And what do they make you reminisce on?

Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie: My time down at University of Missouri. Going to the Blue Note. Being in a fraternity(!?!). Hanging out at Brady Commons.

James - Laid: Just graduated from college. Living in Evanston. Met my wife (to be) and just started dating. Record shopping twice a week. Shows even more often. Breakfast out at Standee's on Granville. Driving down LSD into the city waiting tables at the Red Lobster in Lincolnwood.

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity: Bought it off the strength of the song from it that was on the Never Been Kissed soundtrack. Got into the whole thing over the course of summer, painting houses and covering third-shifts at a gas-station, and blasting it. Then, had it come up in conversation a few times amongst me, my future arch-nemesis, a coupla other friends, and a doll to whom he had taken a shine and was wooing. She perked up at my praise of the record, a glint in her eye looking straight at me... But being a pussy, I never did anything about it. Plus, my friend (of the time) was wooing her. (Bros 'fore hoes, and all that.)

But considering I don't think it ever went verrry far between him and her, I think I cock-blocked him, on a very informal level. And seeing as he became, in the next year, my archnemesis, it's a point of pride for me.

Ah, halcyon pre-willenial tension broken/constructed by cock-blocking. And me doing it. Me, an ugly ass, over-hairy, small-pricked motherfucker.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Go me....

smashing pumpkins - adore
came out when i was 15. i bought in whitehorse, while on holiday. as soon as i got it, i went to our car while everyone else was shopping, got comfortable, put it on, and just listened. of course looked around a bit, since whitehorse is one of the most beautiful cities ive ever been to, but not much else.

the verve - urban hymns
came out when i was 16. first heard bittersweet symphony while on vacation in britain on the bbc. didnt buy the album until a few months later back in canada. i remember listening to it and thinking that i hadnt listen to anything close to this before, and loving it.

Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutigue / The start of high school I believe.

Faith No More - "The Real Thing" & They Might Be Giants "Flood" / The only two records my friends and I played in the Summer of 90.

Also -

Billy Joel "Just the way you are" / the first piece of music i ever owned in any format.

Ratt "out of the cellar" - the first piuece of music i ever obsessed over and played repeatedly for months at a time.

Fugazi - 13 Songs/Repeater - met my husband at a Fugazi show on the Repeater tour, the Masquerade Club, the proximity to the scary Kroger on Ponce where I bought my first underage six pack with fake ID

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine/RevCo - Beers, Steers and Queers/Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste - soundtrack for college years, reminds me of old college friends I haven't seen in years, and some of the mind-numbing parties we'd have

Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra - just finishing highschool and moving on to college, saw her twice in college for free, did a Sunday Special on her while working at WREK (still have it on tape somewheres)

Mahalathini and the Mahotella Queens - don't remember the album title but I remember spinning it at WREK a lot and then seeing them live... phenomenal show at the Variety Playhouse.

agree with the James - Laid album choice above.

The most nostalgic are the ones I listened to a shit load in college or with my ex girlfriend - good times:

Buffalo Tom: Red Letter Day
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Peter Gabriel - So
The Cure - Wish
Singles - Soundtrack
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Geto Boys - Making Trouble

Verve - Urban Hymns - Missed it when it first came out, but really got into it in the fall of 2000 and listened to it a lot during the month when I was driving 3 hours across the state each weekend to visit my grandfather who was dying of cancer. While that sounds horribly depressing, I'm almost glad I have a totem to that time. I think of him whenever any song from that record comes on.

Gaunt - Bricks and Blackouts - got in fall 99 at cheap campus record store in E. Lansing and listened to it during my 12-hour days as an editor at the school paper when I literally hated my life. I worked too much, barely ate, barely studied or went to class, made no money, despised my boss (that was a huge factor), drank too much, never slept and otherwise burned the candle at both ends with a blowtorch. That record had this perfect "everything's-fucked-but-I believe-it'll-get-better" energy to it. It's the only thing that kept me sane that semester.

more...

Belly "King" and Blind Melon "s/t" - my ex g/f....Those were 'OUR' records.

only a year ago, was I able to listen to them in their entirety again.....how i missed em....


Gloria Estefan "Anything for you" single - for the first girl i had a crush on.....

I keep seeing this, and really want to know more. I think we obnerites deserve a little story-telling. Do tell more about your arch-nemesis. I don't believe I've ever encountered a real person with one, and I'm fascinated.

Kiss is still trying to take every dollar they can suck out of the public... but I don't have a problem with that...

Kiss.. which means Knights in Satan's Service if you recall... gave us a reason to steal make-up, spit blood, and think about trying to swallow gasoline to breath fire. Gotta take the good with the bad.

First album I bought with some of my own money... Kiss "Destroyer"... I still consider it a classic.

I get the most nostalgia from the albums my dad played in the 8-track of his lima bean green '72 LTD when we went on family trips and such...

Rolling Stones - Made in the Shade
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Willie Nelson -Shotgun Willie & Phases and Stages
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Coulter and Tompall Glaser - Wanted! The Outlaws
The Association - Greatest Hits
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim

prince "purple rain" - first cassette [eventually became my first cd & ripped mp3]

phil collins "...but seriously" - one of first cassettes bought on a tight budget entering college

nirvana "nevermind" - just reminds me of mid-to-later raucous college years

Finding out there's a Newman to your Jerry is the highlight of my day.

Michael Jackson - Thriller - My parents spilt, and it was just me and my mom. We would put this on and dance like no tomorrow. I had some outstanding 5 yr old white boy moves by the way.

Pearl Jam- Ten & Snoop Dogg -Dogg Pound - All I listened to every day for the entirity of my 8th grade. No party or sleep over was without them. Probably the first time music made a significant impression on me.