Teenage years

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited November 2007 in All Encompassing Trip
What are the best movies, books and albums that deal with those awkward, and crazy time period known as the teen years?

I would say as far as movies are concerned, Thirteen is one of the best, even more so in that it was written by a teenager.

As far as music, Mellon Collie, by the Smashing Pumpkins, is all about the teen years
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  • jammergirl
    jammergirl Posts: 599
    mellon collie was totally my soundtrack through high school! so was live through this by hole, and out come the wolves by rancid, and of course pearl jam.

    as for movies, for some reason i have a deep affection for "can't hardly wait". believable? nah. funny and cute? hell yeah!
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Can't Buy Me Love is my all time favorite teen movie
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Can't Buy Me Love is my all time favorite teen movie

    that's one of my favorites too...Of course breakfast club, sixteen candles..those are classics for me.
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    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    outsiders
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • ADogNamedPilate
    ADogNamedPilate Texas, USA Posts: 291
    Dazed and Confused is one of my favorite movies.
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  • drtyfrnk29
    drtyfrnk29 Posts: 846
    Hmm. Movies, gotta go with Dazed and Confused, as mentioned before. Then, Sleepers, Stand by Me, American Graffitti and This Boy's Life.

    Music. Anything by Springsteen in the 70's and early 80's. Bush really takes me back to my teen years, as well as, Today by The Smashing Pumpkins.
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  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    I loved the Lost Boys also growing up
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

    The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill



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  • BinGnarly
    BinGnarly Posts: 508
    ehh I have a month left of being a teenager... It seems like I just turned 13 yesterday. Ill be 20 in december and I know anyone who reads this thats 21 and up is pretty much just going to tell me to shut up. But i feel like im getting old and I dont really like it.


    But anyways Pearl Jam has been my sound track all through my teen years. I listened to lots of Modest Mouse through out highschool as well.
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Pump Up the Volume

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  • PearlsGirl
    PearlsGirl Posts: 257
    I was 9 when Mellon Collie came out! It was my first album though. I got it for my 12th Birthday. Lets see, when I was a teenager, the stupid boy bands and britney spears were popular, so being the rebel I was, I listened to Pearl Jam (naturally), Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, Matchbox 20 (I dunno?), and the Foo Fighters. Down on the Upside and Mellon Collie got me through those rough years.

    I was a big nerd and so I was always reading. The Giver (pre-teen book) was my favorite, and still is one of them. I loved reading Steinbeck and Harry Potter.

    The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Ten Things I Hate About You. I remember when they filmed Ten Things at Stadium HS. It was the coolest thing to happen in Tacoma - ever.
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