Five Essential Albums

[snipelfritz]

Fuck, I'm sure it's been done, but I don't give a shit, let's go. It's gotta be in order too: 1 being most essential.

5. Lose All Time by You Say Party! We Say Die!
4. Gorillaz by Gorillaz
3. Skeletal Lamping by Of Montreal
2. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
1. You're A Woman, I'm a Machine by Death From Above 1979

[Mudfuzz]

Gear influence?

[D.o.S.]

Gear influence is a great idea.

In no particular order (for bass):
Tool's Lateralus
Sleep's Holy Mountain
Pink Floyd's Echoes
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing
Various Motown Singles.

[nieh]

1. Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown

2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures/Warsaw Recordings

3. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation/Confusion Is Sex

4. Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle/Gravest Hits

5. Velvet Underground & Nico

changes around a lot

[Mudfuzz]

I am not really sure.. I'll have to think on it..

[GardenoftheDead]

I'll come up with my personal "most essential albums" later, but in terms of gear influence? Les Paul and the Beatles would dominate a list 4x as long. I know we love our pedals and such, but it's hard to beat literally inventing multitrack recording.

[dubkitty]

essential gear influence albums:

5. Grateful Dead, Skull & Roses
4. Fripp & Eno, Evening Star
3. U2, The Unforgettable Fire
2. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Rust Never Sleeps
1. My Bloody Valentine, Loveless

[J-Fuzz]

Just 5?

[DarkAxel]

1) Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
2) Buckethead - Electric Tears
3) Pink Floyd - Dark Side...
4) Gorillaz - Gorillaz
5) Tool - 10.000 Days

probably speaking about musical and artistic influence on me, 5 is not enough though

gear influence... that would be hard

[Joe Gress]

Five for gear?


In no order:
Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade - Animals
Bongripper - Hippie Killer
Russian Circles - Enter
Battles - Mirrored
QOTSA - Rated R

[DarkAxel]

For gear... i can try... not for gear i own, but for sounds i crave

1) Mars Volta - De-Loused
2) Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
3) Oceansize - Everyone Into Position/Frames (hard to decide)
4) Thrice - Beggars
5) Hammock - Kenotic

hard

[cheesecats]

beatles--white album
hendrix--are you experienced
richard and linda thompson--shoot out the lights
simple minds--new gold dream
gabriel yacoub--bel

[Nj0rd]

Gear influence, as said above, this is more for sounds i try and replicate or whatever in my band, you know!?

5) QOTSA - QOTSA (that fuzz gets me so good)
4) Baroness - Blue Record (the effects they use are so sweet, really dig that)
3) Sonic Youth- - Daydream Nation (who doesn't want to sound like that)
2) Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (so much beef)
1) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (look, pretty typical, but I think the clean and the overdriven tone on this record is entirely what I love for that type of sound. Not to mention the subtle effects and delays!)

This is hard. But there is a list for you

[coldbrightsunlight]

Gear influencing albums? What a cool idea!

So this isn't really stuff I've copied, I guess I don't do that, but it's things that use gear in a way that inspires me, or sounds I try to cop with whatever I have.

5) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
4) QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
3) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2) Juliana Hatfield - Only Everything
1) Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Weld

[yallerhon]

Five albums that have influenced gear choices / tones I like;

1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver; Extensive use of worn-out tape delays and low-gain overdrive.
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream; My introduction to layered fuzz.
3. Sigur Ros - Takk; Great ambient delay and reverb tones.
4. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me; Final word on eighties chorus and flanger riffs.
5. This is a tie between several albums for a variety of gear and tones; Psychocandy by The Jesus & Mary Chain (ringing, piercing yet melodic fuzz), Wincing the Night Away by the Shins (every song with flawless sonic production), and most anything by Elliott Smith and Iron & Wine (acoustic lo-fi minimalism).