10 albums that changed your teens

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Oh, I thought I was in the ‘popular MTV2 videos’ thread. as you were

Radiohead - OK Computer
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
Oasis - What’s The Story Morning Glory
PJ Harvey - 4 Track Demos

I remember at school, two of my friends doing an interpretative dance to the title track - their heart was in the right place but I think even they knew it was a bit cringeworthy.

Cracking album though!

OK Computer and Automatic for the people could easily have made it into mine too. Might stick on some REM now tbh.

OK Computer was the key one for me, It was the first album I bought (I was 16 so only started properly listening to music relatively late, before this I’d just stick the radio on as background noise, then I heard Paranoid Android…) I then spent the next few years borrowing and then buying as many albums as I could (had one mate at school who filled up one of the those 40 CD wallet things with a load of albums he said I had to listen to - he was not wrong on a lot of them!)

  1. Million Dead - A Song To Ruin
  2. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
  3. Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
  4. Deftones - White Pony
  5. Strokes - Is This It
  6. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
  7. Reuben - Very Fast Very Dangerous
  8. Radiohead - Kid A
  9. System Of A Down - Toxicity
  10. Linkin Park - Reanimation

Also would probably include The Killers - Hot Fuss, and Placebo - Black Market Music

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Metallica - …And Justice For All
Nirvana – In Utero
Body Count – Body Count (I was about 4 years too late for the original version…)
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
Weezer – Weezer
Blur – Blur
Radiohead – The Bends
Aerosmith – Get A Grip
Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power
The Offspring - Smash

The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
Finch - What it is to Burn
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Nirvana - Nevermind
Slipknot - Iowa
Thursday - Full Collapse
Million Dead - Harmony No Harmony
The Bled - Pass the Flask
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come

If I’m being honest

best of the beatles

These were all pretty important albums to me too :+1:

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Sonic Youth - Goo
The Orb - Adventures beyond the ultraworld
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Carter USM - 30 Something
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Fall - Extricate
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
U2 - The Joshua Tree

Mine would be similar!

in no order
Alexisonfire - self titled
The Movielife - 40 Hour Train Back To Penn
At the Drive In - Relationship of COmmand
Thursday - Full Collapse
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Blood Brothers - Crimes
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends

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Is this meant to be music you were listening to at age 15, or anything between 13-19?

go wild warny

No order, but they’re all albums that have had a large influence on my taste in music

Made in Japan/ Machine Head - Deep Purple (dad was a huge Purple fan and his taste in music definitely made me more interested in music than I would have been)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (listened to this a lot on cassette)
Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA
Toxicity - SOAD
Appetite for Destruction ii - GnR
Kid A - Radiohead
The Misfits (first compilation thingy)
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party

Ok! In that case I’m gonna do 2 (two!) lists!!!

At age 15:

  1. Jimi Hendrix experience - axis: bold as love
  2. Led zeppelin - ii
  3. Dinosaur jr - where you been?
  4. Metallica - black album
  5. Sonic youth - dirty
  6. Blur - modern life is rubbish
  7. Pwei - at weirds bar and grill
  8. Alice in chains - dirt
  9. Public enemy - apocalypse 91
  10. Judgement night - ost

By 19

  1. Fugazi - repeater
  2. Jeff mills - live at the liquid room
  3. Wu tang clan - 36 chambers
  4. Boards of Canada - music has the right to children
  5. Minutemen - buzz or howl under the influence of heat
  6. Godflesh - pure
  7. Pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain
  8. Bob Dylan - bringing it all back home
  9. Gza - liquid swords
  10. Soundgarden - superunknown
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something like this i guess, in terms of what i listened to between 13-18 (bit earlier with the Streets I guess) that shaped my tastes today:

Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Libertines - Up The Bracket
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
The Strokes - Is This It
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

nah f that, you get 15. i think these are the most impactful albums that caused shifts in my listening and shaped where I went from there. No order:

Wu Tang — 36 Chambers got me into eastcoast raps, heavily
Soundgarden — Superunknown got me to love grunge/hard rock. opened the door to metal.
DJ Quik — Rhythmalism helped me appreciate details in sound, my first record that I fell completely in love with that no one else knew about. how could a flute sound so cool? also led me to jazz music.
Green Day — Dookie first cd i had to hide from my parents, REBEL MUSIC
Bob Marley — Legend duh
Counting Crows — August & Everything After started my love for emo and alt pop rock. This and 3rd Eye Blind’s first album are pretty interchangeable for me. Still love them both.
2Pac — Me Against the World taught me to love my mom. the song Old School schooled me on a bunch of artists I needed to be clued into
Flaming Lips —Transmissions from the Satellite Heart first indie rock album.
Outkast — ATLiens opened up a love for southern rap
Tool — Aenima my first foray into metal m/l (outside of the little metallica i knew)
Bad Religion — Stranger Than Fiction got me into 90s punk
Janet Jackson — Janet anytime anyplace <3 started my love for r&b. introduced me to jam & lewis
Weezer — Weezer nerd rock, hooks, pop rock, indie
Snoop — Doggystyle west coast LA rap, naughty rap
Wyclef Jean — The Carnival wait, so there’s music in other languages?? also this kind of, in a roundabout way, got me into ‘concious’ rap lol

I could also add about 70% of @Avery’s list. Get a Grip yah man, those vids w alicia silverstone changed my life.

hmm yeah probably should’ve put New Found Glory/Green Day in mine. 10 isn’t enough!

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