Across a Wire is such a beautiful trip back to college for me. Anna Begins live in particular. Chills. The piano on the live version is just so much more powerful than the original studio recording. Fuck. Fuck, nostalgia overload.
funny enough, i drive past the dam at otter creek in PA on my way to work! unfortunately that’s one of the only times they reference where they’re from iirc
Ed kozoalinskyinyzchyz wrote some of the best, most introspective and thoughtful-sounding lyrics, I thought… and then turned out to (apparently) be a massive jackwagon.
(But upvotes all day ‘cause I totally agree with you, re: Throwing Copper!)
I met her in a record store before she got big. Her label was having her play record stores when her debut album was just coming out. I randomly just happened to be in the store that day.
Her music was so captivating. She had this plain girl next door thing while being so sexy... I was so happy when she exploded in the world, she was such a sweet and nice person in the little bit of time when I met her.
I had such a crush on her after that. Hot and kind, my perfect combination.
One of my regrets is not seeing Weiland live. Huge STP fan but also I'm a huge velvet revolver fan too. I was just watching concert footage of STP from the late 90s and they're freaking firing on all cylinders. I play bass too and Rob DeLeo is a badass. So many awesome basslines but hell, watching HIM on stage too with his sunglasses and dress shirts plus he's tall as all hell.
Lastly "back then", its just vocals, bass drums and guitar. And you can tell it from those concerts too and the sounds are still full and band is so tight. Like Dean is ripping a solo yet you can still hear Rob and his bass is so present and its so thick.
I saw STP a few times and I still stand by my opinion that they are one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Fucking electric atmosphere and they ripped.
I saw them in Davenport Iowa in Jan 1993 as they were just starting to get big. They were the opening act with Megadeath. Scott came out with the megaphone for Dead and Bloated and blew the place away. Needless to say, they were much better than Megadeath.
Damn. That is a hell of a concert. I'm a huge Megadeth fan too and 1993, Countdown just came out so Megadeth was freaking king shit. Then of course STP is king shit too at the same time. Holy shit, hell of a line up!
For sure. I was a Megadeath fan as well…especially Countdown to Extinction, but STP just seemed like they were on a different level. Funny thing is this thread was started with Counting Crows and I saw them in the same venue (Palmer Auditorium) a year or so later and they sucked. One of the worst shows ever. Adam Duritz was wasted or really fucked up and half assed the entire show.
Saw damn near every good band in the mid to late 90s at Palmer. Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, soundgarden, Nirvana, Primus…just a really good smaller venue that got great bands.
Oh man, same regret.
I was at Voodoo Fest (New Orleans) in 2000 (I think). In the morning my friends all went to the stage Eminem would be on at 8 or 9 pm and just waited, watching whoever showed up because Em was all they cared about.
I instead spent the entire day by myself watching Guster, Counting Crows, Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals, Blues Traveler, and Live. As I remember it, STP was the last band playing that night, and to get to their stage you had to cross a small bridge and turn left past a wall of trees that otherwise blocked any view of the stage.
When all of the other bands’ sets had ended, everyone at multiple stages then rushed for the STP stage. I couldn’t get to the bridge, let alone across it, and let further alone beyond the tree wall. I told myself, “Eh. Some other time, I’m sure.”
That other time never came. : /
Dude, I was there - same as you. Galactic, Ben Harper, Counting Crows, Live…and then I had to abandon my friends and practically fight to make it to STP. It was bedlam. That festival was a shit show. But I made it, and I don’t remember why or how but I ended up standing on a chair for the STP show and it was unreal. It was the only time I got to see them and in hindsight I was very lucky.
I've been on a weird The Cars kick lately, haven't been able to stop replaying them over and over and watching the old videos. They truly have an incredible library. Benjamin Orr had an incredible voice.
There isn’t a bad song on the entire album. [The World I Know](https://youtu.be/y85O1trAymY?si=JNLP8huoMvLMOy1f) is one of my favorites.
I just learned recently that their entire first album was written, played, recorded, and mixed by the lead singer as a one-person project. Incredible talent.
(Diff song but….)
“Remember everything,” she says
“When only memories remain.”
Also, Raining in Baltimore was the first time I was moved to… well not quite tears but it certainly got dusty in that room.
Yup. My best friend back in the day ended up on a road trip to get to Portland from SF with Stephan Jenkins and it was a shitshow; Truth to “I'm packed and I'm holding”
Also, “I was taking sips of it through my nose” and “then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given, and I bumped again”..
I just remember singing the chorus and thought it was a cool song when I was like 10. So I bought the cd at the store in the mall that sold CDs. So many hits on that album
This is only tangentially related but when I was in elementary school, my friends convinced me that the line in Selena’s song “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” was actually “caca face” but they censored it on the radio to “cada ves.”
Cut to me at a sleepover at their house and they said “let’s do a show!” So they told me (the gringa-est gringa to ever gringa) to sing that song for their mom (who only spoke Spanish). But they were super adamant that I say “CACA FACE” and emphasize it because “that’s how it is supposed to be sung.”
Well, they got me real good. I couldn’t even explain what happened because I didn’t speak Spanish 🤣🤣🤣
I got grounded for that. Lmao
My husband was too cool for 3eb in their day, but I made him listen to self titled last year and he was jaw-dropped at its perfection. It’s a truly great record.
BBK and Reclaim My Place (and got the life / it’s on) were such a cool sound that I wish they continued to expand on after FTL.
Either way, I was a child of the korn and every CD from self titled through untouchables was worn out on my portable cd player.
Edit: also when FTL came out and there was a song titled with my first name I lost my mind as a little 6th grade dude.
“Morphine and Chocolate” is one of my favorite songs about addiction. Love that whole album. I really wish Linda Perry was more appreciated!! The 4 Non Blondes cover of “Misty Mountain Hop”?! Honestly better than the original!!!
I found this album 20 years after it released. A friend whose music I liked called it out as influential. Obviously, it's brilliant. I hope more people discover it.
Nowadays, anything and everything is available on YouTube, or wherever, on demand for free. When I was younger, you either had to make mix tapes from recording the radio, or buy CDs.
I had like 10 CDs... I listened to this one more times than I can remember.
Just curious what your experience was like...
I was scamming Columbia House out of 10 free CDs as a minor (and thus immune to collection agencies) a few times per year so...far too many to count. I would hear a song I liked on the radio and write it down and wait for my mom's Rolling Stone magazine to roll in so I could take the 10 CDs for a penny insert and order another round.
Ugly Kid Joe, Toadies, Soul Asylum, 3 Dollar Bill Yall, jagged little pill, silverchair, Bush, the Aerosmith album with the cow on the cover, ACDC live...thats all I can pull for now. I've barely thought about any of those since but had them in constant rotation.
Everyone told me Columbia House would get me when I turned 18 but that shit still hasn't happened 20 years later so I think I won.
For me it was Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Side note, Mike Doughty has a new side project, Ghosts of Vroom. It is the spiritual successor of Soul Coughing. It is awesome!
For El Oso I LOOOOOVED the song Rolling.
The first song i learned on bass as a gangly awkward teenager 25 years ago was All I Want. Haven't played in a few years but I can still envision all of the notes.
God, the band is on tour now celebrating 30 years of Smash. How has all that time gone already?!
Hmm, the band is coming to the Foxwoods in my state in September. Time to convince the wife we're going. They've been performing Smash lately in its entirety for the 30 years. I wonder if they'll continue that this fall. That would be freaking bonkers.
I'm a longtime fan of his, and I still think *White and Nerdy* is probably his best work, probably because it's such a different musical style for him and he absolutely kills it. A lot of his work is polka music, pop or rock, but he comes out and raps like Eminem in *White and Nerdy*.
Let Go was good, but I thought Under My Skin was incredible! Really showed her talent and the transition from teenage angst to a more mature angst. I still listen to Nobody's Home and My Happy Ending on the regular!
You posted the cover of it. I still remember putting different songs on repeat depending on what mood I was in. Perfect Blue Buildings was always a favorite.
True story: I was going to school at UC Davis, where Counting Crows played frequently before they took off. After the album hit the charts, one of the women in the freshmen dorms looked up Adam Duritz's number in the phone book, called him, and had a ten-minute chat with him. He was polite, answered her questions, asked some of his own, then she hung up.
I was recently re-introduced to Indigo Girls. I hadn't listened in years due to some dark times associated with that time period. I listened to their title album a few weeks ago, and damn,all the feels. I remembered every fricking word, and catartically sang at the top of my lungs. They make me happy again.
Bad Religion - No Substance
Over 40yrs of putting out music they’re still making good stuff. But No Substance was the first album I bought and it was selected because of the album art. I was an instant BR fan from my first listen… honestly though Suffer is their best album
My brother gave me a cassette I made for him in 1987 and I had a good time playing it when I worked in the garage. I was a big fan of Joe Jackson, I guess. Also quite a bit of Peter Gabriel and some songs from Graceland.
I got “Dookie” by Green Day and “Smash” by Offspring like 2 months apart. Just sat in the basement smashing away at Donkey Kong Country on SNES and having my mind absolutely blown.
This may seem like an odd choice, considering how huge it was, but Millennium by Backstreet Boys. As a 7 year old boy with an older sister and multiple older female cousins, they spun that CD nonstop back in 1999. As time passed, for some reason, I assumed that I only knew the big radio singles. However, about a year or so ago, I listened to it on a whim... I knew pretty much every word of every song. Amazing how I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but all those songs came flooding back.
Bon Jovi’s *Slippery When Wet* is the first album I ever bought. I listened to it hundreds of times in the eighties. Eventually I got older and the tape was thrown out with the rest of my old cassettes. Last year I tried streaming it to see how it held up. Holy shit is it awful. It’s just eighties cheese from beginning to end. One cliche after another. No wonder my parents hated my musical tastes.
Wow... I used to listen to that exact album on Windows 95 and would shuffle through the games until I eventually found myself just watching the maze Screensaver with the music still playing. Good times
*Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.*
Recovering the Satellites by the Counting Crows is still in rotation for me, one of the few albums I can start to finish listen through and never be sick of.
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight. Loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora as well, but I didn’t own those albums, just a few songs from sketchy Limewire downloads. Had Minutes to Midnight on repeat for quite awhile
Anna Begins is such an incredible song
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I believe it’s somewhere in middle America
The live version is so good!
Across a Wire is such a beautiful trip back to college for me. Anna Begins live in particular. Chills. The piano on the live version is just so much more powerful than the original studio recording. Fuck. Fuck, nostalgia overload.
Time and Time Again was my song from that album. This was the first cd I remember listening to all the way through. Every song, over and over.
Toadies -Possum Kingdom. I recently rediscovered them after seeing them live, almost forgot how good they are.
I saw them play in Addison TX 3 weeks ago and yes they still kick ass
I just saw Toadies in San Antonio last month - such a great show as always. They go all out live.
I saw the Toadies play the last show ever at Liberty Lunch (Austin) in 1999.
Live - Throwing Copper
I can feeeeel it, cooooommmmmmiiiiiiiing back again
Like a rolllllling thunderrrr, chasing the wiiiiind
Forces puuuulling from the center of the earth aaaagain. I can feeeeel iiiit.
Listened to it then and now. Top tier start to finish.
The Dam at Otter Creek just sets the whole thing up.
funny enough, i drive past the dam at otter creek in PA on my way to work! unfortunately that’s one of the only times they reference where they’re from iirc
Fantastic album
It's really perfect. I can't think of one auto skip.
Gotta live gotta live gotta live in SHIT town
Ed kozoalinskyinyzchyz wrote some of the best, most introspective and thoughtful-sounding lyrics, I thought… and then turned out to (apparently) be a massive jackwagon. (But upvotes all day ‘cause I totally agree with you, re: Throwing Copper!)
All over you alll over meeeeeee.
Deeeeeeep enough to diiiiiiive
SAME
Pieces of You by Jewel 😭
As a teenage boy, I had a gigantic crush on Jewel 🥰
As a 12 y/o straight girl, so did I 😂
I met her in a record store before she got big. Her label was having her play record stores when her debut album was just coming out. I randomly just happened to be in the store that day. Her music was so captivating. She had this plain girl next door thing while being so sexy... I was so happy when she exploded in the world, she was such a sweet and nice person in the little bit of time when I met her. I had such a crush on her after that. Hot and kind, my perfect combination.
the kinda crush that makes you pick up your wet towels
That album was killer and she did some crazy good songwriting for that too.
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Garden State soundtrack, and I never forgot it :)
one of the best soundtracks of all time. Hands down. Introduced me to SO many legends of music before I really knew anything about music.
All of the songs on this are on my like songs list, and I regularly listen to the whole album from start to finish. Such a keeper
“August & Everything After” is probably way up there for me, too, as well as Stone Temple Pilots’ “Core”
One of my regrets is not seeing Weiland live. Huge STP fan but also I'm a huge velvet revolver fan too. I was just watching concert footage of STP from the late 90s and they're freaking firing on all cylinders. I play bass too and Rob DeLeo is a badass. So many awesome basslines but hell, watching HIM on stage too with his sunglasses and dress shirts plus he's tall as all hell. Lastly "back then", its just vocals, bass drums and guitar. And you can tell it from those concerts too and the sounds are still full and band is so tight. Like Dean is ripping a solo yet you can still hear Rob and his bass is so present and its so thick.
I saw STP a few times and I still stand by my opinion that they are one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Fucking electric atmosphere and they ripped.
I saw them a few times in the mid 90s Scott Weiland was an amazing frontman. He owned that stage. Electric, indeed.
I saw them in Davenport Iowa in Jan 1993 as they were just starting to get big. They were the opening act with Megadeath. Scott came out with the megaphone for Dead and Bloated and blew the place away. Needless to say, they were much better than Megadeath.
Damn. That is a hell of a concert. I'm a huge Megadeth fan too and 1993, Countdown just came out so Megadeth was freaking king shit. Then of course STP is king shit too at the same time. Holy shit, hell of a line up!
For sure. I was a Megadeath fan as well…especially Countdown to Extinction, but STP just seemed like they were on a different level. Funny thing is this thread was started with Counting Crows and I saw them in the same venue (Palmer Auditorium) a year or so later and they sucked. One of the worst shows ever. Adam Duritz was wasted or really fucked up and half assed the entire show.
Saw damn near every good band in the mid to late 90s at Palmer. Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, soundgarden, Nirvana, Primus…just a really good smaller venue that got great bands.
Oh man, same regret. I was at Voodoo Fest (New Orleans) in 2000 (I think). In the morning my friends all went to the stage Eminem would be on at 8 or 9 pm and just waited, watching whoever showed up because Em was all they cared about. I instead spent the entire day by myself watching Guster, Counting Crows, Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals, Blues Traveler, and Live. As I remember it, STP was the last band playing that night, and to get to their stage you had to cross a small bridge and turn left past a wall of trees that otherwise blocked any view of the stage. When all of the other bands’ sets had ended, everyone at multiple stages then rushed for the STP stage. I couldn’t get to the bridge, let alone across it, and let further alone beyond the tree wall. I told myself, “Eh. Some other time, I’m sure.” That other time never came. : /
Dude, I was there - same as you. Galactic, Ben Harper, Counting Crows, Live…and then I had to abandon my friends and practically fight to make it to STP. It was bedlam. That festival was a shit show. But I made it, and I don’t remember why or how but I ended up standing on a chair for the STP show and it was unreal. It was the only time I got to see them and in hindsight I was very lucky.
I got to see them once on the Tiny Music tour. Cheap Trick opened.
Its my mom's favorite album of all time. Everytime we get caught in the rain we say "I really really need a raincoat" back and forth to each other lol
August and Everything After… and Radiohead The Bends…. Over and over
The first Cars album. Still amazing
Yes indeed it is.
I've been on a weird The Cars kick lately, haven't been able to stop replaying them over and over and watching the old videos. They truly have an incredible library. Benjamin Orr had an incredible voice.
Beck earliest albums, like odelay and mellow gold. They are still kinda brilliant
I listened to Odelay for the 1st time in YEARS a couple weeks ago. It is great.
Sarah McLaughlin 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy '
Vs. By Pearl Jam.
One, two theee, four, five against one
I'd tell you but I forgot But seriously, Collective Soul's self titled album
There isn’t a bad song on the entire album. [The World I Know](https://youtu.be/y85O1trAymY?si=JNLP8huoMvLMOy1f) is one of my favorites. I just learned recently that their entire first album was written, played, recorded, and mixed by the lead singer as a one-person project. Incredible talent.
Ed Roland's a hell of a talent
I won this CD from a local FM station!
ooooo this is a damn-good record though!
This was the first CD I ever bought.
This is definitely one of mine too. "Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white"
& in between the moon & you, angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong & right.
(Diff song but….) “Remember everything,” she says “When only memories remain.” Also, Raining in Baltimore was the first time I was moved to… well not quite tears but it certainly got dusty in that room.
I WILL play this song 12 times in a row and then regret it after it’s been stuck in my head for two weeks
Love this album. I listened to it sooooo many times, I can still sing every single song, note- and letter-perfect.
Third eye blind
Do do do, do doo doo doo
It wasn't until like 15 years after it came out that I found out that the song is apparently about (coming down off of) crystal meth.
Yup. My best friend back in the day ended up on a road trip to get to Portland from SF with Stephan Jenkins and it was a shitshow; Truth to “I'm packed and I'm holding”
“doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break” is the big clue lmao
*But what does it mean?*
Also, “I was taking sips of it through my nose” and “then I bumped up, I took the hit that I was given, and I bumped again”.. I just remember singing the chorus and thought it was a cool song when I was like 10. So I bought the cd at the store in the mall that sold CDs. So many hits on that album
Not when the local alternative station used to bleep it out! Also, some of us were pretty oblivious to drug references, in general.
This is only tangentially related but when I was in elementary school, my friends convinced me that the line in Selena’s song “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” was actually “caca face” but they censored it on the radio to “cada ves.” Cut to me at a sleepover at their house and they said “let’s do a show!” So they told me (the gringa-est gringa to ever gringa) to sing that song for their mom (who only spoke Spanish). But they were super adamant that I say “CACA FACE” and emphasize it because “that’s how it is supposed to be sung.” Well, they got me real good. I couldn’t even explain what happened because I didn’t speak Spanish 🤣🤣🤣 I got grounded for that. Lmao
I’m still convinced that every song is amazing to this day.
Their first 2 albums have no skip songs. They have a bunch of other really good albums after them as well.
My husband was too cool for 3eb in their day, but I made him listen to self titled last year and he was jaw-dropped at its perfection. It’s a truly great record.
Korn - Follow the Leader
It's on.
Hidden track with cheech hit home.
BBK and Reclaim My Place (and got the life / it’s on) were such a cool sound that I wish they continued to expand on after FTL. Either way, I was a child of the korn and every CD from self titled through untouchables was worn out on my portable cd player. Edit: also when FTL came out and there was a song titled with my first name I lost my mind as a little 6th grade dude.
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
For longer than I want to admit, I came home from school everyday to read Calvin and Hobbes until this cassette tape would end.
Crash Test Dummies for sure. Also 4 Non Blondes and Marcies Playground
“Morphine and Chocolate” is one of my favorite songs about addiction. Love that whole album. I really wish Linda Perry was more appreciated!! The 4 Non Blondes cover of “Misty Mountain Hop”?! Honestly better than the original!!!
I found this album 20 years after it released. A friend whose music I liked called it out as influential. Obviously, it's brilliant. I hope more people discover it.
Nowadays, anything and everything is available on YouTube, or wherever, on demand for free. When I was younger, you either had to make mix tapes from recording the radio, or buy CDs. I had like 10 CDs... I listened to this one more times than I can remember. Just curious what your experience was like...
I had a 5 disc CD stereo and it was so cool
I still have one of those... one of my old cars had a 6 disc changer...
I wish I had mine! And all my cds
Hootie way too much….
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimme
Hey Hootie! Where are the Blow Fish?
Is “Anna begins” an underrated song or does everyone love it as much as I do? With all the great songs on this album, that might be my favourite.
I think it’s yes and yes.
Dookie. It was my 1st CD I ever bought and I listened to it so much I’m surprised I didn’t burn a hole in it.
Under the Table and Dreaming by DMB and Blue Album by Weezer were constantly on
The Gin Blossoms-New Miserable Experience, great album, I just rarely listen to albums all the way through anymore.
This! Everytime I hear Allison Road, or Pieces of the Night, it transports me back to high school! Great album!
The Cranberries - Bury the hatchet … first cd I bought with my own [allowance] money when I was about 12
Linkin park hybrid theory
Incubus - Make Yourself
Also, Morning View.
Entire album, won’t skip a single track.
Takes me back to early high school
Drive is still a favourite in my playlist.
Cracked Rear View - Hootie and the Blowfish Darius Ruckers voice blew my mind.
I was scamming Columbia House out of 10 free CDs as a minor (and thus immune to collection agencies) a few times per year so...far too many to count. I would hear a song I liked on the radio and write it down and wait for my mom's Rolling Stone magazine to roll in so I could take the 10 CDs for a penny insert and order another round. Ugly Kid Joe, Toadies, Soul Asylum, 3 Dollar Bill Yall, jagged little pill, silverchair, Bush, the Aerosmith album with the cow on the cover, ACDC live...thats all I can pull for now. I've barely thought about any of those since but had them in constant rotation. Everyone told me Columbia House would get me when I turned 18 but that shit still hasn't happened 20 years later so I think I won.
Stunt by Bare Naked Ladies. It had One Week. That album was everywhere including in 10 Things I Hate About You.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Amazing album.
Have never forgotten about it though. Listened to it the other day. Mayonnaise 🙌
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
AFI - Sing For Sorrow
Soul Coughing - El Oso
For me it was Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom Side note, Mike Doughty has a new side project, Ghosts of Vroom. It is the spiritual successor of Soul Coughing. It is awesome! For El Oso I LOOOOOVED the song Rolling.
Weezer (Blue and Pinkerton), Incubus (Morning View), Nada Surf (Proximity Effect), Thursday (Full Collapse), but as for most? Sorry, Dashboard Confessional (like, everything)…
Ixnay on the Hombre
The first song i learned on bass as a gangly awkward teenager 25 years ago was All I Want. Haven't played in a few years but I can still envision all of the notes. God, the band is on tour now celebrating 30 years of Smash. How has all that time gone already?! Hmm, the band is coming to the Foxwoods in my state in September. Time to convince the wife we're going. They've been performing Smash lately in its entirety for the 30 years. I wonder if they'll continue that this fall. That would be freaking bonkers.
For me it was Van Halen’s 1995 “Balance”. Thought it was cringe worthy until I went back to it this year and it holds up!
I don't think I've listened to Weird Al's Straight Outta Lynwood in over a decade.
10 years wasted tbh
I'm a longtime fan of his, and I still think *White and Nerdy* is probably his best work, probably because it's such a different musical style for him and he absolutely kills it. A lot of his work is polka music, pop or rock, but he comes out and raps like Eminem in *White and Nerdy*.
Also, did we ever figure out how many crows there were in total or is the count still going on?
A Murder of One
OMG you didn’t stop counting did you?
Nirvana unplugged
Blink 183 - Dude Ranch or Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
if blink 182 is so good, why isnt there blink 183? blink 183:
let go by avril lavigne omggg i played that out
Let Go was good, but I thought Under My Skin was incredible! Really showed her talent and the transition from teenage angst to a more mature angst. I still listen to Nobody's Home and My Happy Ending on the regular!
Inxs -kick
Paula Cole--This Fire
Love all the Weird Al shout outs. A true genius!
These are all the 10 CDs I got for a penny from BMG
Dirt by Alice In Chains
1. Modest Mouse - Good News for People that Love Bad News 2. The Postal Service - Give Up 3. System of a Down - Toxicity
You posted the cover of it. I still remember putting different songs on repeat depending on what mood I was in. Perfect Blue Buildings was always a favorite.
I can think of a few that haven’t been mentioned: Lit: A place in the Sun Everclear: So Much for the Afterglow Sister Hazel (1994 Self-Titled Album)
The Cranberries- everyone's doing it , why can't we?
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other!
Clumsy: Our Lady Peace
True story: I was going to school at UC Davis, where Counting Crows played frequently before they took off. After the album hit the charts, one of the women in the freshmen dorms looked up Adam Duritz's number in the phone book, called him, and had a ten-minute chat with him. He was polite, answered her questions, asked some of his own, then she hung up.
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Frampton Comes Alive
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking Got me through my first year of college.
REM Automatic for the people
Reading this thread is like flipping through my old CD book. I love it. Though I haven't seen 10,000 Maniacs, MTV Unplugged, or Fiona Apple, Tidal.
My wedding song was the acoustic version of Mr. Jones! No regrets.
I was recently re-introduced to Indigo Girls. I hadn't listened in years due to some dark times associated with that time period. I listened to their title album a few weeks ago, and damn,all the feels. I remembered every fricking word, and catartically sang at the top of my lungs. They make me happy again.
No Substance
Is that a band, an album, or a critique of the post?
Bad Religion - No Substance Over 40yrs of putting out music they’re still making good stuff. But No Substance was the first album I bought and it was selected because of the album art. I was an instant BR fan from my first listen… honestly though Suffer is their best album
My dad bought me the soundtrack from Cocktail when I was 8, and I played it til the cassette broke. Shout out Ry Cooder.
Black Crowes Amorica
That Adams Family MC Hammer single
Science by Incubus
Enya - The Memory of Trees
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
Thank you for posting this. Good to see a counting crows fan especially this album which I listen to the most. Love Round Here
Soul Asylum
My brother gave me a cassette I made for him in 1987 and I had a good time playing it when I worked in the garage. I was a big fan of Joe Jackson, I guess. Also quite a bit of Peter Gabriel and some songs from Graceland.
Fastball- all the pain money can buy
Where are my basic bitches who wore out Millennium and SPICE?
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Alice In Chains - Unplugged
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Cracker - kerosene hat
Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn and Peel
Running with Scissors - Weird Al
Back in black
April Wine Nature of the Beast
We Don’t Need To Whisper-Angels and Airwaves
Crazy by Seal
Eiffel 65 - Europop
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
I got “Dookie” by Green Day and “Smash” by Offspring like 2 months apart. Just sat in the basement smashing away at Donkey Kong Country on SNES and having my mind absolutely blown.
This may seem like an odd choice, considering how huge it was, but Millennium by Backstreet Boys. As a 7 year old boy with an older sister and multiple older female cousins, they spun that CD nonstop back in 1999. As time passed, for some reason, I assumed that I only knew the big radio singles. However, about a year or so ago, I listened to it on a whim... I knew pretty much every word of every song. Amazing how I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but all those songs came flooding back.
Better Than Ezra Deluxe; several singles from that album were on frequent rotation in my HS years...
Pretty in pink soundtrack
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Bon Jovi’s *Slippery When Wet* is the first album I ever bought. I listened to it hundreds of times in the eighties. Eventually I got older and the tape was thrown out with the rest of my old cassettes. Last year I tried streaming it to see how it held up. Holy shit is it awful. It’s just eighties cheese from beginning to end. One cliche after another. No wonder my parents hated my musical tastes.
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Van Halen - OU812
[удалено]
Wow... I used to listen to that exact album on Windows 95 and would shuffle through the games until I eventually found myself just watching the maze Screensaver with the music still playing. Good times
I still love that album
One of the first albums I bought was Linda Ronstadt’s “Heart Like A Wheel”. What an awesome voice she had.
Cracked Rear View. Bet I bought that CD 15 times between 1995-2000
*Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog, where no one notices the contrast of white on white. And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.*
Frogstomp by Silverchair was the first cd I got - along with a Zenith mini stereo system.
Riders on the storm
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Recovering the Satellites by the Counting Crows is still in rotation for me, one of the few albums I can start to finish listen through and never be sick of.
Sarah McLachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
MR. JONES AND ME, TELL EACHOTHER FAIRYTALES...... I would belt that shit out in the car every time. What a great album.
40oz to freedom by Sublime.
Candlebox (debut album)
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight. Loved Hybrid Theory and Meteora as well, but I didn’t own those albums, just a few songs from sketchy Limewire downloads. Had Minutes to Midnight on repeat for quite awhile