Ouch – revisiting your favourite teenage albums

Just out of curiosity I stuck Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ on the CD player, first time since the last year of high school 22ish years ago when I was going through a typically angst ridden teenage period compounded by being rejected by an older girl I’d completely fallen for (my first redhead crush, have since made up for it by marrying Rob Roy’s flame haired great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter 😍).

Urge to curl up in a weeping ball has surprisingly not occurred yet, in fact I’m quite enjoying it. Wonder if I’ve got the mental strength to face ‘OK Computer’ again now 🙄

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, and prior to that I was going through my dad’s Hendrix and Zeppelin CDs, wondering how far back I need to go before revisiting my Bon Jovi phase, that was probably pre-teen though! 😂

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 😉