Ouch – revisiting your favourite teenage albums

rOcKeTdOg has/had my taste down to a tee….plus Tears for Fears; The Hurting, amongst some other late 70s, early 80s stuff

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.

I just read this post on page 1 and thought “damn! I love this guy”. Then realised it was me a year ago.

Dare still does it for me. As does the Colour of Spring by Talk Talk. Happiness is easy, so just add your voice to the sound of the crowd.

I’m lucky in that my fave band , Pet Shop Boys have been churning stuff out over the years that the ones that I liked in my youth and find a bit overplayed now have been replaced by the later hits :-).

I don’t mind a bit of Robbie and Millennium is still my favourite , I think due to the nicking of the bond music.

I did see him in Barcelona recently and have toyed with seeing him next year as he’s coming over again.

Went to see Therapy? on their Troublegum 30 tour 3 weeks ago, it was bloody brilliant.

Hearing this again on Six the other day reminded me how much I adore Pavement.

Slanted and Enchanted was an album favourite in me yoot.

rOcKeTdOg has/had my taste down to a tee….plus Tears for Fears; The Hurting, amongst some other late 70s, early 80s stuff

I remember going into Brum to pick up mad world on vinyl and playing it to death taking it around all my mates houses to listen to it.

Special mention to Ultravox’s Vienna album on tape that I used to rattle the windows with which was hard on a one speaker cassette recorder like this

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

S&G are hardly navel gazing, that’s a much later concept. Add to those King Crimson, Moody Blues, Tangerine Dream, Mythos…

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

According to the likes of The Daily Mail and GQ Magazine. Who can both do one! I’ve never stopped finding new music, feeds from Flipboard are constantly bringing new music and bands to my attention, recently I’ve found Bloodmoney by Poppy, Believe by Trapped Under Ice, Home by The God Machine, Samsara I by Painkiller, Love by Lambrini Girls…

I consider teenage me lucky, whilst a lot of the music in the 80s and nineties was terrible, I got to see Metallica, Maiden, Anthrax, Alice Cooper, White Zombie and even Micheal Jackson before I was 20. I even got to see Gwar…..

First album I actually paid for and didn’t tape was Number of the Beast, by Iron Maiden it was a few years old by then. I think the next was Megadeth, So Far, So Good.. So what? A few others, like Slayer, Anthrax etc then along came Nirvana and the whole grunge scene commercially killing heavier music. Gutted I never got to see them play.

I think the advantage of liking the heavier music growing up, it’s just as unfashionable now as it was then but I can still listen to it.

My first musical era was The Specials, Madness, Selector etc. Don’t really listen to that much now. Mid-teens was The Smiths, The Cure and lots of (mostly dreadful) goth stuff. Of that era the music I play most nowadays is The Pogues and Joy Division although the latter is a bit bleak. Lived in Manchester during the “Madchester” and enjoyed it but rarely revisit it musically. I also very into Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey. I have stuck with both of those although the former has become increasingly hard going.

I had my Amazon Music review of my year a few days ago – I really need to widen my tastes as very little new since the turn of the millenium.

My first and pre teen album was Sladest by Slade … Listened to it yesterday, 50 years after…still cracking.

Lots of my favourite albums from my teenage years I still play regularly – a small selection, below:

• Nevermind.   Nirvana.
• Bleach.   Nirvana.
• Achtung Baby.  U2.
• Zooropa.  U2.
• Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.  The Black Crowes.
• Revolver.  The Beatles.
• Suede.  Suede.
• The Stone Roses.  The Stone Roses.
• Some Friendly.  The Charlatans.
• Hot Rocks.  The Rolling Stones (Yes it’s a compilation!).
• Gold Mother.  James.
• Seven.  James.
• Ten.  Pearl Jam.
• Rage Against the Machine.  Rage Against the Machine.

What’s quite clear from reading this thread is how true this is:

“Revisiting”?

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

Anything you listen to from 15 to 25 years of age, will forever sound fresh and modern. Even if later generations will realise it’s a steaming pile of crap.

Just re-read the entire thread and Master Dabbers love of the Stax output.  Reminds me of a couple of Stax albums I listened to in my teenage years that I still play – others I bought in my twenties when I had more disposable income.

• Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul.  Otis Redding.  Still my favourite vocalist of all time.
• Green Onions.  Booker T and The MG’s.

Hip hop not soul and not on Stax, but also:

• Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.  Public Enemy.
• Fear of a Black Planet.  Public Enemy.
• Straight Outta Compton.  NWA.

The first four albums I bought were Queen I, Queen II, ELO’s Face the Music and Bowies Pinups. Of those, it’s only the last one that I haven’t listened to in the past 12 months.

My first and pre teen album was Sladest by Slade … Listened to it yesterday, 50 years after…still cracking.

Far far away is my go to song from Slade but had how does it feel as an earworm on my last few rides

I listen to very little from my teenage years, but this is still on the main playlist, I dont expect the link to work, and I suspect if it does you’ll wish it hadnt 🙂

Well **** me ragged- it worked!

Early teenage stuff was

Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, Subhumans, Conflict, Rudimentary Peni and many more.

Late teenage stuff was Transvision Vamp, The Pogues, Guns n Roses.

Still listen to all the punk stuff, and still listen to The Pogues.

Transvision Vamp got a listen to the other week, and probably won’t again.

Gave this an airing the other day, I refuse to believe it is anything but new and fresh…

I was lucky and punk probably saved me from myself, regular listens from then include the Clash, Jam, Pouges, Cure,

My teenage years had quite an eclectic mix.

First music early teenage me discovered (other than taping the top 40 onto a Maxell MX90) was the Electro street sounds complications and other early Hip-hop like Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash etc, and also Beastie Boys and Run DMC.

I then met a mate who got me into a load of 60’s music like the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Troggs, Them and also more obscure US groups through the Nuggets, Pebbles and Garage Punk Unknown compilations. Also lesser known bands that were relatively local to me such as the Milkshakes, Thee Caesars and the Prisoners and some rockabilly & psychobilly stuff. This led onto Two tone Ska, early Reggae and some punk stuff like the Damned, The Dickies and the Rezillos.

At College I got into some of the emerging Madchester bands and then Trip Hop/ acid house/ Ragga/ Happy Hardcore/ Jungle. Next more guitar based bands like Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, Pulp and Radiohead.

Also somewhere along the way I got into some blues stuff like Jimmy Reed, 60’s girl groups like Ronettes, Soul stuff like Otis Redding, more folky psychedelic late 60s early 70s bands and heavier rock like Led Zeppelin. There’s a fair few genres/ and loads of bands I’ve probably missed out from that time.

During Lockdown (when I first got Spotify) I spent some time revisiting some of the old stuff I wasn’t still listening to, some I still thought was great, some not so much. More recently amongst other new bands I have gotten into more instrumental based stuff Like Surprise Chef, Menahan Street band, Robo Hands, The Link Quartet and Khruangbin.

Music is Funkin Great.

I log gigs in concertarchives.org and it notifies you of anniversaries… todays was “You saw Japan supported by Blancmange today…”    43 years ago! Jeez. Can’t say I listen to them by choice anymore 🙂

My overriding view reading this thread is that you were all either far too cool or are lying about your choices.

There should be no way that we’ve got to page 3 without any proper trash, be it pop, something that got cancelled or just a bad album or 2.

Who’s going to admit they spent most of their teenage years listening to Girls Aloud? Or that they were sure Be Here Now was a master piece? Or that Roxette were the soundtrack of their teenage years.

My first ‘favourite’ band were Iron Maiden – I had just started to get into rock/metal when they released Number of the Beast – I played it to death and also went to see them on the Beast on the Road tour as a spotty 14 yr old in my school project Iron Maiden (Killers) screen-printed teeshirt.

I have seen them many, many times since, met the whole band on the Powerslave tour and still love them now. They did go through a pretty poor stage, but the last two albums were great. Sad to hear that Nikko McBrain has just retired though.

Who’s going to admit they spent most of their teenage years listening to Girls Aloud?

Teenage? I was enjoying their albums in my 50s! Perfect pop for middle aged punks. 😀

Roxette is pushing it though. I was a bit perturbed when I saw one of their CDs in my dad’s car. He mostly listened to heavy rock!

There is a lad in our village, in his 40’s and a Roxette uber-fan.

He regularly posts pictures of various memorabilia he has just purchased. Scarfs, limited edition albums, etc.

He always posts some RIP stuff on the anniversary of the lasses death.

Always seemed a bit strange to me.

There is a lad in our village, in his 40’s and a Roxette uber-fan.

Always seemed a bit strange to me.

I used to go out with a girl some 20+ years ago and she was a big fan of them. Even back then I thought it was very weird.

My overriding view reading this thread is that you were all either far too cool or are lying about your choices.

There should be no way that we’ve got to page 3 without any proper trash, be it pop, something that got cancelled or just a bad album or 2.

Who’s going to admit they spent most of their teenage years listening to Girls Aloud? Or that they were sure Be Here Now was a master piece? Or that Roxette were the soundtrack of their teenage years.

Wrong way round. It’s only now that I feel carefree enough to admit that I quite like a lot of pop trash that I would have shunned in my teenage years. And ‘Call the Shots’ is an absolute banger. 🙂

Takes me straight back to being 19

My teenage years had quite an eclectic mix.

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.

During in my teenage years music changed so fast, even though it was pre internet/social media, within a year or two, sometimes less. So I’ve always moved with the times. Not always liked the way things have gone but moved none the less.

Nothing wrong with indulging in a bit of nostalgia every so often, everyone does it! Of course there are certain records, albums, whatever, which are exceptional and deserve listening to no matter how old. I’ve posted music on here from classic compositions hundreds of years old all the way up to the present.

I’ve always had a policy of dipping in and out and not getting too bogged down in the past, then I leave it for a long while before I do it again 😀

One of the most powerfull songs ever..

Teethgrinder by Therapy?

I quite like a lot of pop trash that I would have shunned in my teenage years. And ‘Call the Shots’ is an absolute banger.

It absolutely is but that’s not a controversial statement. And remember the NME went pretending to like pop trash at the start of the 80s, in a very lots of long words way (Penman, Morley).

Before then, as a teenager we’d go out dancing (seems unbelievable now) to places like Leeds Warehouse, Roots/Cosmo’s, ‘townie’ clubs , and what you want is dance music – funk , disco thru pop . But you don’t buy that, the bands you buy and who’s gigs you go to being those of the moment. Punk and post punk weirdness, a bit of reggae, and yeah I was trying vainly and in vain to be cool. I fully regret never seeing Wham!

There was some brilliant music but I don’t listen to it now at all really, and if I go back to that era it’s more likely to hear classic stuff

Possibly not any of us were Too cool for School. Back in the days when mates, local record shops, R1, Top Of The Pops or NME / Sounds were our only sources of inspiration, it’s hardly any wonder that we got influenced or directed to certain bands. Wolverhampton when I was 15 – you were a rocker, a mod, new romantic or a punk. Most of us would switch between genres depending on which mate or girlfriend was cool at the time. My girlfriend liked Joe Jackson, so whilst I was buying things like Saxon or White Spirit, I also liked and bought other stuff. Looking back, a lot of the stuff that I bought into myself was actually pretty dire, and more or less unplayable now.

I don’t agree with that at all Muddyground (or maybe I actually agree entirely) – the 70s and 80s had a richly diverse choice of music and most of us (certainly in my experience and of those around me) identified with a certain style – I was rock/metal through and through, but I had friends into Ska, or New Romantics, or even some still into Rock n Roll (especially Elvis). I didn’t switch to liking other genres because of anyone else, although there was other stuff I still openly liked (as mentioned above, Iron Maiden were my first band), but around that time I also happily listened to Spear of Destiny, Michael Jackson, Howard Jones, Nick Kershaw, Frankie, Sex Pistols, Simon and Garfunkel, Bowie etc etc etc.

My girlfriend liked Joe Jackson,

Timeless classic

Back in the days when mates, local record shops, R1, Top Of The Pops or NME / Sounds were our only sources of inspiration

And The Old Grey Whistle Test.

And The Old Grey Whistle Test.

And The Tube (I still remember seeing the original Frankie ‘Relax’ performance with bondage gear et al.)

Found it!

Someone mentioned the the Cult’s love album, I’ll throw in Dreamtime as well

These amongst others are still regularly played