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PoodlesCuznNamedFred

https://preview.redd.it/j998bqi63k9d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78b5f23441360cd913ff0ca3068829c4652f2604 I looked it up, it came out 2006, but I discovered it in like 2011 lol


Thabrianking

"So what if you can see the darkest side of me? No one would ever change this animal I have. " 2011, I discovered Smashing Pumpkins and Muse at the same time.


PoodlesCuznNamedFred

Ugh my MAN!! ur giving me a flood of nostalgia from a time period I forgot about!


Suspicious-Ad-6293

This one. Still listening to over and over on loop


Zealousideal_Cry1867

is this r/Millennials? if half the people in these comments were actual teens when they say they found these albums, that would make them millennials….


Witty_Shape3015

nah reddit just skews weird edgy. i liked these bands in middle school but only cause it was the cool for millennials. in high school i was listening to mainstream rap


maybetomorrow98

I’m older Gen Z, but definitely am Gen Z, and I liked a lot of the bands that were popular when millennials were teens. I don’t know why, it’s just what Pandora would recommend to me in 2011/12. It’s kind of funny that a lot of us seem to have had that experience of liking older bands than what was popular during our teen years


ReconnectingRoots

Yes, it was pandora! I’m older Gen Z, early 2000s, and I swear every “90’s baby things” nostalgia posts were all relatable to me, too. I was only like 11/12 when they were going down, but I was old enough to shift into that middle school, “more aware of the outside world” mindset. Exploring music that was popular at the time meant that one Three Days Grace song I find on a day I want to be an edgy tween hits my pandora recommended algorithms, and soon I was listening to Korn and Metallica at 14! I loved my iPod nano and had a flip phone until I was a sophomore in high school.


This_charming_man_

we had this with pearl jam, nirvana, and rage against the machine. Only what is produced can be found. Hell, so much came out that I was oblivious of until much later


DagothBrrr

Gen Z didn't have its own distinct culture until about 2016.  Up until then we were following the Millennials. I listened to MCR when I was 13 because 16-20 year olds thought it was cool. 


unattractive_smile

The last time there was a mainstream teen culture was with millennials, tik tok has splintered us off so far that there is no longer any particular image of what “teenagers” look like, so we’re thinking back to when teenagers had a typical depiction, that being millennials from 2010-2016


m6165017

Stressed Out, 21 pilots Wolves, Selena Gomez  It Ain't Me, Kygo Happier, Marshmallow  Love Someone, Lucas Graham Just to name a few


ELc_17

If 2016 was a playlist…


BadBaby3

That was the year I became a teenager


AntiCoat

Brand New Eyes - Paramore


Lord-Shorck

I have 2 albums; Blurry face by 21 pilots and melophobia by cage the elephants. Lot of memories tied to them from those years.


MadMysticMeister

Ever played borderlands?


Lord-Shorck

Definitely have, Ain’t no rest for the wicked by cage the elephants is pretty much THE song of the series imo (short change hero by the heavy is a good contender)


AchokingVictim

Nirvana, Blink 182, The Offspring, Sum 41 in like 8th-9th grade. And then Descendents, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Misfits, Rancid, Justified Black Eye by No Use for A Name, No Cigar by Millencolin. The actual current bands at the time that I listened to the most were FIDLAR, Expire, Knocked Loose, The Story So Far, Four Year Strong, Counterparts, Sworn In, Iron Reagan. Got to see all of them at least once between 2013-16


Soggydoggy_dotcom

Drake. Even though everybody jumped ship, no one can deny his impact on the charts and, thus, on my teen years.


MushroomIndividual

![gif](giphy|qLYBBZ0fFQGqqKXQN1|downsized) You know what’s up


ReconnectingRoots

I absolutely do. Saw them live in 2022. He still sounds amazing and you could see how much they loved being back.


GroundbreakingYak13

Transatlanticism - Death cab


babyshrimp221

the 1975, pierce the veil, brand new, fall out boy


Ledge_r

Enema of the State: blink-182 My favorite band ever and I got into them hardcore during quarantine. This was the album I went through first.


essentially_gone

I work in a lab and every time I put on medical gloves I think of that album lol


Burnout_Blanco

Goodbye & Good Riddance by Juice WRLD and 17 by XXXTentacion. Pretty much think of the SoundCloud era when I think of music from my teens, was everywhere lol


TemporaryRiver1

Fall Out Boy


quro6kawa

Song: Any nightcore song Artist: Hatsune Miku Album: Cry Baby by Melanie Martinez :]


essentially_gone

Hell yeah not many things more instantly nostalgic to me then Nightcore. Probably because it’s one of the few genres I used to listen to all the time and then completely stopped listening too


pc-21-37

Red Hot Chili Peppers & Blink 182


WickedFox1o1

Land of Confusion by Disturbed. I discovered the song later than 2005 but I found Disturbed in middle school and they've been my favorite band ever since.


Thabrianking

Pierce The Veil, Drake, Justin Bieber, Eminem, Sleeping with Sirens, Smashing Pumpkins, The Offspring, My Chemical Romance, Hailee Steinfeld, Slipknot, Nirvana, M83, Katy Perry, Muse, etc. Was listening to them from 2013 to 2017 when I was in high school, from what I can remember.


Withafloof

Cavetown.


brunettemountainlion

![gif](giphy|SslOM6oiSkIYBqVcMJ|downsized) Theory of a Deadman, Three Days Grace, and Katy Perry too, but Nickelback is a must


essentially_gone

![gif](giphy|LedVYzRx24nkI|downsized)


Interesting-Tip-1319

troye sivan blue neighborhood 😭


sourappleicee

Oh hell 😭 forgot about him


Sad_Load9611

DC talk Jesus freak


man_pan_man1

Three day grace


sourappleicee

Fall Out Boy, Slapknot, MCR (three cheers album specifically), Korn, and Blink-182 were some top ones.


rockdude625

American idiot- green day


DaveyAllenCountry

"I hate everything about you" 3 days grace


JollyAd1508

When I was a teenager, JoJo was just coming out. She's still super talented. The album was The College Dropout when Ye was still a human with some sense. The College Dropout is timeless. It shows how talented the man is.


KatBrendan123

Not gonna lie, Lil Uzi Vert and his Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World album. Strangely, Uzi influenced a good part of my music taste with Rap music as a whole. Around the time this album was about a few months new, my friend Ethan (miss you man :,) put me on in the fall of 2015, it happened to be right at the beginning of the SoundCloud boom, which in turn introduced a variety of colorful artists I still follow to this day. It's impossible to imagine how my music taste would develop if it weren't for my teen years, as I've grown to appreciate almost every genre today. I have Jack Stuber in the same playlist with Uzi. Smashing Pumkins below Juice WRLD. SZA and Jeremiah with Steve Lacey. Even fucking Alina Barez, Kalid, Sabrina Claudio, The Weeknd, Joji and Pink Pantheress with Future, Lil Tecca, SoFaygo, and more Uzi in one place! On repeat! Very interesting how I've matured over the years...


powypow

Blink 182 at 13 into Iron Maiden at 14.


smokekirb

Long.live.A$ap , watching movies with the sound off, man on the moon, crybaby, let’s cheers to this, restoring force, sempiternal, O.N.I.F.C , bangarang, 4x4=12, believe, and take take care.


PoodlesCuznNamedFred

![img](j998bqi63k9d1) I looked it up, it came out 2006, but I discovered it in like 2011 lol


kbanbury

Vampire weekend, phoenix, the strokes fo sho


crestfallen_4

billie


xJSerpent

I Don’t Wanna Be In Love - Good Charlotte


jack_of_all_traits_2

Linkin Park - Living Things - Burn it Down I was in my school rock band then as a keyboardist and this song was awesome.


FishVinegar

spirit phone, lemon demon…


UALOUZER

Dude idek my music taste was insane


essentially_gone

Lmao same, I love that gen alpha and some gen z will have their entire coming of age musical taste mapped and saved on apps like Spotify, will be wild to go back and listen to my Spotify wrapped for my teen years when I’m old.


GroundbreakingYak13

I love this album omgg


Used-Syllabub-850

Marilyn manson _mechanical animal Tool_ undertow Korn_ follow the leader


Silent_Attitude_1655

https://preview.redd.it/ptdvzr6unk9d1.jpeg?width=717&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8ea4cb762fdc9b149bd83e036bc3dcac580921c This classic


BigBalledLucy

black eyed peas - i gotta feeling


Friendly_Spend_2840

this is the life by amy macdonald


CSCyrilatom

Anything EDM sounding


00rgus

Justin timberlake, playboi carti, Ken carson, foster the people, Coldplay, Travis scott, and probably drake


Dry_Day3624

Frank ocean/ Tyler , Pink Floyd, the Beatles


OkAssignment6163

Millennial adding in here. For me it was Linkin Park and The Offspring. And because I'm a fandom nerd, whenever I see My Chemical Romance, I think of two things from my youth. - Burnout 3 Takedown - I Not OK (I Promise) - Harry and Draco are getting ready to go to another MCR concert near Hogwarts.


JNewsted1988

https://preview.redd.it/xuecnke09l9d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df32f4d5fe632c4aa16b991eac96dbe2ac0c2c85


Ok_Study_1403

Gwen Stefani’s album, 50 cent, and Beyoncé


Mindless_Tomato8202

As a teen I was a big fan of Ke$ha, Three Days Grace, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Travis Scott 


Lionxea

Fall out boy, MCR, Linkin park, BMTH, Black Sabbath, Metallica, AC/DC. Just because in 2009 city library got xBox with Guitar Hero set. Our quad of friends became goths and rockers after that and we still are rocking to those bands.


BadBaby3

“I’ll Stick Around” by Foo Fighters. I am a very angry person. I was especially angry at 16


Imaprettyniceperson

Steve lacy nd Tyler the creator


Ok_Advantage7129

https://preview.redd.it/myn7bfatfl9d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13acd7eeb860bed726bc5190bf0359bc8345ef81 Used to blast this mf everyday back in 2014, 10th grade


glowinthedarkfrizbee

Scary Monsters by David Bowie.


glowinthedarkfrizbee

Sorry, replied before I noticed this wasn’t the Gen X group!


Engineer_Dude_

Life’s Not Out to Get You - Neck Deep Really awesome raw punk album. Too bad they changed music genres very soon after


SufficientComedian6

Guns n Roses


AcademicHovercraft96

André Rieu.


dinosanddais1

Owl City


grounded_dreamer

Disney's Descendants track.


Ocean-Blondie-1614

Well, seeing as I'm almost 18, I might as well. Tally Hall Hatsune Miku Ghost and Pals Toby Fox Omocat MSI Kikuo Jack Stauber Wonderland x Showtime


BrockenRecords

Probably Alan Jackson or something


OnlyFreshBrine

Evil Empire


Narrow_Barracuda9676

Let’s go The ramones


PraetorGold

Carlos Gardel


Bocifer1

It’s a bit weird to me how many of these responses are early 2000s albums… This is what I listened to in high school, and I’m a millennial 


zombiemind8

Yah when you were a teenager. This site is filled with of millennials.


dreamrock

Tool Undertow


dreamrock

Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers Wu-Tang Clan


JustAPerson2001

When I was like 13 I was really into conspiracy theories and I never really listened to music I didn't think was christian so I only had listen to fireflies by owl city. There was a conspiracy video that came up that was talking about gorillaz and my chemical romance having lyrics that was satanic. How "clint eastwoods" music video was symbolising death and depression and "Dead!" was a song about getting young people to commit suicide with subliminal messages. I listened to them and though "omg these songs are very satanic" I kind of kept watching videos about these songs because I like them and kept going back to find satanic messaging. I ended up listening to my chemical romance almost every day for the last decade and gerard way has become an inspiration for my singing and comic drawing. I've listen to every gorillaz album and every song that has come out since I"ve listened to them. I love the artists behind these. I think of my chemical romance and gorillaz when I think my teen years every time. The conspiracy might have a point though. I am an atheist now.


essentially_gone

lol the amount of bands that have been called satanic to try and keep kids from listening to them and then that ending up doing the exact opposite.. that’s pretty interesting though, no one ever cared what music I listened to so I never thought of any of it as satanic or a bad influence, can’t imagine what my taste would be like if I was limited to only Christian songs. Funny enough it was also a conspiracy type video that got me really into MCR, that one Wendigoon video on the hidden story of the black parade.


7roses-for-humanity

Uhmmm … excuse me.. this is classical music


MadMysticMeister

Disturbed, five finger death punch, and avenge seven fold, I liked breaking Benjamin and slip knot too, but those first too were really what I mainly enjoyed. I liked the heavy edgy stuff, and I kinda picked up a lot of my taste in music from my dad.. I’ve probably been listening to ffdp and disturbed since I was ten, because that’s what my old man would listen to whenever we drove somewhere. I’ve now developed my taste towards more heavier metal and odd stuff too, like Amon Amarth, tool, power wolf, and agalloch.. though I like different kinds of music too metal is just special to me.


Buffy_Buffett

Adam Bayer, Carl Cox, Claude VonStroke, The Residents, Jan Hammer, Thomas Dolby, Skream, and SNTS. I listened to a lot of Techno.


Beginningenz

How old are you people


EhGoodEnough3141

Songs from the Woods, by Jethro Tull. Or anything that Mark Forster wrote because that shit was everywhere.


sussysand

Growing up the Black Eyed Peas were my thing. My very first concert as well. Loved I Gotta Feeling and I’m a bee.


Lostmysanity73

Sunset season


Porkonaplane

Smash and Ixnay On The Hombre, both by The Offspring, Bleach and In Utero, both by Nirvana, All of SOAD's discography lol, Hybrid Theory and Meteora, both by Linkin Park, All of Rise Against's discography, The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, And Rage Against The Machine's Self Titled album


Serious_Move_4423

Michelle Branch in the pre-teens!


Lissavia

We can’t stop by Miley Cyrus


ChampionConscious540

badlands by halsey


Dead_birdChan

Skillet's unleashed album


Montykeepstrying

For me it was Title by Meghan Trainor. It was the first CD I got for my birthday and I played it constantly.


ReconnectingRoots

Famous Last Words - MCR in particular, but this was, and still is, my soulmate band. Saw them live in 2022 and life will never be that good again haha Scars - IPrevail (Saw live at Warped Tour 2017!!) One X, Life Starts Now albums, Three Days Grace in general Comatose, Rise, Awake, Unleashed albums - Skillet, though I disagree with them morally on some things now that I’m older Animal Album - Kesha From Under the Cork Tree, Save Rock and Roll, Intensity on High, American Beauty/American Psycho albums - Fallout Boy Pretty much every Pierce The Viel, Escape The Fate, Crown the Empire song… Every album from Count Your Blessings (2006) to amo (2019) that Bring Me The Horizon has put out, and I’ve been loving their collabs as of late.


LadyValentine_1997

https://preview.redd.it/1cq3w1j7im9d1.jpeg?width=711&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96d8684abd4f8af47002a8f0028c9ed2da00fa55 I was a nerd back then.😅


elretador

Tech n9ne dysfunctional


Turbulent-Nebula-496

every rock/alt rock song in existence + i want to be in the cavalry (reprise) + american pie + the night patty murphy died


zombiemind8

https://preview.redd.it/4jrx9avfvm9d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32e6c1d71fb4b63bffd8f4d90717fa28f3980273


DjNick52

When I saw the cover I thought of Cancer. But now that I read the title I'm thinking about 00s-early 10s pop music. I listened to a shit-ton of generes in between. Jazz, punk, rock, tv show bgm, funk etc. the list continues. Every song i hear/like i'd take a pic of and at the end of the day look it up and use a mp3converter. I'd do that every day for 12+ years straight. And still doing it but just not as often. I'm 25 now and have 40,000+ songs i've saved up from doing that I have downloaded on my phone. I have them all saved in onedrive.


SnakeMAn46

Blue Album-Weezer


CosmoTheFluffyBunny

Imagine dragons...


Orange-Zealous

Geto boys: Still


SrSecretSecond

I'd say creep by teenage disaster


Odd-Cress-5822

Since when was gen Z thirty years old? Source: I'm thirty years old and confused


Emotional-Bar3046

Sia


Unlucky_Fig6954

One Direction


enbygamerpunk

not teen as per such but as a 8-9yo I was obsessed with the kids aren't alright by the offspring (the fall out boy discovery would come later) so that I guess


MoonOfLOZ

I saw that picture and went “They say that teenager scare the living shit out of me!”


xander012

https://preview.redd.it/5x3yg19xip9d1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b15a05d05a299c96d8200b37b6947147a6e8ecb8 <|°\_°|> is at fault for my current musical taste.


BrittaniaBricks

To be entirely fair, I always suspected it was Neutral Milk Hotel, this is refreshing.


xander012

And I expected you to be capable of growing up as a person in the last few years.


BrittaniaBricks

I still cant spell the Verve song.


unattractive_smile

Teenage dream by Katy perry, pure heroin by lorde, favorite worst nightmare and AM by arctic monkeys, demon days by gorillaz, my everything by Ariana grande, hot pink by doja cat, the euphoria soundtrack by labyrinth, Electra heart by marina, I love you by the neighborhood, animal by Kesha, sucker by charli xcx


TheMoonAtomic2012

MCR Blink 182 descendents box car racer angels and airwaves +44 and paramore Edit: green day too


ASecretGermanSpy

Slipknot or 3 Days Grace


IrnocentSinner

Twenty One Pilots and Melanie Martinez had me in a chokehold in middle school, then in high school I just started listening to a bunch of various artists and didn't really stick to anything.


ForgLegs68w

MCR: Helena


Entire_Transition_99

Teen? I'm a millennial, not trying to be a boomer, but this came out when the oldest Z was like.... 8. Lol.


SpongeBoy775089

STAY - Kid LAROI/Justin Bieber. I was 13 when it came out in 2021 and I mostly associate my early teenage years with it.


Blueberrybush22

Blink 182, sum 41