12 Albums I was obssessed with
When I first started seriously getting into music during high school, these were the albums I played over and over. Although there would be several significant albums to come, it’s probably these that ultimately shaped my music taste more than any others.
- Naked Eyes
- Alphaville, Forever Young
- A-ha, Hunting High and Low
- Propaganda, A Secret Wish
- OMD, Crush
- The Cure, Head on the Door
- Echo & the Bunnymen, Songs to Learn and Sing
- Thomas Dolby, The Golden Age of Wireless
- Japan, Oil On Canvas
- Love & Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
- Cocteau Twins, Treasure
- Yazoo, You and Me Both
What albums shaped you?
I’m going to take this as an invitation to talk about something that is starting to feel like it might have book-length implications, but I’ll try to keep at a manageable length below the fold: how my Christian childhood made me a pop obsessive years before I ever heard any pop music.
In accordance with rocketsandrayguns’ title, I’ll keep it to twelve albums; but in contrast, I’m talking about my favorite albums from before I was a teenager. My album-listening went way down during my teen years as I discovered radio, dubbed tapes from it, and had nowhere to buy music and no money to buy it with. Though I could still probably find at least twelve albums I listened to over and over again in high school without any overlap. In fact … whoa there ambition, let’s get through this bit first.
