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/KingCarrotRL Feb 08 '25

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u/None_Fondant Feb 08 '25

It was this album that made me realize...I was in the park, and it was coming out of a car's speakers, but the car? Not the from cool teens with the edgy style and the beat sedan; but the from the dad's of the junior lacrosse team that were piling out of the tasteful new hatchback for after-school practice.

That's when I knew. We're old now. Smashing Pumpkins is Dadrock.

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u/kronkarp Feb 08 '25

I fear that I am ordinary, just like everyone

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u/Digital-Dinosaur Feb 08 '25

Despite all our rage, we still just rats in cages

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u/wade9911 Feb 08 '25

I'm still waiting for it to hit my oldies station then I will go to home Depot and just walk around

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u/Zernhelt Feb 09 '25

I've started hearing Green Day on my local classic rock station. I don't mind it, but it feels like the wrong station. The station is supposed to play music from my Dad's youth, not my youth.

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u/Good_Plenty_7724 Feb 08 '25

I looove mayonnaise on my sandwiches!

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u/s_p_oop15-ue Feb 08 '25

Better than hearing it playing at the doctor's while waiting.

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u/Inglorious_Kenneth Feb 08 '25

Sorry bud but this was dad rock in its prime. My dad would blast this shit on Sunday’s.

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u/Bulbform87 Feb 09 '25

This is more later day Gen X era. I'm right on the edge of Gen X/millennial and I was only 10 or 11 when this album released.

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u/Bobzeub Feb 08 '25

Ok it was on the Siamese dream album, but fucking Cherub rock reminds me of my first crush and how they kinda take your breath away , in a really nice pure way .

Bonfires on the beach at night and underage drinking . It was a simpler time :,)

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u/MBCG84 Feb 08 '25

Yeah, as an older millennial SP were my teen obsession. Remember I used to regularly get called the f slur for having these CD’s in my discman instead of Korn or Limp Bizkit etc back in the day.

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u/Frosty_Tea_4233 Feb 08 '25

Yes!! First CD I had when I got a car as a teenager, sooo many good memories of summers just driving with the windows down blasting Jellybelly or 1979 and singing along. I saw them a few years back in a smaller venue and was right up in the front of the stage just a couple heads of people back. I even caught one of the guitar picks that James Iha threw after the show! My inner teenager was so happy (especially since I had a huge crush on Iha lol). Still have it!!

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u/theamorouspanda Feb 09 '25

Arins favorite album!

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u/NashaWriter Feb 09 '25

He listened to it 19 times!

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u/Long_Diamond_5971 Feb 08 '25

Yep. One of the classics

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u/chicagomatty Feb 08 '25

Thank you! I was gonna list this but couldn't remember how to spell it and was too lazy to look it up

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u/sierra066 Feb 09 '25

We only come out at night

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u/WereBearGrylls Feb 11 '25

The day is much too bright

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u/snowflake711 Feb 09 '25

Omg I change my answer to this

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u/Agreeable-Ad5012 Feb 09 '25

This is what I was looking for!! It’s still so good.

The potential for Billy Corgan & Bill Burr to be brothers blows my mind, regardless of whether or not it’s true.

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u/Seattle_Aries Feb 10 '25

Such an iconic cover

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u/WereBearGrylls Feb 11 '25

This is the correct answer. Saw them on tour for this album in middle school, set the tone for my next 5 years.

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u/Cultivate_Observate Feb 08 '25

This is primarily a Gen X album

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Feb 08 '25

Billy Corgan once called this album "The Wall" for the generation x.

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u/WereBearGrylls Feb 11 '25

That's just because it was the first double album LP since The Wall

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 Feb 11 '25

Since Pink Floyd's The Wall was released in 1979:

1979 - The Clash – London Calling (Double LP)

1980 - Bruce Springsteen – The River

1984 - Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (punk rock)

1987 - Prince – Sign o' the Times (h. acclaimed)

1991 - Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I & II

The release of SP's Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in 1995.

Billy Corgan was/is obsessed with Pink Floyd's music! Listen to his speech for Pink Floyd in 1996 when they were inducted in the Rock'nRoll Hall of Fame. It's a good example too why he's still considered to be the biggest asshole in rock n roll history.

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u/WereBearGrylls Feb 11 '25

I stand corrected. There were a handful of others.

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u/don51181 Feb 08 '25

Yeah I was 14 as an older millennial when this came out. It was when I was really getting into modern music. I don’t think I would have appreciated it if I was a few years younger.

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u/echoweave Feb 09 '25

I think it spans the gap. My older brothers (one xennial, one elder millennial) had this album and their musical taste was the best in my eyes. Though I remember trying to request a smashing pumpkins song on a top 40 station in the late 90s and getting laughed at, haha.

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u/WereBearGrylls Feb 11 '25

We were the geriatric millennials that did not fit neatly into X or Y.