May 2020 Record Challenge Thread (PRIZE RAFFLE AT THE END!)

Day 4 - An album from your Senior year of high school. I'm loving this one as I'm seeing how old everyone here is!

Gonna go with this one that came out a few months after I graduated. I really listened mostly to rap until my last 2 years of high school, and started getting into rock/indie thanks to Faith No More and James Addiction, then the Nirvana/Alice In Chains/etc movement here in the NW. That got me digging, and found my way to Kyuss and that desert rock. Wretch is a pretty raw and aggressive album with some childish lyrics, which is just what this 18 year old needed.

I'm also realizing there are just a shit ton of records that were huge or super influential that year - Mr. Bungle, Green Mind, Bandwagonesque, Loveless, BadMotorFinger, Low End Theory, Nevermind, Ten, Death Certificate, Temple Of The Dog, Use Your Illusions, OG Original Gangster, Mama Said, De La Soul Is Dead, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Girlfriend, Gish, Trompe le Monde, Goat, Pretty On The Inside.

Just what I need, more records in my mind to buy.

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Day 4 - Senior Year

1991!

I was surprised with how many great albums came out that year.
Ultimately I when with an album that soundtracked so many (too many, maybe?) parties.
I cannot confirm nor deny the presence of high as kites teens at such parties.

Primal Scream - Screamdelica

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Day 4 ~ Will you go to prom with me?

Underoath ~ define the great line

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2005-2006 emo screamo bliss was in heaven, a thriving scene was flourishing, final year of school until I took my talents to Texas Tech what more could I have wanted... This album is exactly what I needed, 14 days after graduation Underoath drops their best album, a stunning follow up to they're only chasing safety, bliss would be screaming along with them all summer long and little did he know, still screaming along up to this day

It's so funny how we see things so clear when we have no time left to live.
 
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One of my favorite Tom Waits albums happens to be from my graduation year - 1987

I'll always remember when my friend put FWY in his cassette player at his apartment and said 'you have to hear this song!' and played Cold Cold Ground. It was 1990, and my first introduction to Tom, and it left quite a mark. It didn't take long to dive full on in. So awesome.

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Day 4: An album from your senior year of high school

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DJ Shadow Endtroducing...

This one still hits every single time!! I was still mostly buying cassettes my last year of highschool but I'm sure glad of the few records I bought at the time this was one of them! It's hard to explain how much joy this record gives me and how it still blows my mind how well it's put together considering it's entirely made up of samples. This was a gateway into appreciating all sorts of music I probably would have just ignored a year earlier, I'll never miss an opportunity to play this record!
 
Day 4: Senior Year

Fun fact: I was a high school senior for 1.5 years (1 year as an exchange student in the U.S., then another semester when I returned to Brazil). At that time I was really into metal but somehow The Strokes came into my orbit. Not many albums scream “2001!” louder than Is This It:

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Day 4 - Senior Year

For me, the school year of 1998-1999.

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This was a hard one.
I could've picked Elliott Smith's XO, but that technically came out the week BEFORE I was a senior.
I could've picked The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin, but that one, considering how much I have listened to it over the years, was a little too easy and familiar... actually, I can say that about XO too.
I could've picked The Roots Things Fall Apart but I am not in the headspace for that tonight.
And, honestly, if the idea of the post were albums that defined my senior year, as opposed to being an album released that year, I would not have picked any of these. It could have been:

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Low - any of their first three albums, in particular Long Division
Red House Painters - I bought all their albums during my senior year as imports, but my heart is with Bridge
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Tom Waits - Closing Time (oh, I remember driving home after my senior prom with the sun coming up listening to "Grapefruit Moon")
Pizzicato Five - Happy End Of The World (oh man, I would love to own a vinyl of this someday)
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Roni Size - New Forms
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Velocity Girl - Simpatico!
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
Mary Lou Lord - Got No Shadow
R.E.M. - Up (this is in SERIOUS need of a reissue)
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?

In the end, I chose this one because:
1. It came out late-September of '98, thus making the timing right
2. SDRE is a favorite band of mine
3. This album doesn't get the love it deserves
 
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Day 4 - Senior Year

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Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary

This album was released September 27th 2005 and was produced by Isaac Brock

My senior year was filled with good times and better music. The nights were spent with Speakerboxxxes blaring Bright Eyed Love from Below. Kings of Leon playing there Black Keys and White Stripes to a crowd of Dangerously Modest Mice. Just a bunch of N.E.R.D.s trying to be Big Tymers getting Highly Evolved without getting any Hives. Taking trips to defeat Yoshimi's Lemon Pink Robots while listening to Ben Kweller's Headphone Masterpiece. The Postal Service delivered an Arcade of Fire but would not Hail to the Theifs Bodysongs. This was all before becoming a College Drop Out due to Dirty Projectors and a Shadow put on The Private Press. Finding Ways Not to Lose our Soul Machine while looking for a Mignonette in Phonix on a Feisty Madvillainy day.
 
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DAY 5 - CINCO DE MAYO
Kali Uchis - Isolation
A very impressive and eclectic debut album, one of my favorites of 2018! You can hear influences from a lot of different places on this album but it's all wrapped together in a very concise package and Uchis brings a lot of personality to the songs. Standouts for me would be "Flight 22", "Your Teeth in My Neck", "Tyrant", "Dead to Me" (probs my fave track on the whole album), "After the Storm" and "Feel Like a Fool." Very excited to hear a follow-up album from her!
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DAY 5 - CINCO DE MAYO
Kali Uchis - Isolation
A very impressive and eclectic debut album, one of my favorites of 2018! You can hear influences from a lot of different places on this album but it's all wrapped together in a very concise package and Uchis brings a lot of personality to the songs. Standouts for me would be "Flight 22", "Your Teeth in My Neck", "Tyrant", "Dead to Me" (probs my fave track on the whole album), "After the Storm" and "Feel Like a Fool." Very excited to hear a follow-up album from her!
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I need that Por Vida EP on vinyl 👌🔥🔥
 
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