Long before I was an eccentric middle-aged hipster, I was an angry teenage weirdo—in honor of the Thanksgiving tradition of revisiting yr. hometown, here is a mix of the music I was listening to at 16-17 . An audio snapshot of the disaffected youth certain he’d never escape the tedium of school or the conformist hell of the ‘burbs… Soak in the awkward rage of a nerdy suburban boy of the late 90’s, at least his musical taste showed promise.
| # | Artist | Track |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nine Inch Nails | Wish (Remixed by J.G. Thirlwell) |
| 2 | Skinny Puppy | Dig It – Mark Walk remix |
| 3 | Atari Teenage Riot | Delete Yourself (You Got No Chance to Win) |
| 4 | Gravity Kills | Drown |
| 5 | Pig | The Sick |
| 6 | Stabbing Westward | Ungod |
| 7 | Front Line Assembly | Millennium |
| 8 | MDFMK | Be Like Me |
| 9 | Snake River Conspiracy | Somebody Hates You |
| 10 | Hate Dept. | Little Let Down |
| 11 | Ministry | So What |
| 12 | Nitzer Ebb | in decline |
| 13 | The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets | Big Robot Dinosaur |
Notes:
These weren't necessarily my favorite songs during high school, but looking back many of these songs were songs that I felt (or wanted to feel) deeply attached to. There was many a between period break where I'd blast "Little Let Down" or "Be Like Me" on my portable CD player before angrily slumping into another uncomfortable school desk. Maybe at another time I'll try to fit myself back into the headspace to figure out my favorite songs from high school and there's definitely a mix to be made about songs/albums/artists that shaped my musical taste, but these are songs that mostly strike to the core of how angry and out of place I felt.
