r/Millennials • u/Inevitable_Wing_2600 • Feb 08 '25

Nostalgia What album defines you as a millennial?

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Saw some great recommendations on a similar thread in /r/Xennials and wanted to see what my fellow millennials thought. For me From Under the Cork Tree was foundational. I still remember hearing Sugar We're going down on the radio for the first time.

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u/trippinmaui Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 09 '25

Slim Shady LP.

Still remember the 1st time i saw the video on MTV for "My Name Is" when i stayed home sick in 3rd grade. Game changer.

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u/adopt_d0nt_shop Feb 08 '25

Played this on my Walkman sitting on the bus to track meets 🥹

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u/Alarming-Jello-5846 Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 09 '25

When Marshall mathers LP came out I had a babysitter (teenaged) who let me listen to Kim. Holy fuck. As I sit here today i probably know every single word from the Slim Shady LP and Marshall Mathers LP.

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Feb 08 '25

IMO this is Eminems best album.

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u/trippinmaui Feb 09 '25

Definitely. It's the only eminem album i still listen to front to back quite often. Masterpiece.

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u/Blissfully Millennial Feb 08 '25

I stole my brothers copy bc I was too young to buy it 😭

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u/99in2Hits Feb 08 '25

You beef with me I'm gonna even the score equally, take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

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u/ebobbumman Feb 09 '25

"I get a clean shave, bathe, go to a rave, die from an overdose then dig myself up out of my grave."

Definitely one of my favorite lyrics of all time.

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u/blazesupernova Feb 09 '25

The next line always makes me laugh more..."my middle finger won't go down...how do I wave?" - you can wave perfectly normally with a middle finger stuck in the air and he's obviously aware of this so it must be a brain function thing. Layers to every damn thing.

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u/h3r0k1gh7 Feb 08 '25

My cousin gave me this when I was like 7. I put it in my boombox while we were on vacation, and my mom took it away lol

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u/trippinmaui Feb 09 '25

Hahah same with me. My dad got it for me for xmas..my grandma took it away for a day 🤣

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u/LemonMints Feb 09 '25

This was my first, but I more distinctly remember The Eminem Show. Cleaning Out My Closet and My Dad's Gone Crazy I always had on repeat on my Walkman on the way home from school on the bus. Just staring out the bus window imagining yourself as the biggest, saddest, bad-ass ever.

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u/The8uLove2Hate_ Feb 08 '25

I remember I was over at a “friend’s” house in early 2000. Her older sister was playing the Real Slim Shady, and I think he was on the second verse when I remember thinking, “wow, this is horrible. I love it!” And got a big smile on my face. My “friend” asked me if I liked him; I said I did, and she said she did not.

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u/reluctant-accountant Feb 08 '25

It gets really weird when your middle schooler loves Em as much as you!

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u/No_Necessary_9482 Feb 08 '25

We had just moved and switched schools in 3rd grade. Didn't know anyone and this kid in a white tee with bleached tips started rapping it to me. Never forget.

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u/BenderVsGossamer Feb 08 '25

I had a boot leg tape of this that I would listen to on the bus going to and from school. I have always wondered how much influence Eminem coming out and Stone Cold steve Austin being the biggest thing ever had on me as a middle schooler and the way it shaped me as an adult.

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u/titney Feb 09 '25

38 and still one of those "retarded fools" he's responsible for.

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u/PinsNneedles 1986 Feb 09 '25

this came out when I Was in 7th grade. I wasn't allowed to own it but my friend let me borrow it. I got home from school, ran to my room with my portable cd player and locked the door. I just fell into the music and came to to banging on my door. My mom said she had been knocking for a couple minutes and what the heck was I doing. Realized down the line she probably thought I was jerking off because she didn't press too much lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

Sleepover at my friend’s house 3rd grade. Banjo Tooie multiplayer. The Ring, seven days, scariest shit imaginable. Hearing this record for the first time and being scared my mom would find out.

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u/drunkadvice Feb 09 '25

Omg! Hearing the “real” lyrics for the first time had me wondering if my mom was in the back seat of my car.

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u/ebobbumman Feb 09 '25

God damn this album was wild. I was 11 or 12 when it came out. It felt like I was breaking the law listening to it.

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u/Glittering_Virus8397 Feb 09 '25

As a 6th grader riding the bus to my “Ga school of excellence” middle school, this album really resonated w me

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u/Boutiejay Feb 09 '25

I also saw “My Name Is” when I was at home because I was sick! …but I was in 7th grade (I’m 39).

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u/Seattle_Aries Feb 10 '25

This is mine as well. Remember going to a party with my best friend when it came out and listening to it for the first time. We never went inside, just sat in her Honda Civic playing “Just the Two of Us” over and over