HummerOfIntenseEvil

No it's not.

In all fairness (and I'm not defending Gridlock here - his arguments are extremely flawed), there seems to be very few people who have understood the simple question of "Albums Which Changed Your Life...", since most people are listing huge numbers of albums, some saying "this one made me want to listen to everything Metallica ever did" etc etc. As I've said earlier, this isn't life changing, unless perhaps someone was planning to be a doctor, listened to Pink Floyd's The Wall and then said "Aaaaargggh!!! Now I know my true meaning in life! I MUST BE A MUSICIAN!!!!!!" and quit what they were doing in order to embark upon a music career. I mean, I've yet to see anyone saying "Public Enemy: Fear Of A Black Planet (it made me see how senseless my racism was)" or anything like that. THAT would be life changing. Fuck's sake, even "Band Aid (it made me start giving 50% of my income to charity)" would be better than "very Limp Bizkit album (their reely goood)" (sic). The VAST majority of people here are just listing albums which they really, really like, which gives the impression that perhaps music hasn't changed their life at all... Of course, it could just be me being pedantic. But when I opened up this thread in the first place, I did this upon seeing a wasted chance for a potentially interesting topic.

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible It really changed my outlook on the world, made me see where my morals should lie, and basically helped me develop as a person. Plus along with Generation Terrorists, and to a lesser extent Gold Against The Soul, I was introduced to a whole world of books, films and music that I had never known about before. The Clash debut also helped me see how important it was to try and use songs for social change. Those four albums are probably the only one's I'd call "life changing" in that I did actually change certain aspects of my life for the better as a direct result of listening to these albums. I'd say that I have learnt more as a result of listening to the Manics than I have in 13 years of school and 4 years of uni. I certainly never got introduced to Burroughs, Ballard and Camus in English, there was no mention of socialism, communism, fascism or anarchism in modern studies, and history never touched upon the russian revolution or the Khymer Rouge. Any other albums I mention would just be albums I really like, which is pretty much what everyone else seems to be doing. I could mention some album Mike Patton has been on and said "this changed my opinion on how vocals should sound" or Appetite For Destruction and say "this made me see how great guitar can be", but that's not life changing. Looking at some music in a different light isn't life changing, it just changes how you look at music. I mean, a petty criminal isn't going to suddenly see the error of his ways just because he discovered an album with really awesome guitar solos on it, is he? I mean seriously, the only reason an Oasis album could be described as "life changing" is if it made you decide you wanted to be an arrogant prick like the Gallaghers. Or if you suddenly thought "fuck, I don't want to be a tosser like these guys, I'm gonna have to change". Presumably so anyway. No offence intended to anyone who chose Oasis albums by the way. Not too much anyway.

No he was right, it's Hogmanay. The last time I had a good Hogmanay was when I just stayed in playing Tomb Raider and pretty much ignored the whole thing. Unfortunately I haven't been able to do that sort of thing for several years now (I coudl but I don't want my mates thinking I'm a cock). I would much rather just sit in and play guitar or watch a DVD or something, but no, I'll be dragged off to Edinburgh (because it's SOOOOOO much better there ) to just get pished as usual. And the chances of getting them to go to Opium are slim. Saying that, the best parts of any Hogmanay have been the house parties. Otherwise it might as well just be another night out on the pish.

Knows The Truth is shit hot. The other two are decent but lack a bit of something, dunno what. I really like the tone of the guitars though - VERY crunchy!

I did this on the common room wall on my last day of school, only with shaving foam. http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?i8zxtqat1h8

Easily the Dedalus/Politik EP

1. Morrissey, Perth Town Hall 2. Morrissey, SECC 3. Velvet Revolver, Carling Academy 4. Hell Is For Heroes, Moshulu 5. Prodigy, Carling Academy 6. Dedalus, Kef 7. Interpol, Carling Academy 8. GLC, Lemon Tree 9. Malibu Stacey, Drummonds 10. Ash, Fat Sams (Dundee)

In an ideal world, I wouldn't have to buy any music from major labels, for the same reason I try not to shop in Asda, or drink Coca Cola, or eat in McDonalds etc. But it's not an ideal world. If a band I like just happens to be on Sony, I'm not going to avoid buying the album. If I did, I wouldn't own anything by the Manics, the Clash, Alice In Chains and doubtless many more ace bands. The point about there being a tendancy to like more of the same bands on an independent label is true though; I've liked everything I've bought that's on Ipecac. And I've always meant to investigate a few more bands that were on Factory since I love Joy Division so much.

Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood No one else liked it (after all, it dropped about 90 places in a week or something), but I fucking love it. Or if we're stretching things a bit, how about the reissue of The Holy Bible? If they rereleased it every year, it would ALWAYS be the year's best album!

He's such a good showman. When he came out in the vicar outfit, I KNEW it was going to be a great gig. The rolling aorund on the floor during the bassoon solo in November Spawned A Monster was absolute class, and the Band Aid comment was top notch. Almost perfect choice of older songs to play. It could only have been improved if he'd played Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before and Speedway as well. Bigmouth and Shoplifters were both stunning.

My personal fav: "Did you know there are no Dutch Elms left in Britain. Totally wiped out. Disgusting..." Other than that, I just bite my nails. As long as I have something to do, I couldn't give a shit about the other person.

It's predominantly keyboard/piano/organ stuff, with bass, a bit of drums, and the obiquitous Patton samples. A wee bit of singing, but mostly it's just "aaaahhhh" type stuff. Dunno what genre you'd put it under. The only thing I can comapre it to is Delerium Cordia by Fantomas. Which is no surprise since that's Patton's band. It's certainly made me want to investigate Kaada's other albums, which are also available on the excellent Ipecac label, as Romances is.

Two words: Central Heating. That's always been my family's theory anyway, given that none of us have asthma, and we never got central heating until a few years ago. Meanwhile, my cousins all have asthma (I think so anyway) and they've lived with central heating from a young age, if not their whole lives. After all, asthma is an allergic reaction to dust mites or something is it not? And you only have to look at the back of a radiator to see how much dust gets attracted to heat. So whether this means they somehow aren't developing the correct anti-bodies for dust mites is a question I would maybe be able to answer if I'd done biology. But I liked chemistry and physics too much and I've always been a bit squemish of things getting dissected until relatively recently. My two pence worth in regards to smoking around children etc: my mum told my that, while she stopped smoking for my sister's pregnancy, she didn't for mine. I'm quite short, but my sister is shorter, and in fact most people in my family are distinctly average in height. I'm also an extremely healthy person, always have been (more so when I was younger in fact), so overall I would say there was no damage done when I was in the oven. However, having spent the first ten years of my life coughing and spluttering until they decided to quit meant there is no way I'll ever let a fag anywhere near these lips. Although I could always have gone to another room of course. In summary: breezes. And that's all the weather.

Ah that's alright then. Excuse my ignorance though, but Bottom is more the kind of programme I'll watch if it's on, or if someone's put on a video. However, the days of a bunch of us going round to my mate Tim's house to watch Bottom while drunk sadly ended when everyone fucked off to Edinburgh and Newcastle. The bastards. You can't beat a good frying pan round the head though. Or jokes involving blow up dolls.

Excellent album. Which is no surprise since Patton is on it. That is all.

I take it you're not calling me a cunt, thinking that I've wrongly quoted the Bottom Live 2 video where they are performing to a bunch of students in Cambridge, and when Richey says "What are we going to do?" one of them shouts "Have a wank" and, it being Cambridge, Richey retorts "ooooh, 'ave a wank PROFESSOR!"? Apologies if I'm being a little bit paranoid, or any slight misquoting... it has been about 10 years since I saw said video.

Actually she's on two: Hotride and Spitfire. Although I thought she was on more than that. Which just goes to show how carefully I've listened to the album I suppose. But anyway, the fact remains: there was no need to get guest vocalists, cos as the live show... showed, they don't bring anything to the songs that Maxim couldn't have.

Immense gig, as Prodigy gigs always are. Fantastic sound, best I've heard from any gig at the Carling Academy anyway. Maxim was on top form. Fantastic versions of Smack My Bitch Up, Spitfire and Their Law. Would have liked Voodoo People, Break and Enter, No Good, Climbatize, Skylined or Everybody In The Place, but that was never going to happen really. However, it's fairly obvious how pointless it was of Liam to get Juiliette Lewis to do all those vocals; Maxim sang them almost identically, which was what I suspected would be the case. Not as good as Glasgow Green 1996, but possibly better than their performance at Leeds 2002. Even if there wasn't any amusing forays into Madness songs this time.

That's certainly what their reasoning will be. But I daresay that if they taught their officers how to shoot to wound rather than shoot to kill, they would have a much better chance of getting their man. It just seems like an even more pointless tragedy if we don't know the actual reasons behind it, no matter how deranged they undoubtadly are.

Fuck! I'm no fan of Pantera or Damageplan, but this is an utter disgrace! How the fuck did the guy manage to get a gun in there anyway? Assumng America has more stringent searching than Glasgow, you'd think it would be impossible to get a gun in there in the first place. What about the two fans? So the idiot thought Dimebag fucked up his idol's life... what did those two fans ever do to him? What an utter waste. Pity the trigger happy cops couldn't have managed to get the guy alive, and thus find out exactly why he would do such a stupid thing. Only in America... Commiserations to the Abbots and the other victims' family members.

Well I didn't see the point in beating around the bush. (Pun intended)