Albums that shaped you
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1999 — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 04:29 AM)
Maybe they aren't your favorite anymore, but when you first heard them, they blew your mind and shaped your musical identity.
Mine, in order:
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana - Nevermind/Pearl Jam - Ten
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Radiohead - Kid A
Pearl Jam is the only one that I don't really care for anymore -
ERASERHEAD — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 04:42 AM)
Metallica - Black Album
I was introduced in very early childhood. Loved dark, heavy, and weird **** for as long as I can remember. My brothers were really into metal, especially the one that isn't an abusive piece of ****. I was also into Nirvana, but they didn't have as big an impact until my preteens.
But yeah, Metallica and metal in general energized me. These days, I still love hard music, but I am not as much into metal… but it is because of metal that I listened to hard music of any kind at all.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Even as a 5 year old kid, I connected to the melancholic sounds. I also thought the blonde girl on the cover was cute… and I emphasize… when I was 5. lol
I remember telling my then teenage cousin I wanted to be a singer when I grew up and like sang along the best I could to the music lol. Older siblings an cousins play a big part in my love of music.
Green Day - Dookie
The first band and album I listened to without any influence from family when I was in my preteens. They sang about stuff I could relate to and were my gateway into punk.
A lot of the other things that shaped me after that weren't really albums, but artists and songs.
I have a lot of other favorites, but these are the ones that really had a huge impact. -
golfrumors — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 05:03 AM)
In no sort:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Glassworks - Philip Glass
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Industrial Revolution II - Various Artists
Happy2bHardcore Volume 1 - Various Artists
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Lil' Beethoven - Sparks -
cryptoflovecraft — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 01:17 PM)
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's and The White Album - Used to listen to my sister's scratched vinyl copies when I was a wee lad. Timeless classics.
KISS - Double Platinum - KISS was my first favorite rock band. I listened to them constantly between the ages of 8 and 11. All of their early albums were great but Double Platinum, a double LP greatest hits anthology, probably got the most play on my turntable.
The Clash - The Clash (US version) - Wore out my vinyl copy of this one I did! The first punk band I fell in love with (aside from the Plasmatics). "Clash City Rockers", "I'm So Bored With The USA", "I Fought The Law", "Complete Control", "Police & Thieves", etc. So many great songs.
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle - New wave was the big thing sweeping America in the early 80s. A lot of it was crap but some of it had substance. I bought this one sometime in '81 or '82. The gloomy synths, bleak lyrics and futurist image totally hooked me. "Cars" was a hit song but the rest of the album is even better. Other new wave albums that had a big impact on me: IRS Greatest Hits Vol 2 & 3 (compilation), Go-Go's - Beauty & the Beat, Pretenders - Pretenders, and Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
Black Flag - Damaged - Either this one or The Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack was my first true 'underground' punk album - I forget which one I bought first. Nevertheless, both albums blew me away at such a young age and Black Flag appeared on both. Damaged pretty much laid down the rules of hardcore punk. The album is stark, brutal (for its time), relentless, and tongue-in-cheek (but 'oh so serious' thanks to Henry). The upbeat novelty song "TV Party" actually received some mainstream attention at the time and was the closest thing Black Flag ever had to a 'hit song'.
X - Wild Gift - My favorite love songs.
Various Artists - This is Boston Not L.A. - I'm proud to say that every other punk compilation pales in comparison to this one. This was practically glued to my turntable for a year. The Freeze's songs alone are worth the price of admission but then there's the abrasive political punk of The Proletariat, the snotty rage of The F.U.'s, the teenage angst of Jerry's Kids, the sickness of The Groinoids, and the breakneck speed of Gang Green (they were considered "the fastest band in hardcore" until DRI came along)…this is the ****!!!
Throbbing Gristle - Entertainment Through Pain - Indispensable compilation by these industrial music pioneers. Introduced me to the genre.
There are so many more… -
Saucy Jacky — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 02:25 PM)
In no order:
Pink Floyd -
The Wall
Muse -
The Resistance
David Bowie -
Best of Bowie
Creedence Clearwater Revival -
Cosmo's Factory
Pink Floyd -
Division Bell
Pink Floyd-
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting, but having to leave for work this very minute has cut my reminiscing short.
Man is not truly one, but truly two. -
Café — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 04:37 PM)
Green Day - Insomniac/nimrod./Warning/AI
Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre/Americana
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Metallica - Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets/…And Justice For All
Rancid - …And Out Come the Wolves
Operation Ivy - Operation Ivy
Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Korn - Korn/Life is Peachy
Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill Y'all
Nirvana - Bleach/Nevermind/In Utero/Unplugged in New York
Less than Jake - Losing Streak
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Marilyn Manson - AntiChrist Superstar
NoFx - Punk in Drublic
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Paramore - Riot!
New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones
Pink Floyd - DSotM/The Wall
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd
Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls
Lights - The Listening
Smashing Pumpkins - Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Oasis - What's the Story, Morning Glory?
Radiohead - OK Computer
Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction -
Rocketman — 7 years ago(August 19, 2018 04:41 PM)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
Pink Floyd - Animals
Radiohead - The Bends
Throughout Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one.
️ Christina 1986-05-20 
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