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automan
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top albums.... kinda
08/09/07 07:56 PM
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what are the albums that changed the way you listen to music? to me, it would have to be how they hit me at certain times in my life. like, right now i listen to nin - halo 17 - still, and year zero way more than the fragile and the downward spiral, but those albums hit me so hard when they were first released... and even though i think the fragile is a better album and downward spiral, downward spiral hit me harder and changed the way i listen to music. so....
Run DMC - Rasin' Hell -- it was 1986 and this was the first actual cd i purchased. this was also the first album that got me into rap/hip hop.
Pearl Jam - Ten -- i can't even begin to explain how big this album was when it first hit. and even though now i see nirvana's nevermind as a far superior album, Ten really changed the way i looked at music.
Metallica - The Black Album (Metallica) -- i stayed up watching beavis and butthead marathons waiting for The Unforgiven video to debut.
Radiohead - OK Computer -- this not only changed the way i hear music, i changed the way i look at life. even now, i think kid a is the superior album... but ok computer changed the way i listen to and hear music.
Bjork - Post -- this is another album where i think a later album is better, but this album made me hear things i had never thought of as music up to that point.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying -- one day i was searching through my parents record collection when i came upon this album. through a wasteland of enya and yanni, the white jacket sparkled like a diamond in a muddy mountain stream. i cant even put into words how hard this album hit me. i started sleeping downstairs where the only cd player in the house was so i could fall asleep listening to it with earphones on... and loud at that. about once a week, i would roll over and pull the chord out of the stereo releasing the song into the house with all the power of my father's tube driven amp behind it. the only other sound audible was the deep thud i heard as my father fell out of the bed directly above the room i was in. this album made me buy a guitar, which i practiced along with my bass for 3-4 hours a day, 7 days a week, for more than a decade.
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew -- i found this album the same week i found acid that beautiful summer day right smack dab in the middle of the 90's. if you need me to describe how this album changes ears forever...
De La Soul - Stakes Is High -- to this day, i rate it as the most underestimated and possibly in the top 3 hip-hop albums of all time.
Hum - You'd Prefer and Astronaut -- i skipped school to listen to this album and read all day. a lot can be said against this album. the singer wasnt really very good (from a technical stand point), but the music and the lyrics are amazing. this album is still on my over a decade later.
Danny Elfman - Beetlejuice Soundtrack -- this was the first soundtrack that i heard that really sounded like it was written for me. it really pulled me into the genre of soundtracks which i love to this day... actually, i am listening to the solaris soundtrack as i write this.
Portishead - Dummy -- honestly, this album got me so much ass that i would say it changed the course of my life as well... and it is a damn fine album.
Medeski, Martin, and Wood - Shackman -- this album definitely changed the way i listen to music, more in my playing than anything. after listening to this album, i was a better listener as i played music with other musicians.
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon -- you are fellow shroomerites... i dont have to explain this one to you.
there are tons of albums that i feel like should be here, but they dont really fit the idea. led zepplin 2, for instance. not because it, per se, changed my life, but hearing john paul jones playing bass on that album changed me in ways i cant even describe. jimi hendrix wouldve been on this list, but i heard srv first and while hendrix now has a permanent place in my heart as probably the most important guitar figure in my life.... i heard srv first so hendrix's blow was softened. the beattles, monk, sly and the family stone, mingus, herbie hancock, the roots, the toadies, smashing pumpkins, tupac, soul coughing, weezer, brian eno, aphex twin, mars volta, lauryn hill, primus, muddy waters, peter gabriel, the flaming lips, bob marley, massive attack, soundgarden, alice in chains, lightnin' hopkins, krs-one, g'n'r, coltrane, joplin, james brown, the weather report, etc etc etc etc etc. i could go on all night. i love them all, but the albums listed above really changed the way i listen to music as a whole.
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