Best album about growing up and being a teen?

musicismylife78

Whats your pick?

I would have to say my vote goes to Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie. Whatever we all think of Billy now, no denying he created these 2 beautiful masterpieces. These albums were true art. Mayonaise, Sweet Sweet, Tonight Tonight \, 1979, Bullet and on and on. This is what growing up and being a teen sounds like, but most important these records were what it felt like.

jshin

Undertow,Tool...

facepollution

musicismylife78 wrote:

Whats your pick?

I would have to say my vote goes to Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie. Whatever we all think of Billy now, no denying he created these 2 beautiful masterpieces. These albums were true art. Mayonaise, Sweet Sweet, Tonight Tonight \, 1979, Bullet and on and on. This is what growing up and being a teen sounds like, but most important these records were what it felt like.

First two albums that came to mind when I read the thread title, great minds think alike eh?

But seriously, they are incredible records, and absolutely encapsulate my youth. I find them kind of bittersweet to listen to now, especially songs like 1979, 33, Mayonaise......

BLACK35

I proud to say I was there when Ten came out, enough said

MysteryTrain

Born To Run

pandora

Aqualung Jethro Tull is my teens and how incredibly wrong I felt the world was

although I was 37.... VS seems like it would have been awesome in your teens it was awesome at 37!

dcfaithful

Southern Rock Opera - Drive-By Truckers is a good record about it,

but truthfully as a teenager I listened to a lot of Black Sabbath.

JL19851

Thematically, Bruce Springsteen's first album Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ is kinda really about the struggle of growing up, and its follow-up The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle is about the struggles of growing out of the scene the subject grew up on in the first album...but that's just what I take from it.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Pearl Jam - Ten
SP - Mellon Collie
Nirvana - Nevermind (this one started it all-I didn't hear PJ until a bit later)

ledvedderman

ummmm "Growing Up"???

ooops, album...I change it to "The River" by Springsteen.

LukinFan

FenwayFaithful

It may sound trite, but I'm going with Weezer's Blue Album. It came out when I was 13 years old and it just spoke to me. Rivers was writing lyrics back then that made me feel cool to be a dorky shy kid. He's now merely a punchline, but the stuff on that Blue Album helped me transition into young adulthood.

Gonzo1977

I think "Quadrophenia" by The Who is the king of this land

81

metallica, guns and roses were cool back then. i also loved the faith no more flopping fish video.

dcfaithful

Gonzo1977 wrote:

I think "Quadrophenia" by The Who is the king of this land

Touche, Gonzo..

RYEzupSF

Paul David wrote:

Pearl Jam - Ten
SP - Mellon Collie
Nirvana - Nevermind (this one started it all-I didn't hear PJ until a bit later)

Ani Difranco- Out of Range (angry bitches )

veddertown

Smashing Pumpkins, The Pixies and Sonic Youth sum up the teenage angsty feelings for me but my teens were ending as they arrived on the scene. Being a teenager the most impressionable and influential albums I regularly listened to were:

Deep Purple - In Rock/Burn
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Black Sabbath - Vol 4/Paranoid
The Beatles - White Album/Let It Be/Revolver
Johnny Cash - Fulsom/San Quentin
Van Halen - 1 & 2

josevolution

Zepp IV & Houses of the Holy
Quadrophenia ..

When i was a teen ...

Anon

I couldn't have been an angry, disillusioned teenage girl of the 90's without Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville as my soundtrack. 6'1 is still my anthem.

RYEzupSF

LoveOnTwoLegs wrote:

I couldn't have been an angry, disillusioned teenage girl of the 90's without Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville as my soundtrack. 6'1 is still my anthem.

Such a good call. (Who ever thought she would have become a cheesey pop artist?)

g under p

For me it has to be any one of these...

(1976)...A masterpiece that will never be repeated.

(1976)


His legend will live on.....

A classic in this music genre called FUNK.....P-FUNK...*Get Up For The Down Stroke*

Peace

eeriepadave

Nirvana- Nevermind
The Who- My Generation
Weezer- Weezer (blue album)

Empty Glass

Gonzo1977 wrote:

I think "Quadrophenia" by The Who is the king of this land

Bingo!

Of The Aggie

I wore out my tapes of Appetite For Destruction in my early teens and Ten in my late teens. The one album I thought I was cool for listening to was Dire Straits Brothers In Arms. I still love that album and consider it one of the all-time best.

Get_Right

van halen
zep
dead
ozzy
ac/dc
and believe it or not
the cars (phoebe mmmmmmmm)

helplessdancer

Inside outside. Leave me alone.

Inside outside. Nowhere is home.

Inside outside, Where have I been?

Out of my brain on the five fifteen.

DewieCox

dcfaithful wrote:

Southern Rock Opera - Drive-By Truckers is a good record about it,

Great mention

DangDang

The Wall
Dark Side of the Moon

Electric_Delta

Ten
Nevermind
Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Misfits Collection I

...plus HUNDREDS more.

tinkerbell

I wore out my Melon Collie and Siamese Dream cassettes. Ten and Frogstomp by Silverchair were also fav's for my angst filled youth...

mookeywrench

Having grown up suburban Minneapolis with having nothing to do but hang out with friends, go to malls (Northtown Mall here), and do stupid things.

Hold Steady - Separation Sunday