The year is 2001, what CD are you playing on your Walkman?

Probably Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

Yes. The geep!
🎶 Graaaaviity..... Oooooh never let.....me down 🎶

The Walkman was the cassette player. Weren't the CD players called the Discman?

Now I'm sad that I'd lost my Walkman more than a decade before that, in or around 1990. The Discman sounded better, but was worse on batteries and skipped if you looked at it funny.

It says walkman right there on the device.
I had a CD player with Walkman branding on it back in the early 2000s
- Looks like I'm just old.
  Sony used the Discman branding in the mid 90s and went back to Walkman in the late 90s and early 2000s.
  For me, Walkman meant tape or cassette, but again, I'm old. Old enough to have been listening to Depeche Mode on tape on my Walkman.
- I have, and have had for almost ten years, a Walkman-branded music player which plays, among other formats, FLAC.
- 2001 weren't we all using mp3 players?
  I know I was. It was really big and could hardly fit anything.
They kept the walkman branding
First ones were branded "Discman" for some reason before Sony went back to using the "Walkman" name.
I find it weird since all of the other portable stuff before and after like MD, DAT, MP3, and the newer hi-res players were released under the "Walkman" name

Linkin park hybrid theory naturally.

And holding the cd player slightly in the air in the car/bus because the skip protection only goes so far and this track is 🔥

System of a Down’s album Toxicity. Prison Song’s opening note is basically what defines the experience.

I have a salty memory about buying that album. I grabbed it based solely on the first album, which I fucking LOVED. I went to the record store in my town to buy it, and I was so stoked to get home and listen to it all the way through without ever hearing a single thing from the album. I walk up to the counter to buy it on day one, and the guy behind the counter is like, "sick album," or whatever. Then, instead of ringing me up, he turns and changes the track on the store's sound system. It plays the opening thrums of Prison Song, and even though I hadn't heard the album yet, I knew moments into the track what he'd done. I was devastated. I was so ready to have a religious experience with the album, only to have some shithead ruin the first track for me. I mean, I really can't blame him, it's not like there is some rule against what he did. He probably thought he was showing solidarity with another fan, but he crushed me. Still love that album, though. Steal This Album is criminally underrated, too.
The album that got me into SOAD.

Hate to admit it but Creed

I never could tell if it was religious music, I've always suspected it was, but the few albums they made, especially their first, were awesome imo. Don't be shamed for taste.
Same but also Eminem. First CD I bought was Marshall Mather's LP with money stolen from my dad's wallet.
And they are touring again, I hear. I just hope they make it to the UK.
Dude, same

Massive Attack’s album Mezzanine, played that on repeat for a long time

Ooh, that's a good one.
This was a great era for electronica: we had this, Prodigy's Fat of the Land, Crystal Method's Vegas and Weekend, FatBoy Slim's You've Come A Long Way Baby, just about everything from Chemical Brothers.
I think I went broke buying music in the 1990s.
- I had Liam Howlett’s mixtape, Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1, in constant rotation for a quite a while there

NIN the downward spiral

Great album but that was 1997 for me.
- Well yeah, but also 2001

Radiohead - Kid A

Probably Ok Computer, that album just blew me away. Or Kid A if that was out.

Kid A was already out by then, I’m pretty sure Amnesiac dropped in ‘01

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

My first CD. Glad I picked it over Pearl Jam Ten
- I remember when No 4 came out me and my buddy made a special trip to the Hastings to buy copies. Good times.

Something I custom burned myself. Either a mix of ska/punk or an abridged version of The Fragile.

Metallica - S&M

Life-changing album for me and still a top 5. First non-country album I ever bought. I heard my cousin blasting No Leaf Clover and it literally pulled me out of bed. What is that amazing sound!?

This is a slept on album. Good choice
I stopped listening to metal in my late teens. But I came back to this album this week and it is really fantastic. Good shit. I used to fall asleep to it in my early teens.
- It's hard to imagine a bigger wall of sound than Metallica and an entire fucking orchestra. I would have loved to have been in that room.

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavoured Water

whilst shaking it up and down showing my friends how it doesn't skip.

Skipping. Damn how annoying that was!

Dookie

Still perhaps my favorite album. I wasn't quite cool enough in 2001 to listen to it though. I learned about Green Day mainly from American Idiot, then went back to find their older stuff.
If it weren't for them "selling out" then I wouldn't have heard of them, living in my nowhere town. Maybe I wouldn't have heard their subversive ideas. I might have just listened to country.
Maybe Green Day had a part in making me who I am

Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby / Better Living Through Chemistry

Right about now
- The funk soul brotha check it out now

Weird Al - Running with scissors

Linkin Park and Papa Roach probably.

Daft Punk - Discovery

Disturbed or System of a Down

Eiffel 65 - Blue or Weird Al

Sum 41 - all killer no filler. That album still slaps

I had a Walkman that played MP3s. I recall it being a pearly blue color. Listened to a lot of different yet similar stuff. Mostly metal, alt, punk, and classic rock.

My burnt cd of " Cool Music" I downloaded off LimeWire.

Moby-Play

Probably 10,000 Hz Legend (Air, the French band) but I never listened to it as much as Moon Safari.

Also Mutations and/or Midnite Vultures (Beck).

And I had an actual Sony Discman in those days too. I remember that it worked better than the player in a friend's car that skipped all the time.

Deftones - White Pony

311 Soundsystem and a lot of trance.

Lots of 311 on the discman (with cassette adapter) on our road trips to Salem, Illinois for roller hockey league nights with the boys.
Hell yeah Astral Projection

Beastie boys - Ill communication

One of my many mp3 mix cds of course.

Oh man I forgot all about that. My portable CD player could play mp3 so I ripped all my albums onto like 8 burnable CDs.

P.O.D. ughh

I just wanted something I was allowed to listen to that people had actually heard of

We are we are
- The youth of the na-a-tion
- The youth of the- you cut that right out now!

Ooh, all of them :)

I had an off-brand MP3 CD player that would fit my entire music collection and would read CD-RW's.

It earned the nickname "Lazaraus" because it died and somehow started working again after multiple drops, spills, and other accidents.

But mostly Pearl Jam and Nirvana lol.

I had burned cds with different songs, a lot of pearl jam and nirvana, more tool though. Older stuff too like pink floyd, led zep, bowie, etc. Carried around about a dozen.
- I could never mix old and new like that. Always had to be separate experiences / CDs.
  Nowadays, I just put my entire collection on shuffle. I've come so far.

Can I get a piracy playlist? Where Napster at?

I bought almost every CD mentioned but own none of them now.

Incubus - Fungus Amongus
Alice in Chains MTV Acoustic Album
Metallica, Nirvana, Van Halen, Scorpions
Disturbed, System of a Down, SlipNOT, Korn
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Clapton, etc. too

Ha ha ha I didn't have a walkman, I had an Mp3 player that could fit 15 songs at a time and they were all random stuff I'd downloaded off Napster.

I remember my 64 MB mp3 player, i think it even had an expansion slot that you could put an SD card into.
I remember the day I learned about compression and making the same songs lower bit rate, I went from 30 songs to 100+... I was so excited, turned on the player and had to turn the volume all the way up to hear anything, and what I heard could have been music, or it could've been gravel being laid onto pavement.

Slipknot - Slipknot or maybe Papa Roach - Papa Roach.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane

The Offspring - Conspiracy of One

Club Cutz. It's a music cd with various dance hits, from 1995. I used to be obsessed with it.

Kool & The Gang

Blue - Third Eye Blind

I’m still listening to So Much For the Afterglow and Savage Garden on cassette tape, cause I can’t afford CDs.

I'd rip them to tape and use my real walkman because anti-shock sucks

For real though. Getting a portable CD player was such a disappointment. We just went back to tape even once MP3 players became popular. Mixtapes with custom cover art.

If we're talking about the music I had in 2001, probably something like Audio Adrenaline or The Beatles' Lonely Hearts Club Band. Christian music and a small selection of classic rock was all my parents let me listen to at the time.

If we're basing it on current tastes though, probably something like My Bloody Valentine's Loveless or Orange Goblin's Time Travelling Blues.

I had a similar upbringing, and still love My Bloody Valentine like the day I first heard them in college. More, really. I was a little disappointed to find that my new favorite genre shoegaze really just boiled down to MBV for me though haha
+1 for Audio A.

Lateralus by Tool

Are you me? This album was, and still is, my favourite album of all time. It played non-stop on my discman for a year, and I felt like it was just as important to me as oxygen.
- I still listen to Disposition/Reflection fairly regularly. Those two songs still hit me pretty hard (in a good way).

I was into mudvayne at that time, I think.

Still am, but I used to, too.
"World So Cold" was always playing on the radio when something cool was happening.
It'll randomly come up on shuffle and I still perk up expecting something exciting lol.
They had the one hit they played everywhere, I forget the name of it but I can see the music video in my head. It was on Fuse? a lot.

Mogwai, Boards of Canada, the Delgados, Blonde Redhead.

BoC for life

I was mostly listening to the CD player in my car by that point, but probably some Ben Folds Five.

I mained these two albums all the time. But I didn't have a walkman, probably a Philips generic equivalent without skip-protection.

Also with the god awful on-ear headphones that always would pull your hair out when you removed them.
- Oh no, the flashbacks! Those headphones were so awful...

Eiffle 65, europop. Or my Napster mix if not either of those smash mouth fish yu mang or Astro lounge

London Calling by the Clash.

It got me to work every day.

Some rotation of Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Armin Van Buuren, or Sasha and John Digweed albums.

The (Tobey Maguire) spider-man movie official soundtrack

The soundtrack to the movie Tomb Raider.

https://www.discogs.com/master/115360-Various-Lara-Croft-Tomb-Raider-Music-From-The-Motion-Picture

Pinback's second album, Blue Screen Life. I even bought high quality headphones at the stereo shop next to the music store just to commemorate the occasion.

Dimitri From Paris - A Night At The Playboy Mansion
\ DJ Heather - Tangerine
\ Soulstice - Illusion
\ and something different
\ Andrea Bocelli - Romanza

It's sad because I'm leaving and I have only listen to DJ Heather cd so far. When I come back, I will play the rest on my sony cd walkman.

Holy hell, I had no idea A Night At The Playboy Mansion was that old. I discovered house music in like 2005 and didn't find that album for maybe another decade.

Black hole sun. Won't you come? Wash away the rain....

I know for a fact it was Spiritualized - Let It Come Down

Regatta de Blanc

Toxicity for sure

I had a minidisc ya square. And I was bumping mostly Chronic 2001 and MM LP.

Incubus-morning view

It was 2003, and I was listening to Where is the Love by Black Eyed Peas. Almost too much cringe mixed in to experience the nostalgia.

White Pony by Deftones

I grew up in a Christian household, so probably Newsboys (the original model) or Audio Adrenaline.

Add DC Talk, Switchfoot and Reliant K.

Mine was one of those rugged ones. I don't remember if I had picked up STP yet or if it was still weird al

Saxon, Crusader album

I'm not, gave my discman to my younger brother brother because it skipped like a mother if you walked with it in your pocket, and I mainly listened to books on tape on my actual walkman well up until mp3 players were viable

Kidneythieves- Trickster

Crystal Method’s Tweekend.

I heard that before Vegas and still prefer it.

Wow, my disc-man was really close to this model. Mine was anodized blue. I remember getting my first paycheck as a bagger at Safeway for a summer job. I bought almost this Sony DiscMan, Eifel 65 and Korn Issues.

Deep Purple, also referred to as Deep Purple III

Heideroosjes - Kung Fu

Everybody loves oldskool Dutch punk, right?

Fuck yeah man. Just listening to the album now while enjoying our one day of sun. Still fucking relevant.

I had that model discman but red.

Popped that little insert out accidentally but it still worked and played CDs.

With that insert out I could put a marker on the CD as it was spinning and I could make cool spiral designs.

Good tiles

Mix of euro dance/trance. Tiesto, Milk inc, Lasgo, Scooter, etc.

A modern-day warrior

Mean, mean stride

Today's Tom Sawyer

Mean, mean pride

Random stuff from anime and movies downloaded from Napster or ripped from other CDs and burned to CD-Rs. I would never go traveling with the copy I purchased. Oh and Weird Al.

Thursday - Full Collapse

Fuck that Walkman, right around that year or maybe 2002 was when I had a RioVolt SP250. And it was friggin awesome.

What the heck do you mean by "was?" Mine has outlived two iPods, a media phone and four Androids.

Laundry Service by Shakira. One of a handful of music CDs that actually worked on my no-name CD player. I was ecstatic when MP3 players hit the scene and I could finally listen to all the weird music I had accumulated thanks to Kazaa.

Diskman.

Either a TDK or Maxell one. If I'm broke, Arita.

Stepa, Incubus, Korn, Linkin Park,...

Astro-Creep: 2000, Smash, Aenima, and Antichrist Superstar were getting a lot of play back then along with a ton of others, I had a 100ish cd case that was full.

A burned CD with a carefully selected mix of anime songs, alt rock, and folk punk. Not carefully selected because they went well together, but because IIRC the cheap CDs then didn’t hold a ton of songs.

Slipknot, any of their stuff really, all of it was welcome lol.

Not old enough, but if I was, Blind Guardian and Gamma Ray are the only ones I listen to old enough to fit the bill.

I am old enough and I wish I was cool enough to know about Blind Guardian at the time.
If I got a deeply self-indulgent trip in the DeLorean to load up little baby mindbleach's music collection, there'd be a lot more Slayer, Meshuggah, and Devin Townsend. Aaand owing to how much techno I was into at the time, probably Fat Of The Land and Mezzanine.
Prog rock wouldn't land before college.

Probably some obscure shit that I downloaded off of AudioGalaxy because it wasn't available on CD anywhere. Gun Glub comes to mind.

Venetian Snares - "Making Orange Things"

Sabaton and Iron maiden.

NIИ - The Fragile. We're in this together now!

Was big into S-Club 7 at the time.

I was like 9 though so don't judge me too hard

I only owned CD-RW lots of Eminem, crazy train, trapt, SOAD, Metallica, linkin park, pantera, no doubt. Shit my mom probably still has all my music on our old W98 e-machine

Something from one of the Trojan ska/reggae box sets. Maybe Op Ivy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bSupYK20_Cs

Kool Keith Black Elvis - Lost in Space

Covenant - Nexus Polaris.

And now I have to go down the memory lane and listen to them. Damn you.

This!

Chronic 2001

Incubus, The Donnas, Alicia Keys, Rammstein.

Since I Left You, by The Avalanches

Fastball - All the Pain Money Can Buy

The Way was such a jam

Cats soundtrack

Listening to Unforgiven by Metallica. Those were dark days

Swollen members

INCredible Sounds of Drum and Bass Mixed by Goldie or Colours by Adam F, or some mp3 disk with all my Napster downloads because mine had mp3 support.

Ahhhh, I tended to keep things in rotation, but I was playing the hell out of bluegrass that year in general

I got a discman in 95ish and listened to STP - Core, Blind Melon, and RHCP - What Hits mostly. It took two AA batteries and only lasted for 4-5 hours.

In 2001 I had a Phillips portable CD player that used 1 AA and lasted for 12+ hours. I was listening to Lateralus, Guster - Lost and Gone Forever, Mer de Noms, and Pump Up the Valuum.

Craig Richards - Fabric 01

The Attraction to All Things Uncertain by Tweaker

I'll bet I was the only 6th grader jamming to that one on a Walkman. I still listen to that band and that album. It's quite fucking good.

NoFX - The Decline

In 2001, I still only had CDs my parents bought for me. So, it was probably Jethro Tull's Greatest Hits, or Bob Seger Live Bullet.

And it wasn't a Walkman, it was a Panasonic that I still use.

If strictly sticking to 2001 albums, the two the stick out in memory are

New Order, Get Ready
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory

Freestyler.

KMFDM - XTORT, Primal scream - XTRMNTR, NIN - The Fragile, Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, Dead Milkmen - Behold a Pale Cow, Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill

Probably Stunt.

... nonzero chance it'd be Tubthumper.

I didn't use a portable CD player much before getting one with MP3-CD support, and I loaded up one CD with everything I thought was worthwhile. But aside from all three Deftones albums and some loose Limewire detritus I am now unclear what would be there. Presumably I still have the CD lying around... somewhere.

The last cd I remember playing on the CD player was Korn Issues. Good ole days !!

what are the odds