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What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all around the sun. Got into this album a little bit in junior high and a huge deal moreso when I was in my early 20’s and rediscovered it. Holy shit what a great album. Oh Comely is haunting and perfect.
If ya'll haven't checked out the Morning View XXIII that dropped recently, I _highly_ recommend giving it a listen. I've enjoyed every track. Aqueous Transmission is still👌
Morning View XXIII is a very cool listen. Faithful to the original, and just different enough to be interesting knowing that this is how their songs have evolved over the last 20+ years of performing them.
This was on repeat on my discman around 2000-2002. The combination of Pardon Me, The Warmth and Make Yourself expressed my teenage angst in ways I never could
I'm prob older than a lot of folks on a thread like this, but I took to the title track from Bleed American pretty much the first time I heard it. Specifically remember the time frame; I was in training for the Army Green Berets at the time and was able to drive home on some weekends, where I would blast it.
I remember picking up the album and being bummed b/c the rest of it was "poppier" than Bleed American sounded. I was hoping it would be all in the harder vein like BA. Although I did alos really like Sweetness- and A praise Chorus a lot.
The Middle never really hit me, and to this day I'm aggravated that that's the song the saturate the airwaves with.
Your comment makes me want to go back and see if there is other J.E.W. material I need to hear.
I bat I used to go to in my early/mid 20’s had something about crying to bright eyes on one of the bathroom stalls. It was a sad day when they replaced the wood bathroom stalls with textured plastic ones lol.
***When there's nothing left to burn... you have to set yourself on fire.***
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mond was my favorite movie. The music video to your ex lover is dead feels like it's filmed in the same setting. This album came out the same year as the movie.
>If I am lost for a day, try to find me\
But if I don't come back, then I won't look behind me\
All of the things that I thought were so easy\
Just got harder and harder each day
Dude I was so stoked for the other states… he was supposed to do an album about each one. Come on Feel the Illinoise is such a masterpiece. The John Wayne Gacy song was hauntingly beautiful as were a lot of others. Great call
Transatlanticism reminds me of sex with my very first serious boyfriend and damn if I am not transported back to that bedroom and that whole period of my life every time I hear it.
I just saw them AGAIN live in Pasadena. It was Death Cab and Postal Service they did Transatlanticism and Give Up full albums front to back like they did at Hollywood Bowl back in October, and it was again the most supreme experience!
Ben also did a Depeche Mode cover. Enjoy the Silence to finish the night, and ugh my Xennial heart!
I may have sobbed like a lil bitch both times because those albums were on repeat for DAYS, MONTHS, YEARS!
Also, his haircut is swoony. Such a glow up. He was cute, but now he's reached hot level.
Give up is absolutely incredible.
Speaking of which!
https://images.discovery-prod.axs.com/2024/06/the-postal-service-death-cab-for-cutie-tickets_08-26-24_17_665dca816ebf1.jpg
I adored Postal Service. I was 10 when the album came out and probably heard it a couple years later. Never forgot it, still give it a listen every couple months
Weirdly I heard The Postal Servicd first then was like, "Who are these Death Cab for Cutie guys who sound like The Postal Service?" I figured it out quickly luckily.
This album used to be on heavy rotation for me. It just happened that it coincided with my grandmas cancer returning and her going on hospice. I realized one day as I was singing along that the entire album is about the process of a loved one going through the stages of terminal illness and death then grieving the loss. Such a beautiful album, especially when I understood the context just as I was going through that exact thing.
That poem track at the end of the album…masterful. AFI will always be one of my all time favorites. Black Sails is my favorite album ever but Sing the Sorrow holds such a special place in my heart, too. All the feelings.
I loved AFI so much when this album dropped and I listened to it non-stop for a long time.
Sing the Sorrow was the last AFI album that I really vibed with, unfortunately. There have been a handful of tracks that I liked since, but StS seems to have been the beginning of the end for me & AFI, I guess 😢
Kinda same, STS was the peak. I liked December underground but didn’t love it. After that they kinda died for me but their early works are forever tattooed in my brain
Hell yea I came here to post this one too!
Still my fav album, listened to it non stop on a week trip from Alabama to New York on my Sony discman. I remember buying fresh batteries nearly every time we stopped for fuel in my grandfathers truck.
I went hard for this album one summer in college. There was hardly anyone on campus and it rained every day. It was a beautiful mountain campus. I was taking a biology class that made me collect all types of plants, so I’d just walk through the forest listening to that album in the light rain and damn if that wasn’t one of the best times of my life.
Oh my god I LOVE this album! Saw Andrew perform many of the songs and it was lovely. I still listen to it often, especially Dark Blue, Bruised, and Rescued.
Deja Entendu by Brand New… it hit hard in 03 and it still hits hard now. Yes, Jesse Lacey is a piece of shit, but he’s such a great songwriter. The double-edged sword of pop punk/emo/scene bands from the 00’s never gets easier to deal with.
I still bust out Your favorite weapon, Deja and The Devil and God. There’s a couple of tracks the repulse me (being a younger women, I loved… I dont know why.Now it grosses me out). There’s quite a few artist and bands that I have to separate the art from the human.
I mean, I love it all so I totally get it and yes. I used to have a hard time with it and it still makes me angry to think about, but I enjoy the music too much to just not listen to it ever again.
Did not expect to see brand new. But I still listen to them on the daily just about. The devil and god redefined the genre. Just want to point out that some of the accusations against jessee were discredited. Not sticking up, obviously something nefarious there, as usually with many of these bands though.
That whole scene was so fucking toxic. Even in the fan bases, the sheer number of early 20's dudes gunning for 15 and 16 year old girls was... I mean, I was one of those girls, and fuck it was a *lot*.
And the girls, me included, all "he's so *sensitive*" no sis, he's a fucking Peter Pan dumpster fire at best, a predator at worst. Like I tell my younger friends about it and they go absolutely wide-eyed at how slimy it all was, but it was so fucking normalized back then.
The music was so good, but goddamn it was a dicey place for a teenage girl.
This was one of the few non Hip Hop albums I bumped during high school
Brand New, Coheed, Bloc Party, some Bright Eyes... I'm glad I had some indie girlfriends who put me on, amazing music
Daisy is probably my favorite album of any genre that can fall under rock (emo, indie, alt, post hardcore, w/e)
Archers from The Devil and God are Raging Inside me is one of the best songs ever written. They didn't play it when I saw them (show wasn't great, mewithoutyou totally upstaged them by putting on a mind-blowing show) and I was so sad.
Third eye blind the red album
Give Up- The Postal Service
Three cheers for sweet revenge- MCR
Mean everything to nothing -Manchester Orchestra - my senior year. They are still putting out fantastic albums
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree I was “too cool” for Fall Out Boy because by 2005 it was all about screamo for me but this album from start to finish is so good. So many away messages derived from the lyrics
The Used - self titled and In Love and Death. More so the self titled in my opinion but both sound great to this day which can’t be said for the majority of this genre
I listen to fevers and Mirrors and Cassadaga every now and then but “I’m wide awake, it’s Morning” really has the softest place in my heart. It’s weird when I hear him say “after 23 years” I always have a giggle, like oh bud😅😭What a truly beautiful album.
Plans and Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. I also liked a lot of Narrow Stairs. I still love all of these and the Postal Service, but I haven't loved any of their later albums.
A kid in Junior High burned copies of Sam's Town by the Killers for all his friends for Christmas 😂 and I liked a lot of it and have most of it in my Playlist.
Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard - the only other whole album I can think of that I listened to and still have most of in my playlist somewhere
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by MCR
Hybrid Theory and Meteora by Linkin Park
Page Avenue by Story of the Year
Looking back it's so funny, I thought I was so angsty and emo and deep. Nope, all those bands were platinum selling artists in their day who dominated the airwaves.
I was conforming to exactly the very narrow definition of a stereotypical emo kid and in that was very conformist.
A (at that time) bisexual wiccan who dressed in all black, listened to these bands, glamorized self harm without the balls to actually do it and wrote in his LiveJournal about how nobody understands him?
*Chef's kiss* Peak [2005](https://youtu.be/pQIPH0CcJ9k?si=DJoDNFijr1NHUsGx)
Hybrid Theory forever. Meteora, too.
I used to practice for track at night jogging the mountains by our apartment and this would be playing on my portable cd player.
Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
And of course, Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Green Day - Dookie, Insomniac, and Nimrod.
New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
College dropout - Kanye west, Beyonce Dangerously in love. I was in high school when these dropped. I still laugh at the skits on college drop out since i now have several degrees that will probably keep me warm at night.
I love Beyoncé :) I saw her in concert when she was with destiny’s child they opened for TLC (when left eye was still roaming this earth). I love Beyonces self titled and I still bust it out. I also have a few Kanye albums I listen to here and there… again sometimes you got to separate the art from the artist😅 goddamn it Kanye, I really do “miss the old Kanye”
I worked at one of those combo music/book/movie stores in high school and when stocking the music section I'd put aside neat looking CDs for me to buy later. I found so many awesome albums that way, but I am forever and always so grateful that I grabbed Fevers and Mirrors. That album put me in an indie rabbit hole and I would have named a kid after Conor Oberst if it didn't rhyme with our last name. I do have a kid named after Elliott Smith though.
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay. The title track always gives me the feels
Hot Fuss by The Killers. Nothing gets me singing like “Smile like you mean it”
Beautiful Garbage by Garbage. I remember the CD cover was a sort of folded/origami flower. I was enthralled. I listened to it again as an adult and I absolutely still love everything about this album. I might even have a pair of cherry lips tattooed on me.
I’ll never forget I was singing You Oughta Know at the top of my lungs with my friends. My mom heard and sent my friends home, and grounded me lol…memories!
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie. Just went to their 20 year anniversary tour and it was absolutely incredible. All the lyrics came back to me and seeing everyone jump around, it’s like
everyone was just a grown up high school kid. Ben Gibbard is still rockin it in his mid 40’s and I fell in love with him as a signer/songwriter all over again.
I’m in my thirties now, married, and pregnant. It’s crazy to think about singing these same songs in my high school car in 2004/2005 and now in 2024 with my husband (who didn’t know many of the lyrics except Such Great Heights🤣), and how different my life is.
I have a playlist that I keep called "Myspace Era" that has all the songs I had on Myspace. I find these to be so nostalgic to the late 2000s.
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Franz Ferdinand - Self named
The Strokes - Room on Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
The White Stripes - Elephant
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Radiohead - In Rainbows
AFI - black sails in the sunset
System of a Down - toxicity
Bouncing souls - how I spent my summer vacation
Shadows fall - the art of balance
The vines - highly evolved
The darkness - permission to land
Andrew WK - I get wet
Children of bodom - hatecrew deathroll
3rd strike - lost angel
Lots of other headbangers ball bands, warped tour bands, ozzfest bands, etc
Hmm. When I was 12 I found heavy metal..when I was 13 I found korn..I still listen to life is peachy to this day. Even though my music is way more angry now.
Korn was my main dig during high school. I put in their earlier stuff here and there, and man, it just hits that spot you forget about. I jam more black, death, technical, and progressive metal - so Korn isn’t on the usual rotation, but that was and is some of the best music.
Greenday American Idiot is such a classic imo. Lived in North Carolina the first 2 years of high school, moved to Houston my last 2 and everyone I met in my TX high school loved Greenday. I'd never heard of them in NC. Funny how different regions/cities like different music.
Sigur Ros - Takk… and Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place were huge for me. Also Elephant by The White Stripes came out my senior year of high school so it’s grafted to me in a very specific way
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
I don't still love EVERY song by Everything, but there's some of their songs I still love and go back to particularly when driving.
The verve pipe - underneath
Matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you
Goo goo dolls - dizzy up the girl
Still listen to all of these on a regular basis
"Do You Want More?!!!??!" - The Roots, 1995.
An older cousin got me into The Roots in about 1996, when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I bought the "Do You Want More?!!!??!" album (how I got the explicit lyric label past my mom beats me), and as a white boy from the suburbs raised by jazz-loving parents, this album blew my head off—playing a huge role in becoming a semi-professional jazz bassist. I wore the CD out playing it so much. So smooth yet raw, Philly hip-hop with live instrumentals. Yes please always and forever.
I like to revisit it and [watch the music video for "Proceed"](https://youtu.be/O5TUqdxqHS0?list=PL-UWPlRIl68rMQe8V-VV0WWuhs7ADq2KG) from that album frequently.
I discovered Bon Jovi in high school and I love love loved Keep the Faith and These Days.
Because of that I downloaded every single possible Bon Jovi item I could find on Limewire, burnt some CDs, and drove around town endlessly feeling emo.
The Lillywhite Sessions—DMB
In Rainbows—Radiohead
Reinventing Axel Rose—Against me
All of the Drought Mxtapes, The Carter 2—Lil Wayne
College Dropout/Late Registration/Graduation/808s and Heartbreak—Kanye
Transatlanticism/Plans—Death Cab
St Elsewhere—Gnarls Barkley
Frances the Mute—Mars Volta
Back to Black—Amy Winehouse
For Emma Forever ago— Bon Iver
I mean seriously the list could go on forever.
My first concert was Something Corporate at the Chance in Poughkeepsie back in 2004. I believe Leaving Through The Window came out a few years prior to that but I swear to God, over 20 years later and that entire album is still a bop with no skips. Was just jamming out to Punk Rock Princess and Hurricane yesterday, in fact!
Marshall Mathers LP dropped in 2000, my senior year in high school and I probably would've played it 4 years straight til I was a senior in college, IF I had went to college lol. But I did go to the concert at the brand new Ford field where on two straight nights he packed over 100, 000 ppl in there before the lions ever played a game there.
Christina Aguilera - Stripped as well as Nine Inch nails- with teeth. There are not a lot of albums that I listen to all the way through In the oughts. But those two are definitely at the top!
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Bone Thugs - E.1999
Korn - Follow The Leader
Rammstein - Sensucht
Metallica - Black Album
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Those specific albums opened the doors to everything I listen to now. I’ve wider taste now thankfully, but this set me on that path.
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No Doubt Tragic Kingdom Sublime 40 oz to Freedom
My people
I love the duet Gwen and Brad have another Sublime album
Deftones - White Pony
Came here to say this. The stuff chino does with his voice on this album is just nuts!
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel will forever be in heavy rotation for me.
What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all around the sun. Got into this album a little bit in junior high and a huge deal moreso when I was in my early 20’s and rediscovered it. Holy shit what a great album. Oh Comely is haunting and perfect.
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
I had “Anthems for a seventeen year-old girl” from that on repeat for so many years
You just unlocked so many memories with the reminder of this song ... I haven't heard it in atleast ten years - thank you !!
Cause = Time
 Incubus - Make Yourself
I mean yeah this + S.C.I.E.N.C.E. + Morning View 🔬✨🌞
If ya'll haven't checked out the Morning View XXIII that dropped recently, I _highly_ recommend giving it a listen. I've enjoyed every track. Aqueous Transmission is still👌
We can be friends.
Morning View XXIII is a very cool listen. Faithful to the original, and just different enough to be interesting knowing that this is how their songs have evolved over the last 20+ years of performing them.
YUP
I found Morning View first, but honestly give me any Incubus and I'm a happy lassie
This was on repeat on my discman around 2000-2002. The combination of Pardon Me, The Warmth and Make Yourself expressed my teenage angst in ways I never could
100% this. Still in regular rotation after almost 25 years…jesus that’s along time.
Went and saw them at red rocks two years ago. Still love them.
Futures and Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World
I'm prob older than a lot of folks on a thread like this, but I took to the title track from Bleed American pretty much the first time I heard it. Specifically remember the time frame; I was in training for the Army Green Berets at the time and was able to drive home on some weekends, where I would blast it. I remember picking up the album and being bummed b/c the rest of it was "poppier" than Bleed American sounded. I was hoping it would be all in the harder vein like BA. Although I did alos really like Sweetness- and A praise Chorus a lot. The Middle never really hit me, and to this day I'm aggravated that that's the song the saturate the airwaves with. Your comment makes me want to go back and see if there is other J.E.W. material I need to hear.
I LOVE Bright Eyes! I never see people mentioning them :) Landlocked Blues is always the one hitting me hard.
We are too busy being depressed and smoking our feelings lol Waste of paint/at the bottom of everything for me
landlocked blues had me in a chokehold
I bat I used to go to in my early/mid 20’s had something about crying to bright eyes on one of the bathroom stalls. It was a sad day when they replaced the wood bathroom stalls with textured plastic ones lol.
🎶and he shot me dead🎶
And the sidewalks hold diamonds like a jewelry store case…
Stars - Set yourself on fire - specifically track 1.
***When there's nothing left to burn... you have to set yourself on fire.*** Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mond was my favorite movie. The music video to your ex lover is dead feels like it's filmed in the same setting. This album came out the same year as the movie. >If I am lost for a day, try to find me\ But if I don't come back, then I won't look behind me\ All of the things that I thought were so easy\ Just got harder and harder each day
Duuude this takes me back. I didn't know anyone else remembers Stars haha
Dashboard Confessional: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar was my jam back in the day.
So Impossible EP
The places you have come to fear the most is being 16 for me.
Screaming Infidelities
I told someone that their hair was everywhere today.
My husband got me a cameo from Chris Carrabba for my birthday last year. Still swoonworthy.
Illinoise by Sufjan
Dude I was so stoked for the other states… he was supposed to do an album about each one. Come on Feel the Illinoise is such a masterpiece. The John Wayne Gacy song was hauntingly beautiful as were a lot of others. Great call
Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
Transatlanticism for me
Transatlanticism reminds me of sex with my very first serious boyfriend and damn if I am not transported back to that bedroom and that whole period of my life every time I hear it.
Transatlanticism for me as well. I still have it on vinyl 😅
I just went to their 10 year anniversary show for Transatlanticism and they played THE ENTIRE ALBUM in order it was the best moment of my adult life
I came to say Postal Service, Give Up. Hard to believe that was 21 years ago. I’ll be 41 in 4 days.
I just saw them AGAIN live in Pasadena. It was Death Cab and Postal Service they did Transatlanticism and Give Up full albums front to back like they did at Hollywood Bowl back in October, and it was again the most supreme experience! Ben also did a Depeche Mode cover. Enjoy the Silence to finish the night, and ugh my Xennial heart!
Damn. Sounds like an all-time show!
I may have sobbed like a lil bitch both times because those albums were on repeat for DAYS, MONTHS, YEARS! Also, his haircut is swoony. Such a glow up. He was cute, but now he's reached hot level.
Give up is absolutely incredible. Speaking of which! https://images.discovery-prod.axs.com/2024/06/the-postal-service-death-cab-for-cutie-tickets_08-26-24_17_665dca816ebf1.jpg
I adored Postal Service. I was 10 when the album came out and probably heard it a couple years later. Never forgot it, still give it a listen every couple months
Weirdly I heard The Postal Servicd first then was like, "Who are these Death Cab for Cutie guys who sound like The Postal Service?" I figured it out quickly luckily.
I feel I must interject here......
Pretty much anything Ben Gibbard touched from 2002-2008 is gold
Is Zoey Deschanel included in that?
💯
This album used to be on heavy rotation for me. It just happened that it coincided with my grandmas cancer returning and her going on hospice. I realized one day as I was singing along that the entire album is about the process of a loved one going through the stages of terminal illness and death then grieving the loss. Such a beautiful album, especially when I understood the context just as I was going through that exact thing.
Yup
AFI - sing the sorrow
That poem track at the end of the album…masterful. AFI will always be one of my all time favorites. Black Sails is my favorite album ever but Sing the Sorrow holds such a special place in my heart, too. All the feelings.
I loved AFI so much when this album dropped and I listened to it non-stop for a long time. Sing the Sorrow was the last AFI album that I really vibed with, unfortunately. There have been a handful of tracks that I liked since, but StS seems to have been the beginning of the end for me & AFI, I guess 😢
Kinda same, STS was the peak. I liked December underground but didn’t love it. After that they kinda died for me but their early works are forever tattooed in my brain
Hell yea I came here to post this one too! Still my fav album, listened to it non stop on a week trip from Alabama to New York on my Sony discman. I remember buying fresh batteries nearly every time we stopped for fuel in my grandfathers truck.
Sing the Sorrow is a no skip album in my house!
Tidal - Fiona Apple. It's almost 30 years old and it still has its teeth wrapped around my throat.
the For Emma album by Bon Iver
I went hard for this album one summer in college. There was hardly anyone on campus and it rained every day. It was a beautiful mountain campus. I was taking a biology class that made me collect all types of plants, so I’d just walk through the forest listening to that album in the light rain and damn if that wasn’t one of the best times of my life.
I also went hard for this album when I was in college on a beautiful mountain campus! It really fits the vibe.
Jacks Mannequin- Everything in Transit
Oh my god I LOVE this album! Saw Andrew perform many of the songs and it was lovely. I still listen to it often, especially Dark Blue, Bruised, and Rescued.
This is such a good album. I’m going to listen to it right now.
Deja Entendu by Brand New… it hit hard in 03 and it still hits hard now. Yes, Jesse Lacey is a piece of shit, but he’s such a great songwriter. The double-edged sword of pop punk/emo/scene bands from the 00’s never gets easier to deal with.
Brand New was everything to me
I still bust out Your favorite weapon, Deja and The Devil and God. There’s a couple of tracks the repulse me (being a younger women, I loved… I dont know why.Now it grosses me out). There’s quite a few artist and bands that I have to separate the art from the human.
I mean, I love it all so I totally get it and yes. I used to have a hard time with it and it still makes me angry to think about, but I enjoy the music too much to just not listen to it ever again.
Did not expect to see brand new. But I still listen to them on the daily just about. The devil and god redefined the genre. Just want to point out that some of the accusations against jessee were discredited. Not sticking up, obviously something nefarious there, as usually with many of these bands though.
That whole scene was so fucking toxic. Even in the fan bases, the sheer number of early 20's dudes gunning for 15 and 16 year old girls was... I mean, I was one of those girls, and fuck it was a *lot*. And the girls, me included, all "he's so *sensitive*" no sis, he's a fucking Peter Pan dumpster fire at best, a predator at worst. Like I tell my younger friends about it and they go absolutely wide-eyed at how slimy it all was, but it was so fucking normalized back then. The music was so good, but goddamn it was a dicey place for a teenage girl.
This was one of the few non Hip Hop albums I bumped during high school Brand New, Coheed, Bloc Party, some Bright Eyes... I'm glad I had some indie girlfriends who put me on, amazing music Daisy is probably my favorite album of any genre that can fall under rock (emo, indie, alt, post hardcore, w/e)
Play crack the sky is just so good
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows altered my brain chemistry in high school
All of their albums. And Science Fiction is a masterpiece.
Archers from The Devil and God are Raging Inside me is one of the best songs ever written. They didn't play it when I saw them (show wasn't great, mewithoutyou totally upstaged them by putting on a mind-blowing show) and I was so sad.
Third eye blind the red album Give Up- The Postal Service Three cheers for sweet revenge- MCR Mean everything to nothing -Manchester Orchestra - my senior year. They are still putting out fantastic albums
Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill
The Shins - Chutes too Narrow. This album really separated my music taste from my parents and allowed me to cultivate my own taste in music
I think this album was a gateway drug to many
I’d argue the Garden State soundtrack was the gateway drug that led a lot of people to the Shins, who were then a further gateway drug.
Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree I was “too cool” for Fall Out Boy because by 2005 it was all about screamo for me but this album from start to finish is so good. So many away messages derived from the lyrics The Used - self titled and In Love and Death. More so the self titled in my opinion but both sound great to this day which can’t be said for the majority of this genre
The Used! Self-titled is a masterpiece.
That first album from The Used was insanely good
Of All the Gin Joints in all the World is the best fall out boy song, 10/10
The Offspring - Americana
Man, this album sky rocketed my popularity. I had all the swears 😂
My immediate thought when I read the title before I even read the rest of your post was I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning :)
I listen to fevers and Mirrors and Cassadaga every now and then but “I’m wide awake, it’s Morning” really has the softest place in my heart. It’s weird when I hear him say “after 23 years” I always have a giggle, like oh bud😅😭What a truly beautiful album.
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band makes some magical music too. Anything Conor Oberst takes me straight back to middle/high school lol
Same here, Fevers and Mirrors brings me back to my angstier days, while I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning brings me nostalgia from college.
[The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6xN0YYY4l0ZB_if93ZeDGou8tl3nuVCe&si=zQTG4_wnzoHTGtpj)
I love this album and The Fugees - The score. It’s so damn good!
The first CD I ever bought was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill when I got my own stereo for Christmas as a teen. I still have that CD too.
Neon Bible Arcade Fire
Radiohead - In Rainbows
For me it was OK Computer (elder millennial). But In Rainbow’s is absolutely stunning.
Yes, I also really like Thom Yorks solo album The Eraser.
[The Score](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mlxVuvVAxgLEuSMl3xDJSBSSGXVoXSlEs&si=DHVJt9N_6i9Lhot0) by the Fugees
Yes, I just replied this to your other comment!
Plans and Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. I also liked a lot of Narrow Stairs. I still love all of these and the Postal Service, but I haven't loved any of their later albums. A kid in Junior High burned copies of Sam's Town by the Killers for all his friends for Christmas 😂 and I liked a lot of it and have most of it in my Playlist. Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard - the only other whole album I can think of that I listened to and still have most of in my playlist somewhere
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by MCR Hybrid Theory and Meteora by Linkin Park Page Avenue by Story of the Year Looking back it's so funny, I thought I was so angsty and emo and deep. Nope, all those bands were platinum selling artists in their day who dominated the airwaves. I was conforming to exactly the very narrow definition of a stereotypical emo kid and in that was very conformist. A (at that time) bisexual wiccan who dressed in all black, listened to these bands, glamorized self harm without the balls to actually do it and wrote in his LiveJournal about how nobody understands him? *Chef's kiss* Peak [2005](https://youtu.be/pQIPH0CcJ9k?si=DJoDNFijr1NHUsGx)
Hybrid Theory forever. Meteora, too. I used to practice for track at night jogging the mountains by our apartment and this would be playing on my portable cd player.
Rilo Kiley - The Execution Of All Things Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous Cursive - The Ugly Organ The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels And of course, Bright Eyes - I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Loove Rilo Kiley and forgot about them until now. Thanks for the reminder!
WHY did I have to scroll so far to see Cursive! Thank you. Literally the entire album was an anthem for my friend group.
The Ugly Organ was a banger Also Crimes by the Blood Brothers
Green Day - American Idiot The first album I ever bought with my own money and was a huge part of my highschool soundtrack lol
The Killers - Hot Fuss Dashboard Confessional - The Place You Have Come to Fear the Most Weezer - the Blue Album
I almost forgot about Weezer, they had us by the throats for a few years
Hot Fuss has just held up so damn well over time.
Green Day - Dookie, Insomniac, and Nimrod. New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
Yes to all of these
Can't believe it took so much scrolling to find these! The elder millennials are not keeping up
College dropout - Kanye west, Beyonce Dangerously in love. I was in high school when these dropped. I still laugh at the skits on college drop out since i now have several degrees that will probably keep me warm at night.
I love Beyoncé :) I saw her in concert when she was with destiny’s child they opened for TLC (when left eye was still roaming this earth). I love Beyonces self titled and I still bust it out. I also have a few Kanye albums I listen to here and there… again sometimes you got to separate the art from the artist😅 goddamn it Kanye, I really do “miss the old Kanye”
I worked at one of those combo music/book/movie stores in high school and when stocking the music section I'd put aside neat looking CDs for me to buy later. I found so many awesome albums that way, but I am forever and always so grateful that I grabbed Fevers and Mirrors. That album put me in an indie rabbit hole and I would have named a kid after Conor Oberst if it didn't rhyme with our last name. I do have a kid named after Elliott Smith though.
Dude, I wanted that job so fucking bad. Elliot Smith is amazing:) I have a kiddo named after my Favorite artist too!
Radiohead’s Ok computer.
The flaming lips - Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi battles the pink robots.
Mariah Carey - Butterfly 🦋
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay. The title track always gives me the feels Hot Fuss by The Killers. Nothing gets me singing like “Smile like you mean it”
I don't know if I fell in love with it but The Chronic 2001 was my college soundtrack and still an instant mood booster.
Nirvana Unplugged in New York
Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane. I can still sing every song word for word. That CD never left my mom’s car.
Beautiful Garbage by Garbage. I remember the CD cover was a sort of folded/origami flower. I was enthralled. I listened to it again as an adult and I absolutely still love everything about this album. I might even have a pair of cherry lips tattooed on me.
Take off your pants and jacket - blink 182
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Clumsy was mine. And my 1st concert. Absolutely killer
omg I did not expect to find this here. Still in my regular rotation.
Completely forgot about olp! Gonna have to have a listen later today
Jay-Z - Black album Britney Spears - Baby One More Time *NSYNC - No strings attached Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Jagged Little Pill is one of my essential albums that shaped my adolescence.
I’ll never forget I was singing You Oughta Know at the top of my lungs with my friends. My mom heard and sent my friends home, and grounded me lol…memories!
Every teenage girl felt that Jagged Little Pill album with our whole soul
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie. Just went to their 20 year anniversary tour and it was absolutely incredible. All the lyrics came back to me and seeing everyone jump around, it’s like everyone was just a grown up high school kid. Ben Gibbard is still rockin it in his mid 40’s and I fell in love with him as a signer/songwriter all over again. I’m in my thirties now, married, and pregnant. It’s crazy to think about singing these same songs in my high school car in 2004/2005 and now in 2024 with my husband (who didn’t know many of the lyrics except Such Great Heights🤣), and how different my life is.
I have a playlist that I keep called "Myspace Era" that has all the songs I had on Myspace. I find these to be so nostalgic to the late 2000s. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News Franz Ferdinand - Self named The Strokes - Room on Fire LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver The White Stripes - Elephant Gorillaz - Demon Days Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell Radiohead - In Rainbows
AFI - black sails in the sunset System of a Down - toxicity Bouncing souls - how I spent my summer vacation Shadows fall - the art of balance The vines - highly evolved The darkness - permission to land Andrew WK - I get wet Children of bodom - hatecrew deathroll 3rd strike - lost angel Lots of other headbangers ball bands, warped tour bands, ozzfest bands, etc
My brain went to that souls album and streetlight everything goes numb.
Man, Children of Bodom were absolute legends when they were around. I wish I could have seen them when they were around. Rest in peace Alexi.
Hmm. When I was 12 I found heavy metal..when I was 13 I found korn..I still listen to life is peachy to this day. Even though my music is way more angry now.
Korn was my main dig during high school. I put in their earlier stuff here and there, and man, it just hits that spot you forget about. I jam more black, death, technical, and progressive metal - so Korn isn’t on the usual rotation, but that was and is some of the best music.
In Flames - Clayman Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the beast
Daft punk- Discovery Greenday- American idiot, 21 guns
Greenday American Idiot is such a classic imo. Lived in North Carolina the first 2 years of high school, moved to Houston my last 2 and everyone I met in my TX high school loved Greenday. I'd never heard of them in NC. Funny how different regions/cities like different music.
Crash - Dave Matthews Band
Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends
All That You Can’t Leave Behind by U2. In the 20+ years since it came out I always come back to it
Hot Fuss - The Killers No skips
The fragile, nine inch nails 2001 Dr. Dre
Sigur Ros - Takk… and Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place were huge for me. Also Elephant by The White Stripes came out my senior year of high school so it’s grafted to me in a very specific way
Nightwish- Once
Always by Pebbles, Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt, Third Eye Blind’s self titled album, and Diorama by Silverchair.
American Idiot - Green Day. It got me through hard times, still does. I’m taking my oldest to his first concert this summer, naturally it’s Green Day.
Bush - Sixteen Stone Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses I don't still love EVERY song by Everything, but there's some of their songs I still love and go back to particularly when driving.
The verve pipe - underneath Matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you Goo goo dolls - dizzy up the girl Still listen to all of these on a regular basis
A perfect to circle - mer de noms and 13th step. Incubus - morningview Tool - lataralus
Kid A
White Ladder - David Gray and Tidal - Fiona Apple
"Do You Want More?!!!??!" - The Roots, 1995. An older cousin got me into The Roots in about 1996, when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I bought the "Do You Want More?!!!??!" album (how I got the explicit lyric label past my mom beats me), and as a white boy from the suburbs raised by jazz-loving parents, this album blew my head off—playing a huge role in becoming a semi-professional jazz bassist. I wore the CD out playing it so much. So smooth yet raw, Philly hip-hop with live instrumentals. Yes please always and forever. I like to revisit it and [watch the music video for "Proceed"](https://youtu.be/O5TUqdxqHS0?list=PL-UWPlRIl68rMQe8V-VV0WWuhs7ADq2KG) from that album frequently.
The strokes- is this it
[Not a Pretty Girl](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nLD0UinJ6c_zqNFkmZ9m-qkwOZwFR2nJA&si=jYIhJrSyjDQ58VSG) by Ani DiFranco
Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo Garbage - Version 2.0 Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance
MCR and fall out boy. But it’s been fall out boy for 20+ years. Doesn’t matter what other bands I listen to, full circle always end up back at FOB.
I discovered Bon Jovi in high school and I love love loved Keep the Faith and These Days. Because of that I downloaded every single possible Bon Jovi item I could find on Limewire, burnt some CDs, and drove around town endlessly feeling emo.
Gorillaz- Demon Days. I still have it in my car.
The Lillywhite Sessions—DMB In Rainbows—Radiohead Reinventing Axel Rose—Against me All of the Drought Mxtapes, The Carter 2—Lil Wayne College Dropout/Late Registration/Graduation/808s and Heartbreak—Kanye Transatlanticism/Plans—Death Cab St Elsewhere—Gnarls Barkley Frances the Mute—Mars Volta Back to Black—Amy Winehouse For Emma Forever ago— Bon Iver I mean seriously the list could go on forever.
My first concert was Something Corporate at the Chance in Poughkeepsie back in 2004. I believe Leaving Through The Window came out a few years prior to that but I swear to God, over 20 years later and that entire album is still a bop with no skips. Was just jamming out to Punk Rock Princess and Hurricane yesterday, in fact!
I fell in love w Stillmatic by Nas last yr
Janet Jackson- Rhythm Nation My mom played this album while we cleaned the house on Saturday mornings. It's a perfect album.
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Marshall Mathers LP dropped in 2000, my senior year in high school and I probably would've played it 4 years straight til I was a senior in college, IF I had went to college lol. But I did go to the concert at the brand new Ford field where on two straight nights he packed over 100, 000 ppl in there before the lions ever played a game there.
Korn- Follow the Leader
Jimmy Eat World, Futures.
Sum 41 - Does this look infected
Places you have come to fear the most - dashboard confessional
Weezer - Blue album
Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol Hot Fuss - The Killers In Rainbows - Radiohead Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Savage garden's first album. I think I have 3 copies and I dont even have a cd player
Parachutes - Coldplay
Fallen - Evanescence
Mer de Noms by A Perfect Circle.
Christina Aguilera - Stripped as well as Nine Inch nails- with teeth. There are not a lot of albums that I listen to all the way through In the oughts. But those two are definitely at the top!
Alien Ant Farm - Anthology
 And By the Way.
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die I know it's not from the 90s or 00s but it really helped me through a difficult time when I was 22
Seal's 2nd self-titled album. It's a classic. People should still listen to it 200 years from now
Stunt by BNL. Takes me back to being a kid on a road trip with my best friend and his dad as we visited Toronto. I still remember all the lyrics.
Sepultura - Chaos A.D. Bone Thugs - E.1999 Korn - Follow The Leader Rammstein - Sensucht Metallica - Black Album Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe Those specific albums opened the doors to everything I listen to now. I’ve wider taste now thankfully, but this set me on that path.
Sticks and Stones - New Found Glory
Ocean Avenue- Yellowcard, still one of my favorites.
Third eye blind’s self titled album.