Colours is so bloody good! Saw Beck back in June last year was amazing. Actually considered putting his recent support for that tour/recent collaboration, JAWNY, on my list but decided an EP doesn’t count.
The Black Parade and Eyes Open are great albums (although I prefer The Final Straw) They are very much from my ferrying around small children in the back of the car era.
Oh I love Final Straw! I got really into Snow Patrol again last year, and listening to it brought back so many memories. Somewhere A Clock is Ticking is one of my favourite pieces of music ever (along with Life on Earth from their most recent album)
God, I love a list! Very much approve of August and Everything After. It might’ve made my list but I think I was at uni already when it came out. My 16 year old list is a bit of an approximation because it was a really long time ago. I know these are the albums I loved the most while I was still at school.
Recent (excluding WAS because what would be the point!)
Love this game!
Recent:
Lobes - WAS
As Long As You Are - Future Islands
A Bath Full Of Ecstasy - Hot Chip
Bablesberg - Gruff Rhys
American Dream - LCD Soundsystem
16 year old me:
Blur - Blur
His and Hers - Pulp
Odelay - Beck
Radiator - Super Furry Animals
In It For The Money - Supergrass
Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys
Very heavy into Brit Pop and rightly so as it’s class! Some bangers in this list! Might give them a spin now!
Also you may tell I was excited writing about my teenage musical choices with the sheer amount of exclamation marks used.... I shall not apologise!!!!
A fellow Beck fan! 🖤
Keith and I (Chris) both thought about putting Colors on our Recent lists but judges ultimately ruled that album a little too old.
Colours is so bloody good! Saw Beck back in June last year was amazing. Actually considered putting his recent support for that tour/recent collaboration, JAWNY, on my list but decided an EP doesn’t count.
Haven’t heard it! Will check.
😂😂😂
Recent:
WaS - Lobes
Hot Chip - Freakout/Release
CMAT - If my wife new I'd be dead
Griff - One foot In Front of the other
Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
Age 16:
Pulp - This is hardcore
Rage against the machine - rage against the machine
System of a down - System of a down
Blur - Parklife
Garbage - Version 2.0
These lists are assuming WAS are on repeat - Lobes and WLAS both being there otherwise.
Recent
Midnights - Taylor Swift
Never Happy - Joel Harkin
Teenage Wildlife - Ash
Six The Musical Cast Recording
I Don’t Know What I’m Doing - Nerina Pallot
16
A Certain Trigger - Maximo Park
In Your Honour - Foo Fighters
The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
Eyes Open - Snow Patrol
A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out - Panic! at the Disco
The Black Parade and Eyes Open are great albums (although I prefer The Final Straw) They are very much from my ferrying around small children in the back of the car era.
Oh I love Final Straw! I got really into Snow Patrol again last year, and listening to it brought back so many memories. Somewhere A Clock is Ticking is one of my favourite pieces of music ever (along with Life on Earth from their most recent album)
Almost feels like some kind of confessional soul-bearing here...
Recent
WAS - lobes (obvs)
Courteeners - st Jude
Noel Gallagher - back the way we came
Strokes - first impressions of Earth
Pulp- his n hers
16
Lloyd Cole - don’t get weird on me babe
Morrissey - viva hate
The Smiths - meat is murder
New Order - technique
Housemartins - the people who grinned themselves to death
Ah, a fellow Gen-X'er! I enjoyed those same albums when I was 16.
Millennial with parents who have excellent taste, I’m afraid! Last time I saw New Order with my Dad and we bought matching T-Shirts
Aw, that's nice!
Love Lloyd Cole and New Order! 🖤
5 I've listened to recently
Idles - crawler
Studio cast - Six the musical
Yoshi umr - Digimon world lo fi beats (great game)
Bo Burnham - inside (incl outtakes)
Frank carter and the rattlesnakes - sticky
16 yr old list (estimated)
Slipknot - vol 3, subliminal verses
Meteora - linkin park
Cradle of filth - live bait for the dead
Offspring - splinter
Dogs die in hot cars - please describe yourself
God, I love a list! Very much approve of August and Everything After. It might’ve made my list but I think I was at uni already when it came out. My 16 year old list is a bit of an approximation because it was a really long time ago. I know these are the albums I loved the most while I was still at school.
Recent (excluding WAS because what would be the point!)
Late Developers - Belle and Sebastian
The Theory of Whatever - Jamie T
Here’s What You Could Have Won - Kid Kapichi
Gulp - Sports Team
Somebody’s Child - Somebody’s Child
16 year old me:
Actually - Pet Shop Boys
God Fodder - Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Don’t Try this at Home - Billy Bragg
Out of Time - REM
Levelling the Land - The Levellers
Recent:
Tell Me That It's Over - Wallows
Lobes - WAS
Juno - Remi Wolf
Live from the Fox Theater - Nickel Creek
Miniature Tigers - Miniature Tigers
Age 16:
No World For Tomorrow - Coheed and Cambria
Robbers and Cowards - Cold War Kids
Louder Now - Taking Back Sunday
With Love And Squalor - WAS
Oh No - OK Go
Recent:
Lobes- WAS (obviously)
Go farther in Lightness- Gang of Youths
Hits to the head- Franz Ferdinand
A irmandade das estrelas- Carlos Nuñez
Castor et Polux- Jean-Phillip Rameau
16:
With love and squalor- WAS
You could have it so much better- Franz Ferdinand
Tyrannosaurus Hives- The Hives
¿La calle es tuya?- Estopa
La rebelión de los hombres rana- El último de la fila.
Looking back my taste hasn’t changed, just expanded! (Except pop, sorry, still can’t get on board with that)
The Hives are a class band! Can’t wait to see them support Arctic Monkeys this summer! Xx
Recent:
Lobes- We Are Scientists
This Is Why- Paramore
Bad Bunny- Un Verano Sin Ti
Harry’s House- Harry Styles
Tell Me That it’s over- Wallows
16:
With Love and Squalor- WAS (omg I’m old 😭)
Decemberunderground- AFI
First Impressions on Earth- The Strokes
Almost Here- The Academy Is
The Black Parade- MCR
Ha ha ha ha ha "old" ;) :)
My exact same reaction. :-)
RECENT
Jay Reatard SINGLES 08’
Mean Jeans On Mars
Kittycraft Mew
Beck Midnite Vultures
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool it Down
My Favorite Happiest Days…♾
at 16
Rentals Return of the Rentals
Gin Blossoms Congratulations…
De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising
Green Day Insomniac
Ben Folds Five S/T
Bush Razorblade Suitcase ♾
Recent(ish)
Harry’s House, Harry Styles
This Is Why, Paramore
Lobes, Some Band
Sour, Olivia Rodrigo
Replaying My Chemical Romance like it’s 2005
Ashley Jean at 16
Justified, Justin Timberlake
Fallen, Evanescence
So Long Astoria, The Ataris
Composure, Waking Ashland
In the Zone, Britney Spears
Recent.
WAS. lobes .
RHCP. Return of the dream canteen.
Ghost . Impera.
Pearl jam. Gigaton.
5......
Along time ago ....
Manic street preachers.
Generation terrorists.
Inxs shabooh shoobah.
Pearl jam. Ten.
Alice in chains. Facelift.
RHCP. Blood sugar sex magik.
All sounded great on tape then .
But even better on vinyl now...
Generation Terrorists is still a great album. Love it.
Hi lou . I know it's a classic
Followed closely by gold against the soul. ..
Recent:
Rocky Votolato - Makers
Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time
Desperate Journalists - Desperate Journalists
The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field
The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to be Here, Nobody wants to leave
Age 16:
Gene - Drawn To the Deep End
Blur - Parklife
Toad The wet sprocket - Dulcinea
The Smiths - The Smiths
The Replacements - Tim
SOLID 16-yr-old list — we didn’t get Gene in the US and a friend showed me (Chris) that album when we started coming to the UK in 2005. Great.
It's a shame so many good UK bands never made it here. Thank god for 120 minutes on Mtv back in the day (probably the only good program)!
Ooh. Expert in a Dying Field ❤️ Great choice!
Yeah a new one that snuck up on me.
Been putting off diving into this record, but it’s time
You really should. It’s excellent.
arrhhh it’s so hard to pick! 🤔
RECENT:
WAS - Lobes 🫶🏻
Sea Girls - Open Up Your Head
The Sherlocks - World I Understand
Blossoms - Cool Like You
Coasts - Coasts
AGE 16 (my pop-punk/indie crossover year!)
Busted - A Present for Everyone 😳🫣
Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Futureheads - The Futureheads
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Love both of these sets of five! Sea Girls and Sherlocks albums are both great.
Recent (other than Lobes, of course):
Here's What You Could Have Won - Kid Kapichi
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Supportive Partner Please Stand Here - Phillip Jon Taylor
-!- - Dead Poet Society
The Myth of the Happily Ever After - Biffy Clyro
16-year-old me (that was junior-senior year of high school, it all kind of blurs together):
Whiplash Smile - Billy Idol
Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - The Cure
Bo-Day-Shus! - Mojo Nixon
Nothing Like the Sun - Sting
I was 16 in 1998:
Ash, Nu-Clear Sounds
Spice Girls, Spice World
Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine
Titanic soundtrack 😭
Robbie Williams, Life Thru a Lens
These days I still lean on nostalgia (and discounting the entire WAS catalogue):
Bad Nerves, Bad Nerves
My Vitriol, Finelines
Mon Frere, Blood Sweat and Swords
Boy Kill Boy, Civilian
The Carpenters, Greatest Hits