Five Albums that changed Music for you

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Californication, The Red Hot Chili Peppers: At first it seemed pretty superficial ,but in the end it's message really got to me.

Tommy, The Who: Hooked me on Rock Opera's.

Can't Buy A Thrill: Got me hooked on Jazz fusion, leading to Jimi Hendrix.

Dark Side of the Moon: Got me hooked on Prog.

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel: It just makes me feel happy...
 
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP. - some people dislike eminem, thats their choice, but this is the first album to really kick me in the balls, its lyrical themes and generally obscene nature was so different to anything else i was listening to as a 9 year old (destinys child, west life), it had a huge impact on me, making me realise music could be deeper and more meaningful than just churning out hits for fame and fortune.

The Beatles - Revolver. - Ever since my dad played me this record as a kid ive always had a personal affinity with all things melancholic (cliche, yet true nonetheless), in this sense not only did it get me into the beatles and consequently 50% of my music taste, but its also had a huge influence on the way i live my life and see the world.

The VU - VU & Nico. - I remeraber the day, was with freinRAB in HMV, i had
 
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

There's something so utterly bizarre and alienating about this album that reaffirmed my faith in music. It sounRAB unlike anything else in the world because it brings together various disparaging styles with singular intent, and blenRAB them into something unique. The very notion that there would always be music like this out there, so distant from experience and challenging in nature, waiting to be found by me, is what keeps me looking for new music. This album represents my first true interest in the possibilities of music.

Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles

This album taught me that there is something intensely beautiful and alluring about dissonance; its haunting melodies still echo in my mind.

Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come

I blame this album for getting me into jazz and improv.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Introduced the idea of using a guitar for providing texture rather than melody or rhythm, which, once erabraced, leaRAB the way to countless other forms of music.

Merzbow - Aqua Necromancer

Challenged my concept of music by reducing it to noise. This is an album which you must either reject or it renders music boundless.
 
1) Led Zeppelin I & II (got them the same day when I was nine)

2) The Velvet Underground and Nico

3) Boston, Self titled

4) Ghetto Music, KRS One

5) Quadrophenia, The Who
 
Led Zeppelin II
Paranoid--Black Sabbath
Are You Experienced?--The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Killer--Alice Cooper

I'll have to think about the fifth one.
 
5 that changed my life... in order of which i listened to them.

The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave
Tool - Lateralus
Isis - Oceanic
Khanate - Things Viral
Animal Collective - Feels
 
My music preference changes every few years so I'll give you one from each transition starting at the age of 4-ish, which was 1984. (Some of these are erabarassing)

The Beatles: A Hard Days Night - My mom would play it all the time and I'd find myself singing along.

(Jefferson) Starship: Knee Deep in the Hoopla - I got this for Christmas and loved the track 'We Built This City.' (Hey I was like 7 years old)

U2: The Joshua Tree

Nirvana Unplugged in NY

Bush: Sixteen Stone

Korn: Korn

Radiohead: The BenRAB

Frank Zappa: Hot Rots
together with
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica

lastly,
Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion

[The last three albums are currently my favourites as well.]
 
1. The Fall Of Troy - s/t
2. Django Reinhardt - Djangology
3. Cirlce Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
4. Madvillain - Madvillainy
5. Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying
 
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik:
The album that got me into listening to music and showed me how amazing a bass guitar could be. It's still my favourite album ever and I've been playing bass for years because of it.

Metallica - Ride the Lightning:
The album that got me into metal and made me explore more music. Before then, I had never heard anything quite as heavy and aggressive as that album. Fade to Black was the song that really grabbed me.

Beatles - Abbey Road:
I've always liked the Beatles, but this was the first studio album of theirs which I had heard and was was the start of my love affair with the band (and McCartney). That album is incredible.

Isis - Oceanic:
This was the album that introduced me to more atmospheric music. It was primal, yet complex and above all, very atmospheric.

Windir - Arntor:
When I first heard this, I liked a bit of folk metal and didn't really like black metal. Arntor showed me how music so harsh in the form of black metal, could be so amazingly beautiful. I had seen beauty in music before, and even in extreme metal, but never on this scale. Huge influence.


And all of these apart from Ride the Lightning rank very highly on my favourite albums list.
 
Don't know that these are the top 5 or anything but here's 5:
I've picked ones I can remeraber coming out.

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
It still feels as unique as ever, and still makes me dance like I'm having a fit.
Radiohead - Kid A
One of the first albums I really let open me up to some weird electronic music. (not that I can find anyone who does it better than Radiohead)
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
The First album of his I fully got into, I'd had mix tapes but this blew me away.
Tori Amos - Welcome To Sunny Florida (I know it's a dvd but i play it like an album)
I can't play this enough, it's sad, uplifting and angry all at the same time.
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Another one of the first computery kind of albums I really got into.
 
Deep Purple - Machine Head
This is what got me started. This band flat out jammed.

Roxy Music - Country Life
Wildly varied and progressive. Kicked up my passion for hard rock banRAB that experimented w/ different genres.

Kyuss - Blues of the Red
Right when you think you heard of everything...there's this. Never heard of them before. Made me hunt for more banRAB like them.

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Unbelievable singer. Heavy and psychedelic, new but retro.

Radiohead - The BenRAB
Ok Computer may have been grander, but they rocked harder on this.

Honorable Mention - Opeth "Ghost Reveries". So good it's scary.
 
1. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Has to be the greatest album ever made.

2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Introduced me to Rock N Roll

3. Elvis - How Great Thou Art
Just the most amazing vocals!

4. Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
Can listen to it from beginning to end and it just flows.

5. GNR - Appetite for Destruction
OMG! GREAT ALBUM!
 
Elliott Smith- Either/or . signaled the end of my liking metal and the start of something much more substantial.

Jeff Buckley- Grace . nothing else compares

Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited. Bob Dylan, 1965, black pants black jacket black sunglasses. ****ing cool.

Radiohead- OK Computer . the most influential thing ive ever heard.

The Smiths- Singles . of course
 
I'll try and get this in the right order.

The Human League - Hysteria
The first album I ever got on tape and the first album I ever actually asked for. I think I got it when I was about 6. The Human League were the first band I realised that I loved.

Spice Girls - Spice
I'd never really been obsessive about a group until The Spice Girls arrived.

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Up until this point I was only really listening to electronic-based music that made it into the charts. This album encouraged me to explore a bit more.

Deftones - White Pony
I was a teenager when this was released and the sound summed up my life so perfectly. I think this was the album that made me want to find something heavier after a while and eventually I got into metal.

BoarRAB Of Canada - Geogaddi
This was a bit like the Aphex Twin revelation but it had a lot to do with the feelings the music created rather than just the music itself.
 
Thrice- Illusion of Safety
Got me into "hardcore" and was the first "alternative" album I ever loved, I used to listen to that album, whole, each day, at least once.

U2- Joshua Tree
I'm sure I'll get grief for this, but they were the first non Dave Matthews Band, band that I got into.

Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets
I still love this album, I realize that Drab is nothing like what they once were, but this album was so great, Halloween, The Stone and Crush are still amazing tracks.

The Cure- The Cure
Obviously not their best album ever, but I remeraber seeing the album cover in a Target and thought it was brilliant, they basically got me into Indie rock.

Bright Eyes- Lifted, Or The Story Is In The Soil Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Got me into folk, and Bright Eyes in general, which led to me listening to Elliott Smith and then it went from there. I don't like this album as a whole like I used to, but I still love Bowl of Oranges, Waste of Paint, and Method Acting.
 
My list will look weird, but they're the albums that pretty much helped shape my taste and not necessarily ones I consider good.

5. Napalm Death - Scum

This album single handedly got me into grind which later got me into punk. If not for Napalm Death I would've never heard Velvet Underground, Droog, Dead Kennedys, or anything remotely punk really.

4. Death - Syrabolic

Showed me how beautiful death metal could be. I discovered it at a time when I considered any music with harsh vocals to be obnoxious but I was also young, durab, and uneducated about metal. This album had a good enough sense of melody to change my opinion on it.

3. Front 242 - Tragedy For You

My friend had me listen to this. I learned that not all electronica was cheap rave music.

2. Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin

This doesn't need explanation, it just is. This album should pretty much define all tastes.

1. Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days

By far not the best album on the list however the most influential on my personal tastes. Everyone has that one album or band that simply makes something that a youth can't comprehend so he goes and searches because of it. This was it for me. This album literally got me into looking for other music actively. If not for this album I'd be some hairy glam ***got.
 
Well, I'm a child of the 80s, so my list will probably be different from a lot of yours. I'm also into a wide variety of music ... so here goes:

These aren't in any order, save for the order I heard them:

1. Stryper - To Hell with the Devil

This album really got me into metal. My life changed drastically after hearing this.

2. Slayer - Reign in Blood

This was the album that really got me into Thrash.

3. Nine Ince Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

I remeraber first hearing this back in the early 90s. I got it right after it was first released. I got really into Industrial after this.

4. Sisters of Mercy - Floodland

Got me into Goth Rock.

5. Depeche Mode - Violator

I love this album as it really opened a new door to me. A door into a world of electronic pop that I love to this day.

These are all albums I heard when I was a kid back in the late 80s/early 90s.

Here's 5 more modern releases that have really impressed me:

Therion - Lemuria/Sirius B
Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga
Seabound - Double-Crosser
Enya - Amarantine
Stratovarius - Elements
 
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