Your 4 High School Albums • Page 3

New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones (2002)
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)
Coheed and Cambria - IKS (2003)
Midtown - Forget What You Know (2004)
FOB - Take This To Your Grave (2003)

I really can't pick between the 5! Each album was life changing and I'll listen to forever. What a golden time for music and this genre. I still pick up new bands but there hasn't been anything comparable.

 

QOTSA - lullabies to paralyze
clipse - hell hath no fury
oasis - don't believe the truth
the white stripes - white blood cells

 

blink-182 - Takeoff Your Pants and Jacket
Weezer - Green Album
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute

Honorable Mentions:

AFI - Sing The Sorrow
NOFX - War On Errorism
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

 

Really hard to pick but four that come to mind are (no repeating artists otherwise it would be the first four Coheed records):

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 by Coheed and Cambria
Vheissu by Thrice
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky
Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie


Five runners up:

The End of History by Fionn Regan
Doppelgänger by The Fall of Troy
Pink Moon by Nick Drake
The Ghosts Among Us by Our Last Night
Menos el Oso by Minus the Bear

 

Freshman year: Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
Sophomore year: Blink-182 - Untitled
Junior year: Say Anything - ...is a real boy
Senior year: Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory

 

my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge
the used - in love and death
silverstein - discovering the waterfront
underoath - they’re only chasing safety

I was the stereotypical emo kid at my school.

 

Whitechapel - This Is Exile
The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings

I was such a scene kid. My MySpace page probably took 10 minutes to load.

 

Saves The Day - Through Being Cool
The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About
Midtown - Save The World, Lose The Girl
Backstreet Boys - Millennium

Honorable Mentions:

N'Sync - N'Sync
2 Skinnee J's - SuperMercado!
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty

 

Not often I see a 2 Skinnee reference here!

 

EDIT: Had to fact check myself here and make some modifications! Apparently, Apple Music incorrectly lists Eve6's Horrorscope as being released in 1999 when it was, in fact, 2000. I chose to go the route of albums that were released
contemporaneously with each year I was in school.

1998 - Freshman Year - Pearl Jam - Yield
1999 - Sophomore Year - Live - The Distance To Here
2000 - Junior Year - Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines (But in reality a 3-way tie between OLP / Radiohead - Kid A / Eve6 - Horrorscope!)
2001 - Senior Year - Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter

A very difficult exercise, indeed! The debut 3EB album was easily the biggest album of 1998 for me, but was released in '97. A lot of "indie/emo" albums also came out during these years that I would later discover during my college years. I own these all on vinyl, so that might be today's listening exercise!

 

If it's all about what I was into in HS...and I'm being honest with myself...

1999-00 Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
2000-01 311 - Soundsystem
2001-02 System of a Down - Toxicity
2002-03 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head


Honorable Mentions that I know were in heavy rotation:
Machine Head - The Burning Red
2 Skinnee Js - Volumizer
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Symphony X - Odyssey
Metallica - S&M
Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip

 

Its kind of a shame what Coldplay became because A Rush of Blood to the Head was a pretty great record! There was definitely a time where I would have ranked that record on par with something like The Bends by Radiohead. (I'm not sure whether I'm helping my cause there or not with that comparison :) )

 

At that time, it was great to see such an album get so popular. Clocks got big, then the Scientist went massive. I went years without listening to it but went back recently and still love it.

 

Amsterdam is still one of my favorite album closers