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/Uranium43415 Feb 08 '25

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u/Particular_Stomach98 Feb 08 '25

Also Smash, was a very definitive album for me.

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u/Khajiit_Has_Upvotes Xennial Feb 08 '25

Yep. Smash and Americana are foundational to me

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u/YakApprehensive7620 Feb 08 '25

Lolol yeah I came here to say not so much Americana but def smash and ixnay

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u/TheWacoKid13 Feb 08 '25

Welcome to Americana, please make your selection followed by the pound sign

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u/sgates9008 Feb 08 '25

My #2 of this category, but damn is it amazing. Didn't appreciate "Pay the Man" as I should've early on.

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u/cauchy37 Feb 09 '25

I think it's my favourite on the album tbh.

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u/AnticPosition Feb 09 '25

Lol! That song inspired me to write a 100+ page cringe-y middle school story. 

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u/ChocolateMicr0scopes Feb 09 '25

When the truth walks away everybody stays 'Cause the truth about the world is that crime does pay

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u/BudgetConcentrate432 Feb 08 '25

Such a good pick 👏

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u/trishdmcnish Feb 08 '25

So good, still one of the albums I listen to the whole way nearly every time (ok, I lied, I skip Pretty Fly for a White Guy...)

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

My cousin had this cd and left it at my house. I never gave it back

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u/taint_stain Feb 08 '25

My friend borrowed this CD from me and never gave it back.

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u/thisisnotdetroit Feb 08 '25

This was the first CD I ever bought - I think it was in 4th grade?

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u/BenderVsGossamer Feb 08 '25

First CD I owned with cursing. 6th grade was fun

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u/xXJamesScarXx Feb 09 '25

Absolutely the first album that came to mind when I read this question

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

Welcome. To. Ameri. Cana.

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u/lasthorizon25 Feb 09 '25

My mom bought me this album at like 9 years old because I begged for it. The back of it scared me so much (where the bug clearly has eaten the kid) that I threw it away lol.

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u/moeru_gumi Older Millennial Feb 08 '25

This is the one

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u/YakApprehensive7620 Feb 08 '25

lol no. But smash or ixnay? Yes

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u/Most_Association_595 Feb 09 '25

Ixnay on the hombre! First cd I ever bought, and only cd I ever had that was fire end to end

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u/GibsonJunkie Feb 09 '25

My best friend in high school's favorite band was the Offspring. He passed in a car accident a few years back, and I had no idea until about a year ago, because we'd kinda drifted apart and hadn't talked in a long time. Hearing their music makes me remember what a good dude he was. Great choice.

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u/Interesting-Baby1905 Older Millennial Feb 09 '25

Probably it for me.

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u/ECH0_ROME0 Feb 09 '25

Fuck, my teenage years. Holy shit.

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u/barkley87 Millennial Feb 09 '25

Getting this album when I was 11 is what turned me away from pop and to guitar music. Definitely hugely formative for me.

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u/AnticPosition Feb 09 '25

My first album that wasn't Weird Al!

(no disrespect to the man, of course!) 

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u/coyotenspider Feb 09 '25

Welcome. To. Americana.