Albums that changed everything and define you as a person

[casecandy]

Ah, fuck, I wrote such a good, long post, and deleted it just as I finished it. Fuck it.

[sonidero]

Bitches Brew...

[resincum]

[Muff_Diver]

This movie.

[jrmy]

Lungfish - Talking Songs for Walking

So I was scanning quickly, and missed who wrote this post. But then I saw the Lungfish album and thought "I bet that's Ugly Nora!" Scrolled back up, and yep, it's you!

And every time you post Lungfish, I think the same two thoughts: "Damn that's good!" and "Why don't I look deeper into Lungfish?"

[D.o.S.]

I will say that if you don't fuck with Tenacious D I don't fuck with you.

The same way fiction is often more truthful than fact, Tenacious D does everything infectiously awesome about that sort of classic rock radio-y stuff better than any single "real" record ever could.

[BoatRich]

[lordgalvar]

Fuck yea. I listened the hell out of that in high school.

Too many to list. Not going to put Weird Al on here, but I probably should . Would probably add Cabaret Voltaire in there too, but not a specific album.

Crass Christ the Album. Have listened to it constantly for 20+ years




Seriously, I think these set everything in my life in motion:

[goroth]

Working backwards from most recent:


For the use of dissonance and brutality, the way the arrangements ebb and flow, the way the riffs evolve. My highpoint of composition.


Because heavy. And the whole album is in D standard.


No explanation needed. But this was the Meshuggah album that clicked for me.


It was about machines. It sounded like machines. I'd never heard anything like the way Dino's guitar synced with Raymond Herrera's kick drum. And the combination of Burton's gruff shout and then those cleans. This was mind blowing.


This was the jump off point for me from Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, GnR, AiC into a whole different world of heavy.

The rest of my life up until Vulgar can be defined by Powerslave-Somewhere-Seventh Son. I still listen to one of those albums every other week.

[BitchPudding]

Childhood- Magical Mystery Tour

Teenager- American Idiot, The Black Parade, Icky Thump, Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon

Adult- Rated R, Era Vulgaris, Songs for the Deaf, Cosmogramma, OK Computer, Earthly Delights, Hesitant Alien, In Rainbows

TBP and In Rainbows are big ones.

[misterstomach]

great thread. will definitely consider giving an actual contribution. need coffee first. maybe if there's time later. i'm kind of tired of the internet.

[Ugly Nora]

I love you.

Thanks. However, please note that I am not actually the chick in my avatar.

Lungfish - Talking Songs for Walking

So I was scanning quickly, and missed who wrote this post. But then I saw the Lungfish album and thought "I bet that's Ugly Nora!" Scrolled back up, and yep, it's you!

And every time you post Lungfish, I think the same two thoughts: "Damn that's good!" and "Why don't I look deeper into Lungfish?"

Yeah, I'm like a broken record with Lungfish.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnZrmrC3js[/youtube]

[jrmy]

Yeah, I'm like a broken record with Lungfish.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnZrmrC3js[/youtube]

Hey - it's a good one to have on repeat!

Plus Mission of Burma! Can't go wrong there!

[trace]

First cd I ever bought, got it at Walmart, I think it had just come out so I guess I was about 10? Anyway, loved the shit out of them for a few years but they started to lose me with A Crow Left of the Murder and completely lost me after that. I still jam the shit out of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. all the time, no shame.


My older brother was super into Tool so naturally I gave them a try and loved them, they are still pretty much un-fuck-withable and introduced me to tons of other cool guitar-based bands that they were associated with or had open for them or what have you. (Melvins, Isis, Melt Banana, etc. and probably many more indirectly.)


Got into Nine Inch Nails from my brother too and went total fanboy during my high school years. Holy shit did I love this band. Well I still do but not quite as blindly and religiously, everything up to The Fragile I still love unconditionally but the newer stuff doesn't really do it for me anymore, although Hesitation Marks was a good return to form IMO. Anyway, NIN influenced my music taste more than any other band, introducing me to industrial, noise, metal, electronic, etc, which probably never would have found otherwise growing up in a town of 2,000 people with dialup internet and barely able to pick up a horrible modern rock radio station one hour away. Also got me into synthesizers, the first instrument I loved, didn't give a fuck about guitar til a few years ago.


Picked this up to hear the original version of "Suck" from NIN's Broken ep, really dug the rotating band members thing and started to slowly explore the bands of many of the performers on this album. Found Ween, The Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, KMFDM, Throbbing Gristle, GWAR, Foetus, Swans, and more this way.

Of course there are many more great albums that are really important to me but these are the ones that stand out as really influencing me and making an impact/change in my life.

[More_Divebombs]

In chronological order:


Heard this at a very young age through my Dad. Made me really appreciate melody. At that age, music was just background noise. The radio would be on in the car and it just washed over me. This was the first thing I heard that stood out. Still a big fan of this (and Costello's first 4 albums).


Fugazi. No explanation needed. I didn't get it at first, but then I did, and it was good.


Up until I heard this, I was mostly listening to pretty generic skate punk with squeaky clean production. It made me want to listen to music that sounded disgusting. Doom, sludge, noise, Entombed and bands that sound like Entombed, everything. It opened a massive door away from whiny pop punk.


RKL. Riffs. Sparked my interest in riffs. Riffs for days.