I’m listening to Audioslave’s self titled. It’s still perfect. What’s yours?
Weird Al Yankovic in 3D.
Polka Party! by “Weird Al” Yankovic
Ænima
You were listening to that at ten?!
I didn’t understand it but it was like nothing I’d ever heard before.
When I was ten Master of Puppets and Slippery When Wet were both released and awesome.
That said, and as a fan of the wierd and heavy, Graceland by Paul Simon was also released and is one of the best albums of all time.
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Funny story time - it seemed like everyone had or wanted to have that album when it came out. We did not have it though because it was hard to find in my village. A boy I knew had the album and agreed to make a recording for me on cassette. I was super pumped and got the tape from him on Friday at school before a slumber party with my besties. Saturday morning we’re all sitting around the table with my friend’s huge family and they pulled out a cassette player and set it in the center of the table. The first three tracks played while we’re monching pancakes and I was so chuffed to have brought this sought after album. Then “Thriller” came on - the song - which is nearly six minutes long. Everyone knows the song and it’s ramping up but then suddenly the music cuts out with a click. It was the boy who recorded it speaking in to a mic saying, “Elaine, I recorded this for you because I love you.” Mind you, I’m ten so the entire room - adults and kids are dying of laughter while I was desperately trying to crawl across the table to shut it off. Someone grabbed the tape player from my reach and I died instantly. This is my clone typing this in 2024.
Oh my god.
Green Day. Dookie.
The Offspring - Smash
Ooh that’s a good from when I was 10, too. I didn’t become fully obsessed with them until Americana, though. I don’t think any other cd has ever gotten as much play as that one.
Americana was a great one, too. That was more like high school days for me, though. I was getting more into Tool around the time that came out.
Its funny, the Offspring was the first band I ever found I liked outside of my parent’s interests and as I get older, their earlier albums just sound better and better to me
Weird Al Yankovic - Off the Deep End
Comes down to one of two, and to varying degrees they both hold up.
- Dare to be Stupid by Weird Al. Not a single miss, Al possibly at the height of his powers, and that’s saying a lot.
- The Top Gun soundtrack. Whammy bar intensifies: wah wah wah, wanna wanna wah wah, wanna WAH wanna WAH, wanna WAH wah.
When I was 10 I didn’t listen to music because my parents didn’t listen to music. Sometimes we were listening to the radio and I specifically remember liking this one song “Lady Pank - Mniej niż zero” (which means less then zero and I was always wondering how something can be less then zero).
This is such a vibe.
Brandy’s first album. Or TLC’s. Both of those tapes got played to deaaath. But my real favorite was probably whatever mixtape my sister and I had most recently made from the radio because that shit was custom. No skips.
Yessss. One thing I really miss is making custom mixes. (Though it was cds for me). A playlist isn’t quite the same.
Machine Head, Deep Purple.
Nevermind
Aw come on, they were just asking
The Gorillaz self-titled album
Ten?
Gonna be a tossup, because I was listening to two in heavy rotation on casette. The first was a couple of years old at that point, Alabama’s Mountain Music. Still a great album.
The other was essentially brand new, Joan Jett’s Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth, again on cassette.
My parents had the Alabama on vinyl, which got worn the hell out by the time I got the tape. The Joan Jett wasn’t something they had gotten for themselves until after I bought it with birthday money at the same time as the Alabama tape. Then they got it on vinyl.
I still listen to both albums in their entirety here and there, and have multiple songs from each in multiple playlists.
I think, at the time, I probably favored GROAMY (what a horrible initialism lol) a bit most of the time, but it would have been a narrow margin. As full albums I favor Mountain Music now, it’s just more consistently good songs across the album. Not that Jett’s album has any stinkers, it doesn’t; it’s just that Alabama really nailed every track.
And yes, I’m fucking old lol
Not to be a pedant but since you can pronounce it as a word it’s an acronym, not an initialism.
If you can call that a word, sure, I guess. Wouldn’t have thought of it like that :)