wise words, such as the title of this thread, stumbled upon
can often lead to unexpected pleasures and detours down lanes of memory that create a sense of time, place and perspective.
so, what do you reach for, when that’s what you need?
here’s one to grow on
dive in 
Love that tune 
Always come back to this one, 1988 just leaving school, still a total indie kid before getting drawn into the wonderful & frightening world of house music….
I was the same with The Jesus and Mary Chain really.
Early ‘90’s summers during my last couple of years at school: music, skateboarding and a whole universe to discover.
Best summers I’ve had and music was a massive part. I had my first set of decks and was picking up records whenever I could, but it was all about the tapes - house, hip hop, reggae, punk & indie.
This is one that I regularly go back to to take me straight back to those days. The album was on a lot one summer.
Those teenage years are the one’s that shape you in my experience, 14 to 17.
There’s many more of course but these 2 spring to mind.
Both those bands for me too. Stone Roses probably my first serious dive into music
Lived in Baltimore for a period when I was a kid, was pretty rough round that time. Remember hearing this on the radio and never heard anything like it, always go back to it.
I think actually I go back to the period just after I left school in 1985. Propaganda’s Duel was a summer chart hit, and I bought the album A Secret Wish later that year, just after I’d moved to Birmingham. Duel for me is one of the best out and out pop records of the Eighties.
I didn’t know anyone so I did a LOT of sitting in my bedroom, smoking endless Embassy Number 1 (or Marlboro soft pack when I could get them) angst ridden, reading the NME and books and listening to music, taping John Peel as often as I could. I was really into ZTT from the FGTH thing in '83 and '84, plus of course The Art of Noise.
lolz.
My first ever gig and the opener to their amazing first album.