This was my favorite album throughout all of middle school and i still love it over a decade later, although I canāt really discern if itās the nostalgia or if itās really that good. This band was also my favorite until they disbanded at some point in the late 2010s, likely due to a lack of fan support and general popularity. I saw them open for Coldplay on their mylo xyloto tour, which was my first concert ever, and was hooked immediately.
Midnight dancers is still one of my favorite songs ever written, and I want it played at my wedding.
Important edit: this was when OFWGKTA was really big and I vividly remember being so frustrated because it was even harder to find stuff related to these guys because any searches with āwolf gangā were related to Tyler lol
Dec 11, 2024
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perfect contained burst of early 2000s indie pop. was my favorite burned CD in high school and I still feel transported and moved when I listen to it in my car even tho it skips a bunch now
Mar 9, 2024
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wolf by tyler, the creator: if you asked me to pick just one album, it would be this. i was obsessed with everything odd future throughout high school but this album in particular was so special to me. i still remember watching the countdown to the domo 23 video premiere on my little iphone 4
d.a.i.s.y. rage by kitty: technically not an album but must be mentioned. according to my itunes i listened to every song on this mixtape genuinely 800-1000 times in ninth grade alone. kitty was ahead of her time and overhated imo. the song about getting anxiety rashes? she got me. still does!!
art angels by grimes: i used to regularly hit the post limit on tumblr
May 27, 2024
I was blessed to come of age at a time in which both physical media and streaming were prevalent. One of my friends/neighbors got sent away to a boarding school run by monks in alaska and gave me his crate of CDās for safekeeping. this led to a lot of classic hipster /mu albums like in the aeroplane over the sea, oracular spectacular, hospice, gorillaz/demon days/plastic beach (i got rise of the ogre from the library and asked my mom what cunt meant bc it was in the book), the suburbs, the reminder, and bands like TMBG, james blake, eels, sleighbells, etc. I also was one of the only people in my school who loved lana del ray, even after her SNL performance. I had a good friend who i bonded with over born to die and after her death, i further deepened my relationship with lanaās music. She also really liked WHY? and alopecia was a big grief album for me.
I also listened to a lot of rap like the first odd future album, XXX, down from the 36 chambers, ex military (found takyon on youtube and it changed something in me) and most of all good kid MAAD city which i had on CD and blasted in the minivan on the drive to school daily.
The most cringe aspects were my deep love of ska punk and folk punk like defiance ohio, AJJ, reel big fish, but especially streetlight manifesto, who I quoted in my senior yearbook. I donāt listen to ska anymore so thatās why I consider it cringe, itās so far from who I am now, but if i hear a streetlight song iāll still know all the words.
Mix CDās also had a huge impact on my music taste. The cool older hipster kids (these are all people who were unimaginably tumblr famous, especially being from a small town) who got together and created the Royal Mixtape Society. It only happened once, but we all created a mix CD and got a copy of everyone elseās in return. This lead to a lot of incredible discoveries, most of all the āButtsā mixtape which has been the soundtrack to core memories of me and my best friends.
May 26, 2025
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either your hair being a bit gross, your outfit not being a fit, some fugly comfy shoes, thereās something strangely empowering in it
Jun 20, 2024
I took it in a canon rebel g that I was lucky enough to find at an estate sale for about $20 and itās by far my favorite pic Iāve ever taken! I think the film is like fujifilm ISO 400 or something idk but I love the colors it brings out
Sep 21, 2024
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In a group chat going two years strong with some of my closest friends because we all ālike trainsā
May 15, 2025