Remember those summers when we found that great new album?

otter

Then played it all summer.

Two questions:

1) What is a great memory?

2) What is summer 13's record?

Me...

1) nirvana unplugged and bare naked ladies rock spectacle. Summer 94 and 98 (I think)

2) still looking

Leezestarr313

I had a great summer in the nineties when that blue Weezer album came out. This will forever be a summer album for me. It was such a great time, I remember that we all listened to all the "grunge" bands, there was such an abundance of music. PJ, Nirvana, Hole, Bush, The Lemonheads, Mudhoney, The Breeders, Porno for Pyros and and and ... I was a teenager in full bloom and life was awesome musicwise

And later on in another summer I entered my electronic phase with this one Kruder & Dorfmeister album and Portishead. Aaah, those were the days.

This summer will be all qotsa for me. I love it when music brings me back to a certain time in my life.

otter

Leezestarr313 wrote:

I had a great summer in the nineties when that blue Weezer album came out. This will forever be a summer album for me. It was such a great time, I remember that we all listened to all the "grunge" bands, there was such an abundance of music. PJ, Nirvana, Hole, Bush, The Lemonheads, Mudhoney, The Breeders, Porno for Pyros and and and ... I was a teenager in full bloom and life was awesome musicwise

And later on in another summer I entered my electronic phase with this one Kruder & Dorfmeister album and Portishead. Aaah, those were the days.

This summer will be all qotsa for me. I love it when music brings me back to a certain time in my life.

The Weezer blue album is one of my wife's too. She got to see them after it came out. She remembers they played the whole record in order.

Weezer reminds me of my summer with the green one. I remember being sort of proud of those Weezer guys for making such a great record.

Leezestarr313

otter wrote:

The Weezer blue album is one of my wife's too. She got to see them after it came out. She remembers they played the whole record in order.

Weezer reminds me of my summer with the green one. I remember being sort of proud of those Weezer guys for making such a great record.

Awesome! I have never seen them life. At that point in my life I just started going to concerts. I would go to a Weezer show like that even nowadays

mcgavinj

My best memory of this type of situation is how I discovered Alice in chains. Columbia house sent me jar of clay because I forgot to send the card I declining it as my selection of the month. I had no idea what it was but I opened it and listened. Huge fan ever since. That summers theme was No Excuses for sure!

Digital Twilight

In high school when I was first really getting into music I think Nirvana's Nevermind and Metallica's Master of Puppets are the two that stand out. Playing them over and over on cassette that a friend made me. I don't really have any specific memories of albums for summer though.

These days I don't really stick with a few albums. With technology these days music has changed for me, I try and listen to new music on a weekly basis and don't tend to keep coming back to albums as often as I did when I was younger.

otter

Digital Twilight wrote:

In high school when I was first really getting into music I think Nirvana's Nevermind and Metallica's Master of Puppets are the two that stand out. Playing them over and over on cassette that a friend made me. I don't really have any specific memories of albums for summer though.

These days I don't really stick with a few albums. With technology these days music has changed for me, I try and listen to new music on a weekly basis and don't tend to keep coming back to albums as often as I did when I was younger.

Yeah, me either. I really hope I come across something new this summer.

I dig Muse. Maybe Muse.

elvistheking44

94. Division Bell by Floyd. Best summer I ever had....

brianlux

I had a really crappy job in the summer of 1967 between my sophomore and junior years in High School but one day, while walking cross the rail road tracks on my way to work I found a five dollar bill on the tracks. After work I went to the local record store and used that five dollars to buy one new copy each of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are You Experienced" and Cream's "Fresh Cream". Those records saved my sanity that summer!

This summer (so far) I would say the one that gives me most pleasure is buying The Doors, "Live in new York, Felt Forum" shortly after meeting John Densmore at one of his book signings.

crowes74

Blind melons first record. Work the week away, beach on the weekends.

RS151862

ofthegirl99 wrote:

94. Division Bell by Floyd. Best summer I ever had....

Still the best concert ive ever seen.

bluegrace

I remember early nineties, listening to Beck all summer "I'm a loooooser baby, so why don't you kill me"
This summer I don't know. Maybe it will be Depeche, will go to their gig in two weeks time.

direwolf74

My best memory is the summer of 1998. I had a great job at the time, a great girlfriend, and life was was pretty damn good. The Tragically Hip's landmark album "Phantom Power" came out in May I think, and I lived and breathed that record for the entire summer and well into the fall. At the time the Hip were hands down the biggest & most popular homegrown rock band that Canada had ever seen (other than Rush of course), and in 1998 they were at the peak of their powers, dominating rock radio and selling out arenas, stadiums, and festivals all over the country. I played that CD so much in the car, in the house, camping, at parties, etc.. The disc got so used and abused, I eventually had to buy a replacement copy a few months later. I saw the band live 4 times that year, the highlight being their High Sierra Festival gig near San Francisco in October '98. My first road trip show following my favorite band on tour across the border. In the U.S. the Hip were relatively unknown and more of a cult band, so for a Canadian kid like me it was a rare intimate show with no more than a few hundred people in attendance. It still stands out as one of the single greatest shows I've ever witnessed. To this day, whenever I listen to Phantom Power, it still reminds me of summer.

kwdaley

1986 - Appetite for Destruction had just come out. Loved what I heard but no one else I knew was listening it to it (seemed at the time that I was the only one who knew about this band called Guns n Roses)... Fast-forward to 1987 and everyone was raving about this album (mostly due to Sweet Child o Mine being played everywhere that summer). Felt great knowing that I was into this band well before anyone else.

direwolf74

kwdaley wrote:

1986 - Appetite for Destruction had just come out. Loved what I heard but no one else I knew was listening it to it (seemed at the time that I was the only one who knew about this band called Guns n Roses)... Fast-forward to 1987 and everyone was raving about this album (mostly due to Sweet Child o Mine being played everywhere that summer). Felt great knowing that I was into this band well before anyone else.

I remember when that album came out as well. It took a while to catch on, and then somewhere between '87 and '88 they blew up fast, and suddenly everybody was listening to them. I actually saw them open for the Cult in Calgary in '87 (one of my very first concerts). I don't remember much about them, as my buddies and I had arrived late to the show and only caught the last 2 or 3 songs of their set. And even then, we weren't really paying attention. Next thing you know, they're the biggest band in the world. I remember I had a crappy cassette copy that a friend had dubbed for me. I don't think I bought an official copy until late '87.

otter

kwdaley wrote:

1986 - Appetite for Destruction had just come out. Loved what I heard but no one else I knew was listening it to it (seemed at the time that I was the only one who knew about this band called Guns n Roses)... Fast-forward to 1987 and everyone was raving about this album (mostly due to Sweet Child o Mine being played everywhere that summer). Felt great knowing that I was into this band well before anyone else.

Appetite ruled summer 87 for me too.

I was at my friends and he dropped the needle on Paradise City. I will never forget how much I loved that song; I was in a trance from "take me home.......home"

I made a tape immediately.

otter

brianlux wrote:

I had a really crappy job in the summer of 1967 between my sophomore and junior years in High School but one day, while walking cross the rail road tracks on my way to work I found a five dollar bill on the tracks. After work I went to the local record store and used that five dollars to buy one new copy each of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are You Experienced" and Cream's "Fresh Cream". Those records saved my sanity that summer!

This summer (so far) I would say the one that gives me most pleasure is buying The Doors, "Live in new York, Felt Forum" shortly after meeting John Densmore at one of his book signings.

Take the Pittsburgh show very seriously. That is my favorite Doors recording. Best version of Roadhouse Blues and the Crossroads melody is hypnotic.

"Woke up this morning got the judgement on my mind"

"Woke up this morning got the H bomb on my mind"

" Take a walk with me; everything will work out fine"

kasedoug

Summer of 1998: Beastie Boys Hello Nasty on repeat all summer. That summer was also my first concert ever, seeing them at the Forum.

'13's shaping up to be the summer of Queens of the Stone Age's ...Like Clockwork. Can't get enough of it and I can't wait to see them in two months.