Albums from your teenage years that you've rediscovered

I've been playing this a lot recently...

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...great band before they went all 'Winds of Change'! 🙂

In Utero by Nirvana is a mint album and preferable to Nevermind for me. Confirmed by recently listening for the first time in around 15 years.

Songs for the Deaf was an all time favourite but I haven't checked it for a long time.

I'm currently halfway through Geddy Lee's autobiography (which is a great read I should add). It's made me go out and listen to the likes of Caress of Steel and A Farewell to Kings again, as well as the "other" side of 2112. Not exactly rediscovering them, but I hadn't given them a proper listen in a good while.

Not quite teenaged, but I listened to Siamese Dream again for the first time in aaaaages a coupe of nights ago, it still holds up. 1993! Bloody hell.

Quite a few albums actually. But the last day or so I have been listening to Duke by Genesis. Love that album

Not 'album' per se, but The Cure. I kinda liked them back in my teenage years, but right now I am mad at myself for not ditching my metal roots and going full Goth, becoming a megafan and seeing them live countless times (like I did with bands like Iron Maiden). I finally saw them live in 2022 and they were utterly amazing.

Vanishing point Primal Scream just reappeared on my playlist after 20+ years.

Having recently got Android Auto working in the car, this gem popped up in my Spotify account.

Takes me right back to high school

Not ‘album’ per se, but The Cure. I kinda liked them back in my teenage years, but right now I am mad at myself for not ditching my metal roots and going full Goth, becoming a megafan and seeing them live countless times (like I did with bands like Iron Maiden). I finally saw them live in 2022 and they were utterly amazing.

They are, and I was into them when I was young too. Quite often I Shazam something on a soundtrack and find it's one of their lesser known songs too.

However Robert Smith is a massive twit.

Faith No More - Angel dust, it came back for me about 5 years ago and may also count as a classic.

As for Siamese dream above, I've never stopped giving that a regular listen, it's my speaker test album.

Songs for the deaf also stays in rotation, so good.

FWIW I only "discovered" that AC:DC were an amazing band when I was in my 40s.

FWIW I only “discovered” that AC:DC were an amazing band when I was in my 40s.

Ditto, I always thought they were too loud. Strange, considering Motorhead were one of my favourite bands

Ditto, I always thought they were too loud.

Wow, I'd always thought that I was uniquely misguided.

I'm still listening to a load of stuff I was into in the 80s. Album I had as a teen I've recently rediscovered... Lou Reed, New York

Another Cure fan, saw them on the Disintegration tour back when it was released... One of my biggest facepalms was going to the Town & Country club in Kentish Town to buy tickets for some band and seeing a small flyer for a gig with a band called "Five Imaginary Boys"... I assumed it was a Cure tribute act or inspired by band so ignored it. Next week I opened the music press to discover I'd just missed possibly their best live gig, intimate setting in the T&C2 ... Oh well, there's always The Cure in Orange video to come back to!

*Hang on, I wasn't a teen any more when New York came out..

I listened to this for what must be the first time in about 20 years recently. Still love it as much now as I did then.

Misplaced Childhood by Marrilion would be mine… one of only a handful of albums (since rediscovering it) that I’d listen to end to end

FWIW I only “discovered” that AC:DC were an amazing band when I was in my 40s.

Unpopular opinion but their best album is Powerage. None of the famous hits but back to back bangers.

Evil Empire by RATM was in constant rotation last year after a long rest. I love it even more now than I did when I was young because I 'get it' more and I've embraced rap and hip-hop in the meantime. I fully appreciate how incredible Zack is as a writer and MC.

Again, not the most famous album but the one with the most good songs and the best production. The bass tone is perfection.

My daughter has been rummaging through my collection and discovered the first Garbage album, what a little stonker that is.  

Misplaced Childhood by Marrilion would be mine… one of only a handful of albums (since rediscovering it) that I’d listen to end to end

Misplaced Childhood is a superb album. An album that is a single body of work rather than a collection of unconnected songs, the flow of it works so well. Those who've only heard Kayleigh easily give it a miss.

Misplaced Childhood by Marrilion would be mine… one of only a handful of albums (since rediscovering it) that I’d listen to end to end
Misplaced Childhood is a superb album. And album that is a single body of work rather than a collection of unconnected songs, the flow of it works so well. Those who’ve only heard Kayleigh easily give it a miss.

I had tickets for that tour but seem to remember that Fish lost his voice, so it was Clutching At Straws by the time I saw them. I haven't ever stopped listening to them, occasionally, and CAS grew on me as I grew older!

I’ve been listening to Evil Empire by RATM recently. Like it more now than I did on original release. Has a much more Hip-hop vibe than their other albums.

Yep, Cure fan too saw them last year - still great. But rediscovered The Concept by Teenage Fanclub, forgot how good it was. Big like in my indie clubbing days. The Prodigy is always a good way to see if your neighbours are in.

Clicked on the thread thinking it was going to be photo albums from our teenage years - found a few tidying up my parents house that are perhaps best forgotten 😉

Been rediscovering 'Some Friendly' by the Charlatans again lately.

Good times. Saw them at Birmingham Hummingbird.

Remember in the mid 80s when every high street record shop, including Woolworths had an On.U Sounds section in the record rack? The thought used to tickle me that almost the entire country was popping out on a Saturday morning to the high street for spare laces and buttons, a copy of TV Quick, pick n mix and the latest weird dub bangers from Adrian Sherwood to get completely monged to... Recently rediscovered this one...

https://themissingbrazilians.bandcamp.com/track/igloo-inn

hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing - discharge. listened to this recently after chatting ot the kids about metal/trash bands like metallica (the youngest is learning to drum). just amazing.

also badmotorfinger by soundgarden

No exactly teenage stuff, but I've listened to a lot of Silver Mt Zion this last year and absolutely bounced off their first band Godspeed you Black Emperor first time round - just didn't really listen to music in that sort of active way 25 years ago.

I mean probably everyone can appreciate Dead Flag Blues, but actually sitting down with something like Shake your skinny fists wasn't something I used to be able to do, but now I like it. Even Silver Mt Zion's stuff is from a while back now, 10 years+.

Talk talk remain out of reach for my ears. Might need another decade or two.

Albums from your teenage years that you’ve rediscovered

Some never went away. Vinyl may have been replaced by cassette followed by CD. Some albums have been remastered and are still pleasing, sometimes sounding much better.

There's certainly the odd album or two or three that stands the test of time earning the moniker 'Classic' and feature in my collection. Hendrix never went away!

I've had a few records out lately including Transformer by Lou Reed and The scream by Siouxsie and the banshees.

I was well out of my teens when the excellent New York by Lou came out.

Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head

Eno and Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing – discharge.

Oh yes. I was getting back on that a few months back. Brilliant.

This week for me too, The Day the Country Died.
Subhumans.

Fantastic

Rediscovered? Half a century later I'm still listening to them.

Not recent, but a few years back someone posted a random video on bikeradar, and the soundtrack sounded familiar... It got stuck in the back of my brain, eventually figured out it was the Dust Junkys, a band I'd not listened to for at least a decade, just because I forgot about them. Instantly back into the favourites, even managed to go and see them a couple of times when they've briefly reformed and vanished again.

I was well out of my teens when the excellent New York by Lou came out.

You're not wrong. It was one of those albums that out of the blue seemed to be in everyone's collection even if they'd never been a fan... a bit like how Bowie's Let's Dance ended up in the collections of music fans who'd never bought a Bowie record before. Just seemed cool AF. My younger brother had a copy, I had a copy, all my mates had copies. Played it to death and only just rediscovered it last year and was knocked out. Think I'll seek a CD copy out.

Reverted back to some black sabbath.

And bush... 16 stone what an album

dunno about rediscovery but I'm back in my teenage bedroom listening to raw punk energy again with Letter to Self 🙂 one happy old man!

First Skid Row album. Bought it on vinyl when it was released but hadn't listened to for years as I don't own a record player. Listened to it on Spotify recently, pleasantly surprised at how good it sounds.

Remember in the mid 80s when every high street record shop, including Woolworths had an On.U Sounds section in the record rack?

Yes - and almost always bloody empty.

There seemed to be certain artists who were just big enough to have their own divider on the racks, but not quite big enough for them to actually be stocked with anything. I spent years trying to track down a particular Barry Adamson track and every now there would be a wee tingle of anticipation that there was actually something in the dividers - only to discover someone had put a Bryan Adams album back in the wrong slot. 🙂

I was introduced to On-sound by someone who himself was introduced to them while recovering from an eye(s) injury - stuck at home with his head in bandages folk would visit, bring him a few cans and put an album on and thats how he first heard Dub Syndicate - about 4 weeks into his weird sensory deprivation

The new Creation Rebel album is pretty good

Word salad by Fischer Z ….. sounds great on vinyl… Memories of being a swimming pool lifeguard at sixteen, much fun . 

Bleach is a great shout. About 20 years ago I had a clear out of my cd's, got rid of lots of grunge, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Faith No More etc but I kept all the Nirvana albums. I love Bleach and In Utero but haven't listened to them for years. My 15 yo daughter is really into Britpop just now, and as it's the same era I've started listening to the Lemonheads again.

I recently rediscovered a load I hadn't heard for years after "digitising" (yeah I know) some old CDs onto my laptop.

Another rediscovery of Siamese dream here, that and Mellon Collie, what an epic with very few bad songs. Took me right back to another world.

Some others I wasn't sure would hold up and almost didn't bother with but am really enjoying -

Pulp - different class - surely the best of the britpop era? Just one after another incredible pop songs

Placebo - without you I'm nothing - surprised to find a lot to like from a band only really famous for 1 or 2 tracks but with more depth than I remembered. I would have probably skipped slow tracks like My Sweet Prince when it first came out but now it definitely hits a bit harder. Perfectly distilled regret.

Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman - I'm not even really into techno but this sounds amazing still, very creative.

and a load more but those were the ones I miss the most.

However Robert Smith is a massive twit.

Unlike Ted Nugent above, any proper description of whom would have me censored!

As I turned 13 in 1967, pretty much every decent album I discovered from then on I still appreciate and listen to, in particular ‘In The Court of the Crimson King’, but there are really too many to list.

I have yet to rediscover "Life before death" by R D Laing. But on thinking if I had anything to contribute here I thought of that. Don't know if I still have it, or would actually want to listen to it.

On a brighter note, Flanders and Swann have been a constant in my life since the 1960's.

On a topical note, as a teenager I listened to Annie Nightingale (RIP) every Sunday evening, and (it being the 80s) I’d occasionally tape it too for, er, posterity. There’s loads of stuff from that period I still listen too (Jesus and Mary Chain, Half Man Half Biscuit, Gina X), but also some gems I haven’t heard in years (Fish Heads). But in line with the thread subject, one thing I recently listened to for the first time in years, which I also heard for the first time on Annie Nightingale, is Marlene on the Wall - the self-titled Suzanne Vega album is great, but that song in particular I still know every word to.

I’ve started listening to the Lemonheads again.

It’s a shame about Ray is a great album.

Still love most PWEI albums.

The Prodigy-The Fat of the Land, game changed.

Dr. Dre-2001, This made me download Dr. Dre The Chronic, what an album.

Never really forgotten to be rediscovered, but since his demise RSATL by The Pogues has seen some daylight. In truth it's been mainly a spotify playlist but RSATL is the album most of the memories come from, plus additions.

It’ll End in Tears: This Mortal Coil.
Fairy tails of slavery: Miranda Sex Garden

Currently listening to a bit of Therapy, Soundgarden, Megadeth and Anthrax.

Nevermind or anything that is obviously a classic

I remember dating a uni student when I was an apprentice, I gave her and her pretentious Uni mates a lift to a pub. I had a copy of Nevermind on the tape deck, they had no idea who it was and all declared it terrible.
I think it’d be different now.

Interesting that most of the recollections are more rock-oriented.

It's pretty telling that rock from the 60s  + 70s still sounds great and listened to by multiple generations  (Led Zep, AC/DC Black Sabbath, rolling Stones etc)..

whereas mid 80's Stock/aitken/waterman produced stuff...  yes, I'm sure you'd rather jack. I'd actually rather jack my car up and work on its red hot exhaust bare handed than listen to S/A/W bilge 😖

I replaced my old phone in November and loaded all my ripped music from 20+ years back onto a micro SD card. Now working through it. Blimey, I'd forgotten how bloody good Sabbath's 'Sabotage' was (despite Bill Ward's borrowed check underpants).

This is one reason I miss doing mountain bike "edits", not that mine were ever very good but picking the music was awesome. Cut the footage to about the right length, sort the entire mp3 collection into length order, and go hunting. Not just for rediscoveries, I've got a load of albums and random downloads and things I've been given by other people that I've probably never even played or at least never given a chance so going looking with no preconceptions and finding allsorts was always great.

It’s 45 years since I was a teenager, and music from my formative years may get a break every now and then but  I’ve never had to rediscover owt. Jimmy Osmond’s Little Arrow sounds as good now as it did then. Rock on Little Jimmy.

Loads recently, sparked by seeing a few 25th anniversary tours

Echobelly - On

Silverchair - Frogstomp

Kerbdog - On the Turn

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music

The Almighty - Just Add Life

The Offspring - Smash

Fun lovin Criminals - 100% columbian

Not so much rediscovered as teenage albums that I return to every few years and remember how good they actually are.

Could be loads of them, but coming to mind now...

The Cult. Electric.
PWEI. This is the day... This is the hour... This is this!
Age of chance. One thousand years of trouble.
Julian Cope. My nation underground.

I know the OP said we're not allowed Nevermind, but a few weeks ago is the first time I actually listened to the whole album. Obviously knew the hits at the time, but it's an album I've never owned, borrowed or held a back up copy for anyone (ahem). Wasn't really my thing at the time but learning bass guitar has had me playing easy riffs and Come as you are, inspired me to listen to the whole thing. 

Similarly with the Stone Roses. Tracks I didn't recognise the names of but could still sing half the lyrics. 

Smash by the Offspring is a good shout, so different from what they turned into. From the same year at uni that I moved into a flat with some art students and my musical tastes went in all directions.

Just dug out "Rocking with the Renees" by the Gymslips.  Rather like that. Time to fire up the USB turntable again.

The only track on Youtube

The Gymslips Dear Marge (youtube.com)

I rediscovered Psychocandy, Jesus and the Mary Chain after watching their set at Glastonbury on the telly. I had it on cassette back in those days, original vinyl price is quite high, waiting for it to be reissued. 

Having previously said  still listen to my teenage albums, here's one I hadn't for quite some time until Mrs Slow pulled it off the shelf today.

Been listening to Prefab Sprouts Steve McQueen few times recently, and loads of Beastie Boys early stuff.

what can I say......I'm a Dinosaur...... lol

Ah I had a summer job in Bridlington in 1972 working on beach snack bars and in the 3Bs theatre. A perk of the job was to get into gigs at the Spa Hall through the kitchens. I took my mum to see Quo there. She loved them.

Just down the road from my house there is a blue plaque on a building commemorating that it's where the quo first gigged, the building used to be a pub but it's since been knocked down and is now an old people's home

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Loads recently, sparked by seeing a few 25th anniversary tours
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The Almighty – Just Add Life

Kinda ironic that one! "This setlist has inspired me to rediscover an album they played no songs off" 🙂

Recently been getting back into these

First last and always- sisters of mercy

Deathcult -dreamtime

Napalm death-scum

Bolt thrower- in battler there is no law.

All really rather jolly

Well I have continued to think about this and a problem is distinguishing teens from early 20s as that divide occurred when I was at Uni and discovering loads of new stuff. This is in terms of when I first got into them, not release date.

But there is one, Strawbs - Hero and Heroine.

Other than that most stuff has more or less stuck with me. There is a lot of stuff from that time which I have later got into for the first time.

Recently loaded this into my library. Loved this album and still do 

Interesting that most of the recollections are more rock-oriented.

Late teenage years I was more into 'rock' ...

Early teenage I was discovering hip-hop as an antidote to the mainstream TOTP offerings.

About 1991 I borrowed a tape a friend had recorded of a Pete Tong Rap Show and it had a song I couldn't get enough of, not realising it was one of the OGs.

I never did find it in England, but maybe a year later I went to the USA and tracked down a cassette album so I could play Children's Story whenever I liked. Had a late night listen over Xmas and the best tunes are still very good.

"Knock 'em out the box Rick, knock 'em out."