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[Carlo Von Sexron]

So in mid-June, Epitaph issued remastered versions of the Offspring's Ignition (1992) and Smash (1994) to coincide with the release of the new Offspring album, whatever the fuck it's called.

I first heard Smash ten years ago.

While thousands of teenagers were already drinking their first beers and losing their virginities while listening to Ixnay on the Hombre, I was eleven years old and all I had was a copy of Smash.

What a fuckin' good album, totally opened my eyes to concepts I had no idea even existed. Real heavy shit*, you know, like road rage, school violence and guilty sex where you hate yourself afterwards (I had to wait seven or eight more years to experience that for myself.)

Point is, I guess, is that it would be cranking out of my stereo for hours, all night, all through the weekend - it was pretty much the only album I had. It may be a bit of an overstatement to call it "life-changing" but it certainly helped define a weird transitional period in my life - one where I wasn't quite a teenager who could go out and fuck shit up but where I also had started to outgrow being a kid.

There are probably better albums out there, but this is how I became a teenager.


How about you?








*I was eleven and I didn't watch a lot of TV. It was all new.
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[Sharp]

The back street boys' "Black and Blue" got me into music in general.


By the way, I was too young to be gay, or have a sexual alignment of any kind.

[Carlo Von Sexron]

Backstreet's Back was the first album I ever owned, it was a gift, so it doesn't count.

Smash was the first album I ever bought.




I pretty much expected exactly that answer though, Sharp.
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[the snuggler]

haha, i remember listening to smash because my brother had it, so the first album i got excited over the release of was 'americana'


then i listened to a lot of nirvana...i had always known he killed himself and for some reason that drew me to them (it probably freaked me out a little). i remember being told about his suicide awhile after the fact but i was too young to remember when it happened.
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i rhyme in tsunamis and this is just a drop of it

[Carlo Von Sexron]

I was 7 in 1994 and at that point I was probably aware of the fact that both Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix were dead but had never heard of Kurt Cobain.
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[Sharp]

Oh, wait. I take back my earlier statement. The first album that really affected me was Flood by They Might Be Giants. I was really amazed at how much I heard about them after joining .net, since to me, they were just the guys I listened to as a kid.

[dodger]

[Seanie]

bright eyes for me.

[Mikes!]

All of a sudden, all my teen rage made sense.

[Mikes!]

All of a sudden, music didn't have to be angry to be good.

[Squishy]

?
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"Fudge, Packer?"

[Icculus]

[the bunk]

to be completely honest
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[Ray]

I'm going to go with

with a nod to the pre-Crimson Alkaline Trio discography.
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here comes the big ideas again, just like they did before and then,
the morning comes again and they're gone

[Der]

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Married to Terri.

Signed,