What Album Most Reminds You of High School?
Decatur Metro | May 2, 2012
As is often stated, music is the only art form that only exists in time.
As such, no other artist medium latches into our memories like a little jingle or perhaps – if you’re insanely hardcore – a full blown Ring cycle.
So I’m guessing I’m not the only one here who will put on an album or hear a song on the radio and be immediately dragged back – sometimes kicking and screaming – to my high school days. Acne, social awkwardness and all.
What album is that for you?
I’ll chime in with mine in a bit. (And no, its not Nirvana)
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Right artist, wrong album (for me).
Nevermind would be the one. Along with PJ 10, Badmotorfinger (Soundgarden), and Dirt (Alice In Chains). Oh, and throw in Weezer’s “Blue Album.”
(this could go on for a while)
REM, “Life’s Rich Pageant”. I feel old.
Me too.
Me too.
OLD? How about:
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers – Beatles
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfinkle
Wheels of Fire – Cream
Are You Experienced – Jimi
Abraxas – Santana
any Creedence album
any Who, Pink Floyd,
Plus what Mike C says: Concert for Bangladesh, etc. Still love that one and the Woodstock album.
MikeC: Remember Jim Sallees in Buckhead where they used to let you listen to an album in listening booths? That’s where we would buy our concert tickets, too. Saw some awesome shows in the Municipal Auditorium. . .Subject for another time.
Clark Music in Decatur had those listening booths as well. Bought the 45 “Satisfaction” by the Stones there when I was in the 9th grade!
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I can’t wait for that concert thread!! Municipal Auditorium, Sports Area, Richard’s, the Electric Ballroom…
The more I think about it, more albums/artists come to mind and the Stones are definetly one of them. If any band defined the term Rock and Roll, it was the Stones.
I have a new question for you all: What was the first album you bought? Mine was Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”. Puts you into my mindest of the time.
The first album I bought with my own money was “The Ventures Knock Me Out.” 8th grade. Excellent stuff to play along with when every kid in 1964-65 was trying to put together a garage band!
Appetite for Destruction sticks out the most for me. I can still picture my buddy Trent doing a perfect Axel Rose outside the back of my Bronco II at Memorial Park while we waited for the ladies to swarm us…
There are a lot of them but the first two that immediately came to mind are:
Under the Table and Dreaming by The Dave Matthews Band
The Chronic by Dr Dre
Creepy. I was thinking of both of those. Also these…
Snoop Dogg – Doggystyle
PJ10
Live – Throwing Copper
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.
The queen is dead.
Yep, this is me. Any Smiths or cure album. In fact, I’ve been listening to the Smiths today!
Absolutely!
The first Violent Femmes album. Black Flag “First Four Years.” The Cure “Standing on a Beach.”
I was going to say “Standing on the Beach” also. The first chords of ‘Boys don’t cry’ is high school all over again.
Also, “Appetite for Destruction”, all of the songs on there bring back great memories.
Fresh Fruit for Rotitng Vegetables – Dead Kennedy’s
Flirtin’ with Disaster – Molly Hatchet
Damn, I feel old…
YOU feel old? For me, it’s The Stones’ “Beggars Banquet” and “The Beatles” (aka The White Album). I got the latter as a Christmas present my senior year in high school.
Junior year would be “Wheels of Fire” by Cream and “Bookends” by Simon and Garfunkel.
Sophomore year would be “Revolver” by the Beatles.
my friends and I didn’t have many albums. What we had were 45 rpm singles.
Yes, I’m old. why do you ask?
No, YOU get off of MY lawn.
jk
OK Labdad, you’re older than me … apparently…but I like your taste in music!
My high school album –Goodbye Yellow Brick Road …a candle in the wind …
Kill, kill, kill, kill the poor! tonight-eye-eye!
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate’s gone
Feel free again
O’ life’s a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it’s okay
So let’s get dressed and dance away the night
Neighbor’s are gonna hate me tonight…
Rush “Moving Pictures”
Ozzy “Diary of a Madman”
Deep Purple “Perfect Strangers”
The “Heavy Metal” soundtrack
Styx “Paradise Theater”
AC/DC “Back in Black”
These are only the ones that were released during my high school years. There are a lot of releases prior to that time that had as much of an impact, but I didn’t become aware of them until high school:
Meat Loaf “Bat Out of Hell”
Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
Van Halen “Women and Children First”
Pink Floyd “The Wall”
The “Rocky Horror Picture Show” soundtrack
Jethro Tull “Aqualung” (courtesy of my rock and roll dad)
Deep Purple “Machine Head”
Boston’s self-titled debut
Oh! You only asked for one! Sorry…
Glad to see there is a fellow High School rocker out there though you might have me by a couple years.
It’s a one way ticket to midnight…
Yeah, I’m noticing my choices are a bit older than most on this post.
46 next week, but hearing “Over the Mountain” brings me right back to the early 80’s.
DM – great thread!
Whoah, Token– we were practically musical twins in high school! But in addition to the many fine selections featured in your post, may I add: “Van Halen” – Van Halen (1st album); “The Cars” – The Cars (1st album); “News of the World” – Queen; and “The Wall” – Michael Jackson (yep, a departure from the hard rock offerings here, but I did, and do, love me some MJ). Oh, and Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, too (how remiss of me)!
This is Too. Damn. Hard.
REM’s Document and Green (thank god we got their good stuff in my more formative years!)
U2, The Joshua Tree (still holds up after all these years)
Guns and Roses, Appetite for Destruction (Paradise City still means Friday night football)
Tom Petty, Full Moon Fever (Now I’m freeeeeeeee, free fallin’)
B-52’s, Cosmic Thing (Who knew that I’d ever actually head down the Atlanta Highway or go to Allen’s for 25 cent beers (OK, $1.25 tall boys by that point)?!?
Midnight Oil, both Diesel and Dust and Blue Sky Mining
Alphaville, Forever Young
XTC, Oranges and Lemons
The Cure, Disintegration
Simple Minds, Once Upon a Time (never understood why they weren’t at least as popular or critically acclaimed as U2)
The Alarm, Strength and Eye of the Hurricane (I did understand why they weren’t as popular or critically acclaimed as U2 but I freaking loved them)
They Might Be Giants, Lincoln and Flood
Wow, I could go on forever it seems. Didn’t even get to Crowded House, The Smithereens, Violent Femmes or INXS. I wonder what the kids of today will remember in 20 years?
On a related note, can you tell who is turning 40 this year?
@JT — Have you been poking around in my (ahem) record collection? I would also add a little Depeche Mode, Paul Simon (Graceland. Oh my.), Billy Bragg (Worker’s Playtime) and some Springsteen. I could bore this whole thread with my tragic U2/REM fixations as a misunderstood teenage girl, but I think it’s time to head out for the early bird special at Ruby Tuesdays.
i could just never get into Midnight Oil…the vocal delivery of that kojak aussie dude was just abyssmal
Shut up. Just. Shut. Up.
Don’t mess with my enviro-Aussie heroes!
Doolittle – Pixies
Zen Arcade – Husker Du
Nope, I come by it honesty as a disaffected child of the mid to late 80’s myself. Good call on Depeche Mode and Graceland. Now I can’t believe that I didn’t even mention the Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bruce Hornsby or New Order. Hell, I might have listened to Substance more than any of the other albums I did list.
Forgetting to list the Ramones, Springsteen or, gasp, the Replacements, just shows that I should probably be joining you for that early bird special. Forty years of drugs and alcohol does take its toll!
I was a late bloomer for the Replacements. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to was seeing them in Athens with my college room-mate at Boulder in 1991. He was from Minneapolis and a crazy Replacements fan that got me hooked via Let It Be and Dont Tell a Soul.
Seems like most people go with Tim or Let it Be but Pleased to Meet Me is what got me hooked and I still listen to it in the car probably at least once a month. If you saw them in 1991 you either saw brilliance or complete crap. That whole tour they were at each others’ throats and eventually broke up, I think before the tour even ended. I was lucky enough to see them in Philly (with the Connells very weirdly opening up for them). I don’t know what was going on behind the scenes but it was a fu*$ing brilliant two hours of straight-ahead mayhem cresecendoing into a drunken sing-a-long to Waitress in the Sky. And I can’t believe that was twenty years ago. Seems like yesterday. Just damn.
Now I got to go listen to Can’t Hardly Wait and Nightclub Jitters…
The night I saw the ‘Mats at the Ritz in NYC Stinson did the show in his tighty whities. They pulled a kid up on stage with them to sing I Want To Rock & Roll All Night and he was pretty good.
Bring on the Dancing Horses. Dyslexsic Heart. Yes and Yes. And maybe The Lonesome Jubilee. Maybe.
Moby Grape
+1, “Listen my friends, ….”
Pearl Jam – Ten
Still one of the greatest rock albums of all time!
Blink 182, unfortunately.
Nirvana’s Nevermind and The Blasters’ Collection both came out the same year. I still listen to both of those regularly.
Dinosaur Jr – Bug
Pixies – Trompe Le Monde
Both bands got me through high school.
What if you are SO OLD… that they didn’t do albums. Only “A” side & “B” side?
With a large hole in the middle!
See above!
NOFX – Punk In Drublic
Get the Knack
I hated high school, and the album that most reminds me of that misery is Van Halens 1984. Prior to that album, I liked Van Halen. This sell out foreshadowed the dreck that was to come from the band that briefly flirted with becoming an American Led Zeppelin.
You thought 1984 was bad after Diver Down, which is a real turd (aside from two, maybe three strong tunes)?
I believe if you Google the definition of “phoning it in,” you’ll find a download link for Diver Down.
August and Everything After — Counting Crows
I loved it so much that I turned my original (scratched) copy into a clock and have bought 2 more copies since then as replacements. Still love it to this day!
Now we’re talking. My top is “Recovering the Satellites” by Counting Crows.
Counting Crows for the win! Recovering the Satellites is definitely up there for me as well. Ok, and the double-live Across a Wire album.
“Recovering the Satellites”, best album of all times and of high school.
Gotta agree. Even this old geezer can appreciate that great album. One of my all-time favs.
Robert Palmer — Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
NRBQ — Live at Yankee Stadium
anything by the Stones — old or current at the time
Warren Zevon — Werevolves in London
those are just ones I remember playing until they wore out — or the tape player in the car ate the cassette
+1, “Saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s, his hair was….perfect.”
On my first visit to London I was thrilled to see that there really is a Chinese restaurant in Soho called Lee Ho Fook’s. I didn’t get a chance to try the beef chow mein though.
Interesting thread. Shows poster’s ages and helps me form general stereotypes of what they were like in high school.
Man, this is tough but too fun not to give it a shot!
REM – Murmur
U2- Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire & Live at Red Rocks
The Smiths – Meat is Murder, Queen is Dead
Joy Division – Closer
New Order – Brotherhood, Low-Life
Happy Mondays – Bummed
Echo & The Bunnymen – Songs to Learn and Sing
Bauhaus – Burning From the Inside
And for whatever reason there were various older albums my friends and latched on to…
The Beatles – White Album,. Sgt. Pepper
Led Zeppelin – every album!
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited & Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Marley – Greatest Hits
Outkast…Stankonia
Radiohead…Kid A
I mainly listened to music from generations past…but between 97-01 those stand out and remind me most of high school.
Rocket to Russia. And I still love it.
Wow! Now I know you all are a bunch of young’ns!
I remember Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill completely taking over Sr. year- fun times. Others with impact were U2/Joshua Tree, Psychodelic Furs/Mirrors…
Yep – you must’ve been ’87 or ’88. Same here. Left that one of my list below.
Yup!
Paraphrasing Douglas Adams, high school was what was going on while I was trying to listen to the Pixies. I bought a copy of Doolittle on a drama club overnighter after my girlfriend broke up with me on the way TO our destination. Brutal. Black Francis screaming bloody nonsense about eyeballs and whores really twisted my head around in a way that I required at that moment.
Mind you, this was in 1996, so they’d long ago broken up and I’d only ever heard them talked about by other musicians, which lent them this otherworldly aura. Like they were something I had to excavate for. I spent the next several months buying up every Pixies album and compilation and bootleg I could get my hands on. There were other bands, sure, and I really liked Nirvana and Radiohead and Jawbox and REM, but the Pixies really yanked my adolescent self by the collar and shook him about in a way that only a favorite band can.
Since then there have been precious few bands that I’ve been into in that same way. The Dismemberment Plan and the Mountain Goats, notably. But there’s something about high school–that time and that place–when you’re trying to figure yourself out, when you can really dive into something, get infatuated, and sincerely claim it as your own. I really miss that. The rest of high school sucked–especially that breakup–but that was alright.
Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick!!!
Awesome! I could probably still sing along to that whole album–used to make a point of listening to it at least once a week all through my first year of college.
My dad’s a big fan–I’m pretty sure my first concert was seeing Tull.
Ian Anderson is doing a Thick as Brick tour this year–got tickets to the show here in ATL in Sept!
I’d have hated you guys in high school. Probably liked Yes, too.
+1
A shout out to the old folks who are contributing to this today. Bands that pop into my head are: Kansas (Our prom theme was “Dust in the Wind”…I know…right?) Queen, Kiss, Boston, Steve Miller, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles.
Back in the days of air-brushed vans. Ahhh, the memories of Farrah Fawcett hair, tight tank tops, high athletic socks and short gym shorts. (And that’s what the GUYS were wearing) Take me back to the 70’s…
Old? Moi? But going to an all-girl Catholic High school, we wore the grooves out on albums by Cat Stevens, and also adored Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, Carole King’s Tapestry. And Pete Fountain, because a member of his band used to drive me and his daughter to ballet.
Does anyone remember the awesome local all-stars double CD remake of Jesus Christ Superstar that the Indigo Girls headed up? I bought it for my brother as a gift and now I’m wishing I’d kept it. Is it even still available, maybe in digital form?
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Christ-Superstar-Resurrection-Studio/dp/B0000018CA?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ5K7PY4I6TJRVFLQ&tag=httpwwwcrimco-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0000018CA
Jeez, no wonder….
Cuts that catapult me back (not necessarily my favorites, just ones I can think of that can give me that interior whiplash you’re talking about): Pick Up the Pieces, China Grove, Stairway to Heaven, Free Bird, Band On the Run, Maggie May, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, You Are the Sunshine of My Life, Jessica, Ramblin’ Man, Dancing in the Moonlight, Keep On Smilin’, I’ll Take You There, Doctor My Eyes, Best of My Love, Tush….
This could go on all day, it’s worse than the toys!
Most of these were just a few years ahead of my high school years, but I love, love, LOVE them all, especially “Pick Up the Pieces”– Average White Band definitely had that funk-groove DOWN, sistah! Do you remember WIld Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music (White Boy)”? Now, that was the JAM back in the day. My sisters & their friends wore that 8-track out!
Lay down that boogie and play that funky music til you die… I have AWB in my workout mix nowadays, along with EWF and early Jackson 5ive. (Teenagers would probably find that morbid in the same way I was repelled yet fascinated by my elders and grand-elders getting down to Lawrence Welk.) There was a TV show on a couple of summers ago called “Swingtown,” it only survived one short season but I loved it for the soundtrack, it was set in Chicago in the summer of ’76.
I’m relating to your songs, STG.
See? All of those are college tunes for me. Bob, Greybeard, and I seem to be the ones who were in high school in the 60’s.
Now, excuse me. I have to go outside and tell those darned kids to get off my lawn!
crap, I gave myself a David Bowie ear worm.
Would you like to replace it with Journey? Living in a lonely woooorld…
ah, STFU, you pest.
Sorry!
Ohhhh, now– you best not be dissin’ Journey, Junderscore. I’ll tweak your ear cartilage till it bleeds! I STILL have a crush on Steve Perry (and his very *toit* bellbottom jeans)…*sigh*
He was teasing me, knows I don’t particularly like that song he was referring to.
Funny Journey story: When I was in high school, a girl with a locker across the hall from me was desperately in love with all things Journey and proclaimed regularly that she would someday marry Steve Perry. As it turns out, that girl grew up to be Michaele Salahi, infamous White House party crasher and subsequent Real Housewives of DC star.
Once her “star” from all that began to fade, you may have noticed that she reappeared in the tabloids because she had left her husband to go on tour with Journey. Granted, she was doing it as the “companion” of Neal Schon rather than Perry, but last I heard he’s now making, ahem, an honest woman of her and they’re getting married.
Not an exact full circle, but damn close.
Hah! Awesome story– even though I think Ms. Salahi is a complete twit. (And STG, I knew Junderscore was just ribbing you, but I had to step up for Mr. Perry, et al., ’cause I lurrrrves ‘em!)
wow, high school girls everywhere would love to hear that story!
You are so making that up! Except I know you are not, because you are too civil to be a RHO…. fan and have no reason to make it up. Call the tabloids!
Commodores; Earth, Wind, and Fire; Supertramp; Pink Floyd; Chicago; Eagles; Steve Miller Band; and John Denver
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
Frampton Comes Alive was my first thought as well. I played it a while back for my daughters, and they said in unison, “We don’t get it.”
Police they got. But my proudest moment when my oldest was sharing Funkadelic around the halls of Renfroe like it was an illegal drug.
Ah, another album that got LOADS of play. Saw Frampton in concert when I was 14, and my best friend proceeded to mortify the living crap out of me by bursting into tears & screaming “I LOVE YOU PETERRRRRRR!!!” when he came on stage. Ah, this thread is really bringing back the most poignant memories for me– I love it!
Violent Femmes
Apetite for Destruction – G’nR
KISS Alive
Back n Black – AC/DC
Zeppelin II
Zeppelin IV
Hot Rocks – Stones
Life’s Rich Pageant -REM
Who’s Next – Who
Combat Rock – Clash
high school for me:
replacements-let it be
husker du -new day rising and zen arcade
chili peppers -uplift mofo
bad brains-rock for light
bowie-ziggy
black flag-damaged, my war
echo and the bunnymen-ocean rain
rem-murmer
zepplin-all
stones-all
beatles-all
neil young-harvest
soul asylum-made to be broken
any and all prince
clash-all
ramones-all
kate bush-hounds of love
elvis costello-all, but imperial bedroom has special memories
the jam-snap
the specials-specials and more specials
madness-one step…
the damned
atlanta’s own: neon christ
athens’s own: mercyland
oh, crap. I could do this all day. but i’ve gotta go pay attention to my kids or the might rebel with those tattoos and punk rock music.
rawk!!!!!
Is this actually Jeff Mangum?!?
ha! I wish i had that kind of crazy talent!
oh…I forgot my all time most listened to album in hs and since…Quadrophenia-the who.
TCB, Diana Ross and the Supremes with the Temptations 1968
Magical Mystery Tour 1967
Hey Jude (single) 1968
The Beatles 1968
Elton John 1970
John Prine 1971
Did you have to put the dates? Loved them all, too.
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Aqualung
Imagine
It took a while, but the old folks finally started responding! Now I know I have compatriots (besides Parker Cross) on this blog:
CSN&Y – Déjà Vu
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Van Morrison – Moondance
S&G – Bridge over Troubled Water
Who – Who’s Next
Neil Young – Harvest
> Heard a CSNY cover band in Atlanta (at a bar in P’tree Battle shopping ctr) do a spot on imitation of that entire album one night around 1970.
and how about Blind Faith? But that’s a college memory. Dating myself. Again.
Things that stand out to me about the responses here so far: how few stuck to one album or one band; the near total absence of heavy metal or hardcore (Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Misfits, etc.) or 80s pop icons Madonna, Prince, Talking Heads (my favorite), Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Run DMC (first two albums were huge in my neck of the woods).
My wife was commenting one the lack of 80s pop on this list just a few minutes ago!
The question was, “What takes you back (even against your will)?” If the question was, “What do you like best from the period?” my response would have been different. Can’t speak for how others interpreted and answered.
BrianC, the first Run DMC album was awesome, one of my all time-favorites, just Junior High for me.
Hard Times are coming to your town, watch out home boy, dont let them get you down…
I hated high school as well and music was one of the few things that helped me survive the misery of those five years. Here are my albums:
U2 – War, Unforgettable Fire
Big Country – The Crossing (My first concert as well at the Fox Theater)
The Replacements – Let It Be
R.E.M. – Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction
Husker Du – New Day Rising
Hoodoo Gurus – Stone Age Romeos and Mars Needs Guitars!
I have a clear memory of listening to “Trouble” by Lindsey Buckingham on the bus to school on 96 Rock (now known as Project 96.1). Still one of my favorite songs. I had a cool bus driver who installed at his own expense a stereo so we could listen to the radio. We stayed quiet that way and he stayed sane. That would be 8th grade. Back then, high school in Dekalb County was 8-12 and elementary was 1-7. No middle school.
Was an eighth-grade high-schooler too. A “subbie.” Like being thrown to the wolves. One of my memories of that first year was watching a senior, who looked like a thirty-year old man, bash my best friend’s older brother’s head in with a mop handle.
Yes, it was awful. It would have been far worse for me but my older brother was there my first two years and by his senior year, he was 6 feet, 4 inches, so that helped out a great deal. I went to Sequoyah, which is now a middle school.
Dang! Ya’ll are old!
Beastie Boys Check your Head
Their strongest album by a thousand miles.
B-52s Yellow Album
Any Cars album
Rolling Stones Hot Rocks
I’m not as old as some of that music makes me seem. :-/
Oh… and I didn’t like these bands or albums… but boy did they define freshman year.
Rush – Moving Pictures
Journey – Escape
REO Speedwagon – Hi Infidelity
Styx – Paradise Theatre
Loverboy – Get Lucky (This was the first band I ever saw – age 14)… scary but true I saw them on the Get Lucky tour
You and me both. I wasn’t in high school at the time but I feel sick every time I hear “Keep On Loving You” or “Can’t Fight This Feeling” by REO Speedwagon. The first two records by the B-52s are brilliant.
I was an angsty little 80s chica.
Here was my soundtrack:
Lone Justice – Shelter
Peter Gabriel – So
R.E.M. – Document
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session
10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe (though I bought every one of their albums and had maybe a somewhat unhealthy obsession with Natalie Merchant.)
Cowboy Junkies and 10,000 Maniacs? Oh hell yeah! How did I not mention them before? The Trinity Session rocked my world. And Natalie Merchant was my first rocker grrrrl crush, before I went to college and discovered Juliana Hatfield! Does anyone else remember The Primitives and their incredible debut album Lovely?
Yes! In My Tribe is also a total oversight on my part. I wore that tape out!
I had forgotten about The Primitives. Loved the Blake Babies and Juliana Hatfield! Discovered them, along with a lot of new stuff, dee-jaying on college radio. Those were days …
Lone Justice should have made my list as well.
+ too many to count for 10000 maniacs! natalie merchant used to play in the bars in buffalo, ny before she hit it big time…very very cool! just loaded all of “in my tribe” onto my ipod last summer…not a bad one in the bunch
Talking Heads ’77 and More Songs about Buildings and Food
Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune
Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
Who Are You
Cars first album
B-52’s
A weird mix, now that I think about it. Probably can guess the graduation year with that list. Next time you need a thread starter try college music memories, and we can all trot out our painfully earnest music histories.
Pearl Jam Vs. I had no angst when Ten came out. By Vs. I had plenty and a drivers license to boot.
Projections by The Blues Project
Oh, I can’t stop now.
Everything Playing by Lovin’ Spoonful
Freak Out by the Mothers of Invention
Disraeli Gears by Cream
Memphis Underground by Herbie Mann
Horizontal by the Bee Gees
Child Is Father to the Man by Blood, Sweat and Tears
Tim Hardin 2
In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
Workingman’s Dead by the Grateful Dead
Buffalo Springfield Again
Live at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Music From Big Pink by the Band
Golden Filth by the Fugs.
Now that’s a Lester Bangs playlist I can dig. Multi-spectral. Diversified. Respectable.
Oops. Forgot Axis: Bold as Love.
Definitely! Jotting these down to order on iTunes.
I knew you were b@d@ss, Fats, but not how much till I just saw this. *propers*
I haven’t gotten into the blues stuff that also helped define those years for me. BB King Live at the Regal, Buddy Guy’s A Man and His Blues, Blues Breakers by John Mayall, East West by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Born Under a Bad Sign by Albert King, The Real Folk Blues by Sonny Boy Williamson.
Thanks for the compliment.
OK – is there an award for oldest?? This is more middle school (Junior High, as we used to say) but I bought Elvis’ ‘Hound Dog’ (with ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ on the flip side) at W. T. Grants — with a small hole, and it wasn’t that new fangled 33 1/3 rpm, either! (They broke when you dropped ‘em, sadly) A bit more recently, gotta go with Peter Paul & Mary (Blowin’ In The Wind’) and various Leon Russell, Joe Cocker albums. Freddy King (‘Getting Ready’), George Harrison (Bangladesh Concert set. Check out Billy Preston’s ‘That’s The Way God Planned It’ on the video of that concert – it’s on YouTube) … And the beat goes on… Sorry, went a bit beyond High School here… Hard to stop
http://psychedelic-rocknroll.blogspot.com/2009/03/holy-ghost-reception-committee-9.html
Used to sing these tunes at Monday morning Mass in high school.
My time not as representing on these lists as I might imagine–I’m so old! Small town late 70’s, “Dazed and Confused” is like a documentary of my high school, and no question, the two defining albums of my later high school years were “Boston” and Marshall Tucker’s “Where we All Belong”. That’s from a Missouri girl.
Ditto on “Dazed & Confused”– when I first saw it, I wondered if it had been written by someone I grew up with!
DM—you could do a whole separate post on prom themes!
Agreed. 1984 senior prom – the “Footloose” soundtrack. It still makes me gag, but it does take me back.
DM, could I also ask for a thread on people’s favorite/first/most memorable concerts?
By the way, I have had so much fun reading all these comments. Different people of different ages, lifestyles, outlooks, beliefs, etc. all agreeing on one thing…how important music is in their lives. And you guys have GREAT taste. Keep it going!
you took my second idea for a post…first concert! always an awesome question to ask at parties
Like when the administration wouldn’t let us use “Time in a Bottle” because they thought the bottle represented alcohol! Instead we were stuck with Little River Band: Reminiscing.
Oh that’s incredibly sad! Really? How do you read the lyrics and not understand that’s one of the most beautiful love songs ever written?? (Huuuge Jim Croce fan here.)
I grew up in a wealthy suburb of SF where we listened to Flock of Seagulls and Styx and wore plaid shorts and polo/izod shirts.
I don’t think I’ve seen it here but The Clash’s London Calling was a huge high school influence for me. Still one now, come to think about it.
As an over 60 in age, but still punk in attitude, I love all things Clash.
Smiths self-titled first album, 1983. A godsend and a watershed.
This thread makes me love you all, no matter what we’ve disagreed on in the past…more like this one, DM!!!
Ditto.
Have to add that, at a certain point, I got the feeling I was answering a slightly different question than everybody else, and THAT took me straight back to high school more vividly than anything!
what? no talking heads?
stop making sense already!!!!
Oh, yeah! And Little Creatures. And the Tom Tom Club. But that was all post-college for me.
Clash, Depeche Mode, the Cure, U2 before they sold out with the Joshua Tree, the Furs, Jesus and Mary Chain, OMD, older INXS, Adam and the Ants.
The Sugarcubes–Life’s Too Good
I’ve been turning DM’s question over and over since he raised it. And there were a few good records released between 1968 and 1972. But tonight on NPR there was a story about Marvin Gaye and I thought “That’s it!” What’s Goin On had it all going on.
For your pleasure:
+1,000
That actually transports me to college, though, because that’s when I danced the most and that was always one of my favorites to dance to.
This thread must have taken me deeper into memory’s wilderness than I realized….Late last night, for the first time in well over 20 years, I thought of wanting a cigarette (for about 5 seconds). Last smoked one in Feb ’91 and haven’t truly missed them since sometime that summer. But last night’s recollection was mouth-watering…the Drum tobacco I smoked sometimes in college. (A carton of Marlboros cost about $6 at that time, and a pouch of Drum produced the same number of hand-rolled smokes for 65 cents.) You couldn’t pay me to smoke tobacco now, but man, I sure loved smoking back then. I really miss the idiocy of youth, that made me think smoking cigarettes turned me into a particular person.
I also miss 25-cent beers and being able to eat all the dessert I wanted, and get by on next to no sleep when I needed to. Being 20 is wasted on 20-year olds.
Intended to make a comment on the general thread….Not to confide my tobacco fantasies to you specifically, Parker!
“Being 20 is wasted on 20-year olds.”
exactly!…I’m probably a few years after you…turned 20 in 95…but same feelings! I used to smoke as well, but still want them all the time even though I quit around 99 or so.
all my music is early 90’s.,.
alice in chains
311
blind melon
Dave matthews
gin blossoms
live
matthew sweet
NIN
nivana
Pearl jam
rage
screaming trees
souls asylum
seven mary three
tripping daisy
weezer
all remind me of my high school years 90-94!…maybe early college as well…
London Calling
all of these trips down memory lane makes me feel very breakfast club-ish!
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“don’t you…forget about me” (simple minds for all those too young to know
I cannot believe that nobody mentioned Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.
You just did!
Someone buy that lady a margarita!
and I can’t believe no In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly. I know some of you old folks wore out side 2 of that album. I’ll bet Chris Billingsley did.
It’s definitely on my list.
And with this thread fresh in mind comes news that Adam Yauch, aka MCA, has died. Just damn.
I know, right? RIP, MCA…I will always fight for my right to parrrrrr-TAY!
+1
HS was 88-92 for me.
Motley Crue–Dr. Feelgood
Guns n Roses–Appetite for Destruction
Queensryche–Operation Mindcrime, Empire
Metallica–And Justice for All, the Black album
Then later . . .
REM–Out of Time
Indigo Girls–Rites of Passage
Smiths/Morrissey
Nirvana–Nevermind
Pearl Jam–Ten
Oh, and Faith No More! Anyone else remember them?
Plus, I’ve always loved the Beatles–but they’re every era of my life, not just HS.