My Shitty Nostalgia List
I don't want to do my schoolwork right now, so you're all getting my dumb list of albums that I shaped my music tastes now. Mostly sputcore. |
| 1 |  | Agalloch
The Mantle
Not my first intro into metal, but one of the first. Definitely got me more interested in the genre than any other did. |
| 2 |  | Alexisonfire
Crisis
A buddy who lives in Canada who I met through a high school friend I now live with introduced me to this band. We were all playing Minecraft back when that was actually a socially acceptable thing to do and he told me about them. Watch Out! can eat it, Crisis remains their best work. |
| 3 |  | American Football
American Football
Gotta have them sads in there somewhere, right? |
| 4 |  | Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
This will become more obvious as this list goes on, but I found Sputnik just around the time the Best of the Decade list came out. I scoured and found every single album from that list, but this was my first (and not only alphabetically.) Not super formative in what I listen to now, but I definitely remember it as being one of the first albums I really remember listening to all the way through. |
| 5 |  | The Antlers
Hospice
I picked this one out first because of the simplicity of the artwork and how beautiful it was. I was thrown off by the guy's voice at first, but it quickly grew to become one of my favorites. For a while, anyway. |
| 6 |  | Arcade Fire
Funeral
Yeppers. |
| 7 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
Actually what inspired me to make this list. I've been jamming this for a while, since I haven't jammed it in a while. I think this is better than anything the Mars Volta has ever done. |
| 8 |  | Blink-182
Blink-182
Blink was always the band my mom would never let me listen to. They were too vulgar and childish. And they are. |
| 9 |  | Burial
Untrue
Another from the decade's list. My first real interaction with electronic music, and the one that really formed my taste on the giant genre. I tend to like more of the laid back stuff than the fast paced stuff. Music that you can just sit around and be sad to. |
| 10 |  | Circle Takes the Square
As the Roots Undo
I don't have a lot to say about this one. I thought Decompositions was way better than a lot of you made it out to be, but this is still better. |
| 11 |  | Clipse
Hell Hath No Fury
"Mr. Me Too" was the first rap song I actually enjoyed. |
| 12 |  | Converge
Jane Doe
Sputcore at its finest. The album that everyone fucking talks about on this site. Also one of the decade list pick-ups I got right off the bat, just because it was first and I was looking to expand my musical horizon. |
| 13 |  | A Day to Remember
Homesick
This is that album that you pick up because everyone in your Algebra I class is talking about it. |
| 14 |  | The Decemberists
The Crane Wife
I will always hold the memory in my mind of me driving to a friend's house for a picnic while "Sons and Daughters" blasted through my shitty speakers in my 1992 Buick LeSabre. We climbed on her roof with a few others and threw water balloons at people. It was a good day. |
| 15 |  | The Dismemberment Plan
Emergency & I
I only picked this up because of the band name. |
| 16 |  | Dizzee Rascal
Boy In Da Corner
Mmhmm. |
| 17 |  | Echo and The Bunnymen
Echo & The Bunnymen
My mom fucking loved Echo and the Bunnymen. This shit would play on our car rides constantly. |
| 18 |  | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
:'( |
| 19 |  | Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP
One of those rebellion albums I picked up to piss my parents off. I dated a girl my senior year who loved Eminem. Only his new stuff though. Things didn't work out. |
| 20 |  | Fair to Midland
Fables From a Mayfly...
I remember looking up the video for "Dance of the Manatee" and being confused. Then I listened to the lyrics and was even more confused. |
| 21 |  | Faith No More
Angel Dust
I've gotta put a description on all of these if I want this featured right? |
| 22 |  | Fear Before
The Always Open Mouth
These guys are from my hometown. Well, close to my hometown. Still reppin'. |
| 23 |  | Foo Fighters
The Colour and the Shape
I don't even want a feature. |
| 24 |  | Franz Ferdinand
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
I listened to this in my friend's friend's car while waiting for his girlfriend. He turned to me and said "Come on Ulysses, let's get high." I was just a scared freshman. I said no. He laughed. |
| 25 |  | The Gaslight Anthem
The '59 Sound
I have seen Gaslight three times and will continue to see them whenever they come to town. |
| 26 |  | Glassjaw
Worship and Tribute
Only fuckers get features. |
| 27 |  | Gorillaz
Demon Days
The first album I bought with my own money. |
| 28 |  | Green Day
American Idiot
The first album I ever got. It was a birthday present from a guy named Cortez. We aren't friend anymore. |
| 29 |  | Gym Class Heroes
As Cruel As School Children
I'm actually unsure why I decided to pick this one up, but when some girls were looking through my MP3 player in eighth grade they were impressed I had them on. Clearly I was a player from an early age. |
| 30 |  | J Dilla
Donuts
I dare you NOT to give me a feature. |
| 31 |  | Japandroids
Celebration Rock
This one is way more recent, but it still holds this weird, nostalgic power over me. I specifically remember driving in the rain, coming back from seeing The Producers with my girlfriend. There's a hill by my house that I would always speed down, letting my foot off the brake and just gliding; letting gravity take me down. I remember thinking that I was going to hydroplane and crash and die. I also remember thinking, as my radio shouted "LIKE CONTINUOUS THUNDER" while lightning flashed in the background, that it didn't really matter if I did. |
| 32 |  | mewithoutYou
Brother, Sister
I was turned off by this band at first, because I thought I was a cool, high school atheist. I was not a smart child. |
| 33 |  | The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2
This list is great, fuck you. |
| 34 |  | Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica
Still probably my favorite album ever. Picked up the double vinyl at a record store for cheap. Best purchase I've ever made. |
| 35 |  | The National
Boxer
Still probably my favorite band ever. There will never be a concert experience better than seeing these guys at Red Rocks in Denver. |
| 36 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
"Closer" freaked me the fuck out as a child whenever it came on the radio. |
| 37 |  | Opeth
Blackwater Park
I was big into Porcupine Tree when I was younger. I saw that Steven Wilson helped out with this album and immediately picked it up. My first introduction to real metal (not any of that middle school Disturbed shit). |
| 38 |  | Peter Gabriel
Shaking The Tree
Probably the most played album in my parents' car. Gabriel was a huge influence on my mom and uncle and they passed that love along quite nicely. |
| 39 |  | Pink Floyd
The Wall
I did probably listen to Dark Side of the Moon before I listened to this, but this was the first Floyd album I actually paid attention to. Again with the mom playing this in the car. I loved the concept and the theatrics of it. I still have yet to see the movie, however. |
| 40 |  | Porcupine Tree
Stupid Dream
Here it is, THE album that shaped my current music taste. It's what lead me to Sputnik, somehow. I don't necessarily know how, but I know I was doing some research on this album after my uncle got it for me for Christmas when I stumbled upon Sputnik. Although I don't think it's the best PT album, it's still the most formative album I have ever listened to. |
| 41 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
There, Radiohead. Now you HAVE to feature me. |
| 42 |  | Sigur Ros
Takk...
Just kidding, I don't even want a damn feature. |
| 43 |  | The Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream
My mom told me to pick up this album, so I did. Little did I know that I had heard almost every song on the radio already. Luckily, I liked every song that I heard on the radio by them. It was a good time, for sure. |
| 44 |  | Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement Of The Decline
I would listen to this on the band bus while coming back from competitions. It helped me fall asleep. Yeah, I was a dorky band kid. Fuck me, right? |
| 45 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb
Much like Gaslight, I will see Streetlight whenever they roll through town. |
| 46 |  | Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind
My friends fucking had "Jumper." I tell them how wrong they are every time. |
| 47 |  | Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
Gravel. |
| 48 |  | Tool
Aenima
You were the coolest kid in middle school if you walked around wearing a Tool shirt. I was not one of those kids. |
| 49 |  | Yellowcard
Ocean Avenue
This got some major spins during many of my summers. Lots of break ups and sadness. I don't really enjoy Yellowcard as much anymore, thinking most of their stuff sounds the same, but I'll never forget what they did for me. They helped me through a summer I never thought I would make it through. My friends and I would later dub it the Summer of Bummer, only to realize the next summer, that it was something on which we could look back. |
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