Your favorite album from your Junior High School (middle school) years

[taterguy]

I'll start

[Left Is Write]

1. Probably Candy-O.

[taterguy]

5. Now that's an album cover you should have posted

[Left Is Write]

11. I was too lazy to find an image, but I took pity on you. Here it is.

[KitchenWitch]

2. This one!

[Hugin]

3. The Kinks...

Yeah, yeah... I know. Everyone expected me to say, "Afternoon Delight".

[MysticalChicken]

19. Ahhh...

I adore The Kinks.

Don't have any of their CDs though, but I've heard a lot of their songs.

[Hugin]

22. This is a difficult question...

I had favorite albums in many different categories.

I also liked Juice Newton, The Cars and many more.

[slj0101]

4. SLAYER!!!!!!

[SteppingRazor]

6. I was male, in Junior High in Southern California in 1989...

and that means my favorite album was Appetite for Destruction by Guns n' Roses. I think I was legally obligated to worship that album.

[AllegroRondo]

7. This one

I think it was required that everyone own a copy

[Connonym]

8. Steve Miller Band

it was the first entire album I ever bought

[applegrove]

9. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. I still love it.

[driver8]

24. That is an amazing album.

Definitely heard that album a lot when I was in high school.

[applegrove]

28. I was sitting in class as the teacher was trying to teach math. She asked

everyone in the class what their favourite album was and I copied the people before me and said "Rumours". I'd never heard of it. I then went out and got it. I loved it then, I love it now.

[seemunkee]

10. Ummagumma

[KitchenWitch]

13. Ah, Floyd!

:)

[ceile]

12. "Substance" New Order

or maybe "Music for the Masses" Depeche Mode


and of course:

[johnnie]

14. That's not possible

I can't think of just one back then. But I do remember listening to this a lot

[flying rabbit]

15. Back in black

:headbang:

[Inchworm]

78. Pretty sure it was junior high

the best I, umm.. err remember.

:headbang:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. For an old-timer like myself, my favorite album in junior high was

[enigmatic]

17. Velvet Undergound Live 1969

Until "The Modern Dance" by Pere Ubu was released..

[taterguy]

21. In Junior High?

I started to write a post about how that's too young to be into drugs and deviant sex. Then I realized those were the predominant themes of the album I posted.

[enigmatic]

25. you bet

My older brother loved Lou Reed and when I was 12 I pretty much went from listening to Elton John to The Velvets one beer and weed soaked summer night in 1976...

[MysticalChicken]

23. I'm just getting into Velvet Underground

Yeah, I know, I'm a bit late to the party.

I love the lead guy's voice. Which of their CDs should I start out with? I saw the one with the banana on it at the local FYE. Any good?

I've heard "Rock and Roll" and "Sweet Jane," and I love both of those songs.

[enigmatic]

26. I'd start w/ the one I posted

Though it's split into two volumes now for CD sales. "The Velvet Underground And Nico" is the touchstone for all beginners; "White Light White Heat" was probably the first true punk album ever made (and their most abrasive); "The Velvet Underground" the most quiet (and beautiful); and "Loaded" has both "Sweet Jane" and "Rock N Roll", but also was finished after Lou left the band and has Doug Yule sining most of the songs...

[MysticalChicken]

18. I wish I'd gotten into alternative music then...

...but at the time I hated it (or didn't know I liked it), and listened to the stuff everyone else was listening to.

I didn't actually own very many tapes (I didn't buy my first CD player until 1997, when I was eighteen). I do remember the very first tape I ever bought was Arrested Development's Two Years, Five Months and Three Days in the Life Of... or something like that. I also remember owning that one En Vogue tape, which I forget the name of but which came out in I think 1992. I was thirteen.

[stuntcat]

20. Fleetwood Mac

Tusk :headbang:

[Seashell Eyes]

27. Spice Girls -Spice

Later on, I liked Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

[Bullwinkle925]

29. This one . . .

[FloridaJudy]

57. Mine's this one:

My parents - of course - had a fit.

[Bullwinkle925]

62. I was such the Beatles fan . . .

would save my allowance and go to the record store to buy the next new 99cent single they put out. Ahhhh . . . I wish the innocence of those days were back again.

[LibDemAlways]

71. These days I can't even listen to old Beatles songs without

getting emotional. Bought the new "Love" compilation, popped it into the car cd player, and had to pull over because I couldn't see through the tears. Don't know if it's the innocence that time represented or how old I'm getting or some combination of the two, but hearing those songs takes me back to a special time that's lost forever.

[Bullwinkle925]

81. Same here . . .

I think with all of the angst today - it makes those days of yesteryear even more poignant. We just didn't know what we had then, did we?

:cry:

[LibDemAlways]

85. How true. I was in the neighborhood of my

old middle school one weekend not long ago and walked around the campus, which is no longer in operation and has fallen into disrepair. Walked by the gym where our Beatle style student band "the rumrunners" would entertain at Coke (as in coca cola) dances on Friday afternoons, 8th grade park where we'd listen to our favorite dj's at lunchtime counting down the top 40 on static-ridden transister radios, having heated discussions about who we liked better - Beatles or Dave Clark 5. We even had Beatle publicist Derek Taylor emcee a student talent show one time. How that happened remains a mystery. But yes, those were great by-gone days. And when I try to describe it to my 14-year-old, she just doesn't get it. You had to have been there.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

68. the famous butcher cover!!!

[SKKY]

30. This is gonna be just a bit embarrassing, but...

...mine would have to be "Pyromania" by Def Leppard.

[taterguy]

34. There's nothing embarrassing

That's part of the point of this thread, to point out how musical tastes evolve as we get more (allegedly) mature.

[SKKY]

35. Well it is. And in 20 years, when I post on a thread much like this...

...I'll be just as embarrassed to say "Fall Out Boy".

[SoxFan]

31. The Beatles 1967-1970

I'd rather forget about my middle school years, but I still love this album

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Rush "All the World's a Stage", Pat Travers Band Live, Bat out of Hell, Animals

[Rambis]

33. London Calling: Clash

great stuff- I hated Kiss and was shunned on the playground in 6th garde for it.

[MysticalChicken]

39. I'm a huge Clash fan.

I didn't get into them until after Joe Strummer died, though. But I have the eponymous debut, London Calling, and Combat Rock, which I think is better than most people give it credit for. I want Give 'Em Enough Rope.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

36. Faith No More

"The Real Thing"

[triguy46]

37. Surfs up!

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[MAGICBULLET]

38. in middle school - '88-'90

I went through an intense Beatle phase. I was obsessed with John Lennon and must've made 200 mixed tapes of Beatle songs.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

40. I wasn't in Jr High when it came out but...........

Huge Who fan in Jr. High

[BrotherBuzz]

41. Help!

or maybe Rubber Soul. Back then, I was still buying 45's and it would be impossible to choose the best single out of my collection. Mom, why did you toss my 45's? :cry:

[SPKrazy]

42. without a doubt

or wait

maybe...

[KitchenWitch]

73. Do you...you ... Feel like I do?

:7

[SPKrazy]

92. yes and they were just another band out of boston

on the road and trying to make ends meet

and i do feel like you do,

:hi:

[flvegan]

43. Beastie Boys, "License to Ill" and U2 "Live Under a Blood Red Sky"

[Dastard Stepchild]

53. Paul's Boutique for me!

oowah oowah is my disco call...

[flvegan]

55. I love you.

[Dastard Stepchild]

58. *snort*

Did you ever listen to Pollywog Stew? I think that one was early 80s. I just remember the song Cookie Puss.

[musette_sf]

44. oh dear lord

[WinkyDink]

45. "Meet the Beatles"!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. "This one I'm sure you allll.....knowwwww......"

The boys from Rockford! :loveya: And I was one of the gals that was hot for Tom Petersson instead of Robin Zander. Loves me some dark haired menz.

[LibraLiz1973]

47. That's a tough one!

My 5 most played were:

[mainegreen]

48. Testament: The Legacy

Lame, I know.
Still, it has a certain something.

[Dervill Crow]

49. This one, although the school I went through was actually K thru 8.

We didn't have junior high or middle school in Portland w-a-y back then.

[Kat45]

50. Probably The Doors (in 7th grade)

Also Led Zeppelin II. And Woodstock (if that was still junior high).

[mitchum]

51. "Raw Power" Iggy and the Stooges

[ornotna]

52. Santana - Abraxas n/t

[Tikki]

54. The Sonics....

http://surf.to/sonics


Tikki

[Magrittes Pipe]

76. Heyheyheyheyhey Cinderella!

:bounce:

[TheBaldyMan]

56. Catchafire - BMW

[MassLiberal]

59. lurved Jim Croce

used to listen to this one a lot

[momophile]

60. a few of the only guys who really understood me back then

[swag]

61. Elton John's Greatest Hits.

The good one. Before the egregious "Candle in the Wind" was inserted.

[MassLiberal]

63. oh, I had this one, too!

It was the first album I bought with my own money. I know that cover photo like I know the back of my hand. :-)

[The Great Escape]

64. Electric Light Orchestra....

A New World Record

Eighth Grade

[MissMillie]

75. good choice

that's a great album

[MilesColtrane]

87. _

[Throd]

65. "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" by the Dead Kennedys

also "Shiek Yerbouti" by Frank Zappa

and Maximum Rock-n-Roll's "Not So Quiet On The Western Front" compilation on Alternative Tentacles

[ChoralScholar]

66. Don't Shoot Me

I didn't know the Nuge was a conservative whackjob....

[Broken_Hero]

67. Justice for All....Metallica, :) nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

69. The Monkees.

And the White Album - Beatles.

[LibDemAlways]

70. Here's Mine:

[pokerfan]

72. Never got into KISS

I guess I was just a fool for the city...

[MissMillie]

74. I guess I've always been "progressive"

(that's a reference to prog rock)

[Magrittes Pipe]

77. This one:

[ashling]

79. Probably:

[Zavulon]

80. 2112

I still listen to it at least once a month.

[meegbear]

82. Alice Cooper Weclome To My Nightmare

YEAH!!!!

[OzarkDem]

83. Rolling Stones "Flowers"

Wore it out..


Ruby Tuesday
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing...
Let's Spend the Night Together
Lady Jane
Out of Time
My Girl
Backstreet Girl
Please Go Home
Mother's Little Helper
Take It or Leave It
Ride on Baby
Sittin' on a Fence

[datasuspect]

84. low

[MilesColtrane]

86. I was weird... (wait a minute, was?)

[devilgrrl]

88. Pink Floyd - Animals

[rubberducky]

89. Donovan`s Greatest Hits.

I suddenly feel sooooo very OLD.

[HuskerDU]

90. We were obsessed with 4 particular records back then:

SOD- Speak English or Die
Suicidal Tendencies- Self Titled
Black Flag- Slip it in
Mentors- You Axed for it

Probably not wise to post these album covers!

[bamacrat]

91. Tupac-All Eyez On Me

[GenDem]

93. Zeppelin -- Houses of the Holy