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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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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: automan]
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Alice In Chains - Dirt  (first album I heard that was ANGRY, with "hey, fuck you" lyrics)

Rammstein - Herzeleid (the most played album of my middle school years.  It just plain rocked the shit back then, and I thought I was cool because the lyrics were all in German and I was listening to it.  )

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?  (I still think there's nothing like it.  I was astounded the first time I listened to it, and I was sober.  Then a few weeks later, I downed some mushrooms and put this on headphones and heard so many different sounds and the same time, I thought my entire being was going to explode.  How Posford made this album I'll never know.  To me, it's THE trip album  :grin: )

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium  (coworker recommended it to me based off the fact that we both like Godspeed You Black Emperor.  Though TMV sound nothing like them of course, I immediately loved this album and their follow up releases.)

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia  (I was browsing the local used CD store near my place when a track off In Absentia began playing.  I walked up to the guy who was playing the in-store music and asked him what it was.  I bought the album and have now bought almost their entire catalog, save for their impossible to find limited edition releases.)

Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony  (4 guys playing heavy metal songs on cellos.  And some of their songs, one of the guys plays the drums, on the cellos.  Still some of the most interesting music I've ever heard, though recently, their music has just turned straight "cello metal" featuring actual percussion and vocals.)


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
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Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice by DeathSpell Omega - The use of eerie atmosphere and Gregorian chants on this album combined with the raw hatred searing through the guitars, bass, and drums, taught me how to listen to music more closely and dive through the layers and feel the different textures.

Tales Of The Inexpressible by Shpongle - Taught me that atmosphere and ambience in a song doesn't have to sit in back and can actually be interesting, thought-provoking, body-moving, foreground music.

There are a few more such as Dusk And Her Embrace by Cradle Of Filth, Altar by Sunn O))) and Boris, Rainbow by Boris, and various albums by The Beatles but the first two aforementioned are the most relevant at this point.

Edited by Boots (08/10/07 12:54 AM)

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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: Boots]
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modest mouse - the moon and antarctica -- completely formed my music taste, i consider it to be the best album ever made, got me indie music when i was 17.

somafm - groove salad -- not an album, but an internet radio station that has influenced me greatly over the last two years, completely opened things up to me.

interpol - turn on the bright lights -- got into interpol at the same time, one of my all time favorite albums, one of my greatest influences.

tool - ænema -- my favorite band for many years and the first album i heard, i must have listened to it more times than any other i own. also my first concert, and second.

the mars volta - de loused in the comatorium -- one of the most brilliant albums ever written. got me into ATDI whom i also love. not as big a fan of their later work.

modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west -- i first heard this album at a major turning point in my life and it always reminds me of it.

radiohead - the bends -- i had my first trip to this album, specificly fake plastic trees, i consider this the most important thing i've ever done.

joy division - substance -- this album has influenced me the most since i first heard it when i was 12, ian curtis has been my hero for many years, someone i consider i great influence to music.

nirvana - unplugged in new york -- great cd and video, brings back memories.

the smiths - louder than bombs -- amazing album, i've had many great memories with it.

pink floyd - dark side of the moon -- has influenced my guitar more then anything else, i still drift and listen to it often.


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: automan]
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I'm too tired/not in the mood to post my list now, but this is a good idea (I have to assume it's been done before actually.) I'll post here tomorrow with something that actually relates to the thread.


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: automan]
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This is going to be an embarrassing list, but here goes:

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
I was probably around 10 years old, maybe a little younger, when I heard this album the first time. Where I grew up, we had Country Music radio stations, Oldies, and Farm Reports. My brother got the cassette tape from somewhere and played it for me and my little sister. We loved it, even though we had no idea what they were singing about most of the time. It was my first exposure to modern rock and roll music.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Yeah automan, this one got me too. I remember the first time I heard Pearl Jam. I was about 12 years old, up at the family cottage on the lake, and the weather outside was not very accommodating, so we were inside, watching some tv. Back home on the farm, we didn't have cable, but at the cottage, cable was THERE! So while watching some MTV, I saw the video for Jeremy. It was the most intense thing I had ever seen/heard and I was enthralled by it. I saved up some money to buy the cassette tape and was hooked. My wall was covered with Pearl Jam posters until the day I moved out of my parents house at age 18.

The Grateful Dead - Hundred Year Hall
Before I heard this album, I'd only heard a bunch of studio Dead performances. Nothing live. After this, I was hooked. China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider became my favorite song rather quickly. Still is today. I just recently saw my first "dead family" show, Ratdog, and was lucky enough to see them perform that song. It may be the only chance I get to hear it performed live. :smirk:

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
During my teenage years, I was really into keeping up with new music. There came a time though that I had just been kicked out of college and I was in a relationship with someone who didn't seem to like music very much, and even complained when I listened to the most of the things I liked. So I stopped keeping up on new music, and lost touch with the musical world. That was about 1998 or so. This went on for about 4 years, until I ended up going back to college to finish my degree. At my college, we had permanent computer stations in rows, about 12 people per row. Strangely enough, they allowed computer speakers so people could listen to music. One day, I heard someone down the row listening to this album, and even as shy and withdrawn as I was, I had to go ask what it was. I listened the hell out of this album (and subsequently all the other Modest Mouse albums), and it introduced me again to the world of "new" music.

There are countless other albums that deeply affected me, but these are the main ones that come to mind.

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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: adrug]
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when I was 8 years old I manifested this infatuation with the beach boys. I was ridiculed by my older brother and learned to keep it a shameful secret until the age of 13 or so where they fell by the wayside and I had kind of forgotten about them.
i owned every album and can still to this day sing every beach boys lyric. But when I was 18 or so, I got back into them with gusto and found a more mature and deeper appreciation for pet sounds and smiley smile.

My first CD I ever owned was shamefully ugly Kid Joe... but that didnt really shape my music perspective. The first album that I can remember violently listening to over and over again was Greenday's album dookie, The doors double Best of CD, and Live's Throwing Copper and soundgarden superunknown.... oh, and Nirvana unplugged.

But that was my "coming of age" likes.

as a child my mother used to sing Joni Mitchell and Carol King to me and that gave me such a deep appreciation for the female sensuality and vocals that later made me instantly like portishead and bjork.

But the one album that truly blew my mind and exposed me to an entire new world of music was Disco Volante by Mr. Bungle about 6 years ago.
That album alone openned my eyes and forced me to have appreciation for all things technical. From Glover Gill's dark tangos to frank zappas 80's stuff to big band and foxtrot.

Disco Volante is such a dark, visceral, aurally detailed, textured journey from beginning to end that incorporates almost every genre and does it in such a way that you instantly see the beauty that Patton and Spruance see in them. It is like someone showing you a painting that you can see the influences of every artist to ever come before them (and some yet to come) that instantly shows you "how to see it and understand" individually each influence.

I have bought that album 5 times now and have probably listened to it as a whole and in its individual parts for over (easily) 1000 hours of my life.

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Well, the first album that I owned was Daft Punk - Discovery. Opened my world to techno and rock. Until then the only music that I listened to was my parent's Christian music and I can't stand it today. And Symphony X further expanded my musical likings to metal. They're probably the most influential bands to what I listen to.


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
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i few of you listed The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium as an amazing album.

i dont know why, but i could never get into that. to me, though, Frances The Mute is probably one of the best albums i have ever heard. it is a brilliant piece of art, and that is not something i say more than once every few years.


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: automan]
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you should watch their live at lowlands 2003, that concert brings de loused to a whole new level, i put that video on repeat sometimes and just lay back.


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I like deloused more than francis.... granted I have only listened to Francis the Mute a few times, and deloused exponentially more.

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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: automan]
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Sublime - 40 Oz to Freedom All of Sublime's CDs are great, but this one sticks out the most to me.

Bob Marley - African Herbsman

The Beatles - White Album

The Doors - The Soft Parade

Wu-Tang Clan - Disciples Of The 36 Chambers

Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: guitarguy0123]
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nice thread.

the most important albums for me have to be:

slipknot - iowa

tool - lateralus

infected mushroom - the gathering

pink floyd - pulse(disc #2 the one that has DSotM and that amazing comfortably numb solo)

pantera - 101 proof

korn - issues

alice in chains - dirt

led zeppelin - iv

santana - abraxas

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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: maggotz]
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RATM's first record, a friend lent me this on tape when I was at school. All I had listened too previously was shite pop music on the rappy commercial radio we get over here. It was just as I was starting to play guitar and it completely changed my outlook on music; I'd never heard anything as angry or heavy before.

And on side 2 of that tape...

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins. A beautifal epic record.

Among others would be:

Axis Bold as Love - Jimi Hendrix

Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera

Follow the Leader - Korn (can't listen to it now, but at the time I fucking loved it!)

Fly or Die - NERD

Greatest Hits 1 - Queen

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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: marvoman]
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korns issues?.... really?....

i couldnt pick top albums.

but porcupine tree's fear of a blank planet would be up there if i could.

especially with their Nil Recurring EP.


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: plexus]
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Alright, I said I would make a list, here it is.

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

I had a few friends who were a couple years older than I that were kinda indie-ish or whatever, and when Float On got big I remember them giving me this album so I would know how awesome Modest Mouse really was. This got me hooked. I ended up for some reason not listening to them too often, but then last year someone had them shared, and I listened to The Moon and Antarctica again and fell in love all over again. Definitely one of my favorite bands at this point in time.

The Pixies - Doolittle

I don't really have a good reason, it's the fucking Pixies. Just kind of broadened my range of interest.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

I could have picked a ton of jazz albums that influenced and started my early jazz interest, but this album is just so amazing that I chose it.

Joshua Redam - Elastic

Kinda the same reason as the Pixies, just broadened my jazz listening horizons I guess, plus Redman, and the rest of the band (Sam Yahel and Brian Blade) are just pure fucking sick.

Mr. Lif - Emergency Rations

Got me into the underground hip-hop scene, definitely.

Akrobatik - I actually don't know the name of the CD, it was just some early EP of his, before he came out with Balance. I started listening to him and Lif around the same time, so same reason here as for Lif.

MF Doom - Mm... Food

Same as the Pixies and Redman here, just an awesome album that lead to new shit.

Spoon - Gimme Fiction

Has spurred my newest indie (I guess it's indie, indie seems like to broad of a term recently) kick. Awesome fucking album, definitely one of my favorites right now, along with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga I suppose.

At the Drive-In - This Station is Non-Operational
Great album, introduced me to Sparta, The Mars Volta (whom I'm no longer too fond of) and some other bands (this was after they broke up, obviously.)

I could probably think of a few more albums that strongly influenced what I listen to now, but I think those are the most relevant paths my listening interests have gone.

I'd also like to add all the Motown stuff my dad listened to when I was younger, definitely highly influential. I never cared for the Beatles or Elvis, or any of the other honky shit he played, but I loved the black dudes, they sure know how to make music.


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Re: top albums.... kinda [Re: plexus]
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well, if you read the first post you know that it's a list albums that changed the way you listen to music not you current favorite albums. issues did that for me. :shrug: and i still enjoy it to this day.

also, i forgot to mention a few albums.

heroes del silencio - avalancha => this band is responsible for me getting into rock. this is the first band that i truly considered myself a fan of, as early as 8 years old. :rockon:

rick wakeman's journey to the centre of the earth.

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madlib - remixes 2
kruder & dorf - G-stoned
maps & diagrams - Onamatapea

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Dirt - Alice in Chains and The Downward Spiral - NIN

I list these together because I bought them the same day.  Until then I had actually been scared of darker music.  I thought heavy music was for bangers and dimwits; this music obliterated that prejudice in me. These two albums are so raw and hellish, they taught me to find some twisted ecstasy in despair and pain.  Both must be listened to in the dark on headphones.

Aenima - Tool

Blew me away.  I did not know music could be that good... that organic and unpretentious.  No albums has ever taken me to such a vastly different place from the world I was used to.  I would give a limb to hear it for the first time again.

Revolver and Abbey Road - The Beatles

Astonishingly, I did not discover the Beatles until very recently; the newest of their material is already 37 years old.  I listened to their entire catalogue, and it was all fantastic!  Two albums stood out above all the others though.

I had the incredible fortune of being able to listen to those two albums, for the first time, in one astounding mushroom trip that changed me forever.  Something about listening to that music that night has made me calmer, friendlier, more patient since.  Even my friends have remarked that they noticed a difference.

There are many more but I am at work and spending a lot of time on this post.

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Right now - The Convincer by Nick lowe


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