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1. Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
The soundtrack to those rainy nights in the city when its you and the gin and a humid summer night Ride the Lightning - Metallica Any angry young mans therapy. I'd run to it, work out to it, crawl out of depression while snapping my neck to the Trapped Under Ice shredding. 3. Paulallujah - MC Paul Barman Summer of '07. I drove around Baltimore and DC for an entire week to this CD. I drove to atlantic city on a whim to meet a woman I loved to these ridiculous verses and to date, it was the best summer of my life. 4. Music to make love to your Old Lady by - Nathaniel Marriweather (sp?) I can recall driving to Providence playing this album after I was instructed to "bring condoms." Not the best relationship, but the soundtrack made the night. 5. Cake - Motorcade of Generocity A band my friend Matt and I see religiously. Songs like Willie Nelson, athestics like a poor, garage-mariachi band.(sp?) Lyrics as simple and as timeless and Hank Williams. In short, one of the best acts of the 90's, and this was their first release. 6. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street Bought in a used record shop on a road trip, our soundtrack to drinking while on cruise control across the eastern US. 7. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 The noisemaker in the title track does it for me every time. You hear it, and its a party. 8. Queen - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (as a kid, this was mindblowing) Find Freedy somebody to love. At 9, I had my album. 9. White Stripes - White Blood Cells The soundtrack to my first year away from home. Raw, sexual, and minimal. Brava! 10. Isis - Yeah Yeah Yeah's Bought on a whim, remembered for a lifetime. Enough haunting noise to scare away ghosts. Enough beautiful wailing to attract the vikings. |
I'll do a top five...
1. The Wallflowers "Rebel Sweetheart" My second CD, and I really fell in love with it. Still one of my favorite albums today. If anything happens to my copy, heads will roll. :bringit: 2. The Clash "London Calling" It was easy for me to get into this album, and now I know it like that back of my right hand. 3. At The Drive-In "Relationship Of Command" Really opened my eyes to what post-hardcore is about, and led me to other bands that I like. 4. Refused "The Shape Of Punk To Come" Not only is it very innovative and influential, but it's also an insane and very incredibly rewarding listening experience. 5. Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" Got me into Pink Floyd, and was the first prog rock album I heard. |
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Not a bad list. "Wish You Were Here" also got me into Floyd at a young age. |
I'd prefer Wish You Were over Dark Side for quite a while myself - its a sublimely put together album in my opinion...
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The Black Keys - Rubber factory
Neutral Milk hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea Paul Simon - Graceland Joy division - Unknown pleasurs Edie Brickell and the new bohemians - Shooting rubberbands at the stars Pink Floyd - wish you were here Imogen heap - speak for yourself Placebo - Without you im nothing and black market music Regina spektor - Begin to hope Steeleye span - Best of steeleye span |
So why are they important to you?
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Blue - Jonie Mitchell: Cemented my lifelong love of folk
Graceland - Paul Simon: introduced me to world music, which I now love Vitology - Pearl Jam: Began my love affair with alternative rock. The Last of the Independents - The Pretenders: Catalyst for my punkish tendencies Grace - Jeff Buckley: Started a major obsession with falsetto. In Rainbows - Radiohead: Changed my taste yet again. The Story - Brandi Carlile: Started a major girl with guitar kick. A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection - Alison Krauss.....That was the start of my bluegrass kick. I always thought I hated country until I heard this. 40 Days - The Wailin' Jenny's: Started my search for more bluegrass bands. Armchair Apocrypha - Andrew Bird: Yet again, a new style of music for me which I'm loving. |
A lot of these bands have other albums that are more important to me now than the one I chose, but that wasnt always the case. These are (probably) the top ten albums that have helped shaped my current taste over the years.
Michael Jackson – Dangerous People seem to expect that you will remember what the first record you ever owned was. I cant, or at least I should say I’m not 100% sure but I think it was this one. I remember I was a kid, I was sharing a room with an older sister who worked for Our Price record shop, I had won a portable CD player from a Cadbury’s Caramel and my sister bought me (I think it was her that bought me it) Dangerous by Michael Jackson. Dangerous is still an album I like to this day, probably for that reason, even if it does have some absolute stinkers on it once you get ¾ of the way through it. But it spawned a real interest in music and also in buying and owning my own CD’s. Oasis - (Whats The Story) Morning Glory I liked some shockingly awful music when I was younger. I may be forgetting some important moments in my life but I remember four albums specifically that started to influence me to turn the corner. There was the album mentioned previously, MJ’s HIStory album, the red and blue Beatles compilation albums that I would steal from my sister and sit and listen to through my gigantic headphones and this one. Oasis were a big, big deal in 1995 to a 11 year old kid with no music taste. They opened the door to a world of guitar based music that I had never been a part of before. Suddenly I had Oasis and they were loud, they were arrogant, they were seemingly rebellious, they were basically made for a kid my age. And when I say I had them, Im serious. At least thats what it felt like. This is the album that would then open the door to The Jam, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and my first real love which was British indie. The Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Oasis still pretty much dominated my musical tastes but a friend of mine was pushing The Manics onto me. I didn’t mind, I gave TIMT and Everything Must Go listen and the Manic Street Preachers started to push Oasis out of the picture a little more and further broaden my extremely narrow horizons. When I would start to delve further into the bands back catalogue I would broaden my horizons even further hearing the early punk influenced Manics and falling in love with such a dark, sleazy album in The Holy Bible. This made The Manics my new favourite band. I would listen to The Holy Bible while reading the inlay, completely caught up in what almost sounded like pure evil. This would then start a phase where I would want to be Richey Edwards without the serious mental and emotional issues and the anorexia, mainly the songwriting and poetry back in the days where I would still write. It lead to rather embarrassing results. The Stereophonics – Word Gets Around I had never heard of The Stereophonics before. A lad in my reg group at school told me all about them. I cant remember if I accepted his offer to bring this album into school to make him shut up or if I actually wanted to hear it but he brought it in, recorded onto a blank cassette. I played it so many times I’m sure it should have snapped. By the time I developed my Stereophonics phase I was a fully fledged indie kid, kind of thinking it would be cool to be a mod and anyone else who dared not share my taste in music just didn’t “get it”, especially if you liked all that heavy metal garbage. Fools. Embrace – The Good Will Out I wasn’t exactly what you would call a confident teenager. I wasn’t an outcast, I had a solid group of friends and a lot of them are still friends to this day but I was also probably reserved to some degree, relatively quiet unless I was around certain groups of people and far from confident. I would mask depression behind a smile infront of those I would interact with and behind closed doors I would struggle with ways to deal with it. Music was slowly becoming a ways and means to vent this. I liked being able to relate to the music I was listening to, usually the lyrics. They didn’t have to be the work of a genius but just anything at all I felt a relation to. Embrace were one of those bands at the time that could allow me to wallow in whatever it was I was feeling and make me feel SO bad that once I turned the corner I would feel good again. This is how I would deal with my problems from that point on and music doesn’t quite have that same effect on me anymore, as far as I’m concerned that’s proof it worked. The Smiths “Best…” albums worked great in same this way too. Metallica – The Black Album Three albums would start to push me in the direction of harder, heavier, dirtier music. Appetite for Destruction, a brief fling with Nevermind and Metallica’s self titled. A good friend of mine would try and try his best to tell me how good Metallica were but he was talking to the wrong person, or so I thought. Metal was awful, metal was for those who didn’t really have the ability or talent to form a REAL band to make their money by writing amateur sounding music composed from power chords and screaming. This friend had no interest in music for such a long time, I was always the one lending him my headphones and trying to get him to listen to something and he never gave a toss. When he did finally develop an interest we went very different routes, I liked my indie bands and he liked his metal, his long hair and his makeup. One day we exchanged music (minidisks no less) and The Black Album grabbed me. It was angry, it was heavy, it was full of solo’s but in a cohesive manner that impressed me and allowed me to edge into the genre. The slower moments probably helped with the transition too. I played it to my indie friends. They thought it was ****. The Strokes – Is This It? The transition to heavier music wasn’t instant but gradual. I still had a love of indie but was filtering some metal into it, a little more punk and generally just broadening my tastes. Then The Strokes hit with about every ****ing kid I would talk to in my first year of Sixth Form. Is This It sounded like a 70’s record, it was barely produced, it was stripped naked, it had a real punk vibe to it and given it was around this time I was starting to introduce myself to Sabbath, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and lots of music that wasn’t from the present day and so the retro feel probably just struck a chord. This wasn’t the 70’s or the 80’s, it was the present day and I don’t think I had heard anything like it before which sounds kinda stupid to say now. I got swept up in the garage rock revival thing going on around the time and the likes of BRMC, The White Stripes, The Vines, The Hives and The Datsuns. I took it to so many house parties over the following 6 months or so and demanded it be played but I usually didn’t have to twist anyones arm. Jeff Buckley – Grace It took a couple of listens but Grace was an album I found myself completely lost in. As far as I was concerned this was the most beautiful music I had ever heard. A lot of the music I was listening to was fairly straight forward rock and roll but the likes of Mojo Pin, Dream Brother and Buckley’s version of Hallelujah were examples of an atmosphere I had never really encountered before. Grace, JJ72 (yeah, I know), a little Radiohead and Muse’s Origin Of Symmetry started me round another corner and opened a few more doors musically. Grace is probably still my favourite album, its just that these days there are a hell of a lot more contenders. Hope Of The States – The Lost Riots Chosen for opening my eyes and ears to ambience and post-rock which make up a huge amount of my current music tastes. I know that HOTS are actually neither but they carried with them influences in both. After picking The Lost Riots up I would eventually go on to enjoy the likes of Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, God Is An Astronaut and a whole load of similar bands. Had it not been for Hope Of The States I may not have started down that road. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone Metallica were my introduction to heavy metal and I would go on to betray my earlier musical stances and beliefs. Metal and generally just harder, heavier and more aggressive music. I am ashamed to say the likes of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and other numetal bollocks would all play a part too but by using certain bands as stepping stones I would develop a love for the older Metallica material, Iron Maiden, Faith No More, Rage Against The Machine etc but my harder rock/heavy metal tastes were still exclusively on the commercial side. Dopethrone would start a love for more extreme metal and are accountable for most of the metal I enjoy today. Electric Wizard and Black Sabbath started a love for more down tuned, down tempo sludge and doom metal, stoner rock and psychedelic music. Near misses Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals - The first contender to the Oasis crown. Also the first gig I went to in 2001 at the age of 17. Guns ‘n Roses – Appetite for Destruction - Blah blah blah. You’ve heard it all before. Black Sabbath – Vol 4 - Vol 4 led me to the Wizard. The Wizard led me to doom and so much extreme metal. The Cooper Temple Clause – See This Through and Leave - Any rock or indie music with electronic influences that I’m into I can probably trace back to the purchase of this record. The Music – The Music - Maybe an earlier introduction to more hazy, psychedelic sounds. Faith No More – The Real Thing - Simply a key album in my transition to metal. Iron Maiden – Dance Of Death - Ditto |
10. Tripping Daisy - I Am an Electric Firecracker
i was very sheltered and naive growing up, and my musical tastes basically amounted to whatever my big brother listened to. this was the first album i went out and bought on my own. i felt like such a rebel because it was so very different from everything else i listened to. i actually picked it out based on the cover! i really don't like it anymore though. 9. The Beautiful South - 0898 i just love it, plain and simple. i have all their albums, and this one definitely gets the most play. my first copy was a cassette my brother recorded for me when i was growing up. 8. Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk my first trip-hop album and my introduction to the style. after i bought this, it stayed in my rotation for two years at least. i still love it. 7. Batman and Robin Soundtrack this (terrible) album introduced me to Soul Coughing, and by extension to Doughty's solo stuff. i'll never tire of his stuff, it's just fantastic. 6. Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica my first modest mouse album. i saw them for the first time during this tour. didn't know them at all, but went with a friend on his recommendation. ended up being one of the best gigs i'd ever seen, and they're now one of my top 5 bands. 5. Solesides Greatest Bumps first album from the Quannum crew. i got it because of my love for DJ Shadow, and it lead me into a world of hip hop i didn't know existed. very big influence on my current collection. 4. Pink Floyd - The Wall first floyd album. start of a long, loyal frendship with some of the greatest music ever made. 3. Jawbreaker - Dear You this is my #2 album. i remember back in college listening to this one over and over while reading the lyrics book. now i know it by heart, but this album really taught me how incredibly meaningful (and crypitic!) lyrics can be. 2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing first shadow album. also, this was playing the first time i partook of the ganja. it has been my #1 album for more than 10 years. 1. Stealing Beauty Soundtrack strange choice for number one, but this album has had the biggest impact on my musical tastes. i watched the film for Liv Tyler. then i fell in love with the music. it introduced me to Portishead, Hooverphonic, Mazzy Star, and Cocteau Twins, and is the seed for my love of all things trip-hop and downtempo. |
Here are mine, although it is somewhat difficult to put them in an order of importance...
10. Disrupt - "Unrest" CD/LP 9. Dystopia - "The Aftermath" CD/LP 8. Naked Ape - "For the Sake of the Naked Ape" CD/LP 7. State of Fear - "The Tables Will Turn... And It's You Who's Going To Suffer" LP 6. Black Sabbath - "Master of Reality" CD/LP 5. Sneaker Pimps - "Bloodsport" CD/LP 4. The Cardigans - "Gran Turismo" CD/LP 3. Megadeth - "Rust In Peace" CD/LP 2. Bad Religion - "No Control" CD/LP 1. Depeche Mode - "Black Celebration" CD/LP |
These aren't my favorite albums, just the ones that played vital roles in my music development.
1 being the most important... 10 - As Cities Burn - Son I Loved You At Your Darkest This cd is probably my favorite album to listen to from start to finish. Captivating album driven by so many different styles of music, hard to pass this one up. 9 - Unearth - The Oncoming Storm This cd was my gateway into modern metal, very well written album as well. 8 - Iron Maiden - ...Edward the Great (Greatest Hits) Soon after Thrice was introduced to me I wanted to figure out where all the inspiration was coming from for some of the artists I was listening to at the time. I fell in love with Maiden, never looked back since. 7 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command My sister had this cd when it first came out and i stumbled upon it in 6th grade. Such an unbelievable first glimpse at alternative for me. 6 - Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket This album sparked my interest in singing. I've been a Blink 182 fan since "Dammit" came out haha. Don't care what anyone says, these guys can make some decent music =] 5 - Norma Jean - O' God the Aftermath First metalcore album I owned, I was listening to Underoath a lot in 8th-9th grade and one thing lead to another and I started listening to these guys. Pretty amazing album. 4 - Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out Of Something Like I've mentioned in other threads, this album changed the way I look at writing music, lyrics and my world view. Brilliant album made from the boys from WA. 3 - Jimmy Hendrix - Axis:Bold As Love Started playing guitar to this album. Can't argue with that haha. 2 - A Wilhelm Scream - Mute Print First punk based cd that I ever really got into, but these guys blew me away when I first heard them. *drum roll........* 1 - Thrice - Artist In An Ambulance Alright...so when I first heard "All That's Left" on MTV2 (back when MTV2 played music videos 100% of the time) I basically popped off my couch and listened to every second with all the attention I could put forth. This cd opened more doors than any other album/band/song/anything has done for me music-wise. I still look at it as one of the best albums written in the last 10 years. and there you have it! |
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Yes, I agree with both of these. As Cities Burn is great and this album definately showcases that. As for Artist In The Albulance, this album was my religion for a while, seriously i know how to play every song from start to finish. p.s. The bassline on Stare at the Sun is incredible. |
I'd have to agree with Emsanders. Though not all these are my favorite, they most certainly shaped my musical taste today. Also, they're in no specific order:
-Alice in Chain: Jar of Flies It's gotten me through some emotional times. In my opinion, not Staley at his best, but nonetheless, amazing. Also, I think Layne Staley can be sometimes overrated. It was Cantrell and Staley together that really spoke to me. Jerry's solo stuff is pretty mind-blowing, too. -Tool: Aenima This is where I started with Tool. I backtracked to Undertow and Opiate from here, and just a couple of years ago moved on to Lateralus and 10,000 days. I can't wait to see they're coming out with. - Pink Floyd: Meddle One of my favorites. Words won't express the significance of this album for me, so I'll stop here. - Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come Mr. Cooke pulled me out of my limited music tastes a few years back when I was introduced to him with this album. - Miles Davis: Live Evil I really appreciate this album because of how experimental he gets. It's quite moving. - Mr. Bungle: Self-titled, Disco Volante, California I think I've said enough on Bungle in the this forum for right now. - Mos Def: The New Danger He opened me up to the better qualities of hip-hop with this album. When I bought it, I feel like I was too young to understand, but the more I listened, the more I was blown away. I also love his singing voice. - Acid Bath: When the Kite String Pops Back in junior high, these guys opened me up to some dark music and I ****ing loved it. Dax Rigg has a great voice and the band he started with his sister, Dead Man and Elephant Boy doesn't nearly showcase it as well as When the Kite String Pops does. - Tom Waits: Rain Dogs This is how I was introduced to Tom Waits, and I couldn't have asked for a better way. - Can: Ege Bamyasi I have difficulties finding the right words to describe this album, much less the band. At first listen, I wasn't so impressed, but within minutes after the second go-around, I was sold. |
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These were all albums I discovered around the same time;
10. If You're Feeling Sinister-Belle and Sebastian. Initially, it was those soft somewhat up lifting melodies that made me want to listen. It wasn't until later that I discovered that the lyrics were, well somewhat more "sinister" than I realized. The album that made me listen more closely to lyrics. 9. Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division I had never heard an album before that was truly able to create such an atmosphere of gloom. 8. Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan Soon after I heard "If You're Feeling Sinister" I heard this one. Again, an album that really made me both look and listen closely to the words. 7. Daydream Nation-Sonic Youth From the opening song to the closing one, this album overwhelmed me in the best way possible. I heard noise shape into music and it fascinated me. 6. Magical Mystery Tour-The Beatles Sure it has "Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane and All You Need Is Love" but it's the George Harrison song "Blue Jay Way" that really impressed me. Psychedelic rock that didn't sound self-indulgent to me. 5. Let It Be-The Replacements My favorite song off this album, "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" is a song I always hear people call "necessary filler" Maybe it is, only for the sake of a good transition to "Androgynous" Messy in the best way possible, fun and I feel like singing every song at the top of my lungs. 4. Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)-Wu-Tang Clan In terms of sheer attitude, I'm convinced this is one of the most punk albums ever created, despite it being a hip-hop album. When the only hip-hop I knew was the stuff I hated on the radio, this album came as a gateway to entire genre of music I didn't know. 3. The Velvet Underground and Nico-The Velvet Underground I couldn't believe this album came out in the 60's the first time I heard it. It sounded so, "not typically 60's" It wasn't cute, it wasn't exactly poppy, it wasn't quite punk, goth, new wave, so what was it?" It was everything I loved about music blended into one album. 2. Roman Candle-Elliott Smith By the time I heard this album, I'd already heard his self-titled album and Either/Or, but it was this album that made me realize how amazing he really was. He recorded it in a basement, only him, a guitar and a four track recorder. Technically it's probably his simplest album, and yet every time I listen, it surrounds me and makes me feel like I'm listening to a freaking orchestra. The title track has to be one of angriest subtle song I've ever heard. 1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea-Neutral Milk Hotel I'll keep this description short due to the fact if I try and describe my feelings towards it I could go on forever. Never had I heard an album like this, never had I heard an album that made me feel like this one, and I doubt another album ever will. Amazing. |
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1) guy clark- old number one growing up the way i did in small town texas, listening to guy clark was much like breatheing, and there are so many of his songs that lend themselves to the soundtrack of my life,....i'll go with old number one, because it was his first,....and my first of his,....it includes LA Freeway, which is quite possibly my very favorite song ever, he has a way of turnin the simplest of phrases into some kind off accidentally romantic poetry......hearing guy clark is much like drivin down a tree lined dirt road, with all the windows down, just as the sun starts to set, and breatheing really deep,taking in the smell of fresh cut hay,....guy clark is home 2) traffic - heavy traffic i've always been a huge steve winwood fan,.....traffic, and later blind faith, played a large role in the identity of my high school self,.....technically interesting, yet undeniably feel good while being thought provoking,......meh, who am i kiddin,....i was smokeing alot of pot 3) pat green - live at billy bobs considered my generation's jerry jeff walker, pat green inspired many a road trip weekend,.....his songs were fun,..light,....about beer, and burritos, and music, and texas, and love,.......it was all about a good time, or a good time to avoid heart break,.....sometimes good music isnt good because its original, or thecnically steller,....but it envokes some kinda of memory, connection, within you,...pat green does that for me and many of my friends,.....because of this album, we set off on our own,......we ate ramen noodles all week just so we could afford five dollar cover and dollar beers in some run down side of the road beer joint, that was packed with others just like us,....tryin to figure out who we are, where we are goin,......what we knew is that we would get there with pat on the radio, an allsups burrito in our belly, and lone star beer in a cooler behind the seat 4) neil young – harvest my father,….and much of my relationship with him 5) the toadies – rubberneck Almost every good memory I have can some how be tied into this album,…..be it playing in the back ground,……or quoted in conversation,……or just a general vibe,……this album provides a song for almost any situation I can think of,…..and in a way that’s alittle ****ed up 6) ani difranco – not a pretty girl This album has gotten me through every breakup I’ve had thus far,…cliché as it may be 7) various artist – hi fi soundtrack Be it bob dylan’s most of the time, or john Wesley harding’s I’m wrong about everything,…..or 13th floor’s your gonna miss me,…..in a way the book, movie, and soundtrack can easily be a road map and instruction book for life 8) kasey chambers – wayward angel Singable, realatable, non man hateing chick music,…….if I’m getting ready to go out, or I have a big day planned,…..i can just slip this album in while I’m getting ready and by the time I run out the door, I’m calm, happy, and ready for anything 9) mike mcclure – everything upside down I feel in and out of love with this in the back ground,… 10) lyle lovette – Pontiac Because all I ever wanted was a boat |
Dont think any of these are actually my favorites, but they are the most influential I guess when I actually thought about it.
Tried to put this in somewhat chronological order... 1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace The cd that got me into metal when I musta been in 6th-7th grade. My friends brother owned this and we'd listen to it whenever he wasn't around. Everntually I went to buy it for myself, ended up getting countdown to Extinction instead, and it just kinda snowballed from there. 2. Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood Reminds me of listening to this on tape while driving to and from baseball or basketball games with my dad. My pops (a minister) hated most of my music, but actually dug this cd too. This actually made it seem cooler to me, believe it or not. I Forgot about it for awhile until I remembered and bought and started listening to it again in recent years. Probably the only album on this list that would actually be on my actual "top 10" list too. 3. DC Talk - Jesus Freak Anyone who went to a christian school or was in a youth group like I was when this cd came out knows what I'm talking about here. I owned a copy and so did almost everyone else around me. It was pretty much the only half-decent christian cd out there, so it was huge. Everyone had the first few songs at least, memorized. 4. Bush - Sixteen Stone This entire cd was pretty much and anthem for my clique of friends my freshman year in high school. We all owned a copy and had every single song memorized. 5. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life Volume 2 Pretty much the first hip-hop cd I ever enjoyed. Listened to this all the time on my disc-man the summer it came out. Bought a new copy recently and its still pretty great. 6. DJ Dan - Another Late Night A HUGE turning point in the way I looked at music. A friend lent me this cd and blew me away. At work the next day I pretty much insisted that he let me borrow every other electornica cd that he owned. This sent me in so many diffrent directions and sub genres of the scene, it was pretty overwhelming. My next couple on this list prove it. 7. Dieselboy - The Sixth Session You knew this was commin... One of the cd's my friend lent me. Not Dieselboy's best cd by far, but it totally made me fall in love with drum and bass, and I bought my own copy soon after. Now I own his entire discography, a couple shirts, and try to steal his name on every forum I sign up for and every online game I play. :D 8. Happy2bHardcore Chapter 3 I know most people hate happy hardcore, but this cd kicked my butt the 1st time I heard it, and I had to buy more. I have all 7 chapters now, and many many other discs of the same genre, and always list it as one of my favorites genres when asked. Its so cheesy, I love it :) 9. Misfits - Famous Monsters One of the 'new' misfits cd's that 'real' fans hate. I bought this cause I heard one song on it and enjoyed it. Later a friend that I really admired, who was also a music fan, saw me listening to it and said how much he loved them. Because of this, I ended up going backwards through all their earlier music and discovering many awesome early punk bands in the process that I still love. 10. Coltrane - A Love Supreme One of the first jazz cd's I heard when I was trying to get into the genre. Fell In love with it and listen to it like crazy now...sometimes daily. Inspired me to finally pick up an instrument (the sax) and learn to play. :) Sorry if its all kindsa long.. |
No apology required! That was a really interesting post to read! I love it when. people really understand why they love their music and give detailed reviews the way you did, so kudos to you!
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Rush and Paul gilbert are awsome.
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1.Pink Floyd - The Wall
This was the first album I ever heard. My sister showed it to me, sometime between kindergarten and second grade I think. I fell in love with the movie, and to this day still respect the album. Although, lately I've been thinking Pink Floyd has some much better ones. 2.Blink 182 - Enema Of The State This was the first album I ever had. It was sitting there with Eminem, Smash Mouth, The Backstreet Boys, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The only one that stuck with me, that I knew every song of was Blink 182. I followed them for a while. 3.My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade This is when I stopped only listening to Blink 182 and Red Hot Chili Peppers. It branched me out into things like Papa Roach, Linkin Park, stuff like that. 4.System Of A Down - Hypnotize I remember when this album was actually out of my comfort zone. This got me leaving all the stuff before it behind. I started liking songs from The Killers, Nirvana, and The Beatles, Guster, some Placebo. 5.Techno, bunches of it This is around the time I started using drugs. I became a electronic freak, we were just constantly playing it. It started out with more mainstream stuff, then I got into Crystal Castles and The Bloody Beetroots. Eventually I started listening to things that were playing at D.A.N.C.E and stuff, like Steve Aoki, people on his myspace page. I have trouble remember a lot of names because it's been so long, I swore off any type of techno that reminds me of getting high when I stopped using. 6.The Mars Volta - Amputechture This was right before I went to Rehab. I started listening to full albums, and Amputechture by TMV was my first. Others included Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Blood Brothers. 7.MusicBanter This is where I am right now. There isn't an album that got me here, I made a list of bands to explore with the aid of some college counselors at Rehab. I just wound up here at MusicBanter. At this point, all within the last few months, my taste in music is constantly in flux. I've downloaded and listened to so much. Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Andrew Bird, Ornette Coleman, just to name some that I had to adjust to, enjoyably of course. But in reality (although I have no idea what to do with it all) I have a list with about 280-something artists, only about 95 of which have been looked into. And of those 95 is an ocean of downloaded music discographies of this and that, all different, just waiting for me to develop a relationship with. The problem being It takes a while to appreciate music, and I'm addicted to getting more, and more and more. But at least I'm not listening to The Backstreet Boys anymore. |
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10. DROPKICK MURPHYS-BLACK OUT
The first punk album i ever had. I had always enjoyed listening to them but then I got this album and couldn't stop listening to them for a while. Also, it took me out of my "rap phase". Thank God.. 9.METALLICA-BLACK ALBUM One of my ex-girlfriends got me this album for Valentine's Day. I thought it a little strange but I didn't complain. This album got me interested in a heavier/noisier kind of music. 8.BLINK-182-ENEMA OF THE STATE I heard this album as a young boy and went crazy for it. It had "bad" words in it and inappropriate themes..Which, of course, made me like it even more! One of the first albums i was able to listen all the way through and almost dance to every song to. 7.THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE-ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? This album was my favorite album for a while. I love the guitar on this album. I love it so much that when i heard the song Purple Haze I then knew that i wanted to play guitar and that was the song i wanted to learn how to play. 6. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND-THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO This album was very inspirational for song writing and the way I sing. Also, the noise and feedback in it was great. 5.GUNS 'N ROSES-APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION First album I ever bought. I heard the song Paradise City on the radio and I dragged my mom into my room and was like, "Who is this?! I really like it. I want it!". So the following week I went to the record store with my mom and bought the album. It's also the first album I was able to listen to beginning to end. 4.JOY DIVISION-THE BEST OF JOY DIVISION I saw the Love Will Tear Us Apart music video and i couldn't get the song out of my head. So i watched the Joy Division documentary because my dad said it was an interesting story. I fell more and more in love with their music. I then watched the movie(i think it's called Control) about Ian Curtis. After watching both of those, I went to the record store and they said the only cd they had was the greatest hits and it was being mailed to them and it'd be there soon. I listened to it and it expanded my music variety even more. 3.SONIC YOUTH-GOO First Sonic Youth album I bought. I was playing rock band with my mom(I guess I'm a momma's boy) and she bought the song Kool Thing. I couldn't get it out of my head so i went to the record store and bought Goo. I loved every single one of the songs. It made me more interested in noise and Sonic Youth. 2.MY BLOODY VALENTINE-LOVELESS This album..wow. I HATED it the first time I listened to it. I read the review on a website and I figured that I must get it and hopefully I'd like it. When i bought it at the record store the guy said it was a classic and he knew I would like it. I HATED it. But, then it grew and grew and grew on me. Til the point where I couldn't get enough. This album made me fall in love with noise. This album made me fall in love with shoegaze. 1. WILCO-YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT This is the album that showed me that I had to listen to music more than once to fully grasp it and to even like it. This is the first album that grew on me like that. My friend let me borrow it and I listened to it once before falling asleep and I thought, "Wow, I really don't like this..but, it sounds kind of nice and it's easy to fall asleep to so I'll listen to it before i fall alseep from now on." So kept listening to it. Then, i started liking each song. I started to enjoy the whole album which I'd only use as noise so i could fall asleep. There's my list. 1 being the most important. So, what you think? |
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YHF is criminally overrated. if you have any appreciation for country music i highly recommend Being There, an impressive fusion five years prior to the birth of the alt-country plague.
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I really dig YHF, although I did not at first. It's such a solid album, definitely my favourite Wilco that I've heard so far.
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10. DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - He's the DJ, I'm the rapper
9. INXS - Kick 8. Nirvana - Nevermind 7. Weezer - Blue 6. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? 5. Nirvana - In Utero 4. U2 - Achtung Baby 3. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 2. Simon & Garfunkle - The Graduate Soundtrack 1. The Beatles - The Magical Mystery Tour |
No offence but I genrally find Wilco and much of what they do is kinda just "blah"... I mean it doesn't sound completely horrible or anything, but it just doesn't interest me whatsoever...
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People who praise Wilco to high heaven are usually the ones who have never heard a Sparklehorse album.
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My top three were a very easy choice, everything below that would easily be interchangable with about 10-20 other albums.
[1] Marillion - Marbles [2] Dada - Puzzle [3] Rush - Counterparts [4] Radiohead - In Rainbows [5] Marillion - Brave [6] Dream Theater - Images & Words [7] Arcade Fire - Funeral [8] Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha [9] Allman Brothers Band - Mycology [10] The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute |
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