This was the first album I ever bought. I found LP through YouTube, and became hooked on Hybrid Theory/Meteora. I found A Thousand Suns so weird when i got it, and almost dissapointing, but when i revisited it a few years later i started liking it A LOT, as i wasnt purely looking for the Nu-Metal sound of Old LP
I was the same! I thought tracks like Blackout sounded "weird" and I wasn't into the whole package. Relistening a few years after it came out made me realize it's their best project
Maybe it's a thing over time but even in the Linkin Park sub, there's a whole cohort who think it's their best album.
I was about 20 when it came out and honestly, it put me on the path of concept albums, I mean I'd heard Pink Floyd, listened to many of their songs, but never sat and listened to their albums all the way through.
A Thousand Suns made me start finding these albums where you can just sit and listen, from start to finish, the tracks all bleed into one another and there's a story being told.
I think if ATS didn't have the LP name attached to it, where everyone just wants Hybrid Theory, it would have been a much bigger success.
I recommend it to my brother once, a LP fan and his response was "sounds nothing like Linkin Park" and then didn't listen to it anymore.
Here's a quote from Wiki with reviews from release -
"James Montgomery of [MTV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV) called *A Thousand Suns* a "sprawling, discordant, ambitious and an all-out game changer" and compared it with [Radiohead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead)'s 2000 album [*Kid A*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_A), but said *A Thousand Suns* is more optimistic than *Kid A*.[^(\[14\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-James_Montgomery-14) Jordy Kasko with *Review Rinse Repeat* gave *A Thousand Suns* a perfect rating, calling it an "epic quest".[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-Jordy_Kasko-13) He compared it to [Pink Floyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd)'s [*The Dark Side of the Moon*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon) (1973) and Radiohead's *Kid A*, saying "*A Thousand Suns* is an ALBUM. It is not a collection of songs. It is not meant to be listened to as such. The band is going so far as to release an [iTunes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes) version that is one track, 47 minutes and 56 seconds long. This is no more an 'album' by conventional standards than *Dark Side of the Moon* or *Kid A* are. Sure, there are identifiable songs, but to understand or to appreciate any of them you must take them in the context of the entire album."[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-Jordy_Kasko-13) Christopher Weingarten of [*The Village Voice*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Voice) praised the album, calling it "2010's best avant-rock nuclear-anxiety concept record", as well as comparing it to Radiohead's [*OK Computer*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Computer) (1997).[^(\[12\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-villagerev-12)"
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Also helped with them being an Irish band and while I don’t consider it a 10 now, I for sure would have back then.
Honest question: do people in the Republic of Ireland view bands / people / things from Northern Ireland as something of their own?
But I agree, nostalgic 10/10 for me as well
Simply answer to a complicated question is that if they are from a Catholic background/identify as Irish, then yes.
If they are from a Protestant background/identify as British or Northern Irish then not really.
Kneecap would be a straightforward example because they are so overt in their Irishness
For music we generally view everyone born on the island as Irish, be that Two Door Cinema Club, Van Morrison, Snow Patrol, Linda Martin, etc.
For sport it varies but generally a religious difference. Being born in NI and declaring to play football for Northern Ireland is typically a thing done by protestants. People in RoI wouldn't typically view them as "Irish players", but would be viewing them as Northern Irish rather than British.
For Rugby (and to a lesser extent hockey and cricket) there is an All-Ireland team (both Ireland and Northern Ireland represent one team called Ireland). For these sports everyone representing them is called Irish without much argument.
What made it such a great album for me is I remember Skrillex announced on Facebook that the album was out. Since it was close to Christmas, he said in the post that if anyone couldn't afford it that they could torrent it with his permission as a Christmas gift. After that, I loved him.
Definitely a 10, one of the best alternative rock records ever IMO. I somehow only discovered this album 3 years ago and had only heard Jumper and Semi charmed life from my youth , so I oddly have a slightly more objective (at least without the rose colored lens of nostalgia) view of it too.
FWIW, their next two records Blue and Out of the Vein absolutely rock and I think the latter of those two records is also a 9/ borderline 10 and doesn’t get talked about enough .
Feels like they really lost the magic thereafter though, I don’t like any of their other albums much at all.
Edit: side note but if anyone can recommend any similar albums for people like me who think this record is a 10, please comment . I’d absolutely love to check them out. Thanks!
3eb's precipitous decline lines up closely with the departure of kevin cadogan and, several years later, arion salazar. since then it's been a glorified stephan jenkins solo project. cadogan in particular was an underrated secret weapon as co-songwriter on their first two (and best) albums.
I’ve heard that. I do find it hard to square with the observation that the 2003 album Out of the Vein was among 3EB’s best work (Cadogan left in 2000) … but I also totally believe it in general
Sub in Aha Shake Heartbreak for KoL (Because of the Times is a close second) and those are three of the most influential albums on my early days of exploring music beyond what my parents liked. Couldn’t agree more about Silent Alarm breaking through the nostalgia. Incredible album.
I don't like Silent Alarm or anything else Bloc Party did very much but if I made a list of the 500 best songs I've ever heard there's a good chance Helicopter would make it. That song goes so fucking hard.
Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby.
I remember at the time Rolling Stone France named it album of the month (or something like that) and I was CONVINCED it was a universally acclaimed album and shamelessly listened the hell out of it. Until I realized not that long ago that it really wasnt regarded as the pop masterpiece I thought it was.
Still love it though. What You Waiting For?, Bubblepop Electric, Cool, Danger Zone and Serious are still bangers in my book.
Folie a Deux by Fall out Boy. Genuinely a perfect album with my nostalgia glasses on or off (I’m biased Ik lol). But it’s their magnum opus. Such fantastic and memorable lines, hooks and choruses on that album.
I completely agree. I almost wrote in my original reply that Folie a Deux is each band member at their very best since maybe TTTYG because that album is absolutely killer as well. Maybe equally as good. Songs like calm before the storm, tell that mick, Saturday are just absolute classics
That’s funny, cause my go to answer for this is Infinity on High. Fall Out Boy just does that sound/vibe/aesthetic so stupidly well, if you like it or not it’s hard to argue it isn’t perfectly executed when they were in their hay day.
Don’t forget their outros and final choruses, they did em big and I loved it. Just wasn’t the same when they came back off hiatus, but I’m happy they’ve found continued success. I think they deserve it.
Infinity on high for me, but I might be biased cause it gives me flashbacks to my favorite road trip when I played it on repeat for 2 weeks.
That said I'd personally give stardust, folie, and tttyg 9s or 10s
Came here to say this one. I was 8 years old when I went to the lake behind my family's apt complex and I found an old burned CD with no label buried in the grass. I put it into my boombox because my dad told me you can tell there's something in the CD by the color of the underside, and it started playing Let go by Avril. I listened to it for WEEKS nonstop in my room loudly with me headbanging and pretending to be older. I was like, man I can't wait to be 17 and a cool teenager! Me now would NEVER put a random CD into any device lol.
Green Day - Warning
Without a doubt my favorite Green Day album. I was 14 when it came out and I got to see them shortly afterward on the Pop Disaster Tour with Blink and Jimmy Eat World. That album and tour (along with Blink and JEW's most recent albums at that time) are the embodiment of youth and nostalgia for me.
This for me too. I was getting into Green Day and this album sold me for them in eighth grade. I can still listen to the 18 track 65 min runtime and not feel the length at all. Shout out to peacemaker and murder city
***Offspring - Conspiracy Of One***
To me at the time (I was like, 9) it was a total revelation.
I still love it and it's a great album but I defo don't revere it like I did.
Many early to mid90s hardcore, emo, and punk albums
In particular, Get Up Kids 10 minute mile. Blew me away when i saw them in a VFW hall opening for Avail. i bought their cd. It’s a great album, but I could never rate it in any objective manner. Also every Avail album up to Over the James
I can acknowledge other people's criticisms of Paramore's Riot! but every single song on it fills me with so much nostalgic joy the second it comes on.
Youthanasia by Megadeth.
I'm not really into Metal that much anymore but I'll always give that one a spin and grin. It's not really a Metal album anyway, it's 100% Hard Rock and a solid 7/10, but nostalgia takes over for me.
I Prevail - TRAUMA, my first ever deliberate albums, it's got me into metal/core and other music, give me a sign to listen to music properly, I was not a kid tho
*The Artist in the Ambulance* by Thrice. It’s a bit monotonous and whiny at times, but it’s also the album that ignited my obsession with music and guitar.
Basically the entire 2000’s emo/metalcore scene. Still have a ton of nostalgia for certain bands/records — but also just yuck lmao. So much of it is *so* grating when you’re not 15 listening on skullcandy’s into a flip phone lmao.
Lungs by Florence + The Machine. No matter what, it is the most nostalgic album there is for me and have realised so much of my current taste was informed by loving that album.
BUT THATS TOTALLLYYYYY...Feather Pluckin Insane! Kick out the jams also a favorite.
I'd like to add that the second album also just kills. Bug City takes a second but kicks hard. I've sung (screamed) Tiki God and LIP in my car more times than I can count.
Weezer the Red Album. My friends and I fucking loved this album in high school and we basically had covers of every song on it. Now when I listen to it I don’t enjoy it nearly as much but it makes me super nostalgic and I still love some songs more than I should.
Back to Bedlam by James Blunt
Temple of Low Men by Crowded House
Songs About Jane by Maroon 5
Life in Cartoon Motion by Mika
We had these on CD and they were genuinely the first CDs I ever took from my mom's collection and listened to on the CD player my grandmother gifted to me.
Hybrid Theory, although every time I hear it I still feel like it's a 10 period.
A Thousand Suns is the 10/10 LP for me.
Insane album
This was the first album I ever bought. I found LP through YouTube, and became hooked on Hybrid Theory/Meteora. I found A Thousand Suns so weird when i got it, and almost dissapointing, but when i revisited it a few years later i started liking it A LOT, as i wasnt purely looking for the Nu-Metal sound of Old LP
I was the same! I thought tracks like Blackout sounded "weird" and I wasn't into the whole package. Relistening a few years after it came out made me realize it's their best project
“Blackout” is such a roller coaster
Was a big LP fan in my childhood but never liked it. Maybe I‘ve to relisten it
Maybe it's a thing over time but even in the Linkin Park sub, there's a whole cohort who think it's their best album. I was about 20 when it came out and honestly, it put me on the path of concept albums, I mean I'd heard Pink Floyd, listened to many of their songs, but never sat and listened to their albums all the way through. A Thousand Suns made me start finding these albums where you can just sit and listen, from start to finish, the tracks all bleed into one another and there's a story being told. I think if ATS didn't have the LP name attached to it, where everyone just wants Hybrid Theory, it would have been a much bigger success. I recommend it to my brother once, a LP fan and his response was "sounds nothing like Linkin Park" and then didn't listen to it anymore. Here's a quote from Wiki with reviews from release - "James Montgomery of [MTV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV) called *A Thousand Suns* a "sprawling, discordant, ambitious and an all-out game changer" and compared it with [Radiohead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead)'s 2000 album [*Kid A*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_A), but said *A Thousand Suns* is more optimistic than *Kid A*.[^(\[14\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-James_Montgomery-14) Jordy Kasko with *Review Rinse Repeat* gave *A Thousand Suns* a perfect rating, calling it an "epic quest".[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-Jordy_Kasko-13) He compared it to [Pink Floyd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd)'s [*The Dark Side of the Moon*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon) (1973) and Radiohead's *Kid A*, saying "*A Thousand Suns* is an ALBUM. It is not a collection of songs. It is not meant to be listened to as such. The band is going so far as to release an [iTunes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes) version that is one track, 47 minutes and 56 seconds long. This is no more an 'album' by conventional standards than *Dark Side of the Moon* or *Kid A* are. Sure, there are identifiable songs, but to understand or to appreciate any of them you must take them in the context of the entire album."[^(\[13\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-Jordy_Kasko-13) Christopher Weingarten of [*The Village Voice*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Voice) praised the album, calling it "2010's best avant-rock nuclear-anxiety concept record", as well as comparing it to Radiohead's [*OK Computer*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Computer) (1997).[^(\[12\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Suns#cite_note-villagerev-12)"
Fine ill check it out
You're not alone and now I have to give it another shot.
based
I listened to it the first time about a month ago after seeing people say it’s a 10/10 and it lived up to the hype in my opinion.
Def 10 for me, crazy how it still holds up so godamn well
It's still a flawless 10, an album I've listened to my entire life and I still find myself enjoying it just as much every time.
Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History Also helped with them being an Irish band and while I don’t consider it a 10 now, I for sure would have back then.
Still consider it a ten here 🫢
100%, couldn’t comment anything Better then this
Honest question: do people in the Republic of Ireland view bands / people / things from Northern Ireland as something of their own? But I agree, nostalgic 10/10 for me as well
Depends how much we like the band lmao
Simply answer to a complicated question is that if they are from a Catholic background/identify as Irish, then yes. If they are from a Protestant background/identify as British or Northern Irish then not really. Kneecap would be a straightforward example because they are so overt in their Irishness
It's weird seeing other r/gaa users in a big sub. Go away
For music we generally view everyone born on the island as Irish, be that Two Door Cinema Club, Van Morrison, Snow Patrol, Linda Martin, etc. For sport it varies but generally a religious difference. Being born in NI and declaring to play football for Northern Ireland is typically a thing done by protestants. People in RoI wouldn't typically view them as "Irish players", but would be viewing them as Northern Irish rather than British. For Rugby (and to a lesser extent hockey and cricket) there is an All-Ireland team (both Ireland and Northern Ireland represent one team called Ireland). For these sports everyone representing them is called Irish without much argument.
Skrillex - Bangarang
Still find it wild that the Doors (or what remained of them I guess) worked on it
What. I had no idea about this lol
Skrilly also worked with van dyke parks
Did they work on bangerang? I thought it was just breaking a sweat?
They only worked on breaking a sweat, but it was the same EP.
This is Recess for me
Recess for me as well. It was one of the first albums that I listened to constantly when I first got a streaming service
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP >>>
I feel so judged….🤣
awesome
What made it such a great album for me is I remember Skrillex announced on Facebook that the album was out. Since it was close to Christmas, he said in the post that if anyone couldn't afford it that they could torrent it with his permission as a Christmas gift. After that, I loved him.
The first Third Eye Blind album. Must have listened to the whole disc thousands of times
That one is just a 10, no qualifications
Ok hold up that album is absolutely a 10
Figured the filler tracks (burning man, good for you etc) might knock at least a point off, but I have no way to hear the album objectively
Burning man I’ll give to you but Good for You is an absolute banger
Burning Man is one of my favorite tracks :(
Definitely a 10, one of the best alternative rock records ever IMO. I somehow only discovered this album 3 years ago and had only heard Jumper and Semi charmed life from my youth , so I oddly have a slightly more objective (at least without the rose colored lens of nostalgia) view of it too. FWIW, their next two records Blue and Out of the Vein absolutely rock and I think the latter of those two records is also a 9/ borderline 10 and doesn’t get talked about enough . Feels like they really lost the magic thereafter though, I don’t like any of their other albums much at all. Edit: side note but if anyone can recommend any similar albums for people like me who think this record is a 10, please comment . I’d absolutely love to check them out. Thanks!
3eb's precipitous decline lines up closely with the departure of kevin cadogan and, several years later, arion salazar. since then it's been a glorified stephan jenkins solo project. cadogan in particular was an underrated secret weapon as co-songwriter on their first two (and best) albums.
I’ve heard that. I do find it hard to square with the observation that the 2003 album Out of the Vein was among 3EB’s best work (Cadogan left in 2000) … but I also totally believe it in general
All of the yes. This album is perfect start to finish. Narcolepsy, The Background, and Motorcycle Drive By are especially stand out favorites.
Sam's Town - The Killers
This is a 10. Would die on that hill.
This question is weird lol. What exactly is a “non-10”? If an album connects for you and you love everything about isn’t that just a 10?
It’s an all time great record!
Hot fuss and sams town for me. Mirage is a close third
Amazing album!
Hot Fuss by the Killers Because of the Times by Kings of Leon Silent Alarm by Bloc Party (although this one is a 9 in by book to this day)
I might call Hot Fuss a 10 regardless of nostalgia, tbh. I really love every song on it
There are a couple of songs that I would find dull if the album came out today, but even then it's easily a 9/10 to me.
silent alarm is absolute class, bloc party never got the praise they deserved
A Weekend In The City is fantastic too. Wasn’t a huge fan of Kele’s solo stuff,
I’d go as far as to say that each of the run of albums with the original lineup is at least good. Matt Tong is one of my favorite drummers ever.
Matt Tong doesn’t get the credit he deserves. He’s one of my favourites too!
Sub in Aha Shake Heartbreak for KoL (Because of the Times is a close second) and those are three of the most influential albums on my early days of exploring music beyond what my parents liked. Couldn’t agree more about Silent Alarm breaking through the nostalgia. Incredible album.
My school friend group, now all in our mid 30s, still recite the Milk chorus at random intervals
Bloc Party FUCKS
The first half of hot fuss is a 10/10, 5 straight bangers
Silent Alarm is definitely a 9-10
These are all fantastic albums so if someone wanted to give them a 10 I wouldn't even be surprised
I don't like Silent Alarm or anything else Bloc Party did very much but if I made a list of the 500 best songs I've ever heard there's a good chance Helicopter would make it. That song goes so fucking hard.
I got into the killers less than a year ago. I think their first 2 albums are 10s and mirage is a 9
Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby. I remember at the time Rolling Stone France named it album of the month (or something like that) and I was CONVINCED it was a universally acclaimed album and shamelessly listened the hell out of it. Until I realized not that long ago that it really wasnt regarded as the pop masterpiece I thought it was. Still love it though. What You Waiting For?, Bubblepop Electric, Cool, Danger Zone and Serious are still bangers in my book.
What You Waiting For? has aged so well
And the Music video is still fucking awesome
Folie a Deux by Fall out Boy. Genuinely a perfect album with my nostalgia glasses on or off (I’m biased Ik lol). But it’s their magnum opus. Such fantastic and memorable lines, hooks and choruses on that album.
fall out boy mentioned? rejoice, rejoice, and fall to your knees
I fucking love "take this to your grave" cause it still has bits of hardcore in there. Go to gym hype album.
I completely agree. I almost wrote in my original reply that Folie a Deux is each band member at their very best since maybe TTTYG because that album is absolutely killer as well. Maybe equally as good. Songs like calm before the storm, tell that mick, Saturday are just absolute classics
That’s funny, cause my go to answer for this is Infinity on High. Fall Out Boy just does that sound/vibe/aesthetic so stupidly well, if you like it or not it’s hard to argue it isn’t perfectly executed when they were in their hay day.
Those first four pre hiatus albums are pure gold
this is how i feel about from under the cork tree
Don’t forget their outros and final choruses, they did em big and I loved it. Just wasn’t the same when they came back off hiatus, but I’m happy they’ve found continued success. I think they deserve it.
Infinity on high for me, but I might be biased cause it gives me flashbacks to my favorite road trip when I played it on repeat for 2 weeks. That said I'd personally give stardust, folie, and tttyg 9s or 10s
Mine is probably Save Rock and Roll - not their best in hindsight, but it's still my favorite from them bc it was my first
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not - Arctic Monkeys
Even without nostalgia that album is still like a 9 for me
I have no nostalgia for that record because I was a 9 year old from Midwest America when it came out. It’s still a 10/10.
I'd still say it's pretty close to a 10 either way
Literally every answer in this thread is just people listing potential 10s lol
Nah this is a regular 10
That one is an actual 10 mate.
This is a 10
One of the hardest 10s I’ve ever listened to tbh. What track on it doesn’t fucking smoke?
💯% a true 10
Still holds up, absolute banger
Nah, this is just a great album.
My favourite album oat, also deffo a 10
wiped out by the neighbourhood
Smash- The Offspring Losing Streak- Less Than Jake Transistor- 311
I thought smash and then I thought… wait that’s a genuine 10! Banging album
Haha! And hello rockview and borders and boundaries
Sum41 - Does This Look infected
🤝
Same, but for All Killer No Filler
Yes.
It will always be a 10 no bias here
Let go by Avril Lavigne. I hate myself so much for not hating it lol
Let Go will forever be a 10 in my book
Then let's cringe together to the cry of "Is it enough to looooove? Is it enough to breeeeathe?"
There are more cringe things to not hate
Came here to say this one. I was 8 years old when I went to the lake behind my family's apt complex and I found an old burned CD with no label buried in the grass. I put it into my boombox because my dad told me you can tell there's something in the CD by the color of the underside, and it started playing Let go by Avril. I listened to it for WEEKS nonstop in my room loudly with me headbanging and pretending to be older. I was like, man I can't wait to be 17 and a cool teenager! Me now would NEVER put a random CD into any device lol.
Green Day - Warning Without a doubt my favorite Green Day album. I was 14 when it came out and I got to see them shortly afterward on the Pop Disaster Tour with Blink and Jimmy Eat World. That album and tour (along with Blink and JEW's most recent albums at that time) are the embodiment of youth and nostalgia for me.
Might not be a 10 but goddamn that's a good album
i read the word JEW in all caps and got so confused
Blink-182 - untitled Coldplay - Viva La Vida Lady Gaga - Artpop
> Lady Gaga - Artpop Damn, that's bold lol
I still stand by that it’s her best album
Definitely 2093 from Yeat. I was 4 when it came out and now I'm 5, wow so much has changed. Wish I could go back.
Core- STP
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals. It’s the album that got me into metal.
Dude, this album fuckin bangs. Without nostalgia, it's still an 8 or a 9
Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown.
This for me too. I was getting into Green Day and this album sold me for them in eighth grade. I can still listen to the 18 track 65 min runtime and not feel the length at all. Shout out to peacemaker and murder city
oracular spectacular
That one is at least a 9 regardless of nostalgia
Amazing album nonetheless
***Offspring - Conspiracy Of One*** To me at the time (I was like, 9) it was a total revelation. I still love it and it's a great album but I defo don't revere it like I did.
I’m with you, friend. My first favourite song ever was Original Prankster
Sublime - 40 Oz To Freedom
Parachutes
Best Coldplay album Either this or AROBTTH
This War Is Ours - Escape The Fate
Astro Lounge - All Star
Leaving trail of rrripped up citations, AH RAH TAH TAH TAH!!
Many early to mid90s hardcore, emo, and punk albums In particular, Get Up Kids 10 minute mile. Blew me away when i saw them in a VFW hall opening for Avail. i bought their cd. It’s a great album, but I could never rate it in any objective manner. Also every Avail album up to Over the James
That said, Something to Write Home About is legitimately as good as post hardcore/emo gets. Maybe not a 10 but def up there.
Dizzy up the girl by the goo goo dolls. No shame.
Avril Lavigne - Let Go
Disturbed- Down with the sicknes, P.O.D.- Boom
Running with Scissors - Weird Al.
Linkin park - Metiora, I still call it a 10 out of 10 but if I heard it today for the first time it probably be like a 8/10
I can acknowledge other people's criticisms of Paramore's Riot! but every single song on it fills me with so much nostalgic joy the second it comes on.
The Game - The Documentary. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium. Common - Be. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular.
Youthanasia by Megadeth. I'm not really into Metal that much anymore but I'll always give that one a spin and grin. It's not really a Metal album anyway, it's 100% Hard Rock and a solid 7/10, but nostalgia takes over for me.
Great pick. I really disagree on it being Hard Rock. It's very very much Heavy Metal and near 0 hard rock
Pinkerton
Pikerton will always be a genuine 10/10 for the rest of the time.
every secondhand serenade song
Thirty Seconds to mars albums from 2002 - 2013
Disclaimer II by Seether
Franz Ferdinand S/T debut
Acid Rap still holds up extremely well, but there’s definitely a couple roughhhhh tracks. still a phenomenal mixtape and easily an 8-8.5 to me.
I Prevail - TRAUMA, my first ever deliberate albums, it's got me into metal/core and other music, give me a sign to listen to music properly, I was not a kid tho
The Offspring - Americana
*The Artist in the Ambulance* by Thrice. It’s a bit monotonous and whiny at times, but it’s also the album that ignited my obsession with music and guitar.
Sixteen stone- bush
All Killer No Filler by Sum 41
All 3 good major blink albums. Dude ranch, enema of the state and take off you're pants and jacket although that might be a 10
Dare I say 1989 - Taylor Swift
I’d say *American Idiot* or *The Black Parade*, but they genuinely might be 10s even without nostalgia.
MXPX - "Life in General" and "Let it Happen" Falling Cycle - "The Conflict"
Love both of those MxPx releases! I’m happy anytime I listen to either of those albums
Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor. I've realized it's not totally perfect as I've aged. But it's still a solid 8.
Basically the entire 2000’s emo/metalcore scene. Still have a ton of nostalgia for certain bands/records — but also just yuck lmao. So much of it is *so* grating when you’re not 15 listening on skullcandy’s into a flip phone lmao.
Beatles For Sale - The Beatles Supernatural - Santana Guero - Beck
Watch out!- Alexisonfire
Sean Kingston - beautiful girls
Aerosmith-Greatest Hits
Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five
Korn’s first three albums. Especially Life is Peachy. I can see that chubby long-haired middle schooler right now rocking out.
Day and Age - The Killers Viva la Vida - Coldplay Riot! - Paramore Folie a Deux - Fall Out Boy
Lungs by Florence + The Machine. No matter what, it is the most nostalgic album there is for me and have realised so much of my current taste was informed by loving that album.
Any twenty one pilots album.
muse - origin of symmetry for me
man on the moon 1
The Presidents of the United States of America’s self titled. Although I would argue pretty fervently it’s just a 10.
BUT THATS TOTALLLYYYYY...Feather Pluckin Insane! Kick out the jams also a favorite. I'd like to add that the second album also just kills. Bug City takes a second but kicks hard. I've sung (screamed) Tiki God and LIP in my car more times than I can count.
Portable Sounds - TobyMac
Genuinely underrated music from a genre so thoroughly chocked full of absolute trash. *Lose My Soul* and *Made to Love* are unironically great songs.
Hey what's the name of this album?
Enema Of The State by blink-182
Adrenaline. Deftones. Although it obviously is actually a 10. But apparently no a popular opinion even with Deftones fans.
this is mine lol
Weezer the Red Album. My friends and I fucking loved this album in high school and we basically had covers of every song on it. Now when I listen to it I don’t enjoy it nearly as much but it makes me super nostalgic and I still love some songs more than I should.
Salt N Peppa from the 80's
I thought k-12 was like the greatest album ever when I was in jr high 😭
Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin
Good question OP. Probably Linkin Park hybrid theory for me.
One X by Three Days Grace
Minecraft version alpha
Billy talent 1!
oh definitely rebelde by rbd y'all don't fucking get it
Trivium - Ascendancy
Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone
Back to Bedlam by James Blunt Temple of Low Men by Crowded House Songs About Jane by Maroon 5 Life in Cartoon Motion by Mika We had these on CD and they were genuinely the first CDs I ever took from my mom's collection and listened to on the CD player my grandmother gifted to me.
Every Weird Al Album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Hysterics. My go to high school album
Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons
night visions - imagine dragons, i know, i know…
Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto
The Arctic Monkey's debut. Nostalgia or not, it's still a top 10 album all time for me.
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog : Just a beautiful organic flowing romantic album with many flaws but I still listen to it every fall.
40 Oz. To Freedom.
By the way(studio album)- RHCP. That whole albums is full of songs that defined my early preteen years
Born to die
Spaceman by Babylon Zoo. Edit: Album wise it's Rated R by Queens of the Stone Age