People are doing a “10 influential albums of high school” meme right now, so here we go:
For me, the mid to late eighties was a good time, because it was when I bought most of my own music, and discovered a few resources to trade tapes. Note, these weren’t all released just at that time, but when I first put them in my personal rotation.
This is directly off the top of my head, I will try to come back and add reasons, more thoughts later. In no particular order :
- They Might Be Giants – Lincoln
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Electric Light Orchestra – Time
- The Pixies – Doolittle
- Talking Heads – Little Creatures
- Weird Al Yankovic – Dare to be stupid
- Peter Gabriel – So
- Tomita – The Planets
- Soundtrack to Repo Man
- Rush – 2112