Top 10 Most Important Albums To You

I could never really get into the whole alt - country thing.... it was just..... boring.... and kinda like regular country, which i never particularly cared for... I guess thats why I am unable to make a connection with Wilco in alot of ways...
 
Pearl Jam - Ten

Queen - A Night at the Opera One of the best engineered albums I can imagine. Really fantastic all the way through.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Speaking of well-produced albums.

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York In which we hear the real Nirvana, covering Leadbelly, Vasolines, Bowie, and multiple Meat Puppets.

The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free Original Pirate Material was like a shot in the arm. Grand is even better, in almost every way. Mike Skinner is an expert storyteller.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood Hot.

Justice - Cross Hot. Maybe not built to last, but this made me re-prioritize.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Van Halen - Van Halen

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
 
Oh, yes! It's me ~ with my lame list: :rofl:

The Monkees ~ The Monkees

This was the first album i ever bought.

Tom Petty ~ King's Highway

My son and i were living with some frienRAB when he was about 9, 10, in there, and we had to sleep in the same room. He wanted music and i really didn't, but we compromised on this album, so it holRAB VERY fond memories for me.

Moody Blues ~ Every album from Nights In White Satin ~ Seventh Sojourn

Music to fall in love by, and i did, i DID! lol

Led Zepplin ~ I, II or III

first 'hard rock' i liked! rofl

Phil Collins ~ Hello I Must Be Going

first break-up song that ever said exactly how i felt ~ i don't care anymore

Beatles ~ everything up to Let It Be

i loved the music ~ what can i say?

Bob Seger ~ Night Moves & Stranger In Town

Pink Floyd ~ a lot

Sorry i can't be more specific than that ~ Pink Floyd was acid music
'nuf said

Scorpions ~ Crazy World

Just really like the songs and some of the sentiments.

and Heart ~ Heart

It reminded me of a good friend i had in high school and the band we were in.

That list isn't by importance ~ seems like ALL of 'em were equally important to me! :rofl:
 
10) Goo Goo Dolls-Dizzy Up The Girl (1998)
I remeraber back in eighth grade when I had 200 songs and wasn't really sure what music was. This is one of the few albums that has stuck with me. It's really a great soft-rock album.

9) Angels & Airwaves-I-Empire (2007)
I'll be honest, I'm not a Blink fan. Never have been. So I was very skeptical when a friend handed me a copy of Delonge's new band's (I guess now it's a side project, is it possible for a side project to be better than the main band?) debut album, "We Don't Need To Whisper." I was surprised, it wasn't a bad album. I was intrigued when I heard they were releasing I-Empire merely a year later and wasn't quite sure what to expect. To me, I-Empire takes everything good from We Don't Need To Whisper and cuts out the filler. The only song that I don't really care for is Rite of Spring, people tell me that's b/c I'm not a Blink fan. Whatever. Both of the AVA albums are better than anything Blink's ever done IMO, but I-Empire is phenomenally good.

8) Pearl Jam-Ten (1991)
Best grunge album ever. Period. And Eddie Vedder is one of the top 5 vocalists of the past 30 years.

7) Dream Theater-Images And WorRAB (1992)
I'm not much of a metal fan, I'll admit I thought Systematic Chaos was a load of garbage. Train of Thought wasn't much better. There's a few songs from Octavarium I can tolerate, Metropolis the album is alright, but this is and forever will be their masterpiece. From the beginning to the end, this album grabs you and doesn't let you go. Pull Me Under, Another Day, Take The Time, Metropolis Pt. 1, holy hell.

6) Tool-Lateralus (2001)
I used to listen to these guys a lot more than I do now, but this album is still one of my most-played.

5) Death Cab For Cutie-Transatlanticism (2003)
This was the first album I heard from these guys, and I'm still hooked on this one. Such a great album. It just has one of those flows where it's easy to listen to, there's no tracks you have to skip, there's nothing that disrupts the flow of the album. It's like sailing on smooth water.

4) GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)
This album is so good. It's great for night driving, rainy days, or when you're stuck at the airport with a two hour layover.

3) Coldplay-Parachutes (2000)
This was another one of the first albums in my collection. I'd have to say A Rush Of Blood To The Head is better as this one fades slightly in the stretch, but the first seven or eight songs are damn near perfect.

2) Snow Patrol-tie between Final Straw (2003) and Eyes Open (2006)
My most-played band of all time. I have their earlier stuff and it's pretty good as well, but they definitely found their groove with these two albums. Their new album isn't bad either.

1) Explosions in The Sky-Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (2001)
The album that got me into post-rock. I think The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is better, but it's close. I can't really describe how I felt when I first heard this album, but I remeraber knowing it was like nothing I heard before.
 
I'm going to name 8 albums, cause there's just those that "changed" my life ... tho my favorite albums are much more, but not all have changed me.

As for the order, it's in the order that I sturabled upon them in my life. From the first album that changed me till the last. There are no 10 albums, for the simple reason that there haven't been enough time to have that many albums change me.

01- Odyssey and oracle - The Zorabies
I heard "Time of the season" by chance in a movie ... I loved it immediately ... I had to research it after that, and i got to know Odyssey and Oracle and The Zorabies in all. The importance isn't in the album, but is more in the fact that THIS album was my introduction to the 60s, that in whole changed my entire perception in music.

02- BookenRAB - Simon & Garfunkel
Continuing my research of the 60s, I had to continue with the only songs that i already knew, and that were released in the 60s, so that's why i got to Simon & Garfunkel, and BookenRAB, I was only familiar with "Mrs. Robinson" [see how pathetic i was] but "Hazy shade of winter" just blew my mind. And this album is perfect, from 12 tracks, it's got 7 of the best Simon & Garfunkel written tracks.

03- Remeraber - John Lennon
I don't listen to it anymore, now that i have the Lennon albums, and that i hate compilation CRAB, but this CD was the first thing that I ever heard by Lennon [I still didn't know the Beatles at that time]. I was on one of those local forums, and i had noticed that I don't know anything about music, and one of the merabers had suggested it. so I downloaded it, and got hooked. That CD looped for hours, from my PC to any car i get into. I had listened to "Imagine", and got bored with it, before I even knew it was a song by John Lennon. But hearing his screams on "Mother" and feeling the hypnotic pounRAB from "Remeraber", that psychedelic atmosphere in "#9 Dream" ... Being hooked on Lennon, I just wanted more, and the Beatles journey had just began.

04- Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
I never wanted to know anything about the Beatles [before listening to John Lennon] for the simple reason, that they were TOO popular for me to like. I just felt it was an overrated band, seeing those teenagers screaming on those old videos, it couldn't but remind me of the durab blonRAB screaming in the Backstreet Boys concerts. So I had to begin with the post-Beatlemania phase, so from Rubber Soul till Abbey Road. But Magical Mystery Tour was the masterpiece in my opinion. It's got my favorite two Lennon songs "I Am the Walrus" and " Strawberry FielRAB Forever" - My favorite two McCartney songs "Fool on the hill" and "Your mother should know" and the favorite George Harrison song "Blue Jay Way" ... and of course all the other songs on the same album. I feel it's much MUCH better than Sgt. Pepper, anyway it's my favorite Beatles album.

05- Pipers at the gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
During my period listening to The Beatles and reading about them, I sturabled on a Sgt. Pepper article, mentioning the recording of Piper at the Gates at the Abbey Road studios, in the same period. I was already a fan of The Wall album and The Dark Side, but i had never heard any early Pink Floyd album, so I had to give it a shot. It was nothing like the Pink Floyd I knew, it was so much better. It was so chaotic and psychedelic, it was an experience in itself. "Interstellar Domine" by itself drives me to a lucid dream state. The crazy panning, the never ending jams, the guys put everything they got into this single album.

06- Anthology III - The Beatles
Just when i thought i knew everything about the Beatles, came the Anthology I - II - III, I enjoyed the first and the second, but the third is a must have. It had all the amazing songs I loved but better, you just have to listen to the acoustic version of "While my Guitar gently Weeps". I thought The Beatles was a band with really good songs, but going into the recording experience, seeing how a demo changes from take to take, how every strum is revisited to be better and better, it amazed me.

07- The age of the understatement - Last Shadow Puppets
I don't why it didn't get any success, It was the greatest album I've heard, and that wasn't 40 years old. Listening to it, just feels like a single track that ended too quick. In the beginning, it pulls you strongly with the loud single "Age of the Understatement" ... and then track after track continues smoothly, every song gets you and then quickly enRAB keeping you asking for more, that you get in the next song. The atmosphere keeps rising until you get to the climax in "In my Room", and quickly the fall in the next track "Meeting Place" until everything" is resting with my favorite "The time has come again". Everything is now quiet, a jump from the first track in its place, and the journey continues. Just a perfect album, that shouldn't be dismerabered.

08- Ok Computer! - Radiohead
I had a friend who was obsessed with Radiohead, and he's got a good taste, so I felt I should see that. I got the discography and began from Pablo Honey. He did warn before starting listening to the band, that he himself got into a 3 months period of Radiohead, without rest and fell into a state of depression. A band that comes with a warning is a must. So I listened to the albums in order, and obviously Ok Computer! is the break through album. It's like the before/after photos. I love every track in that album, the order is perfect, the lyrics are amazing, the poetry in the songs is breathtaking. I just begin the album with the last track of The BenRAB "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", and you're in the right state for the next album. But there's possibility of sickness if carried by this band for more than a month.
 
Belinda Carlisle - Best Of
Got me interested in music
The Sisters Of Mercy - A Slight Case Of Overborabing
Got me interested in alternative/goth music
Cradle Of Filth - Vempire Or Dark Faerytales In Phallust (1994)
Opened my ears to more extreme music
Korn - S/T
Got me hooked up with other music fans.
Hole - Live Through This (1994)
A chart band that I actually liked
Belly - King (1995)
One of my first albums I loved every track
White Zorabie - Astro-Creep:2000 (1995)
An album I bought on a camping holiday after never hearing a single note or info about that band (except a single being in the US charts). By the end of the camping trip everyone was "singing" to the tape, Yeah!
Faithful Dawn - Temperance (1997)
Another band I bought without hearing a note. This was my introduction to darkwave. Bought it from the now defunct Pink Pather RecorRAB shop in Carlisle which happened to be the area where the band was from (and I was on holiday at).
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision (2001)
My favourite album by my favourite band.
VNV Nation - Futureperfect (2002)
Introduced me into a whole new electronic arena.
 
1. Elliott Smith----FABOTH
2. Bob Dylan-----The Times
3. Elton John----Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. Neil Young----After the Goldrush/Harvest Moon
5. Ryan Adams----Gold
6. Tom Petty----Full Moon Fever
7. Regina Spektor----Begin to Hope
8. Dinosaur Jr.----Bug
9. Yo La Tengo----Popular Songs
10. Taj Mahal----Phantom Blues

the last ones mostly have to do with relationships :cool:
 
01) Angel Dust - Faith No More - 1992
This album changed my life. The Real Thing was the first album I ever got when I was about 10 and loved it so much that when Angel Dust came out I was so excited, but well not ready for what I was about to hear. From the moment land of sunshine starts I was just amazed that an album could have so much energy, yet could be so different for the last. As the album went on through smaller and smaller, crack hittler, ****lobber and ending with midnight cowboy, I felt then like I do now that I will never hear another album this good.
I still don't think a day has gone by that I haven't listened to at least 1 song from it.

02) Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle - 1991
The only reason I got this album was because it was Mike Patton's (from FNM) other band. The album doesn't start for 30ish seconRAB then the power of Travolta comes in and just blew me away. The album was like an odd cross between pop,metal,jazz, thrash,circus whilst being directed by David Lynch. Even tho I do think that Disco Volante is a better album The self tilted debut is more important to me. Both this Album and Angel Dust have given so much to music and have spawned many copycats *cough slipknot cough* that couldn't quite hit it.

03) Waiting For The Sun - The Doors - 1968
I just love the doors,and Waiting had everything that I loved about them. The hard hitting songs like Not to Touch the Earth,The Unknown Soldier down to the soft beautifull songs such as Hello, I Love You,Love Street to the final moments of Five to one. This album is outstanding.

04) Urban Discipline - Biohazard - 1992
This was my first taste of Hardcore and would help set my musical tastes for years to come. It's not the greatest album of all time (obviously) but seeing them live in 93/94 and having that album was just a great time. Alot of great Hardcore folowed and it helped me find a lot of older stuff that I would grow to love.

05) The Star Wars Trilogy Soundtrack - 1993
Great music for great films

06) Fantomas - Fantomas - 1999
After the demise of Faith no more I was a bit lost. I had picked up a few cd's that patton had done as well as other merabers of fnm but nothing was realy doing it for me. Then Fantomas' self titled Debut came out . Holy **** it was crazy. A whole album of thrash jazz metal, with no lyrics just Patton using his voice as another instrument. Then the line up of Buzz Osborne of The Melvins ,Trevor Dunn of Mr Bungle and Dave Lorabardo of Slayer, made this one of the dream line ups for me ever. This album helped me find a true love for John Zorn and showed me that Mike Patton was on true form.

07) Reign in Blood - Slayer - 1986
Come on it's Reign in Blood

08) Sublime - Sublime - 1996
I found Sublime pretty late in about 1998, but the self titled was pretty much all I listened to throughout 98 and early 99. Such a great album full of great summer songs to relax and have a smoke to. This album was what sparked my interest in banRAB like DHC


09) The Few,The Proud,The Crucial - Casey Jones - 2004
I was so sick of hardcore by about 2001. Everything had that same beatdown in everysong, a lot of banRAB I liked were still bringing out albums I liked, but there was nothing NEW for me and it all just got weak. But Casey Jones changed that. So much raw energy,so many great songs and a bunch of Family Guy samples. I got the same feeling from them as I did with Morning Again years earlier.

10) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your FrienRAB - 2002
I don't wanna get all "Emo" on you but this album got me through a lot, plus its got some catchy songs on it....... I don't have to explain myself to you.
 
10. Silverchair "Frogstomp"-1995
Daniel's lyrics were simular to what i was feeling at the time..
9. Disturbed "The Sickness"-2000
The first "Nu Metal" album I bought. My frienRAB and I would just blast it when we were walking(we always had a stero with us for some reason)
8. All-American Rejects "Move Along"-2005
Wow the first time I heard them I was like "Wow these guys are ***." Well now since I have been listening to them I think they are really talented. Also me and my friend used to just play it even though I hated it.
7. Mushroomhead "XIII"-2003
I got this album last year for my birthday. It got me through a lot of stuff that my friend was doing. Made me lose a couple of frienRAB too (They liked Slipknot) and got me into Rap-Core.
6. KoRn "Coming Undone"-2005
I used to listen to this everyday when I got home from school in the 6th grade. It got me through my homework and people at school
5. Nirvana "Nevermind"-1992
I hate this album...but it got me into Nirvana. It was too mainstream but my friend(which died last year) showed me it so it will always be here even though I hate it.
4. Pearl Jam "Ten"-1991
Jeremy..that song is like my life right I wanted to commit suicide so much last year..luckly Pearl Jam Nirvana and Alice in Chains came to me in time.
3. Alice in Chains "Dirt"-1992
This album is just a masterpiece. Got me through my 3rd suicide attempt.
2. All-American Rejects "All-American Rejects"-2001
This album surprised me. Because it was the first ever Pop-Punk album I have listened too. So that changed me.
1. Nirvana "In Utero"-1993
This album changed me...Nirvana changed me into a depressed grunge freak that wants to commit suicide just doesn't have the balls to do it. Ask any of my frienRAB...in Middle School I was like so happy and go luckey then in 8th grade when my friend and dog died...I started to listen to Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's talent..and it has changed me forever..I dont listen to Nu-Metal anymore now I listen to Grunge.."In Utero" is the best ablum ever made.
 
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