Youtube Mixtape #5: Top 10 Teenage Albums
There’s this thing going around Facebook right now where people post a list of their top 10 favorite albums from their teenage years. Reminds me of Livejournal, back when we were all posting personality test results. I wasn’t going to bother until Chris Onstad, the guy behind the webcomic Achewood, posted his along with a link to a song from each album. It’s interesting to see the stuff that the people you admire found compelling in their youth. Anyway, here’s my version of the list, in alphabetical order because I scrolled through my mp3 collection to make it:
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Within You, Without You – My mother did not like this one because of the droney sitar
The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
Where do I Begin?
David Bowie – Earthling
Dead Man Walking
Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
Strangelove
Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape
Everlong – This song was a revelation
KMFDM – Angst
A Hole in the Wall
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Mr. Self Destruct
Queen – A Night at the Opera (My mother’s copy, on cassette. It melted in my car on a particularly hot Florida day)
The Prophet’s Song
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (The Pumpkins were My Band as a teen. So many emotions.)
Spaceboy
They Mights Be Giants – Severe Tire Damage
Dr. Worm
Automated Lagomorph 