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What album defines your youth?
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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I'm 29. For me, I consider youth my early teens and before. I move from album to album more than I used to.
I had a few key albums. The Spawn, Queen of the Damned, Freddy vs. Jason, and Mortal Kombat Annihilation soundtracks, the Jet Grind Radio music sampler, Deathboy's Music to Crash Cars To, Ozzfest Summer Sampler 2002, System of a Down's Toxicity, KoRn's self-titled album, and Velvet Acid Christ's Fun With Knives. The Animatrix soundtrack got some quality time too. And Combichrist's Joy of Gunz when I'd play Quake II, because my pirated copy had no music. Etro Anime's See the Sound was great too, but I didn't fully appreciate it until I was older.
I'm not really into industrial or metal anymore, weirdly enough. The Spawn and Animatrix soundtracks are probably the most listenable aside from Etro Anime, who is 100%.
I had a few key albums. The Spawn, Queen of the Damned, Freddy vs. Jason, and Mortal Kombat Annihilation soundtracks, the Jet Grind Radio music sampler, Deathboy's Music to Crash Cars To, Ozzfest Summer Sampler 2002, System of a Down's Toxicity, KoRn's self-titled album, and Velvet Acid Christ's Fun With Knives. The Animatrix soundtrack got some quality time too. And Combichrist's Joy of Gunz when I'd play Quake II, because my pirated copy had no music. Etro Anime's See the Sound was great too, but I didn't fully appreciate it until I was older.
I'm not really into industrial or metal anymore, weirdly enough. The Spawn and Animatrix soundtracks are probably the most listenable aside from Etro Anime, who is 100%.
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Literally impossible to pick one album. I listened to so much random stuff in my teens, no one album could define it, but i guess the stuff i listened to the most, from early to late teens would be
1992 - RATM - S/T
1994 - Pink Floyd - DSOTM
1994 - Faith No More - The Real Thing
1995 - White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
1996 - Nirvana - Incesticide
1996 - Failure - Magnified
1996 - Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
1997 - Failure - Fantastic Planet
1997 - Kerbdog - On the turn
1998 - Jeff Buckley - Sketches
Thats all the albums i listened to most, and that had the biggest impact on me from age 12 to age 18.
1992 - RATM - S/T
1994 - Pink Floyd - DSOTM
1994 - Faith No More - The Real Thing
1995 - White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
1996 - Nirvana - Incesticide
1996 - Failure - Magnified
1996 - Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
1997 - Failure - Fantastic Planet
1997 - Kerbdog - On the turn
1998 - Jeff Buckley - Sketches
Thats all the albums i listened to most, and that had the biggest impact on me from age 12 to age 18.
When I heard Millionaire at the beginning of CKY4 I had to know where it came from, and that largely shaped where my musical tastes went from there. Not to the exclusion of all other genres of music of course, but without this album and by extension going back to bands like Kyuss, there are various other albums I may never have picked up, from classics like albums by Iron Maiden and Metallica to doom and drone acts like Sunn O))) and Isis.
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Was almost an adult when I first heard it but somehow it feels like it's been with me a lot longer than that.
Absolutely. Just listened to Pink Maggit for the first time in years. And man, that song is still incredible.
Elementary
Middle
High school
Angles is the first thing I bought with my wages from my first job, that I had gotten a week before it released.
Middle
High school
Angles is the first thing I bought with my wages from my first job, that I had gotten a week before it released.
Early youth is too much of a mixing pot of radio songs. Didn't start building my own collection until I was in my mid teens. For that era:
Funeral
Yeah this was like the most crucial album in the world for middle schoolers when it dropped.
Add me to the Hybrid Theory crowd. My brothers and I listened to it so much, we would sing the album from front to back on roadtrips when we didn't have a walkman available.
As a child I really liked Cake and would listen to this every day
As a teenager I started devling into metal and I had this on repeat for most of highschool
As a teenager I started devling into metal and I had this on repeat for most of highschool
Grade School:
Middle School:
Wow, I have not thought about the newsboys in forever. They had a hits album I wore out. Have you revisited thrive?
Yeah, it's not too bad as far as the genre. John Woo is pretty slick actually. Some of their earlier albums actually had some legitimately good songs too
It really depends on the age. I can't just put one album.
When I was in grade school, at around grade 5, I got into Our Lady Peace with Clumsy.
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Then, as I got older, I listened to some Rob Zombie and also got into the Offspring hype. I don't listen to them anymore.
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Then, as a teen, koRn and some ICP which I've grown out of. I still listen to koRn a lot.
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Also these two:
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When I was in grade school, at around grade 5, I got into Our Lady Peace with Clumsy.
Then, as I got older, I listened to some Rob Zombie and also got into the Offspring hype. I don't listen to them anymore.
Then, as a teen, koRn and some ICP which I've grown out of. I still listen to koRn a lot.
Also these two:
These two bad boys right here. I absolutely loved these two games and I still listen to these soundtracks.
Who didn't love this entire album?
*ahem* When you walk away, you don't hear me say, pleaaaaase oh baby don't go!
Too many to mention, but these three immediately come to mind:
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
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Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
If I had to pick just one, Ten by Pearl Jam.
But really it was a bunch around that time.
Nevermind by Nirvana
Superunkown by Soundgarden
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Rage Against the Machine (self titled)
Under the Table and Dreaming by Dave Matthews Band
Achtung Baby by U2
Throwing Copper by Live
August and Everything After by Counting Crow
Core by Stone Temple Pilots
Broken by Nine Inch Nails
Etc.
That era of music is still most of my listening today. It will probably stay that way as my dad still mostly listens to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc. Thereks just something about that music that moved you in your teens and twenties that's hard to replicate with stuff discovered later in. Especially for causal listeners like me who rarely sir around and listen to music like we did in our youth.
But really it was a bunch around that time.
Nevermind by Nirvana
Superunkown by Soundgarden
Dirt by Alice In Chains
Rage Against the Machine (self titled)
Under the Table and Dreaming by Dave Matthews Band
Achtung Baby by U2
Throwing Copper by Live
August and Everything After by Counting Crow
Core by Stone Temple Pilots
Broken by Nine Inch Nails
Etc.
That era of music is still most of my listening today. It will probably stay that way as my dad still mostly listens to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin etc. Thereks just something about that music that moved you in your teens and twenties that's hard to replicate with stuff discovered later in. Especially for causal listeners like me who rarely sir around and listen to music like we did in our youth.
As a kid, and pretty much all the way into middle school, I was all about Shania Twain and in particular Come on Over and Up!
Then as a teen and in high school, I basically switched it up to listening to just a bunch of different pop and varied my tastes rather quickly, so like, there really is nothing in particular that comes to mind more than anything else for that period. Just was way too all over the place.
Then as a teen and in high school, I basically switched it up to listening to just a bunch of different pop and varied my tastes rather quickly, so like, there really is nothing in particular that comes to mind more than anything else for that period. Just was way too all over the place.
Probably something by Travis Tritt, my dad was a big Country fan.
Growing up I had to listen to whatever my brothers liked, so that meant a heavy dose of Korn and Blink 182.
One album that I found digging through my dad's collection that I could call my own was Def Leppard - Pyromania, helped shape my musical taste today
Growing up I had to listen to whatever my brothers liked, so that meant a heavy dose of Korn and Blink 182.
One album that I found digging through my dad's collection that I could call my own was Def Leppard - Pyromania, helped shape my musical taste today
Hey, Hey, Nine Inch Nails still sounds great, particularly the White Teeth album. Reznor's style has certainly changed a bit too.
He's a great musician/producer. It's just those vocals, the angst, the neck
Not every NIN song is a grungy esque Nirvana song. White Teeth is pretty grounded compared to Downward Spiral, a lot of his latest records and EPs seen to have taken inspiration from his film composition works. I like his electronias based works, too.
I still listen to the White Teeth album a lot, lot of good songs with some great lyrics!
Yep, that about captures my entire high school years. Played Hybrid theory on repeat while driving in my '95 Pontiac Grand Prix GT!
Even though I never listened to them when I was younger, I think anything by Brand New is going to succinctly describe my teenage years.
Shout. What a record.High
I remember finding Rival Schools on Napster only because it's the name of that fighting game.
Hybrid Theory turned me on to alternative music but these guys shaped my tastes in high school
Then in my late teens it was Volta that banged, and these sad idiots
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I didn't really have a specific taste in music until I was about 14 or 15. Growing up, I just listened to whatever my older brother was listening to. That was Nirvana, Green Day, Offspring, Weird Al... and then around Middle School my friends introduced me to Incubus, Slipknot, and your other typical nu-metal stuff. Eventually I started to get into Dio, Iron Maiden, and Motorhead, which ended up being the lineup of my first concert, but I don't really identify any of the bands above as "defining my youth".
If I had to choose a band/album that impacted me the most, it would be Opeth's Blackwater Park, followed by Moonsorrow's Suden Uni.
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If I had to choose a band/album that impacted me the most, it would be Opeth's Blackwater Park, followed by Moonsorrow's Suden Uni.
Was almost an adult when I first heard it but somehow it feels like it's been with me a lot longer than that.
This album always takes me back to when I was at school watching old science documentaries on LaserDisc. They share a similar sound palette and it's very cozy like a quiet classroom with the lights out.
