Adam Phillips Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 This is an odd topic, I guess, but a few weeks ago, I was listening to a couple of my students talk about songs and albums and how what they liked "long ago," i.e., when they were in high school, lol, is so different from what they like now that they'd "become men." And it got me thinking: What album(s) did I like the year I became a legal-in-this-country man? (21 I mean, of course). The answer came immediately to me: There was a clear standout. Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, by The Dandy Warhols. It's acutely intelligent, both musically and textually. And it's kinda trippy and amorphous, sonically. It got great reviews, not that that means anything. And I can still listen to it with enjoyment today. My favorite track from the album is the hazy, hypnotic "Sleep." So. My question to you, should you choose to answer, is "What album grabbed you the most the year you became a legal adult?" Or, if you're not 21 yet, "What album do you like the most right now?" Link to comment
TetRefine Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Night Visions, by Imagine Dragons. Particularly the songs Tiptoe and Bleeding Out. Link to comment
Site Administrator Valkyrie Posted May 30, 2015 Site Administrator Share Posted May 30, 2015 It's hard to remember back that far, sad to say, but I liked Nirvana's Nevermind and Guns and Roses album with November Rain. Link to comment
Kitt Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I think I owned about half of the monthly top ten album list for that entire year, but the album getting the most play time during the month I turned 21 (Legal was 18 back then) was Endless Love by Dianna Ross & Lionel Richie. It was #2 on the charts for that month. Link to comment
methodwriter85 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I've never really been an album guy, but these were my favorite tunes the year I was 20/21 (2006-2007): "Where'd You Go?" by Fort Minor "When You Were Young" by The Killers "Phantom Limb" by The Shins "Open Your Eyes" by Snow Patrol "Stolen" by Dashboard Confessional "It Ends Tonight" by All American Rejects "Objects of My Affection" by Peter, Bjorn, and John And by the same guys... "Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn, and John Yep, those are my favorite tunes from circa 2006-2007. 1 Link to comment
Puppilull Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Apart from some Swedish bands you all never heard of (Bo Kaspers and Kent) I listened A LOT to Achtung baby by U2. I'm not a huge fan of their other work prior or since, but this album just grabbed me and hasn't let go. I'm immediately transported back to my 18 year old self. I still know the songs by heart. Link to comment
blake_logan Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Mine would be Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. 40 years later, it's still one of my favorites. I have fond memories circa 1993 of listening to "I'm in the high fidelity, first class traveling set and I think I need a Leer Jet" whilst riding in a Gulf Stream somewhere over the middle of the Atlantic 2 Link to comment
Site Administrator Graeme Posted May 30, 2015 Site Administrator Share Posted May 30, 2015 I can't remember exactly for when I turned 18 (the legal age here) or 21, but it was probably Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf. That was my favourite record from about the age of 16 onwards for several years. I used to play it with the headphones on, sitting on the floor of my parents house in the corner of the living room where the sound equipment was located. There wasn't a single song on that album that I didn't enjoy. 2 Link to comment
JamesSavik Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG_n6MtWbiE Honorable mentions: Synchronicity by the Police Let's Dance by David Bowie 2112 by Rush Edited May 31, 2015 by jamessavik Link to comment
Cynus Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 When I turned twenty-one I was just about to finish my term of service as a Mormon missionary. I don't know what you know about Mormons, but on your mission you aren't allowed to listen to any music not sponsored by the church. If I had to answer this question based off of the day that I turned 21, then I would have to answer with an album produced by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir titled "Love is Spoken Here".Just a few months later I was home from that mission and almost immediately I went out and bought a Rise Against Album titled "Appeal to Reason". I'd have to say that I would choose that over the Mormon Tabernacle Choir any day. "It Ends Tonight" by All American Rejects This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Link to comment
Krista Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 *Whistles* Don't mind me shoving my poor taste in music into your faces.. Kelly Clarkson - My December Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Who We Are - Lifehouse Carnival Ride - Carrie Underwood Link to comment
totallyy Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Undoubtedly, Live at Royal Albert Hall - Adele. I'm a sap. Link to comment
Ron Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 (edited) Pink Floyd's The Wall has to be the one. Honorable mention goes to Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door, and The Game from Queen. Edited May 31, 2015 by Ron 1 Link to comment
clochette Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I was 21 in 2013 so I remember listening to: Racine carrée by Stromae Settle by Disclosure If you wait by London Grammar and a lot of Bad Blood by Bastille Link to comment
J.HunterDunn Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Maybe I stretch the definition of "album" a bit, but when I turned 21 (back in the 70's) I just started collecting the cantata's of J.S. Bach in the interpretation of Nicolaus Harnoncourt with his Concentus Musicus Wien. He was the first of the musicians that tried to execute that music authenticly, meaning that authentic instruments were used and the singers were all male (boys for the soprano-parts and counter-tenor for the alto-parts). Every few months a cassette with 2 LP's (vinyl of course) would come out and being a poor university-student I tried to save every cent I could to be able to afford the next one. I got all 200+ of the cantata's in the end and still enjoy them this day. Popular music was not and still is not my thing, although my partner "educated" me just a bit in that field. Link to comment
Never Surrender Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Like Jeremy, i never did albums either but i did do songs! For a legal adult here (18, so in 2012) it probably would have been a mix of things! that was the year i went to college so it was a mix of my real tastes, some indie kid music, and normal club music but stuff like Hurts, Red, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Imagine Dragons then 'those' songs like Call Me Maybe, We Are Young, Die Young, Somebody That I Used to Know, Gangnam Style and Drive By... and then random things like 'before he cheats' and radiohead! oh and Birdy - Skinny Love As for 21, well at the moment, im listening to Bastille, Imagine Dragons, Lana Del Rey, Fall Out Boy, Sam Smith, Red Jumpsuit, OneRepublic, Hurts, Raleigh Ritchie, Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine, etc.. my music tastes are all over the place Link to comment
Adam Phillips Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Maybe I stretch the definition of "album" a bit, but when I turned 21 (back in the 70's) I just started collecting the cantata's of J.S. Bach in the interpretation of Nicolaus Harnoncourt with his Concentus Musicus Wien. He was the first of the musicians that tried to execute that music authenticly, meaning that authentic instruments were used and the singers were all male (boys for the soprano-parts and counter-tenor for the alto-parts). Every few months a cassette with 2 LP's (vinyl of course) would come out and being a poor university-student I tried to save every cent I could to be able to afford the next one. I got all 200+ of the cantata's in the end and still enjoy them this day. Popular music was not and still is not my thing, although my partner "educated" me just a bit in that field. I've listened to--and played--so-called "classical" music since I was in elementary school. So I appreciate your post a lot. As you can see by the other entries, including mine, it's kind of hard to find a group of people at the popular level who listen to that genre of music. But I'm right there with you re: Nicolaus Harnoncourt. I'm generally happy with most of what John Eliot Gardiner did, especially the Bach Christmas Oratorio (how could anybody not break into a smile at the opening chorus?) and his recording of Messiah. Baroque is my favorite period, though right now I'm really enjoying the Mozart Horn concerti as played by Lowell Greer on the cor naturel (how can he DO that without valves? Amazing!!!) I'll talk that kinda music with anybody anytime. So I'm glad at least somebody in thiis post got in a good word for the long-revered Dead White Europeans. 1 Link to comment
Headstall Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Oh so many... Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida... Iron Butterfly Fleetwood Mac... Rumours and Tusk Bob Seger... Night Moves Linda Ronstadt... Simple Dreams America...A Horse With No Name Supertramp... Breakfast in America... Crisis what Crisis Alice Cooper... Billion Dollar Babies The list is endless for me...Doors, Yes, Boz Scaggs, Eagles, Bob Dylan, And for sure... everything Janis Joplin ever did!!! Link to comment
Ashi Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Though I am only 2 years older than you, but I don't think I was listening to Dandy Warhols at that age. That would be year 2001 for me when I turned 21. If there was some album I was listening to, it's probably some classical music. I wasn't very interested in popular music at that age or music in general. I think someone might have introduced Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism to me, but that might have been 2002 or 2003. 2001 was kind of like a blurb to me. Link to comment
PencilScribbler Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I was 21 in 1995 and I worked at an indoor playground called FunDazzle (like Chuck E Cheese) doing kid's birthday parties. The music that played there all day was pretty entertaining. For example I remember hearing 'Eep, Opp, Ork, Ah-ah!' from the Jetsons and Tim Curry's 'Toxic Love' from 'Fern Gully'. Besides that I remember listening to a lot of No Doubt's 'Tragic Kingdom' album and Oasis' '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' album. Link to comment
Site Moderator drpaladin Posted June 2, 2015 Site Moderator Share Posted June 2, 2015 Led Zeppelin IV Link to comment
Bill W Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Mine would have to be 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by the Beatles. Link to comment
Cole Matthews Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Turn of a Friendly Card by Alan Parson's Project. 1 Link to comment
JamesSavik Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Turn of a Friendly Card by Alan Parson's Project. The Parson's Project is great! I really love Ammonia Avenue. Link to comment
MrM Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) Cure ~ Wish Title Track: This was kind of my anthem then as I figured I'd never be able to come Out and find happiness. Not a very happy time in my life. Edited June 3, 2015 by MrM Link to comment
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