Songs teens should hear

[AndDrSamBeckettNeverReturnedHome]

If anyone is awake I'd appreciate some help

Few wines in and mind blank but we are having a song off, please help with pre 2000 songs that the teens need to hear.

Garbage I think I'm paranoid

deee-lite groove is in the heart

Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl/Jackie’s Strength/Professional Widow
Any 1990-1998 singles by Pulp, Blur, Oasis, Placebo
Green Day - Dookie
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Placemarking for a MN musication

Girls just want to have fun

Various versions of tainted love.

Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with? Buzzzcocks and the Fine Young Canibals versions.

The Damned - Smash it up

The Damned version of Eloise.

David Bowie - Space Oddity and Major Tom, Changes, Heroes, Gene Genie - then I suggest you rewatch life on Mars.

Pre‐2000...
Oh boy.
To what end? As an education in the development of contemporary music or on account of its powerful message?
Purely personally, music which I make my teens listen to because it blew my mind, shaped my consciousness and opened my eyes for so many reasons (as a young musician; lyrically and instrumentally, and as someone 'growing into' myself and the world) as a ‐just‐ pre-2000 teen, in no particular order:

Peter Tosh 'I Am That I Am'
David Bowie 'Rebel Rebel'
Stevie Wonder 'Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away'
Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz 'Corcovado'
Thin Lizzy 'Cowboy Song'
Mercedes Sosa 'Solo Le Pido A Dios'
Sinead O'Connor 'Mandinka'
Bob Marley 'War'
Tom Waits 'Ol' 55'
Van Morrison 'Into The Mystic'
Peter Maxwell Davies 'Farewell to Stromness'
Neil Young 'Thrasher'
Eddy Grant 'Give Me Hope Jo Anna'
Joni Mitchell 'Both Sides Now'
Joy Division 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
Linton Kwesi Johnson 'Sonny's Lettah'
James Taylor 'Close Your Eyes'

We had so far

American Pie

Sorted for Es and Wizz

Graceland

In the Ghetto

Suncream song

Song 2

Smells like teen spirit

Zombie

Stay

It's like that

Comfortable numb

Give me shelter

Something changed

Parachutes album esp Yellow by Coldplay

marcy playground sex & candy

"Orgasmatron" & "Dogs" - Motorhead

"War Pigs" - Black Sabbath

"Baggy Trousers"

@TheMotherSide more the account of how music shaped my world. Normally good at this but drinking since 12 and the menopause have left me lacking.

I've found modern teens have such a wide taste in music thanks to streaming but can still surprise then (with MN help)

AndDrSam, thank you for a brilliant thread. Soooo much really great music here. I love Math's idea of 'musication'. I tend to treat car journeys with my DC, however brief, as teachable moments to a captive audience. But like you, I'm amazed at the breadth of especially my oldest's tastes, totally thanks to streaming and sharing playlists online. We're visiting friends tonight, an annual Boxing Day get together, and DD1 usually oversees the music for the evening and it's great!

Once in a Lifetime- Talking Heads
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
September - Earth Wind & Fire
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Is There Life on Mars? - David Bowie

Wuthering Heights and This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
Graceland/Boy in the Bubble/You Can Call me Al - Paul Simon

Fiona❤️ great suggestions on your list x

Forgotten sons and Fugazi by Marillion
Rebel, Rebel Suffragette City and Wild as the Wind by Bowie
Stairway to Heaven and Immigrant Song by Zeppelin
Peer Gynt by Grieg
Highway to Hell by AC/DC
Helloween by Helloween
Annie's Song by John Denver
Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Radiohead - Just
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Billy Joel - Vienna
Echo and the Bunnymen - Nothing Lasts Forever
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Pink Floyd - Time
Nirvana - In Bloom
Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train to London
Supertramp - Give a Little Bit
Blues Traveler - Hook
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Talking Heads - And She Was
Cocteau Twins - Fifty-fifty Clown

Squeeze -Up the junction

Eels - beautiful freak
Breeders - last splash
Pixies - surfer Rosa
P J Harvey - dry

All amazing 80/ 90s indie albums

Flaming lips - yoshomi battles the pink robots - especially the single do you realise?