It seems that over the weekend, you couldn’t escape it. Social media feeds were nothing but a sea of your friends and loved ones recalling the music of their youth. The culprit: a list asking users to detail their top ten favorite albums from their teenage years. It seems like everyone was participating, so we decided to keep our readers included and asked a few local musicians to take part in the festivities publicly on I Heart Local Music. The cherry on top is that some of them included photos from their teenage years to accompany their lists. Here’s what some of the heavy-hitters from the local scene were listening to during the adorably angsty years of their youth:
Katlyn Conroy (La Guerre)
- Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors
- Grandaddy – Sumday
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things
- Camera Obscura – Let’s get out of this Country
- Azure Ray – Hold on Love
- The Decemberists – Castaways and Cutouts
- Cursive – The Ugly Organ
- Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
- Page France – Hello Dear Wind
- Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
Approach
- Del – No Need For Alarm
- Outkast – Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
- Biggie – Ready to Die
- Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The 36 Chamber
- Aceyalone – All Balls Don’t Bounce (Thank You Brother of Moses)
- Pharcyde –Labcabincalifornia
- Fugees – The Score
- DJ Quik – Safe + Sound
- A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
- Redman – Dare Iz A Darkside
CS Luxem
- The Beatles – Abbey Road
- The Billions – Treasure & Trash
- Leonard Cohen –Songs From a Room
- Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
- MxPx – Life In General
- Damien Rice – O
- Josh Ritter – Come and Find Me
- Shakira – Laundry Service
- Temptations – Greatest Hits
- Rufus Wainwright – Poses
Liz Weiler (Vedettes)
- REM – Reckoning
- Xanadu Soundtrack
- ACDC – Back in Black
- Def Leppard – Pyromania
- Foreigner- 4
- INXS- The Swing
- Missing Persons – Spring Session M
- The Clash – The Clash
- The Go-Go’s – Beauty and The Beat
- The English Beat – What is Beat?
Nicholas St. James
- David Gray – White Ladder
- Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
- Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
- Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
- Howie Day – Australia
- Dave Matthews Band – Crash
- Robert Johnson – The Complete Recordings
- 2Pac – Greatest Hits
- Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
- Nelly – Country Grammar
Carlos Jose Calderon (Pale Tongue)
- Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica
- Radiohead – OK Computer
- The Killers – Sawdust
- MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
- The White Stripes – Elephant
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
- Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
- Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
- Chairlift – Does You Inspire You
Fally Afani (Editor of I Heart Local Music)
Editor’s note: I struck a deal with some of the participants that if they shared their lists and photos, I would do the same and that mine would probably be far more embarrassing. Having started my teens just a couple of years after moving from a country that heavily censored music, I consider myself lucky to have even gotten access to any music in high school (God bless you, House of Sight and Sound Record Store).
- Radiohead – OK Computer
- Beck – Mutations
- Green Day – Dookie
- No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
- Fugees – The Score
- La Bouche – Sweet Dreams
- Fat Boy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
- Sarah McLachlan – Surfacing
- The Verve – Urban Hymns