In honor of my Millennial nostalgia fiction podcast, Last Night at the Mall, here’s a musical trip down memory lane.

When was the last time you looked up one of your favorite albums from high school... and regretted it, because you realized how long ago it was released? Somehow, a bunch of the CDs that I remember picking up from the store, some of them the day they came out, the ones we loaded onto our first iPods, and blasted on our car stereos driving home from the mall... are now over twenty years old. Some of them are turning twenty-five this year.

Ouch, right?

Despite the pain it brought me, I put together a list of 20 Albums You Won't Believe Are Over 20 Years Old. It's a trip back to a time when buying a CD was an event. Not just because of the struggle of trying to peel open the plastic wrap with your teeth, but reading the lyrics on the little fold-out booklet, and checking out the album liner notes, while you listened to it in your room and were supposed to be doing your homework.

To tell you the truth, I really miss that experience.

This list will be a fun trip down memory lane for most of us, but, fair warning, it may also make you realize that 20 years goes super fast.

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Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again - https://link.amazon/B05XjXffH

Backstreet Boys - Millennium - https://link.amazon/B0altrxyz

NSYNC - No Strings Attached - https://link.amazon/B0d45q4hO

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' - https://link.amazon/B0947H8t9

blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket - https://link.amazon/B0eImPPk9

Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree - https://link.amazon/B0ix9woG1

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness - https://link.amazon/B0608458W

Linkin Park - Meteora - https://link.amazon/B00mfhtQW

My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade - https://link.amazon/B09Fivphx

New Found Glory - Sticks And Stones - https://link.amazon/B09DceAHb

Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - https://link.amazon/B0fzC7Esm

Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls - https://link.amazon/B0aWmCZoe

Sum 41 - Chuck - https://link.amazon/B0bSxBqac

FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake - https://link.amazon/B0c63SCVJ

Continuum - John Mayer - https://link.amazon/B01uXaaNn

Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers - https://link.amazon/B0dqeYcEy

Paramore - All We Know is Falling - https://link.amazon/B06NLFOUo

Kayne West - The College Dropout - https://link.amazon/B01FZugQk

System of a Down - Toxicity - https://link.amazon/B08l7wHmI

Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory - https://link.amazon/B022cN7u8