Your Top 5 List is...

[dawn_of_night]

Savage Garden- Savage Garden
Garth Brooks- The Hits
Sam the Sham & the pharaohs - wooly bully
Now that's what I call Music- Now
Songbook- A collection of hits

 

[Dubinsky]

This is also a subtle “how old are you?” topic. lol.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I was all over the place musically at that time. This was a tough one.

Suicidal Tendencies - Lights…Camera…Revolution!
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Skinny Puppy - VIVISectVI

I never made the leap from Ministry to Skinny Puppy for whatever reason (mostly because my friend group pretty quickly transitioned to more Orb and Aphex Twin rave music). But otherwise every one of these albums has a song that’s still on my running playlist. You know, when I was a runner.

 

[Wriggle]

Ill communication - beastie boys
The stone roses - the stone roses
Exit planet dust - the chemical bros
Blood sugar sex magic - red hot chilli peppers
The velvet underground & Nico - The velvet underground & Nico

 

[LadyLascivious1]

Love these, and especially Soul Coughing. Don't hear much about them.

I was in high school and it was the first concert I bought tickets for myself

I have a brushing history with Nirvana, from their Portland days, but I was never a huge fan. But that Unplugged album was inspired. My favorite story was when they were recording it, the band was not doing well together. And Kurt kept complaining the drums were too loud, which they probably were for that studio. And Dave was getting more and more upset as he tried to play quieter and quieter, but it was still too much for Kurt. They were on the edge of canceling, or Dave just walking, when a stagehand gave Grohl a pair of brushes. He had never played with them before, and so it never occurred to him. And they were perfect, and it was the best of that MTV series, bar none. So that nameless stagehand saved that album. (Long live us, the nameless crew!)

It was the first CD I ever bought and still one of my favorite albums. For me, nothing else they recorded came even close.

I listened to music in high school like it was going to save my life. It just might have.

1. Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Bright Eyes
2. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning - Bright Eyes
3. Lucy Gray - Envy on the Coast
4. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
5. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara

A number of these were definitely defining albums for me, just not in my teenage years.

 

[SherlockianMan]

I listened to music in high school like it was going to save my life. It just might have.

1. Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Bright Eyes
2. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning - Bright Eyes
3. Lucy Gray - Envy on the Coast
4. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
5. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara

I saw Tegan and Sara open for Ben Folds right before they became well-known. It was a fantastic show!

 

[Gamine67]

Your Top 5 Albums that Defined Your Teenage Years

1. She’s So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
2. Computer World - Kraftwerk
3. Nena - Nena
4. Remain In Light - Talking Heads
5. Double Fantasy - John Lennon

 

[MissLabelled]

I never made the leap from Ministry to Skinny Puppy for whatever reason (mostly because my friend group pretty quickly transitioned to more Orb and Aphex Twin rave music). But otherwise every one of these albums has a song that’s still on my running playlist. You know, when I was a runner.

Skinny Puppy were an acquired taste but they hooked me pretty early. High school for me was punk, metal, and rap. Then when I moved away, it transitioned more to industrial, goth, rave. So there were definitely parties with Orb and Aphex Twin being played here.

Start the evening with some Bauhaus, Joy Division, take poppers and other “uppers”, and out came the rave music lol

 

[Wonderer67]

Books - a week late and ten bucks short.

Dark Star by Alan Furst
Redeployment by phil Klay
Kill Yourself by Mike Nicolosi
The Ethical Slut by Hardy and Easton
Ball Four by Jim Bouton

 

[Wonderer67]

Albums - teenage years. i was a punk rock kid.

The Nihilistics - The Nihilistics
Blitz - Voice of a Generation
The Cars - Candy-O
The Jam - Setting Sons
Motörhead - Bomber

 

[LadyLascivious1]

Louder Than Bombs (the Smiths)
The Best of OMD
Depeche Mode 101
Blue Sky Mining (Midnight Oil)
Wonderland (Erasure)

Two of my favorite bands are in your list

 

[RandallOldman]

Top five albums that defined my teen years-

All the World's a Stage - Rush
Alive - KISS
Back in Black - AC/DC
Rocks - Aerosmith
Yessongs - Yes

 

[vagrantx]

5 albums of my youth, wow... this is just going to keep getting harder each week, huh?

BoA - ID; Peace B
the Ramones - Animal Boy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Rammstein - Sehnsucht

Daft Punk - Discovery. The first album I bought with my own money, and ignited my love for electronica.
I remember vibing to Harder better faster stronger in math class, and my friend asked me what the hell I was listening too. She likened it to a child banging on pots and pans.
Years later she was caught up in the Random Access Memories craze. I didn't rub it in her face, but it was heartwarming that she'd finally found Daft Punk

5. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara

They did an acoustic re-recording of this Albumduring Covid called Still jealous. It's incredible. Please give it a listen if you haven't

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Teenage Rosie was mostly listening to

1 Radiohead - The Bends
2 Pulp - Different Class
3 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
4 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell
5 Bon Jovi - Cross Road

 

[Yesok1]

Teenage Rosie was mostly listening to

1 Radiohead - The Bends
2 Pulp - Different Class
3 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
4 Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell
5 Bon Jovi - Cross Road

Ooh...

1. Prodigy
2. Alanis Morissette
3. Prince
4. Tiffany, lol
5. I love 80s so probably that's what I call the 80s

 

[Photog1rl]

Picking five is so hard! I chose albums that impacted me as a teenager and introduced me to the music I still love.

10,000 maniacs-in My Tribe
The Smiths -Louder than Bombs
The Specials-The Specials
Depeche Mode-Some Great Reward
The Bobs- My, I’m Largr

 

[MischiefMakerAlways]

In no particular order:
Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd
The Distance to Here - Live
Double Live - Garth Brooks
Phantom of the Opera - Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
S&M - Metallica

 

[lavendersilk]

I listened to music in high school like it was going to save my life. It just might have.

1. Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - Bright Eyes
2. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning - Bright Eyes
3. Lucy Gray - Envy on the Coast
4. Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
5. So Jealous - Tegan and Sara

Aaaaaagh, loooove them so much. If this was a list for my 20's that would be high up there.

Savage Garden- Savage Garden
Garth Brooks- The Hits
Sam the Sham & the pharaohs - wooly bully
Now that's what I call Music- Now
Songbook- A collection of hits

Fuck, yes! I listened to oldies all the time and that song specifically, "Wooly Bully" is a bop!

 

[Frankjba1]

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds- Live at Luther College
Green Day- Dookie
Blues Travelers- Four
Matchbox 20- Yourself or Someone Like You
Van Halen- Van Halen

 

[dawn_of_night]

Fuck, yes! I listened to oldies all the time and that song specifically, "Wooly Bully" is a bop!

Are you calling me old??

 

[lavendersilk]

Are you calling me old??

I bet we are the same age, or you are a few years younger.

 

[JKL123]

Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (for what its worth is my all time favorite still)
Close to the Edge - Yes
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Brothers and Sisters - Allman Brothers

 

[n8Romantic]

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Johnny Winter - Second Winter
James Gang - Live in Concert
The Mothers of Invention - We’re Only in it for the Money
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

 

[SherlockianMan]

In no particular order:
Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd
The Distance to Here - Live
Double Live - Garth Brooks
Phantom of the Opera - Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
S&M - Metallica

Anyone who includes Phantom of the Opera in their list is someone I immediately approve of

 

[SherlockianMan]

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds- Live at Luther College
Green Day- Dookie
Blues Travelers- Four
Matchbox 20- Yourself or Someone Like You
Van Halen- Van Halen

Good list. 3 of the 5 I saw live back in the days I went to concerts.