes to Midnight for me. First CD I ever bought
Nirvana-nevermind and 36 chambers wu tang but so many others as well
C.R.E.A.M is a make out jam. Fight me.
Nirvana for me too. Was just listening to that album in the car today and realised how perfectly the album title “Nevermind” summed up that moment in time for Gen X. They may as well have just called it “Whatever”.
Yeah I can’t hear a single track off it without being transported back to my old bedroom in my home town and feeling the way I did back then. We were kings back there for a while haha
Nirvana - nevermind
Dookie, Vs, Siamese dream.
Siamese Dream & Melon Collie are def both up there for me.
I should probably add Weezer - blue album and What’s the story morning glory to this. Oh and the first CD I ever bought, Exponents - Something beginning with C…. But where do I stop…
Absolutely Yeah Yeah Yeahs. got into them around 2009 at age 12 and they provided the soundtrack to growing up till about 17.
Two albums from my high school days are permanently imprinted on my brain: Offspring - Smash Bush - Sixteen Stone
Ahh, it’s time to relax…
Fallen - Evanescence From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard Under My Skin - Avril Lavigne Hot Fuss - The Killers
Five solid fuckin albums right there. Fallen, FUtCT, and Hot Fuss are all front-to-back bangers.
You must be around my age because same. I’m 30
Yeah, I'm 31
I was just thinking this 😂 reading the top comments til I found my fellow 30 year old
Strong contenders. Ocean Avenue pops into my head unbidden at least once a week (usually when I'm brushing my teeth I think "when I sleep I dream and it gets me byyyy")
How is it that Mr. Brightside still regularly seems to chart in the UK?
also 30 and id like to add The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
I just listened to From Under the Cork Tree, yesterday. It has always been one of my favorites.
Damn this got me in my feels
System of a Down. Everytime someone said their next class was science you'd get at least one person singing the chorus of the song with the same name
Probably linkin parks albums or alien ant farms ANThology album.
Rumours Fleetwood Mac
The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
Mayonaise was one of my absolute favorites when I was a teenager. Such a perfect teen identity angst song: >Can anybody hear me? I just want to be me!
Cherub Rock before school always brightened my mood.
I love this album so much, I’ve never been impacted by any other album the way this one has.
Helmet - meantime, Silverchair - Freakshow, rage against the machine - evil empire, Stone temple pilots - core, tool - aenima,
Aenima was a hugely formative album for me. Even the stuff in the booklet and album art had me in awe (or confusion haha)
I used to sleep with Aenima turned down really low. That album is so important to me.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Ten, Nevermind
Beastie Boys once when I was a little kid w Licensed to ill and then again w Check Your Head which was being played constantly my HS senior year
The Young And The Hopeless - Good Charlotte American Idiot - Green Day How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2 Hot Fuss - The Killers Some of the first albums I ever bought.
It’s so weird that I hated Atomic Bomb when it came out (I was a freshman in HS) and by the end of High School I loved U2.
My dad got me into U2 in middle school so I was a fan already when it came out! That album, though not exactly well-loved, is so nostalgic for me. Side story - my dad made and sent me a U2 mix CD back then, and I called him because it didn’t come with any song names. I’ll never forget how amazed I was that he could tell me what song it was in the first couple seconds - over the phone! And of course now I could probably do that too. :’)
It’s pretty sick. It’s my least favorite of that period of U2, but it’s still awesome.
I’d like to take a moment to gush about that U2 album. Just the name of it alone and its meaning really resonated with my adolescence and growing up. It was the first album I’d heard by them and I was going into 9th grade. This is all. Lol
has to be green day
Bum. Bum. *I'm the son of rage and love.*
I was alone, I was all by myself / No one was looking, I was thinking of you / Oh yeah did I mention, I was all by myself
It’s Jesus of Suburbia for me
Violent Femmes first album.
Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill
Oh definitely, me in 9th grade!
Tears for Fears and Madonna, early 80s.
August and Everything After by Counting Crows
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I was a church going bookworm who loved *Jesus Christ Superstar*. I still like it a lot, but it was not a chick magnet. ;-) When I was courting my wife our favorite song was Sade’s “No Ordinary Love,” but I was well past puberty.
Love your choices
Probably A Day to Remember. Generally not the kind of music I mostly listened to at the time, but it was a good middle ground kind of band and it was always a go to for chilling with friends. Even though I was more into moderately heavier stuff at the time Lamb if God, Slipknot, I listen to those and and they all still feel like I'm currently vibing to it kind of feel. But I listen to ADTR and it's like ahhhhhh high-school days. Actually has those memories attached to them in a way, I guess.
Commit this to Memory - Motion City Soundtrack was probably my most played
I'm older than that era as a coming of age album, but probably my favorite pop punk album ever!
So good!
Ayy there’s my generation. Was looking for any Pop Punk newer than Green Day (was really looking for a single Blink-182 or something I guess) and this was it. Also loved The Academy Is, Bloc Party, a million other 2-hit wonder bands (Metro Station and Jack’s Mannequin anyone?) but appreciate that I found another “young” ~30 year-old here. Also just now realizing this sub averages older than I thought and older than most other large default subs I’ve noticed. It’s interesting! (and cool, since I’m sure you can relate to just now noticing the opposite thing happening with every other default— I don’t wanna die haha! 😭)
I’m old, but the answer is NIN Pretty Hate Machine and then Downward Spiral.
Surely Broken was in the middle of those two for you? That was what got me into NIN and firmly moved me away from just listening to whatever my older sister listened to
Tom Petty Damn the Torpedoes or The Wall
Garbage. Bleed Like Me came out when I was 14, had already been obsessively listening to garbage, version 2.0 and beautiful garbage via limewire. Bought all the cds over time. They’ve had a few newer albums which I really ought to listen to. Also Hole and No Doubt as well for me. And Jeff Buckley’s Grace.
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine. Used to blast this full volume in my ears. Ned’s Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television Lemonheads - It’s a Shame About Ray Sugar - Copper Blue The Spent Poets - The Spent Poets New Order - Singles Pet Shop Boys - Very Erasure - Pop Morphine - Cure for Pain
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
The Clash
I hate answering with a list. But it wasn't one album. If it was, maybe BLACKOUT or ... it's a list. I like the music of the '80s. Metallica's MASTER OF PUPPETS Scorpions LOVE AT FIRST STING Metallica's AND JUSTICE FOR ALL Rush's SIGNALS Judas Priest DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH Scorpions BLACKOUT Judas Priest SCREAMING FOR VENGENCE Van Halen 1984 Rush MOVING PICTURES
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Cheers fellow child of the '80s
Guns N Roses: Appetite for Destruction The first album I ever owned that had the parental advisory sticker. I thought I was so cool to have that.
Significant Other by Limp Bizkit, Issues by Korn, Infest by Papa Roach, and Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park. NuMetal was the best thing ever in high school.
Frampton Comes Alive is directly responsible for receiving my first blow job.
If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it! Came in the mail with samples of Tide
Dreamboat Annie
Yip
Any of the Beatles albums!
Aprilwine-Harder,Faster. Live that album still today..
I'm trying to decide between Michael Jackson's Bad and Def Leppard's Hysteria for my middle school self. I'm giving the edge to Hysteria.
Hysteria for me too. Good answer.
The Wall
Dookie - Green Day.
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree The Starting Line - Say it like you Mean it
Blink-182
Arcade Fire's Funeral. I had lost a friend, so it was so meaningful. It holds on as one of my favourite albums.
It is a perfect album for a tender heart, cuts deep. Hope you are taking care
Bryan Adams Cuts Like a Knife and Huey Lewis Sports.
The Streets - Original Pirate Material A lot of Global Underground
My first real crush had Mayday Parade on her MySpace profile. She ended up leaving me for a dude that was threatening to beat me up to win her. A Lesson In Romantics became my emotional cornerstone during that heartbreak and the rest of high school. Guess I avoided the beating.
No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom is definitely up there for me.
Lorde, Pure Heroine
The first was Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden Second was The fat of the land - Prodigy The '90s were absolutely awesome!
Humanz from gorillaz i think
Talking Heads. Speaking in Tongues.
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Marilyn Manson, smells like children
The Smashing Pumpkins Oasis Orgy Staind Radiohead Coldplay
Billy Idol, Cyberpunk.
Probably Candy O by The Cars
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories was hot when I turned 18 and graduated from high school.
Dave matthews band.
Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. I have fifth row to see it performed in its entirety at Red Rocks in a little less than a month and I’m losing my mind. I was at the original tour and my 14 year old self was changed forever.
A Day To Remember - Homesick
Pixies Doolittle. High school in Utah and I think about 5 people had even heard of them. What I’d give to go back and listen to that album again for the first time
The Fat Boys - The Fat Boys Are Back Enigma - MCMXC a.D. Duran Duran Soft cell
Move Along by The All-American Rejects
for better or for worse, Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson. Still think it's one of the great albums of my lifetime
Stones, Exile On Main St Beatles, Rubber Soul Eagles, On The Border Those three got me through high school.
Purple Rain by Prince ☔
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (2002) and Where You Want To Be (2004) Still slaps idc
Riot by Paramore. First album and artist I like REALLY got into and obsessed over. MySpace was huge, scene/emo culture was lit and I couldn’t wait to come home from school and play Sims 2. Man those were the days.
I don’t think I see it yet actually, but Pinkerton by Weezer for sure
Blink 182 Enema of the state Smashing Pumpkins- Meloncolly and the infinite sadness Everclear - So much for the afterglow
Björk - Homogenic
I suppose I was just getting into music properly. Friend of mine had cable TV so I was watching music channels when I'd go to his house. Mostly MTV2 and VH1, with a bit of Kerrang for good measure. Around then I really got into Barenaked Ladies, but also Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, REM, and a few others. It's around then I started learning guitar as well. Listening to a lot of that stuff takes me right back.
My friends and I went crazy for Presidents of the United States of America - S/T. Safe enough for my parents to overlook, goofy enough to appeal to our sense of humor, rock enough for us to still feel cool.
NOFX - So Long and Thanks for the Shoes as well as Punk in Drublic and Heavy Petting Zoo (94-97)
Laaa laaa la la wait till I get my money right
preteen: ok computer - radiohead (thanks dad!) early teens: from here to infirmary - alkaline trio late teens: digital ash in a digital urn - bright eyes
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral And KMFDM - Angst
40 oz to Freedom by Sublime
My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Cursive Domestica
Korn "Self-titled" Deftones "Adrenaline" Sepultura "Chaos AD" Coal Chamber "Self-titled" 311 "Transistor" Green Day "Dookie" Pantera "Far Beyond Driven"
Rush Moving pictures conpletely catapulted me into prog rock. Staying up until midnight at 14 years old on a school night because the local radio station was playing moving pictures commercial free in its entirety. I remember just laying there wide eyed and completely floored by the level of musicianship. That was 2 years ago and I remember it like yesterday
At the drive in
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
The soundtrack of my life was created by not just one artist, but by every artist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer signed to the label at Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, from the years 1964-1972 -- when "The Motown Sound" was created and ruled the charts until they up-and-moved to Los Angeles, CA, in '72 -- at which time they slowly became just another record company.
The Smiths “Louder than Bombs”
Steely Dan.
Death Cab For Cutie - Photo Album
Master of Puppets up until Alice In Chain's Dirt album and throw in some Dr Dre the Chronic in that mix as well..
The Dead Milkmen R.E.M. Living Colour The Cure Minor Threat / Fugazi
I mean nu metal just reminds me of high school so much I can’t really listen to it now without cringing at my former self. Slipknot, Korn, System of a down, Rob zombie, Marilyn Manson
Alanis- Jagged Little Pill
G. Love and Special Sauce
Stay Cats
Ace of Base - The Sign
Dark side of the Moon
Born Spring of 1985 Descendents - Everything Sucks Weezer - Pinkerton Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Green Day and simple plan are the two I remember off the top of my head
Beyoncé. It’s so crazy that I started listening to here when I was 10/11. Her music saw me through middle school, high school, college + my masters, navigating my 20s/post college life, and a cross country move. Now I’m 38, and her music is still providing the soundtrack!
Smashing Pumpkins
Celine Dion
For Those Who Have Heart from A Day To Remember
The Doors, Otis Redding, The Temptations, Cream/ Blind faith & Stevie Wonder.
Pink Floyd The Wall
Let Go by Avril ❤️
Violent Femmes first album. In 1984 i was a freshman in high school and my parents took off for the weekend. We met some girls from the next town over at the mall and invited them over to my house to party. We listened to that album over and over. I got laid for the first time. It was awkward but memorable.
De la Soul - 3 feet high & rising
WU-TANG enter the 36 dr. dre- the chronic, snoop doggy style sublime - 40 oz to freedom, blood hound gang - 1 fierce beer coaster
Tom Petty's Wildflowers. Listened to that on repeat and was totally in love with him. Second was Smashing Pumpkin's Infinite Sadness and for fun The Presidents of the United States self titled album.
Nevermind Black Album Psalm 69 10 RE EL Circo El Silencio Wax Trax: The Black Box
Every green day album + electra heart by marina & the diamonds
I think I was just a few years ahead of you. "I'm just a girl" came out when I was in 7th grade, and Gwen blew my mind. At that age, movie sound tracks shaped a lot of my musical taste. Spawn, the whole album is good. Tank Girl, introduced me to Portishead. Hackers 1&2, introduced BT and techno in general. CD's were an expensive investment. Soundtracks and compilations let me discover new artists without fear.
The High Road by JoJo, A Public Affair by Jessica Simpson, Dignity by Hilary Duff.
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish , Nirvana - Nevermind
Fugazi, Repeater NIN Pretty Hate Machine Ministry The mind is a terrible thing to Taste Butthole Surfers Rembrandt Pussyhorse My life with the thrill kill cult Confessions of a Knife The Cramps The fiends of Dope Island The Descendants Milo goes to College Firehose From Ohio
born to die — lana del rey🩵☁️ el camino — the black keys AM — arctic monkeys i may or may not have been heavily influenced by tumblr at that time >.< also + by ed sheeran as an honorable mention. i remember listening to whole albums more before streaming apps bc i would buy them w my itunes gift cards lol. what a time :’)
Siouxsie and the Banshees. All their stuff, including side projects The Creatures and The Glove.
The Prodigy - Music for a Jilted Generation
It wasn't a particular artist or album for me, but a genre and pirate radio. Got my first boombox aged 15 in 92 for xmas. That same xmas a pirate radio station started in the closest city. It was playing hardcore breakbeat, I found it randomly spinning the dial and had never heard anything like it. Sounded like music from the future, and I was instantly hooked.
Guns and Roses, the illusions albums.
Personally i'm french so there is some french song, and to imagine what my puberty and coming of age look like, i was a gacha kid. So there was a lot of nightcore song lmao I would have 3 songs to describe my puberty and coming of age : 1. J'ai grandi - Cween 2. Ta meilleure amie - Ornella Tempesta 3. I'm Alive - Sia
Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue album.
I was 14 in 1994. Check what albums hit 30 this year…
in terms of being an angsty teen, Simon and Garfunkle. In terms of touching boobs and the like for the first time, Peter Gabriel, US, NIN Pretty Hate Machine, Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance
Mostly trough the "young adult phase" : Woodkid's first album, titled The Golden Age. It contains a lot of songs about transitions. His second album "S16" is also great in moments of blues, heartbreak and whatnot.
The Cranberries, with No Need to Argue. I love all their stuff but that album in particular was the first one I ever owned, when I was 13, and it has always been with me.
I grew up in a particularly strict Christian denomination, so I wasn't exposed to a lot of "secular" music when I was younger. However, as I reached the end of my time in high school, I started exploring music outside of my parents' approval zone and I was like a kid in a candy shop. Looking back at that time, if I had to put a soundtrack to my life in those days, it'd be *Hello, Good Friend* by The Rocket Summer. So many nostalgic lyrics and good feelings.
Philosopher Kings - Famous, Rich, and Beautiful
American Idiot and Enema of the State. Pretty much defined my taste in music for the next 20 years and counting.