[direwolf74]

Saw this being passed around Facebook recently and thought it would be fun to post here. What are 10 albums that defined your adolescence? (say from age 12-19). The only rule is you can only choose one album per band/artist. Here are mine in no particular order. Trying to narrow this down to 10 was incredibly painful.

U2- The Joshua Tree
Guns N' Roses- Appetite for Destruction
The Tragically Hip- Road Apples
The Doors- The Doors
Pearl Jam- Ten
Nirvana- Nevermind
The Northern Pikes- Snow in June
R.E.M.- Document
Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
Skydiggers- Restless

[kieffer]

A few friends and I were just talking about this, so I had my list handy. I had to make a few changes so that an artist could only appear once.

Blind Melon - Soup
Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
Tool - Lateralus
Pearl Jam - No Code
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Gord Downie - Coke Machine Glow
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York

[potsie]

Some of these albums I still love, some I've rarely listened to in the past 15+ years, but all had an impact on my youth.

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Pearl Jam - Ten
Hip - Fully Completely
The Who - Who's Next
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Oasis - Definitely Maybe

[potsie]

The Northern Pikes- Snow in June

That is a classic! I've forgotten about that album. I'm going to throw it on tonight. Shotgun Morning and Green Fields, in particular, are two of my favourite songs from around that time period.

[direwolf74]

The Northern Pikes- Snow in June

That is a classic! I've forgotten about that album. I'm going to throw it on tonight. Shotgun Morning and Green Fields, in particular, are two of my favourite songs from around that time period.

Yup, love those songs! Snow in June came out not long after Up to Here (1990 I believe), and I was discovering a lot of Canadian rock at the time. I had spent a great deal of my childhood in the U.S., so I didn't even know these bands existed before 1989. Other favorite albums from that time: Grapes of Wrath- Now and Again, 54-40-Fight for Love, Blue Rodeo- Casino, and Midnight Oil's Diesel & Dust...just to name a few.

[emperor penguin]

In Violet Light - The Hip
Born on a Pirate Ship - Barenaked Ladies
Throwing Copper - Live
Nirvana - In Utero
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
The Who - Who's Next
Dr. Dre - 2001
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Korn - Follow the Leader
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket - Blink 182

[jonprice34]

The hip- day for night
Pearl jam- vs.
Beatles- Sgt. Peppers
Stone temple pilots- purple
Tom petty- wildflowers
U2- achtung baby
Nirvana- in utero
Alice in chains- unplugged
Our Lady Peace- Naveed
Neil young- live rust

[sonichka11]

I hope these didn't have to be contemporary or recent releases at the time because I tend to listen to stuff that's been out for years. Imossible list to compile btw.

U2 Pop
Paul Simon Rythym of the Saints
Big Shiny Tunes 2 (hell yeah)
Smashing Pumpkins Melancholy
Pulp Fiction ST
The Guess Who Greatest Hits
BNL Stunt
RH Ok Computer
Sarah McLachlan Surfacing
Sinead I Do Not want...

[thebends]

Great topic to date myself.

Kiss Destroyer (yes I was in the Kiss Army way before the Hip Fan Club)
Supertramp Crime of the Century
Supertramp Breakfast in America
The Alan Parsons Project I Robot
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd Animals
Led Zeppelin II
David Bowie Hunky Dory
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
Every Queen album

I'm ancient.

[SRK]

The Rolling Stones - steel wheels
The Beatles Anthology vol 1
Bob Dylan - Time out of mind
oasis - be here now
The Tragically Hip - Phantom power
The Who - Quadrophenia
Paul Weller - Modern classics
Rage against the machine - rage against the machine
Eric Clapton - unplugged
Barenaked ladies - gordon (the first CD I ever bought with my own money)

[downie_24]

Tragically Hip - Day For Night
Blue Rodeo - 5 Days in July
Moist - Creature
Sandbox - Murder in the Glee Club
Sloan - One Chord to Another
Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
The Watchmen - In The Trees
Live - Throwing Copper
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Green Day - Dookie

[joshwayy]

LZ I -> Presence (totally obsessed...jean jacket, patches, posters, stick on letters on my Sony Boom Box)

Rush I -> Moving Pictures (rented exit stage left on VHS from Showcase Video so many times that they gave it to me)

Boston -> Boston Stage 3 (1987 tour had 9 nights in Worcester Ma...I didn't go, but I had a job washing dishes and it was a crazy time) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Stage">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Stage</a><!-- m -->

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (wore it out) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Making_Sense">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Making_Sense</a><!-- m -->

U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky (was ahead of the curve when the Joshus Tree hit) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Blood_Red_Sky">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Blood_Red_Sky</a><!-- m -->

Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time (breakfast club inspired) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(Simple_Minds_album">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon ... inds_album</a><!-- m -->)

CSN - Box set (disk 4 is my personal fav) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSN_(box_set">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSN_(box_set</a><!-- m -->)

REM - G4EEN (Hello Indie) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_(R.E.M._album">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_(R.E.M._album</a><!-- m -->)

Indigo Girls - Noman Indians & Saits (stellar song writing and harmonies) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomads_Indians_Saints">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomads_Indians_Saints</a><!-- m -->

Bon Jovi - Slipery When Wet (don't judge) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_When_Wet">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_When_Wet</a><!-- m -->

Bonus: Duran Duran - Rio. (Love early DD) <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(Duran_Duran_album">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(Duran_Duran_album</a><!-- m -->)

[sean.bonner]

Some great lists here. Very entertaining to see different years represented. Trying to think back to what I would have been listening to in middle and high school. I think this is my list...


In no particular order...

The Tragically Hip - Up To Here

The Tragically Hip - In Between Evolution (no explanation needed for these two...)

I Mother Earth - The Quicksilver Meat Dream

Grand Theft Bus - Flies in the No Fly

Coldplay - X&Y

Sam Roberts - Chemical City

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy

U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live

The White Stripes - Elephant

-----

I like to think I listen to more women now... but at least Meg is on the list? Also...

GRAND THEFT BUS

All their albums are classic to me and I wish everyone here listened to all of them. Fantastic band.

[potsie]

Also...

GRAND THEFT BUS

All their albums are classic to me and I wish everyone here listened to all of them. Fantastic band.

Great band. They are not to be missed live... always a fun show. I'd say they were one of the best bands to ever come out of NB but that wouldn't be a ringing endorsement!

[ryan93]

The Tragically Hip- phantom power
Collective Soul- collective soul
David Usher- morning orbit
The Offspring- ixnay on the hombre
I Mother Earth- scenery & fish
Our Lady Peace- naveed
Bryan Adams- 18 i die
Third Eye Blind- third eye blind
Pearl Jam- ten
John Fogerty- blue moon swamp