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What was your teenage angst song?

237 replies

Prestia · 19/06/2019 20:20

Mine was Creep by Radiohead. I thought I was so angsty and tortured

Grin

My niece is currently heartbroken and playing Lewis Capaldi on a loop.

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Bananasandchocolatecustard · 20/06/2019 20:14

Jamie’s Ian - 17. The lyrics described me.

PaperFlowers4 · 20/06/2019 20:39

Zero by Smashing Pumpkins

Emptiness is loneliness
And loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness
And god is empty
Just like meeeeee

It felt really profound and important at the time

crosstalk · 15/07/2019 18:56

Caught on this late

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
Ne me quitte pas Simone/Brel
Back to Black

NotMyRealName123 · 15/07/2019 20:10

I Feel So - Boxcar Racer
There Is - Boxcar Racer

DelurkingAJ · 15/07/2019 20:11

Jagged Little Pill too. Hurray for those born in c1980!

Socksontheradiator · 15/07/2019 20:18

Supertramp 'Hide in your shell'

ThisIsNotAIBUPeople · 15/07/2019 20:19

Nothing compares to you by Sinead O Connor

VenusClapTrap · 15/07/2019 20:21

Oof, so many angsty albums that I played over and over. But the main ones were:

Disintegration - The Cure
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
Blue - Joni Mitchell

VenusClapTrap · 15/07/2019 20:22

Oh and loads of Pet Shop Boys in my early teens - the melancholic ones.

Crunchymum · 15/07/2019 20:22

Jagged Little Pill album was pure teenage angst.

Pink / Just Like a Pill got me through a very tough break up.

I see a theme Grin

Guiltypleasures001 · 15/07/2019 20:24

Got dumped by my first longish (3 months ) bf, I played See You constantly by Depeche Mode. Still feel weird even now when I hear it 😳, I was only 15

TrendyNorthLondonTeen · 15/07/2019 20:24

Travis- Luv

TrendyNorthLondonTeen · 15/07/2019 20:24

Teenage anger = Origin of Symmetry

bugeyedbarber · 15/07/2019 20:26

Play Dead by Björk

BubblesBuddy · 15/07/2019 20:31

Buffy Saint Marie - Soldier Blue

LivingDeadGirlUK · 15/07/2019 20:53

I love a bit of screamo these days but I'm a bit too old to have been able to enjoy it during my teenage years. so for me it was.

Metallica - the unforgiven
Pantera - cematery gates
Papa roach - between angels and insects
slipknot - wait and bleed

Nonstopbuttmachine · 15/07/2019 20:59

I remember sitting weeping in a park 30 years ago, inconsolable because 'Danny' had gone off with some slut from the next village. I swung (swang?) angrily on the swings, singing this song for an hour before realising there was no one there to appreciate my angst. It was a bloody great song though...Grin

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gmaCSAdeAdo

gothicsprout · 15/07/2019 21:04

Yet another Jagged Little Pill lover here!

Also Silverchair - Miss You Love, and a couple of Staind tracks.

I now find Everybody Hurts quite funny, as I have a very lucid memory of it coming on the radio during the end stages of my labour with DD Grin

BlessedBeTheFruitCake · 15/07/2019 21:13

Another vote for Creep and Jagged Little pill. Also, 4non Blondes What's Up?

Stormwhale · 15/07/2019 21:16

Because of you - Kelly Clarkson

mogloveseggs · 15/07/2019 21:17

Runaway train by soul asylum or cats in the cradle by ugly kid joe.
So much angst.
Amazing songs!

Stormwhale · 15/07/2019 21:17

Oh and

I'm not ok - my chemical romance.

DeanImpala67 · 15/07/2019 21:22

Therapy? - Screamager
Puressence - Only forever
The Unbelievable truth - stone
Mansun - Wide open space

Genderwitched · 15/07/2019 21:24

Ahhh yes, another Janis Ian oldie here.

And for later heartaches,
Unfinished sympathy by Massive Attack,
Never be Mine by Kate Bush and
Closer the whole album by Joy Division.

Rassy · 15/07/2019 21:26

Another vote for Nothing Compares to You by Sinead O'Connor. Also, When Love Breaks Down by Prefab Sprout 😢

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