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.