An album you loved as a teen that you still love

[Outofideas79]

What album did you love as a teen, that you still love now. I don't really listen to album anymore, just the individual songs I like on Spotify. However one album I will listen to, from start to finish, in the correct order, on a regular basis is Greenday, American Idiot. There isn't one song on there I don't like. I love the flow of the album, and it reminds me of being young.

The Lion and The Cobra 😭

I've just replayed 'Treasure' by the Cocteau Twins (1984) - still as mesmerising now as it was then.
Although as I get older, I'm developing this theory in my head that all music, no matter how good it is, is essentially "of it's time", and there's some indefinable quality about it that fades with the passing of time. I remember (in the early 80s) when I heard the Beatles' early stuff, thinking that ok, the songs were great, sure enough, I could hear the raw excitement in, say, "She Loves You", but I couldn't quite identify with the footage of the screaming hysterical fans. I mean it was good, but not THAT good! (to me, in 1982). Looking back, it was because you had to be there at that time, to experience the newness of it. "She Loves You" spoke to the zeitgeist of 1963 in a way that it couldn't (fully) speak to a listener in 1982, and even less so now.
Deep thought aside, another one I discovered in 1987 which still sounds awesome to me today is 'Warehouse: Songs & Stories' by Husker Du. I'm astounded that this band has never gained the mainstream recognition it deserves (IMO) after all this time.

Too many to list. I don't think there's any music I liked as a teen that I don't like know despite going through a few different and varied music genre phases.....

DH and I randomly realised after 20 odd years in a relationship that we both have like a bit of "comedy punk" (as we termed it) at the weekend! Neither of us had any idea!

Blondie's Eat to the Beat

Bowie's Hunky Dory

Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Beloved - Happiness
Stone Roses - Stone Roses

All the Beatles albums especially White Album and Abbey Road

Aztec Camera - Highland, Hard Rain - love Roddy

Will you be my friend? I bet we're the same age. The Joshua Tree was released when I was about 16 and a half and I was obsessed with it.

So many of my favourite albums on this thread.

Blondie - Parallel lines

This took me down a massive rabbit hole on Youtube, listening to Day at the Races by Queen. Haven't heard it for 30-40 years, but seem to remember most of the words!

Dare by Human League. DS is getting into vinyl and tried to persuade him to play it!

Neil young - after the gold rush
King Crimson - in the court of the crimson king
Bob Dylan - blonde on blonde
Crosby stills mash and young - Deja vu

Every one of those three are on the list I was coming here to type. Plus:

Anything by The Doors, Hendrix, Joplin, Floyd and Syd Barrett, Radiohead and The Mac (except 'Tango in the Night).
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Mostly Autumn - Catch the Spirit
Metallica - The Black Album
AC/DC - Back in Black
Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror
G&R - Appetite for Destruction
Rammstein - Leibe ist fur alle da
Death Stars - The Perfect Cult

And an outlier: ABBA - Gold

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Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

Simply Red - Stars
Genesis - Invisible Touch
The Commitments soundtrack

Ladies & Gentleman -the best of George Michael

Rumours, Fleetwood Mac

Queen II (hence username)
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
Wasted in America - Love/Hate
Drums and Wires - XTC

Oh gosh, big memory here for me. I had the album on cassette tape. I bought a stereo system in my gap years. My Dad - passed away 2023 aged 94 - helped me set up the system. We tested the tape deck with that album. Somehow the track Precious. Um embarrassing lines 😂 Still love the album and song though 😀

Hopes and Fears - Keane
Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson

The main one would be Violator, Depeche Mode.

But other albums I really loved as a preteen/teen and still listen to alot now are Scoundrel Days by A-ha, Disintegration by the Cure and Watermark by Enya.

Dog Man Star by Suede

Our Earthly Pleasures - Maximo Park
Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Echos, silence, patience & grace - Foo Fighters

Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Tapestry - Carole King
Sweet Baby James/Mud Slide Slim - James Taylor

Erasure - The Innocents. Probably the first album I had that played on repeat (and still adore)

Depeche Mode - Violator. Sublime.

Paul Simon - Graceland. If pushed I say this is my favourite album of all time.

Levellers - One Way. Still love it and them. It was the first key music experience for me when I started uni at 18. Wonderful