thrill wrote:I was 14 in Morton, IL bro. I was doing pretty good comparatively with my blink and my jimmy eat world.
I listened to Bleed American recently after a similarly premised conversation at work.
In 1999 I was definitely listening to Ben Folds' Unauthorized Biography (...) album. He was a direct gateway to BTS after I heard him do a live Twin Falls cover.
The problem with Blink 182 is that the the production quality doesn't sound like absolute garbage. It should sound like it was recorded to cassette via an early 90s answering machine. Even a 14 year old should know that.
-The Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
-Live - Throwing Copper (side note: their 25th anniversary album on Spotify includes a previously unreleased song called "Hold Me Up" which previously could only be found in the movie Zac and Miri Make a Porno--not the soundtrack, but only in the movie)
-The Dangerous Minds soundtrack
-basically any Biggie/Tupac/Dre/Snoop
-Toadies - Possum Kingdom
-Nada Surf - High/Low
-Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
-Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
-Green Day - Dookie was the first album ever bought with my own money on my own, but i hesitate to put it on this list because this album still gets regular airplay on the local rock stations so it technically never became an afterthought. Same could be said about Weezer
I fell down a rabbit hole obviously
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The first cassette tape I bought with my own money. I still remember riding my bike up to Appletree records in the summer of 1984 to buy it. And as an 11 y/o boy who could forget the "Hot for Teacher" video?
Oh man. I have been on a nostalgic binge of late. Here are 4 of my teenage favorites that still hold up
Violent Femmes first album,
Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables,
U2 War
Joe's Garage (not the 3rd disc).
A Chronological Playlist of GRB Nostalgia Jams Based on This Thread So Far
Country Comfort, Elton John, 1970
Smoke on the Water, Deep Purple, 1972
I Want To Be Free, Ohio Players, 1974
Magic Man, Heart, 1976
My My Hey Hey, Neil Young, 1979
A Token Of My Extreme, Frank Zappa, 1979
Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits, 1980
California Uber Alles, Dead Kennedys, 1980
Our Lips Are Sealed, The Go-Gos, 1981
Gardening At Night, REM, 1982
Gone Daddy Gone, Violent Femmes, 1982
Cooky Puss, Beastie Boys, 1983
New Years Day, U2, 1983
I Lost on Jeopardy, Weird Al Yankovic, 1984
Jump, Van Halen, 1984
Manic Monday, The Bangles, 1986
Never Tear Us Apart, INXS, 1987
Ana Ng, They Might Be Giants, 1988
Joy And Pain, Rob Bass and DJ EZ Rock, 1988
Head Like a Hole, Nine Inch Nails, 1989
One, U2, 1991
Alive, Pearl Jam, 1991
Don’t Cry, Guns N Roses, 1991
The Unforgiven, Metallica, 1991
Helpless, Sugar, 1992
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, REM, 1992
Lil Ghetto Boy, Dr Dre, 1992
Round Here, Counting Crows, 1993
I Am I Be, De La Soul, 1993
Cumbersome, Seven Mary Three, 1994
You Wreck Me, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, 1994
Halftime, Nas, 1994
Take It Back, Pink Floyd, 1994
I Alone, Live, 1994
Possum Kingdom, Toadies, 1994
Longview, Green Day, 1994
Gangsta’s Paradise, Coolio, 1995
A Long December, Counting Crows, 1996
Popular, Nada Surf, 1996
Pepper, Butthole Surfers, 1996
Superman’s Dead, Our Lady Peace, 1997
Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind, 1997
Dammit, Blink 182, 1997
Sex and Candy, Marcy Playground, 1997
Cancer For The Cure, Eels, 1998
All The Small Things, Blink 182, 1999
Army, Ben Folds, 1999
A Praise Chorus, Jimmy Eat World, 2001