So what albums take you back to your earlier years and give you goosebumps, either due to how much you love the music or because of the memories that come flooding back?

Don't be embarrassed, let's hear them. I spent the first 10 years of my life in the 90s, so most of my nostalgia comes from the early 2000s when I was transitioning from primary to high school. Mine are (in no particular order):

1. Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001)
2. System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)
3. P.O.D - Satellite (2001)
4. Seether - Disclaimer II (2002)
5. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)

If you need help remembering, try The Nostalgia Machine: http://thenostalgiamachine.com/

John Mayall with Eric Clapton [the Beano Album]
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Low Spark Of The High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Gravy Train - Gravy Train
My Generation - The Who
I guess that the above titles give my age away somewhat ??
add Hendrix's - Axis, Bold As Love - brilliant

Hmmmm... I think of individual songs this way rather than albums but....

Joan Armartrading - Joan Armatrading
The Clash - London Calling
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Television - Television
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!

Led Zeppelin II
Van Halen I & II
The Orb - UForb
A lot of John Williams Soundtracks
A bunch of other stuff

Off the top of my head I can't actually think of individual albums I listened to a lot.

Motorhead - no sleep til hammersmit
Kiss Alive (1)
Van Halen - (first album)
Scorpions - Animal magnetism
LEd Zep 2

Pink FLoyd - Dark side
Black Sabbath - Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Doors -
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden with big paul

I could go on....5 aint enough

Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Sepultura - Arise
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

Um, yeah.... Metal. 8)

Laurie anderson - Home of the brave
Lou Reed - Transformer
GNR - Appetite
Zepplin - Presence
Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Rolling Stones Aftermath

Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow

Moby Grape #1

Country Joe and the Fish Electric Music for the Mind and Body

Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced?

I don't listen to then anymore cause I murdered them but here they were:

Couldn't Stand the Weather - SRV
Harvest - Neil Young
Beatles White
Handful of Beauty - Shakti
Celtic Heart - Variety of performers

Whenever I hear these, I immediately think of times gone past:

Green Day - Dookie
First CD my brother bought on this new fangled "compact disc" technology. 1994, I was still in Primary school and it was the first time we got a hifi with a CD player. Still probably my favourite album of all time.

Led Zeppelin - I
First time I heard Led Zeppelin, from an album my dad bought in the US. Also 1994 I believe, maybe slightly after.

Blameless - The Signs Are All There
My first CD.

Queen - Greatest Hits I and II collection
First album my parents bought me.

Johannes Kerkorrel - Eet Kreef
It was on a tape we used to listen to it whenever we go down to the coast from Pretoria.

In no particular order:

Offspring - Smash
Blink182 - Dude Ranch
Live - Throwing Copper
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Greenday - Dookie

dee wrote: Blameless - The Signs Are All There
My first CD.

:yup:

Oasis - Definitely Maybe
A - HiFi Serious
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
Ash - 1977

This list could be soooooo much longer

I was a bit of a Glamrock fan, so bought lot's of Slade and T.Rex singles in the early part of the 70's

The first 3 albums I bought. I wouldn't say these gave me goosebumps, but they do kind of remind me of my life in the mid 70's

Wings - Band on the Run ( R3.99 at Dions at the Flora Centre Florida)
David Bowie - Pinups
Slade - Old New Borrowed and Blue

The Goosebump albums

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin II
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail

Giggsy wrote: This list could be soooooo much longer

+1

Supertramp - Crime of the century
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bad Company - Bad Company
Boston - debut album
Kansas - Leftoverture

timeless stuff, brings back great memories.

but then again, there's a bunch of others, like Santana's Marathon album and Toto's Hydra, and of course there will be Zeppelin & Queen and .................

So Squonk and I both have guitar forum nicks influenced by early nostalgia albums ...

Metallica - Master of puppets
Dream Theater - Images & words
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Warrant - Cherry Pie
Whitesnake - Slip of the tongue


As Giggsy mentioned, this list could go on forever...