A prequel to a previous poll (Roughly contemporaneous albums that I bought during my last two years of high school), presented warts and all. A couple of those options carried over here as I recalled that I had encountered them earlier than I'd thought.
For the sake of context: I spent these two years (and only these two years) stuck on a military base in the middle of rural southern IN, a good 45-minute drive from anything resembling actual civilization (and before I had the ability to drive myself anywhere, natch). So this is stuff they either miraculously had at the Navy Exchange or at the Sam Goody in the mall our family drove to like once a month, occasional birthday presents, copies of stuff checked out from the library or given to me by one of the like five people I knew. Pretty much everything here was discovered via late night MTV programming. We couldn't really get much in the way of radio. I mostly spent a lot of time listening to my Walkman while fucking around in the woods instead of doing whatever other people do during their nascent teenage years. This may go some way towards explaining why I am the way I am.
P.S. I'm still pissed that the Dream Theater album on the 'Now Playing' easel turned out to not being the cool-sounding thing they were playing in the store. I bagged a lot of groceries to pay for that stupid POS, goddammit. I guess I could've double checked before plunking down my cash. Oh well.
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head | 14 |
REM - Automatic for the People | 8 |
Faith No More - Angel Dust | 7 |
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger | 6 |
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes | 5 |
Nirvana - Nevermind | 3 |
Shakespeare's Sister - Hormonally Yours | 3 |
Ween - Pure Guava | 3 |
REM - Out of Time | 2 |
Nirvana - Incesticide | 2 |
V/A - Singles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2 |
Dream Theater - Images & Words | 2 |
Extreme - II: Pornograffitti | 2 |
Alice in Chains - Dirt | 1 |
Mr. Bungle - s/t | 1 |
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion Vol. 2 | 1 |
Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from from Twin Peaks | 1 |
Stone Temple Pilots - Core | 1 |
'Weird Al' Yankovic - Even Worse | 0 |
Black Crows - The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion | 0 |
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion Vol. 1 | 0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic | 0 |
Queen - Classic Queen | 0 |
Pearl Jam - Ten | 0 |
Jesus Jones - Doubt | 0 |
Ministry - Psalm 69 | 0 |
― Frankie Four-Wigs (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 November 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link