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Mar 15, 2017 8:44 AM
These don't have to be good albums, and hopefully some of them are embarrassing. When you think back to your childhood/teen years, what are the 5 albums that stand out to you? Since we've got a good range of ages here we should get a good range of albums.

I'm 34 and these are the albums I remember most from my teenage years:

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Transistor - 311
Secret Samadhi - Live
Tiny Music: Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
Razorblade Suitcase - Bush
Mar 15, 2017 8:44am
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Mar 15, 2017 8:59 AM
RHCP - Californication
Kanye - College Dropout
Incubus - Make Yourself
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
Mar 15, 2017 8:59am
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Mar 15, 2017 9:24 AM
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era (My first CD)
Weezer - The Blue Album
Metallica - Metallica
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Spice Girls - Spice

These came out when I was between 6 and 11 years old. I will try to think of my faves from my middle and high school years.
Mar 15, 2017 9:24am
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Mar 15, 2017 9:59 AM
Kanye West - College Dropout
Jay Z - The Blueprint
Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
N'Sync - No Strings Attached
Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again.
Usher - Confessions

When I think of the albums/songs everyone was talking about in Middle School and High School, it's these. Couldn't limit to 5. These 6 were crazy popular in my area.
Mar 15, 2017 9:59am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:03 AM
Adolescent:
Triller
Synchronicy
1984
Hysteria
Slippery when wet



College:
Nevermind
Pretty Hate Machine
10
Siamese Dream
Badmotorfinger
Mar 15, 2017 10:03am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:11 AM
Sonofanump;1841804 wrote:Adolescent:
Triller
Synchronicy
1984
Hysteria
Slippery when wet



College:
Nevermind
Pretty Hate Machine
10
Siamese Dream
Badmotorfinger
Listening to this now. Great album.
Mar 15, 2017 10:11am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:16 AM
Ray Budzilek - Saturday Night ... Polka!
Tommy Roe - 12 In A Roe (greatest hits)
Guess Who - Road Food
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Kiss - Alive!

I did have a children's music album to go with my new record player when I turned 4, but I couldn't tell you what it was called. Played the heck out of it, though. Would love to have it today.
Mar 15, 2017 10:16am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:20 AM
Middle and high school years (way more than five...sorry, not sorry):


NSYNC - NSYNC, No Strings Attached, Celebrity
Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys, Backstreet's Back, Millennium
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time, Oops...I Did It Again
Usher - My Way, 8701
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, Meteora
Nelly - Country Grammar, Nellyville
Destiny's Child - Destiny's Child, The Writing's On the Wall, Survivor
Varsity Blues soundtrack

I could do this forever. It's bringing back the mems.
Mar 15, 2017 10:20am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:25 AM
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffitti
Aerosmith- Rocks
Cheap Trick- Dream Police
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Van Halen- Van Halen
Mar 15, 2017 10:25am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:32 AM
Dang, some good ones on this list! Mine span a few years.

Weezer - Blue Album
Aerosmith - Get a Grip
Pearl Jam - Ten
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggstyle
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Nirvana - Nevermind
Green Day - Dookie
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Outkast - Aquemini
Outkast - ATLiens
Metallica - Black
GNR - Use Your Illusion II
REM - Out of Time

A TON of great albums.
Mar 15, 2017 10:32am
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Mar 15, 2017 10:47 AM
The Valley Road- Nitty Gritty Dirt band and Hornsby
Anything from Alabama in the eighties
Back in Black- Ac/Dc
Master of puppets-Metallica
Any Hank Jr from the Eighties as well.
Mar 15, 2017 10:47am
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Mar 15, 2017 11:13 AM
justincredible;1841785 wrote:These don't have to be good albums, and hopefully some of them are embarrassing. When you think back to your childhood/teen years, what are the 5 albums that stand out to you? Since we've got a good range of ages here we should get a good range of albums.

I'm 34 and these are the albums I remember most from my teenage years:

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Transistor - 311
Secret Samadhi - Live
Tiny Music: Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop - Stone Temple Pilots
Razorblade Suitcase - Bush
terrible list
Mar 15, 2017 11:13am
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Mar 15, 2017 11:14 AM
Sonofanump;1841804 wrote:Adolescent:
Triller
Synchronicy
1984
Hysteria
Slippery when wet



College:
Nevermind
Pretty Hate Machine
10
Siamese Dream
Badmotorfinger
nice
Mar 15, 2017 11:14am
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Mar 15, 2017 11:18 AM
Raising hell- Run DMC
Metallica- And jsutice for all
Ozzie- BArk at the moon
NWA- straight out of compton
Bon Jovi- Slippery when wet

^^^^those were HS and some JH. Many others that I would add that got played alot- Beastie Boys, Pyromania by Def lepard, Rocks by Aerosmith, 1984, 2 live crew, Night moves by Bob Seger......so many

College was:

Evil empire- Rage
Cranberries first album
Credance Clearwater revival greatest Hits
Under the table and dreaming- Dave Mathews
Weezer- Blue album
Bush- Sixteen Stone
basically all the beastie boy stuff when they went back to playing their own instruments
Mar 15, 2017 11:18am
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Mar 15, 2017 11:28 AM
Rage - Evil Empire is a good one.
Mar 15, 2017 11:28am
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Mar 15, 2017 11:58 AM
All Eyez on Me
The Chronic - I was 7 when this came out, so I didn't really hear it until about 11, but that album is the shiz
Metallica - Black album
Slim Shady LP
Battle of Los Angeles
Mar 15, 2017 11:58am
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Mar 15, 2017 12:08 PM
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Anthrax - Among The Living
Ratt - Dancing Undercover
Dio - Dream Evil
Mar 15, 2017 12:08pm
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Mar 15, 2017 12:41 PM
Spock;1841824 wrote:terrible list
Damn, I was really hoping for your approval.
Mar 15, 2017 12:41pm
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Mar 15, 2017 12:51 PM
mcburg93;1841818 wrote: Back in Black- Ac/Dc
Maximum overdrive was prolly 6th in my childhood.

I might be slightly younger than you.
Mar 15, 2017 12:51pm
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Mar 15, 2017 12:52 PM
justincredible;1841862 wrote:Damn, I was really hoping for your approval.
I fell better about myself since I obtained CCspocks approval.
Mar 15, 2017 12:52pm
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Mar 15, 2017 12:53 PM
Sonofanump;1841866 wrote:I fell better about myself since I obtained CCspocks approval.
My 14 year old self is devastated.
Mar 15, 2017 12:53pm
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Mar 15, 2017 1:08 PM
Albums I listened to the most in from 10-13

Alanis - Jagged Little Pill
Metallica - Load
AC/DC - Live (thanks wrestling coaches)
Deftones - Adrenaline
Coal Chamber - Self titled

Shout outs to:
Korn - Life is Peachy
Sugar Ray - Floored
Offspirng - Smash
Spawn soundtrack
Mar 15, 2017 1:08pm
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Mar 15, 2017 1:11 PM
Tupac - "All Eyez on Me"
Nirvana - "Nevermind"
Green Day - "Dookie"
Garth Brooks - "In Pieces"
Rob Zombie - "Hellbilly Deluxe"

Random, I know. I don't and never did discriminate with my musical taste. Haha.
Mar 15, 2017 1:11pm
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Mar 15, 2017 1:14 PM
Fab4Runner;1841811 wrote:Middle and high school years (way more than five...sorry, not sorry):


NSYNC - NSYNC, No Strings Attached, Celebrity
Backstreet Boys - Backstreet Boys, Backstreet's Back, Millennium
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time, Oops...I Did It Again
Usher - My Way, 8701
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, Meteora
Nelly - Country Grammar, Nellyville
Destiny's Child - Destiny's Child, The Writing's On the Wall, Survivor
Varsity Blues soundtrack

I could do this forever. It's bringing back the mems.


Those 3 right there are right up at the top for me too.
Mar 15, 2017 1:14pm
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Mar 15, 2017 1:21 PM
Sonofanump;1841865 wrote:Maximum overdrive was prolly 6th in my childhood.

I might be slightly younger than you.
Who Made Who was the album by AC/DC that was the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive. I know; I own it. It could have easily replaced one of the five I listed.
Mar 15, 2017 1:21pm