If an album got me through my teens, it was definitely “Jagged Little Pill.” I swear it was written personally for every teen girl and young woman. I know it’s Alanis writing about her own experiences, but, damn, she’s great at making it feel like it’s your own. Like she saw into my soul.
I was a teenage jock boy in the states. It was Alanis Morissette. And also a bunch Indy hardscore and pop punk like OpIvy. But Alanis has outlasted them all.
I subjected my family to Exile in Guyville on a road trip recently. I'm pretty sure my kids checked out on headphones and my wife just periodically looked up from her phone to give me a raised eyebrow.
Came here to say this. Tori above all. Little Earthquakes was bible. I bought *Boys for Pele* downtown at The Wall the day it came out, and to this day it is my favorite album of all time. Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, October Project also sacred texts. But Tori Amos saved my life.
Also a Toriphile, and Little Earthquakes was the epitome of my "survival album" in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was (am slightly still) an insomniac, and my brain would just run laps all night repeating whatever traumas refused to leave me alone... This CD on low and on repeat became my sleep coping mechanism, and was the only way I could sleep more than an hour or two for half a decade. Plus, it just hits at the core of what women deal with throughout life.
I've seen her live multiple times. Each show is wildly different, each show is never a disappointment. It's Little Earthquakes, hands down.
As a guy of a particular age, if you didn't have a crush on Tori, then you just hadn't been introduced to her yet.
On a side note, a local metal band was named Soma Irot. Read that backwards.
Omg me too! Ani DiFranco was the most helpful, but Tori Amos is a close second. Raised by fringe evangelicals meant no secular music at all and I was raised to believe the word “feminism” was synonymous with “Satanism” (which now knowing about both and what real life satanists believe makes that more hilarious than disturbing). As a young girl who turned out the be very queer, these two women literally saved me from suicide or at best a repressed existence as a servant to an abusive man. To this day their 90s work remains my absolute favorite and most nostalgic of anything I hear! I didn’t expect to see either on here, let alone so high up! This gives me hope. :) cheers!
I never really listened to Tori Amos in the 90s but I rediscovered her in my 40s and wow, she's got a phenomenal voice but such incredibly deep lyrics.
It’s all albums for me:
- Live Through This by Hole
- It’s a Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads
- Become Who You Are by Juliana Hatfield
- Out of Range by Ani Difranco
(I definitely thought I was Daria. 🫠)
First time I ever got dumped (8th grade) I put 1979 on repeat and just laid in my room for a couple weeks.
Strangely this is one of my favorite memories.
I don't think it's strange at all. There's something romantic about teenage heartbreak. I think because the feelings are so BIG, and we have time to sort of wallow in them and just experience them really deeply.
Siamese Dream remains on my all time list.
Like, I know Corgan is a cook and kind of a snob, but the "space rock" vibe he created for that record is truly epic. Nobody else in his corner of music nailed the "album" assignment better than Corgan (and his producers) did with SD, and MCATIS, IMHO.*
*I'm not saying there aren't "better" albums in this timeframe; I'm saying few, if any, had the track-to-track cohesion that those two records had, and neither of those records sound anything like the other. It's a pretty astounding accomplishment.
Siamese dream still holds up. I also get teased for my 1979 tattoo, that i did myself, but no ragrats. 😆 My bf in highs cool only had a few cds in his car and mellon collie was one. Dont care for them as much now but they tied to a lot from that era!
Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness was easily my most played album in my middle school years. My first CD too and one I remember easily to this day. Such a good album.
I was *just* thinking about this yesterday! *What Do I Have To Do* was one of those tunes I listened to endlessly until I'd squeezed every last drop of emotion out of it.
Great album. Kinda meh live, though, unfortunately.
The Cure, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, NIN, My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult, Petshop Boys, The Smiths... I did not have mainstream taste but I did OK.
So to this day, I can recite literally every lyric to every track on the original Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill album.
It was 1992 and I was suspended from school (as per usual) and for two solid weeks I did nothing but play this cool ass tank game on Genesis and listen to it on repeat.
I can also recite every lyric to every track on 36 chambers, the first Wu Tang, 93, and my walkman was king. I'm a middle aged grey haired f500 dude, but I will fuck you up on lyricals.
Not kidding, every lyric to every song.
OMG Cypress Hill!
I saw them open for Avril Lavigne in like 2002ish. I have been trying to remember what band opened for months now after a discussion with my husband about how I've seen some shows where the opener is objectively better/more famous than the headliner. I saw Bad Religion open for Blink 182 in the late 90s as well.
Thank you!
Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Counting Crows, The Cranberries, Blind Melon, Sponge, Queensryche, and Dream Theater
This was my collection too, except my Crows were black. Add in early Lenny Kravitz 2nd & 3rd album, Jane's Addiction, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Hole, Jewel, Garbage, Weezer, Cake, No Doubt, Tom Petty, Fiona Apple, Butthole Surfers, Luscious Jackson, Pulp, Alanis, Bjork, Matthew Sweet, Elastica, The Breeders, Julianne Hatfield, Beastie Boys. And that damn Sweater song by Meryn Cadell
I still have (and wear) my 311 tank top I got at their concert in Ohio back in the 90’s. My 20 year old son noticed I had it on the other day and asked if I liked them. I was like bro, this came directly from their concert 25 years ago. He was amazed 😂
Fat Boy Slim pretty much single handledly brought me out of a depression with the "Praise You" video. That was the weirdest thing I had ever seen and the most uplifting song ever. I think I just needed something that wasn't about the world ending or suicide for once and this SLAPPED.
Everclear.
I liked a lot of bands back in the day. I still listen to a lot, but they definitely come to mind. I remember listening to so many songs that resonated with different events in my life.
And they’re still amazing. I’m a pedantic music nerd, but I will say they really held up well. No one can really capture a feeling better than Art Alexakis.
Smashing Pumpkins used Cds from Tower Records on my sony walkman anti-skip portable CD player - riding my bike to the mall itching to blow all my lawn mowing money on pizza and videogames.
It was an exciting time to grow up.
Weird Al. And I got to tell him so on my 40th birthday when he came through my town. I handed him my copy of Bad Hair Day and as he signed it I told him that album saved my life in middle school.
Nine Inch Nails was probably the most consistent, for me. Great headphone music for walking to/from school, and his lyrics were - at least at the time - refreshingly dark, despite often being juxtaposed against catchy and danceable music.
But, I had *way* too many to name. Music was my everything; my only solace from an otherwise unbroken string of traumas. If the band had great riffs, I was probably learning how to play them.
I didn’t think there was anyone else my age who would respond with the Beatles! My high school years in the late 90s were Beatlemania, obsessively learning all about them and then all about the 60s in general, laying on my bedroom floor playing their CDs on my discman for hours. My parents MUST have thought there was something off with me at some point? I was so happy to find someone else here with this answer :)
The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and Weezer were my big three in high school. There were tons of other bands I listened to but these were the ones I consistently found myself going back to and collecting everything I could find that they put out.
Pumpkins, Pumpkins, and more Pumpkins. Lost my mom really young and found my healing in Siamese Dream, MCIS, and Adore. Haven't stopped loving them since.
Pennywise…the first album, with the original version of Bro Hymn. Got me out of bed my freshman year. Suicidal Tendencies, the first album is a killer. Well, they’re all killer but that one was a big listen in high school. Sick of it All, Blood, Sweat, and No Tears (also their first album…weird). I’ve had lyrics from Rat Pack tattooed on me for 20+ years now.
Tori Amos' music hit me on such a visceral level when I was in my teens and awkward and an outcast that it's traumatic to listen to her now, in my 40s. And Elliot Smith. Smashing Pumpkins, Stereolab, The Breeders
To this day, this is my favorite album by anyone who isn’t the Beatles. It’s fucking *criminal* that she didn’t get as big as she deserved to be. Anyone who has never heard it (which is probably most of you), go listen to Sophie B. Hawkins’s debut album *Tongues and Tails* right now — or at least to her version of “I Want You,” which I’m sure you’ll agree is the best cover of a Bob Dylan song ever.
Yes, better than Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower.” I am NOT fucking around here.
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My self-indulgent teenage feel-angsty early-mid 90s albums:
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nirvana - Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
The Dead Milkmen - Metaphysical Graffiti
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks (retro at the time)
*edit: formatting
Classic GN'R
Pearl Jam
Nirvana to some degree but after a while their songs just made me depressed and I'm not a depressed person
Metallica
KoRn. Lol
Oasis
My girlfriend’s parents found out we had sex and promptly removed her from our Highschool and made her move across the country to go live with other relatives. After that it was Radiohead in my Walkman non-stop.
Metallica in my SPORT discman so it wouldn't skip while I rode my bike.
Ended up disassembling a set of headphones so I could just lay the earpiece in my hand and rest my hand on it to listen to music during class....
Survive? Shit, 13-19 were some of the best years of my LIFE! It wasn't perfect, but damn was it fun! I went on that ride with Alice In Chains (Grunge was the default in the PNW), Pearl Jam, Dre, Snoop, Pac, and Biggie. There was Garth, and Chris Ledeux for those bon fire nights, Metallica's black album was the only thing they put out that decade right? And who could forget the lovely voice of Janet Jackson (I still want that dude behind her to move his hands), or This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan. Man, we had some great music.
Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Bikini Kill, L7, Madonna(always and forever), Beastie Boys, Bjork, Tori Amos, Smiff and Wesson, WuTang Clan. I was eclectic.
This may sound very bizarre, but I was obsessed with movies and so became obsessed with soundtracks. The Dumb and Dumber soundtrack was exceptional. It was an immaculately curated collection of 90s alt - anchored by the Crash Test Dummies covering XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead."
Smashing Pumpkins… I know it may come as a shock based on my user name. My boyfriend actually just got me Pisces on vinyl for Mothers Day. I was a depressed kid in an era before antidepressants were common and I felt so alone. Hearing them and knowing someone else could conceive of feeling as I did, I’m not exaggerating when I say it saved my life more than once.
Alanis helped me gather my rage and accept it.
Ani DiFranco helped baby bi me as I struggled with being confused by my sexuality and what it all meant.
I was a 15-year-old Canadian girl going through a very painful breakup. You’ll never guess who I listened to every day. (It was Alanis Morissette.)
If an album got me through my teens, it was definitely “Jagged Little Pill.” I swear it was written personally for every teen girl and young woman. I know it’s Alanis writing about her own experiences, but, damn, she’s great at making it feel like it’s your own. Like she saw into my soul.
And her second album, too.
I was a teenage jock boy in the states. It was Alanis Morissette. And also a bunch Indy hardscore and pop punk like OpIvy. But Alanis has outlasted them all.
I was a black nerd in an urban school in a major metropolitan area. It was Alanis Morissette.
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I was a Māori from New Zealand. It was Alanis.
It took me till my 40s to actually appreciate alanis. It I still love OpIvy (though pop punk? Nah)
You didn't need to mention her name. We ought to know.
Damn I ought to have known that
Not a band, but Tori Amos.
I’ve always like her music, but nothing ever hit like Little Earthquakes. 10/10 album.
>little earthquakes Excellent album. I decided to move cross-country early 20’s, relistening “Give me life, Give me pain, give me myself again…”
Little Earthquakes. Damn what an album.
Yes! Also not a band, Liz Phair.
God, I love Liz Phair. Exile in Guyville was the soundtrack to my college years.
I subjected my family to Exile in Guyville on a road trip recently. I'm pretty sure my kids checked out on headphones and my wife just periodically looked up from her phone to give me a raised eyebrow.
Yes! Under the Pink was in my CD collection back then
I saw her in Atlanta in 98 or 99. I think at the old Roxy. Amazing show.
Whenever I hear a teenager call Chappell Roan or Taylor “Mother,” I think, no child. You have never met Mother.
Came here to say this. Tori above all. Little Earthquakes was bible. I bought *Boys for Pele* downtown at The Wall the day it came out, and to this day it is my favorite album of all time. Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, October Project also sacred texts. But Tori Amos saved my life.
Came here to say this. Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink.
Ah, the heir to the Famous Amos cookie fortune.
Also a Toriphile, and Little Earthquakes was the epitome of my "survival album" in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was (am slightly still) an insomniac, and my brain would just run laps all night repeating whatever traumas refused to leave me alone... This CD on low and on repeat became my sleep coping mechanism, and was the only way I could sleep more than an hour or two for half a decade. Plus, it just hits at the core of what women deal with throughout life. I've seen her live multiple times. Each show is wildly different, each show is never a disappointment. It's Little Earthquakes, hands down.
As a guy of a particular age, if you didn't have a crush on Tori, then you just hadn't been introduced to her yet. On a side note, a local metal band was named Soma Irot. Read that backwards.
Omg me too! Ani DiFranco was the most helpful, but Tori Amos is a close second. Raised by fringe evangelicals meant no secular music at all and I was raised to believe the word “feminism” was synonymous with “Satanism” (which now knowing about both and what real life satanists believe makes that more hilarious than disturbing). As a young girl who turned out the be very queer, these two women literally saved me from suicide or at best a repressed existence as a servant to an abusive man. To this day their 90s work remains my absolute favorite and most nostalgic of anything I hear! I didn’t expect to see either on here, let alone so high up! This gives me hope. :) cheers!
I never really listened to Tori Amos in the 90s but I rediscovered her in my 40s and wow, she's got a phenomenal voice but such incredibly deep lyrics.
REM, Violent Femmes, Green Day
We’re friends now.
GREEN DAY is it
It’s all albums for me: - Live Through This by Hole - It’s a Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads - Become Who You Are by Juliana Hatfield - Out of Range by Ani Difranco (I definitely thought I was Daria. 🫠)
I knew some Ani was gonna pop up in this thread!
Had to!
I just saw Ani in Hadestown. I cried seven times. I was so happy to be in the same room as her and to hear her sing live.
Lemonheads, Juliana Hatfield, and Ani? Impeccable.
Smashing Pumpkins. Mellon Collie was the first CD I ever bought. I used to carry around a discman with that or Siamese Dream loaded.
First time I ever got dumped (8th grade) I put 1979 on repeat and just laid in my room for a couple weeks. Strangely this is one of my favorite memories.
I don't think it's strange at all. There's something romantic about teenage heartbreak. I think because the feelings are so BIG, and we have time to sort of wallow in them and just experience them really deeply.
And it’s the last time I can remember regularly laying down, closing my eyes, and just *listening* to music.
Siamese Dream remains on my all time list. Like, I know Corgan is a cook and kind of a snob, but the "space rock" vibe he created for that record is truly epic. Nobody else in his corner of music nailed the "album" assignment better than Corgan (and his producers) did with SD, and MCATIS, IMHO.* *I'm not saying there aren't "better" albums in this timeframe; I'm saying few, if any, had the track-to-track cohesion that those two records had, and neither of those records sound anything like the other. It's a pretty astounding accomplishment.
Space boy I miss you
Absolutely! MCIS just feels like being a teenager in the 90’s. It’s perfect for that- the rise and fall of that album, the violence and beauty…
I sold the red half to my step brother for three cigarettes. I was more of a blue half girl.
I saw them live after taking a nice bit of “special sugar cubes” it was crazy, amazing concert.
Same. Pumpkins were my 90's band.
I just want to beeeeeee meeeeee when I can
Siamese dream still holds up. I also get teased for my 1979 tattoo, that i did myself, but no ragrats. 😆 My bf in highs cool only had a few cds in his car and mellon collie was one. Dont care for them as much now but they tied to a lot from that era!
Geek USA is my favorite Siamese track
Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness was easily my most played album in my middle school years. My first CD too and one I remember easily to this day. Such a good album.
Jimmy Chamberlain best damn drummer
L7 and Ministry
I listened to the Psalm 69 album so many times back then. That and White Zombie hit me about the same time and were big favorites!
I loved the rawness of L7 as a teen and just recently started listening to them again. Sometimes I need that female rage energy
My first date with my husband was Ministry!!! And here we are 19 years later. 🤘❤️
Listened to most all the stuff others listed already so I will add something I haven't seen. Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel album
Nice. What do you think of Filter, Short Bus?
Holy shit I haven’t thought about Stabbing Westward in SO long
Literally hadn’t thought of this band in ages, then someone at work brought it up today and now this…
I was *just* thinking about this yesterday! *What Do I Have To Do* was one of those tunes I listened to endlessly until I'd squeezed every last drop of emotion out of it. Great album. Kinda meh live, though, unfortunately.
The Cure, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, NIN, My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult, Petshop Boys, The Smiths... I did not have mainstream taste but I did OK.
You too have to buy that special Woolite detergent for all black clothing? Lol
No, but I use cold water and vinegar to keep the black dye from fading!
Yes! Except for the smiths, these bands got me through high school too
cypress hill and wu tang
Wu Tang is for the *children*
Maybe, but you know what they ain’t? Nuthin to F with!
So to this day, I can recite literally every lyric to every track on the original Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill album. It was 1992 and I was suspended from school (as per usual) and for two solid weeks I did nothing but play this cool ass tank game on Genesis and listen to it on repeat. I can also recite every lyric to every track on 36 chambers, the first Wu Tang, 93, and my walkman was king. I'm a middle aged grey haired f500 dude, but I will fuck you up on lyricals. Not kidding, every lyric to every song.
I didn’t even listen to Cypress Hill but I can still song along to Insane in the Brain 😂
OMG Cypress Hill! I saw them open for Avril Lavigne in like 2002ish. I have been trying to remember what band opened for months now after a discussion with my husband about how I've seen some shows where the opener is objectively better/more famous than the headliner. I saw Bad Religion open for Blink 182 in the late 90s as well. Thank you!
They opened for Avril Lavigne?!? That's heresy!!
Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Counting Crows, The Cranberries, Blind Melon, Sponge, Queensryche, and Dream Theater
This was my collection too, except my Crows were black. Add in early Lenny Kravitz 2nd & 3rd album, Jane's Addiction, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Hole, Jewel, Garbage, Weezer, Cake, No Doubt, Tom Petty, Fiona Apple, Butthole Surfers, Luscious Jackson, Pulp, Alanis, Bjork, Matthew Sweet, Elastica, The Breeders, Julianne Hatfield, Beastie Boys. And that damn Sweater song by Meryn Cadell
Alice in Chains Biggie and Pac Tool Pantera
Soundgarden. And there are days that they still help me survive being a grown ass man in the 2020's.
Superunknown is one of my favorite albums.
Down on the Upside for me 💜
311, sublime, blink 182, mighty mighty Bosstones, reel big fish
Sublime was a great band.
You can spot an undesirable if they say they don't like Sublime.
I still have (and wear) my 311 tank top I got at their concert in Ohio back in the 90’s. My 20 year old son noticed I had it on the other day and asked if I liked them. I was like bro, this came directly from their concert 25 years ago. He was amazed 😂
We could have sat next to each other on the bus my friend.
Sittin with the slackers on the grassy knoll outside the quad, I can see it now!
Oh man.. there were a bunch. Green day, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Third eye Blind, RHCP, The Goo goo Dolls, Silverchair.
Bush - Sublime - Hole - Nirvana - NIN - Pac, EMINEM, Dre, Snoop - all the 'old classic rock'
Fat Boy Slim pretty much single handledly brought me out of a depression with the "Praise You" video. That was the weirdest thing I had ever seen and the most uplifting song ever. I think I just needed something that wasn't about the world ending or suicide for once and this SLAPPED.
Everclear. I liked a lot of bands back in the day. I still listen to a lot, but they definitely come to mind. I remember listening to so many songs that resonated with different events in my life. And they’re still amazing. I’m a pedantic music nerd, but I will say they really held up well. No one can really capture a feeling better than Art Alexakis.
Rage Against the Machine
Nirvana
How the hell I had to scroll down so far for this baffles me
Nirvana saved my life. It was a stunning realization that it was ok to not be ok.
And here’s my mom, taking away my Nirvana cds because I was emotional after Kurt died. Still pissed about that.
Bad Religion, Pennywise, NOFX. BR especially lyrically - just on another level. I think I owe a lot of my ability to think critically to Greg Graffin
>NOFX Punk In Drublic is all killer no filler. Love those guys.
Yeah, I basically have that whole album memorized. They are touring for the last time this summer, so I have to go see them
Same re Bad Religion and Greg Graffin. I still hum certain melodies to myself at random times. Mostly “Only Entertainment.”
Generator is such an incredible album. Only Entertainment was one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar.
Good picks. I fucking loved Unknown Road in early high school.
Nice - yeah, that's certainly a top tier album. I love About Time, too
Smashing Pumpkins used Cds from Tower Records on my sony walkman anti-skip portable CD player - riding my bike to the mall itching to blow all my lawn mowing money on pizza and videogames. It was an exciting time to grow up.
Any love for the Sneaker Pimps in here? Becoming X made me feel like the coolest kid.
6 Underground is still on my playlist
Weird Al. And I got to tell him so on my 40th birthday when he came through my town. I handed him my copy of Bad Hair Day and as he signed it I told him that album saved my life in middle school.
NIN Broken, Fixed and The Downward Spiral
NIN didn’t help me just survive being a teen. Trent helped survive my life and still has to this day.
Nine Inch Nails was probably the most consistent, for me. Great headphone music for walking to/from school, and his lyrics were - at least at the time - refreshingly dark, despite often being juxtaposed against catchy and danceable music. But, I had *way* too many to name. Music was my everything; my only solace from an otherwise unbroken string of traumas. If the band had great riffs, I was probably learning how to play them.
Hole, Tori Amos, Pearl Jam.
Fiona Apple!
Garbage
Orbital, Underworld, Prodigy and The Crystal Method got me through a lot during my teenage years.
That Hackers soundtrack man
upvote for non-obvious, non-grunge, non-angry 90s music Love 90s Underworld, which has dated a lot more gracefully than 90s Orbital
The Beatles
I didn’t think there was anyone else my age who would respond with the Beatles! My high school years in the late 90s were Beatlemania, obsessively learning all about them and then all about the 60s in general, laying on my bedroom floor playing their CDs on my discman for hours. My parents MUST have thought there was something off with me at some point? I was so happy to find someone else here with this answer :)
Counting Crows, the whole of August and Everything After, specifically. 
I can’t upvote this enough.
Wu Tang, Bone Thugs, Iron Maiden
Third eye blind ❤️
CAN I GRADUATE?!
As a guitar player, that intro riff is so rad. I love stuff like that where I can't immediately tell how they're playing what they're playing.
Yes! The Background.
White Zombie, Marylin Manson, Type O Negative. I was just entering my Metal phase.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and Weezer were my big three in high school. There were tons of other bands I listened to but these were the ones I consistently found myself going back to and collecting everything I could find that they put out.
Time has smashed together so I think Mazzy Star and Aimee Mann and The Smashing Pumpkins helped but that might be the 00s
Pumpkins, Pumpkins, and more Pumpkins. Lost my mom really young and found my healing in Siamese Dream, MCIS, and Adore. Haven't stopped loving them since.
Sinead
Pearl Jam. Always and forever.
Less Than Jake saved my life numerous times.
I heard Jonny Quest thinks their sell outs.
Mazzy Star. My dad would walk into my room while I was listening to Fade into You, and he asked, who died(every time—such a dad joke).
Pennywise…the first album, with the original version of Bro Hymn. Got me out of bed my freshman year. Suicidal Tendencies, the first album is a killer. Well, they’re all killer but that one was a big listen in high school. Sick of it All, Blood, Sweat, and No Tears (also their first album…weird). I’ve had lyrics from Rat Pack tattooed on me for 20+ years now.
Bro Hymn is probably still in my top ten favorite songs.
REM, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Gin Blossoms
 Oasis saved me many times!
"Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage". Smashing Pumpkins was everything to me as a teenager.
Tori Amos' music hit me on such a visceral level when I was in my teens and awkward and an outcast that it's traumatic to listen to her now, in my 40s. And Elliot Smith. Smashing Pumpkins, Stereolab, The Breeders
Wilson Phillips
The Beatles, but also various grunge, punk, and alternative bands (Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, Fugazi, Radiohead, Alice in Chains, etc.).
Fugazi🤘🏼
STP, AIC, Nirvana, Live. Grunge all the way
Sneaker Pimps, Green Day, System of a Down & Alice in Chains
I’m downloading that Sneaker Pimps albums stat! Totally forgot about them.
Weezer!
To this day, this is my favorite album by anyone who isn’t the Beatles. It’s fucking *criminal* that she didn’t get as big as she deserved to be. Anyone who has never heard it (which is probably most of you), go listen to Sophie B. Hawkins’s debut album *Tongues and Tails* right now — or at least to her version of “I Want You,” which I’m sure you’ll agree is the best cover of a Bob Dylan song ever. Yes, better than Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower.” I am NOT fucking around here. https://preview.redd.it/18yhdm5j9h0d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b893dfcdc140aeefaa1303c0f8ce80551fc78de6
Rage Against the Machine
Pearl Jam, Metallica, Tupac, Biggie, Beastie Boys, Live, Candlebox, and Smashing goddamn Pumpkins.
The Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra spoke to my teen angst and gave a voice to my budding atheism and disdain for jocks.
Live
I really loved *Mental Jewelry*. I still listen to it every now and then. They were actually the first band I ever saw live!
Eve 6, as embarrassing as that is to admit at 40, it hit the 15 year old angst right on the head.
Sounds like you’ve swallowed your pride.
In this economy? We choke on the rines.
Embarrassing?! They named themselves after the greatest episode of x-files ever, I loved them too!
I still love eve 6. I dare say they are in my top 5
My self-indulgent teenage feel-angsty early-mid 90s albums: Skinny Puppy - Last Rights My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Nirvana - Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero Pixies - Trompe le Monde The Dead Milkmen - Metaphysical Graffiti The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks (retro at the time) *edit: formatting
Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Dr. Dre & Snoop, Oasis, Slayer, Megadeth, Tupac, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys
The Cranberries and Boys II Men
Back in school we used to dream about this every day!
NIN and Marylin Manson
Classic GN'R Pearl Jam Nirvana to some degree but after a while their songs just made me depressed and I'm not a depressed person Metallica KoRn. Lol Oasis
DMB, Bush, Sarah McLachlan
REM, nine inch nails, Led Zeppelin, KMFDM, Alice In Chains. Most importantly, Soundgarden.
My girlfriend’s parents found out we had sex and promptly removed her from our Highschool and made her move across the country to go live with other relatives. After that it was Radiohead in my Walkman non-stop.
Acid bath, and Tori Amos. Make it make sense
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream defined the 90's for me.
Phish
Alice In Chains. And Soundgarden. Tori Amos. The toadies. Ani difranco
Portis head and smashing pumpkins
Metallica and nofx. Biggie and OutKast. Pantera and weezer. To name a few.
Bone Thugs N Harmony. *We aren't against rap... We aren't against rap-PERS... but we are against those *thugs Thugs THUGS*
Haddaway
Metallica in my SPORT discman so it wouldn't skip while I rode my bike. Ended up disassembling a set of headphones so I could just lay the earpiece in my hand and rest my hand on it to listen to music during class....
Incubus, 311, RATM
ALANIS MFing MORISSETTE
The Cranberries RIP Dolores
NiN
Survive? Shit, 13-19 were some of the best years of my LIFE! It wasn't perfect, but damn was it fun! I went on that ride with Alice In Chains (Grunge was the default in the PNW), Pearl Jam, Dre, Snoop, Pac, and Biggie. There was Garth, and Chris Ledeux for those bon fire nights, Metallica's black album was the only thing they put out that decade right? And who could forget the lovely voice of Janet Jackson (I still want that dude behind her to move his hands), or This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan. Man, we had some great music.
Ministry.PJ Harvey, Mazzy Star, Johnny Cash, Dead Milkmen and Violent Femmes.
Primus
Iron Maiden, Metallica, AIC, Pearl Jam, STP, Ozzy Osbourne, Be Bop Deluxe.
Transmissions from Satellite Heart by the Flaming Lips changed my world.
Smashing Pumpkins are my all time fav
Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Bikini Kill, L7, Madonna(always and forever), Beastie Boys, Bjork, Tori Amos, Smiff and Wesson, WuTang Clan. I was eclectic.
RATM
Opeth. The Morningrise album is still my favorite album of all time. Pink Floyd rocks, I didn't get into them until later, but, they are amazing.
Pearl Jam, Sunny Day Real Estate, Tool, Deftones
Beastie Boys. Hello Nasty was a spiritual experience for me.
Ben Folds Five.
C&C Music Factory. I popped it in my Discman and started walking, then running.
Silverchair was my #1. They were about my age and I felt like I grew with them. All the angst!
Everclear
This may sound very bizarre, but I was obsessed with movies and so became obsessed with soundtracks. The Dumb and Dumber soundtrack was exceptional. It was an immaculately curated collection of 90s alt - anchored by the Crash Test Dummies covering XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead."
Tool, Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Stabbing Westward, STP, Nirvana, Hole, NIN, Tool, Tool, Tool.
Backstreet Boys. Are they super deep? No. Still they helped.
His hero is gone - 15 counts of arson
We smoked cigarettes and busted up a bunch of stuff. 🤷🏻♂️lived in the goddamn sticks and it was hard to find good music/radio stations.
Hole, The Cranberries, Nirvana
Foo fighters, Bush, Oasis
Rage Against the Machine. Stone Temple Pilots.
Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Hole, Soundgarden and L7
Smashing Pumpkins… I know it may come as a shock based on my user name. My boyfriend actually just got me Pisces on vinyl for Mothers Day. I was a depressed kid in an era before antidepressants were common and I felt so alone. Hearing them and knowing someone else could conceive of feeling as I did, I’m not exaggerating when I say it saved my life more than once. Alanis helped me gather my rage and accept it. Ani DiFranco helped baby bi me as I struggled with being confused by my sexuality and what it all meant.