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| Today Is My Last Day Being A Teen
Turning 20 tomorrow. Here is my favorite album for every teenage year of my life. lulz | | 1 |  | Weezer
The Blue Album
Age 13: My best friend in school always drew the famous "W" symbols on his homework, so I was curious to see what this group sounded like. I was blown away by the songwriting, lyrics, feedbacky guitars, and catchy choruses. Weezer immediately became my favorite band, but I lost interest when Make Believe came out. I was into the loud, early, raw Weezer and I remember hating "Beverly Hills" when I first heard it.
Highlight song: Only in Dreams | | 2 |  | My Morning Jacket
Z
Age 14: My dad was getting me into indie music around this time. He was cool enough to take me to a My Morning Jacket concert when they just put Z out. I thought it was a good album but it was so damn new and I only heard it maybe once or twice before the show They played the whole album minus the last song. Oh yeah and it didn't hurt that I was in the front row.
Highlight song: Wordless Chorus | | 3 |  | Metallica
Ride the Lightning
Age 15: Everyone went through a Metallica phase. I picked this up on a whim and dug the heaviness (what I thought was heavy at the time). I think most of us can agree "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is sick.
Highlight song: For whom the bell tolls. | | 4 |  | Silversun Pickups
Carnavas
Age 16: Back into indie type stuff. My parents dragged me to see Snow Patrol, and they were the opener. I dug the fuzzy guitars a lot, and listened to this album over and over again. Their second album, Swoon, took everything I loved about Carnavas and multiplied it by 1000. But that didn't come out til years later.
Highlight song: Common Reactor | | 5 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows
Age 17: I remember working at a coffee shop where I would be stuck there by myself for hours. I always played this over the speakers on a loop.
Highlight song: Reckoner | | 6 |  | ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Worlds Apart
Age 18 Someone burned this for my Dad and out of boredom one day I turned it on. This is the album that made me wave goodbye to indie and say hello to prog rock. The album opens with a 300-esque orchestral intro. It seemed like this band could do whatever they wanted to, and I was listening to albums with some sort of underlying formula. The two singers from Trail of Dead spoke like prophets to me telling me there was this other genre out there that I have been missing out on. Looking up reviews for this album, I stumbled upon a site called Sputnikmusic.com
Highlight song: Will You Smile Again?/Caterwaul | | 7 |  | Oceansize
Frames
Age 19: In the similar artists on dredg's last.fm page there is Oceansize. I decided to download the first song off the first album, Effloresce. Effloresce was the first 'size album I heard and it was amazing but this one made Effloresce look like Make Believe. This band could really do it all. Three guitars, a drummer almost as good as Neil Peart, and a really good vocalist who played a beat up lefty squire stratocaster. I loved the constant tempo changes, occasional growly vox, and the melodies this guy was singing and playing on guitar. What a fuckin album.
Highlight song: Trail of Fire/Only Twin | |
CrownOfMagnets
05.27.11 | rofl metallica sux kirk hamster lulz | CrownOfMagnets
05.27.11 | i listened to shit like linkin park in 5th grade ugh | CrownOfMagnets
05.27.11 | i never listened to classic rock til i started learning guitar in 7th grade. that's when i discovered rush. | klap
05.27.11 | interesting you listened to worlds apart before source tags | omnipanzer
05.27.11 | Nice list | Yazz_Flute
05.27.11 | I've still got a few teen years left. 7 is one of my favorite albums of all time. | CrownOfMagnets
05.27.11 | @klap I like Source Tags better now, but I don't know how I would've reacted to it if it was the first thing I heard by Trail of Dead. Songs like "Will You Smile Again" really stuck with me the first time around whereas ST&C required more listens to understand it. | Samshine
05.27.11 | i listened to shit like linkin park in 5th grade ugh [2] fml...
Happy early 20th | CrownOfMagnets
05.27.11 | thanks :) | pedroia55
05.27.11 | YOU HAVE THE GREATEST DAD EVER | InAbsentia
05.27.11 | So you started listening to good music at 17, which is understandable.
7 is one of my all-time favorites. Love every second of it. Especially Trail of Fire. | Psilocyanide
05.27.11 | "My best friend in school always drew the famous "W" symbols on his homework, so I was curious to see what this group sounded like"
Lol at this not being about Wu-Tang. | CrownOfMagnets
05.27.11 | haha not to be confused with the wu-tang symbol of course. |
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