Make a nostalgic list of your first favorite album, favorite albums that replaced it, and last time you listened to them

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First favorite album: U2 "War" in grade 6/last heard maybe 5 years ago
Replaced by: They Might Be Giants "Apollo 18" in grade 7/last heard 8 years ago
Then: Depeche Mode "Violator" Grade 8/this summer
The Cure "Disintegration" Grade 8/7 years ago
TMBG "Flood" Grade 9/8 years ago
Front 242 "Tragedy For You" Grade 9/2 years ago
KMFDM "Angst" Grade 10/2 years ago
NIN "Broken" Grade 11/3 years ago
Machines of Loving Grace "Concentration" Grade 12/this week
Chameleons "What Does Anything Mean? Basically" around 1997/this summer
Sisters of Mercy "Floodland" around 1998/this summer
Duran Duran "Rio" around 1999/ this summer
Chameleons "Strange Times" around 2000/this fall
INXS "Shabooh Shoobah" around 2002/this fall
Now: Japan "Oil on Canvas" /this week

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

...oh, I think we all know by now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

in sixth grade i think i ws listening to vandenberg.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i have no idea about precise chronology, but here's a stab at this:

seventies youf:
"talking book," stevie wonder
"saturday night fever" soundtrack
"parallel lines," blondie

eighties adolescence:
"first symphony," peter tchaikovsky
"alexander nevsky," sergei prokofiev
"speaking in tongues," talking heads
"taking tiger mountain (by strategy)," brian eno
"scary monsters (and super creeps)," david bowie
"apostrophe," frank zappa
"pretty in pink" soundtrack
"this year's model," elvis costello and the attractions
"so," peter gabriel
"ocean rain," echo and the bunnymen
"appetite for destruction," guns 'n' roses
"ride the lightning," metallica

nineties twenty-dom:
"daylight nation," sonic youth
"straight outta compton," NWA
"achtung baby," U2
a shitload of brahms and schubert
"lodger," david bowie (after he released his good shit on disc)
"orbital," orbital
"loveless," my bloody valentine
"gideon gaye," high llamas
"ok computer," radiohead
"the village green preservation society," the kinks
"läther," frank zappa

00s thirtydom:
"dummy," portishead
"the mollusk," ween
"low," david bowie
"another green world," brian eno
"telekon," gary numan
"unknown pleasures," joy division

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

of the above list, i'm only embarrassed by the elvis costello and the metallica.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

childhood: Kiss - Alive II, Bert's Blockbusters (Sesame St.)

6th/7th grade: Scorpions - Love At First Sting

8th grade: Led Zeppelin IV

9th grade: Peter Gabriel - So, Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

10th grade: Ultravox - Vienna, REM - Life's Rich Pageant

11th/12th grade: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead, The Cure - Faith, Joy Division - Substance, New Order - Movement, etc.

1990: Galaxie 500 - On Fire (it gets a little blurry after this)

mid 90s and beyond: Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r. in particular, but also others too numerous to list

current: hmm I dunno... Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure, Can - Future Days, New Order - Movement...

I listen to most of these pretty regularly still - haven't spun the Sesame St. or Scorps LPs in a while, though. I have favourite albums by favourite bands, but no longer have one favourite album or one favourite band.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

U2 held sway from Joshua Tree up through Zooropa, each album being my "favorite album ever" at one time or another. Briefly, the The's Dusk was up in the mix. But from 1996 to the present nothing has come close to Underworld's Second Toughest In the Infants, although Neko Case gave it a fair shot for a bit.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Carole King - Tapestry
Replaced by Blue
2. Madonna - Immaculate Collection
Replaced by Big Star -#1
3. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes
Replaced by Neutral Milk Hotel - In An A...
4. Ramones - first three albums
Replaced by No New York
5. George Michael - Faith
Replaced by Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
This is giving me a headache.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Age 7: Best of the Beach Boys
8: Elvis' Golden Records
12: Supertramp - Crime of the Century
13: Woodstock (soundtrack)
15: Led Zeppelin - zoso
16: Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
17: Husker Du - Zen Arcade
17: Velvet Underground & Nico
18: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Metallica - Master of Puppets
19: minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Velvet Underground - White Light/white Heat
Capt. Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
20: Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another man's sac
21: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
21: Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
22: John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack

― Scott Bloomfield, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

daylight nation

I can never keep that name straight either.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

duh! "daydream nation"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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