I love threads like this 🙂
What CDs did you listen to abusively when you were a teen?
Anything by Nsync. I was known for being an Nsync fanatic. Besides that, lots of different genres, so there was Shania Twain's Come On Over, Green Day's Dookie, Nirvana's Nevermind, and probably more, but those are the most memorable.
I think I've mentioned this in a past thread, but I have a very strong memory of the entire Kelly Clarkson album Breakaway. Listening to it on repeat with my best friend at the time when we were 17, sitting on the window pane of the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. I remember those times more clearly than most things in my life, though I don't know why.
Are you still proud of theses choices or ashamed?
Neither. I still have the exact same taste in music as I did back then (though I lean more towards rock and country, back then it was more pop). I've never been ashamed, not even when I was looked at like a poser because I looked punk but listened to Nsync 🙂
Saying I'm proud feels weird, though; it isn't an accomplishment, just what I enjoyed listening to at that time in my life.
Do you still listen to the same kind of music?
As mentioned before, yes I do. I even still listen to a lot of the same artists, especially since I feel that the music of the past 15 years has been...less than, in my eyes.
Is there a CD that changed your life and if so why?
I don't really think there is anything that profound in my past, but the Kelly Clarkson album definitely has meaning to me and my memories of a friend I no longer speak to, and I've attached strong memories to a few other albums as well, most of which I've mentioned above already. Music itself has shaped my life and personality, but not any one artist or band.