I’m listening to Audioslave’s self titled. It’s still perfect. What’s yours?
Weird Al Yankovic in 3D.
Polka Party! by “Weird Al” Yankovic
Ænima
You were listening to that at ten?!
I didn’t understand it but it was like nothing I’d ever heard before.
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Funny story time - it seemed like everyone had or wanted to have that album when it came out. We did not have it though because it was hard to find in my village. A boy I knew had the album and agreed to make a recording for me on cassette. I was super pumped and got the tape from him on Friday at school before a slumber party with my besties. Saturday morning we’re all sitting around the table with my friend’s huge family and they pulled out a cassette player and set it in the center of the table. The first three tracks played while we’re monching pancakes and I was so chuffed to have brought this sought after album. Then “Thriller” came on - the song - which is nearly six minutes long. Everyone knows the song and it’s ramping up but then suddenly the music cuts out with a click. It was the boy who recorded it speaking in to a mic saying, “Elaine, I recorded this for you because I love you.” Mind you, I’m ten so the entire room - adults and kids are dying of laughter while I was desperately trying to crawl across the table to shut it off. Someone grabbed the tape player from my reach and I died instantly. This is my clone typing this in 2024.
Oh my god.
When I was ten Master of Puppets and Slippery When Wet were both released and awesome.
That said, and as a fan of the wierd and heavy, Graceland by Paul Simon was also released and is one of the best albums of all time.
Green Day. Dookie.
The Offspring - Smash
Ooh that’s a good from when I was 10, too. I didn’t become fully obsessed with them until Americana, though. I don’t think any other cd has ever gotten as much play as that one.
Americana was a great one, too. That was more like high school days for me, though. I was getting more into Tool around the time that came out.
Its funny, the Offspring was the first band I ever found I liked outside of my parent’s interests and as I get older, their earlier albums just sound better and better to me
Weird Al Yankovic - Off the Deep End
Comes down to one of two, and to varying degrees they both hold up.
- Dare to be Stupid by Weird Al. Not a single miss, Al possibly at the height of his powers, and that’s saying a lot.
- The Top Gun soundtrack. Whammy bar intensifies: wah wah wah, wanna wanna wah wah, wanna WAH wanna WAH, wanna WAH wah.
Machine Head, Deep Purple.
When I was 10 I didn’t listen to music because my parents didn’t listen to music. Sometimes we were listening to the radio and I specifically remember liking this one song “Lady Pank - Mniej niż zero” (which means less then zero and I was always wondering how something can be less then zero).
This is such a vibe.
Nevermind
Aw come on, they were just asking
Brandy’s first album. Or TLC’s. Both of those tapes got played to deaaath. But my real favorite was probably whatever mixtape my sister and I had most recently made from the radio because that shit was custom. No skips.
Yessss. One thing I really miss is making custom mixes. (Though it was cds for me). A playlist isn’t quite the same.
Has to be Jesus Christ Superstar (original 1970 album version). I got into all sorts of other artists a little bit later, but that was the first bit of music to really hook me. I remember walking around the schoolyard alone listening to it on a cassette tape walkman around that time.
Either Billy Joel’s Glass Houses or the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen. Both were in heavy rotation.
Flash! AhhhhHHHHaahh! That soundtrack was fantastic.
