Five Albums that Changed Your Life
01-04-05 | 01:29 PM
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Kiss - Love Gun - My first album ever owned at 4 or 5, helped carve my musical taste from there.
Metallica - Ride the Lightning - This got me into hardcore, hardcore. I delved into thrash upon hearing the first 20 seconds of Trapped Under Ice. I was familiar with Metallica and I had a copy of Metal Up Your Ass, but this tape really spoke to me.
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking - A friend brought over the Soul Kiss video (where is this DVD?!) and I was blown away, I went out minutes later and picked up Nothing Shocking. This really got me totally out of the thrash scene, no more Slayer, Metallica, COC, etc shirts.
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - This is just one of those albums that are just timeless to me and fanfreakingtastic.
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair - This is the first CD I ever heard played, it was 1984 and my neighbor's dad just bought a cd player, I forget the brand but I know he dropped of a grand on it, I was friends with his daughter and one day after school she asked if I wanted to see/hear a CD. It was a side loading/playing unit that had a window showing the cd, she choose T4F and put it in and the sound was amazing. Four years later when I bought my first cd player, Songs from the Big Chair was the first CD I bought. Seeing and hearing this cd got me into electronics.
Metallica - Ride the Lightning - This got me into hardcore, hardcore. I delved into thrash upon hearing the first 20 seconds of Trapped Under Ice. I was familiar with Metallica and I had a copy of Metal Up Your Ass, but this tape really spoke to me.
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking - A friend brought over the Soul Kiss video (where is this DVD?!) and I was blown away, I went out minutes later and picked up Nothing Shocking. This really got me totally out of the thrash scene, no more Slayer, Metallica, COC, etc shirts.
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - This is just one of those albums that are just timeless to me and fanfreakingtastic.
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair - This is the first CD I ever heard played, it was 1984 and my neighbor's dad just bought a cd player, I forget the brand but I know he dropped of a grand on it, I was friends with his daughter and one day after school she asked if I wanted to see/hear a CD. It was a side loading/playing unit that had a window showing the cd, she choose T4F and put it in and the sound was amazing. Four years later when I bought my first cd player, Songs from the Big Chair was the first CD I bought. Seeing and hearing this cd got me into electronics.
01-04-05 | 01:30 PM
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The Ramones: "Ramones"
Generation X: "Valley of the Dolls"
The Runaways: "Queens of Noise"
The Sex Pistols: "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols"
Iggy and the Stooges: "Raw Power"
The Pretenders "Pretenders"
Before my older sister came home for a visit with these albums, I was listening to Kansas and Styx like every other person in my high school. These albums opened my musical taste and also helped me in getting over my shyness.
Generation X: "Valley of the Dolls"
The Runaways: "Queens of Noise"
The Sex Pistols: "Never Mind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols"
Iggy and the Stooges: "Raw Power"
The Pretenders "Pretenders"
Before my older sister came home for a visit with these albums, I was listening to Kansas and Styx like every other person in my high school. These albums opened my musical taste and also helped me in getting over my shyness.
01-04-05 | 01:55 PM
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Art of Noise - Washington DC radio station 107.3 back in 1984 exposed me to the world of electronica with Noise's "Beat Box (Diversion One)" and I was transfixed.
Pet Shop Boys - devoute fans since their first album "Please"
Pink Floyd - The Wall - summer session at RISD and I saw a revival of the film, I loved the film, the music and the band.
Depeche Mode - 1984 album "Some Great Reward" and their cover of "Route 66" were very influential in my taste of music.
Talking Heads - "Stop Making Sense" was such a great way to get introduced to this band not only for their fantastic concert set, but as a jumping board for me to go into their back catalogue of albums.
honourable mention:
Vangelis: Chariots of Fire soundtrack - the merging of both film and music was simple nirvana.
Pet Shop Boys - devoute fans since their first album "Please"
Pink Floyd - The Wall - summer session at RISD and I saw a revival of the film, I loved the film, the music and the band.
Depeche Mode - 1984 album "Some Great Reward" and their cover of "Route 66" were very influential in my taste of music.
Talking Heads - "Stop Making Sense" was such a great way to get introduced to this band not only for their fantastic concert set, but as a jumping board for me to go into their back catalogue of albums.
honourable mention:
Vangelis: Chariots of Fire soundtrack - the merging of both film and music was simple nirvana.
01-04-05 | 02:22 PM
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Mine, in no particular order...
1.The Smashing Pumpkins-ADore
2.The Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
3.Weezer-The Blue Album
4.Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5.Enya-Paint The Sky With Stars
1.The Smashing Pumpkins-ADore
2.The Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
3.Weezer-The Blue Album
4.Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5.Enya-Paint The Sky With Stars
01-05-05 | 07:50 PM
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From: The city with no sports championships...Cleveland
1. Beatles - Beatles (White Album)
Personally taught me how to play guitar. Without it, I wouldn't be the crappy guitar player that I am today.
2. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1/2
Some of the most deep, sad, morbid songs I have ever heard in my life.
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-erd
Some of the best guitar work recorded on an album (and their freshmen effort) and NOT just 'Freebird'
4. Jay Z - Black Album
I actually, for the first time, understood what blacks have to go through.
5. Aerosmith - Nine Lives
First album I bought (I mooched off of my older brother for everything else). The first 6 songs in my opinion are the best worst songs ever written.
Personally taught me how to play guitar. Without it, I wouldn't be the crappy guitar player that I am today.
2. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1/2
Some of the most deep, sad, morbid songs I have ever heard in my life.
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-erd
Some of the best guitar work recorded on an album (and their freshmen effort) and NOT just 'Freebird'
4. Jay Z - Black Album
I actually, for the first time, understood what blacks have to go through.
5. Aerosmith - Nine Lives
First album I bought (I mooched off of my older brother for everything else). The first 6 songs in my opinion are the best worst songs ever written.
01-06-05 | 02:10 AM
#110
1. Pearl Jam - Ten
Yes, many here have said it but it was the first album I truly loved.
2. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Before I got this album I only listened to singles off of albums.
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
Set to repeat press play. Hours and hours of continuous Nevermind isn't healthy but it was great.
4. Blink 182 - Enema of the State
I used to play this album when my friends and brothers would all play together in my pool. Greatest summer ever.
5. Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
My friends and I used to drive around town blasting this album especially 'Beer'. We just had a lot of fun to this album and it got me close to this hot chick was a grade above me.
Yes, many here have said it but it was the first album I truly loved.
2. Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Before I got this album I only listened to singles off of albums.
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
Set to repeat press play. Hours and hours of continuous Nevermind isn't healthy but it was great.
4. Blink 182 - Enema of the State
I used to play this album when my friends and brothers would all play together in my pool. Greatest summer ever.
5. Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
My friends and I used to drive around town blasting this album especially 'Beer'. We just had a lot of fun to this album and it got me close to this hot chick was a grade above me.
01-06-05 | 10:12 AM
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Beck - Odelay
This is the CD that I vividly remember when I was 13-16-ish. Last CD that I bought for approximately two years, and I played it constantly.
Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker
THE CD that introduced me to them. Lead to This is a Long Drive...a CD that changed the way I feel about music - about art - they way I listen to music - what I listen to. Stopped pop dead in it's tracks.
Radiohead - Kid A
Just a flat-out entertaining CD. Enough mix to keep me busy for hours. It's just TOO ENGROSING, though. It gets me too involved. I feel much better when I don't listen to it. It gives me a sinking, muddy feeling inside. But it's undenibly "perfect".
Weezer - Pinkerton
Good CD. Lot of fun. This will be the nostalgic teen-days CD that I'll always remember. Actually, Weezer will be the nostalgic teen-days BAND that I'll always remember.
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Just...wow. The impact was equivalent to Modest Mouse's...not my favorite album (Sick of Waging War is...). But it's the one that got me. I listened, and I listened. Then I suspected that he was standing outside my fucking window all day long. He'd say stuff, and it'd be like "holy shit...that's ME - this guy is just like ME - we must have grown up just down the street from one another". There's a Blue Velvet sample - an emcee with an eye for that stuff. In a genre so full of shit, Sage is not shit. Sage is champenge.
This is the CD that I vividly remember when I was 13-16-ish. Last CD that I bought for approximately two years, and I played it constantly.
Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker
THE CD that introduced me to them. Lead to This is a Long Drive...a CD that changed the way I feel about music - about art - they way I listen to music - what I listen to. Stopped pop dead in it's tracks.
Radiohead - Kid A
Just a flat-out entertaining CD. Enough mix to keep me busy for hours. It's just TOO ENGROSING, though. It gets me too involved. I feel much better when I don't listen to it. It gives me a sinking, muddy feeling inside. But it's undenibly "perfect".
Weezer - Pinkerton
Good CD. Lot of fun. This will be the nostalgic teen-days CD that I'll always remember. Actually, Weezer will be the nostalgic teen-days BAND that I'll always remember.
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Just...wow. The impact was equivalent to Modest Mouse's...not my favorite album (Sick of Waging War is...). But it's the one that got me. I listened, and I listened. Then I suspected that he was standing outside my fucking window all day long. He'd say stuff, and it'd be like "holy shit...that's ME - this guy is just like ME - we must have grown up just down the street from one another". There's a Blue Velvet sample - an emcee with an eye for that stuff. In a genre so full of shit, Sage is not shit. Sage is champenge.
01-06-05 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by paulringodaman
4. Jay Z - Black Album
I actually, for the first time, understood what blacks have to go through.
I actually, for the first time, understood what blacks have to go through.
01-06-05 | 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by automator
Yes. When I think about the struggles of the African-American community, my mind always turns to the elder statesman Jay Z and his 99 problems.
good stuff
01-06-05 | 03:19 PM
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Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - This album is good for just about any mood, any situation. He's the man.
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson - I almost feel ashamed calling this the greatest miles album, but damn miles and john mclaughlin play so well on this disc.
Wilco - Summerteeth - This is a hard call for me, as Wilco is by far my favorite band playing right now. I think Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is their best album by far, a 4cd release of demos like the Pet Sounds Studio Sessions would put me in music heaven, but Summerteeth is a better pop album, and it shapes to my moods in so many ways.
The Beatles - Abbey Road - B Side is still the greatest piece of rock and roll ever recorded.
Jeff Buckley - Live at the Sin-E: Deluxe Edition - The cover of Zep's Night Flight may be my favorite recording of any song I've ever heard. Truly heartbreaking that a man so great could die so young. No one followed in his footsteps because no one could. He is hands down the greatest musician I ever had a chance to hear play. He could floor a room with one note.
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson - I almost feel ashamed calling this the greatest miles album, but damn miles and john mclaughlin play so well on this disc.
Wilco - Summerteeth - This is a hard call for me, as Wilco is by far my favorite band playing right now. I think Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is their best album by far, a 4cd release of demos like the Pet Sounds Studio Sessions would put me in music heaven, but Summerteeth is a better pop album, and it shapes to my moods in so many ways.
The Beatles - Abbey Road - B Side is still the greatest piece of rock and roll ever recorded.
Jeff Buckley - Live at the Sin-E: Deluxe Edition - The cover of Zep's Night Flight may be my favorite recording of any song I've ever heard. Truly heartbreaking that a man so great could die so young. No one followed in his footsteps because no one could. He is hands down the greatest musician I ever had a chance to hear play. He could floor a room with one note.
01-08-05 | 11:05 AM
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So I thought about this, like really thought about it, and I don't think I have multiple albums that changed my life. One that I will count is "A Charlie Brown Christmas". I think the album itself is really stellar, but it got me interested in Jazz as a whole.
Also Jewel's "Pieces of You". This got me interested in more introspective music that wasn't R&B or Rap.
Also Jewel's "Pieces of You". This got me interested in more introspective music that wasn't R&B or Rap.
01-08-05 | 03:32 PM
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Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power - Showed me what true heavy metal sounded like and also inspired me to pick up the guitar.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets - Taught me everything i know about playing guitar
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction - got me into punk
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To come - Completely changed the way I look at music
Propagandhi - Today's Empire's Tomorrows Ashes - One of my favorite guitar albums ever
Metallica - Master Of Puppets - Taught me everything i know about playing guitar
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction - got me into punk
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To come - Completely changed the way I look at music
Propagandhi - Today's Empire's Tomorrows Ashes - One of my favorite guitar albums ever
01-09-05 | 10:46 AM
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i can't say "changed my life", but i can say "changed my musical life".
in no order:
rush - moving pictures - this album got me hooked. i went back and bought everything before it and have bought everything since. this band is the reason i became a musician and fell in love with music.
tool - undertow - i couldn't believe what i was hearing. period.
miles davis - bitches brew - the album that really got me into jazz.
king crimson - red - you either get king crimson or you don't. this album often makes that decision for you.
soundgarden - badmotorfinger - while the world was getting all wet over nirvana and pearl jam, soundgarden was destroying every "alternative" band...
honorable mentions:
tori amos - under the pink and little earthquakes
metallica - master of puppets
nin - the downward spiral
dave brubeck - time out
pantera - cowboys from hell and vulgar display of power
depeche mode - construction time again
the cure - disintegration
jeff buckley - grace
kiss - alive II
judas priest - british steel
iron maiden - piece of mind
pink floyd - animals
led zeppelin - physical grafitti
more recently (last 5 or so years) i've been really impressed with the following:
don caballero
haste
ent
sounds like braille
godspeed you black emperor
shiner
in no order:
rush - moving pictures - this album got me hooked. i went back and bought everything before it and have bought everything since. this band is the reason i became a musician and fell in love with music.
tool - undertow - i couldn't believe what i was hearing. period.
miles davis - bitches brew - the album that really got me into jazz.
king crimson - red - you either get king crimson or you don't. this album often makes that decision for you.
soundgarden - badmotorfinger - while the world was getting all wet over nirvana and pearl jam, soundgarden was destroying every "alternative" band...
honorable mentions:
tori amos - under the pink and little earthquakes
metallica - master of puppets
nin - the downward spiral
dave brubeck - time out
pantera - cowboys from hell and vulgar display of power
depeche mode - construction time again
the cure - disintegration
jeff buckley - grace
kiss - alive II
judas priest - british steel
iron maiden - piece of mind
pink floyd - animals
led zeppelin - physical grafitti
more recently (last 5 or so years) i've been really impressed with the following:
don caballero
haste
ent
sounds like braille
godspeed you black emperor
shiner
01-09-05 | 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by automator
Yes. When I think about the struggles of the African-American community, my mind always turns to the elder statesman Jay Z and his 99 problems.
You know, I don't get Jay-Z. Rap magazines built some sort of hype about him being the best MC ever. I've always found him to be terrible. He sounds totally out of breath and his lyrics are garbage. How can he be put up against the true greatest MCs (Rakim, DMC, KRS1, Chuck D, Ice Cube, Biggie, Nas, etc...) with a straight face? I don't get it.
04-08-05 | 02:36 PM
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Just read through everyone's posts and can't believe that no one else has mentioned Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's - Brain Salad Surgery. This album and Led Zep - Zoso were THE albums when I was growing up.
04-08-05 | 02:41 PM
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From: So Cal
Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Boards of Canada - High Scores
Beatles - Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Revolver
Vangelis - Blade Runner Sndtrk
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Boards of Canada - High Scores
Beatles - Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Revolver
Vangelis - Blade Runner Sndtrk
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
04-10-05 | 03:32 PM
#124
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Pearl Jam - Ten
Radiohead - Ok PC
Pearl Jam - No Code
Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
the Beatles - Revolver
Each of them for their own reason all though I must say all 5 could be Pearl Jam albums since I have them and my Dad to thank for liking good music. Without them I may still be listening to Vanilla Ice.
Radiohead - Ok PC
Pearl Jam - No Code
Tripping Daisy - Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
the Beatles - Revolver
Each of them for their own reason all though I must say all 5 could be Pearl Jam albums since I have them and my Dad to thank for liking good music. Without them I may still be listening to Vanilla Ice.
06-10-05 | 10:15 AM
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As clichéd as this may or may not be, Nirvana's Nevermind as it was my first album I got when I moved to the U.S. (a year or so before its time of release).
Then my friend Chip lent me Cure's Wish and Pink Floyd's The Wall. I loved them, although to date I've had no reason to buy any other Cure or Pink Floyd albums.
Another friend, Brett, lent me The Doors Greatest Hits.
Then sophomore year in college, right around the time of oth.net, someone I traded music with on the internet sent me all his Teddy Pendergrass, George Benson, Al Green, Isaac Hayes... Really made me enjoy older soul music. (Pendergrass sucks).
Then my friend Chip lent me Cure's Wish and Pink Floyd's The Wall. I loved them, although to date I've had no reason to buy any other Cure or Pink Floyd albums.
Another friend, Brett, lent me The Doors Greatest Hits.
Then sophomore year in college, right around the time of oth.net, someone I traded music with on the internet sent me all his Teddy Pendergrass, George Benson, Al Green, Isaac Hayes... Really made me enjoy older soul music. (Pendergrass sucks).