Music Banter - View Single Post - Your favourite albums and what they mean to you

Astronomer · 08-09-2013, 07:21 AM

Great idea for a thread, Trollheart, I love your journal where you delve into the music that has made up various parts of your life so it'll be kinda cool to get other MB members involved in the process

Muse, 'Absolution.'

I thought I'd start with this one, which is weird, because it's not one of my absolute (ha, pun) favourite albums but it is an album that I guess means a lot to me and takes me back to a moment in my life where music became quite pivotal.

This album was released 10 years ago and I was 15 years old. I'd just started working at my very first job - which was also one of the most awesome jobs I'd ever had - at a (chain) record store. My job description pretty much encompassed stocking CDs and DVDs in alphabetical order, putting price stickers on CDs, selling stuff and consulting customers, and putting up promotional displays. At the time, being a 15 year old teenage girl, my taste in music was pretty appalling. I had just gone to my very first concert (Blink-182) and pre-ordered The Ataris album even though noone else in the world was probably buying it. It's beyond embarrassing.

I started getting a lot of customers coming up to me to pre-order Absolution and asking about when the next Muse album was coming out, which intrigued me. It was one day when I was putting up this Muse promotional display that my boss said to me, "So, are you looking forward to the new Muse album?" I told him that I hadn't really heard much of them to which he replied that he thought I would really appreciate Matt Bellamy's musicianship, considering I played piano and was classically trained. He then, being the coolest boss ever, gave me a copy of the album to take home to listen to before the release date. Being just a kid, I felt as though I'd won the lottery. How cool!

I did love the album and I think that is the moment where my musical tastes began their final turn of taking a more mature approach. I started collecting music based on what I liked, rather than following the crowd, and I opened myself up to a whole range of new genres. I loved the album so much that I convinced some of my muso friends to do a cover of 'Time is Running Out' with me for our senior 'Battle of the Bands' and we came in first place. That was the first time I'd sung in front of a crowd, too!

Ahhh, good memories.

08-09-2013, 07:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	Great idea for a thread, Trollheart, I love your journal where you delve into the music that has made up various parts of your life so it'll be kinda cool to get other MB members involved in the process Muse, 'Absolution.' I thought I'd start with this one, which is weird, because it's not one of my absolute (ha, pun) favourite albums but it is an album that I guess means a lot to me and takes me back to a moment in my life where music became quite pivotal. This album was released 10 years ago and I was 15 years old. I'd just started working at my very first job - which was also one of the most awesome jobs I'd ever had - at a (chain) record store. My job description pretty much encompassed stocking CDs and DVDs in alphabetical order, putting price stickers on CDs, selling stuff and consulting customers, and putting up promotional displays. At the time, being a 15 year old teenage girl, my taste in music was pretty appalling. I had just gone to my very first concert (Blink-182) and pre-ordered The Ataris album even though noone else in the world was probably buying it. It's beyond embarrassing. I started getting a lot of customers coming up to me to pre-order Absolution and asking about when the next Muse album was coming out, which intrigued me. It was one day when I was putting up this Muse promotional display that my boss said to me, "So, are you looking forward to the new Muse album?" I told him that I hadn't really heard much of them to which he replied that he thought I would really appreciate Matt Bellamy's musicianship, considering I played piano and was classically trained. He then, being the coolest boss ever, gave me a copy of the album to take home to listen to before the release date. Being just a kid, I felt as though I'd won the lottery. How cool! I did love the album and I think that is the moment where my musical tastes began their final turn of taking a more mature approach. I started collecting music based on what I liked, rather than following the crowd, and I opened myself up to a whole range of new genres. I loved the album so much that I convinced some of my muso friends to do a cover of 'Time is Running Out' with me for our senior 'Battle of the Bands' and we came in first place. That was the first time I'd sung in front of a crowd, too! Ahhh, good memories. __________________