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It's all songs considered from NPR music, I'm Robin Hilton.

This week we continue our look back at some of our favorite episodes from over the years,

with one we did about the songs that get you through your teenage years.

This music can be your closest friend, it can lift you up, make you laugh, make you

feel seen, and get you through tough times, especially when you're growing up.

So we asked listeners to tell us what songs got them through their teens.

We share their stories and the music they picked, but we start the episode with Bob Boilin

and how he first had the idea for this show.

A few weeks ago, I got a message from Stephen Feller, he's a Facebook friend, and he asked

me for some recommendations for his daughter.

His daughter was turning 13, and he wanted to give her this gift, I thought it was a beautiful

gift, it was a gift of 25 albums that will help get her through her teens.

She was just turning 13, and he asked me for my 10 favorites.

My 10 favorites for my teens are sort of the department of the obvious in many ways.

Their records like Sarger Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beggars Bankwood by the Stones,

Electric Lady, Land by Hendrix, Neil Young after the Gold Rush led Zeppelin II, could have

been any of them really, Dylan's Blondon Blond, The Doors, and one record I picked in

particular was a record by a group called King Crimson, King Crimson's in the Court of

the Crimson King.

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