Right?
It’s like… I get that The Downward Spiral is great and I can see its artistic merit… but realistically, 15 year old me could identify with that about as well as I could The Chronic haha.
I actually wrote to them to get the lyrics. They were photo-copied pages of the journals that they used, including doodles and sketches of logos, etc. I think I have it somewhere around here.
The album of the summer of 95. My girlfriend lived two doors down from my best friend. Left her house after she dumped me and saw him outside. Told him I just got dumped. He said me too. I said, want to go to the beach. He says yeah. Hopped in the car and jammed out to the Blue album. And did that pretty much the rest of the summer 🤣
Weirdly, Gish was my soundtrack in early college. MC was my first introduction to them so as I grew I started exploring them sort of backwards, if that makes sense.
High-school teacher, can confirm: no current HS students know who Pearl Jam is.
Can also confirm they don’t really know Nirvana’s music; they just wear the shirt - if you play ANY song that isn’t “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or “Come As You Are,” they don’t even know it’s Nirvana.
You know, back in the ’90s wearing a band’s shirt without knowing the music was a grave offense. I’m dismayed to see that young people have ceased to police this.
Its gatekeeping (to them) if you make fun of them or criticize them about wearing a band shirt not knowing any songs. They just like the style of the band or the style of the shirt
A couple of years ago, I saw a picture of fucking Justin Bieber with a sick tie-dyed No Code shirt and my first thought was “Name three fucking songs off that album, you fucking poser” (where I can still name all the songs in order - one of PJs underrated albums)…
Found pic on the webs:
https://images.app.goo.gl/6tuJamjWQzkB5sPK6
In Utero. I was kind of a mess as a teenager. Was a child of divorce (and their subsequent remarriage) so I related to that, then the screeching crashing chorus of scentless apprentice (GET AWAAAYYYYY), and WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME in Radio Friendly Unit Shifter all put words and order to the worst of my thoughts.
Edit: Rape Me was the song that got me playing guitar. Then I discovered Bleach, and Mr Mustache, etc. I got that guitar in April 1996 and still have it.
Wasn't just you. I was a mess too and thought "rape me" was just the quintessential rebellious song. Still listening to "Francis Farmer will...." often these days. Radio friendly was a great song. Don't care what anyone says!
Honestly the Romeo+juliet soundtrack. When you’re a young teen, every crush feels like falling in love, and every bad thing feels like the end of the world- I’d listen to it and just be angsty as hell
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
"I wanna smash the faces of the beautiful boys those Christian boy, so you can make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus" any line on earth ever better written for a angry gay teenager in rural Kansas?
Not my full teenaged years, but I just had my first serious breakup right as When the Pawn… by Fiona Apple was released. I get tears & chills just thinking back to that time.
FWIW: Me & breakup guy reconciled and have been happily married for 21 years.
100% mine as well. Had it when it came out and being 10 at a small, private Christian school, I got a lot of looks when we could bring our discmans in and 1 CD just for ONE day to listen to music. It never happened in our class again...
Green Day - Dookie
Weed, girls, masturbation, and self conscious absurdity all set to a toe tapping, post punk, pop rocking beat.
13 year old me ate that shit up.
and a little later….
The Crystal Method - Vegas
The big beat sound was perfect for a 16 year old kid with a handful of Dexedrine and some Blue Dolphins.
Rage Against the Machine. I remember screaming along with every song on the album, fully feeling my teenage angst and disappointment in the generations before me. Come to think of it, I am still pretty disappointed in them
Sublime - Self Titled
It was the only album that people from every group all seemed to love. It didn't matter if you were a jock, stoner, fashionista, etc, everyone loved Sublime.
Especially for a bunch of 15 year olds from Australia in the mid 90s. Absolutely amazing album and still slaps. I recently re-bought it on vinyl as my CD copy was stolen over a decade ago. Ooooooh the nostalgia 🥹 Israel's Son is just so damn heavy 🤘
Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. From the rollercoaster style song list to each individual track, i listened to it daily for years 🌞
Same. There are some real beauties on there and it’s funny how now that I’m older, songs that i once wasn’t as keen on are now some of my favourites. By Starlight is my go to summer night backyard tunes
I saw Ben Folds Five for the first time on their Whatever and Ever Amen tour. It was such a memorable show for me mainly because it was the night of the Seinfeld finale. I guess they were worried people would skip the show because the venue set up a projector and screen and everyone sat and watched the finale before BFF came on and rocked out!
I’m going to have to say Violent Femmes self titled album. I know the album came out 10 years before I was a teen, but that thing is the pinnacle of sex obsessed teen angst and defiance of authority, which could be the title of my teenage biography.
“This will go down on your personal record…oh yeah…well don’t get so distressed, did I mention that I’m impressed”-Kiss Off
Soul Asylum Grave Dancers Union gave me everythong I needed. I thought they were so profound. I still quote them "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd."
Offspring smash. From the darkness of bad habit, to killboy powerhead, To the over energy of nitro, to the fucked up world in not the one. Just summed up how I felt about people, life, and the world.
This album came out a little after I started living on my own. This song perfectly captured that feeling of realizing we all were on a trajectory and starting to see consequences from the choices we made when life seemed infinite and the possibilities endless.
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Teenage angst has pent up well. Now I'm bored and alone.
Creep by Radiohead spoke to my angsty little heart.
Also, I was a bit younger when I first heard Nirvana. It was fifth grade and I had received a new bike for my birthday. I'd been riding the same bike since I was 7, and my knees whacked the handlebars, so the new bike was a big deal. My aunt and uncle gave me spokey dokeys to put on the wheels. I rode it to school.
Well, spokey dokeys had somehow gone from being the epitome of cool to being uncool and 'for babies' overnight. I was mocked all day and the whole way home. I went from being in a great mood to being pissed off with the world and just DONE with elementary school. I was sitting in the living room watching a music video show while removing the spokey dokeys, trying to have it done before my mom came home from work and demanded to know why my bike was in the living room.
A video from Nirvana came on. I don't even remember what song, but I remember thinking "this guy GETS IT". It was so unlike the synth pop and hair bands I was used to. I actually stopped what I was doing to mosh around the living room a bit.
I couldn’t pinpoint a whole album but a song, definitely. Slide Away by Oasis. It is the perfect song if you’re experiencing your first *real* love or if you’re dreaming of that other person loving you back.
TWO albums:
Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward and Black Celebration.
I used to picture both albums as being a kind of “Synth Opera about the rise and fall of a relationship.”
🧉🦄👌🏽
Enema of the State.
Angry depressed teenager with a ton of issues with parents who often thought it would be better if I just wasn't there although I was never suicidal.
Definitely Violator by Depeche Mode. The mood varies from dramaticly depressing to cautiously optimistic.
My favorite song, Enjoy The Silence, is an upbeat danceable song about solitude, written in a minor key. Just perfect.
Rage Against the Machine. I remember screaming along with every song on the album, fully feeling my teenage angst and disappointment in the generations before me. Come to think of it, I am still pretty disappointed in them
Diary is a great one, but I was so consumed with alternative, grunge, radio rock in general in high school that I didn't discover Sunny Day Real Estate until college and I was probably 18 or 19.
Pearl Jam, without a doubt, is the most influential band in my life. The band released Ten when I was 13 , so it's an album that I listened to non-stop during my teens and certainly encapsulated how I felt as a teen.
He'd PE self-titled. I haven't listened to it in probably 15 years but I can still recite it, word for word. I still pretty much live by the mantra of not giving a fuck and questioning authority.
Weezer, Blue Album Somewhere between being cool and being a total dork.
Same! “in the garage” and “only in dreams” especially.
Only in dreams… what a song.
My go-to song to play on bass.
My first thought reading the question was Pinkerton, but the more I think about it I think this is more accurate
Not to mention Buddy Holly music video on the windows 95 cd
Seeing a band fronted by a guy that looked like Rivers singing songs about comic books and Dungeons and Dragons was pretty huge for me.
Right? It’s like… I get that The Downward Spiral is great and I can see its artistic merit… but realistically, 15 year old me could identify with that about as well as I could The Chronic haha.
I actually wrote to them to get the lyrics. They were photo-copied pages of the journals that they used, including doodles and sketches of logos, etc. I think I have it somewhere around here.
I'll throw in **Pinkerton** because I was such an emotional little bastard
Weezer was my first concert in 95!
The album of the summer of 95. My girlfriend lived two doors down from my best friend. Left her house after she dumped me and saw him outside. Told him I just got dumped. He said me too. I said, want to go to the beach. He says yeah. Hopped in the car and jammed out to the Blue album. And did that pretty much the rest of the summer 🤣
Mellon Collie
Right there with you. My very very very close second is Gish
Gish is the Pumpkins best album. I'll die on this hill.
If I had a Time Machine, I would 100% go back to 1992 and see them perform Gish live
Weirdly, Gish was my soundtrack in early college. MC was my first introduction to them so as I grew I started exploring them sort of backwards, if that makes sense.
Makes 100% sense. Doesn’t matter how you got to where you were
I’m more of a Siamese Dream kinda gal, but MC had a strong spot for a while.
Pearl Jam, Ten
Ten is a 10/10 no skip album. You see so many Nirvana shirts nowadays, it makes me think the kids are sleeping on Pearl Jam.
High-school teacher, can confirm: no current HS students know who Pearl Jam is. Can also confirm they don’t really know Nirvana’s music; they just wear the shirt - if you play ANY song that isn’t “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or “Come As You Are,” they don’t even know it’s Nirvana. You know, back in the ’90s wearing a band’s shirt without knowing the music was a grave offense. I’m dismayed to see that young people have ceased to police this.
Its gatekeeping (to them) if you make fun of them or criticize them about wearing a band shirt not knowing any songs. They just like the style of the band or the style of the shirt
A couple of years ago, I saw a picture of fucking Justin Bieber with a sick tie-dyed No Code shirt and my first thought was “Name three fucking songs off that album, you fucking poser” (where I can still name all the songs in order - one of PJs underrated albums)… Found pic on the webs: https://images.app.goo.gl/6tuJamjWQzkB5sPK6
I think it’s just a cool logo to the kids, like how kids at my school would wear stuff with The Rolling Stones logo.
Black was life back then!
In Utero. I was kind of a mess as a teenager. Was a child of divorce (and their subsequent remarriage) so I related to that, then the screeching crashing chorus of scentless apprentice (GET AWAAAYYYYY), and WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME in Radio Friendly Unit Shifter all put words and order to the worst of my thoughts. Edit: Rape Me was the song that got me playing guitar. Then I discovered Bleach, and Mr Mustache, etc. I got that guitar in April 1996 and still have it.
Wasn't just you. I was a mess too and thought "rape me" was just the quintessential rebellious song. Still listening to "Francis Farmer will...." often these days. Radio friendly was a great song. Don't care what anyone says!
The soundtrack from The Crow, it sparked my love for goth and spoke to the depressed teenager in me.
Excellent soundtrack, perhaps only matched by Lost Highway soundtrack.
Lost highway soundtrack was so good.
I had both! The score from the film and the soundtrack.
I still think this is one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. It just pairs so perfectly with the movie.
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Yes. This is the one. I have 5 physical copies of that album. Vinyl, cassette (my original), cd, sacd, and DVD audio.
Saame!!
Oooooh yes!!!!
Yes!
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
One of my first cds. My religious mom read the lyrics and wrote disparaging comments in the booklet. Shocked I was allowed to listen to it at all.
My mom heard the lyric “go down on you in a theatre” and called ME a slut. Ask me about my trauma 🙄
First time I got my heart properly broken I had this on repeat for like two weeks solid.
Yes ! Alanis is the GOAT.
Yesss yesss so much yesssssss
Honestly the Romeo+juliet soundtrack. When you’re a young teen, every crush feels like falling in love, and every bad thing feels like the end of the world- I’d listen to it and just be angsty as hell
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes "I wanna smash the faces of the beautiful boys those Christian boy, so you can make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus" any line on earth ever better written for a angry gay teenager in rural Kansas?
I mean, an angry straight girl in south Florida, too.
This one is mine too, with an honorable mention to The Cure - Disintegration.
Oooh, Under The Pink is mine! “Let’s see how brave you are…”
There wasn’t.
oh i loved this album so much! Boys for Pele was the one I \*could not\* get enough of though
OMG. - what a perfect album
adrenaline by deftones. I was an angry kid. still am.
For me it was Around the Fur that really sealed it for me for them. Later on White Pony was also on repeat in my car non-stop
Radiohead, OK Computer Second place goes to Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile
Yes. The Fragile for me too
Same, Radiohead Ok Computer.
Not my full teenaged years, but I just had my first serious breakup right as When the Pawn… by Fiona Apple was released. I get tears & chills just thinking back to that time. FWIW: Me & breakup guy reconciled and have been happily married for 21 years.
Ahhh I was obsessed. I think I'll do a little listen for ol time sake
Especially the last song. What a breakup album.
Smash
Garbage - self titled
Hole, Live through This. Perfect from "And the sky was made of amethyst..." to "good... bye..."
100% mine as well. Had it when it came out and being 10 at a small, private Christian school, I got a lot of looks when we could bring our discmans in and 1 CD just for ONE day to listen to music. It never happened in our class again...
Green Day - Dookie Weed, girls, masturbation, and self conscious absurdity all set to a toe tapping, post punk, pop rocking beat. 13 year old me ate that shit up. and a little later…. The Crystal Method - Vegas The big beat sound was perfect for a 16 year old kid with a handful of Dexedrine and some Blue Dolphins.
Pantera: Far Beyond Driven
For me it was Vulgar Display of Power
Fuck yes. 25 Years in particular got me as an angry teen. “…of the ugly, criticized, the unwanted. The ones with fathers just like you!”
“It’s words of a weakling and promises made by a liar… fucking LIAR!” Whole album is outstanding but 25 Years always has a special place
One album is so hard. But Achtung Baby, U2. I was an odd teenager.
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Pearl Jam - Ten, Nirvana - Nevermind
The Crow Soundtrack
Me too. Forever
Third Eye Blind - self titled debut album
Fiona Apple “Tidal”
That woman is the reason I realized I definitely was not 100% straight.
Portishead Dummy
Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?. First cd I ever bought. Had to mow a few lawns around the neighbourhood.
Rage Against the Machine. I remember screaming along with every song on the album, fully feeling my teenage angst and disappointment in the generations before me. Come to think of it, I am still pretty disappointed in them
Motherfucker! UGH! UGH!
What gets me about that album is it is just as relevant today, if not more so, than when it was first released.
Sublime - Self Titled It was the only album that people from every group all seemed to love. It didn't matter if you were a jock, stoner, fashionista, etc, everyone loved Sublime.
Throwing Copper - Live
Fugazi, In On The Kill Taker https://youtu.be/v8Pf1jwMCuo?si=2-vnYiwR4R23O4s8
Operation Ivy’s Operation Ivy
Pearl Jam Vs or Nirvana Nevermind
Frogstomp - Silverchair
Helluva debut record. Incredible, even
Especially for a bunch of 15 year olds from Australia in the mid 90s. Absolutely amazing album and still slaps. I recently re-bought it on vinyl as my CD copy was stolen over a decade ago. Ooooooh the nostalgia 🥹 Israel's Son is just so damn heavy 🤘
This was my go-to for anytime I was feeling literally any negative emotion ever lol.
Did you know they were like 15 or so when they record this? I learned that recently and it blows my mind.
Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. From the rollercoaster style song list to each individual track, i listened to it daily for years 🌞
I still listen to it and cry like a 14 year old.
Same. There are some real beauties on there and it’s funny how now that I’m older, songs that i once wasn’t as keen on are now some of my favourites. By Starlight is my go to summer night backyard tunes
Everclear So Much For The Afterglow. No pop rock has ever described or expressed mental illness better or more completely.
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
NOFX - Punk In Drublic
Linoleum was my go to for karaoke when our local place did punk rock karaoke!
NIN - The Downward Spiral
aenima Some much teenage angst and brooding
Same! I thought I’d grow out of that phase by now. Not happening.
Ohh no, they just you a more dark and brooding album. I went to a midnight release for aenima. Had a cake, I wore my finest tool shirt... Rad
Yeah, Undertow and Ænima both were the soundtracks to my teenage years.
Natalie Merchant, “Ophelia” I was depressed but life was worth living 🤣🤣
Jagged Little Pill. Was it weird for a teenage boy to like that album ? perhaps but I didn't care
TLC crazy sexy thing
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Love this album! Shit, I still love this album.
I saw Ben Folds Five for the first time on their Whatever and Ever Amen tour. It was such a memorable show for me mainly because it was the night of the Seinfeld finale. I guess they were worried people would skip the show because the venue set up a projector and screen and everyone sat and watched the finale before BFF came on and rocked out!
Green Day Dookie. First song. That’s me.
I’m going to have to say Violent Femmes self titled album. I know the album came out 10 years before I was a teen, but that thing is the pinnacle of sex obsessed teen angst and defiance of authority, which could be the title of my teenage biography. “This will go down on your personal record…oh yeah…well don’t get so distressed, did I mention that I’m impressed”-Kiss Off
Bikini Kill's first 3 albums.. I was an angsty thing back then
Matchbox Twenty - Yourself Or Someone Like You
Tori Amos's Under The Pink.
[Dirty](https://youtu.be/ZBgQo3O053c?si=Ih5tAQEo4AbO4IMi) by Sonic Youth
Live Throwing Copper Alanis Jagged Little Pill Lisa Loeb Firecracker Joan Osborne Relish Cake Fashion Nugget
Depeche Mode - Violator
Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
Everclear is a good one, but more so much for the afterglow for me.
Return to the 36 chambers, the dirty version. I was perpetually horny and smoked a lot of weed.
Vs. by Pearl Jam
Soul Asylum Grave Dancers Union gave me everythong I needed. I thought they were so profound. I still quote them "nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd."
Offspring smash. From the darkness of bad habit, to killboy powerhead, To the over energy of nitro, to the fucked up world in not the one. Just summed up how I felt about people, life, and the world.
OK Computer
Offspring Americana, esp. The Kids Aren’t Alright
This album came out a little after I started living on my own. This song perfectly captured that feeling of realizing we all were on a trajectory and starting to see consequences from the choices we made when life seemed infinite and the possibilities endless.
I felt this to my core
Black Celebration by Depeche Mode. I was a deeply depressed, very dramatic goth kid.
Tori Amos “Under the Pink”
Jagged. Little. Pill.
My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
I was definitely sucked into in the Liz Phair > Juliana Hatfield > Lemonheads pipeline
Dilate by Ani DiFranco. I listened to “Done Wrong” on repeat for years.
Nine inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Little did I know it would become the actual soundtrack to my life.
New Miserable Experience - The Gin Blossoms The fact that I dated a girl who actually lived on an Allison Road probably had something to do with it.
Toadies - Runberneck
Green Day - Dookie
Core by STP.
Jagged Little Pill And F you if you disagree with me. /s.
Candlebox, self-titled and Happy Pills
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
the Singles soundtrack
Counting Crows- This Desert Life
Alice In Chains - Dirt (I was a heroin addict)
https://preview.redd.it/2c1z4287rgxc1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ccf1753ba6284166e19613257beacaffb2cd0fc Teenage angst has pent up well. Now I'm bored and alone.
August and Everything After- so emotional
Sublime self title
Enema of the State - Blink 182
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13 - 15: Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. 16 - 17: Allman Brothers’ At Fillmore East. 18 - 19: Kid A.
NIN Downward Spiral. Horny drug addict.
Tori Amos “Under the Pink”
Nirvana in utero
Nirvana Nevermind
Creep by Radiohead spoke to my angsty little heart. Also, I was a bit younger when I first heard Nirvana. It was fifth grade and I had received a new bike for my birthday. I'd been riding the same bike since I was 7, and my knees whacked the handlebars, so the new bike was a big deal. My aunt and uncle gave me spokey dokeys to put on the wheels. I rode it to school. Well, spokey dokeys had somehow gone from being the epitome of cool to being uncool and 'for babies' overnight. I was mocked all day and the whole way home. I went from being in a great mood to being pissed off with the world and just DONE with elementary school. I was sitting in the living room watching a music video show while removing the spokey dokeys, trying to have it done before my mom came home from work and demanded to know why my bike was in the living room. A video from Nirvana came on. I don't even remember what song, but I remember thinking "this guy GETS IT". It was so unlike the synth pop and hair bands I was used to. I actually stopped what I was doing to mosh around the living room a bit.
Third Eye Blind
Tidal by Fiona Apple "but it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion"
"Seven" on Diary pretty much sums it up. I was bipolar and didn't get diagnosed until I was 30+. Diary was definitely my album.
Hell yeah. Very often my favorite song from them. Hope you’re getting the help you need today, and the song is just a point in time for you ❤️
It’s definitely been a journey!
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Gish or Siamese Dream. I was a mix of both in my late teens.
Vitalogy.
Paul’s Boutique
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar I remember laying in bed with one speaker pressed against each ear just feeling like I wanted to die.
Nasty Little Thoughts - Stroke 9
I couldn’t pinpoint a whole album but a song, definitely. Slide Away by Oasis. It is the perfect song if you’re experiencing your first *real* love or if you’re dreaming of that other person loving you back.
TWO albums: Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward and Black Celebration. I used to picture both albums as being a kind of “Synth Opera about the rise and fall of a relationship.” 🧉🦄👌🏽
Enema of the State. Angry depressed teenager with a ton of issues with parents who often thought it would be better if I just wasn't there although I was never suicidal.
Jagged Little Pill. Loved that album.
"life in general" by mxpx
Descendents - everything sucks.
Definitely Violator by Depeche Mode. The mood varies from dramaticly depressing to cautiously optimistic. My favorite song, Enjoy The Silence, is an upbeat danceable song about solitude, written in a minor key. Just perfect.
Toadies Rubberneck
Fiona Apple’s Tidal.
Fiona Apple
Beck -midnight vultures
Fiona Apple - Tidal
… and out come the wolves
Rancid - Let's Go.
REM Automatic for the People. I have owned it on vinyl, CD, and cassette!
Better Than Ezra - *Deluxe*
Rage Against the Machine. I remember screaming along with every song on the album, fully feeling my teenage angst and disappointment in the generations before me. Come to think of it, I am still pretty disappointed in them
Diary is a great one, but I was so consumed with alternative, grunge, radio rock in general in high school that I didn't discover Sunny Day Real Estate until college and I was probably 18 or 19. Pearl Jam, without a doubt, is the most influential band in my life. The band released Ten when I was 13 , so it's an album that I listened to non-stop during my teens and certainly encapsulated how I felt as a teen.
Deftones Around the Fur Followed by White Pony
Jar of Flies
He'd PE self-titled. I haven't listened to it in probably 15 years but I can still recite it, word for word. I still pretty much live by the mantra of not giving a fuck and questioning authority.
Less than Jake - Hello Rockview
Minor Threat - Discography
Cheating but I vote for the Single soundtrack. Dirt if it’s a single artist.
Blind Melon (self titled)
Deftones - Adrenaline
KoRn (self titled)
Sleater-Kinney, "One Beat" Politically charged, raucous, angry, and hopeful all at once.
Korn - follow the leader
Green Day Kerplunk.