The first album I ever "purchased" was Linkin Park's "Hyrbrid Theory." I was 11 and in Sam Goody with my dad. Being a typical tween, I didn't want to tell him what I was looking for. I just kept walking around the aisles looking for what I wanted.
My dad kept asking me what I was looking for and I kept on telling him, {i'll know it when i see it}
10 minutes pass and I'm probably in the R&B section. My dad continues-- "will you tell me the first letter?"
I say, probably with a lot of tween angst, "L"
I keep looking. I couldn't find what I was looking for.
My dad prods again, "What does it end in?"
Still annoyed that my dad is within 100 ft of me, a tween, I scoff, "K"
I love this man. he just hung out.
At some point, an employee came up to my dad and asked him what we were looking for. My dad had no idea what I was looking for so he just sent him to me. Being the insanely insecure tween that I was, and having my father there, I was reticent to provide a response. I have as stutter so I am very opposed to starting a conversation out of nowhere with a stranger ( since then, I've gotten meds for my stutter/anxiety and they're working great!). Think of Judah Friedlander, without the fame. He is the employee who approached my dad.
I just waved the guy and my dad off as if I knew what I was doing.
My dad calls to me, "What are you looking for?" And of course I just scoff Within earshot I hear my dad relay to the employee "it starts with an L and ends with a K" and INSTANTLY Judah Friedlander says "Linkin Park?"
I look at him and nod
And he brings us over to the appropriate rack and ( I ) make a purchase.
After that, I would listen to the entire thing as I went to bed every night for years.
On September 07 2020 14:01 Starlightsun wrote: Great album. Miss the old days going to the record store like that. Video and book stores too..
i miss going places too probably still one of my favorite albums and definitely my favorite from linkin park, which my family now refers to as "begins in an L, ends in a K" xD
My best friend in high school and me were killing time in an electronic store, you could play Surf Rocket Racers on Dreamcast there for free. When that got boring we headed over to the CD section, scan the bar code and listen to the albums for free. Man that store was sick! We listed to a lot of fantastic music and were just exploring, when we found Children of Bodom - Follow the reaper. We were 13, the cover art looked cool and the music assaulted our ears. It also sounded like nothing we had ever heard before in our lifes, so we bought the CD. It probably took about 6 or 7 times of listening to the complete album before it stopped sounding terrible and was, when it came to discovering metal, like learning to swim in a stormy ocean. \m/ Just listening again brings back so many memories, Thank you!^^
Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
Soooooo super cool thread! Been very topical for me lately.
For the past few months, I've been really digging and re-digging their content. Watching concerts, lesser known songs, covers, etc. on YouTube as much as I could. It started with quarantine, Mike Shinoda began streaming on Twitch and uploading daily content to YouTube. In addition to being a creative master, he's an awesomely wonderful human being, and just so wholesome. Heck he's streaming now:
Relistening to all the music in retrospect, especially after Chester's suicide, really hits a spot. I maintain Hybrid Theory is the greatest complete album ever made, at least to me/my generation. Hybrid Theory got me thru highschool, Meteora thru college (or what I completed, at least).
Anyways we are exactly one month away from the 20th anniversary of HT. Check out the anniversary edition if you want some nostalgia:
On September 08 2020 05:10 Wombat_NornIron wrote: Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
I sincerely believe that had eminem never existed, fred durst would have been considered the coolest human being in the early 2000's. for the longest time i had no idea that "Faith" was a George Michael cover; it has always been my favorite limp song :D
HT was great in that I only knew 2 songs before I bought the CD, but every track on that thing is a banger
On September 09 2020 03:29 EvilTeletubby wrote: Soooooo super cool thread! Been very topical for me lately.
For the past few months, I've been really digging and re-digging their content. Watching concerts, lesser known songs, covers, etc. on YouTube as much as I could. It started with quarantine, Mike Shinoda began streaming on Twitch and uploading daily content to YouTube. In addition to being a creative master, he's an awesomely wonderful human being, and just so wholesome. Heck he's streaming now:
Relistening to all the music in retrospect, especially after Chester's suicide, really hits a spot. I maintain Hybrid Theory is the greatest complete album ever made, at least to me/my generation. Hybrid Theory got me thru highschool, Meteora thru college (or what I completed, at least).
Anyways we are exactly one month away from the 20th anniversary of HT. Check out the anniversary edition if you want some nostalgia:
I have had very similar trips down the rabbit holes on youtube :D Had no idea the 20th anniversary was coming up but that sounds about right. damn so old O_O will check out the anniversary edition, thanks! the only 'celeb deaths' that really got me were chester and chris cornell. maybe because they happened so close together or because both of them wrote a lot of songs I identified with. a huge ratm -> audioslave -> prophets fan as well.
On September 08 2020 05:10 Wombat_NornIron wrote: Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
I sincerely believe that had eminem never existed, fred durst would have been considered the coolest human being in the early 2000's. for the longest time i had no idea that "Faith" was a George Michael cover; it has always been my favorite limp song :D
HT was great in that I only knew 2 songs before I bought the CD, but every track on that thing is a banger
On September 08 2020 05:10 Wombat_NornIron wrote: Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
I sincerely believe that had eminem never existed, fred durst would have been considered the coolest human being in the early 2000's. for the longest time i had no idea that "Faith" was a George Michael cover; it has always been my favorite limp song :D
HT was great in that I only knew 2 songs before I bought the CD, but every track on that thing is a banger
On September 08 2020 05:10 Wombat_NornIron wrote: Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
I sincerely believe that had eminem never existed, fred durst would have been considered the coolest human being in the early 2000's. for the longest time i had no idea that "Faith" was a George Michael cover; it has always been my favorite limp song :D
HT was great in that I only knew 2 songs before I bought the CD, but every track on that thing is a banger
Wait he wasn’t already? :O
I suppose this is entirely subjective ^^
Opinions generally are, except when they’re mine. And specifically on the topic of Fred Durst
On September 08 2020 05:10 Wombat_NornIron wrote: Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
I sincerely believe that had eminem never existed, fred durst would have been considered the coolest human being in the early 2000's. for the longest time i had no idea that "Faith" was a George Michael cover; it has always been my favorite limp song :D
HT was great in that I only knew 2 songs before I bought the CD, but every track on that thing is a banger
Wait he wasn’t already? :O
I suppose this is entirely subjective ^^
Opinions generally are, except when they’re mine. And specifically on the topic of Fred Durst
I think my perception was skewed because I was in the usa and eminem was pretty much public enemy number one and was to blame for all the things that marilyn manson hadn't already been blamed for .
On September 09 2020 07:29 Teoita wrote: Hybrid Theory is fucking awesome \m/
edit: and so is the first Audioslave album, holy shit that was good
this is the last track on the album. had never heard it in my life (same with 10+ other on the album..) but it is prob one of my top 5 lp songs to this day
and this auidioslave track always makes me think about my old dog when she was sick and passing away tt rip mookie! (edit: and chester and chris O_O )
On September 08 2020 04:44 naughtDE wrote: My best friend in high school and me were killing time in an electronic store, you could play Surf Rocket Racers on Dreamcast there for free. When that got boring we headed over to the CD section, scan the bar code and listen to the albums for free. Man that store was sick! We listed to a lot of fantastic music and were just exploring, when we found Children of Bodom - Follow the reaper. We were 13, the cover art looked cool and the music assaulted our ears. It also sounded like nothing we had ever heard before in our lifes, so we bought the CD. It probably took about 6 or 7 times of listening to the complete album before it stopped sounding terrible and was, when it came to discovering metal, like learning to swim in a stormy ocean. \m/ Just listening again brings back so many memories, Thank you!^^
it's funny you mention children of bodom because i'm actually a huge fan. my favorite cover of all-time is their cover of billy idol's rebel yell. don't even get me started on in flames
edit: grammar
edit2: i also mentioned earlier that limp bizkit's cover of 'faith' was my favoite cover. they're both up there, ok? ffff
On September 09 2020 14:17 Danglars wrote: That CD was in my car's CD player quite a bit, as was Reanimation.
haha this was before i had a car. once i got a a car, it was all marshall mathers lp and slim shady lp and red hot chili peppers when a chick was in the car xD . that shit is some drivin music. xD edit: my throwaway id and pump up song is ilikedirt, for instance
On September 08 2020 05:10 Wombat_NornIron wrote: Ah those were the days, bought that album myself. Enjoyed although I did prefer the Bizkit (and still do). Hell I have some records on cassette, my 15 year old sister didn’t even know what a cassette was.
For all of the benefits of modern day digital distribution convenience, there was something more personal about saving one’s pocket money for a few weeks, taking a risk on an album you’ve maybe heard 2 tracks off and having to grind that out until you get the money to get new music.
I sincerely believe that had eminem never existed, fred durst would have been considered the coolest human being in the early 2000's. for the longest time i had no idea that "Faith" was a George Michael cover; it has always been my favorite limp song :D
HT was great in that I only knew 2 songs before I bought the CD, but every track on that thing is a banger
Wait he wasn’t already? :O
I suppose this is entirely subjective ^^
Opinions generally are, except when they’re mine. And specifically on the topic of Fred Durst
EPT
