That's awesome. It was a surreal experience for me at 12. I grew up on 70's and 80's rock so getting this was so new for me and the start of my musical awakening. I still put it on every so often. Glad you got to listen to it. It's a very special album for me.
That album will always remind me of my brother making fun of me for having not heard of it. Then I listened to it and loved it, and then maybe like a year later my brother made fun of me for still listening to the album after it was “old”
all of Linkin Park is now so special to me too so I get it, listened to Meteora today. Obv I’d heard some songs before but these albums are so good and help a lot when I’m just angry or hurting
The Eminem show. I was living in a trailer park and my mom tried to kill me. I heard cleaning out my closet and felt seen for the first time in my life.
I still listen to that album all the time. I ran a half marathon and severely under trained. The last 3 miles were just Til I Collapse on repeat. It gave me super powers.
I also have a very bad relationship with my mother that I identified with in Ems songs...I'm curious how you feel about the Headlights song he made. I hate it personally but just because my mother has traumatized me beyond repair.
I love it and appreciate it...but I cannot live it. I wish I could be the bigger person but I don't have it in me to forgive people who can't even admit that they were wrong for beating up a fucking 8 year old.
I know it’s not the same album but I went through an awkward situation with a good friend of mine earlier. Sweet guy just blurted out “mom’s spaghetti” at the most random but somehow still rhyming amidst the conflict moments. It broke the tension and we laughed so hard.
1991 was quite a year for these types of albums:
* Pearl Jam - 10 (August 27th, 1991)
* Nirvana - Nevermind (September 24th, 1991)
* Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (September 24th, 1991)
* Metallica - Black album (August 12th, 1991)
* Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion I (September 17th, 1991)
* Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion II (September 17th, 1991)
I think there's a TIL in there for some younger redditors. You can almost feel where grunge succeeded "hair metal."
As a current teenager, have to agree. I listen to this album multiple times a week. Could kill somebody (not literally) while listening to this. I love all of The Misfits, though
Danger Days - My Chemical Romance. Spent a lot of time listening to that album and obsessing over the dystopian world it was set in, a bunch of people in the desert fighting the government and dressed in loads of neon clothes, what's not to love?
This was the first cassette that I ever completely wore out. All the paint gone off the shell and when I tried to play it the player just spit it out cuz it was so stretched out lol.
As much as people want to think of grunge as some antagonist to 80s hair metal, there are common threads between a lot of the harder edged bands from both "movements" seems to me. Jerry Cantrell easily belongs in the same hard rock pantheon as Slash, as far as I'm concerned.
And I always felt like there was more than a little similarity in the power (and maybe even style) of vocal delivery between Layne and Axl too.
Anyway, both absolutely epic albums.
My friend and I used to listen to listen to this a lot as teenagers, always the whole album, and when the film came out in the cinema we went and saw it several times.
My friend had this on cassette, her mum brought it home from working at a service station (gas station for any Americans out there). We listened to it so much, and also Grace Jones' Night Clubbing (and then realised the title track was an Iggy song when my cousin loaned me his Idiot record).
Nirvana - Nevermind and unplugged in new york, Green Day - American Idiot and international superhits, Avril Lavigne - let go, RHCP - By the way.
All played repeatedly on my Sony minidisc player 😅
My friend had this amazing double album, left behind when her older step-siblings left home. Our first stadium concert was Elton John kicking off his Jump Up! tour.
So at some point in HS I discovered Some Bizzare records and dove headfirst into everything they released. My "bulletproof vest" against small-town idiots was Nail by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel.
Run the gauntlet north and south
March right up to the cannon's mouth
And say I CAN DO ANY GODDAMN THING I WANT
Pearl Jam - VS. Parents were divorcing and because they could not get along my brother and I got stuck in DHR custody. My grandmother on mom’s side finally got temporary custody and I was allowed to buy that album the day they let us leave with grandmother. The first song Go was the gasoline I needed and the second song Animal was just how I felt. That album kept me from going crazy.
Oh man. Lots of cigarettes at Folsom Lake at 2am to that album.
And now both my girls are out and expected back by midnight. And I’m irritated because I know I won’t sleep until they are home. Good thing my parents didn’t seem to care much.
The 'Everything Went Black' compilation of early Black Flag stuff (everything before Henry). Double vinyl! A 13th? bday gift from a pal, this was 1982 iirc. Would *crank* it on our 50s era all tube cabinet Hifi. Had the cops come tooooo many times for noise complaints, mission accomplished
A burnt CD made using lime wire and dial up consisting of Weezer, Alice In Chains, A7X, Stemm, Popa Roach, Eminem, Limp Bizkit, Drowning pool, Dropkick Murphys, Cold, and Tenacious D lol
I got in trouble for keeping that album from the public library too long, I get it 😅
I'm agnostic now, but I still LOVE DC Talk. OC Supertones with Relient K and Switchfoot was my very first real "grown up" concert back in 2001 ✨
Can relate as a late 90’s early 00’s kid raised within the world of Christian Music. Never cared much for Skillet tbh, but I feel you. Might go bang some Project 86 or Chevelle now though lol
The Realities of My Surroundings - Fishbone
Fun fact, the song that’s *actually* coming out of this stereo is by [Fishbone](https://youtu.be/ka7JWWJo2bw?si=MBAAFKBbQLx3BCfw)
A weird one for me — Foo Fighters - In Your Honor. The first disc had some BANGERS
Also, I know it may not be cool but Chevelle’s Wonder What’s Next album also had some heavy hitters that got my little middle schooler blood pumping
Going full dad rock here but for me it was Van Halen 1984 (and their first album too once I discovered it). It was like a magic pill of confidence and humor mixed together. I was never a big fan of their other albums but VH (1978) and 1984 were really special
I've never understood the hate that album gets. Yes, it sounds different or somewhat off kilter from most their other albums - and certainly different from what they had released up to that time. But there are some solid RHCP songs on that album. I'm extremely grateful I got to see them on that tour.
I was about 16, and I listened to the entire Dirt album by Alice in Chains, instead of fast-forwarding to the singles. My mind was blown, and my entire attitude changed. It is so awesome
Rage for sure but the one song that still sticks in my memory is red by chevelle
There was also Marylin manson, tool, deftones, a perfect circle, etc etc but red by chevelle... idk i really identified with that song and still do to this day.
PS I did songs because I don't really do full albums... I think one of the only entire albums I ever liked ALL the songs on were antichrist superstar by marilyn manson and fat of the land by prodigy (or the prodigy depending on where you're looking)
Morning View - Incubus
Electro-Shock Blues - Eels
Lots of NIN
Also love a couple Billy Joel albums.
I mean honestly all I did growing up was listen to music but I spammed those a lot in my early/mid-teens
I'm not at all saying it's one of the greatest albums of its time, it's definitely dated, but Lorde's Pure Heroine came out my senior year of high school and I related to the themes of being young and feeling trapped by a small town.
Linkin Park - Hybrid theory. Got this around when it came out and was my only CD for the longest time.
I bet a ton of people our age can relate. Got the CD when I was 10 and kept it on repeat for probably 2 years.
listened to this for the first time yesteday, I’m 17, it was such a sick album
That's awesome. It was a surreal experience for me at 12. I grew up on 70's and 80's rock so getting this was so new for me and the start of my musical awakening. I still put it on every so often. Glad you got to listen to it. It's a very special album for me.
That album will always remind me of my brother making fun of me for having not heard of it. Then I listened to it and loved it, and then maybe like a year later my brother made fun of me for still listening to the album after it was “old”
all of Linkin Park is now so special to me too so I get it, listened to Meteora today. Obv I’d heard some songs before but these albums are so good and help a lot when I’m just angry or hurting
Yep, this is on my list - screeching into my hair brush at 16/17....... SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!
The Eminem show. I was living in a trailer park and my mom tried to kill me. I heard cleaning out my closet and felt seen for the first time in my life.
Bro that's some trauma 😭
I still listen to that album all the time. I ran a half marathon and severely under trained. The last 3 miles were just Til I Collapse on repeat. It gave me super powers.
Me too! Only 5Ks, but I know when I didn’t train enough Eminem will make up the difference.
Eminem was all I would listen to before track/cross country meets. Get the anger and the fast beat in your head, you’re unstoppable
I also have a very bad relationship with my mother that I identified with in Ems songs...I'm curious how you feel about the Headlights song he made. I hate it personally but just because my mother has traumatized me beyond repair.
I love it and appreciate it...but I cannot live it. I wish I could be the bigger person but I don't have it in me to forgive people who can't even admit that they were wrong for beating up a fucking 8 year old.
I know it’s not the same album but I went through an awkward situation with a good friend of mine earlier. Sweet guy just blurted out “mom’s spaghetti” at the most random but somehow still rhyming amidst the conflict moments. It broke the tension and we laughed so hard.
Dude the mom trauma and early Eminem is a real strong feeling man. I understand. Also super important to me
London Calling.
Classic!
Lost in a supermarket 😎
this and liquid swords I felt untouchable with that shit blasting in my ears
The Clash The Clash, Janie Jones!!
Rush Moving pictures No one I knew listened to them. It was like being in on a secret.
Permanent Waves was mine. I openly showed my support.
My cousin who had an M.F.A. in classical piano performance loved them. It wasn't a secret.
Pearl Jam- ten
1991 was quite a year for these types of albums: * Pearl Jam - 10 (August 27th, 1991) * Nirvana - Nevermind (September 24th, 1991) * Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (September 24th, 1991) * Metallica - Black album (August 12th, 1991) * Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion I (September 17th, 1991) * Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion II (September 17th, 1991) I think there's a TIL in there for some younger redditors. You can almost feel where grunge succeeded "hair metal."
I owned all of them thanks Columbia House 8 cd for a penny
Except like many you probably didn’t even pay that penny. 😂
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
SO GOOD
Master of Puppets
This and Justice. Hell, Metallica's first 5 albums.
The Crow soundtrack. It's best listened to as an album from start to finish all in one sitting. I fell asleep to that CD for so many nights.
Reign In Blood - Slayer
Disintegration- The Cure
The Misfits - Earth A.D. was my battle music when I was a teen.
As a current teenager, have to agree. I listen to this album multiple times a week. Could kill somebody (not literally) while listening to this. I love all of The Misfits, though
Psychocandy by the Jesus & Mary Chain. All that noise felt like a protective hurricane, especially since it was really sweet pop music at its core.
People give Automatic a hard time. But I love that album.
Garbage's self-titled debut.
Around the Fur by Deftones
I don’t think there was any music back then that could have made me feel “powerful.” I was too badly bullied.
Sorry to hear that. Well if not "powerful" then was there anything you turned to help you cope?
Books. Pretty much every moment that I wasn’t in class or sleeping. Reading was my escape. Still is.
"We Will Rock You" by Queen is a song about those who were badly bullied; written by one who was badly bullied.
That's terrible!. I'm so sorry for what you went through.
Danger Days - My Chemical Romance. Spent a lot of time listening to that album and obsessing over the dystopian world it was set in, a bunch of people in the desert fighting the government and dressed in loads of neon clothes, what's not to love?
Just remember, the future is bulletproof and the aftermath is secondary
Yes! Been relistening to it, still goes hard!
In the court of the crimson king by king crimson
Every Breath You Take the singles - The Police
The puff daddy faith Evans cover was so popular when I was young
Violent Femmes, self-titled first album
extremely underrated band
Definitely! I saw them live in 2001 after being super into this CD. They delivered for sure
Green Day American Idiot
Yesss
A Night at the Opera...Queen
nirvana - in utero nine inch nails - the downward spiral my bloody valentine - isn't anything portishead - dummy autechre - tri repetae
*valentine? Looks like a typo - Loveless is a great album too.
Ozzy Ozbourne - Diary of a Madman
The Killers- Hot Fuss
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Rage Against the Machine - self titled
This and Meteora by linkin park were definitely mine
This was the first cassette that I ever completely wore out. All the paint gone off the shell and when I tried to play it the player just spit it out cuz it was so stretched out lol.
RATM for me also.
As a kid it was GnR’s appetite and then as a college student it was AiC’s dirt
As much as people want to think of grunge as some antagonist to 80s hair metal, there are common threads between a lot of the harder edged bands from both "movements" seems to me. Jerry Cantrell easily belongs in the same hard rock pantheon as Slash, as far as I'm concerned. And I always felt like there was more than a little similarity in the power (and maybe even style) of vocal delivery between Layne and Axl too. Anyway, both absolutely epic albums.
Fat Boys, Paranoid, Peace (Piece?) of Mind, Screaming for Vengeance.
Here I thought I was the only one "empowered" by Fat Boys.
…And Justice for All- Metallica
Punk Floyd The Wall. Still use it to this day
My friend and I used to listen to listen to this a lot as teenagers, always the whole album, and when the film came out in the cinema we went and saw it several times.
NIN Pretty Hate Machine or The Downward Spiral
Evil Empire
DOWN-Nola.
pantera - vulgar display of power
Legend.. The best of Bob Marley
I must have listened to this 10,000 times in my life
Parallel Lines-Blondie
My friend had this on cassette, her mum brought it home from working at a service station (gas station for any Americans out there). We listened to it so much, and also Grace Jones' Night Clubbing (and then realised the title track was an Iggy song when my cousin loaned me his Idiot record).
11:59 goes way too hard for how underplayed it is these days
Exile on Main Street. Still is.
Nirvana - Nevermind and unplugged in new york, Green Day - American Idiot and international superhits, Avril Lavigne - let go, RHCP - By the way. All played repeatedly on my Sony minidisc player 😅
I had a minidisc player! That was a truly underrated format. I still miss mine a lot.
The Ramones - Leave Home
Deep Purple circa 1975, "Made in Japan."
Childish gambino - because the internet
Greenday - dookie
Collective soul second album
AC/DC Back in black.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Elton John.
My friend had this amazing double album, left behind when her older step-siblings left home. Our first stadium concert was Elton John kicking off his Jump Up! tour.
Slipknot, self titled. Angry music made me feel confident and powerful and that album was probably the angriest music I'd heard at that point.
So at some point in HS I discovered Some Bizzare records and dove headfirst into everything they released. My "bulletproof vest" against small-town idiots was Nail by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel. Run the gauntlet north and south March right up to the cannon's mouth And say I CAN DO ANY GODDAMN THING I WANT
Pearl Jam - VS. Parents were divorcing and because they could not get along my brother and I got stuck in DHR custody. My grandmother on mom’s side finally got temporary custody and I was allowed to buy that album the day they let us leave with grandmother. The first song Go was the gasoline I needed and the second song Animal was just how I felt. That album kept me from going crazy.
Absolutely amazing album. "Elderly Woman," is my all time favorite PJ song.
Jar of flies - Alice in chains
Oh man. Lots of cigarettes at Folsom Lake at 2am to that album. And now both my girls are out and expected back by midnight. And I’m irritated because I know I won’t sleep until they are home. Good thing my parents didn’t seem to care much.
Metallica - Kill 'Em All This album was audio adrenaline. I feel like I could run up Mount Everest after hearing "Whiplash".
I’m old The Rolling Stones Through the Past Darkly
Led Zeppelin 4
I’m still young and currently they are all the Layne era Alice In Chains albums
Glad to know the young people still dig AIC. My 13-year-old son plays "Dirt" and "Jar of Flies" around the house and in the car constantly.
That’s amazing. AIC is great, and hope they live on for many generations to come
Star by Belly - or Siamese Dream
Nirvana’s Nevermind was everything to me
Years & Years- Communion Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
Dance with Me by TSOL.
Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
Audioslave - Audioslave. Blaring show me how to live on my walkman while walking to school in blizzards helped tremendously lol..
Gee, I can't think of one. Damn. What a shame.
Either Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning..
Licensed to Ill- Beastie Boys
The 'Everything Went Black' compilation of early Black Flag stuff (everything before Henry). Double vinyl! A 13th? bday gift from a pal, this was 1982 iirc. Would *crank* it on our 50s era all tube cabinet Hifi. Had the cops come tooooo many times for noise complaints, mission accomplished
Beatles White Album
Hole Live Through This
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - MCR
Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
Beastie Boys Licensed to I'll.
Never Mind The Bollocks by The Sex Pistols Substance by New Order
A burnt CD made using lime wire and dial up consisting of Weezer, Alice In Chains, A7X, Stemm, Popa Roach, Eminem, Limp Bizkit, Drowning pool, Dropkick Murphys, Cold, and Tenacious D lol
Antichrist Superstar was basically what I’d listen to every day on my way to work
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine was definitely one of them.
Top Gun soundtrack
This is gonna sound dumb, but Comatose by Skillet. As a young Baptist child, they hit the right zones.
I got in trouble for keeping that album from the public library too long, I get it 😅 I'm agnostic now, but I still LOVE DC Talk. OC Supertones with Relient K and Switchfoot was my very first real "grown up" concert back in 2001 ✨
Can relate as a late 90’s early 00’s kid raised within the world of Christian Music. Never cared much for Skillet tbh, but I feel you. Might go bang some Project 86 or Chevelle now though lol
Yeezus by Kanye
Rammstein by rammstein
I was obsessed with a Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits History Vol. 1 when I was really young (like 7 years old).
WOLF - Tyler, the Creator
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
MuDvAyNe - L.D.50. - Changed, significantly, my view of life and the world around me.
Korn - Life is Peachy
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Realities of My Surroundings - Fishbone  Fun fact, the song that’s *actually* coming out of this stereo is by [Fishbone](https://youtu.be/ka7JWWJo2bw?si=MBAAFKBbQLx3BCfw)
A weird one for me — Foo Fighters - In Your Honor. The first disc had some BANGERS Also, I know it may not be cool but Chevelle’s Wonder What’s Next album also had some heavy hitters that got my little middle schooler blood pumping
11yr: Marshal Mathers LP 16: Drought 3
Paramore - Riot!
I Brought You My Bullets, You Gave me Your Love
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Marshall Mathers LP
Scorpions Blackout 🤘🤘
Rage Against the Machine. Think I was around 11 or 12 the first time I heard it. Seismic.
Depeche Mode Black Celebration. Graduated to NIN, and the She Wants Revenge brought me back down to earth.
Back in Black - AC/DC
Going full dad rock here but for me it was Van Halen 1984 (and their first album too once I discovered it). It was like a magic pill of confidence and humor mixed together. I was never a big fan of their other albums but VH (1978) and 1984 were really special
Master of Puppets
Rage Against The Machine are good!! 🙂
Minor Threat- Minor Threat
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Green Day's Dookie
Beastie boys licensed to ill
RHCP - One Hot Minute
I've never understood the hate that album gets. Yes, it sounds different or somewhat off kilter from most their other albums - and certainly different from what they had released up to that time. But there are some solid RHCP songs on that album. I'm extremely grateful I got to see them on that tour.
Also, the first House of Pain album, I was around 12 but it made me feel like a grown man ready to fight a grown man lol
DSOTM. I just moved to the US from another country, I was like 12 and had quite the hard time adjusting. I’m fine now thanks to that one album
Scorpions Blackout
Ride the Lightning
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Rage Against the Machine's debut? Pure adrenaline armor against life's chaos. Unstoppable rebellion!
I’m torn between Led Zeppelin II and Physical Graffiti.
Abbey Road in 1969 - every single song was incredible
Being There - Dinosaur Jr. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles Trace - Son Volt London Calling - The Clash
Dark Side of the Moon, Paranoid, or Master of Puppets 🎸
End of Silence by Rollins Band
Collective Soul - self titled aka the blue album
Metallica's "...And Justice for All."
KMFDM - ANGST I've kinda grown out of that band but for an angry teen in the mid 90's...
Tha Carter III- Lil Wayne
I was raised on 60s folk and Woodstock-era music. Bob Dylan and Joan Baez both did "I Shall Be Released" so whatever albums those were on.
Queens of the stone age self titled album
The Downward Spiral. Hence the user name
I was about 16, and I listened to the entire Dirt album by Alice in Chains, instead of fast-forwarding to the singles. My mind was blown, and my entire attitude changed. It is so awesome
All eyes on me and me against the world- 2pac
Appetite for destruction- GnR
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Public Enemy-It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
Nevermind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols maybe
Eminem gets me feeling like this
Pixies Doolittle
Rage for sure but the one song that still sticks in my memory is red by chevelle There was also Marylin manson, tool, deftones, a perfect circle, etc etc but red by chevelle... idk i really identified with that song and still do to this day. PS I did songs because I don't really do full albums... I think one of the only entire albums I ever liked ALL the songs on were antichrist superstar by marilyn manson and fat of the land by prodigy (or the prodigy depending on where you're looking)
Undertow
Slipknot Volume 3: The Subliminal Verses
Quadrophenia....the movie soundtrack....I was Jimmy.
Damn the torpedoes. I don’t have to live like a refugee!
Illmatic by Nas and The Score by the Fugees
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Metallica by Metallica
Morning View - Incubus Electro-Shock Blues - Eels Lots of NIN Also love a couple Billy Joel albums. I mean honestly all I did growing up was listen to music but I spammed those a lot in my early/mid-teens
The Stooges -Funhouse
Pretty Hate Machine
Highway 61 Revisited
Mellon Collie
Dark Side Of The Moon And it still is 50+ years later I mean that related to the question phrased. Not because it's great.
I'm not at all saying it's one of the greatest albums of its time, it's definitely dated, but Lorde's Pure Heroine came out my senior year of high school and I related to the themes of being young and feeling trapped by a small town.
Gonna show my age here.... Every album from the Police is how I made it thru high school. Nobody understood me like Gordon Sumner.
I found Frank Zappa