What was your favorite album when you were ten years old?
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?
Weird Al Yankovic in 3D.
Polka Party! by “Weird Al” Yankovic
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.
Oh my god.
Green Day. Dookie.
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.
Ænima
You were listening to that at ten?!
I didn't understand it but it was like nothing I'd ever heard before.
Weird Al Yankovic - Off the Deep End
The Offspring - Smash
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
Comes down to one of two, and to varying degrees they both hold up.
- Dare to be Stupid by Weird Al. Not a single miss, Al possibly at the height of his powers, and that’s saying a lot.
- The Top Gun soundtrack. Whammy bar intensifies: wah wah wah, wanna wanna wah wah, wanna WAH wanna WAH, wanna WAH wah.
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).
This is such a vibe.
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.
Machine Head, Deep Purple.
Nevermind
Aw come on, they were just asking
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.
Either Billy Joel's Glass Houses or the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen. Both were in heavy rotation.
Flash! AhhhhHHHHaahh! That soundtrack was fantastic.
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
I hadn't really developed any musical taste at that point. The first favorite would've been Nirvana's Unplugged in New York.
The Gorillaz self-titled album
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.
If you can call that a word, sure, I guess. Wouldn't have thought of it like that :)
(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.
That's one of the albums my older sister brought home too!
Styx - Paradise Theatre
(And no wonder I've always spelled it like a Brit! Learn something new everyday.)
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
There is so much weird al in this thread, which is great
Probably running with scissors (weird al) or no strings attached (nsync)
When I was 10 I hadn't really had the chance to explore music on my own and discover music outside of my parents' preferences. I think about that age I listened to one album by an acapella group called The Bobs.
A few years later I stumbled upon a video on Youtube that had You're Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring as the audio track and was immediately hooked, and finally saw them in concert about a year ago
The Police - Reggatta De Blanc
The Disney Tarzan soundtrack
The first album I had was Complete Madness by Madness. It's still a banger but the vinyl is at my parents because I never owned a record player of my own.
Oof, it was a different time, okay?
Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge
Thanks to growing up around trash (the people, not necessarily the music), I hated music for a long time. So when I was 10, nothing. But when I was 13 or so ('95 or '96) I was walking down the street and found a CD in the road. Green Day's dookie. That was that. Still listen to that album at least every few months.
You still have the one you found on the street? Thats like the universe was throwing music at you. Very cool.
Backstreet Boys - Millennium
I was a weird kid and didn't like music - any music - until I was 12, 13 years old.
MIKA - Life in Cartoon Motion
Kate Nash - Made of BricksBrit Pop was the shit to 10 year old me.
Probably Digimon the movie soundtrack
I was too much a child to have my own music taste. I remember tripping looking at the cover art for Black Sabbath’s Dehumanizer and Iron Maiden’s Somewhere in Time from my cousin’s LP collection. I listened to my dad’s Krig-ha, bandolo! by Raul Seixas on the cassette player nonstop and would sing its devilish songs at full volume on the beach without understanding what they were talking about.
The Slim Shady LP. It was the censored version and I was a kid so I assumed every censored word was "fuck".
I wasn’t into music at that time, but I was crazy about the fairy tales my dad recorded from various radio plays.
I had several cassettes to listen during long car rides and it was great imagining the scenes in my head as the stories played out.This is so cool.
When I was ten I wasn't listening to albums yet. My taste in music didn't really form until I was around 13 or 14. I grew up in that weird space where mp3 players were just starting to be a thing but my family lived in a rural area and didn't have good access to commercial stores, so we had like the shitty mp3s that were only like 256mb of capacity. And since we grew up in the country I couldn't go to the music store and browse CDs, so my mp3 was loaded up with whatever CDs my dad had lying around. It was a weird mix of stuff I liked and stuff from some random mix CD a friend burned for him at some point.
My first real feeling of having ownership over my taste in music was the first time I played guitar hero 3. That was around the same time I moved from country to city, and so I had better internet access as well as could go to more music stores. And also got an mp3 with effectively infinite music capacity.
Honestly I think the first album where I appreciated it as an album rather than as just random singles loaded in my shitty mp3 might be Poodle Hat by Weird Al Yankovic.
Paul Simon, Graceland. It was on vinyl because I'm old.
Wishbone Ash - Argus
I have an incredibly awkward story to tell concerning my first experience with one particular track on that album...
Share it! (If you want to)
First of all, this happened a few years prior, when I was 7 or so, and I was in elementary school so don't laugh at me too much. I got a CD-R my dad made with 500 classic and prog rock tracks (aptly named "Arrow 500"... why do I remember this stuff?) and on it - along with Eagles, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Doors and other bands that have the prefix "the" - were a few tracks by Wishbone Ash.
Well, I thought the track "The King Will Come" as well as seemingly the whole band was about Pokémon, purely based off the word "Ash". I couldn't really understand English at the time so I must've just assumed that every time someone used that word they were referring to the protagonist of the Pokémon TV show (which I watched religiously at the time I might add).
Nevermind the Album being 24 years older than the entire Pokémon franchise.
Either Consent to Treatment by Blue October or Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
I still enjoy both albums, but Wish You Were Here has pretty much always been my favorite album. It is also, coincidentally, the album I was birthed to.
War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne. My dad recorded the Dutch narrative radio version on reel to reel so I could understand the story. He would listen to the original double album.
At age 10? I don't recall having favorite albums until my teen years 😂