What album defines your youth?

[ElectricBlanketFire]

For me, it's Clarity by Jimmy Eat World.

Came out right when I was 18. Nothing before it had sounded so beautiful.

What about you?

 

[Onebadlion]

Nevermind.

 

[Seesaw15]

I was in 2nd grade. One Week was featured in the Digimon movie. The rest is history.

 

[Damn Silly]

Definitely Hybrid Theory. First album I bought, and hell, I probably know it front to back to this day.

 

[signal]

A mix of Blink 182 Dude Ranch and Nas It Was Written

 

[It’s Time To Go]

 

[Deleted member 1086]

Dookie and Dude Ranch

 

[entremet]

Nirvana: Unplugged in New York

 

[deftones r cool]

I was KoRn obsessed as a kid. Still love the first two albums to death. Such a heavy and weird band. Introduced me to metal and more experimental rock simultaneously.

 

[Dook's Revenge]

Brutality and Bloodshed for All - GG Allin and the Murder Junkies

Or Thriller.

 

[Strangelove_77]

Probably Nirvana's In Utero or Pixies' Surfer Rosa.

 

[Deleted member 17210]

Megadeth's Rust in Peace which came out around the time I turned 15 in 1990.

 

[Unspoken90]

As a kid/preteen definitely Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park.

As a teen Razorblade Romance by HIM or Comalies by Lacuna Coil. Launched me full into my wannabe goth phase.

 

[gutter_trash]

 

[Mammoth Jones]

 

[Goldenroad]

or

 

[Kasey]

The Offspring's Smash

Got into them with Americana, but once I heard Smash it almost never left my CD player.

 

[ghostemoji]

and

and mix in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 soundtracks as accent pieces.

 

[Herne]

Without a doubt. The first album I owned, and the first band I ever had an interest in.

 

[Jombie]

 

[capitalCORN]

If youth means middle school....

I don't remember which Pimpinela one, but it was one of two cassettes we had in the house.
The other one being this fucker.

Then once the family made some friends in Canada we were gifted this.

 

[MrRob]

 

[RoninStrife]

Hybrid Theory... Chocolate Starfish and the hotdog flavored water, Marshall Mathers L. P

 

[Deleted member 71]

The Offspring's Smash

Got into them with Americana, but once I heard Smash it almost never left my CD player.

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My choice too, what a fantastic album.

 

[Piston]

Was the first album on my first iPod. Runner-up is probably White Blood Cells by The White Stripes.

 

[Fularu]

Pink Floyd's Pulse

It was a revelation

 

[Kapryov]

Though if we're talking about ALBUM albums, then I guess it'd be Smashing Pumpkins' Adore.

 

[Indelible]

 

[Servbot24]

Grade School:

Middle School:

High School:

College:

 

[Anth0ny]

eminem show or get rich or die tryin

they were staples through all of elementary school

 

[ObbyDent]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

[Creamium]

Radiohead's OK Computer and Tool's Lateralus. Two albums I was addicted to around '01 and changed how I saw (rock) music.

 

[Pixels]

Nevermind

 

[Soapbox Killer]

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That is one hellava spectrum.

 

[brokenmachine]

Meteora

 

[Spenny]

Green Day - Dookie

And

Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat

 

[Random Painted Highway]

Automatic for the people
Age 14 when released, listened non stop on my discman. Night swimming is a beautiful song that tears me up when I hear it if I'm in the mood to be moved.

 

[Strike]

 

[curiouscharles]

Probably Nas' Illmastic or GZA's Liquid Swords.

Two of the first CDs I bought which still get play to this day (and shaped my exploration of rap for many years after).

That is one hellava spectrum.

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Tell that to XXX Tentacion (RIP), this is precisely his mix of inspiration (and God is his music dope).

 

[Morrigan]

 

[Stouffers]

Flood

 

[Cryptosporidium]

 

[NotSelf]

 

[Kaji AF16]

Hermética´s Ácido Argentino (Argentinian Acid, 1991).

 

[Tabs2002]

50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin'

 

[Farmerboy]

Pitched my tent
In the pouring rain
I got a back seat lover
That's callin' my name
She gonna blow my cover
She's hot as a flame
But I'm ready, so ready, ow
I shove my tongue
Right between your cheeks
I haven't made love now
For twenty-five weeks
I hear that you're so tight
Your lovin' squeaks
And I'm ready, so ready

- F.I.N.E.

Teenage me was all over this. And thus began my descent into hairband rock.

 

[Icolin]

couldn't choose just one so here's the 5 albums i listened to in my youth that really turned me into an avid music lover:

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EDIT: throw in Sgt Pepper's, Vampire Weeknd s/t, Oracular Spectacular, and Homework too

 

[Lunaray]

Two very different albums by very different musicians.

 

[TheeFanatic]

Bad Boy Bill banging the box
Dr Dre OG The Chronic
Cypress Hill Black Sunday

 

[Icolin]

College:

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Merriweather Post Pavilion is a great pick