Top 10 when you were 10

[Wombi]

Thought of this whilst listening to the last album I was listening to (see thread). What approximately would have been your 10 Best Ever Albums when you were 10 (or around that 9-11 age period)?

Mine (asterisk's next to albums I'd still happily listen to )

1. The Red Album - The Beatles
2. Astro Lounge - Smash Mouth*
3. Spice - Spice Girls
4. Americana - The Offspring
5. Greatest Hits - The Police
6. The Blue Album - The Beatles
7. Nonsuch - XTC * (So glad my Dad got me into these guys from such a young age)
8. Spice World - Spice Girls*
9. Us - Peter Gabriel* (Again Dads music)
10. Aquarium - AQUA

Also special mention to the song "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust, as I still have the CD single (why didn't they ever do an album? ) I bought back in the day it came out and surprisingly (considering I played the shit outta that thing every day for about two years) it still works. I weould still reccomend that song to anybody and everybody today.


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[alelsupreme]

Not when I was 1 but around 12, the first top 100 album list I ever did:


1:The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground
2:Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
3:Below the heavens - Blu & Exile
4:Dare! - The Human League
5:Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17
6:Neu 75 - Neu
7:Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
8:Nevermind - Nirvana
9:Replicas - Gary Numan
10:Thriller - Michael Jackson

Dare has gone down, heaven 17's gone up. Below The Heavens is gone and nevermind has gone up. Replicas and thriller have gone down.

[videoheadcleaner]

10 eh? 1995. Hmmm...

Martin/Molloy - The Brown Album ~ Comedy compilation of a radio show I listened to.
Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds, The: The Musical ~ My mother's influence. Scared the crap out of me at 8.
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? ~ My 13 year old (at the time) brother's influence.
U2 - Zooropa ~ Mum again; she loved Bono.
Seal - Seal (1991) ~ Yeah, mum again.
Genesis - Invisible Touch ~ I remember hearing this in the car a lot.
Spandau Ballet - True ~ Cassette tape that I listened to a fair bit.
Crowded House - Recurring Dream (best of) ~ Still one of my favourite compilations.
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair ~ Remember hearing the singles from this a lot when I was younger.
John Farnham - Chain Reaction ~ Dad's influence. Thrashed this when the "new car" had a CD player.

I'm sure there was Hit Machine and 100% Hits compilations as well but can't remember the numbers.

I also thought of this; even though I was about 11, it is close enough.


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[Norman Bates]

Probably the 10 most played songs on French radio. That and Thriller.

[Jimmy Dread]

Great topic! I was 10 on NYE 1986, so hence majority of selection is from 86/87. The first 6 were purely and simply down to my own personal taste (mainly based on the pop video - Blue Monday is still my all-time favourite track, hence apperence of rather 'grown-up' double cassette compilation which I was bought for Xmas. Also accounts for over-fascination with Go West, cf "We Close Our Eyes"), and the next 3 were compilations which I found in my Xmas stocking and kept me occupied until my parents were ready to get out of bed. Mum and Dad never really had much to do with framing my musical tastes (until I discovered ska via my Mum at 18), so the last entry is in homage to many a journey to school in the car...

GO WEST - S/T
GO WEST - Bangs & Crashes
PET SHOP BOYS - Please
PET SHOP BOYS - Actually
TOP GUN - OST
NEW ORDER - Substance 1987
VARIOUS - Greatest Hits of 1985 (featured Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" - still adore it)
VARIOUS - The Hits Tape (which featured Adam Ant's "Apollo 9" - god I loved that track!)
VARIOUS - Now 8 (I seem to remember the tapes had a slightly yellow tinge, like they'd been left out in full glare of the sun with cigarettes resting on them)
ELO - A New World Record (Telephone Line is my Ma's favorite tune)

Of course I could have said that I was listening to Husker Du, Jesus & Mary Chain and the Smiths if I'd wanted to. But that would be missing the point (although the Smiths came a mere 4 years later) - I look at music as representative of who you were at the time. And at 10, I was a rather confused child with a fascination for homo-erotic pop-synth duos.

[Applerill]

Man, that'd be difficult. Instead of having it be when I was ten, though (that'd be WAYY too embarrassing!), I'm just gonna post my favorite albums when I was 13. Much safer.

1. Vanessa Carlton-Be Not Nobody
2. Avril Lavigne-Under my Skin
3. Styx-Greatest Hits
4. Kelly Clarkson-Breakaway
5. Pink Floyd-The Wall
6. Evanescence-Fallen
7.Nobuo Uematsu-The Black Mages
8. Weird Al-Running With Scissors
9. Miley Cyrus-Hannah Montana 2!
10. Rush-2112

[19loveless91]

I don't think I was really listening to albums when I was 10. I do think that I discovered Beatles by that time, but only "One" (I think that Blue and Red albums came a bit later).. Then I guess by that time Siddharta (a popular Slovenian rock group) already released their first two albums, so I think ID and Nord (by that band) would be on my Top 10. Other than that I just don't know. About a year later, it would get more "interesting", as I started listening to RHCP (By the Way and BSSM were and still are my favourites), and I think I spent quite a lot of time listening to Use Your Illusion albums by GnR. First two Coldplay albums too...

But that would pretty much be it... I think I was at least 13 when I started to listen to the vinyls we have at home, so stuff like U2's early albums, classic albums by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, classic ex-yugoslavian rock (etc.) was not yet introduced to me, at least not in the form of albums (I probably knew certain songs as my dad would listen to that).

[mooseboy101]