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THe prodigy -Fat of the land This was the first album i ever bought and it set up my future in music by liking both Metal & Hip hop

Slipknot -IOWA when i was a teen this album and like most kids my age at the time spoke to me in terms of anger i guess :P it was Heavy Dark & Black

DOWN II- a bustle in your hedgerow My dad had Black sabbath and Zeppelin i had down my gen version of Sabbath they are a "Super group" the talent in this band is throw the roof also being from the South there Swampy Sludge sound clicked with me

KORN-Issues i have always been a big korn fan but playing this album with FF8 was just a perfect match IMO lol and both the music and game are just slick dark cold and spooky

King Geedorah-Take me to your leader this was the first rap album since like the cronic the flooredd me its simply a classic nothing needs to be said its like

crazymenrunningback

1. Slint-Spiderland
Holy crap, My favorite and most valuable cd ever, Just so creative. I Dont get any part of the cd and why its so good but I love it!
2. Kid Koala-Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Another album I dont get at all but just love.
3. Bob Dylan- Artist Choice
The music on it is opening up a whole new world of music for me and I love it.
4. At The Gates- Slaughter Of The Soul
First Death Metal Band I ever Got into.
5.Sublime-Sublime
I got this in like 4th grade and I loved music but never loved music this much, it was almost hard to understand why I loved it so much. I know its not one of the greatest bands but I still love it.
6.Pixies- Doolittle
Another very album I got, like around 3rd grade I think. I loved it then, I stopped listening to it for a whileand A couple years later I listened to it and It blew me away, It was so gooooood!
7. Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Before It I listened to mgmt and I loved it, when I heard this I loved it 100 time more
8. Minor Threat- Complete Discography
I always was looking for hardcore punk like this and finding this was like finding our inner self :p
9. Buckshot Leponque- Music Evolution
The first album I actually liked so its damn important!
10. Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique
Such early rap but so advanced and unqique

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10. Nickelback - All the Right Reasons
This album was a favourite of mine back in the day takes me back to when I was younger. Most of the songs on the album are easy to sing along to and the lyrics are really creative in some songs. Not all aha.

9. The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
I love the whole theme about this album (and some of the music videos) The artwork is beautiful but aside from that the album would really touch my heart when I was going through a rough time in my life the song "Loosing a friend" felt like I had a friend and cheered me up whilst I'd channel some aggression and work out to the haunting-upbeat track "Godspell".

8. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
This album deserves to be put on here it is one of few that I cannot fault which I can't.

7. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Before the album came out I was quite sceptical about what sound they would go for but I enjoy the album quite alot now I've listened to it a few more times. I love the song "Sorry" it's awesome it helped me become slightly stronger person.

6. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
This album is one heck of a rollercoaster ride. The fast and the beautiful really change whatever mood you're in when you listen to Contraband. "Loving The Alien" is a favourite of mine.

5. Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone
What a name well the music really makes up for it only had this album for a while but it seems quite good it's different and has a fresh sound.

4. Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
I love this album it's filled with everything you could want from Alice I love to put "Snakebite" whenever I'm getting ready to go out. Alice Cooper's voice is out of this world.

3. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
My friend suggested this album to me he said its quite relaxing and chilled out sort of music so I gave it a try and was stunned at just the genious of some of the lyrics "DLZ" is atomic I think this band will go far.

2. Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You
Lily shows her new path of music she has gone down much more sophisticated and disco-like without leaving her original style. Lily cleverly makes great music whilst also giving a message to anyone who listens to it. "Everyone's At It" is an amazing dance song yet doesn't have silly half-thought of lyrics.

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
I don't know how much longer I could've gone without mentioning this album. Much like Lily the YYY's have grown within their music and chose a new path to go down without losing their amazing style. The album lifts my mood whenever I feel bad about something "Zero" or "Heads Will Roll" take me away from whatevers happening. I cannot fault this album at all. I love it.

Rickenbacker

I laughed, and then died inside after reading this.

And I really like this one a lot. Top, top albums buddy. Extra points for Pavement, De La, 10k Maniacs and Talking Heads.

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Talk About the Passion - R.E.M.'s Discography Reviewed

Anthony

Great, great lists already here. I dig this a lot more than just a straight up top whatever albums list. That's the kinda thing you could never settle on. I do have these ten albums, though, that really are very important to me and, while I don't think they say too much about who i am as a music lover, they're certainly all pretty okay. No particular order

The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
Talking Heads - 1982

This actually is my favorite album and i think it does say something about me as a music lover. This is a work you can appreciate even more if you've heard all these songs in their studio incarnations many times over, but virgin ears could probably get into it, too. I mean, I don't care who you are: listen to "Love Building on Fire" really ****ing loud and just try to deny yourself that lighting bolt begging to run up your spine

69 Love Songs
Magnetic Fields - 1999

Kind of top heavy, with I'd say every track up until "I Think I Need a New Heart" being a stone cold personal classic. But there are still some real gems sprinkled throughout the rest and considering how hard it is to write one halfway-decent song about love, 25+ great songs about love on one album is pretty amazing. "Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" is the most surefire cure for the blues i have in my arsenal. Also helps I discovered the album with my first girlfriend and it just made everything feel so right. Does anyone not love this thing?

The Blue Mask
Lou Reed - 1982

This is Lou Reed at the height of his powers. Pretty sure his solo stuff, as a whole, trumps the Velvet Underground's catalogue and The Blue Mask, in particular, is just the balls. Reed's got that palpable visceral, volatile energy going that no one else has and I listen to this when I want to feel something. That's why everybody listens to music, I think

Anthologies 1-3
The Beatles - 1995, 1996, 1996

Bit of a cop out, but the anthologies sustained The Beatles for me and I think that's important. I went through what most kids in my generation went through: Going ape**** for The Beatles when I was like 13, but by 16 being totally burnt out on them. Bummer. But, yeah, the anthologies were such a breath of fresh air and they reintroduced me to a band that, for a little while, I thought I was too cool to love anymore

In My Tribe
10,000 Maniacs - 1987

The miserable curmudgeon in me would give this album a low C+ on its own merits and wouldn't allow it within striking distance of any sort of top ten list of mine. This is my girlfriend's absolute favorite album, though, and I love her very much. So here it is. "Hey Jack Kerouac" is a great song, to be fair, and Natalie Merchant was a fox

Doolittle
Pixies - 1989

Doolittle literally rocked a twelve year old me's world. This is why I'm such a music geek now. It might not have happened without Doolittle. Many, many silly drunken nights have been played out with this album as the sole soundtrack. All that absolutely has to count for something and, the best part is, I still love the actual music

3 Feet High And Rising
De La Soul - 1989

What can you even say? This is the best summer album I've ever heard, and it's not even close. Listen to this ruckus straight through and you just feel so dang good, it's ridiculous. Such an indescribable feeling of pure, life-affirming joy. It's glorious. I'm listening to "Eye Know" right now

The Presidents of the United States of America
The Presidents of the United States of America - 1994

Eh, first album I ever bought. It's okay

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement - 1994

Yes! Best album to drive around to, bar none. Also the best album to sing along to in the shower, for some reason. Anyway, there is not a single track or note or anything out of place here. I've been through it so many times but it still sounds so flippin fresh

Left of the Dial: Dispatches From The 80's Underground
Various Artists - 2004

My taste in music was almost fully sculpted by this improbably great collection of songs. Introduced me to bands like XTC that have, no joke, changed my life. The only way I can do this its proper justice is to just list the tracklist below. Wonderful, wonderful stuff

Disc 1

1. R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe" - 4:06
2. The Jam - "Going Underground" - 2:56
3. The Cure - "A Forest" - 4:55
4. Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia" - 4:39
5. The Passions - "I'm in Love With a German Film Star" - 4:01
6. The Replacements - "I Will Dare" - 3:19
7. Mission of Burma - "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" - 3:53
8. X - "Johnny Hit and Run Paulene" - 2:50
9. The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey" - 3:02
10. Depeche Mode - "Black Celebration" - 4:53
11. Dream Syndicate - "Tell Me When It's Over" - 3:33
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Hollywood (Africa)" - 5:03
13. New Order - "Temptation" - 5:44
14. Japan - "Ghosts" - 4:32
15. Magazine - "A Song From Under the Floorboards" - 4:11
16. Aztec Camera - "Oblivious" - 3:12
17. Hüsker Dü - "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" - 3:32
18. Black Flag - "Rise Above" - 2:26
19. Wall of Voodoo - "Back in Flesh" - 3:43
20. The Go-Betweens - "Cattle and Cane" - 4:01

Disc 2

1. The Pretenders - "Message of Love" - 3:26
2. Ultravox - "Vienna" - 4:40
3. Dinosaur Jr. - "Freak Scene" - 3:37
4. The Smiths - "This Charming Man" - 2:44
5. Ministry - "Stigmata" - 5:45
6. Lone Justice - "Ways to Be Wicked" - 3:26
7. Killing Joke - "Wardance" - 3:47
8. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Enola ***" - 3:32
9. The English Beat - "Mirror in the Bathroom" - 3:08
10. The Raincoats - "Fairytale in the Supermarket" - 3:00
11. The Smithereens - "Behind the Wall of Sleep" - 3:24
12. Minutemen - "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" - 1:32
13. Dead Milkmen - "Punk Rock Girl" - 2:39
14. Concrete Blonde - "Still In Hollywood" - 3:45
15. Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - 3:27
16. Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun" - 2:26
17. Meat Puppets - "Lake of Fire" - 2:00
18. The DB's - "Amplifier" - 3:08
19. Prefab Sprout - "When Love Breaks Down" - 3:46
20. The Cramps - "Goo Goo Muck" - 3:07
21. The Sisters of Mercy - "This Corrosion" - 8:59
22. XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" - 4:36

Disc 3

1. Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Cutter" - 3:55
2. Bad Brains - "Pay to ***!" - 1:28
3. The Sugarcubes - "Birthday" - 3:59
4. Robyn Hitch**** & The Egyptians - "Madonna of the Wasps" - 3:07
5. Faith No More - "We Care a Lot" - 4:05
6. Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" - 6:58
7. Gang of Four - "To Hell With Poverty" - 3:28
8. The Feelies - "Fa Cé-La" - 2:03
9. They Might Be Giants - "Ana Ng" - 3:21
10. The Chameleons UK - "Swamp Thing" - 6:00
11. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "The Mercy Seat" - 5:12
12. Rain Parade - "I Look Around" - 3:07
13. The Psychedelic Furs - "All That Money Wants" - 3:52
14. The Church - "Under the Milky Way" - 4:59
15. Public Image Ltd. - "Rise" - 6:08
16. Love and Rockets - "Kundalini Express" - 5:51
17. Green on Red - "Gravity Talks" - 2:34
18. Throbbing Gristle - "Adrenalin" - 3:58
19. The Stone Roses - "She Bangs the Drums" - 3:45

Disc 4

1. Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven" - 2:56
2. The The - "Uncertain Smile" - 4:54
3. Bauhaus - "Bela Lugosi's Dead" - 9:34
4. Siouxsie & the Banshees - "Christine" - 2:59
5. Minor Threat - "Straight Edge" - 0:46
6. Lyres - "I Want to Help You Ann" - 2:30
7. Beat Happening - "Our Secret" - 2:48
8. Jane's Addiction - "Jane Says" - 4:53
9. Julian Cope - "World Shut Your Mouth" - 3:34
10. Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill" - 5:00
11. The Gun Club - "Sex Beat" - 2:48
12. Camper Van Beethoven - "Take the Skinheads Bowling" - 2:30
13. Suicidal Tendencies - "Institutionalized" - 3:49
14. Cocteau Twins - "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" - 4:11
15. Happy Mondays - "24 Hour Party People" - 4:38
16. Hoodoo Gurus - "I Want You Back" - 3:11
17. Descendents - "Surburban Home" - 1:42
18. The Pogues - "A Pair of Brown Eyes" - 4:53
19. The Three O'Clock - "Jet Fighter" - 3:27
20. Butthole Surfers - "Moving to Florida" - 4:31
21. Billy Bragg - "A New England" - 2:13

lucifer_sam

i have just about every single LP that those songs appeared on, most of which were great to absolutely stellar.

solid choices all around, mate. feel free to stick around here.

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John Williams - Star Wars
For the first 12 years of my life the Star Wars theme was my favorite tune. Iconic stuff!

Led Zeppelin - The Box Set
My parents bought this and it was the first thing that ever really made me pay attention to music.

Nirvana - In Utero
After listening to Zeppelin passively, I still wasn't an active fan of music. I'd hear songs on the radio now and then, enjoyed playing a few Zeppy songs while on the computer, but when I heard the single "All Apologies" on the internet, I became fascinated with the band. I scoured the interent (and at this time I didn't know about torrents and such) for more, but all ended up getting was a scattered collection of random, lo-fi songs.

Finally somebody gave me the album In Utero. I listened to the whole thing the first time I spinned it, something I had never done before. I was never real angsty and it seemed like everything on the modern rock radio was nothing but pure testosterone. I immedietly realized I was listening to something.. different. It's art, not angst that I was interested in. It really got me into interested in music.

the Pixies - Surfer Rosa and Doolittle
These two albums introduced me to what has become one of my favorite acts of all time.

Hans Zimmer - The Dark Knight
This soundtrack inspired me to pursue film music, which landed me my current job. It's a great listen and a great film.

The Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
In terms of popular music, for a while I was the typical 'rock not rap' teenager. As soon as I decided to open up I picked up this album, and now I'm an avid hip-hop/rap fan.

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Listened to it a year ago and it completely changed my mind about pop music. I wasn't afraid to listen to pop because it was "uncool" anymore.

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Made me a Hendrix fan!

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I'd like to apologize in advance for going on and on here, but theres just a lot to say when talking about the music that changed your life... I know at least some people are like me and like to read the reasoning behind it all


1) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 8 years old, slowly getting into the modern grunge/alt-rock music on the radio, and my cool college Aunt came over one day and was like "have you heard Smashing Pumpkins yet?" and I said no. She immediately took me to the mall and bought me Siamese Dream, flipped to "Today" and told me I would love this...the rest is history. The second I heard that dreamy distortion bust in, my life changed. This is the album that made me want to play guitar, and the album that still makes me realize everything I love about music. It's my all time favorite record easily and my all time favorite band to this day.

2. Radiohead - OK Computer
I remember being 12 years old and seeing the "Paranoid Android" video, and thinking it was hilarious, but never really being hit by the music. One day when I was 16 I heard "No Surprises" on the radio and something really clicked with me all of a sudden. I went home and downloaded OK Computer. When the album was over I felt like I had missed out on a whole world of music. I immediately got everything else in their catalog, but OK Computer still stands as that high watermark for me. This album also made me truly understand the importance of flow in an album. I loved albums that were great front-to-back already, but OK Computer showed me that proper sequencing can make a good album a great album - and a great album a masterpiece.

3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
This is probably tied with the #2 - I can never decide which I love more. This album I found through reading about the influence MBV had on Smashing Pumpkins, so I decided to finally check it out. At first I didn't "get" some of it but I loved "When You Sleep" and "Sometimes", so I gave it another listen or two and fell in love. It's ironic that an album called Loveless is literally the sound of falling in love, and a beautifully sexual record. This album was my introduction to the world of shoegaze, and the discovery of countless shoegaze bands has made fall in love with the genre to the point where it's probably my favorite type of music. There's nothing, nothing that hits me like beautiful walls of distortion.

4) Nirvana - Nevermind
While these days I'm burned out on this record, it did impact my life as Nirvana was the first band I ever got into on my own. At the tender age of 6, the chords and ferocity of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Lithium" simply spoke to me, and plenty of others. Sure In Utero is the better album by far, but most of us started here and it's a great place to start. As I got older, Nirvana was the band I was most interested in reading about - and they were the perfect gateway to discovering bands like Sonic Youth and the Pixies when I was finally ready for that stuff.

5) Weezer - Pinkerton
Like many other kids in the 90s, I got hooked on the pop gems of the Blue Album. Also like many kids I didn't have much money. Every now and then I'd be in the CD store and spot this elusive Weezer album that I never heard any songs off of. I also never heard anything about it, so I assumed it sucked. Plus usually there'd always be something I really wanted, and I always opted for that instead. It wasn't until I was in high school and the glories of downloading arrived that I finally heard Pinkerton. I was amazed at how overlooked the record was. At the time, bands I liked were also coming out and citing it as an influence, and I could totally hear it. Pinkerton changed the way I thought about music, and caused me to always make it a point to check out the albums by bands that didnt get much hype, or that a large portion of the fans hated. Because of Pinkerton I discovered fantastic one off albums by normally ****ty bands, like In Reverie by Saves the Day or Welcome the Night by The Ataris - bands I would have normally written off if SO much of their fanbase didn't hate the album so much. Also I disovered overlooked albums by great bands like R.E.M.'s Monster and Guided By Voices' Do the Collapse because of the Pinkerton theory.

6. The Beatles - Revolver
I'm 24 years old, and have been very into music since I could talk. Yet somehow, it took me until 2006 to really listen to the Beatles. Maybe it was because my parents never liked them, or there was always such an influx of great music to listen to, but I just never got around to it. Revolver was the first Beatles record I listened to, and it was at a time where I became very disenfranchised with modern music, and needed something to set off a spark in me. So I looked to the classics, and Revolver - no pun intended - blew me away. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, this wasnt "I wanna Hold Your Hand", this was psychedelic and inventive and made me totally understand why the band was so hyped. These days I'm a full-fledged Beatlemaniac, but I'm still totally embarassed to be such a late bloomer

7. Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush was another band my parents never liked. But somehow I found them in my preteen years, and being a Pumpkin fanboy - i was already very drawn to drums in music and epic songs, so it was a natural fit. Rush was the first band I got into because of musicianship, and the first band I remember just being so utterly impressed by. To some people it doesnt matter, and soul is everything, and they don't like musical maturbation - but not me. I love my over-the-top drum histrionics, frantic bass lines, and marathon multi-part epics. Permanent Waves is simply classic.

8. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Ok I'm prepared for some hate on this. I got into Coheed in 2002 when their first album came out. They were always a band I enjoyed, but by 2005 I was just in a place where I was absolutely all about them. I also worked at a music t shirt store in the mall with a bunch of people who were huge fans as well. Simply put, this album had such a huge impact for the sole reason that I have never in my life anticipated an album as much as this one. We were all expecting to be blown away and hyped it up so much that it couldnt possibly deliver - but it did. I'll tell you right now, while this isn't my favorite album by any means - it's the one I've listened to more than any other record. I know it inside and out, and it's all from playing it at the store on pretty much a continuous loop. And we never tired of it, never. I still pop it in every now and then and I'm not sick of it. It's simply got to be the catchiest, most infectious pop rock album I have, and that's gotta count for something.

9) Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
10) Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
These two kind of go hand in hand for me in that they are the two most recent albums that have truly hit me hard. These are two bands I never got around to checking out until this past year, and both of them have now entered into my all time favorite bands list. Both bands have fantastic catalogs with very few misses - and it was these two albums that I heard first by each respective band.

With Dinosaur, it's all about J Mascis and his guitar style. He inspires me more than any guitarist I've heard since Kevin Shields and makes me look at the guitar in a whole new way. How a 90s rock connoisseur like myself somehow missed Dinosaur Jr. is completely unfathomable, but I'll be ok now.

As for GBV, the sheer volume of brilliant hooks that Robert Pollard can cram into his short songs is incredible to me. I'm a big fan of great production, and for me to listen to something like Bee Thousand and actually like it would normally be impossible - but that album changed the way I look at music. I can appreciate simple things alot more now if they're done well, and see potential in a crappy local band's demo if the songs are there. I wasn't expecting Bee Thousand to change my life, and I'm still reeling from the complete shock of the impact it had on me. I thought I had heard everything and became almost completely jaded, and these two albums proved me wrong. I feel like I'm just getting started now.

Honorable mentions for:
Cake - Fashion Nugget : The same cool Aunt that got me Siamese Dream gave me this for christmas one year. It was so different from anything I had ever heard and I must have listened to it for a year straight. Had a huge impact.

Hum- You'd Prefer an Astronaut: I can't begin with this record. Just an all time favorite. I discovered Hum in one of my periods of not finding anything current I liked and looking to the past - and it was another one that like GBV really caught me by surprise