Get in the way back machine. What are everyone else's albums that do the same?
Posted by Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 28 comments
Been taking a listen back thru some of my favorite 90's albums. Listening to this one at work and man...it's like getting in a time machine. Narcolepsy, Graduate, and The Background still qualify as bangers for me. So many great memories of people and things I did as a college freshman. Maybe it's just that the world seemed not on fire, I still had some innocence, or that I just wasn't an adult with dumb adult responsibilities. I remember sharing it with my little brother and he loved it. I lost him to addiction years ago, so it's a little bittersweet.
jtho78@reddit
Weezer’s first two albums
Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit (OP)
Hell yeah. Pinkerton is my favorite Weezed album. I saw them on that tour and damn were they great live.
I didn’t know 3EB had an acoustic album. I’ll check it out and thank you for the recommendation.
jtho78@reddit
Summer of '97, floated the river with my HS sweetheart, we went to see Weezer live in the evening, and that night we became each other's first. What a day.
Weak_Radish966@reddit
All of Beck’s 90s albums really take me back. Soundtrack to my college years.
Kade7596@reddit
Kade7596@reddit
...and my more niche set that almost nobody also listened to. good stuff ahead of its time, tbh.
BigPoppaStrahd@reddit
I was recently gojng down a Sepultera rabbit hole on youtube and thw ong Bleed came on. The moment the chorus hit with Max and Fred Durst alternately screaming the word “bleed” i was hit with an overwhelming wave of nostalgia that felt like i was dreaming and my alarm clock was going off but I was so deep that it just incorporated into the dream, and if I could just concentrate enough I would wake up and be 19 again in my old room
Thicknineinchh@reddit
Marylin manson - portrait of an American family
Greenday - dookie
Offspring - smash
Nirvana - nevermind
Red hot chili peppers - blood sugar sex magic
TijayesPJs443@reddit
Jock Jams 1-7,9
burningsnowshowers@reddit
The Lost Hoghway soundtrack. Still holds up, but definitely of its time
ObligationSome905@reddit
311 blue album
instant_ramen_chef@reddit
ButterscotchAware402@reddit
Oh gosh, there's so many! To name a handful:
Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories - Tails
Jane Jensen - Comic Book Whore
Rasputina - Thanks for the Ether
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children
These can transport me right back to that time and place.
Moxie_Stardust@reddit
Wow, didn't expect to see Comic Book Whore show up here, didn't know anyone else bought it 😅
ButterscotchAware402@reddit
I thought I was the only one haha!
Electronic-Ride-564@reddit
I would have named 3EB also. And although I never classified it as one of my absolute favorite albums, Matchbox 20's 'Yourself or Someone Like You' slams me back like you wouldn't believe.
TheREALBaldRider@reddit
The stuff I listened to in the 90s is still in my regular rotation.
AndrewInMN@reddit
There are quite a few. My friend Josh and I used to make mini road trips to buy new music that we were excited about. Josh passed in 2021. Listening to some of those albums now takes me right back to riding in his shitty Lebaron with the Discman and FM tuner hooked up so we could listen to whatever we bought on the way home.
Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit (OP)
This is one of the albums I listened to as well since I've been on the nostalgia kick. It's probably in my top 5 albums of all time. Hearing the words Lebaron and discman are pure gold to my ears. I am sorry to hear about your friend Josh. Getting older is weird & confusing, but when you lose your friends & family, it's hard on the mind.
Robert DeLeo is an absolute gem and great songwriter & bass player. Check out this interview with him.
https://youtu.be/0_pdW5IyRQ0?si=arVrsOAF8ZFJbWta
AshDogBucket@reddit
This album is 100% bangers. The second half once you get past the singles.... is just GOLD.
ALL I WANNA DO IS BE THERE FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH!!! WELL IS IT GOOD FOR YOU?????
Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit (OP)
I have goosebumps reading this comment. I can't believe I didn't warp the CD I listened to it so many times.
AshDogBucket@reddit
Same!! They were one of my first concerts in 1998. I listened to this entire album on my discman A LOT!!
TZath@reddit
If I was half alive and you were dead
Subsisiting on that same old bread
It's the memory that hides
The whole wide world
PerformanceSevere821@reddit
I literally just had this conversation today, but I can smell the smells in the music store where I bought it:
Hoppers-Body-Double@reddit (OP)
Oh my lawwwwd, yes! The album, the smell of the record store (NRM for me), and the smell of video the rental store. Take me back!
electron-envy@reddit
Cure for pain by morphine
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
My dad's divorce and strangely my drives to college and back because the tape got stuck in the car's cassette player.
The current 'copy' I have is my actual CD but the scratch f'd up one of the songs so I have to go make a pristine version again.
midwesternmayhem@reddit
I love that album! It came out the year I was in seventh grade and identified as a world-weary 45 year old [reading list: Fran Lebowitz and Louis Grizzard, favorite artists: Bruce Springsteen -- but only Nebraska -- and Fleetwood Mac]. The year after, I was 100% into alternative, so I listened to it in secret until I was actually 40.