Favorite Five Albums When I Was A Teenager

This is really, really hard...

Supersession- Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper

Blood Sweat & Tears - Child is the Father to Man

Jeff Beck - Truth

Led Zepplin (1)...they were, after all, the "New Yardbirds"

Chicago (II)

And special consolation-prize to Collesium - Those About To Die Salute You (RIP to Dick Hecksall-Smith)
 
Styx Edge of the Century
Bon Jovi Slippery when wet
Metallica Black
Phil Collins Sussudio
Def Leppard Pyromania.

I was a teen in the early nineties
 
I was 18 in 2002. My top 5:
Tangerine Dream-Exit
Pat Metheny-As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls
Duran Duran-Decade
Gary Numan-The Pleasure Principle
Crispin Glover-The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be

I think i was a weird kid
 
So many metal/hair bands and so little time . Here are some

GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Scorpions - World Wide Live
Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
 
Cool idea Mr Pig!

Mine are;

Beatles Sargent Pepper
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
Genesis Foxtrot
Eric Clapton Slowhand
Yes Close to the Edge
 
Cool idea Mr Pig!

Mine are;

Beatles Sargent Pepper
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
Genesis Foxtrot
Eric Clapton Slowhand
Yes Close to the Edge

Honorable mention goes to the White Album, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, and Jesus Christ Superstar Box set all three which I wore out.

And Alice Coopers Greatest Hits, Selling England by the Pound, DSOTM, Wish you were here, Led Zeppelin 4, etc.
 
Wow, great thread, tough to decide these, esp since I was a teenager during some of the best of the evolution (IMO). At any rate:

Revolver
Love (Arthur Lee)
Grateful Dead
Blues project, Live at Cafe Au Go Go
Quicksilver Messenger Service
 
The Who--Who's Next
Mountain--Nantucket Sleighride
Led Zepplin--IV
Pink Floyd--Darkside
Lynyrd Skynyrd--Pronounced
Credence, The Doobies, Jethro, ELO, Steely Dan, Steepinwolf, 3 Dog Night, The Stones, The Beatles, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Tommie James, CSNY, Cat Stevens, Jimi, Janis, Deep Purple, the list is endless.....how can you pick just 1 or 5 or even 10
 
CSN&Y Deja Vu
Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn
Pink Floyd DSOTM
Bachman Turner Overdrive (Self Titled)
Spirit 12 Dreams of Dr.Sardonicus

And my second 5 is:

CCR Cosmos Factory
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Joe Walsh The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
The Beatles Abbey Road
Elton John Madman Across The Water
 
OK, here goes...

Led Zeppelin, IV 1971
Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed 1967
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973
Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstasy 1973
Doors, LA Woman 1971

Honorable Mention: Yes, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Yessongs, 1973
Honorable Mention #2: Eagles, Hotel California, 1976
 
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Depeche Mode
Prince
Public Enemy
The Police/Sting
Tears for fears

So many more 5 isn't enough.

Audiofreak71
 
Beach Boys-Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA, All Summer Long
Beatles-Meet the Beatles
Van Cliburn-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto

Enjoy the music,
-Mark
 
Bon jovi- New Jersey
Def Lepard - Hysteria
Billy Joel - The Bridge
MJ's - Thriller
Genesis - Invisible Touch
INXS- X
 
The top 5 is intentional. Those albums have to stand out to you to make the cut. The most influential. Sure its hard to pick out those 5. It's meant to be hard to choose.

Regards
Mister Pig
 
All I can remember is Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were my most played artists.As a teenager living in a small town in southern Colo.there were not a lot of choices.It wasn't until a stint in the US Army in my early twenties in the early 80s that I really discovered a lot of music.Mainly 60s and 70s rock.
 
The top 5 is intentional. Those albums have to stand out to you to make the cut. The most influential. Sure its hard to pick out those 5. It's meant to be hard to choose.

Regards
Mister Pig


For me, it ain't hard. It just ain't possible. But the thread started off as five favorites when a teenager, without mention of influence, which will probably be different with hindsight than favorites at the time, anyway. Just as my current favorites from that era differ from my teen preferences. Fun thread though. I could adopt several people's lists as among my favorites at the time, which would be as valid as what I posted.

As a teen, I also loved jazz, classical, country and blues but since most kept it rock, I did, too, since adding more genres just made listing only five that much more impossible.
 
The top 5 is intentional. Those albums have to stand out to you to make the cut. The most influential. Sure its hard to pick out those 5. It's meant to be hard to choose.

Regards
Mister Pig

Exactly why I picked the ones I did. They influenced probably 90% of what I've listened to since. Still Jazz and blues primarily but for many years those were interspersed with a lot of country rock. I was never a metal head or disco guy and I disliked most classic rock aside from Little Feat and a few others. That Columbia record and others in the set were a huge influence as the were my first taste of blues and jazz.
 
Great topic! These are the albums I remember playing consistently throughout junior high/high school:

AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Def Leppard - High and Dry
Blackfoot - Siogo
Foreigner - 4
Sammy Hagar - Three Lock Box

And after all these years, I still listen to these on a regular basis!
 
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