Seriously though, lemme show my youth. In 87' or 88' pa and I left radio shack with a magical new device called a CD player. The plan was to hook it up the tuner and speakers already in the living room.
We stopped at local record store (rolling stones), place seemed gigantic at that age. Only problem was they had one little rack of cds, the whole place was still mainly cassette business at that time.
So with the help of dad we picked out 3 albums. Dad picked up the White Album as he claimed for the 4th or 5th time in his life. I immediately picked a little album called Appetite for Destruction by Guns n Roses, knowing completely nothing about the band, I was a kid, I just like the picture on the cover. Who would of known I'd still have a man crush on slash to this day. The third album was another guess, they had lots of them was our whole reasoning for choosing it, it was an album called Joshua Tree by a band from across the pond called U2. Man did those two cds put on some mileage.
First concert just brings me back to my youth. Chicago's 90s punk scene, far from the pansies that make up the genre these days. Riding the skateboards to the L, heading to the Fireside on Fullerton and California. Literally gang war zone at the time, to see $3 shows by bands like the black flag, the descendants, and 88 fingers Louie. It wasn't so much the music but it was more about the message. Most were far from talented musicians, merely just garage bands.
