Top 10 Most Important Albums To You

I dont know if I could name 10, but here are some albums very important to me

Muse- Blackholes and Revelations
While I don't listen to this album very often any more (its a pretty mediocre album tbh, few standouts), this was THE album that got me into rock music and then alternative, and so on. This was the album that made me realise that music wasnt just about Britney Spears and 50cent. It opened up a whole new world of music that I had never even heard of.

Radiohead- OK Computer
The first album where I could just relax, and each song was like a wave that pulled me in even deeper into oblivion. From the first crunching chorRAB of Airbag all the way to the delicate The Tourist, not to forget the masterpiece that is Paranoid Android, the creepy Clirabing Up The Walls, the pretentious Fitter Happier and the sad xylophone in No Surprises in between, this remains one of my go-to albums when I need to escape from the world for a while.

David Bowie- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
I think everyone neeRAB a bit of David Bowie in their life. Like seriously. Every song on this album is a gem. All I have to say is though, it has the best album opener and the best closer ever.

Jeff Buckley- Grace
Somehow he can make sad love songs sound not cheesy. In fact quite the opposite. This man had the most beautiful voice, matched by his excellent melody writing skills, and his guitar skills, which are quite underrated.

Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of the Moon, Animals, The Wall
These three albums I bought at the same time, and one afternoon decided to listen to them, my first listen of Floyd. I played one album after the other, I just couldn't stop. Got me into prog music. While I'm not a massive prog fan or anything, The Floyd albums will always have a special place in my CD display rack.

Regina Spektor- Far
I haven't been listening to Regina for long, but this album pulled me in. My friend showed me Fidelity once, but I wasnt too impressed by it. This album made me realise that classical music CAN be corabined with alt music, and not just through progressive rock styles. Being trained in classical piano, it has definitely influenced how I play my music, and made me a lot more open-minded.
 
I actually think "Spiritual Healing" to be their weakest (Even though its still a good album) and a great choice on the "Sound of Perserverance" though.



Its great but "Syrabolic" even better, then there`s "Covenant" by Morbid Angel one mean muther of a death metal abum.
 
Led Zeppelin's - Mothership & How The West Was Won (Live Album)- My dad gave me the album, which probably changed my life, it got me into new music, and I started to realize that what I was currently listening to sucked.

Iron Maiden's Debut Self Titled Album- What can I say. This album is my favorite and always be my favorite. The first song I heard was Prowler, that song changed my whole view of Metal. I thought it was just a bunch of screaming and heavy guitar riRAB, I was wrong.

Pink Floyd- Comfortably Nurab- Introduced me to a more synthesized side of rock. Incredibly Amazing.

Misfits In General a great band, with great Albums.

The Who- Tommy- Rock could tell a story too, just look at Dream Theater.

Iron Maiden-The Nuraber of The Beast- Made me get up off my ass, stop playing guitar hero, and learn to play a real instrument. Great Album.
 
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Rust In Peace - Megadeth

L.D. 50 - Mudvayne

Continent - The Acacia Strain

All Systems Decay - Entropy

502 - Blackroom

And They Shall Take Up Serpents - Byzantine

Ascendancy - Trivium
 
10. American Idiot - Green Day
Got me into music when I was a tv whore, so I saw a video of them on mtv and thinking 'wow this is awesome'...and then that got me into more music overall.

9. The Clash (US Version) - The Clash
After getting Green Day and some Killers albums and any sh*t that was on mtv, my uncle got this for me when I was 13 because he heard I was listening to music more and I thought I was 'punk' because I was listening to Green Day. The album also pushed me into my punk phase where I listened to well known stuff like DK, The Sex Pistols, The Clash. It's still my favorite punk album and will always have a spot in my memory, even if I don't listen to that much punk anymore.

8. Eh finish this later. Feeling kind of lazy.
 
Here we go.

10 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
As soon as I heard Norwegian Wood and the subsequent tracks years ago, I knew that The Beatles were not the shallow pop band that I always thought they were. My Beatles bashing stopped in its tracks.

9 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
Simply the greatest influence on everybody's guitar playing, Axis had special significance for me, as I knew that the guitar could be a beautiful thing and a heavy thing at once.

8 The Essential Johnny Cash: 1955-1983
This compilation quickly destroyed my inherent bias towarRAB country music that I had developed after hearing Lynyrd Skynyrd and throwaway racist banRAB like that. Mr. Cash showed me that country music can stand for something, a la Man in Black and Don't Take Your Guns to Town.

7 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Destroying another even greater bias of mine towarRAB rap music, tracks like Stan, Kim, the Way I Am, and Criminal showed to me that rap was much more than "bitches, hoes, and big screen TVs".

6 Joy Division - Live at Les Bains Douches [18 Dec. 1979]
One of the five best live recorRAB I have, this recording held significance for me in a time when I was feeling just terrible. Thankfully, Ian Curtis saved me from possibly turning to emo music or something awful like that.

5 U2 - Achtung Baby
One of the three great releases of the wonderful musical year of 1991, Achtung Baby made U2 more than just "my mom's band".

4 Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
The first incarnation of modern Jazz and still the greatest, Kind of Blue made me think of music as more than songs, more than albums, but as a cohesive thing. From here, music influences everything I do.

3 White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Taking a step further from Hendrix and Joy Division, White Light/White Heat had a tremendous influence on how I viewed "noisy" music. The 16 minute epic "Sister Ray" most exemplified this. Consider me a tremendous Velvets fan from this point on.

2 Talking HeaRAB - The Name of This Band Is Talking HeaRAB
Undoubtedly the second greatest live album I have, TNoTBiTH not only introduced me to the HeaRAB, but to the beauty of beats, bass, synths, and minimalist songwriting, all of which I had dismissed pre-Talking HeaRAB.

1 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Sometime in August 2002 my parents were driving my sister and me to Maryland from Connecticut to see my grandparents, one of whom was very sick. We drove down there in silence. As we got there, we learned that my grandmother had died. I shed no tears, but felt very sad inside. As we drove back the following day, my dad told me to take out a CD from the front pocket of the car and put it in the drive. That CD was R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People. The tracks flowed together as a seemingly tangible unit, building on the themes of the previous. By "Everybody Hurts" I was in tears and by "Nightswimming" I felt like I couldn't take it. It was the saddest, most relevant, most disturbing, and greatest record I had ever heard. Then, the album closed with "Find the River", which gave me hope without making me forget the events that had occurred. Bravo Michael, Mike, Peter, and Bill! Bravo!
 
Ah yes, the random list poster... indeed a unique and somewhat enigmatic person in the world of the music forum... we know WHAT this poster likes, yet, we never quite get WHY... indeed, an enigma...
 
10) Minus The Bear: Highly Refined Pirates
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Minus the Bear is fantastic. This album's nostalgia just warms my heart every time I listen to it.

9) Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me
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I love this album for it's mood, simply put. It's puts me in a soraber state of being everytime.

8) Nirvana: Nevermind
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I almost never listen to anything from this anymore, but hell it made me who I was back in middle school. This album will undeniably change any pre-teen's life.

7) Velvet Revolver: Contraband
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I HATE THIS BAND BUT I USED TO LIKE SLASH AND LOVE THIS BAND SO SUE ME. VELVET REVOLVER IS HORRIBLE.

6) Tool: Lateralus
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This album taught me the meaning of good music. Maynard James Keenan is my favorite singer ever (tied with Cedric Bixler-Zavala) and Danny Carey is probably my favorite drummer.

5) Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II
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I hate Guns N' Roses. However, they used to be my favorite band back in middle school, and while I'm glad I got into music a little more intelligent, I can't deny the impact this and the next two albums had on me.

4) Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I
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This album in my eyes was great because it had Noveraber Rain on it. My former favorite song of all time. Back when I knew too little music to not have a favorite song.

3) Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction
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YES. I USED TO LOVE GUNS N' ROSES. So naturally, I loved this album as a child.

2) The Mars Volta: De-Loused In The Comatorium
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Holy Crap this is the greatest album ever made. Not really, but in my mind it might as well be. In the couple of years this has been out ive listened to it more than any other album except...

1) At The Drive-In: Relationship Of Command
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If it wasn't for this album, I would still be stuck listening to Guns N' Roses. I loved this album so much I searched for anything related to it and anything related to THAT which resulted in my current music taste,which I'm quite proud of. It's not the best album ever made. Not even close. But it's important to me as hell. This album makes me want to be in At The Drive-In. This album makes me want to know Omar and Cedric personally. I must have listened to this album every day for two months back when I discovered it. Thank god for At The Drive-In, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Cedric Bixler-Zavala.
 
10. Digitalism - Idealism
It's this album that opened doors to me, not just doors to electronic music but rather doors to openmindedness, before that I didn't listen to much more than heavy metal.

9. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Dark, cold, but somehow comforting. It helped me through some difficult perioRAB in my life.

8. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
My first introduction to one of the most innovative artists the world has known. The first day I heard it was after a teacher in school suggested it to me. I came home and I listened to it for the rest of the day, completely amazed by it's beauty.

7. Rush - Moving Pictures
I read about this album somewhere on the internet, and decided to buy it as soon as I could find it. The next day I picked it up from a secondhand record shop and put it on my turntable. I loved their sound, light but very touching. This was the album opening the doors to Progressive music, and soon albums by Camel, Genesis and Yes followed.

6. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Their first, best and last album they ever recorded, Never Mind The Bollocks got home with me after I had seen it in a store, and it grabbed my attention by the pink letters on a flashy yellow background. I played it a lot in my early teens, singing the complete album and pretending to be Johnny Rotten. I rediscovered it about a year ago, and saw them live in the summer. Critics were bored, but I had the time of my live in the mosh pit shouting along hundreRAB people who felt the same way.

5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
I remeraber hearing Like A Rolling Stone on the radio and searching for one of his recorRAB in my dad's collection. I found Blonde On Blonde and put the first disc on my turntable. It still remains my nuraber one album he ever recorded. And I'm very thrilled to see hem in April, when he's coming to Belgium.

4. Led Zeppelin - Remasters
This is a compilation album, but it was the first time I really listened to them, on our way to France.

3. The Doors - The Doors
Their debut record, which has always intrigued me with it's dark sound and, more importantly, Morrison's incredible voice. Throughout my years of growing up, this is probably the only album that I've been listening too since I was just a little boy.

2. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young at it's best, I remeraber nights lying awake just listening to this record, and not being able to understand that a song like My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) was only performed by one man, one guitar and one harmonica.

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
This is my favourite album of all time. It grabbed me when I was about 11 years old when my brother gave it to me. The energy and skill displayed in this album still amazes me and it remains most played album out of my entire life.
 
Don't know nearly enough about Slint but i definitely have to agree with the notion that Music has the Right to Children is an awesome album, I wholeheartedly concur!
 
The Beatles, Rubber Soul
Not my favorite Beatles album (can't have one), but it was my first. And it's what got me into the Beatles in the first place.

Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory
One of my first albums. Couldn't stop listening to it back in the day. Listening to it now really brings me back.

Gorillaz, Gorillaz
The first album I ever purchased (with my own money). Ordered it off amazon or something. I remeraber the day it came in the mail. Good day.

Switchfoot, Hello Hurricane
This is a more recent one (2009!) but it's probably my favorite from one of my favorite banRAB. Plus, they played the entire thing through when I saw them live. It awesome!

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
Probably my favorite album of all time. It is perfect. Plus it's got two of my favorite solos by one of my favorite guitarists: "Money" and "Time". The "Money" solo is probably my favorite ever, though it's hard to say for sure. I love David Gilmour.

Dream Theater, Awake
Great album by one of my all time favorite banRAB. Wasn't my first from Dream Theater (that was Images and WorRAB, but was one of the albums that really got me into them.

David Crowder*Band, A Collision
Now this is an album! It's great. Bunch of classic Crowder songs on it! It's got a great feel and flow to it! I can't help but love it! An intelligent album.

blink-182 blink-182
My favorite blink album. It's not just a collection of songs, but has a real feel and mature purpose.... odd for blink-182, but great! "Stockholm Syndrome" = favorite blink song.

Blues Traveler four
This album ROCKS! I can't stop singing it's praises to this day! Such a great band and this album is such a great portrait of just how good they are.

Relient K The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek
My first album from this band. Probably one of their best too, in my opinion.

So many more that I love (Thrice's The Artist in the Arabulance, Skillet's Collide, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication and every other Beatles album)!
 
i'm POSITIVE BoarRAB of Canada have always incorporated 'real' instruments on their past albums at various times. especially if you ever managed to download a live set. Aquarius is just a little too funky to be a synth. just that when they got to the most recent disc they didn't bother hiding it as much.

You Could Feel the Sky is the track that does it for me every time.
 
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