What is " Your " Album?

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I've just been transported to 1993 when I met my Ex husband
He brought Luck of the draw by Bonnie Raitt"
I was reminded of the opening line " Turn down the bed" by a poster on another thread!
My last Partner, the album was All the little lights" by Passenger.
Listening to Luck of the draw as I'm composing this.

Hotel California by Eagles. I love every track. Back then buying an album was a very serious purchase.

More recently my favourite album is The Defamation of Strickland Banks by Plan B, which is unusual for a 63 year old, I guess, but I love it. We played it in the car on a holiday to Cornwall and then I took my daughter to see him in concert. Sublime.

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

The Open Door - Evanescence

Make it big - Wham
I played it to death on my old record player, knew every word

I also loved The Black Parade anx Hopes anx Fears.

Although my kids bought them I really enjoyed them. They thought I was cool liking MCR when other friends' mums liked Celine Dion and Cliff Richard.

Yes, I am old 😁

Hunting High and Low by A-ha, late 80s as a 16 year old. Had very strict parents who didn’t allow music so secretly saved my lunch money for a snazzy red Saisho Walkman and would listen to it on repeat day after day, year after year when in bed. The invisible nighttime rebellion of a chubby Indian GCSE school girl 😅

Taylor Swift, Red. 2013 was such a shitty shitty year where so many things went wrong and having a shitty bloke mess with my head was simply the cherry on top.

I was 22 that summer. I knew from “loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street” it was special, All Too Well became my song and has been ever since (now happily married). I Almost Do was the many many many moments I picked up the phone, The Moment I Knew was a party I went to that year. I had a job that required a lot of driving that year and I player it on and on repeat.

I saw the Red tour live in 2014 and seeing her sing All Too Well was the moment I finally believed it wasn’t my fault and I would heal.

I think Taylor’s done better albums since, 1989 is the perfect pop album, Tortured Poets is stunning. Midnights is clever and fun. Folklore is a masterpiece.

But Red, Red is mine. It’s an expression of the special kind of heartbreak that is only caused by crappy guys that we’re better than. And it appeared at the exact moment in time when that was happening to me and it saw me through it. I still listen to it and remember how happy I am that I came through that. I wore Red sequins and danced with my friends who brought me through that time and my lovely husband at the tour last year, cried at All Too Well and then had an absolute ball!

Pre 13 years old: Beatles For Sale
13 - 16 A Night at the Opera - Queen
16 - 19 ish Scary Monsters - David Bowie
20s Head on the Door - The Cure
Then it's all a bit of a blur

Delta Goodrem Innocent Eyes and Xtina Stripped - I was OBSESSED - was 12 & 13 when they came out so they took me through my teen years.

In my early 20s, Cause & Effect by Maria Mena - found her by accident and it was all I listened too for a while!

Other than that I am really not an album person! Shuffle all the way!

So many amazing albums….then someone says fucking Usher

How rude! 🤣 Lots of people think Beatles are shit tbh, for example. Go look up Usher’s alphabet song with Sesame Street! He seems like such a nice guy 😁

I also have to say The Joshua Tree. Brings back so many happy memories.

Tragic Kingdom - No doubt
jagged little pill - Alan's Morissette.

Jagged little pill & Tragic Kingdom

Both hit in the 90s when I played those CDs constantly.

I have and loved welcome to the pleasure dome!

Oh yes, this too.

Blue - Joni Mitchell
Tapestry - Carole King
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Copper Blue - Sugar
The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
Doolittle - Pixies
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
The Bends - Radiohead
Disintegration - The Cure
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Purple Rain - Prince

These form the backbone of my musical life, and everything else sprang from there.

Three imaginary Boys, The Cure

Although I'm another Tapestry owner that loves every track.

I am the same age and I was also obsessed with Raw Like Sushi!

Joshua Tree
Automatic for the People

School into uni, both bring back such vivid memories.

I worked in the record dept of a well known shop when this came out and much to the manager's annoyance would have it blasting out every Saturday while families bought their pick n mix. Someone always had to be by the stereo to turn the sound off for the swears though so I know the lyrics of this album very well 😆.

As I was doing a level art at the time it was also on heavy rotation during art classes (along with Definitely maybe, what's the story and Stereophonics Word Gets around).

The Stranger - Billy Joel (he's on BBC 2 now)
Joshua Tree - played over and over

@Newgolddream70what an album! I was absolutely OBSESSED with Paul Young as a teenager, still know the words to every song! Now a massive swiftie, oldest one in town lol.

But if I had to choose one album of all time it has to be Fleetwood Mac Rumours xx

If I'm allowed more than one choice:

Bryter Later, Nick Drake
Graceland, Paul Simon
Timeless, Goldie

Julia Fordham Porcelain

Smash, The Offspring