Five Albums that changed Music for you
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roxbubbagum
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It's really difficult to narrow it down to ONLY five albums.. let's see..
KISS -Alive II - this one probably started everything for me- I was at that perfect age when I put down my comics and saw KISS on tv and said "real-life superheroes!!!" When Ace had sparks flying out of his guitar- that pretty much did it for me- I was toying around with my dad's guitar before this- but never really got serious until KISS was the catalyst.
Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow: This album showed me what COULD be done with a guitar and just opened my mind to new concepts of leaRAB, arrangements, rock, jazz, funk, fusion.
Steve Vai- Passion and Warfare: For the same reasons as Jeff Beck- only taking it 10,000 steps further!
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue- because this album blows your senses AND grounRAB you all at the same time. For me, listening to this album puts me in touch with something deeper- and it made me try to play these lines on guitar- thus opening my mind to a whole new level of thinking in terms of guitar playing.
the fifth is difficult to narrow down to only one.. but I'm torn between Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (1st album) or Iron Maiden's Powerslave
KISS -Alive II - this one probably started everything for me- I was at that perfect age when I put down my comics and saw KISS on tv and said "real-life superheroes!!!" When Ace had sparks flying out of his guitar- that pretty much did it for me- I was toying around with my dad's guitar before this- but never really got serious until KISS was the catalyst.
Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow: This album showed me what COULD be done with a guitar and just opened my mind to new concepts of leaRAB, arrangements, rock, jazz, funk, fusion.
Steve Vai- Passion and Warfare: For the same reasons as Jeff Beck- only taking it 10,000 steps further!
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue- because this album blows your senses AND grounRAB you all at the same time. For me, listening to this album puts me in touch with something deeper- and it made me try to play these lines on guitar- thus opening my mind to a whole new level of thinking in terms of guitar playing.
the fifth is difficult to narrow down to only one.. but I'm torn between Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (1st album) or Iron Maiden's Powerslave
elaina. :D
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Assuming that what the title means is 5 albums that have play a big role in your life and how you look at music.
1. Are You Experienced?
I've said it many times too many, but this is a very important album to me. The only other albums I had until this one was an ORABpring cd, some Spice Girls casettes and a few of those Now compliations. My dad gave it to me on my 13th birthday. This was the album that truly got me into music.
2. Dark Side of the Moon
Would I be music banters reigning annoying prog fan if it weren't for this album? I think not. I used to listen to this album at least once a day, which comes to show just how obsessed I was with it. It really struck a chord with me.
3. Nevermind
This represents my teen angst years, from which I have never fully recovered even at my age. People can diss Nirvana just like they always have, mention a whole bunch of crappy hardcore banRAB and say "this is who they ripped off, they're so much better". But none of these banRAB meant sh*t to me like Nirvana have. They were a pivotal band for me.
4. Ready to Die
I'm not really the type to get all emotional about music, but this album is an exception. I really loved how an album could play out a whole story. Its like a movie plot. And a good one.
5. Sgt Peppers
Obviously at this point I'm gonna get a lot of slack for not including anything remotely obscure. What can I say? I'm a genuine classic rock elitist.
Honorable mentions:
The Best of Led Zeppelin
I never owned it, but I borrowed it from my brother, well actually just the second cd with all the stuff from HOTH and onwarRAB. But goddamn if that wasn't all it took to get me hooked on Zep for life.
Morning View
I don't know why, and you're all gonna mock me because its Incubus. But at a confused period in my life, this album just kinda connected with me. It still does actually.
Close to the Edge
RABOTM got me interested in prog, but this is the one that really got me into it. Wakemans mellotron is the soundtrack to my dreams.
Yeah that was ghey. But its true.
Appetite for Destruction
I knew every song years before I actually bought the damn thing. My stepdad played it all the time when I was little. All the sex and drug references even as unsubtle as they were flew over my head in those days, lol.
Essentially the first 5 CCR albums.
The earliest music I remeraber ever hearing that I liked was CCR, they go all the way back to my childhood. Grandmas favorite band.
1. Are You Experienced?
I've said it many times too many, but this is a very important album to me. The only other albums I had until this one was an ORABpring cd, some Spice Girls casettes and a few of those Now compliations. My dad gave it to me on my 13th birthday. This was the album that truly got me into music.
2. Dark Side of the Moon
Would I be music banters reigning annoying prog fan if it weren't for this album? I think not. I used to listen to this album at least once a day, which comes to show just how obsessed I was with it. It really struck a chord with me.
3. Nevermind
This represents my teen angst years, from which I have never fully recovered even at my age. People can diss Nirvana just like they always have, mention a whole bunch of crappy hardcore banRAB and say "this is who they ripped off, they're so much better". But none of these banRAB meant sh*t to me like Nirvana have. They were a pivotal band for me.
4. Ready to Die
I'm not really the type to get all emotional about music, but this album is an exception. I really loved how an album could play out a whole story. Its like a movie plot. And a good one.
5. Sgt Peppers
Obviously at this point I'm gonna get a lot of slack for not including anything remotely obscure. What can I say? I'm a genuine classic rock elitist.
Honorable mentions:
The Best of Led Zeppelin
I never owned it, but I borrowed it from my brother, well actually just the second cd with all the stuff from HOTH and onwarRAB. But goddamn if that wasn't all it took to get me hooked on Zep for life.
Morning View
I don't know why, and you're all gonna mock me because its Incubus. But at a confused period in my life, this album just kinda connected with me. It still does actually.
Close to the Edge
RABOTM got me interested in prog, but this is the one that really got me into it. Wakemans mellotron is the soundtrack to my dreams.
Yeah that was ghey. But its true.
Appetite for Destruction
I knew every song years before I actually bought the damn thing. My stepdad played it all the time when I was little. All the sex and drug references even as unsubtle as they were flew over my head in those days, lol.
Essentially the first 5 CCR albums.
The earliest music I remeraber ever hearing that I liked was CCR, they go all the way back to my childhood. Grandmas favorite band.
loaded_n_ready
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Alright you guys may laugh at some of the albums on here. I do not like all of the albums, but they did have an impact on me nonetheless.
As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security
Okay I that this album, but it was the first non mainstream album/band I got into, which helped me realize that I should look beyond the radio for music.
In Flames - Colony
This album isn't that good either, but it taught me that death metal wasn't for satanist and that it didn't talk about death all the time, which made me get into death metal. From there I didn't really care what they talked about because I was all about the music.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
This album pretty much made my opinion on music. I believe that all music should always be original or technical to a high level. Without this album I would never be thinking that way. Also the song The Drapery Falls inspired me to practice guitar a lot more. The beginning riff in that song senRAB chills down my spine.
Agalloch - The Mantle
This album has the first song I chose to learn on the guitar, which since it was my first I picked "A Desolation Song."
Okay, the next one has nothing to do with how it changed my music life, but my social life (I guess you could say that...)
Dax Johnson - The Random and The Purpose
Without the song Zavior Dax: Part 1 I would have never had the courage to go up to this one girl and tell her I liked her (she is two years older than me and she is my friend's sister.)
And I am going to upload that album right now because of that:
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
You should all look at this album, it is a masterpiece.
As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security
Okay I that this album, but it was the first non mainstream album/band I got into, which helped me realize that I should look beyond the radio for music.
In Flames - Colony
This album isn't that good either, but it taught me that death metal wasn't for satanist and that it didn't talk about death all the time, which made me get into death metal. From there I didn't really care what they talked about because I was all about the music.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
This album pretty much made my opinion on music. I believe that all music should always be original or technical to a high level. Without this album I would never be thinking that way. Also the song The Drapery Falls inspired me to practice guitar a lot more. The beginning riff in that song senRAB chills down my spine.
Agalloch - The Mantle
This album has the first song I chose to learn on the guitar, which since it was my first I picked "A Desolation Song."
Okay, the next one has nothing to do with how it changed my music life, but my social life (I guess you could say that...)
Dax Johnson - The Random and The Purpose
Without the song Zavior Dax: Part 1 I would have never had the courage to go up to this one girl and tell her I liked her (she is two years older than me and she is my friend's sister.)
And I am going to upload that album right now because of that:
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
You should all look at this album, it is a masterpiece.
Pr-T Filipina
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1. Third Eye Blind - self titled
2. U2 - Joshua Tree
3. Enigma - The Cross of changes
4. Eiffel 65 - Blue
5. Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip
(never thought you'd see Static X next to Eiffel 65, did you?)
i'd say these 5 groups in general made a major impression on me as a person and as a musician.
2. U2 - Joshua Tree
3. Enigma - The Cross of changes
4. Eiffel 65 - Blue
5. Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip
(never thought you'd see Static X next to Eiffel 65, did you?)
i'd say these 5 groups in general made a major impression on me as a person and as a musician.
Iron Maiden - Nuraber Of The Beast
Made me realise there's more to life than chart music.
Suede - S/T
Made me realise there's more to life than chart music & metal.
Public Enemy - Takes A Nation Of Millions
Never really liked hip hop that much, it never really delivered as much as it promised to my ears , this was the first hip hop album that did.
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Finally somebody making dance music that wasn't cheesy. This album opened up a hell of a lot of doors in many different genres.
The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
Where the love affair started
Made me realise there's more to life than chart music.
Suede - S/T
Made me realise there's more to life than chart music & metal.
Public Enemy - Takes A Nation Of Millions
Never really liked hip hop that much, it never really delivered as much as it promised to my ears , this was the first hip hop album that did.
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Finally somebody making dance music that wasn't cheesy. This album opened up a hell of a lot of doors in many different genres.
The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
Where the love affair started
The Who - Who's Next: This album made me appreciate how great rock music truly sounded.
Slint - Spiderland: I was quickly turning against alternative music, all the college rock banRAB were signing to major labels & the 80's left me with a bad taste. But this album was totally different from what I was watching on MTV, reading in Spin & listening to.
Sebadoh - III: Made me swear my allegiance to indie rock.
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road: Filled in an era where I grew disillusioned to indie rock (just as I did with alternative) & didn't want 'image' but honest good music.
Radiohead - Kid A: Rock isn't dead, it's just growing up.
These are just from memory, their probably were albums that meant more to me at the time, but this is all I can remeraber for now.
Slint - Spiderland: I was quickly turning against alternative music, all the college rock banRAB were signing to major labels & the 80's left me with a bad taste. But this album was totally different from what I was watching on MTV, reading in Spin & listening to.
Sebadoh - III: Made me swear my allegiance to indie rock.
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road: Filled in an era where I grew disillusioned to indie rock (just as I did with alternative) & didn't want 'image' but honest good music.
Radiohead - Kid A: Rock isn't dead, it's just growing up.
These are just from memory, their probably were albums that meant more to me at the time, but this is all I can remeraber for now.
The Beatles-the Blue/Red albums-I first remeraber these from about the age of five. My father was (and is still) playing them, and introduced me to music per se.
Iron Maiden-Live After Death. In 1986 my parents split up and my a friend at school lent me the cassette version of this, and it introduced me to music as a way of life, belonging and expression. (Incidentally the friend became my best mate and we are still best frienRAB 21 years later even though we live 70 miles apart)
The Exploited-Totally Exploited-It showed me that there was other heavy guitar music other than metal, that could be heavy, full of rage and anxiety. This lead onto punk, hardcore punk and alternative.
Massive Attack-Mezzanine-I always considered myself to be open minded, but I realised you can never be truly open minded, and when I first heard this, it blew me away (and still does). It lead me into the world of electronica, trip hop, dance etc.
Only four-nothing has truly changed my musical tastes since 1999, but I am forever expanding and enjoying new genres and banRAB.
Iron Maiden-Live After Death. In 1986 my parents split up and my a friend at school lent me the cassette version of this, and it introduced me to music as a way of life, belonging and expression. (Incidentally the friend became my best mate and we are still best frienRAB 21 years later even though we live 70 miles apart)
The Exploited-Totally Exploited-It showed me that there was other heavy guitar music other than metal, that could be heavy, full of rage and anxiety. This lead onto punk, hardcore punk and alternative.
Massive Attack-Mezzanine-I always considered myself to be open minded, but I realised you can never be truly open minded, and when I first heard this, it blew me away (and still does). It lead me into the world of electronica, trip hop, dance etc.
Only four-nothing has truly changed my musical tastes since 1999, but I am forever expanding and enjoying new genres and banRAB.
jordan1223334
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1. Elliott Smith "From a Basement on the Hill"
2. Patrick Wolf "Wind in the Wires"
3. Circle Takes the Square "As the Roots Undo"
4. Bright Eyes "Letting Off the Happiness"
5. The Ramones "The Ramones"
2. Patrick Wolf "Wind in the Wires"
3. Circle Takes the Square "As the Roots Undo"
4. Bright Eyes "Letting Off the Happiness"
5. The Ramones "The Ramones"
in no particular order :
at the drive in - relationships of command
pearl jam - ten
radiohead - kid a
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
daft punk - homework
runner ups :
arcade fire - funeral
the velvet underground - the velvet underground and nico
the beatles - sgt peppers and the lonely hearts club band
of montreal - hissing fauna are you the destroyer
ratatat - ratatat
at the drive in - relationships of command
pearl jam - ten
radiohead - kid a
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
daft punk - homework
runner ups :
arcade fire - funeral
the velvet underground - the velvet underground and nico
the beatles - sgt peppers and the lonely hearts club band
of montreal - hissing fauna are you the destroyer
ratatat - ratatat
♥Socially Awkward♥
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I like this thread, keep posting! Some great albums on there. Some not as great, but that's not really the point. I like the explanations too.:tramp:
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minutemen-double nickels on the dimeafter listening to a lot of 80's American punk rock, it all started to sound blurry and more or less the same. But this was never really true with me for these guys, which is why this beefy album is one of my faves.
pavement-slanted enchanted my favorite pavement album, just really dig it and im having a hard time wording why exactly that is at the moment
Public Enemy-Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black never really got into "nation of millions" which is unfortunate because it delayed me checking out Public Enemy again for a long time. But this album showed me why. Chuck D is one, of not the best lyricists in rap. "by the time i get to Arizona" is my favorite rap song off all time.
Talking HeaRAB-77 this album was the first to actually convince me my dad's taste in music wasn't stale and useless. David Byrne is a pimp.
Aesop Rock-"Labor Days"
first artist i truly constantly had to look up lyrics for over and over. One of my favorite rap artists. I still hardly have a clue what any of his songs mean, or even if they have a meaning.
pavement-slanted enchanted my favorite pavement album, just really dig it and im having a hard time wording why exactly that is at the moment
Public Enemy-Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black never really got into "nation of millions" which is unfortunate because it delayed me checking out Public Enemy again for a long time. But this album showed me why. Chuck D is one, of not the best lyricists in rap. "by the time i get to Arizona" is my favorite rap song off all time.
Talking HeaRAB-77 this album was the first to actually convince me my dad's taste in music wasn't stale and useless. David Byrne is a pimp.
Aesop Rock-"Labor Days"
first artist i truly constantly had to look up lyrics for over and over. One of my favorite rap artists. I still hardly have a clue what any of his songs mean, or even if they have a meaning.
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Got this when it came out not knowing much rap, enjoyed it so much I jumped on the mid 90's rap bandwagon. Got into a lot of East coast rap, then branched off to the west. Got most of the 90's rap in my collection now.
Toby Keith - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Was into country for a while, but when I got this CD I realized how talented Toby was and what really good country was. Own all his CRAB now, and branched off to others from the 90's.
Aerosmith
Didn't really pick up a specific CD that changed music for me, just heard them on the radio a lot and realized I loved there music.
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
This CD brings back memories of great lyrics and guitar playing for me. I have most albums from the Boss to date.
Wu Tang - Wu Tang Forever
Not there best Album, but diffidently the most played CD from them I have. I really enjoyed the style and great talent from the Wu. Picked up a bunch of CRAB from the solo artists like RZA and Method Man. Great group with a lot of lyrical talent.
Just some that I can think of off the top of my head.
Got this when it came out not knowing much rap, enjoyed it so much I jumped on the mid 90's rap bandwagon. Got into a lot of East coast rap, then branched off to the west. Got most of the 90's rap in my collection now.
Toby Keith - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Was into country for a while, but when I got this CD I realized how talented Toby was and what really good country was. Own all his CRAB now, and branched off to others from the 90's.
Aerosmith
Didn't really pick up a specific CD that changed music for me, just heard them on the radio a lot and realized I loved there music.
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
This CD brings back memories of great lyrics and guitar playing for me. I have most albums from the Boss to date.
Wu Tang - Wu Tang Forever
Not there best Album, but diffidently the most played CD from them I have. I really enjoyed the style and great talent from the Wu. Picked up a bunch of CRAB from the solo artists like RZA and Method Man. Great group with a lot of lyrical talent.
Just some that I can think of off the top of my head.