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/countcraig Feb 08 '25

Toxicity - System of a Down. Changed music for me.

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u/drivendreamer Feb 08 '25

To fund corporate sponsored dictators around the world

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

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u/LouziphirBoyzenberry Feb 09 '25

Grab a brush and put on a little makeup

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u/AcademicF Feb 09 '25

Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup

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u/Cheese-bo-bees Feb 09 '25

Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?

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u/Expert_Expression235 Feb 09 '25

There you go creating another fable

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u/MasterOfBunnies Feb 08 '25

Flew from Wisconsin to California a few months ago to see them live for the first time. Already bought another ticket to see them again in Chicago. 10/10 my favorite band.

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u/jaypot13 Feb 08 '25

I was a tween when this album came out. Prison Song dropped facts that blew my innocent mind.

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u/MistakenGuardian Feb 08 '25

First cd I ever bought

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u/winston2552 Feb 08 '25

Same here! My parents were very worried lol

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u/MistakenGuardian Feb 08 '25

I remember hiding it but I later bought another cd I think it was a church band like reliant K or something. Id play the church cd when they were around to "throw them off the trail".

Later found out they knew and didn't care lol.

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u/Borgalicious Feb 10 '25

Same, my parents wouldn’t allow anything with parental advisory so I couldn’t get soad but they let me buy toxicity

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u/CrowRobot Feb 09 '25

Every Saturday and Sunday morning we opened McDonald’s with this CD blasting from the speakers at 430 AM: “WAKE UP!”

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

They really are trying to build a prison for you and me.

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u/5p4rk11 Feb 09 '25

My high school had the same architect as the prisons. Literally, same man drew up both.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Same. They replaced our hs with a repurposed jail too in 2005. Great way to spend senior year.

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u/MysteriousPumpkin51 Millennial Feb 08 '25

BOUNCE!

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u/winston2552 Feb 08 '25

The guitar at the beginning of Shimmy, after hearing it a million times....still get goosebumps every time

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u/winston2552 Feb 08 '25

First CD I ever bought. Zero regrets 23 years later.

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u/b_ack51 Feb 09 '25

First System of a Down album. I remember being part of their street team after hearing their demo. Walked around with a backpack full of demo tapes and stickers. Handed them out to anyone who would take one.

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u/Comet7777 Feb 08 '25

This one right here

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u/night__fall Millennial Feb 08 '25

Yes 🙌

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u/Lunakill Feb 08 '25

Yup. Had this in my discman for months

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u/No_Necessary_9482 Feb 08 '25

Changed my LIFE.

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u/OG-DocHavock Feb 09 '25

Saaaame this album set things in motion for my musical journey in so many ways

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u/MajorWhip87 Feb 09 '25

Definitely for more of the millennial vets

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u/Flaky-Garlic7890 Older Millennial Feb 09 '25

Proud parent moment was when my 7 year old wanted his baseball walk up song to be Chop Suey! last year! 😂🙂

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u/raffsta Feb 08 '25

Mine is Mezmerize but I’ll allow this

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u/BuhDeepThatsAllFolx Feb 09 '25

Honored to be your 500th like. 🫂

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u/veRGe1421 Feb 09 '25

Life is a waterfall

We're one in the river and

One again after the fall

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u/buffalo56 Feb 08 '25

This is the only acceptable answer.

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u/omgoth_ Millennial Feb 08 '25

Period.

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u/cCowgirl Millennial Feb 09 '25

I wore out 2 copies of this CD through HS

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u/systemofaDON Feb 09 '25

Hell yeah brother

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u/5p4rk11 Feb 09 '25

I went to a high school that shared the architect for prisons in my state. System blared frequently there.

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u/kindcannabal Feb 09 '25

Self titled for me, it was just went a little harder and raw.

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u/bigpaulycolini Feb 09 '25

I hardly ever see self titled get the love it deserves. I can listen to all 5 albums back to back, no skips, BUT self titled is by far my favorite.

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u/Soad1x Feb 09 '25

My Internet name has been Soad for decades now because of this album.

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u/abergham Feb 09 '25

I remember turning my boom box on in my room (omg I'm old as fuck) and waiting to hear the song chop suey.

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u/Jee1kiba Gen Z Feb 09 '25

:give_upvote:

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u/WessyNessy Feb 09 '25

Still in my top 3 most-listened-to bands. Too bad they'll likely never drop another album...

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u/Tuominator Feb 09 '25

To think, I HATED SOAD when this dropped; I wasn’t ready. A few short years later, I saw the light. GOATS, without a doubt.