It’s in the teens that it normally happens: we develop spots, we hate our parents, we try to fit in by being special and unique and, among all the other things, some of us shape and form a love and passion for music.

Being born in 1978, I hit the teens and this era at the beginning of the 90’s.

I think most of us have a few albums we like to call “my” album. Since last year I decided to let go of my analog music collection (I gave away roughly 400 CDs to Marcus Burman), and maintain only a digital music library, I actually don’t have any albums I theoretically can call “my” album, but I mean “my” as in personal and spiritual terms, not as in “ownership” or “written by”.

Here below I have pasted together a montage of my first albums. Not my absolute favorite albums - my first. These are the ones that made me passionate about music… the ones that made me sit in my room playing guitar 6 hours straight. The albums I sometimes call “my” albums even if I don’t get any royalties.

In alphabetical order (by artist):

  1. Against the Grain, by Bad Religion
  2. Danzig II: Lucifuge, by Danzig
  3. Spectral Sorrows, by Edge of Sanity
  4. Angel Dust, by Faith No More
  5. Kerplunk!, by Green Day
  6. Use Your Illusion 1, by Guns n Roses
  7. Keeper of the Seven Keys part 2, by Helloween
  8. Fear of the Dark, by Iron Maiden
  9. Countdown to Extinction, by Megadeth
  10. Mental Hippie Blood, by Mental Hippie Blood
  11. Metallica, by Metallica
  12. Nevermind, by Nirvana
  13. Daily Grind, by No Use for a Name
  14. White Trash Two Heebs and a Bean, by NOFX
  15. Ten, by Pearl Jam
  16. Smash, by Offspring
  17. How to Clean Everything, by Propagandhi
  18. Rage Against the Machine, by Rage Against the Machine
  19. No Carrots for the Rehabilitated, by Randy
  20. Art of Rebellion, by Suicidal Tendencies

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