The Top 15 Music Albums I Was Listening To At 15

Further to yesterday’s blogpost where I listed my top 15 albums of all-time (on the 15th of this month), I thought it would be fun to piggyback on Boppin’s post from yesterday where he listed his top 15 albums he was into at 15. Thanks, Boppin, for the inspiration!

For me, age 15 fell in between 1989 and 1990. During that time I was listening to many of bands I listen to today.

It was around this time in my life where my Mom loosened her standards on what music I bought and listened to. This was likely due to the obvious generation gap between us in age and music tastes. I was growing up and was able to formulate my dissent if she criticized my music. We were also both experiencing our own physical “hormonal shift” that saw us often at each other’s throats  during that time. Puberty and menopause – what an explosive combo! (It’s all good, and we both laugh about it now.)

Unlike my top 15 on the 15th where many of those albums were first owned on a maxell tape, I am happy to say almost all of the below were store-bought on cassette, and some later replaced with a CD.

Without further ado, here it is, my top 15 albums I was listening to when I was 15, in alphabetical order, sorted by artist:

Crowded House – Temple of Low Men (1988)

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The Cure – Standing on a Beach: The Singles (1986)

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Deee-lite – World Clique (1990)

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Depeche Mode – Violator (1990)

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Fine Young Cannibals – the Raw and the Cooked (1988)

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The Grapes of Wrath – Now and Again (1989)

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INXS – Listen Like Thieves (1985)

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Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)

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Led Zeppelin – IV (1971)

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Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust (1987)

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Peter Murphy – Deep (1989)

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New Order – Technique (1989)

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The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs (1987)

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U2 – War (1983)

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Yaz  – Upstairs at Eric’s (1982)

What top 15 albums would your fifteen-year-old self’s list have on it?