James Allen

My Teen Angst Playlist

My Teen Angst Playlist Or the songs that got me through it By James Allen Lancaster, California. The 1980’s. The 1970’s had just rolled out, but by the time I got to the age where I was really listening to music, the 80’s were well underway and Punk Rock had already seen its heyday. Post-Punk and Goth were taking hold and New Wave and Heavy Metal were still duking it out with Motown and “Rhythm and Blues” for the most attention. That meant that bands like Duran Duran were often seen on MTV, right along with Poison and Michael Jackson in-between the endlessly overplayed stuff like Hall and Oates, Phil Collins and Bette Midler. In that mess, I was a young, angsty teen from nowhere, trying to figure myself out. Here are some of the songs that helped me do just that: