Anyone who has spent time on Facebook this week may have noticed a little game currently sweeping the statuses of all your friends. The premise is simple: share ten albums that meant the most to you during your high school years.
Naturally, this can lead to either embarrassment in your formative teenage tastes or reaffirm the fact that you were the coolest alternative kid your graduating class had to offer. We thought it only fair that our staff join in on the fun, and it's clear that we have a little of both happening, sometimes both within the same list.
So here they are, answered truthfully and without shame, our editorial team's most important high school albums.
Aaron Howes
Akala--It’s Not a Rumour Arcade Fire--Funeral Eminem--The Eminem Show Frank Ocean--Nostalgia, Ultra. Jay Z & Linkin Park--Collision Course Kano--Home Sweet Home Kanye West--The College Dropout Nas & Damian Marley--Distant Relatives Nirvana--MTV Unplugged in New York Nirvana--Nevermind
Alec Leach
Cult of Luna--Somewhere Along the Highway Explosions in the Sky--Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place Jay Z and Linkin Park--Collision Course Lostprophets--Fake Sound of Progress Muse--Origin of Symmetry Nirvana--Nevermind Papa Roach--Infest Thursday--Full Collapse Thursday--War All the Time Unearth--The Oncoming Storm
Aleks Eror
Bad Brains--Bad Brains Cock Sparrer--Shock Troops Discharge--Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing Jedi Mind Tricks--Violent by Design Jerry's Kids--Is This My World? SS Decontrol--The Kids Will Have Their Say The Streets--A Grand Don't Come For Free Tragedy--Nerve Damage Tragedy--Tragedy Wolfbrigade--Progression/Regression
Brock Cardiner
Frank Zappa--Joe's Garage Kanye West--Graduation Modest Mouse--Good News for People Who Love Bad News N.W.A--Straight Outta Compton Nine Inch Nails--The Downward Spiral Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon Radiohead--In Rainbows Red Hot Chili Peppers--Blood Sugar Sex Magik Three 6 Mafia--Most Known Unknown Tool--Lateralus
Chris Danforth
Eminem--The Marshall Mathers LP Kanye West--Graduation Leftover Crack--Leftover Crack Lupe Fiasco--The Cool Nirvana--Nevermind Operation Ivy--Energy Pharrell Williams--In My Mind The Specials--The Specials Wu-Tang Clan--Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Young Jeezy--Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101
Graeme Campbell
Arcade Fire--Funeral Arcade Fire--The Suburbs Elliott Smith--Figure 8 Interpol--Antics Interpol--Turn on the Bright Lights My Bloody Valentine--Loveless The Strokes--Is This It The Strokes--Room on Fire Sufjan Stevens--Illinois TV on the Radio--Return to Cookie Mountain
Jack Drummond
Bob Dylan--Blood on the Tracks Death from Above 1979--You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine Franz Ferdinand--Franz Ferdinand Jimi Hendrix--Voodoo Child, The Jimi Hendrix Collection Kings of Leon--Youth and Young Manhood The Libertines--Up the Bracket Queens of the Stone Age--Songs for the Deaf Radiohead--Hail to the Thief The Smiths--The Very Best of the Smiths The Strokes--Room on Fire
Jake Boyer
Arcade Fire--The Suburbs The B-52's--Whammy! Best Coast--Crazy For You Crystal Castles--Crystal Castles David Bowie--Let's Dance Fleetwood Mac--Rumours Kanye West--My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Lady Gaga--The Fame Monster Talking Heads--Remain in Light Yeah Yeah Yeahs--It's Blitz!
Jeff Carvalho
Blur--Leisure Bold--Looking Back Fugazi--Repeater + 3 Songs The Mighty Mighty Bosstones--Devil's Night Out Nirvana--Bleach Pixies--Dolittle Operation Ivy--Energy R.E.M--Document The Specials--The Singles Collection U2--Achtung Baby
Maddie Holden
2Pac--Greatest Hits 50 Cent--Get Rich or Die Tryin' The Black Eyed Peas--Elephunk Bone Thugs-N-Harmony--The Collection Counting Crows--August and Everything After David Bowie--Tonight Dr. Dre--2001 The Game--The Documentary Ja Rule--Rule 3:36 Nate Dogg--Music & Me
Marta Sundac
Alicia Keys--Songs in A Minor At the Drive-In--Relationship of Command Erykah Badu--Worldwide Underground Interpol--Turn on the Bright Lights The Mars Volta--De-Loused in the Comatorium Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon PJ Harvey--Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea The Strokes--Is This It The Verve--Urban Hymns Yeah Yeah Yeahs--Fever to Tell
Nico Amarca
Crystal Castles--Crystal Castles Evanescence--Fallen Gorillaz--Demon Days Justice--Cross The Knife--Silent Shout M.I.A.--Kala My Bloody Valentine--Loveless Rob Zombie--The Sinister Urge Santigold--Santogold The Sisters of Mercy--First and Last and Always
Sanzhar Toxanbayev
Dizzie Gillespie & Lalo Schifrin--Free Ride DMX--Grand Champ Ghostface Killah--The Wallabee Champ Lil Wayne--Tha Carter IV Limp Bizkit--Significant Other N.W.A--Straight Outta Compton Nirvana--MTV Unplugged in New York Ноггано--Первый (Noggano--Perviy) Триагрутрика--Вечерний Челябинск (Triagrutrika--Vecherniy Chelyabinsk) Wu-Tang Clan--Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Thomas Jamison
2 Many DJs--As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 2 Blink 182--Enema Of The State David Bowie--The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Gatecrasher Classics--Vol 1 Marilyn Manson--Last Tour On Earth Metallica--The Black Album Offsping--Americana Placebo--Placebo Placebo--Without You I’m Nothing Queens of the Stone Age--Songs For the Deaf
Thomas Welch
50 Cent--Get Rich or Die Tryin' Dr Dre--2001 Eccentric Soul--Prix Label (NUM015) J Dilla--Donuts Little Brother--The Listening Marvin Gaye--What's Going On Metallica--Master of Puppets MF DOOM--Operation: Doomsday Puff Daddy & The Family--No Way Out Usher--Confessions
For more of our staff lists, take a look at our favorite songs of 2016.
