soundtrack to teenage years

do you think you could choose 20 songs that define you as a teenager? those crucial years for any music lover that essentially mold your likes and dislikes as you become an adult? the years that shape the type of person you grow into perhaps?

drastic i know. i've given it a go, and it was rather difficult as my memory utterly sucks balls, but here i feel are 20 songs that have meant a lot to me growing up. and even though i'm trying to avoid being one of those indie playlist pricks who pour so much 'love' and 'heart' into what is essentially a bunch of fucking songs, i can tell you now i have insatiable amounts of joy for these tracks.

in more-or-less chronological order:

limp bizkit - rollin
blink 182 - what's my age again?
nirvana - come as you are
foo fighters - everlong
r.e.m. - the great beyond
queens of the stone age - better living through chemistry
the smashing pumpkins - cherub rock
biffy clyro - 57
brand new - okay i believe you but my tommy gun don't
interpol - evil
coheed and cambria - the crowing
the fall of troy - you got a death wish, johnny truant?
at the drive-in - one armed scissor
alexisonfire - no transitory
a wilhelm scream - the king is dead
refused - shape of punk to come
city and colour - save your scissors
pendulum - slam (ha, yeah, but it opened such a gateway for me)
wu-tang clan - bring da ruckus
cypress hill - insane in the brain

writing this list has inspired me to bust on some brand new. jesse lacey is such a hero. if having willies up my bum was a lifestyle choice, i'd let him have his way with me.


music is great. don't forget it.