What was your favorite album when you were ten years old?
I’m listening to Audioslave’s self titled. It’s still perfect. What’s yours?
I’m listening to Audioslave’s self titled. It’s still perfect. What’s yours?
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Funny story time - it seemed like everyone had or wanted to have that album when it came out. We did not have it though because it was hard to find in my village. A boy I knew had the album and agreed to make a recording for me on cassette. I was super pumped and got the tape from him on Friday at school before a slumber party with my besties. Saturday morning we’re all sitting around the table with my friend’s huge family and they pulled out a cassette player and set it in the center of the table. The first three tracks played while we’re monching pancakes and I was so chuffed to have brought this sought after album. Then “Thriller” came on - the song - which is nearly six minutes long. Everyone knows the song and it’s ramping up but then suddenly the music cuts out with a click. It was the boy who recorded it speaking in to a mic saying, “Elaine, I recorded this for you because I love you.” Mind you, I’m ten so the entire room - adults and kids are dying of laughter while I was desperately trying to crawl across the table to shut it off. Someone grabbed the tape player from my reach and I died instantly. This is my clone typing this in 2024.
When I was ten Master of Puppets and Slippery When Wet were both released and awesome.
That said, and as a fan of the wierd and heavy, Graceland by Paul Simon was also released and is one of the best albums of all time.
Ooh that's a good from when I was 10, too. I didn't become fully obsessed with them until Americana, though. I don't think any other cd has ever gotten as much play as that one.
Americana was a great one, too. That was more like high school days for me, though. I was getting more into Tool around the time that came out.
Its funny, the Offspring was the first band I ever found I liked outside of my parent's interests and as I get older, their earlier albums just sound better and better to me
Brandy's first album. Or TLC's. Both of those tapes got played to deaaath. But my real favorite was probably whatever mixtape my sister and I had most recently made from the radio because that shit was custom. No skips.
Yessss. One thing I really miss is making custom mixes. (Though it was cds for me). A playlist isn’t quite the same.
When I was 10 I didn't listen to music because my parents didn't listen to music. Sometimes we were listening to the radio and I specifically remember liking this one song "Lady Pank - Mniej niż zero" (which means less then zero and I was always wondering how something can be less then zero).
Comes down to one of two, and to varying degrees they both hold up.
The Kick Inside by Kate Bush
It was my Dad's CD and he made me a cassette tape for my walkman. It's still one of my all time favorites.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5NKTuBLCYhN0OwqFiGdXd1?si=rq5Oqcb0S6-wxhpJGQ5Uww
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
That was a time where a young kid listened to anything his older siblings were jamming to. So Oasis was one of my favorite bands at that age.
I hadn't really developed any musical taste at that point. The first favorite would've been Nirvana's Unplugged in New York.
Ten?
Gonna be a tossup, because I was listening to two in heavy rotation on casette. The first was a couple of years old at that point, Alabama's Mountain Music. Still a great album.
The other was essentially brand new, Joan Jett's Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth, again on cassette.
My parents had the Alabama on vinyl, which got worn the hell out by the time I got the tape. The Joan Jett wasn't something they had gotten for themselves until after I bought it with birthday money at the same time as the Alabama tape. Then they got it on vinyl.
I still listen to both albums in their entirety here and there, and have multiple songs from each in multiple playlists.
I think, at the time, I probably favored GROAMY (what a horrible initialism lol) a bit most of the time, but it would have been a narrow margin. As full albums I favor Mountain Music now, it's just more consistently good songs across the album. Not that Jett's album has any stinkers, it doesn't; it's just that Alabama really nailed every track.
And yes, I'm fucking old lol
Not to be a pedant but since you can pronounce it as a word it's an acronym, not an initialism.
Has to be Jesus Christ Superstar (original 1970 album version). I got into all sorts of other artists a little bit later, but that was the first bit of music to really hook me. I remember walking around the schoolyard alone listening to it on a cassette tape walkman around that time.