Albums that changed your life

[One Love 731]

The Wall. I guess its more of a rock opera soundtrack, lol. Still to this day I enjoy jamming the wall and know every change that's coming next.

Above, this one has been with me during the hardest times of my life.

Still a goodie.

I could go on and on. Music is like grass, if ya don't have any something's missing. 1

 

[Lollipops]

Kanye west College Dropout.

It opened my eyes to a different way to experience music. For the first time i was able to understand lyrics instead of just hearing a melody once i was able to activly enjoy music

 

[BadTicket]

The Coup - Steal This Album

Hip hop from the left.

The Cure - Disintegration

"Disintegration is the best album ever!"
- Kyle Broflovski

I agree.

 

[Lollipops]

if kyle said it im gonna have to check it out!

 

[arizona_bay]

TOOL LATERALUS

I cant believe im the first one to bring tool into this thread.

disintergration is the only cure album i have heard good shit.

 

[Laugan Gaucher]

pampered menial from pavlov's dog

 

[mrpotatohead]

Exile on Main St.
In utero
Uncle Johns Band
SRV Texas Flood
Let it bleed
Layla and other assorted love songs
Pet Sounds
The River
All of these are not only musical masterpieces but all of them are very close to my heart for various reasons. I came across Layla and other assorted love songs right after I had my heart broken and that entire album is Eric Clapton in love with a women that didn't love him back. The River came along about the time I got divorced. The title track and "drive all night" are both very powerful songs. This is a good thread.

 

[roughoutline]

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Hell of an album and basically encapsulates the split of the Libertines. Probably my favourite album as well.

 

[Hermanthegerman]

Ok, I was a little bit to old, this record couldn´t change my life but it is my most favorite german record. Sorry english speaking readers that you can´t understand the lyrics, but they are wonderfull, german at its best.

Kettcar - Du und wieviel von deinen Freunden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMl-yk701Q4

Dedicated to my sister in law

 

[nugghead]

Huh, some kindred spirits here.

I remember watching Joe Satriani's "Satch Boogie" video and feeling moved by music for the first time in my life. After that, I read an interview with him where he said his mind got blown by listening to some cat called Jimi Hendrix in '68.

So I went out on my bike and got a copy of "The Essential Jimi Hendrix" and was listening to it with big headphones and got to "If 6 Were 9" and had to keep rewinding - it was a cassette tape - because my brain was expanding past the confines of the skull it was familiar with. Definitely a peak experience in my life; I still soak in everything Satch and Jimi ever put out.

After that:

Eric B. and Rakim - Follow the Leader
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Trilogy
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Cult - Electric
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Cosmic Baby - Stellar Supreme
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine and Computer World
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Steely Dan - all of it, but especially Aja and Kamakiriad
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Björk - Vespertine
Rakim - The Master
DMX - And Then There Was X..
Chicane - Far From the Maddening Crowd
Paul van Dyk - Seven Ways
Fila Brazillia - A Touch of Cloth

Funny what blows your mind. These aren't all favorite albums, some of them aren't even my favorite albums by their respective artists, but I can remember the first hearing of each of the above like it was yesterday, that feeling in my brain like a rosebud on timelapse as the petals are forced open and the musicians show me something that I'd never heard before.

I love that feeling. Haven't had it in a while.

 

[bench warmer]

Albums that changed your life

Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Jon Hassel - Aka Darbari Java (Magic Realism)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Miles Davis - Get Up With It
This Mortal Coil - Filigree and Shadow

 

[b00m]

Off the top of my head a few standouts but there are so many Albums the have Influenced my life

 

[bench warmer]

Albums that changed your life

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[hard rain]

Made In Japan- Deep Purple. I heard this at about the age of fourteen at may best friends house played incredibly loud. Completely changed my listening habits for a number of years.

Kaya- Bob Marley and Wailers. Just starting on the herb when this came out. Marley is probably my favourite artist to this day.

Radios Appear- Radio Birdman- Aussie punk band (Stooges meet the doors). Pure energy.

The Blurred Crusade- The Church. Beautiful album by another Aussie band.

Led Zep 4 No explanation needed. Sublime.

Never Mind the Bollocks- Sex Pistols.My dad actually said "Your not having this in the house" after seeing a news report on the band. I could not wait to get it and it didn't disappoint. The clash were a better band but this album was life changing.

Hard Again- Muddy Waters. I got into the blues via Johnny Winter and the Rolling Stones. This was my first ever real blues album and started a life long love of blues.

Space Oddity- David Bowie. This is an incredibly beautiful album. Don't know why it isn't more popular. Ziggy Stardust was also great.

I'll probably come up with a few more before long.

 

[slackx]

Lamb of god - Sacrament

 

[Classy@Home]

Gordon Lightfoot - Gords Gold. "Sundown" - written for Cathy Smith, she administered the speedball that killed John Belushi. "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". "Cotton Jenny". "Early Mornin' Rain". "If you could read my mind". "Carefree Highway". And so much more. Get drunk, pop on this cd (or album, if you still play the vinyl) and sing along. Should be mandatory for all Canuckians - and anyone else over 40...

Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Beatles - Revolver and Rubber Soul

Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n' Easy

Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Chrissie could rock!!!)

Eagles - Hotel California

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

 

[snuggles]

ramones - ramones

rage against the machine - r.a.t.m.

nirvana - nevermind

u2 - achtung baby

the prodigy - the fat of the land

paul van dyk - seven ways

earth nation - terra incognita

metallica - black album
(never touched anything metallica again after this one )

and of course:
die toten hosen - bis zum bitteren ende
(punk live album extraordinaire )

 

[Headbandf1]

Talking Heads Chronology is out now

Talking Heads Chronology is out now

All the Talking Heads Albums - But Specifically Stop making sense. Love David Byrnes

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This was very much a live band—at least until the late 80s. The initial recordings emerged out of what we played live, what worked in that context and how we refined our skills playing together. For a lot of musicians in the digital era this is not always the case. These days, the record often comes first and then how it is staged comes later. The Lester Bangs essay is also very much part of this time. Other than some very specific references, it holds up amazingly well as a passionate and idiosyncratic piece of writing. There’s a reason a lot of writers continue to hold him up as a role model (though I hope they bypass some of the substance abuse). Though his piece is in the form of a record review, it is in truth a beautiful existential rant—and I am proud to be in some way associated with it. Come to think of it, maybe many of these songs are partly something else in disguise as well.

With each iteration of Chronology, you can pretty plainly see what came before as well as a hint of what was to come—all easy to spot in retrospect, of course. There are some fashion don’ts as well as some prescient looks—but what you really get is a sense of how tight this band was. Of course, there is more footage to be found from these sources but I thought to myself, “How many versions of the same songs can one view?” I think the sampler approach gives the viewer a sense of the musical and performative changes we were going through, but without the possibly tedious repetition.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

 

[jack Haze]

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