Not individual songs so much, but the whole album. The kind of album you could put in and just play because all of the songs are good. There used to be some GREAT albums. I don't think any today stack up, but then again, we are now in the "single" "ipod" generation. (I have yet to buy one, still going strong with the cds!)

I was in school in the 90s, and the albums I thought were greatness were

1. Ten and Versus - Pearl Jam
2. Collective Soul and Dosage - Collective Soul
3. Blue Album - Weezer
4. Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
5. August and Everything After and Recovering the Satellites - Counting Crows
6. Tweleve Gracious Melodies (Purple) - STP
7. Sixteen Stone - Bush

Van Halen I & II
The Cars

what BillgoCU said.

WimberleyAg, did a lot of kids in your day hang out at arcades? Please shed some light...I'm obsessed with late '70s, early '80s high school stories. i don't know why.

BillgoCU and I are probably the same age.

Rush - Power Windows & Hold Your Fire
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
The Smithereens - Green Thoughts
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

i loved the heck out of the whole matchbox 20: yourself or somebody like you. great complete album. dc talk: jesus freak was also legit, christian or not.

i also agree with bush: sixteen stone. great all around.

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OK Computer

Around the same time period...
STP - Core
Sponge - Rotting Pinata
Offspring - Smash
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot
Cranberries - that couch cd
Helmet - Betty
The Crow soundtrack
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
The Cure - Wish/Show

Oh man, stranger than fiction, forgot about that album... I wore that thing out in 7th grade

Helmet- Meantime
AIC- Dirt
Rage Against the Machine- Self Titled
STP- Core
Tool- Undertow
Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger
Ministry- Psalm 69

Man, early '90s was such a great time for music.

This came out my freshman year, and was absolutely everywhere.

toadies rubberneck
third eye blind - just bought a new copy of this one. My old one was beat up beyond repair


there are others but they've been mentioned. Pearljam, nirvana etc.

And a guilty pleasure

Guns N Roses - Welcome to Jungle. Pure Greatness

Not released while I was in high school, but this is what we listened to
Nirvana-Nevermind, Unplugged in NY
STP-Purple
Weezer-Blue Album
Toadies-Rubberneck
Oasis-Whats the Story Morning Glory
Sublime-Sublime
Rage Against the Machine-Rage Against the Machine

I remember Rush Moving Pictures, Foreigner 4, AC/DC Back in Black from that time period. Some Styx albums, don't recall the titles, and Asia.

Okay, here goes, WAAAAAAAAAAAAY back:

Chicago II
Led Zeppelin II
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Carol King - Tapestry
James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim & The Blue Horizon
Doobie Brothers - The Captain & Me
Steppenwolf 7
Rare Earth - In Concert
The Guess Who - American Woman
Blood Sweat & Tears
Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (took all day for the drum solo!)
Rod Stewart/Faces - anything they did!
Worst Of Jefferson Airplane
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Doors - L.A. Woman
Santana - Abraxas
Al Kooper, Stephen Stills & Mike Bloomfield - Super Session

That'll do for now. I'm sure there were others, but it's been a while....

Shout at the Devil - Motely Crue
Mental Health - Quiet Riot
Blizzard of Oz/Diary of a Madman - Ozzy
Thriller - Michael Jackson
1999 - Prince

Just to name a few...these are the ones that it seemed everyone had.

80s guy, you're thinking of "Appetite for Destruction", one of the all-time greats.

The other required listening for my high school years included Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet" and Van Halen's "5150" and "OU812".

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U2 - The Joshua Tree
Def Leppard - Hysteria

I wore out the cassettes of both of those during high school.

Run DMC - Raising Hell
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Van Halen - 1984 and 5150
U2 - Joshua Tree

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I lived out by Eagle Mountain Lake so we didn't really have any arcades.

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I graduated high school in '83 and YEAH back then we spent a lot of time in the video arcards. I was a champ at 'Donkey Kong'. Also played a lot of 'Asteroids', 'Tempest', 'Centipede', 'Defender', 'Galatica' and a pinball machine called 'Fireball'. All the games were a quarter back then so for five or six bucks, you could play for a few hours. Of course back then the differences between the games in the arcades and our little stick figure home video games were huge! Nowadays...not so much difference.

ACDC - Back in Black
Boston - Don't Look Back
Pat Benatar
Journey- Escape
REO Speedwagon-Hi Infedelity

Metallica--Master of Puppets
Megadeth--Peace Sells, but Who's Buying

Our go-to tapes while smoking out.

The Outfield

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I think the title was "Everybody's Doing It, So Why Can't We?"

One of the Oasis albums was mentioned, but the first one was good too, although I don't recall the name of it. The disc was blue.

Other good albums that I've thought of are
1. Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish
2. Monster by R.E.M.
3. The Vertical Horizon album with the girl cutting a flip on it

I haven't listened to some of these albums in years, but I'm going to have to find my old CDs (or tapes) and have a listen

jbanda, I'm 30.

Some vinyl albums that I bought in 1958-1961:

"Buddy Holly Hits" - Buddy Holly.

"At Last!" - Etta James.

"Two Steps From The Blues" - Bobby "Blue" Bland.

"Patsy Cline Hits" - Patsy Cline.

"Runaround Sue" - Dion.

"Giant Steps" - John Coltrane.

"Time Out" - Dave Brubeck Quartet.

"Live At The Chicken Shack" - Jimmy Smith.

"Gunfighter Ballads" - Marty Robbins.

I now have CDs of all these to which I still listen.





Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.

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Not all of these were necessarily popular (some were super huge) but this is what I loved.

STP - Core
PJ - Ten
AIC - Dirt
RHCP - Blood Sugar SM
The Cure - Wish
White Zombie - La Sexercisto...
Metallica - Black album
Soundgarden - BMF
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Extreme - Pornographiti
Queensryche - Empire
GnR - Use your Illusions 1 & 2
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Rage Against the Machine
Crash Test Dummies
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Singles - Soundtrack