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Originally posted by Chamberk:
Hey, I have a Travis album and sometimes I actually listen to it.

Is it Good Feeling? If so I'll let it go.

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Originally posted by Mick_DH:

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Originally posted by Chamberk:
Hey, I have a Travis album and sometimes I actually listen to it.

Is it Good Feeling? If so I'll let it go.

The Man Who is a damn fine album. No shame there at all. Invisible Band starts to slip a little but there are a few good songs on that one as well.

I'd like to forget that I went through a very brief phase of listening to country music when I was about 10-11. (Hey, I'm from Louisiana.)
Dookie stayed in my CD player constantly, as well as Sublime's self-titled CD, which I still love, but have slightly outgrown, unfortunately.
You guys remember Cracked Rear View? Man, say whatcha will, but Darius Rucker can <i>sang</i>. Less popular, but still good was their 2nd studio album, Fairweather Johnson.

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Originally posted by EyesOfAzure:
I'd like to forget that I went through a very brief phase of listening to country music when I was about 10-11. (Hey, I'm from Louisiana.)
Dookie stayed in my CD player constantly, as well as Sublime's self-titled CD, which I still love, but have slightly outgrown, unfortunately.

I could have written this, except I have no idea who Cracked Rear View is.

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Originally posted by Hophead:
The Man Who is a damn fine album. No shame there at all. Invisible Band starts to slip a little but there are a few good songs on that one as well.

Amen to that. And "Humpty Dumpty Love Song" from The Invisible Band is fantastic. Travis have their weak moments, and haven't done anything to speak of lately, but at their best they were really good.

On the topic of the thread, when I was about 11 or 12 I bought my first Walkman. The first cassette tape I bought to play in said Walkman was Mariah Carey's Daydream. Yes, for a few years I thought the world revolved around Mariah Carey and collected pretty much everything she'd ever done. And I faithfully listened to top 40 radio (so I do know that Cracked Rear View is fact a Hootie and the Blowfish album from the mid-90s ), liking everything from Celine Dion to Alanis Morrisette.

The first album from a band that I purchased was U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind (which has turned up a lot in this thread!), definitely the album I've owned the longest. I'm not sure I still have anything I actually purchased as a teenager!

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Originally posted by blueskyoas:
And I faithfully listened to top 40 radio (so I do know that Cracked Rear View is fact a Hootie and the Blowfish album from the mid-90s ), liking everything from Celine Dion to Alanis Morrisette.

Hootie and the Blowfish aren't bad, actually, I've just never bothered to get any of their albums.

To name a few:
Snoop Dog
Dre
Easy E
Warren G
Cypress Hill
Bone
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Ice T
Ice Cube

When i was younger, i generally listened to rap. As i got older, i gravitated to metal. Eventually the MetalKid was born. All metal, all the time.

Sadly, I loved Billy Joel's greatest hits.
Even worse, I loved Savage Garden's debut...glad that's over.

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Originally posted by MetalKid:
To name a few:
Snoop Dog
Dre
Easy E
Warren G
Cypress Hill
Bone
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Ice T
Ice Cube

When i was younger, i generally listened to rap. As i got older, i gravitated to metal. Eventually the MetalKid was born. All metal, all the time.

Dude, most of the stuff you've named here is pretty awesome. Especially Snoop, Dre, and Ice Cube.

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Originally posted by pianoporsche:
Sadly, I loved Billy Joel's greatest hits.
Even worse, I loved Savage Garden's debut...glad that's over.

Savage Garden isn't nearly as bad as Billy Joel. Nothing is that bad.

Man, I hate Billy Joel.

I'm old enough that my younger days were top 40 80's pop and hair metal. I remember owning (pawned them off in college, wish I still had some of them) albums by Tiffany, Whitney, Poison, Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Warrant, Van Halen, etc. For about two years, I was big into country, snatching up quite a bit by George Strait, Clint Black, Randy Travis, etc.

Unlike most here, I feel no guilt for listening to any of this, and I still like most of it even if I don't have the time to go back and listen to it. Maybe it has something to do with age, but I just keep adding to what I like, not replacing what I used to like with something new.

Desolation Boulevard - Sweet....one of my first albums, still cracks my top 100.

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Originally posted by pianoporsche:
Sadly, I loved Billy Joel's greatest hits.

There is nothing sad about loving some Billy Joel. I stll do

As for my childhood loves that don't hold up anymore I am going to have to say 2 stand out:

Spice Girls - Spice
Jennifer Lopez - On the 6

Liquid Tension Experiment 1 & 2.

Not that I was then or am now a progressive rock fan, but I thought this was the pinnacle of music when I was younger. Now it's entertaining, but almost laughably overbearing.

'Acid Rain' and 'When the Water Breaks' are still very listenable though.

I have to admit to thinking Limp Bizkit was good for an extended period of time, and for that matter Rage Against the Machine had a similar effect on me. Once I hit like, 14 I started to realize that almost all the music I was listening to was awful.

Yeah, I have a few musical skeletons in my closet.

Limp ****skit, anyone? Staind? Disturbed? Other crappy nu-metal? (Age 10-12) I also listened to some teeny-bop stuff, mostly when I was getting into music when I was 10 years old. I went through a stage of listening to the radio (Channel Z [RIP]) and listening to Nirvana. (OK, they're all right, but they're too freakin' depressing).

Speaking of RATM, they played the Big Day Out this year... and they. Were. AWESOME. I'm not going to listen to them again, but it was good to hear the old songs again. Nostalgia, it's a dangerous thing.

I'm also going to prematurely add something for my cousin Shanice. At the moment, all she listens to is crappy hip-hop and other top 40 BS, and she thinks my music is for old people. When I have kids, I'm going to play them lots of Shihad and other awesome music, so they don't turn into retards. Hopefully, they'll turn out like Nick Cave's youngest twins, who are 7 years old and listen to Ornette Coleman. Now THAT is badass.

</rant over>

I'm one of the older guys on this page, but a lover of rock and roll. I find the music prophetic, it asks some of the most relevant questions of our time, and sometimes is just great fun. For me it was hard to beat the "Abbey Road", "Let It Be", and "Let It Bleed" punch. These three were as good as it gets for albums released so closely regarding time. The Stones were really hitting full stride and the Beatles were saying goodbye with unforgettable work. Since then there have been great albums at various times. Today I like Radio Head, especially Pablo Honey, and the Strokes. But as a teen getting ready for college those three were a great send off into college life.

First album I ever bought: Boombastic by Shaggy.

Go West by The Village People

I thought it was the best album ever.

First CD I ever bought: The Simpson's Sing the Blues