Ouch - revisiting your favourite teenage albums

wondering how far back I need to go before revisiting my Bon Jovi phase

Ahhhh, Thursday nights in the Blue Note .........

Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ on the CD player, first time since the last year of high school 22ish years ago

Realising that Kid A was 22 years ago has distressed me! (Still a brilliant album though.)

In my teens, I was listening to Van Halen, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer.... you get the idea

These days, I listen to Van Halen, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer...

but lots of other stuff too. most of the stuff I listened to back then has aged really well. Unlike the films I watched in those days...

Still got it on vinyl

Quality innit!

play this a lot. reminds me of a wasted youth. my wasted youth.

Realising that Kid A was 22 years ago has distressed me!

Gave me a fright as well!

most of the stuff I listened to back then has aged really well

Yeah, surprisingly the stuff that I find has aged least well is the Prodigy, although bizarrely their early stuff (Experience) seems to have aged better than their later stuff, Fat of the Land just sounds like it's trying too hard now whereas Experience just seems immune to it, weird.

Trying to remember what I was listening to prior to Radiohead in those days, think I went through a massive Prodigy and Beastie Boys phase

I still think that "Experience" is the Prodigy's finest album simply down to the amount of energy and not trying to be too clever musically, it's literally rave/breakbeat distilled.

Luckily, my all time favourite teenage me album is still my all time favourite album now I'm 49. Still listen to everything on it regularly.

I can't imagine it ever sounding anything but pioneering.

I can't go back to pre-teen else we get Shakin Stevens 😂

Agree - Fat Of The Land was one of the only albums I ever bought at 9am on release day, but I never listen to it now.

I come back to Superunknown and Angel Dust a lot these days. Biohazard and Fear Factory, not so much....

Love listening to classic albums of my youth, have you tried tim's twitter listening parties BTW - he has many now to playback, it's great to listen to a classic album and even better if the artist(s) are there to talk about the recording and ancillary activities.

Definitely don't look at release dates though, that way depression lies. > 40 years since Joy Division, almost 40 years since The Smiths, Kurt Cobain died almost 30 years ago.....

Hmm my teens were dominated by early Floyd, Tull, Zeppelin, Genesis, ELP, etc. Simon and Garfunkel were reserved for those navel gazing moments.

First album I ever bought was Johnny Winter, And. Then 10 cc Hot legs. Dunno what was going there. Bought them from the luvverlly flame haired Janice in The Music Box in Bedlington.
Then Amon Dull, then Taste Live at the Isle of Wight. Confused or what.

Just out of curiosity I stuck Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ on the CD player...

I preferred "Our Kid Eh" by the Shirehorses.

Taste Live at the Isle of Wight

Discovered Rory Gallagher mid-university which was probably the appropriate time. Even saw a fantastic cover band (Sinner Boy) in Edinburgh, brilliant night.

The Specials , both albums. Had special reason to revisit those this week and both still sound superb.

God what a bunch of moping serious teens you all were.

In my teens, I was listening to Van Halen, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer…. you get the idea

These days, I listen to Van Halen, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer…

but lots of other stuff too. most of the stuff I listened to back then has aged really well. Unlike the films I watched in those days…

Other than the lack of reference to the then emerging grunge scene that's pretty much me as well.

Absolutely spot on about a lot of it having aged really well. The cock-rock bands of that era and general pop not so much. Can you imagine Poison's Open Up and Say Ahhhh or Look What the Cat Dragged In being released now. 😬

Listening to a whole album like that is such an absolute pleasure- such a journey through so many memories. I often stop listening to some of them because you hear the singles so much on the radio, so you neglect the album- but it's a very, very different experience

JuJu - Siouxsie and the Banshees. Massive favourite when I was a teenager. It's still top 3. Perfection on vinyl.

One of my first albums was Garbage's Garbage album. Still listen to it and still enjoy it. Same with Placebo's first album.

My musical tastes have widened since then.

Dare was released in 1981. It’s still one of my favourite albums and I listen to it regularly. Christmas number 1 with a Rover SD1. What’s not to like? And not the best track on the album either. Still also a Heaven 17 fan (unsurprisingly) too.

Loved so much of the Stax music and artists in my teens (still do). Eddie Floyd was one of my favourites.

Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood - YouTube

Think I was 13 when this came out

My first ever proper gig, aged 15, at Manchester Apollo on this tour and they absolutely blew me away! Full on rock god mode in all their ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ pomp

Still sounds absolutely bloody brilliant, full of absolute stonewall classics!

Yes! 'She sells Sanctuary' has been with me since I was a kid, my dad and I listened to it on cassette in the car. I regularly revisit it on YouTube (once I'd gotten over the shock at how 'New romantic' the lead singer looked 🫣)

Currently listening to Ms. Dynamite's A Little Deeper. It's twenty years old now. And this is probably the first time I've listened to it since 2005. It still holds up.

Listening to Quick Step amd Side Kick and 10 year old me is back again, marvelling at the wonder of a personal stereo that only had a reverse button, no fast forward....

Showing my age but this just creeps into my teenage albums, 19 when this came out in 77, think I’m on my 3rd copy of the Album now and still love it

Disintegration by The Cure, great at the time, great last week in Wembley, great when I played it on my journey over to Ireland yesterday.
Agree about The Prodigy though.

Fugees The Score, Dr Dre 2001, Eminem's first few albums and Prodigy's Music for a jilted generation/Fat of the land are the ones I remember most. Still love 'em now.

Can you imagine Poison’s Open Up and Say Ahhhh or Look What the Cat Dragged In being released now

You realise this is how Steel Panther got successful?

Leftfield - Rhythm And Stealth was one of my most played (they're playing in Newcastle and I'm so tempted to go)

Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed And In Deep Conversation was another popular one for me

Senser - Stacked Up was played a lot by me and my brother

"Revisiting"?

I thought everyone stopped appreciating new music on their 30th birthday.

Still listen to loads of albums from my teenage years, lots of it still stacks up now. Prodigy (Jilted Generation still sounds contemporary), GnR, Metallica, Nirvana, RHCP, Therapy?, Cypress Hill, Wu Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, PWEI, Levellers, Teenage Fanclub etc etc

Lights camera revolution by suicidal tendencies is still one of my absolute favourite albums.

I was educating the children the other day that Metallica ends at master of puppets and everything after is just shite. We moved onto suicidal as it's just class and they loved it! Rob Trujillo's bass is just amazing.

I also tried to introduce them to American hardcore like sick of it all and biohazard but they weren't having any of it. Bloody heathens!

I also still love primus.

Radiohead are still utter garbage. They were shite when I saw them just after they left school supporting Carter when I was 15 and they are still crap now. Wife loves them we have 'discussions' when she puts it on while I'm driving 😂

God what a bunch of moping serious teens you all were.

Hi!

Kid A was 22 years ago!!! Christ.

And to think, just over a year previous my favourite song was Millenium by Robbie Williams (excuse: I was 14). Then somehow I ended up knee deep in kid A. A year or so later it was Turn on the bright lights by interpol, an album I still listen to regularly.

VH sed> I was educating the children the other day that Metallica ends at master of puppets and everything after is just shite. We moved onto suicidal as it’s just class and they loved it! Rob Trujillo’s bass is just amazing.

I also tried to introduce them to American hardcore like sick of it all and biohazard but they weren’t having any of it. Bloody heathens!

Nah, your kids have it exactly right. B and SOIA are not in the same league as ST.

I thought everyone stopped appreciating new music on their 30th birthday

Don’t be daft! It’s the complete opposite!

There’s a whole world of middle-aged, chin-stroking 6 music listeners (myself included) who delete every band off their playlist once more than 100 people have heard of them 😉

Don't think I've rediscovered them as such as I've always listened to them.

But give me a house on my own, a decent drink and Radiohead, Leftfield, Massive Attack or Portishead and I'm a happy bunny. Still like the prodigy, as others have said, earlier work stands up well. But that's more driving (like a dick) music.

But Kid-A being 22 years old has scared me a bit. I am getting old. Especially as I was excited to find out that the Christmas bin collection rescheduling means that the recycling bins are being emptied on Christmas Eve.

Metallica ends at master of puppets and everything after is just shite.

I’ve never got the it’s only cool to like Cliff Burton era Metallica snobbery, AJFA and Black are great albums (granted it was then a bit rubbish until DM.

I was educating the children the other day that Metallica ends at master of puppets and everything after is just shite

So you're excluding And Justice For All? it's a phenomenal album. Crank it loud on a good system to counter the weedy production and it's as good as anything they recorded previously

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and Volume II by the Aphex Twin are still getting played regularly.

Exit Planet Dust, Chemical Brothers.

Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

Early Pj Harvey, Prince, Hendrix, Zeppelin. All get playtime. And I'll admit I've rediscovered Engima, German exchange student introduced me to them.

Then 1996 happened, I turned 20 and oh my gosh, what a year for albums....

I still listen to stuff I did in my youth and a lot more too. Superunknown by Soundgarden is the best album of the 90’s in my opinion. I also listened to some awful albums that I wouldn’t give the time of day to now. Real shite like Clawfinger, Biohazard, Guns N Roses and Body Count. Cringing just typing it!

I honestly think the 90’s was a fantastic time for rock and hip-hop though. Some real classics from that era that still stand up today.

Prodigy, Rage, Chemical Brothers, Beasties, Primus...

Would go and see any of them today, never actually seen Prodigy or Primus either.

Soundgarden got me through my college years, particularly Badmotorfinger. I remember being disappointed with Superunknown at first, then listened again, and again, and again and realised it was brilliant. Saw Cornell twice in my lifetime with Soundgarden and also with Audioslave. Sadly, will never see him play again 😔

There’s a whole world of middle-aged, chin-stroking 6 music listeners (myself included) who delete every band off their playlist once more than 100 people have heard of them

Has anyone seen DezB and Binners together in the same room?

This was the first album I played the groove out of.

Would go and see any of them today, never actually seen Prodigy or Primus either.

Saw Prodigy many years ago when I was in my early 30s, still felt old enough to be everyones dad 🤣

My 1st teenage album was actually a box set I brought with my paper round money...it was knocked down to £25...the box set of electro (Street sounds)....
Breakdance ....electric boogie......come on sing along, hands I the air...Great dayz

My 1st teenage album was actually a box set I brought with my paper round money…it was knocked down to £25…the box set of electro (Street sounds)….
Breakdance ….electric boogie……come on sing along, hands I the air…Great dayz

You'll have made money on it if you've still got it, those early streetsounds LPs go for good money. 2 3 Break!

Sadly my druggie brother sold it for H....still got all my other vinyl tho....even brought decks last year......and...my 16 year old son loves vinyl , he collects 60,70s and 80s rock like led zep...and even the prodigy...my boy!!

Most played album of my life....
Got to be Whitesnake, Live in the heart of the city.
I think it came out in 1980, and would have got into it through my mate , and his brother who were big into heavy metal back then.
I was deffo the odd one out at my school being a fan of Motorhead, ACDC, Saxon, Iron Maiden etc etc.
Regularly listen to all of them with the exception of Saxon.

Nowadays I'll listen to most stuff but can't remember the last time I bought an album.

Edit, 1980 was a REALLY, long time ago. Can't bring myself to type the actual number 🤣

Hmm my teens were dominated by early Floyd, Tull, Zeppelin, Genesis, ELP, etc. Simon and Garfunkel were reserved for those navel gazing moments.

I can add King Crimson ’In The Court Of The Crimson King’, and Steeleye Span ‘Below The Salt’. Steeleye were the first proper band I ever saw in concert, just when they’d released that album, the next band I saw live was ELP on the ‘Trilogy’ tour.

I thought everyone stopped appreciating new music on their 30th birthday

Don’t be daft! It’s the complete opposite!

There’s a whole world of middle-aged, chin-stroking 6 music listeners (myself included) who delete every band off their playlist once more than 100 people have heard of them 😉

Nah, I stop listening to bands once anyone else discovers them. If it ain’t niche, it ain’t nothing. 😉

Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

YES !

Hmm my teens were dominated by early Floyd, Tull, Zeppelin, Genesis, ELP, etc. Simon and Garfunkel were reserved for those navel gazing moments.

I can add King Crimson ’In The Court Of The Crimson King’

Ah yes of course - particularly 21st Century Schizoid Man.

I just realised I missed an important band off my list - YES. I couldn't believe how brilliant The Yes Album was. Still love it.

Dutch band Focus were the band of my teen years.

Bought double album Focus 3 when I was 16.

Played that to destruction on my Dads radiogram......

Superunknown by Soundgarden is the best album of the 90’s in my opinion. I also listened to some awful albums that I wouldn’t give the time of day to now. Real shite like Clawfinger, Biohazard, Guns N Roses and Body Count. Cringing just typing it!

I agree with pretty much all of this, I have just two points to make:

1) Appetite for Destruction is still amazing, the first half especially. Unpleasant, misogynistic, problematic, certainly. But it is still as exciting a half hour of rock music as you'll find anywhere.

2) ahahahahahaahahabahaha ****ing Clawfinger!!! I had completely forgotten about them! My god, if biohazard have aged badly, then Sweden's premier political rap metal band must have fared even worse. Just the fact that they had an anti-racism tune called N****er is making me die of vicarious embarrassment 30 years on 😬😬😬

That’s the thing though Guns n Roses are too mainstream rock cheese for me. Very cringe and full of guitar ****ery and awful lyrics. Prefer Clutch, Modest Mouse and anything a bit outside the ROCK! Sphere. Just realised I’ve been listening to Clutch for 28 years 😳

No fronts, no tricks
No soap politics
No guns, just blunts
We kick this just for fun!

Dog eat dog?

Yep, first cd I ever bought.

I play it roughly once every 5 years or so and then put it back on the shelf 🙂

I think I did OK for a soppy, glasses-wearing dweeb at school. Madness - Night Boat to Cairo was my first single, then Start, by the Jam. Dire Straits - Making Movies was my first album, Rumours - Fleetwood Mac the second, then an eclectic selection of SLF, the Specials, Blondie followed. Still love them all.

I turned 13 in ‘78 so I was right at the end of the ‘first wave’ of punk.

We weren’t well off so I only had about a dozen lp’s before I left school.

From memory these were:
New Wave (a Sire, so US biased, compilation featuring Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Ramones, Talking Heads, New York Dolls as well as The Damned, Boomtown Rats and The Runaways). It was very influential on me and in my later years I have at least 60-70% of the tracks on the ‘original’.

BUZZOCKS - First band I saw (Love Bites tour, Subway Sect was support). Always will have a soft spot for them. They were pretty revolutionary, being non-London based, first self ‘published’ single, their whole coordinated marketing around their current release, the legendary self promoted gig(s?) with the Pistols. Music is still pretty good too!

Feeding of the Five Thousand - CRASS. Yup the anarcho-punker fun sponge brigade. Original, on Small Wonder Records (still have it). Another seminal influence on the young mh. I got the cd of it about 10-15 years ago. It still gets a spin every now and again.

Moving Targets - Penetration. Man, you can’t get it all right can you?

Grubby Stories - Patrik Fitzgerald. The (other) punk poet (Gotta Safety Pin stuck in my Heart!). Not having a record deck, haven’t played this in over 20 years.

Then there’s the mid-later teen years: London Calling, Sandinista, Songs The Lord Taught Us, Killing Joke, Kaya, The Joe Strummer ‘curated’ Lee Dorsey Charley lps, The Islands Years Toots compilation.

Then the Smiths, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Foetus, Sonic Youth, SWANS, REM, etc., for the runout.

Sure there were some turkeys but I still listen to some regularly (London Calling, Toots, esp) after all these years.

I must admit I have some acquaintances that are definitely stuck in the past musically, never understood that as I prefer the Tabula Rasa method every now and again, I need new stuff… Never understood why someone would listen to, say, Stiff Little Fingers or Theatre of Hate as their main course in this day and age 🤷🏻‍♀️

And its only uncool when the plebs like it (and liking some mainstream stuff precisely because you’re cool…😂)

Still listen to The Wonderstuff, Hup, Never Loved Elvis...still love them.
PWEI, rarely listen to a whole album these days but they feature heavily on my Turbo Boost indoor riding play list!
The Ned's, well....in retrospect they had one great song...t shirts were awesome though.

Would go and see any of them today, never actually seen Prodigy

Pretty sure I saw them support the Shamen once! Although I could be wrong.
PWEI still play Their Law live....that's a banger!!

Never stopped playing my deeply unfashionable teen albums
First ever single bought (a thread in itself I suspect) The Boomtown Rats -Rat trap
Japan - quiet life
Duran Duran - Duran Duran
ABC - the lexicon of love
Haircut 100 - pelican west
Human League -dare

Before getting into
Green Day and anything pop punk in my 20s when MTV started

I remember fondly my teenage years, living life like it was an endless summer. The days of smashing rides on the quantocks, journeying to races at the weekends with mixes featuring:
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
RATM
Green Day
Bush
The Offspring
Nirvana
Dubwar
Placebo
I look through my play lists now and all feature the above, predominantly the same tracks I listened to then.
I guess the only slight stain would be the first Single I brought which was Right Said Fred

I don’t seem to understand musical snobbery for any reasons as it spoils the fun and enjoyment of music.

Funnily enough/apropos of thread have had quite a fix of my teenage kicks throughout the last week or so

- Killing Joke ‘What’s This For’ and also some early live The Tube footage courtesy of YouTube (tubes thru time!)
- Black Sabbath ‘Sabotage’ and ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’
- The Damned ‘Strawberries’
- Television ‘Adventure’
- Steel Pulse ‘Earth Crisis’

@doris5000 I remember going to see Clawfinger live! Was ace. Unfortunately I still have the broken nose to remind me of mosh 🤕 (JB’s)

Dubwar

they were fantastic. Never understood why Pain (and the fantastic EP Extra Pain) didn’t make it bigger!

Original murder and fools gold are great tracks.

National Wake. It sounds even better now.

I loved Dub War too - one of the few UK bands of that era that I wanted to see but didn't. I still rate some stuff on the first album (like Save The Nations) but preferred the second. And the singles from the 2nd album all had dub mixes on the B sides, which was the first time I had really heard 'dub' and I was blown away! Ended up listening to the b sides more than the originals! A real game changer for me.

I remember going to see Clawfinger live! Was ace. Unfortunately I still have the broken nose to remind me of mosh 🤕 (JB’s)

I can imagine it would have been good at the time - did love a decent mosh. Never made it as far as the JBs, but I was a regular at Wolverhampton civic hall 🙂

I'm liking the Dubwar love. @dorris5000, I managed to see them live at the Cavern in Exeter. They were awesome. Benji throwing Million dollar notes and a double bass, what's not to love?

Looks like Dub War have a new album out, released this year and on Spotify.

This thread came up when I was searching for something else.

A couple of weeks ago I played Use Your Illusion II, not a teenage thing but very early 20's.

It was the soundtrack of a dive trip to Scapa Flow.

God, it's awful!

I still have some from my youth on regular rotation. Beastie Boys back catalogue, Super unknown and Bad Motorfinger, RATM, Primus, PJ back catalogue, Blackalicious Blazing Arrow, J5, Kyuss, QOTSA, Beck etc.

Some of them I still follow and enjoy. I also listen to a lot of new and very old stuff. Music is ace!

Thin Lizzy particularly Jailbreak was the soundtrack to my teenage years.  Along with ELP and Black sabbath.  I saw thin Lizzy 3 times in the late 70s.

Quite honestly its all a bit dated now and I remember when punk then two tone arrived and it blew my mind

@tjagain - Some of the later Lizzy stands up quite well. I played all of Renegade the other night. It's better than I remember.

Also, Live and Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums of all time.

Lynott was only 36, he could of gone on and made a lot more music.

Travelling in the car with #1 Son (22) on Friday. Had Spotify going and I put Julian Cope ‘St Julian’ on. JC at the Guildford Civic at the time of that album was my first proper gig experience. Anyway as good an album as it is it does sound very 80’s, more 80’s than I remember. Don’t think it’s aged well. 80’s record production, especially on rock music was very hit and miss. Compared to R.E.M. or The Smiths the JC sounds a bit naff.

It was a time of change.  Hippies and punks.  I still listen to Yes, Genesis, Kevin Coyne, the Only Ones, the Sex Pistls, the Clash, Pete Atkin, Elvis Costello, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.  I haven't listened to Life before Death by R D Laing since those days - probably a good thing.

Eta think I'll give the Wombles and Elton John a miss as well.

Whitesnake, Live in the heart is still great to listen to now. Brief flirtation with Saxon got me into Budgie and Molly Hatchet of all things. Can't play Saxon at all, except perhaps 747. I was more into Talking Heads, Devo etc. though, which still sounds good. Night and Day by Joe Jackson found it's way onto my system the other day - love that album. There is a magazine devoted to 40 year old music, Blitzed.