CDs that forged your teenager self

[MarieVampSlayer]

Hi all,

I wanted to discuss with you the CDs that you were obsessed with when you were a teenager. So here are my questions:

What CDs did you listen to abusively when you were a teen?
Are you still prood of theses choices or ashamed?
Do you still listen to the same kind of music?
Is there a CD that changed your life and if so why?

Let's discuss!

 

[thrasherpix]

Seeing (and sneaking in to see it again) The Crow affected me in more ways than one, and I dare say helped me to become a better person through a butterfly effect. Luckily, it didn't get me to cursing (my parents did that all the time, especially when drunk, and didn't want to imitate them as that meant I belonged to them rather than Granny who I wanted to live with again) or things like arson (and can't forget the incest in the movie, though I didn't have a brother 😱😛). One of the things it did do was awaken my appreciation for music, and I started to seek it out for the first time.

There wasn't much I could afford, but one music store told me to try Cruxshadows, which came on an audio cassette (already being phased out) and offered me a free poster of the band ('course now I know it's because back then it just wasn't selling). That started me on gothic music of the time, and I very slowly built a collection, much of it old because I had to buy old cassettes from thrift stores (all I could afford), like Bauhaus and Alien Sex Fiend. My tastes are expansive and would evolve, but back then, that was what I preferred and thus like CXS (Cruxshadows) before most people even heard of them, and they remain one of my favorite bands (though their musical style has also evolved and aren't like they used to be, but it evolved in a way that works for me). I do remember playing the hell out of Switchblade Symphony.

I'd later get into classical music (like Chopin) in part due to yet another movie I saw when I was 16, and that would combine with my musical tastes to get into things like symphonic (opera) metal metal. Though at the same time I loved Dar Williams (folk) and a few others, even getting into other types of metal for awhile. Music meant a lot more to me when I was younger, in a strange way acting like ASMR (setting off brain tingles and sort of a high), but it does that a lot less today (it still happens rarely, but always a pleasant surprise when it does).

 

[AnthonyCordova]

When I was young I listened to a lot of the Smiths, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Nitzer Ebb, Nine Inch Nails, etc. These days I listen to classical music and electronic music mostly (I also compose music) but ocassionally I will listen to my old gothic/industrial collection, or go out to the goth club to see old friends from back in the day.

The most influential cd I listened to when I was young was probably Depeche Mode Violator, or The Cure Pornography. I remember listening to those albums everyday on my walk home from school. My early understanding and appreciation of Romanticism came from that music. And gothic music in general led me to explore the roots of the culture, its cultural precedents, which led to Lord Byron and the Byronic archetype, gothic revivalism in the visual arts, 19th century gothic literature, the poetry of Poe, and more. I don't regret my past one bit, even if I have grown away from it in recent years.

 

[fauxindigo]

I discovered Veruca Salt my sophomore or junior year of high school and felt like I found the love of my life. Eight Arms to Hold You was/is massive and discovering the rest of their music along with Nina Gordons solo album Tonight and the Rest of My Life was life changing for me; they are still some of my favorite artists.
I always kind of liked Britney but she won me over with Toxic. These albums really bring me back to high school, senior year especially for In the Zone and Fallen from Evanescence; back to when I was like 17/18, graduating and going to college, just discovering myself and falling in love for the first time in my life- such exciting, great times.

 

[fauxindigo]

Incubus is also one of my all time faves, with S.C.I.E.N.C.E. & Morning View being the best for me (although their Make Yourself album is right up there too).

 

[white avenger]

This thread really makes me feel old! When I was a teen, we were still listening to vinyl discs, and the newest thing for automobiles was something called an 8 track tape. As for what I listened to, my mom had spent a lot of time in New Orleans when she was young, and she got me interested in musicians like Louis Armstrong, Peter Duchin, Hoge Carmichael, Peggy Lee, and Phil Harris. My guilty pleasures, the stuff that I could play when she wasn't around, were things like the Ventures, the Beachboys, and, of course, a guy named Elvis Presley. The Beatles, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and the like were during my college days.

 

[HowiMetdaSlayer]

This might take a while...

These are all albums I listened to a bunch when I was a teen. They all had a pretty big influence on what I like. I have an eclectic taste. You should see my FiiO player. 😉

 

[LilyAnne]

I was precisely a decade too young to have appreciated their reign in the '90s as it was happening, but The Smashing Pumpkins are definitely the most important band of my life so far. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is probably my favorite album of all time, but Gish, Siamese Dream, and Adore are all great. Even Machina has six songs that I like, three of which I love. I've never listened to any of their stuff post-2000, but that stuff is, like, barely canon anyways. Just Billy recycling the name.
I have actually compared my love of The Smashing Pumpkins with my love of Buffy before. I kind of like them both for some of the same reasons. The way that Buffy is such a casual blend of genres and styles, The Smashing Pumpkins are with their music. There is no single "kind" of song that comes to mind when thinking about their music, just like how there is no single "kind" of episode that comes to mind when thinking about Buffy. 🙂 And I was also a decade too young to have appreciated Buffy while it was on the air. They're kinda the same in a way.



Some of my other favorite music in high school was...

Defiance, Ohio ~Share What Ya Got, The Great Depression, The Fear, The Fear, The Fear, and Midwestern Minutes

Mischief Brew ~ Smash the Windows & Songs From Under the Sink. (RIP, Erik Petersen)

The Killers ~ Hot Fuss, Sam's Town, and Day & Age

The All-American Rejects ~ Their self-titled debut, but especially their follow-up, Move Along. That song "It Ends Tonight" was suuuper important to me in high school.

Spring Awakening: Original Broadway Cast Recording

I also love(d) The Cure a lot, but the only album of theirs that I owned in high school was their Greatest Hits album, which only like half counts. I did love it, though.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

 

[Mr. Pointy]

CDs didn't exist until well after my teen years 😉 but I listened to Deep Purple's Machine Head, Led Zeppelin 4, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, the first couple of Roxy Music LPs, and the Beatles and Stones more than would be considered usual. I wouldn't say any single album influenced or changed me more than another but those artists, along with some of the better punk and post-punk artists (The Clash, XTC, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury etc.) helped make me the bright, sunny, well-rounded person I am today 😎 I still listen to all those artists and bands but I find that less and less interests me in modern music...which means modern music is doing its job properly.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

XTC

Dukes of Stratosphear?

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Dukes of Stratosphear?

I didn't really get into that side of XTC's oeuvre, I'm more Mr Mainstream 😉

 

[Cohen]

This album literally got my through high school. It also built my love for alternative music. I would mostly download songs and make mixtape CDs so I don’t have any other particular albums but this is the one that kicked off my love of alternative rock.

 

[Fuffy Baith]

I was just telling my boyfriend the other day how I used to fall asleep listening to Michelle Branch as a teen. Lol. I had her first two albums. Still listen to her when it comes on in my car from my ipod. lol. When I was a senior i bought the Depeche Mode Greatest hits CD and that was on constant play on my (then new) ipod. lol. I also listened to a lot of the band Orgy. lol. They have good songs. I also had a lot of random CDs that I used to listen too, some of which are a bit embarassing, lol. But I defintely used to love falling alseep listening to my CD player. ah, goos times. lol

The Smashing Pumpkins are definitely the most important band of my life so far. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is probably my favorite album of all time, but Gish, Siamese Dream, and Adore are all great. Even Machina has six songs that I like, three of which I love. I've never listened to any of their stuff post-2000, but that stuff is, like, barely canon anyways. Just Billy recycling the name.

i requested the Smashing Pumpkins as a gift one year for Christmas and i was so excited! It was Rotten Apples the greatest hits CD. Then later I bought Mellon Collie. Love it! Actually relistened to the whole album last month on Amazon music. Some of the first songs I leared to play on guitar were SP songs. I still know a few. Machina does have good songs, one of my favorite songs ever is Stand Inside Your Love. I like some of the songs off of the album Zeitgeist but everything after that is just not Pumpkins to me. I also bought my cousin a DVD of their music videos, and we would watch that a lot.

 

[The Bronze]

Music wasn't a big thing in my house when I was growing up so I was quite a late starter getting into it. All I really heard was chart music and I was never that interested, although I'm more fond of it now for nostalgia and parties.

I think the most important album for me was probably Good Charlotte's - The Young & the Hopeless. Even though I'd started finding some rock bands like Nickelback before hand this album got me into fast paced pop punk. I listened to that a lot and it got me searching for other bands.

Once I started looking I found loads of great stuff and I've been going to see live music and listening to various punk and ska ever since. Other influential albums I'd say were Anti-Flag - For Blood & Empire for opening my eyes a bit more to some issues. Also Pennywise self titled album which is both awesome and highlights the need to make the most of your life.

This thread really makes me feel old! When I was a teen, we were still listening to vinyl discs

You're not considered old anymore, now you're a hipster 😎

 

[Nix]

What CDs did you listen to abusively when you were a teen?
Skid Row - Youth gone wild
The Lost Boys - soundtrack
Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
Bon Jovi - Slippery when wet

Are you still prood of theses choices or ashamed?
Still proud

Do you still listen to the same kind of music?
Yup

Is there a CD that changed your life and if so why?
The Lost Boys soundtrack and The Crow soundtrack
That's when I first loved Vampires and fell in love with the darker side of life and a passion that lasts forever.
Metallica's Load album gave me and my little brother a chance to express our emotions.. for me it was Until it sleeps and for my brother it was most of the album.

P.s.
No cd's back in the day it was LPs and tapes!

 

[November]

I dont really remember that far back... thinking of live bands from then and the cds I still have - Silverchair, Something for Kate, The Offspring, Greenday, Blink 182, Metallica, Hilltop hoods, Jebediah, Frenzal Rhomb.

 

[Bluebird]

Because my dad was a sound engineer I spent a lot of time in music stores and gigs, or just hanging around my dad with his numerous sound equipment. So I remember cassette tapes as my first experience, even though I grew up in the 90s, and my music taste was influenced a lot by what my dad listened to (being obsessed with music). A lot of punk, 60s & 70s pop, reggae, dub, alt rock, disco, techno. I think I have the same gene as my dad, where music has the same effect as drugs.

 

[AndrewCrossett]

Okay... revealing my age here, but CDs didn't become a thing until I was in college. In my high school years it was vinyl and cassettes. (Yes, I did have a boombox... an awesome one).

If you want to know what I listed to back then, check out this link. It's a 20-disk mix I made for when I want to wallow in nostalgia.

I do still listen to this stuff, and lots of other stuff besides... British Invasion stuff, Dean Winchester-style classic rock, punk, 90's alternative and grunge and electronica. My 5 favorite albums of all time would probably be:

1. Macalla, by Clannad
2. Murmur, by R.E.M.
3. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, by David Bowie
4. Dubnobasswithmyheadman, by Underworld
5. Rain Dogs, by Tom Waits

If there was one album that changed by life, it was probably my parents' copy of Who's Next by The Who. Listening to that as a little kid is what made me a rock fan.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

check out this link. It's a 20-disk mix I made for when I want to wallow in nostalgia.

I kneel before thee.