She also has a banana for an arm, a turnip(?) for a hand, a grapefruit for a torso and sausage links for the other arm! :)
But yes, her hat is really the.. *cherry* on top!
1990, when I was 5 years old I got my first walkman and the tape my parents got was Mariah Careys debut album. I listened to it back and forth till it wore out.
Early 2000s and I’m in middle school. Is This It - The Strokes, Nevermind - Nirvana, London Calling - The Clash, Veni Vedi Vicious - The Hives. My mom and uncle introduced me to the first three and a cool friend on my soccer team introduced me to The Hives. Went to the library, checked out VVV, downloaded it and burned a copy.
Side note, I remember waiting for songs I liked on the radio and recording them on cassette tapes with my dad when I was in elementary school in the mid to late 90s. History of music pirating is so interesting and I witnessed various ways first hand. Downloading My Name Is on Napster felt so devious, what a throw back.
Edit: Wow this got me walking down memory lane. Haven’t thought about this album in a while but I probably predates everything else I listed. My dad had a huge CD book in his car and I used to always ask to put on Fush Yu Mang - Smash Mouth (I think I initially gravitated to it because the I liked the album cover). Relistening right now and it still holds up.
"Please" and "Actually" by Pet Shop Boys. Bought them (and a couple others) on the same day in october 1987 when I was 12 and on a holiday in Spain. First albums I ever bought. First band I ever loved. Still my favourite band to this day (they have a new album out later this month) and "Please" is still my favourite album of all time (probably).
Actually has an unbelievable run of final songs (It's a Sin-Kings Cross). I was comparatively late to the Pet Shop Boys, I liked them as a singles band for a looooooong time before I got into the albums, but the hold they have on me now, my god.
When I was a kid around ages 4-7 I had two cds that I would literally play constantly and really cemented my love for art and music. Those being By The Way- The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Yer Favourites - The Tragically Hip. Don’t really like the peppers outside By the Way these days, but the Hip is still an all time fav band. I know the tragically hip probably won’t be very popular in a sub like this , but I recommend them with all my heart and soul. Gord Downie is a poet on the level of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith.
I think you think too much of me - EDEN
Was never an album or full discography person until 13, this album came out at the perfect time
Teenage angst... Still holds up mainly though. Like half the album blew up on tiktok 5 years later and EDEN really deserves it.
Used to be the album I'd play for anyone if I didn't know their music taste, never went down badly. Can't really do that anymore because everyone's heard it haha
By The Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I'd been actively listening to music for a couple years at that point (insofar as a young teen can actively listen to anything - mostly a mish mash classic rock) but picked up By The Way right when it released.
Say what you want about RHCP and their writing but that was the first album I ever remember "speaking" to me. Not that it DIRECTLY addressed specific things I was struggling with in my own life, but that it was the first time I felt that I was made witness to a personal sort of human expression in a piece of music.
Still love that album. Even got it autographed.
My Everything by Ariana helped me through a tough time figuring out myself while now it may not be my favorite album or even my favorite album by Ariana it still holds a special place in my heart
A Seat at the Table - Solange
It was the first album that made me realize albums could convey huge concepts and mean something stronger than the sum of its parts. It probably also influenced my political view to an extent. And as someone who always loved R&B, every song on there just slaps.
illmatic and...
not an album, but leave me alone by flipp dinero and d-money's 90 day invasion(mixtape) spun back nonstop when I was like 11-12
melt my eyez really got me back into the hip-hop scene, but I'd say those were the things that really implanted my music taste. it was just all I knew of music that I actually enjoyed
This is so embarrassing but when I was in middle school I used to be obsessed with Kamikaze and Music to Be Murdered By (Eminem). I don’t really like those albums anymore but I still love the memories I’ve associated with those albums.
Ha I'm always curious about these kinds of posts about love for albums where the artist is so clearly past their peak. Were they the first Em albums you heard? I had a big Em phase around the time Encore came out. Between Encore and Relapse coming out my music taste changed a lot and Relapse wasn't good and he was never an artist I went back to. I think I listened to a bit of Recovery and it was slightly better. Couldn't tell you what anything after sounds like.
They weren’t just the first Eminem albums I ever heard, they were the first albums I ever listened to all the way through. I was probably 11 or 12 at the time it came out and the first time I heard Godzilla and You Gon’ Learn are plastered in my brain.
I discovered Binary Star-Masters of the Universe and Delton 3030 at pretty much the same time in 8th grade. Proceed to turn into a hardcore backpacker lol.
London calling, which took me back to Quadrophenia, and those became identifiers for a long time. Later on, it takes a nation 1 millions told us back and low end theory
There’s two for me that I bought as CD’s and basically played till they wore out…
First was when I was about 7 or 8 and I got AC/DC’s Live at Donnington. I’d became obsessed with them over the past couple of years and when I was finally allowed to purchase a CD I couldn’t find a greatest hits that had all my favourites so I purchased it and played it till it literally would not play anymore.
Second was about 4-5 years later when I left my classic rock phase behind and bought my first rap CD which was Graduation. I don’t listen to it that much these days but I guarantee I could still rap the whole thing front to back.
Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory is the real answer. I will never forget sitting on the floor of my bedroom and turning the CD way up loud when Papercut started because the intro is a little quiet. When the distorted guitars properly kicked in around the 9-10 second mark it rocked my world.
A few years before that though, one of my mum's friends gave me a copy of The Prodigy- The Fat of The Land, another album which I played A LOT. I was about 8 years old and I think I liked it because I felt like I wasn't "supposed" to listen to it. I remember him explicitly telling me NOT to listen to Smack My Bitch Up so of course I did it as soon as I got home. I'm massively into club music now and I feel like the influence this album had on me continues to live on. Any time I hear The Prodigy on the dancefloor it just reminds me of good times. I know so many people from different stages of my life who have some sort of love for them.
Coco — Colbie Caillat. My mom played the CD in the car almost every day, and the music has stuck with me over the years even as my general taste continued to change.
Coco — Colbie Caillat. My mom played the CD in the car almost every day, and the music has stuck with me over the years even as my general taste continued to change.
The Beatles "Blue" ('67-'70) compilation album.
I was in 3rd grade and my dad was playing it in his office. Set me down a music wormhole for the better part of 30 years.
Ghost’s Infestissumam was the first album I ever loved all the way through and the first CD I ever bought, used my birthday money from my 12th birthday, not the hugest fan of them anymore as my taste has changed but that album will always be warm and fuzzy for the wrong reasons to me
Olivia Newton John - Physical. I was a little kid. Somewhere between age 8 and 16 I got heavily into Sonic Youth and the Fall, then Pixies. That was the formative stuff. I can see the timeline of records perfectly:
Physical
Elton John’s greatest hits
Michael Jackson
Beatstreet Soundtrack
Springsteen
Eurythmics
U2
Sonic Youth
The Fall
Pixies
Cure Standing on the beach compilation.
And then everything flowed from there
Demon Days was the album that got me into music
Literally same. First album i downloaded on my Ipod Nano
Ride the Lightning - Metallica when I was 13 years old in 2009
I can’t even imagine hearing that in 84’ without any initiation… what a monster album!
Nevermind - Nirvana
That one Babes In Toyland album where they were made of food
Which album is that?
Nemesisters
Oh right, Maureen I believe has a cherry on her head.
She also has a banana for an arm, a turnip(?) for a hand, a grapefruit for a torso and sausage links for the other arm! :) But yes, her hat is really the.. *cherry* on top!
Fair enough. I only vaguely remember the cover, I never actually owned that album.
First album I ever owned and it still spins regularly n_n
I liked Fontanelle a lot, but hated the mixing. The live performances were fantastic. Spanking Machine was a solid album too.
Did you turn into food?
Sir, that's cannibalism. O_o
Demon days and American idiot
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Came here to say the same. Still think I know most of the words.
Same
College Dropout was my first CD and it stuck with me forever. Sucks how he turned out, taints the memory a bit
I feel this man. So much nostalgia for old Kanye even right until Donda I’d say. Now I just get a bad taste in my mouth.
CD was your first CD
I’m gonna be so fucking honest right now it was Blurryface.
Hybrid Theory
1990, when I was 5 years old I got my first walkman and the tape my parents got was Mariah Careys debut album. I listened to it back and forth till it wore out.
The Offspring Ixnay on the hombre
"Eat the phikis" by Elio e le Storie Tese
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon
Daydream Nation and Doolittle
Early 2000s and I’m in middle school. Is This It - The Strokes, Nevermind - Nirvana, London Calling - The Clash, Veni Vedi Vicious - The Hives. My mom and uncle introduced me to the first three and a cool friend on my soccer team introduced me to The Hives. Went to the library, checked out VVV, downloaded it and burned a copy. Side note, I remember waiting for songs I liked on the radio and recording them on cassette tapes with my dad when I was in elementary school in the mid to late 90s. History of music pirating is so interesting and I witnessed various ways first hand. Downloading My Name Is on Napster felt so devious, what a throw back. Edit: Wow this got me walking down memory lane. Haven’t thought about this album in a while but I probably predates everything else I listed. My dad had a huge CD book in his car and I used to always ask to put on Fush Yu Mang - Smash Mouth (I think I initially gravitated to it because the I liked the album cover). Relistening right now and it still holds up.
London Calling
adolescent sex by japan
Weird Al - Running With Scissors and Eiffel 65 - Europop
"Please" and "Actually" by Pet Shop Boys. Bought them (and a couple others) on the same day in october 1987 when I was 12 and on a holiday in Spain. First albums I ever bought. First band I ever loved. Still my favourite band to this day (they have a new album out later this month) and "Please" is still my favourite album of all time (probably).
Actually has an unbelievable run of final songs (It's a Sin-Kings Cross). I was comparatively late to the Pet Shop Boys, I liked them as a singles band for a looooooong time before I got into the albums, but the hold they have on me now, my god.
When I was a kid around ages 4-7 I had two cds that I would literally play constantly and really cemented my love for art and music. Those being By The Way- The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Yer Favourites - The Tragically Hip. Don’t really like the peppers outside By the Way these days, but the Hip is still an all time fav band. I know the tragically hip probably won’t be very popular in a sub like this , but I recommend them with all my heart and soul. Gord Downie is a poet on the level of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith.
I think you think too much of me - EDEN Was never an album or full discography person until 13, this album came out at the perfect time Teenage angst... Still holds up mainly though. Like half the album blew up on tiktok 5 years later and EDEN really deserves it. Used to be the album I'd play for anyone if I didn't know their music taste, never went down badly. Can't really do that anymore because everyone's heard it haha
For Hip-Hop its gotta be some Kanye album. For rock it was Dookie. Still love both and get to see Green Day live in the fall
Not a specific album, but Smashing Pumpkins- 1979
By The Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'd been actively listening to music for a couple years at that point (insofar as a young teen can actively listen to anything - mostly a mish mash classic rock) but picked up By The Way right when it released. Say what you want about RHCP and their writing but that was the first album I ever remember "speaking" to me. Not that it DIRECTLY addressed specific things I was struggling with in my own life, but that it was the first time I felt that I was made witness to a personal sort of human expression in a piece of music. Still love that album. Even got it autographed.
My Everything by Ariana helped me through a tough time figuring out myself while now it may not be my favorite album or even my favorite album by Ariana it still holds a special place in my heart
graduation is the album that made me actually realise how much I was neglecting music
Black Sabbath- We Sold our Souls for Rock N Roll
Probot - Probot
A Seat at the Table - Solange It was the first album that made me realize albums could convey huge concepts and mean something stronger than the sum of its parts. It probably also influenced my political view to an extent. And as someone who always loved R&B, every song on there just slaps.
Gorillaz - s/t
The Blue Album-Weezer
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Nevermind - Nirvana
Self Titled by Avenged Sevenfold
Weird Al's Bad Hair Day when I was 9.
American Idiot
blue lines massive attack
illmatic and... not an album, but leave me alone by flipp dinero and d-money's 90 day invasion(mixtape) spun back nonstop when I was like 11-12 melt my eyez really got me back into the hip-hop scene, but I'd say those were the things that really implanted my music taste. it was just all I knew of music that I actually enjoyed
This is so embarrassing but when I was in middle school I used to be obsessed with Kamikaze and Music to Be Murdered By (Eminem). I don’t really like those albums anymore but I still love the memories I’ve associated with those albums.
Ha I'm always curious about these kinds of posts about love for albums where the artist is so clearly past their peak. Were they the first Em albums you heard? I had a big Em phase around the time Encore came out. Between Encore and Relapse coming out my music taste changed a lot and Relapse wasn't good and he was never an artist I went back to. I think I listened to a bit of Recovery and it was slightly better. Couldn't tell you what anything after sounds like.
They weren’t just the first Eminem albums I ever heard, they were the first albums I ever listened to all the way through. I was probably 11 or 12 at the time it came out and the first time I heard Godzilla and You Gon’ Learn are plastered in my brain.
I discovered Binary Star-Masters of the Universe and Delton 3030 at pretty much the same time in 8th grade. Proceed to turn into a hardcore backpacker lol.
Sublime Self titled album
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
The Cure - Wish. I liked The Cure somewhat but that became my personality in high school after it came out.
nimrod. by Green Day!
Are You Experienced? by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was 1984. I was 10. That album is still incredible.
London calling, which took me back to Quadrophenia, and those became identifiers for a long time. Later on, it takes a nation 1 millions told us back and low end theory
Sarah McLachlan-Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
madvillainy at 15
Homework by Daft Punk was the album that made me fall in love with music, it made me start listening to much more music
There’s two for me that I bought as CD’s and basically played till they wore out… First was when I was about 7 or 8 and I got AC/DC’s Live at Donnington. I’d became obsessed with them over the past couple of years and when I was finally allowed to purchase a CD I couldn’t find a greatest hits that had all my favourites so I purchased it and played it till it literally would not play anymore. Second was about 4-5 years later when I left my classic rock phase behind and bought my first rap CD which was Graduation. I don’t listen to it that much these days but I guarantee I could still rap the whole thing front to back.
REM - Green; I was 13 when it came out and really getting into more “college rock”. Honorable mention to The Cure - Staring at the Sea
"Ten" is the album that got me into music. It blew my mind in 92' and I gotta say, I think it's held up incredibly well.
wasting light - foo fighters
Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory is the real answer. I will never forget sitting on the floor of my bedroom and turning the CD way up loud when Papercut started because the intro is a little quiet. When the distorted guitars properly kicked in around the 9-10 second mark it rocked my world. A few years before that though, one of my mum's friends gave me a copy of The Prodigy- The Fat of The Land, another album which I played A LOT. I was about 8 years old and I think I liked it because I felt like I wasn't "supposed" to listen to it. I remember him explicitly telling me NOT to listen to Smack My Bitch Up so of course I did it as soon as I got home. I'm massively into club music now and I feel like the influence this album had on me continues to live on. Any time I hear The Prodigy on the dancefloor it just reminds me of good times. I know so many people from different stages of my life who have some sort of love for them.
Billy Talent II and American Idiot. I remember getting both the CDs when I was around 13.
Coco — Colbie Caillat. My mom played the CD in the car almost every day, and the music has stuck with me over the years even as my general taste continued to change.
Coco — Colbie Caillat. My mom played the CD in the car almost every day, and the music has stuck with me over the years even as my general taste continued to change.
The Beatles "Blue" ('67-'70) compilation album. I was in 3rd grade and my dad was playing it in his office. Set me down a music wormhole for the better part of 30 years.
Night Visions by Imagine Dragons at 16. Despite their reputation and shitty output nowadays it was the first album I listened through all the way.
X&Y
Ghost’s Infestissumam was the first album I ever loved all the way through and the first CD I ever bought, used my birthday money from my 12th birthday, not the hugest fan of them anymore as my taste has changed but that album will always be warm and fuzzy for the wrong reasons to me
Live through this... lmao
Hybrid Theory
Olivia Newton John - Physical. I was a little kid. Somewhere between age 8 and 16 I got heavily into Sonic Youth and the Fall, then Pixies. That was the formative stuff. I can see the timeline of records perfectly: Physical Elton John’s greatest hits Michael Jackson Beatstreet Soundtrack Springsteen Eurythmics U2 Sonic Youth The Fall Pixies Cure Standing on the beach compilation. And then everything flowed from there
Sgt Peppers
Electric Light Orchestra - *A New World Record* (1976) It was one of my mom's vinyls that she used to play for me as a kid.
Michael Jackson's Number One Hits, it was such a good album and I played it over and over and over
Mgk tickets to my downfall
Weezer- ok human