Heavily inspired by what my parents put on throughout my childhood! if you can't tell i love the 90s. I would strongly recommend listening to these no matter how old you are 🎧
Everything about this album is beautiful: it's soft, spunky, wistful, melancholy, & hopeful all at once.
The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
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Fiona Apple is lyricism on steroids. Her music is scathing and clever and offbeat and i could listen to it forever. Thank u mom for introducing me to this one
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
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This is required listening. Female rage at its finest. Another banger from my mom
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
U can take the girl out of the rave but u can never take the rave out of the girl
Snow Strippers - The Snow Strippers
Possibly my favorite album of all time. A masterpiece and it sounds so much better on vinyl. Also perfect for being emo and angsty in ur room
Deftones - Around the Fur
God bless Phoebe Bridgers & this album for carrying me through the worst of the worst
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Shoutout to Catholic school survivors this one really hits. Haunting and experimental and gritty. Listen to the album and then read the ethel cain lore and then listen to it again.
Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
Tidal is complex and DEVASTATING and she wrote this when she was between 14 and 17 which is mind-blowing. Her voice & the piano is beautiful. Had to include another Fiona Apple album in here bc she's a lyrical genius.
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Genuinely no skips. This album single-handedly got me into shoegaze and every time I re-listen I feel like it puts me under a spell
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Oh this album is just so tender and vulnerable and perfect if you are a D1 yearner like me
Adrianne Lenker - songs and instrumentals
My actual queen. This album is so fire so chill & her lyrics are clever af too
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Goo Goo Dolls have really good songs besides Iris definitely give this one a listen. Not in this album but I love Big Machine
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy up the Girl
Ok dont just listen to the Tiktok famous ones. This whole album is really good I feel like im floating when I listen—very ethereal and unique.
Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
A masterpiece to say the least. This album makes me want to slow down and breathe. It's very nostalgic
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Another 90s staple. Ofc I love Linger and Dreams but the others are also so beautifully sung and crafted
The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It
Top Beatles album imo. Super funky and fun. Thanks dad
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
I got into Japanese Breakfast after reading Crying in H-Mart. This album is sonically so quirky and experimental but the lyrics are heartbreaking (about her mom). Listen if you like indie and want to expand ur taste
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Gorgeous folk-acoustic album. I think it balances heartfelt/sad/angsty perfectly
The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2
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There r a billion songs in this album & I don't love all of them but overall still an excellent assortment. I want a 1979 tattoo
