I’m listening to Audioslave’s self titled. It’s still perfect. What’s yours?
Ænima
You were listening to that at ten?!
I didn’t understand it but it was like nothing I’d ever heard before.
Weird Al Yankovic - Off the Deep End
The Offspring - Smash
Its funny, the Offspring was the first band I ever found I liked outside of my parent’s interests and as I get older, their earlier albums just sound better and better to me
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Funny story time - it seemed like everyone had or wanted to have that album when it came out. We did not have it though because it was hard to find in my village. A boy I knew had the album and agreed to make a recording for me on cassette. I was super pumped and got the tape from him on Friday at school before a slumber party with my besties. Saturday morning we’re all sitting around the table with my friend’s huge family and they pulled out a cassette player and set it in the center of the table. The first three tracks played while we’re monching pancakes and I was so chuffed to have brought this sought after album. Then “Thriller” came on - the song - which is nearly six minutes long. Everyone knows the song and it’s ramping up but then suddenly the music cuts out with a click. It was the boy who recorded it speaking in to a mic saying, “Elaine, I recorded this for you because I love you.” Mind you, I’m ten so the entire room - adults and kids are dying of laughter while I was desperately trying to crawl across the table to shut it off. Someone grabbed the tape player from my reach and I died instantly. This is my clone typing this in 2024.
Oh my god.
When I was 10 I didn’t listen to music because my parents didn’t listen to music. Sometimes we were listening to the radio and I specifically remember liking this one song “Lady Pank - Mniej niż zero” (which means less then zero and I was always wondering how something can be less then zero).
This is such a vibe.
Ten?
Gonna be a tossup, because I was listening to two in heavy rotation on casette. The first was a couple of years old at that point, Alabama’s Mountain Music. Still a great album.
The other was essentially brand new, Joan Jett’s Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth, again on cassette.
My parents had the Alabama on vinyl, which got worn the hell out by the time I got the tape. The Joan Jett wasn’t something they had gotten for themselves until after I bought it with birthday money at the same time as the Alabama tape. Then they got it on vinyl.
I still listen to both albums in their entirety here and there, and have multiple songs from each in multiple playlists.
I think, at the time, I probably favored GROAMY (what a horrible initialism lol) a bit most of the time, but it would have been a narrow margin. As full albums I favor Mountain Music now, it’s just more consistently good songs across the album. Not that Jett’s album has any stinkers, it doesn’t; it’s just that Alabama really nailed every track.
And yes, I’m fucking old lol
Not to be a pedant but since you can pronounce it as a word it’s an acronym, not an initialism.
If you can call that a word, sure, I guess. Wouldn’t have thought of it like that :)
Either Billy Joel’s Glass Houses or the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen. Both were in heavy rotation.
Flash! AhhhhHHHHaahh! That soundtrack was fantastic.
Machine Head, Deep Purple.
The Gorillaz self-titled album
Has to be Jesus Christ Superstar (original 1970 album version). I got into all sorts of other artists a little bit later, but that was the first bit of music to really hook me. I remember walking around the schoolyard alone listening to it on a cassette tape walkman around that time.
CDs were too expensive for my ten-year-old self, and my parents didn’t trust me with their vinyls yet.
I had a Taj Mahal tape, a Raffi tape, and a Doris Hall tape.
Nevermind
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
That was a time where a young kid listened to anything his older siblings were jamming to. So Oasis was one of my favorite bands at that age.
The Police - Reggatta De Blanc
Backstreet Boys - Millennium
