First I’ll be bringing Yello One Second because I was and still am obsessed with this album. Released in 1987 as one of the early renditions of electronic music the sound they bring for each track is still to this day unique, feeling both modern and retro at the same time.
Playing old PC games at the time my parents didnt want audio files clogging up the space so I had to add my own music to games like Plane Crazy causing this album and that game to be intrinsically linked in my head. My favourite track is Le Secret Farida due to it sounding extremely similar to music in Soul Reaver.
Next I’m bringing Filter - Title Of Record. Released in 1999 this album bleeds 2000s energy. I was obsessed with it as a kid mostly because it was the heaviest thing I had heard at the time. Relistening I find most of the album to be rather samey and enjoyment largely comes from nostalgia but Captain Bligh is still a solid track.
Finally I am bringing Evanescence Fallen cos listening to bring me to life on loop until my parents want to snap the disk in half is mandatory 2000s MTV antics. I’m not sure what about this song and the video made it so magnetic but I would sprint to the TV the second I heard it start playing, eyes glued open until it finished every… single… time.
Golira
Gojira
Ed Rush & Optical - Wormhole Stereolab - Dots And Loops Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right to Children
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Radiohead - Kid A
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Un Air, Deux Familles
The Postal Service - Give Up
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Classico
Only one valid answer. Crazy thing is, the album has gotten better with age. Not a single bad song on it.
For this hypothetical:
Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre
Selected Ambient Works 85–92 - Aphex Twin
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Suede - Suede
White Feathers - Kajagoogoo
Placebo - Placebo
At the time, my CDs were Linkin Park Hybrid Theory, Ozzy Osborne Blizzard of Oz, Queen Greatest Hits, and Michael Jackson Number Ones.
Of those now I think I would keep HT and BoO, but I’m not sure what else I’d put on there… maybe Def Tones White Pony, and the ost from the film Heavy Metal 1981
In 2001 I had a few albums on rotation: Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler, System of A Down - Toxicity, Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, Gorillaz - S/T
I listened to Coheed & Cambria - in keeping secrets of a silent earth III til it broke
I would have brought Dream Theater, Metropolis part 2.
And In Absentia by Porcupine Tree.
Maybe some Opeth.
The Prodigy as well.
Goated picks but octavarium is the undisputed top album.
Arriving somewhere but not here is my top porcupine song
Both amazing, but I went with the assignment on the timing of the pick.
Same fav PT song btw. Or its one of them. I really really love Time Flies as well and The Sound of Musaz. I’m a huge Steven Wilson fan as well.
For DT my fav album is probably Images and words.
For Opeth the most amazing songs are Drapery Falls, Coil, In My Time of Need, Blackwater park, Windowpane.
Wisconsin Death Trip by Static-X
I was very much still religious at this time, and that was the only kind of music my parents would enjoy with me - so likely stuff like Relient K, Anberlin, Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static… you get the idea. Not the best period of my life, but I do still have a soft spot for bands like subseven or eleventyseven or RED. Maybe there are some other formerly-sheltered adults in here who see some nostalgia in this. Also definitely seconding Evanescence for if I’ve got headphones going instead in the backseat of this hypothetical car ride. Editing to add a few more things now that I’m thinking on it. Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Hoobastank, My Chemical Romance… Maybe a little too early for Paramore. Maybe this was actually a good era after all!
100% I also still like Red. Also listened to a lot of Emery, House of Heroes, and Flyleaf too. Children 18:3 and Project 86 too but those are some deeper cuts. I frequented Jesus Freak Hideout for new music because I felt horribly guilty for a while if I regularly listened to stuff that wasn’t Christian or like. Disney music lol. Shout out to the many friends I brought to concerts that had to sit through impromptu altar calls
Project 86 was good stuff - everything else too honestly! Nice callouts, haha. Only one there I don’t recognize is Children 18:3. My first concert ever was TFK at a theme park in Oklahoma, and my second one was Six Flags in Dallas for Skillet and Pillar. But the best concert to this day I ever went to was at a tiny church in Madill, Oklahoma where like 150 people rocked out to Red, Disciple, Grand Prize, and Storyside B.
I’m a little older, so it would have been cassettes in the 90s. If I got my pick, it would be Superunknown and Badmotorfinger from Soundgarden and Dirt from Alice in Chains. Grunge music was my jam back then. My mom was really into R&B and Pop music, and I developed an appreciation for it - I still think Seal’s second album is pretty good and listenable, and would have been down for that during the car ride.
Completely forgot about Seal, my mum was also a big fan so it was on for many car journeys including basically all 80s pop music.
What can I say, I’m a sucker for Trevor Horn’s wall of sound production style. Interestingly, I’ve always gotten the impression that Seal felt a bit artistically disconnected from his 90’s albums because of that.
Assuming I’m probably under 16 in this scenario, which in the case of my parents would mean they probably wouldn’t deem me mature enough to own any explicit albums, so sadly I’d have to throw away my hopes of putting on Gorillaz or Nirvana or The Prodigy and settle for Daft Punk’s Discovery (not too bad of an outcome, at least)
Dieselboy - The Dungeonmaster’s Guide
“Prepare yourself for the world of Advanced D&B”
Relistening I find most of the album to be rather samey and enjoyment largely comes from nostalgia but Captain Bligh is still a solid track.
The first Filter album was way better even though it has an unfortunate ableist reference as its title.
