Favorite Albums Your Senior Year in HS

[Chef Jim]

Ok so let's fast forward four years. Interestingly my list get incredibly shorter. Now I must admit that many of the albums I listed in my Freshman Year thread I may not have listened to until a few years later but still very interesting. Oh and I took my whole freshman year. I started in 1974 and finished in 1975. This list will be only from albums released the year I graduated so it will be shorter but wasn't expecting it to be this much shorter.

 

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live Rust

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

The B-52's - The B-52's

The Who - The Kids are Alright

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes (!@#$ you Tom. I was a huge stoner in 1979)

Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan

Pat Travers - Live Go for What You Know

 

In looking through the list (and this is the site I used http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1979/1)in the late 70's Punk and New Wave began to take over and I was, and still am not, a fan of those genres.

 

[PromoTheRobot]

1975-76:

 

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

Genesis - Trick of the Tail

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

Gentle Giant - Freehand

Eno - Another Green World

Roxy Music - Siren

 

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

[Bad Things]

1987

 

U2- The Joshua Tree

REM - Document

INXS - Kick

Grateful Dead - In the Dark

Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

John Cugar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee

The Cult - Electric

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

 

Even though it was released the year prior; the foul taste of "Genesis - Invisible Touch" was still strong in my mouth.

(I used to be a bigtime Genesis fan.)

[boyst]

Garth Brooks box set

Brooks and dunn

Tim McGraw greatest hits

Kenny cheesey greatest hits. Which didn't have a song called a chance

George strait greatest hits

Daryl Worley hard rain dont last

Bryan while greatest hits

Travis trust down the road I go

 

 

Of course, this was Napster days so I downloaded the f out of the!

[Chef Jim]

Garth Brooks box set

Brooks and dunn

Tim McGraw greatest hits

Kenny cheesey greatest hits. Which didn't have a song called a chance

George strait greatest hits

Daryl Worley hard rain dont last

Bryan while greatest hits

Travis trust down the road I go

 

 

Of course, this was Napster days so I downloaded the f out of the!

 

Holy ****...Napster. Remember how long it took to download from there? Boy we were patient back then. Now it's "download? What's that? Stream it!"

[boyst]

Holy ****...Napster. Remember how long it took to download from there? Boy we were patient back then. Now it's "download? What's that? Stream it!"

I still download a lot. Mostly to put on mp3 devices.

 

There is a site which you can stream pirated stuff without downloading, too.

 

Napster booted me 3 times for downloading copyrighted material

 

It took me a month to download gone in 60 seconds on kazaa, the p2p that did more than music. We had a 36kb connection due to advanced of 80's housing where they bundled a telecom line to carry multiple lines.

[Chef Jim]

I stream only now. All my downloads are in my car. Kick ass sound system. Had GNR Use Your Illusions I cranked just now. Forgot how good that album was.

[Azalin]

I couldn't possibly remember my favorite album from my freshman year in the other thread, but my senior year is a different story altogether. Hands down, my favorite album from 1976 was Rush's 2112. Nothing else comes close.

[Chef Jim]

I couldn't possibly remember my favorite album from my freshman year in the other thread, but my senior year is a different story altogether. Hands down, my favorite album from 1976 was Rush's 2112. Nothing else comes close.

 

I think it's safe to say my most played album when I was a senior in high school came out a few years before. I do know that in 1979 I carved Disco Sucks! in a lot of desks at school.

[Fadingpain]

I couldn't possibly remember my favorite album from my freshman year in the other thread, but my senior year is a different story altogether. Hands down, my favorite album from 1976 was Rush's 2112. Nothing else comes close.

Absolutely love that album!

 

By 1976, Led Zeppelin (my favorite band of all time) had started to lose it, releasing "Presence" which is not exactly their finest work. There is some quality on Houses of the Holy, and I use it as the demarcation point between great Zeppelin and crap Zeppelin. It's really all about 1-4 for me though.

 

Question for the forum: Led Zeppelin IV, side 2: greatest SIDE of an album of all time? Rock and Roll, Black Dog, Stairway to Heaven. Not a bad SIDE of an album!

 

Back to Rush: I still remember my vinyl album of 2112 as a kid...that picture of the 3 guys with their "Kung fu" outfits on and Neil Peart with that Raleigh Fingers handlebar mustache!

 

I thought they were so freaking cool!

 

LOL

[boyst]

You dudes are old af

[The Poojer]

Don't judge me(while i didn't pick favorite, I picked the ones I listened to most and enjoyed)....1980-81 in the hizz-ouse

Artist Album

· Al Jarreau Breakin' Away

· Andy Gibb After Dark

· Billy Joel Songs In The Attic

· Billy Squier Don't Say No

· Blondie Autoamerican

· Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers

· Chilliwack Wanna Be A Star

· Daryl Hall & John Oates Private Eyes

· David Bowie Scary Monsters

· Debbie Harry KooKoo

· Devo Freedom Of Choice

· Donnie Iris King Cool

· Duran Duran Duran Duran

· Electric Light Orchestra Time

· Foreigner 4

· Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle

· George Benson Give Me The Night

· Go-Go's Beauty And The Beat

· James Taylor Dad Loves His Work

· Kansas Audio-Visions

· Little River Band Time Exposure

· Loverboy Get Lucky

· Loverboy Loverboy

· Pat Benatar Precious Time

· Pete Townshend Empty Glass

· Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (1980)

· Quarterflash Quarterflash

· Queen The Game

· REO Speedwagon Hi Infidelity

· Rick Springfield Working Class Dog

· Rush Moving Pictures

· Squeeze East Side Story

· Steve Winwood Arc Of A Diver

· Talking Heads Remain In Light

· The Alan Parsons Project The Turn Of A Friendly Card

· The B-52's Wild Planet

· The Buggles The Age Of Plastic

· The Cars Shake It Up

· The J. Geils Band Love Stinks

· The J. Geils Band Freeze-Frame

· The Manhattan Transfer Mecca For Moderns

· The Moody Blues Long Distance Voyager

· The Police Zenyatta Mondatta

· The Police Ghost In The Machine

· The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue

· The Rolling Stones Tattoo You

· The Vapors New Clear Days

· The Who Face Dances

· Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club

Edited December 7, 2016 by The Poojer

[Azalin]

 

I do know that in 1979 I carved Disco Sucks! in a lot of desks at school.

 

We would have gotten along very well. I was a front line crusader in the war against disco.

 

Absolutely love that album!

 

By 1976, Led Zeppelin (my favorite band of all time) had started to lose it, releasing "Presence" which is not exactly their finest work. There is some quality on Houses of the Holy, and I use it as the demarcation point between great Zeppelin and crap Zeppelin. It's really all about 1-4 for me though.

 

Question for the forum: Led Zeppelin IV, side 2: greatest SIDE of an album of all time? Rock and Roll, Black Dog, Stairway to Heaven. Not a bad SIDE of an album!

 

 

I'm with you 100% regarding your take on Zeppelin. 1-4 were incredible albums, and Houses was really solid, but you could hear them transitioning. I didn't like anything from Physical Graffiti except for Kashmir, and I couldn't stand anything after that.

 

Black Dog in particular had a huge effect on me as a budding young guitarist. To this day, I still think that's one of the best riffs ever.

[Chef Jim]

 

 

 

Black Dog in particular had a huge effect on me as a budding young guitarist. To this day, I still think that's one of the best riffs ever.

 

Well as a drummer the schizophrenic time signature drove me nuts.

[BUFFALOKIE]

1991. Metallica.

[Fadingpain]

 

Well as a drummer the schizophrenic time signature drove me nuts.

Try drumming to "The Ocean" !!!

 

It's in like 15/16 time or some ungodly time signature.

 

I always played the piano, but took up the guitar about 6 years ago. The very first thing I taught myself was the riff to Black Dog.

 

Took me a couple of years to play it perfectly every time with all the right nuance and expression.

 

No doubt one of the absolute best guitar riffs ever, perhaps only beaten by Whole Lotta Love.

 

It helps to be a Zeppelin fan if you are a budding guitar player. When you are constantly trying to play all this great but difficult stuff Zeppelin wrote, everything else comes along pretty easily.

THE PHOTO....I thought they looked so cool at the time!

 

[Dante]

I have four. 1978

 

This Years Model Elvis Costello

Van Halen Van Halen

Pieces of Eight Styx

The Cars The Cars

[Gugny]

The year was 1989. These were the albums I was listening to that were released that year:

 

Mother's Milk - Chili Peppers

Flowers in the Dirt - McCartney

Journeyman - Clapton

In Step - SRV

... But Seriously - Phil Collins

Paul's Boutique - Beasties

Sonic Temple - The Cult

Let Love Rule - Lenny Kravitz

Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls

11 - Smithereens

Louder Than Love - Soundgarden

Crossroads - Tracy Chapman

 

The albums I wore out most were probably Let Love Rule, In Step and 11.

 

**** This is also the year that Nirvana released "Bleach." I did not hear of this album until after Nevermind was released, which is why it's not on my list; but it's probably my favorite Nirvana album.