4 important albums from when you were 18

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78

‘94 was a good year! Offspring’s Smash album was from that year and is still one I love playing along with :metal:

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79

I was never a big Offspring fan, as back then it was deemed too popular in my circle. Yes utterly ridiculous. But I’ve recently discovered just how much fun they are, to play along with. Just makes you happy playing it.

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80

Always loved them :slight_smile:

You kind of have to love a band that writes songs like Self Esteem.

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81

Tough choice for just four, but today they are:

Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Quadrophenia - The Who
Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
Houses of The Holy - Led Zeppelin

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82

I turned 18 in 2007. At this time I was mostly looking for music in the mystical www :smirk:
I totally forgot what was I listening back then, but it was mostly metal. I checked some lists and these albums I really liked back then:

Machine Head - The Blackening
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Baroness - The Red Album
Dark Tranquility- Fraction

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83

Welcome aboard @Lukas89, good to have you hear. Solid choice with Dark Tranqulity!

Feel free to head over to this thread and introduce yourself. :blush:

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84

Another '96 18yo here. I wasn’t a huge fan of all 4 of these that year, but some have really grown on me since then.

Social Distortion – White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind
Tool – Ænima (I was in bootcamp when this came out, our CC would drive by us as we were marching blasting this, knowing a bunch of us were Tool fans who hadn’t heard it yet
 jerk)
Fugees – The Score

85

Both of these are fantastic. Not the best Social D album, but “Don’t Drag Me Down” is one of their best songs IMO.

And Swans, well, just so much there to dive in to.

86

So, that would be 1984. 1979 to about 1986 were great year for music, just like 1994 to about 1996.

I scanned my vast CD collections (for the younger BassBuzzers: that is like Spotify, only in the physical world, but still digital. It’s complicated to explain ^^) for everything 1984.

There were more results than I thought


These are my choices:

Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward. Depeche Mode played the soundtrack to my life for quite some time and were cool until Songs of Faith and Devotion (live). After that they have lost their way and became increasingly boring


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Cabaret Voltaire: Micro Phonies. Cabaret Voltaire might be one of the most important bands of the 80s that nobody knows (except @howard , perhaps)

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Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense. Because!

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Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth. An almost perfect album, underrated and way ahead of it’s time.

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Runners up (it was hard to choose):

Alien Sex fiend: Acid Bath
Section 25: From the Hip
Tuxedomoon: Half-Mute
The Stranglers: Aural Sculpture
U2: The Unforgettable Fire
Sade: Diamond Life
The Style Council: Café Bleu
Talk Talk: It’s my Life
Simple Minds: Sparkle in the Rain
The Cramps: Bad Music for Bad People
Everything but the Girl: Eden
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Rattlesnakes
The Smith: Hastful of Hollow
Coil: Scatology
Vangelis: Soil Festivities
Cocteau Twins:Treasure
Art of Noise: Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise?
Siouxsie: HyĂŠna
Duran Duran: Arena.
Front 242: No Comment

And I have to mention Sisters of Mercy, Nitzer Ebb and Neon Judgement, that made quite some 12", but released their first albums after 1984.

So, 1984 was a pretty good year!

87

Yep I still listen to that album and Code.

Lots of other greats on your list!

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88

Yeah - I knew I could relay on you. My favourite Cabaret Voltaire album must be “The Crackdown”.

1984 was a good year, but possibly still the weakest between 1979 and 1986. Many bands were about to make their best album (think: “Violator”) or had done it already(think: New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)")


89

I will have to check but I think Skinny Puppy’s Remission was 1984. One of my favorites of all time.

But yeah, I get what you are saying. New Order did a lot in ‘83 and ‘85, for example.

I turned 18 in ‘86 so those years were prime time for me :rofl:

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90

Did I miss that in my list? Let me check that too!

91

Power, Corruption and Lies: 1983
Blue Monday: 1983
Low-Life: 1985

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92

So my theory is correct: 1984 was a good year, but better things happened shortly before and after ^^

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93

I concur, The Top by the Cure came out that year. It’s sandwiched between Pornography in '82 and Head on the Door in '85. I love the Top but of the 3, if one has to go


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94

I graduated in 1979, so for me it was:

  1. Led Zep - In Through the Out Door
  2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
  3. Tom Petty & HB - Damn the Torpedoes
  4. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
95

For me, the “real” The Cure was:

  • Seventeen Seconds
  • Faith
  • Pornography

The first album, “Three Imaginary Boys”, felt immature, after that they became THE CURE and after those thee albums they became commercial - though “The Head on the Door” was quite interesting, especially “Sinking”


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96

I saw them on Saturday night, some of it was good, some of it was d-d-dull
 they finished with Personal Jesus though, which was bloody fantastic!

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Isn’t that an oxymoron? :wink:

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97

No, it’s not! I think they were influential for the few - and that few became influential for the many :slight_smile: