Probably Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Linkin park hybrid theory naturally.
And holding the cd player slightly in the air in the car/bus because the skip protection only goes so far and this track is 🔥
Yes. The geep!
🎶 Graaaaviity… Oooooh never let…me down 🎶
System of a Down’s album Toxicity. Prison Song’s opening note is basically what defines the experience.
The album that got me into SOAD.
I have a salty memory about buying that album. I grabbed it based solely on the first album, which I fucking LOVED. I went to the record store in my town to buy it, and I was so stoked to get home and listen to it all the way through without ever hearing a single thing from the album. I walk up to the counter to buy it on day one, and the guy behind the counter is like, “sick album,” or whatever. Then, instead of ringing me up, he turns and changes the track on the store’s sound system. It plays the opening thrums of Prison Song, and even though I hadn’t heard the album yet, I knew moments into the track what he’d done. I was devastated. I was so ready to have a religious experience with the album, only to have some shithead ruin the first track for me. I mean, I really can’t blame him, it’s not like there is some rule against what he did. He probably thought he was showing solidarity with another fan, but he crushed me. Still love that album, though. Steal This Album is criminally underrated, too.
Hate to admit it but Creed
I never could tell if it was religious music, I’ve always suspected it was, but the few albums they made, especially their first, were awesome imo. Don’t be shamed for taste.
I respect your honestly.
I hope your parents allow you to put your bedroom door back on the hinges
Same but also Eminem. First CD I bought was Marshall Mather’s LP with money stolen from my dad’s wallet.
And they are touring again, I hear. I just hope they make it to the UK.
Dude, same
Probably Ok Computer, that album just blew me away. Or Kid A if that was out.
Kid A was already out by then, I’m pretty sure Amnesiac dropped in ‘01
Massive Attack’s album Mezzanine, played that on repeat for a long time
Ooh, that’s a good one.
This was a great era for electronica: we had this, Prodigy’s Fat of the Land, Crystal Method’s Vegas and Weekend, FatBoy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby, just about everything from Chemical Brothers.
I think I went broke buying music in the 1990s.
I had Liam Howlett’s mixtape, Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1, in constant rotation for a quite a while there
Till present right? It’s 10/10
The Walkman was the cassette player. Weren’t the CD players called the Discman?
Now I’m sad that I’d lost my Walkman more than a decade before that, in or around 1990. The Discman sounded better, but was worse on batteries and skipped if you looked at it funny.
It says walkman right there on the device.
I had a CD player with Walkman branding on it back in the early 2000s
Looks like I’m just old.
Sony used the Discman branding in the mid 90s and went back to Walkman in the late 90s and early 2000s.
For me, Walkman meant tape or cassette, but again, I’m old. Old enough to have been listening to Depeche Mode on tape on my Walkman.
Same for me. I was rocking out to Cinderella, Scorpions, and Poison on my Walkman and then it sounded better later on the Discman with no need to flip or rewind for the specific songs.
Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward was the first cassette of theirs I bought and it lived in my walkman.
I have the same understanding as you on the whole walkman/discman thing.
I have, and have had for almost ten years, a Walkman-branded music player which plays, among other formats, FLAC.
2001 weren’t we all using mp3 players?
I know I was. It was really big and could hardly fit anything.
Yes, those rio ones with a hdd in it! 4 gb or something like that. Or you had a cheaper flash one with 128 mb.
My first mp3 player was a SoulMate omg.
I think by 2001 I probably had something smaller with more storage though.
First ones were branded “Discman” for some reason before Sony went back to using the “Walkman” name.
I find it weird since all of the other portable stuff before and after like MD, DAT, MP3, and the newer hi-res players were released under the “Walkman” name
They kept the walkman branding
Radiohead - Kid A
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water
whilst shaking it up and down showing my friends how it doesn’t skip.
Skipping. Damn how annoying that was!
Dookie
Still perhaps my favorite album. I wasn’t quite cool enough in 2001 to listen to it though. I learned about Green Day mainly from American Idiot, then went back to find their older stuff.
If it weren’t for them “selling out” then I wouldn’t have heard of them, living in my nowhere town. Maybe I wouldn’t have heard their subversive ideas. I might have just listened to country.
Maybe Green Day had a part in making me who I am
Daft Punk - Discovery
Weird Al - Running with scissors
Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby / Better Living Through Chemistry
Right about now
The funk soul brotha check it out now
Linkin Park and Papa Roach probably.