What Album Had The Biggest Impact On You As a Teenager

[canada-man]

 

[james t kirk]

This one

Cut through me like a sword at age17.

 

[shack]

Actually, now that you mention it... those K-Tel compilations gave me a taste for many bands and music genres and styles that I would otherwise not even know about.

 

[anon1]

The 3-sided Monty Python album.

 

[tml]

Though it does little to dispel the myth / stereotype that Rush fans are a bunch of nerds who can’t get laid.

Up to the last 10 years or so RUSH concerts were referred to as "sausage fests".

 

[K Douglas]

Chicago 67

First heard that album in my 30's and was blown away. That was Chicago I asked myself? Certainly a different sound than what I grew up with in the 80's.

 

[K Douglas]

This one

Cut through me like a sword at age17.

I think Sunday Bloody Sunday (my favorite U2 track) was on there.

 

[james t kirk]

I think Sunday Bloody Sunday (my favorite U2 track) was on there.

Indeed it was.

Side 1, Song 1

This one's for you K, the most intense version of Sunday Bloody Sunday ever recorded and back when U2 and Bono were their own choir.

 

[Sonic Temple]

All TERB proves is that Rush fans are a bunch of nerds that paid to get laid!

 

[onomatopoeia]

U2 Live at Red Rocks from VHS

Alternate MTV TV rip

Left-click the link to watch online. Right-click -> 'save link as...' to download.

 

[Ponderling]

Just sprang for two new styli for spare phono cartridges. So I can continue to enjoy the vinyl of my youth that still resonates to this day.

I find you just cant pop round the record store any more when they wear out or get damaged.

So I keep spares on hand to slot into any of the 5 working turntables found in different spots in the house and back yard man cave.

 

[Boss Nass]

In the Court of the Crimson King, by King Crimson

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[jeff2]

Maybe not the biggest impact, but impact nonetheless.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Still in my teens, just, but this one killed. Became a lifelong fan.
I was wearing my Trout Mask Replica t shirt in Safe ways one morning a decade or so ago. and the guy behind the till said "I love your T shirt. I have no idea what the fuck it means, but I love it" a convert.

 

[Ebony Booty Lover]

Two for me:

Check your head
Ill Communication

Both by the Beastie Boys

 

[shack]

In the Court of the Crimson King, by King Crimson

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I had a buddy that had a tiny little room on the top floor of his house where we'd hang out for hours just toking away.

He had this painted on the ceiling. It was an irregular shape, not flat. Always freaked me out.

 

[Scholar]

Metallica Black and Wu Tang Forever. Different genres but the albums that turned me on to rock and hip hop.

 

[GeeBee]

First place: Who’s Next
My friends and I wore out our copies of the vinyl and I’ve probably listened to the whole album a thousand times over the years once the indestructible CD came along. Even after all that I still get goosebumps and crank the car stereo to 11 when I hear the first notes of Baba O’Riley

Second place: Pink Floyd’s The Wall
The whole thing does it for me, but Comfortably Numb sends my brain to places in my past like no other tune ever has. I know Floyd really is stoner music, but I get a genuine contact high just hearing Dave Gilmour play those solos.

 

[Ponderling]

First place: Who’s Next
My friends and I wore out our copies of the vinyl and I’ve probably listened to the whole album a thousand times over the years once the indestructible CD came along. Even after all that I still get goosebumps and crank the car stereo to 11 when I hear the first notes of Baba O’Riley

My kid, born 2003, discovered the Who all on his own. Youtube I believe. Heard him humming the tunes one day, and asked if he would like to listen to the whole albums.
His face lit up in a huge smile.
No, I was not going to spring for Apple Music for him.
But I taught him how to spin my old vinyl.
And he spent quite a few weeks on each issue of The Who.

 

[onomatopoeia]

First place: Who’s Next
My friends and I wore out our copies of the vinyl and I’ve probably listened to the whole album a thousand times over the years once the indestructible CD came along. Even after all that I still get goosebumps and crank the car stereo to 11 when I hear the first notes of Baba O’Riley

I remember a bar band in Quebec, late 1970's, where all the members were French speaking, and understood no English except for the words which are used in joual. They sang in English, approximating the lyrics to the best of their understanding from listening to the records.

When they played Baba O'Riley, The vocalist sang "Teenage spaceman".