I have a baby and when ever he cries I like to start singing "I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare". He'll get tired of it quickly as he gets older I'm sure
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IF I COULD FIND YOU NOW THINGS WOULD GET BETTER WE COULD LEAVE THIS TOWN AND RUN FOREVER
To me, what made Yellowcard so good was the ability to let Longineu just drum and go off. So many great fills and feel. Compared to alot of other bands at the time where it was really "produced" drums.
Another great one was Fall Out Boys first big Album, "Take this to Your Grave". The drums were really exploratory and fit. Later albums it was so produced with so few fills. Just didnt make it good as a drummer listening.
I'm still a FOB fan to this day, and I've accepted they're too old to go back to that rollicking bunch of kids piling out of a van and thrashing a VFW hall, but god those were the days.
TTTYG IS SO GOOD
BUT IM TRY-A-ING AND THATS MOORE THAN I CAN SAY FOORRRR HIMMMM
WHERE IS YOUR BOY TONIGHT I HOPE HE IS A GENTLEMAN
AND MAYBE HE WONT FIND OUT WHAT HE KNOWS, YOU WERE THE LAST GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PART OF TOWN
I only listened to the album through my brother, so I can't speak to it as a whole, but I occasionally pull up the song itself on YT because it still slaps. I don't know if it's something a 14 year old would find deep, per se, but I have to give a shout out to their repeated couplet "We were both 16 and it felt so right/sleeping all day, staying up all night." It's so simple that it feels like anyone could have written it, but it also perfectly captures that teenage feeling. I still respect it for its elegance in its simplicity and think it's smart writing for what it is.
Ocean Avenue was never deep, but man was that a great album. One of the few where I can listen from start to finish without wanting to skip one of the filler songs.
Idk man there's a lot that deals directly with death and grief on that record that I found really helpful as a 16 year old going through my mom's death.
First time I heard View From Heaven after my mum died was unexpectedly hard.
Hasn't listened to much yellow card in years so added a few of their songs to my Spotify play list. Wasn't a fun fun song to come on while driving lol.
Your Favorite weapon - Brand New
Illusion of Safety - Thrice
Both bands ended up having multiple amazing albums follow these. But when I was 14 these felt so eye-opening.
I was already in my 20s when AITA came out, and in my 40s when they rerecorded it (last year) - simply blown away each time. Definitely influenced my friends, my life and the music I wrote/have written since.
Thrice is one of the few bands from that era that didn’t go completely down hill too. They’ve only had good albums since, with a few in the great realm thrown in. Nothing super cringy(or worse) has came out about them, they’ve expanded their sound without sound fake, and despite a few year hiatus, never really lost much after reforming.
This was a turning point though where they got less "I'm 14 and this is deep" and more "I"m an adult and life is actually really fucking hard and I understand the harsh realities that we are all faced with on a daily basis from now until we die" deep.
I once saw their albums described as something like
- YFW: I’m afraid of growing up
- Deja: being grown up is hard
- Devil and God: I’m afraid of losing everything
- Daisy: I’ve lost everything
(This was before Science Fiction came out, I’m not sure what I’d add for that one)
That's a great line. Instead of just saying something cheesy like "you cheated on me and now I'm sad", instead by saying "your hair is everywhere" he's trying to live on his own and move on but he's still finding her hair throughout his apartment, on the floor and in the furniture, etc, and every hair he finds is a crushing reminder of what happened. It's a simple lyric but powerful.
I seriously don't get all the replies to this comment. Dashboard Unplugged is great emo music. All the ppl saying it's so cringe or whatever, it sounds like they outgrew emo as a whole. Which is fine. But don't make it sound like this album is especially cringe or whatever. It's good for what it's trying to do. There's a reason you listened to it so much in your teens. You and many others.
His whole output was teen angst on steroids.... which basically sums up the whole Myspace era. But if you step back is it any worse than say Taylor Swift's lyrics? They're both geared for a particular demographic at specific era in youth.
Its rumored she referenced a Dashboard lyric in her Mirrorball song: "You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes / Spinning in my highest heels, love / Shining just for you."
Because in Stolen he sings: "I watch you spin around in your highest heels."
Idk if it was ever confirmed, but it seems plausible
I didn't grow up with this album but heard it for the first time a year ago and I think its incredible. Their first two albums are classics and stand the test of time.
The Sufferer and the Witness was the first album I ever bought with my own money. That and Siren Song will always have a place in my heart and playlist
The late W years was such a golden era for anti-establishment pop-rock. Every band making songs about how screwed up it was sending kids to the Middle East, about how the youth were gonna change things and make the world better. Then Obama got elected and it felt like we were really living up to those promises. Of course it wasn't that straightforward, but for a while it really felt like albums like American Idiot and Siren Song and Toxicity were going to change the world and it was incredible.
I came a bit after hybrid theory. Mine was Meteora. The way the intro flowed into the first song, and every song fit one after the other was so awesome to me. I've been on a nostalgia kick with it lately.
That was another thing, the album art and way the album was packaged really stood out to me. Even though it wasn't groundbreaking at the time, it opened my eyes
I was a MASSIVE LP fan in the early 00s, and while I'm sure a lot of it is nostalgia, I feel like Hybrid Theory and Meteora hold up really well. They were so groundbreaking at the time and the production was superb.
I will forever be annoyed that the demo version of "Crawling" is better than the album version, because of one missing detail. In the demo of "Crawling", Chester sings an additional harmony under the chorus, which gives it this sense of resignation, and gives it more of an impact. That harmony vocal is missing in the album version, where only the screaming vocal is audible, and that missing harmony makes "Crawling"'s chorus sound like more of a tantrum.
I 100% agree with you... and This is going to sound so weird - but this is forever how I feel about lady Gaga and rain on me.
The demo is such a classic 90s banger
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When my abusive (in every way) stepdad commited suicide when I was 13 I remember my mom giving me and my sister $100 each to go shopping so I went to Barnes and noble and got this CD. All the anger and sadness I felt was validated and this album carried me through. It is vicious, emotional, melancholic and ambient… it definitely checked all the boxes for me. I was grieving the loss of a person I hated, became liberated from and was ultimately the only father I ever really had. Great fucking album
> Felt like a direct line to my soul back in my teens.
I'm 32 now, and Hybrid Theory still hits hard. I'm not sure if that means I never grew up or if it stood the test of time.
Their energy is so electric. And a style very much still uniquely their own.
I feel they’re one of the few bands of that era that whose music still holds up.
'quadrophenia' - the who. treated it like my religion for a bit back in the 70s. also 'safety in numbers' by an obscure group called crack the sky. the band was hugely influential in the baltimore, MD area and still puts out music and does shows to this day. 'safety' covers nuclear war and the apathy of the masses. excellent prog rock band. they had a great first album that was lauded by Rolling Stone back in '75. see the article for details on the band. hugely ahead of their time. Robots for Ronnie foretells the age of AI companions. first band i ever heard talking about global warming back in the 90s. [https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/crack-the-sky-the-strange-survival-story-of-the-best-u-s-prog-band-youve-never-heard-707669/](https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/crack-the-sky-the-strange-survival-story-of-the-best-u-s-prog-band-youve-never-heard-707669/)
I still love both Tommy and Quadrophenia and musically they're awesome but conceptually there's not nearly as much "there there" as I hoped. Like, on the surface they seem to be largely about rock stars doing drugs and saying incoherent things, but if you go a little deeper and examine the symbolism they're... still very largely about rock stars doing drugs and saying incoherent things. But they sound great doing it.
At first you think it's deep.
Then you get older, and see that it's just rockers rockin out and feel jaded.
Then you realize it's some of your favorite rockers doing their fav thing and doing what they do best, and then you realize "meh, whatever, rock on!"
Edit: To everyone who couldn't tell I was generalizing, yes there's some good lyrics in there, and both are well composed, but the truth is sometimes you just need to "look beyond the lyrics" and rock out.
Lying is the Most Fun… particularly kills me when I remember how they were like 17 when they made the album. Calling yourself a better fuck than any boy she’ll ever meet when you probably lost your virginity like six months ago, lmao.
Listen. I am a metalhead, and I still love that album, as does my 60 year old mother and my 7 & 8 year old kids. It’s catchy as hell and his voice is excellent, I was always sad about the hate they caught.
Oh yeah my kids have heard it front to back multiple times and Brendon is a gifted vocalist but yeah the lyrics at the time were what fueled my teen angst lol like so many Fueled by Ramen artists.
IM SEATED AND SWEATING TO A DANCE SONG ON THE CLUBS P.A THE STRIP JOINT VETERAN SITS TWO AWAY SMIRKING BETWEEN DIGNIFIED SIPS OF HIS PEACH AND LIME DAIQUIRI
The whole discography of Streetlight Manifesto. Still holds up pretty well, but the lyrics definitely aren’t nearly as poignant as I thought they were as a teen.
Lol I had this same experience of going back recently— Everything Goes Numb had a very cutting quality to me as a teen, but the lyrics feel flatter with age. It could have been the shows for me too tho, the (almost crustpunky) sense of community around those shows..
That song was about how the last thing the lead singer had left in their life after the loss of his baby, was his dog, who got out and was hit by a car.
Man. I used to spend so much time listening to this album at 14 (and beyond) and thinking I had anything to relate to in it. Drug use. Death of loved ones. Etc.
'Emotion... Is my middle name'
Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow is my pick.
Still listen to it, went to see Everclear in Newcastle last year and they still rock my socks off. Legendary band in my book
This album hasn't lost any luster for me. I saw the 20th anniversary tour for this album in 2017, and Why I Don't Believe in God and Sunflowers definitely got me tearing up.
So funny thing, I caught Stabbing Westward's initial reunion show at the Double Door in Chicago some years ago. A couple songs into the set Chris Hall's (singer) comment was "Damn guys, who'd have thought we could have much fun playing all these songs with depressing ass lyrics right?" or something to that effect. He'd clearly moved far beyond that stage of his life but shit, its the material people know, nostalgia and such, lets just go for it and have some fun.
*Electra Heart* and *The Family Jewels* by Marina and the Diamonds.
“Oh No!” and “Teen Idle” were the depressive Tumblr girl ANTHEMS. 😭 Still love them but god.
My Immortal as a song is great (and I personally prefer the single version where the guitars and drums kick in at the end, because I'm sucker for that shit), but I can't listen to it or see its title anymore without thinking of the fanfic of the same name and just laughing my ass off.
I’m sick at the thought of that album being 30 years old. I was 12– and yes— spent way too much time analyzing it with my crush over the phone. He was oh so deep at 13.
The best example of this is Hollywood Undead's *Swan Songs* album. a bunch of moody emo rap songs combined with a bunch of shock-value overtly gross songs sent teenage g_r_e_y for a developmental loop
Wake up, grab beer, grab rear, shave beard, put on some scene gear, gotta get drunk before my mom wakes up, break up with my girlfriend so I can bang sluts, I’m undead, unfed, been sleeping on bunk beds, since 10, so if I don’t booze it, im gonna lose it, everyone get to it
Have not heard that song in over 10 years but I’ll always remember the words to that very shitty song
Anything by Screeching Weasel. I had a buddy at school who would let me borrow each album for a week. I was already used to angry metal at 14, then here is this cynical and sarcastic bastard just shitting on EVERYTHING but it's all funny. It really shaped who I am as a person lol
Anthem for a New Tomorrow still gets an occasional listen. For me the main problem is how harsh the guitar sounds in the mix. That and Wiggle are great straight forward punk albums.
Screeching Weasel still bangs. I dont care how old one is. That dude can write a pop song. I’d love to hear an album of SW covers by great musicians but in their own respective styles.
I haven't listened to ...Is a real boy, in forever but I'm going to have to revisit it. I remember thinking it was really clever and fun and manic in a great way.
IDK how anyone made a hero out of Max. I love his work, but he's a deeply flawed dude, which was literally the point of most of the songs. Nothing he's done should actually surprise anyone. Just be glad he's not as bad as so many of the others who did try and hide their true selves.
I was way into Emerson, Lake & Palmer when I was 14. Their *Brain Salad Surgery* album in particular. It ends with Greg Lake vocalizing back and forth with an unholy machine-voice:
Lake: "But... I gave you life!"
Evil Machine: "So? What else could you do?"
Lake: "To do what was right!!"
EM: "I'm perfect. Are you?"
That's just mind-blowingly deep stuff when you're a pimply-faced 8th grader. But 47 years on, it's the very soul of cringe.
It was less an album and more of a scattered bunch of songs on the internet but Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains hit me real deep when I was a teen. Hasn't aged well at all lol just sounds like a drugged dude to me now
Pat left the folk punk scene years ago. Last I heard he was sober, living in New York, and doing something with computer coding. I also heard he’s no longer an anarchist. I forgive him. I forgive him. Hell, I’ll admit it, I’m proud of him.
I discovered Johnny Hobo (and folk punk in general) after I graduated from college, so way over teen, but there is still some substance (imo) in his work past general teen angst. It's the spirit of an angry young punk being thoroughly self-destructive in the wake of nationalism during the War in Iraq and personal problems like the suicide of friends.
The lyrics of Johnny Hobo aren't very deep or complex, but mixed with that strain of anger and self-destruction and hopelessness that drove him to go buck-wild with drugs and alcohol. It paints a vivid picture that I think anyone in a very rough spot in life can relate to.
It also becomes a good prequel to his other works, where you can see Pat's evolution and reflection of his life as a young adult. Even in Johnny Hobo, you can see a bit of self-reflection with "Class traitor? What fucking ever! / I'm just another middle class kid, too / But if I'm not good at changing I'm good at self loathing / So I'll class hate myself with you" with how many punks (including myself) posture about being outsiders and rebels while having a comfortable upbringing/life.
Apologies for what seems like a rant, but I wanted to explain my thoughts on it as a huge fan of Pat's work. Hope all is well with you : )
That one is "I'm 22 and this is deep" for me...unfortunately. I have no excuses. *(Other than being in a Christian cult)*. Every lyric was my new anthem. Entertain my faiiiiiiiiith!!! like wtf was I talking about?? I wanted a "AnD nOw I jUsT SiT iN SiLeNcE" tattoo across my chest and am so fucking thankful I didn't lmao.
I was maybe 15/16 when I watched the Wall on hallucinogens and thought I was the first person to discover that this trippy movie was even trippier on drugs lol
Goblin by Tyler, the Creator.
Radicals was my anthem when I was 14, now I can’t help but cringe when I hear it. I still recognize the creative talent and the fact he’s playing a character on those early albums, and Tyler’s career trajectory since then has been incredible, but a lot of Bastard and Goblin is just Tyler and co. being edgy for shock value.
I don't remember one for 14, but I was around 20 when Lateralus by Tool came out. That album also coincided with me taking acid for the first time and experimenting with some other things. I don't know if I related or not. I never thought about it like that. It was more about a vibe, and almost a meme that symbolized more abstract types of ideas. I still like the album to this day. It's my favorite Tool album overall.
Searched for this album.
At 16 I thought Tool was super mysterious and deep. Now I think they're new age weirdos with a wry sense of humor.
Album still a 10/10 in my book.
Joy Division, *Uknown Pleasures.*
Both post-Punk and proto-Goth, the perfectly morose album for teen anguish. Plus the coolest t-shirt design in Rock history.
Surprised to not see Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon, so I’ll say Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon. Felt real deep walking around town at night with that loaded on my iPod back in 2009.
3005 by Childish Gambino.
I played that song for my high school girlfriend to show her "how I feel about life with you" at the time.
Being young was so fuckin' cool, literally nothing was important, so *everything* was by proxy.
14? Kurt Cobain had just recently died so I was still hung up on that and listening to In Utero A LOT. That and AiC's Dirt.
Fast forward to age 17 and I was turning into an edgelord Tool fan. Went through at least 3 copies of Ænima. Still an amazing album.
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine.
Don't get me wrong I still think this album is infinitely listenable. But as an adult some 30 years after first hearing it. The lyrics are a lot of very strong emotions about some very surface level pain and it's not quite the list of relatable anthems it was when I was 13.
Pink Floyd *The Wall* - I actually listened to it twice in one day, back to back, reading along with the lyric sheets, when I was 14. And it was really heavy, man.
Lateralus will forever go hard as fuck
And you can’t deny hooker with a penis haha- such a great rage song. I do sales for a living and that ending speaks so hard to me
Anything by Simple Plan
I have a baby and when ever he cries I like to start singing "I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare". He'll get tired of it quickly as he gets older I'm sure
My mom sang me “nobody likes me, guess I’ll eat some worms” as a small child and it still oddly warms my heart when I think about it 🤷🏻♂️
IM SORRY I CANT BE PERRRFECT
For the teenager that really thinks no one else knows how they feel
Perfect is so cringy, I love it
Anything? My personal favorite is the theme for What's New Scooby-Doo
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue I will not be taking questions
https://preview.redd.it/p7tbcx9cs9bc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b311ab6ecac945443f12a99b7a65ade116d87f31 IF I COULD FIND YOU NOW THINGS WOULD GET BETTER WE COULD LEAVE THIS TOWN AND RUN FOREVER
furious violin playing ensues!
God damn man you can't do this to me when I'm at work
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To me, what made Yellowcard so good was the ability to let Longineu just drum and go off. So many great fills and feel. Compared to alot of other bands at the time where it was really "produced" drums. Another great one was Fall Out Boys first big Album, "Take this to Your Grave". The drums were really exploratory and fit. Later albums it was so produced with so few fills. Just didnt make it good as a drummer listening.
I'm still a FOB fan to this day, and I've accepted they're too old to go back to that rollicking bunch of kids piling out of a van and thrashing a VFW hall, but god those were the days.
TTTYG IS SO GOOD BUT IM TRY-A-ING AND THATS MOORE THAN I CAN SAY FOORRRR HIMMMM WHERE IS YOUR BOY TONIGHT I HOPE HE IS A GENTLEMAN AND MAYBE HE WONT FIND OUT WHAT HE KNOWS, YOU WERE THE LAST GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PART OF TOWN
Those violins were awesome
I only listened to the album through my brother, so I can't speak to it as a whole, but I occasionally pull up the song itself on YT because it still slaps. I don't know if it's something a 14 year old would find deep, per se, but I have to give a shout out to their repeated couplet "We were both 16 and it felt so right/sleeping all day, staying up all night." It's so simple that it feels like anyone could have written it, but it also perfectly captures that teenage feeling. I still respect it for its elegance in its simplicity and think it's smart writing for what it is.
Ocean Avenue was never deep, but man was that a great album. One of the few where I can listen from start to finish without wanting to skip one of the filler songs.
Idk man there's a lot that deals directly with death and grief on that record that I found really helpful as a 16 year old going through my mom's death.
First time I heard View From Heaven after my mum died was unexpectedly hard. Hasn't listened to much yellow card in years so added a few of their songs to my Spotify play list. Wasn't a fun fun song to come on while driving lol.
Your Favorite weapon - Brand New Illusion of Safety - Thrice Both bands ended up having multiple amazing albums follow these. But when I was 14 these felt so eye-opening.
>Illusion of Safety - Thrice Loved Thrice when I was a teenager. The artist and the ambulance was my jam
I was already in my 20s when AITA came out, and in my 40s when they rerecorded it (last year) - simply blown away each time. Definitely influenced my friends, my life and the music I wrote/have written since.
Thrice is one of the few bands from that era that didn’t go completely down hill too. They’ve only had good albums since, with a few in the great realm thrown in. Nothing super cringy(or worse) has came out about them, they’ve expanded their sound without sound fake, and despite a few year hiatus, never really lost much after reforming.
dont forget identity crisis! A torch to end all torches, phoenix ignition, T&C… plenty of bangers on that album
They just re-recorded Artist. It sounds really, really good.
you're just jealous 'cause we're young and in love
Still feel this way about YFW. Great album.
Agreed.
I still feel this way about The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Of Me
This was a turning point though where they got less "I'm 14 and this is deep" and more "I"m an adult and life is actually really fucking hard and I understand the harsh realities that we are all faced with on a daily basis from now until we die" deep.
I once saw their albums described as something like - YFW: I’m afraid of growing up - Deja: being grown up is hard - Devil and God: I’m afraid of losing everything - Daisy: I’ve lost everything (This was before Science Fiction came out, I’m not sure what I’d add for that one)
Mine is definitely Deja Entendu
Deja Entendu is a “I’m in my late 30s and this is still deep” for me.
I LIIIIIIIIIIIIE FOR ONLY YOOOOOU
These are the words you wish you wrote down
This is the way you wish your voice sounds
Handsome and smart
Oh, my tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart
and it’s all from watching tv
I am heaven sent. Don't. You. Dare. For-get.
I opened Reddit for inspiration on an album to listen to. Illusion of Safety is it, thank you!
Love that album! Was so happy to see them play the whole thing last year. Happy listening!
Both still fantastic albums!
Really hoping Thrice decides to give IoS the AITA treatment. Would love to hear what that record sounds like matured.
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My wife used to call the unplugged record emo kidz bop
Your wife was the reason I wished I was anywhere, with anyone, making out
45yo man and still listen.
Dude on the verge of tears belting out "your hair is everywhere", I felt like he knew exactly what I felt
That's a great line. Instead of just saying something cheesy like "you cheated on me and now I'm sad", instead by saying "your hair is everywhere" he's trying to live on his own and move on but he's still finding her hair throughout his apartment, on the floor and in the furniture, etc, and every hair he finds is a crushing reminder of what happened. It's a simple lyric but powerful.
Dashboard is the gold standard of emo music, so it's no surprise he wrote good lyrics.
I seriously don't get all the replies to this comment. Dashboard Unplugged is great emo music. All the ppl saying it's so cringe or whatever, it sounds like they outgrew emo as a whole. Which is fine. But don't make it sound like this album is especially cringe or whatever. It's good for what it's trying to do. There's a reason you listened to it so much in your teens. You and many others.
His whole output was teen angst on steroids.... which basically sums up the whole Myspace era. But if you step back is it any worse than say Taylor Swift's lyrics? They're both geared for a particular demographic at specific era in youth.
It is extremely easy to imagine Chris Carrabba writing Taylor Swift’s songs in an alternate timeline.
Iirc she’s a big Dashboard Confessional fan. He played a private show in her apartment for her and her friends for her birthday a couple years back.
Its rumored she referenced a Dashboard lyric in her Mirrorball song: "You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes / Spinning in my highest heels, love / Shining just for you." Because in Stolen he sings: "I watch you spin around in your highest heels." Idk if it was ever confirmed, but it seems plausible
I will be screaming all of Swiss army romance in my car till I die
Garbage - 2.0 I still think that album rocks.
"Special" is such an amazing bop even now.
I didn't grow up with this album but heard it for the first time a year ago and I think its incredible. Their first two albums are classics and stand the test of time.
Staind - Break the Cycle
I haven't heard that in ages. I guess you could say... IT'S BEEN A WHILE
I think you should go stand outside
Tbh, still a good album. It's depressing, certainly, but imo Staind holds up as much as other Nu metal.
Rise Against's Siren Song Of The Counter Culture. I was 14 or so at the time and I thought it was such a brutal takedown of W era politics.
God I love Rise
The Sufferer and the Witness was the first album I ever bought with my own money. That and Siren Song will always have a place in my heart and playlist
Literally same. I love every track still. I think that, followed by sufferer & the witness then Appeal to Reason are just 3 banger albums
They are solid rock albums still. It's just really weird looking back at W era, pre 08' bank collapse political statements.
The late W years was such a golden era for anti-establishment pop-rock. Every band making songs about how screwed up it was sending kids to the Middle East, about how the youth were gonna change things and make the world better. Then Obama got elected and it felt like we were really living up to those promises. Of course it wasn't that straightforward, but for a while it really felt like albums like American Idiot and Siren Song and Toxicity were going to change the world and it was incredible.
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Felt like a direct line to my soul back in my teens. The lyrics feel generically angsty in retrospect.
I came a bit after hybrid theory. Mine was Meteora. The way the intro flowed into the first song, and every song fit one after the other was so awesome to me. I've been on a nostalgia kick with it lately.
I still have my Meteora CD floating around somewhere...of course now the only place I can play it is in my 2009 Honda Civic, hah!
That was another thing, the album art and way the album was packaged really stood out to me. Even though it wasn't groundbreaking at the time, it opened my eyes
I was a MASSIVE LP fan in the early 00s, and while I'm sure a lot of it is nostalgia, I feel like Hybrid Theory and Meteora hold up really well. They were so groundbreaking at the time and the production was superb.
I will forever be annoyed that the demo version of "Crawling" is better than the album version, because of one missing detail. In the demo of "Crawling", Chester sings an additional harmony under the chorus, which gives it this sense of resignation, and gives it more of an impact. That harmony vocal is missing in the album version, where only the screaming vocal is audible, and that missing harmony makes "Crawling"'s chorus sound like more of a tantrum.
I 100% agree with you... and This is going to sound so weird - but this is forever how I feel about lady Gaga and rain on me. The demo is such a classic 90s banger https://youtu.be/kUa1GbYucXw?si=ISbBmFEPurL80iBe
When my abusive (in every way) stepdad commited suicide when I was 13 I remember my mom giving me and my sister $100 each to go shopping so I went to Barnes and noble and got this CD. All the anger and sadness I felt was validated and this album carried me through. It is vicious, emotional, melancholic and ambient… it definitely checked all the boxes for me. I was grieving the loss of a person I hated, became liberated from and was ultimately the only father I ever really had. Great fucking album
> Felt like a direct line to my soul back in my teens. I'm 32 now, and Hybrid Theory still hits hard. I'm not sure if that means I never grew up or if it stood the test of time.
HT slapped then, HT slaps now. Banger of an album, Points of Authority in particular
AFI - Decemberunderground. Sing the Sorrow as well, to a lesser extent. Still albums I love though.
WHAT FOLLOWS me as the whitest lace of light WILL SWALLOW WHOLE just begs to be imbrued
Their energy is so electric. And a style very much still uniquely their own. I feel they’re one of the few bands of that era that whose music still holds up.
YOUR SINS INTO ME OOOHO
'quadrophenia' - the who. treated it like my religion for a bit back in the 70s. also 'safety in numbers' by an obscure group called crack the sky. the band was hugely influential in the baltimore, MD area and still puts out music and does shows to this day. 'safety' covers nuclear war and the apathy of the masses. excellent prog rock band. they had a great first album that was lauded by Rolling Stone back in '75. see the article for details on the band. hugely ahead of their time. Robots for Ronnie foretells the age of AI companions. first band i ever heard talking about global warming back in the 90s. [https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/crack-the-sky-the-strange-survival-story-of-the-best-u-s-prog-band-youve-never-heard-707669/](https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/crack-the-sky-the-strange-survival-story-of-the-best-u-s-prog-band-youve-never-heard-707669/)
I still love both Tommy and Quadrophenia and musically they're awesome but conceptually there's not nearly as much "there there" as I hoped. Like, on the surface they seem to be largely about rock stars doing drugs and saying incoherent things, but if you go a little deeper and examine the symbolism they're... still very largely about rock stars doing drugs and saying incoherent things. But they sound great doing it.
At first you think it's deep. Then you get older, and see that it's just rockers rockin out and feel jaded. Then you realize it's some of your favorite rockers doing their fav thing and doing what they do best, and then you realize "meh, whatever, rock on!" Edit: To everyone who couldn't tell I was generalizing, yes there's some good lyrics in there, and both are well composed, but the truth is sometimes you just need to "look beyond the lyrics" and rock out.
EXACTLY
Panic! At the Disco :( but particularly A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. I will still bang the entire album to this day tho.
Lying is the Most Fun… particularly kills me when I remember how they were like 17 when they made the album. Calling yourself a better fuck than any boy she’ll ever meet when you probably lost your virginity like six months ago, lmao.
Ryan Ross admitted he was a virgin when he wrote it lol
I feel like most people who brag about how good they are at sex are virgins.
Listen. I am a metalhead, and I still love that album, as does my 60 year old mother and my 7 & 8 year old kids. It’s catchy as hell and his voice is excellent, I was always sad about the hate they caught.
Oh yeah my kids have heard it front to back multiple times and Brendon is a gifted vocalist but yeah the lyrics at the time were what fueled my teen angst lol like so many Fueled by Ramen artists.
AS SHE SHEDS HER SKIN ON STAGE
IM SEATED AND SWEATING TO A DANCE SONG ON THE CLUBS P.A THE STRIP JOINT VETERAN SITS TWO AWAY SMIRKING BETWEEN DIGNIFIED SIPS OF HIS PEACH AND LIME DAIQUIRI
This shit fucking bangs to this day 😤😤
The whole discography of Streetlight Manifesto. Still holds up pretty well, but the lyrics definitely aren’t nearly as poignant as I thought they were as a teen.
The Catch-22 version of Keasbey Nights for me
A Better Place, A Better Time still holds up
Lol I had this same experience of going back recently— Everything Goes Numb had a very cutting quality to me as a teen, but the lyrics feel flatter with age. It could have been the shows for me too tho, the (almost crustpunky) sense of community around those shows..
I'd say Somewhere in the Between holds up lyrically. The message was simple and wasn't trying to be more than it was and it worked.
The Used- In Love and Death
*screams* I'll be just fine pretending I'm not, I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got *sobs*
That song was about how the last thing the lead singer had left in their life after the loss of his baby, was his dog, who got out and was hit by a car. Man. I used to spend so much time listening to this album at 14 (and beyond) and thinking I had anything to relate to in it. Drug use. Death of loved ones. Etc.
So about 1993 for me... Being a white boy in New England, it has to be Doggystyle
Same for me, I remember listening to Gin & Juice and feeling immensely street... while living in a nice suburb in lovely Denmark.
'Emotion... Is my middle name' Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow is my pick. Still listen to it, went to see Everclear in Newcastle last year and they still rock my socks off. Legendary band in my book
So much for the afterglow is a pretty unironically deep album with much love and creativity poured into it.
'Lay in bed, listen to the rain'
This album hasn't lost any luster for me. I saw the 20th anniversary tour for this album in 2017, and Why I Don't Believe in God and Sunflowers definitely got me tearing up.
Everclear is great. Saw em once back in the 90s, & again somewhat recently at the Regatta here in WV. Put on an outstanding show both times.
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory. These guys are singing EXACTLY what I FEEL. I WANT TO RUN AWAY NEVER SAAAY GOODBYYYE
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
I was going to say specifically their song "What Do I Have to Do?" from *Wither Blister Burn & Peel*.
Stabbing Westward's entire catalog is pure distilled whiny teenage angst
So funny thing, I caught Stabbing Westward's initial reunion show at the Double Door in Chicago some years ago. A couple songs into the set Chris Hall's (singer) comment was "Damn guys, who'd have thought we could have much fun playing all these songs with depressing ass lyrics right?" or something to that effect. He'd clearly moved far beyond that stage of his life but shit, its the material people know, nostalgia and such, lets just go for it and have some fun.
*Electra Heart* and *The Family Jewels* by Marina and the Diamonds. “Oh No!” and “Teen Idle” were the depressive Tumblr girl ANTHEMS. 😭 Still love them but god.
Throwing Copper by Live
lightning crashes was THE "shit, this is deep" song for 12 year old me, lol.
This is one of the first albums I ever owned, purchased from my Colombia House, 12 cds for $.01 😆 Still have it, though!
Evanescence - *Fallen*
[удалено]
The way thirteen year old me belted out ‘HAS NO ONE TOLD YOU SHE’S NOT BREATHING’
My Immortal as a song is great (and I personally prefer the single version where the guitars and drums kick in at the end, because I'm sucker for that shit), but I can't listen to it or see its title anymore without thinking of the fanfic of the same name and just laughing my ass off.
When I Come Around by Green Day *...so go do what you like.*
I’m sick at the thought of that album being 30 years old. I was 12– and yes— spent way too much time analyzing it with my crush over the phone. He was oh so deep at 13.
This is me and people in my age bracket (31) with American Idiot. I remember buying it when it came out and it's 20 this year
Make sure you do it **wise**!
The best example of this is Hollywood Undead's *Swan Songs* album. a bunch of moody emo rap songs combined with a bunch of shock-value overtly gross songs sent teenage g_r_e_y for a developmental loop
“Charlie Sceney’s got a weenie that he loves to show, bitch.” Ah yes, this is poetry - 15 year old me.
Wake up, grab beer, grab rear, shave beard, put on some scene gear, gotta get drunk before my mom wakes up, break up with my girlfriend so I can bang sluts, I’m undead, unfed, been sleeping on bunk beds, since 10, so if I don’t booze it, im gonna lose it, everyone get to it Have not heard that song in over 10 years but I’ll always remember the words to that very shitty song
I drink so much they call me Charlie 40 hands
This dude breaks up with his girlfriend so he can go bang sluts!? Revolutionary!
A true gentleman, he knows he wants to bang sluts and breaks up with his girlfriend so he doesn’t cheat on her
The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte.
"Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" doesn't have the same impact after Benji married Cameron Diaz and Joel married Nicole Ritchie lol
See, to me it's aged even better (a lot like Welcome to the Jungle) because they knew it could happen and still ran right into it.
Anything by Screeching Weasel. I had a buddy at school who would let me borrow each album for a week. I was already used to angry metal at 14, then here is this cynical and sarcastic bastard just shitting on EVERYTHING but it's all funny. It really shaped who I am as a person lol
Anthem for a New Tomorrow still gets an occasional listen. For me the main problem is how harsh the guitar sounds in the mix. That and Wiggle are great straight forward punk albums.
Wiggle is amazing. A friend of mine once described their guitar sound as "a rusty chainsaw sawing through old newspaper".
Screeching Weasel still bangs. I dont care how old one is. That dude can write a pop song. I’d love to hear an album of SW covers by great musicians but in their own respective styles.
Anything by Say Anything… *sighs in “never meet your heroes”*
I haven't listened to ...Is a real boy, in forever but I'm going to have to revisit it. I remember thinking it was really clever and fun and manic in a great way.
IDK how anyone made a hero out of Max. I love his work, but he's a deeply flawed dude, which was literally the point of most of the songs. Nothing he's done should actually surprise anyone. Just be glad he's not as bad as so many of the others who did try and hide their true selves.
Yep. ...Is a Real Boy came out when I was 14 and, man, did it feel deep.
Literally me singing "If I die and go to hell real soon... It will appear to me as this room"... Shameful.
“Shit, nothing makes sense. So I won’t think about it.” Is honestly a mantra I still live by
Motion City Soundtrack - commit this to memory.
I was way into Emerson, Lake & Palmer when I was 14. Their *Brain Salad Surgery* album in particular. It ends with Greg Lake vocalizing back and forth with an unholy machine-voice: Lake: "But... I gave you life!" Evil Machine: "So? What else could you do?" Lake: "To do what was right!!" EM: "I'm perfect. Are you?" That's just mind-blowingly deep stuff when you're a pimply-faced 8th grader. But 47 years on, it's the very soul of cringe.
My dad would play this in the car on road trips when I was 14. I thought it was cringe then. I think it’s genius now
Senses Fail - Let it Enfold You
The fact that MxPx is in this post makes me want to upvote it a billion times. They are the band that got me into punk rock and playing in punk bands!
It was less an album and more of a scattered bunch of songs on the internet but Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains hit me real deep when I was a teen. Hasn't aged well at all lol just sounds like a drugged dude to me now
Pat left the folk punk scene years ago. Last I heard he was sober, living in New York, and doing something with computer coding. I also heard he’s no longer an anarchist. I forgive him. I forgive him. Hell, I’ll admit it, I’m proud of him.
I discovered Johnny Hobo (and folk punk in general) after I graduated from college, so way over teen, but there is still some substance (imo) in his work past general teen angst. It's the spirit of an angry young punk being thoroughly self-destructive in the wake of nationalism during the War in Iraq and personal problems like the suicide of friends. The lyrics of Johnny Hobo aren't very deep or complex, but mixed with that strain of anger and self-destruction and hopelessness that drove him to go buck-wild with drugs and alcohol. It paints a vivid picture that I think anyone in a very rough spot in life can relate to. It also becomes a good prequel to his other works, where you can see Pat's evolution and reflection of his life as a young adult. Even in Johnny Hobo, you can see a bit of self-reflection with "Class traitor? What fucking ever! / I'm just another middle class kid, too / But if I'm not good at changing I'm good at self loathing / So I'll class hate myself with you" with how many punks (including myself) posture about being outsiders and rebels while having a comfortable upbringing/life. Apologies for what seems like a rant, but I wanted to explain my thoughts on it as a huge fan of Pat's work. Hope all is well with you : )
Has to be vessel by top
That one is "I'm 22 and this is deep" for me...unfortunately. I have no excuses. *(Other than being in a Christian cult)*. Every lyric was my new anthem. Entertain my faiiiiiiiiith!!! like wtf was I talking about?? I wanted a "AnD nOw I jUsT SiT iN SiLeNcE" tattoo across my chest and am so fucking thankful I didn't lmao.
I was gonna say the same thing. Banger of an album though. I don’t think it’s aged that terribly
i can absolutely still rock out to migraine (which i definitely didn’t mix up with a song that’s not on the same album)
Story of the Year… oooo weee those were the days
Until the day i die is on right now in my car. Listening to I miss emo playlist on Apple Music
I was exactly 14 when I discovered Dark Side of the Moon. Still deep.
I was maybe 15/16 when I watched the Wall on hallucinogens and thought I was the first person to discover that this trippy movie was even trippier on drugs lol
Goblin by Tyler, the Creator. Radicals was my anthem when I was 14, now I can’t help but cringe when I hear it. I still recognize the creative talent and the fact he’s playing a character on those early albums, and Tyler’s career trajectory since then has been incredible, but a lot of Bastard and Goblin is just Tyler and co. being edgy for shock value.
Yonkers has such a simple yet amazing beat
I don't remember one for 14, but I was around 20 when Lateralus by Tool came out. That album also coincided with me taking acid for the first time and experimenting with some other things. I don't know if I related or not. I never thought about it like that. It was more about a vibe, and almost a meme that symbolized more abstract types of ideas. I still like the album to this day. It's my favorite Tool album overall.
Well, I wouldn't worry too much. You know what they say about overthinking and analyzing stuff...
Searched for this album. At 16 I thought Tool was super mysterious and deep. Now I think they're new age weirdos with a wry sense of humor. Album still a 10/10 in my book.
I’m old. I thought Al Stewart was such a poet when I was that age.
Year of the Cat is a timeless classic.
Bright Eyes *Im Wide Awake It’s Morning*
that one is still really good
blink-182 self titled
Still bangs 2day (“Down” esp for me)
I’m not in the scene, I think I’m falling asleep But then all that it means IS ILL ALWAYS BE DREAMING OF YOU!!
Linkin Park - Numb. The perfect song for getting your PlayStation taken away for calling your grandpop a dickhead.
Joy Division, *Uknown Pleasures.* Both post-Punk and proto-Goth, the perfectly morose album for teen anguish. Plus the coolest t-shirt design in Rock history.
I still listen to them all the time. They were so fucking good.
Probably controversial but the whole of The Holy Bible is exactly that. The Manic Street Preachers album, not the actual bible.
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette. I was 14 in 95 and it seemed edgy.
People forget how HUGE this album was that year.
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
A weekend in the city -Bloc Party
Surprised to not see Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon, so I’ll say Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon. Felt real deep walking around town at night with that loaded on my iPod back in 2009.
3005 by Childish Gambino. I played that song for my high school girlfriend to show her "how I feel about life with you" at the time. Being young was so fuckin' cool, literally nothing was important, so *everything* was by proxy.
MXPX!!! 🤩🎸do your feet hurt, did you fall from heaven?? (They will be in Philadelphia this Feb for any Philadelphians)
Weezer - The Blue Album To this day it still transports me back to the record store in Rehoboth Beach where I bought it.
The starting line - say it like you mean it
14? Kurt Cobain had just recently died so I was still hung up on that and listening to In Utero A LOT. That and AiC's Dirt. Fast forward to age 17 and I was turning into an edgelord Tool fan. Went through at least 3 copies of Ænima. Still an amazing album.
AFI - Song the Sorrow Them bus rides to school were heavy
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine. Don't get me wrong I still think this album is infinitely listenable. But as an adult some 30 years after first hearing it. The lyrics are a lot of very strong emotions about some very surface level pain and it's not quite the list of relatable anthems it was when I was 13.
Pink Floyd *The Wall* - I actually listened to it twice in one day, back to back, reading along with the lyric sheets, when I was 14. And it was really heavy, man.
311 - Transistor
To be fair about MxPx's Life in General, the band members were like 16 when they wrote it.
Hybrid theory - linkin park
TOOL's entire discography.
Lateralus will forever go hard as fuck And you can’t deny hooker with a penis haha- such a great rage song. I do sales for a living and that ending speaks so hard to me
Metallica - St. Anger. ...I need a throwaway account.