What are your favorite albums NOT from your youth?

[danbind]

When does your youth end, BTW?

I'm still waiting for it...

[Jaguar018]

When does your youth end, BTW?

I'm still waiting for it...

Well, I still feel "young at heart" and all that shit, but there are certain things that happen in your life that make you realize that practically speaking, you are not a kid any more. Raising kids and being around them as they learn and grow is incredible for me; I love it.

There are experiences and responsibilities that happen that can take away your 'youth.' Sometimes something like trauma and war can age a person, or it can just be general 'life.' I've been through a few 'serious' things (death of friends, etc.) that have made me realize that I am not a carefree guy in the same way I once was.

Practically speaking when your age is no longer considered to be part of the 'youth target demographic' then I think despite whatever you might think about yourself, the world of capitalism has decided that you are in a different place. I don't blame them. A lot of things that I liked when I was younger has lost all appeal (saving money with group housing for example).

This weekend I went to my dad's 80th birthday celebration. My parents are incredibly active and young for their age. They look great and have little to no health issues. They are certainly youthful in the same way that I am, but I am not afraid to look mortality in the eye. I am enjoying my life just as much as I ever have even knowing that I'm never going to be a teenager again.

When I listen to music I don't feel any particular age. I don't like songs that talk about being an old crank. The best music just transports me into that world of the song.

[scottT]

Lots of things for me. I'll never exhaust the back catalogs of old bands.

The Ramones first album Talking Heads 77, Television Marquee Moon, and Patty Smith Horses (catching up on the CBGB scene), MBV whose beautiful pop melodies I recognized and love behind the wall of distortion, Thin White Rope Moonhead and In the Spanish Cave, Sonic Youth Daydream Nation, The Pixies Doolittle, Django Reinhardt, Claude Debussy...many I'm leaving out.

These are a few of my favorite things.

Right now I'm working my way through the first five Fairport Convention albums. I can already tell that Liege & Lief will take it's place among the invaluable.

[Mad-Mike]

I keep finding new stuff all the time. I got into a HUGE B-52's kick in the past few years, I just bought Wild Planet on LP six months ago and that's one of my favorites of theirs, that and the first record. More recently I've started stretching beyond the Ricky years so who knows what else I'll be adding.

Active Galactic by the Delta Riggs - Me and my wife went to go see them at a club earlier this year and met the band and got to hang out with them for awhile, really cool guys. Been the soundtrack for the better moments of 2017 for me. Just got done binging on it on the way home from a weekend in Portland on the 3.5 hour drive home.

My wife has been listening to a lot of Simple Minds lately, so I've been kind of following her through that phase and picking up stuff off her - when I picked up Wild Planet we also picked up New Gold Dream. That's a great one.

The Chameleons Script of the Bridge, and What Does Anything Mean Basically, and The Fan in the Bellows. When I traveled to London earlier this year I lament not having time to check a record store for a copy of any of those. Them + The Sound.

The Sound Jeopardy and From the Lion's Mouth are two new favorites of mine. Adrian Borland is one hell of a songwriter.

Started getting into The Cure and listening to Seventeen Seconds and Cuts off Three imaginary Boys a lot. Crazy I've heard them mentioned over here for years and have not given them a spin until now.

Journeys by Timecop 1983, Back into Blue by Droid Bishop - a lot of the New Retro Wave/Outrun/Vaporwave stuff really draws me in as well.

Now excuse me, I need to explore The Jam a bit - my UK buddies Ali and Ian got me into them.

Old habits of 80's fandom die hard.

[marqueemoon]

I'll never exhaust the back catalogs of old bands.

You mentioning this reminded me I got into Talk Talk in the last few years. Yeah, the early synth pop stuff is kind of cheesy, and I do like Laughing Stock and Spirit Of Eden, but this one is my favorite. It's the perfect transition between the synth pop stuff and the last two which are more free form. Also some of my favorite cover artwork of all time.

[shadowplay]

My wife has been listening to a lot of Simple Minds lately, so I've been kind of following her through that phase and picking up stuff off her - when I picked up Wild Planet we also picked up New Gold Dream. That's a great one.

With Simple Minds IMO always best before 1982 and especially; Empires and Dance, Sons and Fasciation and a Sister Feelings Call and the singles that came out from I Travel, to Sweat in Bullet across 80-81. In my head it's almost impossible to reconcile this band with the big bloused stadium shite that came later. I could barely believe it at the time.

Btw if you like The Sound you should check out Second Layer Adrian's side band during the very early Sound. There's not a lot of material, just the World Of Rubber elpee and two Ep's Flesh As Property and State Of Emergency. They sound quite distinct from the Sound, being crushed and twisted industrial hued post punk that's reminiscent of Such lofi masters as Robert Rental and early Thomas Leer. Dark Entries have a vinyl comp out of everything they ever recorded (and samples)because buying retrospectively is probably expensive.

Also with my behind the counter head on...if you bought The Sound off me in 1981 I'd probably have tried to send you home with some Modern Eon, they aren't as good as The Sound but still worth your time and Mechanic is a cracking single.

It's bizarre that these aren't records from my youth but from my childhood or at least very early teenage years.

D.

[ElephantDNA]

Now excuse me, I need to explore The Jam a bit - my UK buddies Ali and Ian got me into them.

I love the jam. it's one of those bands where it seems like everyone has a different favorite album. I like setting sons quite a bit, though I'll take any of the first few over almost anything. Still sounds great.

Clams Casino - Clams Casino

This is great!

Also, I guess I was really lucky to see broadcast live, based how many people are referencing that. Obviously at the time we didn't realize that was so lucky to get to be able to do.

[soggy mittens]

When does your youth end, BTW?

I'm still waiting for it...

when your hand no longer fits into a pringle's tin

[higgsblossom]

I discovered Love's "Forever Changes" when I was 25. It is amongst the most beautiful music I have ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1L11Y0I5E0

[ElephantDNA]

I discovered Love's "Forever Changes" when I was 25. It is amongst the most beautiful music I have ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1L11Y0I5E0

I saw arthur lee perform the album live after he got out of jail in the early 2000s. He was so out of it. He kept asking the guitar player what song comes next - they were literally playing the album front to back. Also did a really good version of little red book. He died not too long after.

[Shadoweclipse13]

I find that a lot of the stuff that I liked when I was younger really doesn't resonate with me these days (with plenty of exceptions). ... ... I get a little sick of some of my friends (known from my band days of college) harping on about the same old music over and over again.

A few people I chat with that I've know for years are this way, and it's obnoxious. You like what you like, but life is change, or at the very least adding to your experiences. I grew up in the 90's, was raised on classic rock (little country from Dad, little pop from Mom), and listened to some varied stuff from the 90's to early 2000's when I was younger. In high school, I was big on Linkin Park, Metallica, Incubus, KoRn, along with most of the stuff I'd grown up with.

Now, I don't listen to almost ANY of those bands (Incubus - Morning View is still pretty good, and was pretty much my first album of a lighter variety rock). With the exception of a few artists/bands (Hendrix, occasional Skynyrd, some Rush, and tons of Floyd), classic rock feels empty in content to me. I think most of the music I listen to nowadays is newer.

Dredg - Catch Without Arms/El Cielo (tied for all-time favorite album)
Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise
Circa Survive - Juturna, On Letting Go
Bear McCreary - Battlestar Galactica Season 2 (score)
Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love, In And Out Of Control (I love ALL of them though )
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
As Cities Burn - Contact
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles (score), Rogue One (score)
The Graduate - Only Every Time
Shiny Toy Guns - III
Young The Giant - self-titled
Nicole Atkins - Neptune City
TRON: Legacy (score)
Lacrymosa - I Was Once (Oh)
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
You + Me - Roseave.
Ben Lovett - Synchronicity (score)
Broadcast - ALL

Oddly enough, I never listened to any Floyd until about 25/26 years old, even though they've been around longer than I have. Also, I owned physical copies of both Brand New's Devil And God and As Cities Burn's Contact from the time I was either in or just out of high school, but I hadn't quite "felt them" until like 10 years later.

It took me a long time, but I used to HAVE to collect a band's entire discography if I liked the band, and I'm not that way anymore. It feels nice being able to just have a song or two that I like, instead of albums that I'll never listen to end-to-end. I listen to a number of artists where I like just a song or two here and there.

(If we were adding favorite albums that included those from our youths, the only additions would be:
Powerman 5000 - Tonight, The Stars Revolt
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire (score)
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Thrice - Vheissu)

[NoiseNoiseNoise]

Black Age Blues by Goatsnake. Monoliths & Dimensions by SUNN O))). Unflesh by Gazelle Twin.
Those three just off the top of my head...

[wproffitt]

Both Alvvays albums
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
Z, Evil Urges, the Waterfall by My Morning Jacket
Every BeachHouse album, but probably Teen Dream most of all.
David Comes to Life by Fucked Up
Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis. Late to the party on this one.
Leviathan by Mastodon is from the period surrounding my divorce, so definitely no longer my “youth”!

[ifallalot]

When's the cutoff for youth? These are the ones that stick out from the last 10 years, that have been released in the last 10 years. There's a lot of music that I've gotten into in this same decade between 27 and 37 that were released before I was born so I'm not adding those

Shooter Jennings - Electric Rodeo
JD McPherson - Signs and Signifiers
JD McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll
DIIV - Oshin (I was introduced to this from you all)
The Urges - Time Will Pass
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
BADBADNOTGOOD - IV
Nick Curran and the Lowlifes - Reform School Girl
J Boogie's Dubtronic Science - Soul Vibrations
Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation

[mr bungle]

David Kilgour - A feather in the engine

I once sold him a reissue Ibanez Flying Pan. I still have an original. He gave me a copy of Falling Debris.