Albums which changed your life...

[kirkt]

One album which compleyely changed my life has got to be "Steam" by EAST 17. The lyrics just really spoke to me you know? "Theres no need to be afraid" look at that!!! i mean, i was so afraid, but when i heard these words, i was like no way man, im not AFRAID anymore. then you've got "let it all go let it all go aaaaaaargh!!!" it just spoke to me. i wanted to let go of so many things, and after hearing this, i just leyt go.

terry caldwell, john hendy, tony mortimer, brian harvey - i love you guys, thanks for saving my life. GENERATION XTC 4EVA!!!!!!!!

[kiki]

OH MY GOD KIRKTY!!!!! Thats unreal, i totally fucking love the 17-sters. although i have to disagree, walthamstow was a far superior helping of life affirming beatz. having said that, Let It Rain totally kicked ass - i was out in the rain one day and i just thought, "love, let it mother fucking rain!!!!" i recommend Walthamstow, if you buy it you wont be disappointed. - i mean a track as touching as West End Girls cant be sniffed at. FIVE ME UP MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!

[psydoll]

One album which compleyely changed my life has got to be "Steam" by EAST 17. The lyrics just really spoke to me you know? "Theres no need to be afraid" look at that!!! i mean' date=' i was so afraid, but when i heard these words, i was like no way man, im not AFRAID anymore. then you've got "let it all go let it all go aaaaaaargh!!!" it just spoke to me. i wanted to let go of so many things, and after hearing this, i just leyt go.

terry caldwell, john hendy, tony mortimer, brian harvey - i love you guys, thanks for saving my life. GENERATION XTC 4EVA!!!!!!!![/quote']

Just in case Kirk tries to delete this when he wakes up I thought I'd save it for posterity

[Dead_Fashion]

find me a better one then.

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/images/brighteyes-fevers.jpg

http://www.seattleweekly.com/graphics/features/0039/MusicLedeBrightEyes.jpg

http://us.ent2.yimg.com/musicfinder.yahoo.com/images/yahoo/saddle_creek/brighteyes/1001_bright_eyes_b.jpg

or perhaps this is more to your taste...

http://www.student.richmond.edu/~du8xm/images/Bright-Eyes.jpg

tee hee

[leftboy]

1. "Appetite For Destruction". First album I ever bought, as a 9 y/o lad, 1988. Made me see life in a whole new way. And revealed the POWER of music!!

2. "Nevermind The Bollocks". DESTROY.

3. "The Beatles 67-70". Suddenly music was in colour.

4. "Nirvana Unplugged". Oh the aching fragility.

5. "Maxinequaye", Tricky. Was getting into bifta at the time and this was the major accompaniment.

6. "The Boy With The Arab Strap", Belle & Sebastian. The sweetness of adolescent melancholy, when you're not adolescent or melancholic! the poetry of the lyrics, too.

7. "Leftism", Leftfield. Stomping.

8. "Kind Of Blue", Miles Davis. I listened to this every day for a year. Jazz at its most refined.

A nice selection, no?

[leftboy]

AND I FORGOT:

The Velvet Underground & Nico.

The Wall, Pink Floyd.

Best Of, The Smiths.

all of these changed my life, they coloured my thoughts and feelings and were accompaniments to what i was doing. If anything affects how you think and feel like those albums did to me, they're life-changing. Sure, some albums are better, but those are the ones that led to new discoveries and perspectives.

[Guest]

1. James Brown LIVE volume 1: It was the first album I ever bought.... as a mere nipper of 5 years old.... I dug "Papa's got a brand new bag" and of course "I feel good". Hot shit.

2. Blur - Parklife: One of my favourite albums as a kid... same goes for "The great escape". I dug blur in my later primary school years, yo.

3. Ryan Adams - Gold: Initially reminded me of my good mate Nick, and certainly of the year 2003... now.... it was ruined for me by the boyfriend making a statement about it. Now it reduces me to a depressed shell of a being. Not exactly life changing but it has the ability to make me cry... well now it does.

Mogwai - Happy music for happy people: Maybe the only explaination of how I survived my small stint at college.

erm...

[RicoAUBL]

Queen - Queen / Day at the Races / Jazz / Innuendo (and most of their other albums)

Green Day - Dookie

Offspring - Smash

Korn - Follow the Leader

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe

Slipknot - Slipknot

Less than Jake - Hello Rockview

Deftones - Around the Fur

Rammstein - Mutter

Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Thrice - Illusion of Safety

Boysetsfire - Tomorrow Come Today

i could probably go on all day.. but those are the main ones that i can think of...

oh yeah

and

NOFX - The Decline (its not an album... but it's a pretty long song! and i love it so)

Earthtone 9 - Arc'tan'gent

[Stripey]

It's quite interesting how bland and similar a lot of your choices are.

Personally, the first Portishead album was a real eye opener for me. Luke Vibert - Big Soup, was another one around that time which I found really inspiring and further influenced my taste in music. There was soooo much fresh and awesome stuff coming out on MoWax and NinjaTune around that mid-nineties period, oh yeah and Warp too. These labels saved me from the childish bullshit that is rock and made me aware of whole new realms of intelligent music. I hate to think what I would have become if it wasn't for those 3 labels and their amazing artists. Probably something like you, perish the thought.

[Demon Of The Fall]

It's quite interesting how bland and similar a lot of your choices are.

the thought.

well evidently not to the people who picked them...

i like Portishead but i could see why someone could find them bland.

[framheim]

It's quite interesting how bland and similar a lot of your choices are.

Personally' date=' the first Portishead album was a real eye opener for me. Luke Vibert - Big Soup, was another one around that time which I found really inspiring and further influenced my taste in music. There was soooo much fresh and awesome stuff coming out on MoWax and NinjaTune around that mid-nineties period, oh yeah and Warp too. These labels saved me from the childish bullshit that is rock and made me aware of whole new realms of intelligent music. I hate to think what I would have become if it wasn't for those 3 labels and their amazing artists. Probably something like you, perish the thought.[/quote']

i like the bit about saving you from the childish bullshit while you're posting the most petulant spoilt brat of a reply to an honest thread i've ever read in my life.

that's just how it comes across to me.

surely the point of this thread was albums that have changed you're listening habits and or way you look at things. not who listens to the coolest freshest sounds. i coulda listed a whole heap of obscure stuff(i know mowax, et all aren't exactly obscure but there's a point in here) but it wouldn't have really been what changed my life. i enjoy listening to hip hop, electronica, soul, funk and a million different genres of music but the ones that have really changed my life and led to me even thinking of being interested in those types of music have all been rock or indie based. i was in a life of britpop until i got into some american punk bands and they in turn opened me up to more progressive and open punk music which made me realise more and more that there was things i'd dismissed that was interesting and brilliant and even things without guitars that sounded good. but to say it changed my life? that's a whole other story. obviously i'm not saying that what you've listed didn't change your life or that artists like autechre and dj krush can't change peoples lives cause they can and i know people who have been deeply affected by these types of music but don't ridicule those who merely haven't heard of these artists or who they didn't affect so much. perhaps next time rather than pointing out the blandness you could start a thread entitled 'albums that may change your life' and list some stuff that the rock kids might be interested in that will change them forever.

[Stuart]

The New Romance - Pretty Girls Make Graves

Blackened Sky - Biffy (although Infinity Land is probably taking over now)

[Guest Electric Tibet]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding

Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

Radiohead - The Bends

Radiohead - Kid A

The Microphones - Mount Eerie

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Mogwai - Ten Rapid

Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey

The Beach Boys - Pet sounds

Jega - Geometry

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Neil Young - After the Goldrush

Queen - Greatest Hits II

[Teabags]

Sepultura - Chaos AD

Slayer - Undisputed Attitude

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Pig Destroyer - 38 Counts of Battery

Wolfpack - Lycanthropunks

[Stripey]

i like the bit about saving you from the childish bullshit while you're posting the most petulant spoilt brat of a reply to an honest thread i've ever read in my life.

that's just how it comes across to me.

surely the point of this thread was albums that have changed you're listening habits and or way you look at things. not who listens to the coolest freshest sounds. i coulda listed a whole heap of obscure stuff(i know mowax' date=' et all aren't exactly obscure but there's a point in here) but it wouldn't have really been what changed my life.

[/quote']

Err well those are actually a couple of albums and labels which did really change my listening habits and the way I look at things, so like it or not, they really did have a profound effect on me, which is why I posted to this thread.

I know I may have sounded snide and contemptous but you know, frankly I find it pretty depressing that so many people here have such a boring and simple taste in music. Infact, I could suggest that most of the albums people have cited so far, affected my life too, in the sense that they put me off that whole genre.

[framheim]

Err well those are actually a couple of albums and labels which did really change my listening habits and the way I look at things' date=' so like it or not, they really did have a profound effect on me, which is why I posted to this thread.

I know I may have sounded snide and contemptous but you know, frankly I find it pretty depressing that so many people here have such a boring and simple taste in music. Infact, I could suggest that most of the albums people have cited so far, affected my life too, in the sense that they put me off that whole genre.[/quote']

you obviously chose to ignore the bit where i said i wasn't saying they didn't affect you. i certainly wasn't suggesting you shouldn't have posted just that the way you posted was a bit shit, which it was.

don't get me wrong some of the albums listed in this thread have been totally guff but that's not the point and it's certainly not for us to say that peoples lives shouldn't have been changed by them. oasis made me pick up a guitar and for that i'm eternally grateful, doesn't mean i think all their music is the finest artistic achievement we can get. it changed my life in a way no other music has even though it's lowest common denominator rock, and sometimes that's what's needed.

[qzdiablo]

Jega - Geometry

oh this record is pretty sweet

if i still listened to what is generally referred to as "idm" i'd have put it on my list too

[Marillionboy]

Good thread, I like....

1. And Then There Were Three by Genesis. My first remotely progressive record. I liked Follow You Follow Me and my brother said Many too Many was worth hearing. I put this on and for the first minute of Down and Out thought it was jumping, I'd never heard time changes like that before! But by Undertow I was hooked for life. From there it was back to the start and Trespass, Gabriel greatness and suddenly the words mellotron and twelve string guitar were the reasons I bought records.

2. Clutching at Straws by Marillion. Endless memories of drinking cheap whisky and listening as a lad. This album sounds like a bad night drinking alone in some of the seedier bars down at the docks. And why not? Warm Wet Circles...mmm!

3. Brave by Marillion. Resistant as I am to putting in two by the same band, let alone this band, I don't think any album had such an impact for me on its first listen. I bought this in Virgin on Union St the day it came out simply because the cover was good and the "play it loud with the lights off" reminded me of the order on Ziggy Stardust. I'd been losing interest in Marillion and thought I'd have one last try. I put it on and heard what selt like my entire teenage years in words and music. I actually blubbed duting The Great Escape. Beat that!

4. Dark Side Of The Moon: I think the sleeve was designed for skinning up on wasn't it? What can you say: too many times kicking around on a piece of ground in my hometown listening to Time and feeling I should be doing something else but few other things seemed as enjoyable.

5. Nasty Girl by Betty Davis. My discovery of filthy, dirty, sexy funk. This album is musical viagra.

6. Tales From The Lush Attic by IQ. A fast, furious, scary and fascinating piece of art-rock.

7. Replicas by Tubeway Army: My first album so forever in its debt. And Down In The Park is tremendously spooky, whilst I Nearly Married A Human is extraordinary. This is also lyrically a terrific record: a good concept and some wonderfully doomy scenarios.

8. Setting Sons by The Jam: One of the benefits of having an older brother is hearing stuff like this years before you really grasp the meanings of the lyrics. Terrific stuff.

9. In The Court of the Crimson King: From anger to mellow musings. Magical and dreamy and gorgeous.

10. The Smiths: Can never really choose anything but the Best Of! Its so good!

11. Three Imaginary Boys by The Cure: A real favourite always: a great varied mix of raw songs, the title track being especially atmospheric.

And I nearly forgot Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division!

[Dead_Fashion]

9. In The Court of the Crimson King: From anger to mellow musings. Magical and dreamy and gorgeous.

its so good isnt it my god.... 1969 as well praise them... and praise ENO too i love eno but he didnt really change my life... it was sigur ros that came first... ah ha... twas the vanilla sky soundtrack that did it... yes red house painters as well, possibly the best band in the world.

a point to add to silly squables... some people dont rush out to find the newest materials you know, some people are just happy with the way there music taste goes... it might be guff to you and me... but its something to them

actually think dave already made that point so i guess i just agree with him...

good old dave.

[Marillionboy]

It's a gem. I'm not too sure about the second half of Moonchild but otherwise wow! And those lyrics! I don't know what they're about but what imagery!

[Skull Commander]

I guess if pushed I have 4 albums that have been the most important to me, shaping my tastes and being part of my life at various points.

The first would have to be Rage against the machines debut. I guess this got me into heavy music in the first place, and opened up my eyes to lots of other bands.

The second would be smashing pumpkins- Siamese Dream. This album struck a chord with me from when I first heard it, and again it was part of my life for a long time.

The third would be faith no more - angel dust. I got into faith no more around the time that king for a day.. came out, but angel dust is the fnm album which had the most impact on me, both on my own musical taste, and the way in which I think about things.

The final one would again be the smashing pumpkins -mellon collie and the infinite sadness. It is one of the few double concept albums that I like, showed me that a band need not be pinned down into one genre, and was a soundtrack for many years of my life. It remains my absolute fave album, and it has been constently listened to every year since it came out.

[Stripey]

a point to add to silly squables... some people dont rush out to find the newest materials you know' date=' some people are just happy with the way there music taste goes... it might be guff to you and me... but its something to them

[/quote']

It's an interesting point, allow me to indulge in an analogy here. Personally, I don't find the Mona Lisa, Van Goghs Sunflowers, or Edvard Munch's Scream to be particularly inspiring, stunning or relevant, beyond the realm of the study of art history. They are museum pieces, they represent the forms of the past.

If someone said to me, "yeah man I'm an art lover, and I'm really into van gogh, that shit is amazing!", I would simply laugh at them and consider them an idiot and a philistine, it's as if they had picked up a copy of the bluffers guide to art and were reciting it verbatim.

This is no different than saying "wow pink floyd dark side of the moon, is amazing" or "hendrix is amazing" or "metallica changed my life". It's cheap and it's cliched and it's absurd, and completely disconnected from reality.

[Marillionboy]

The thing with stuff like Hendrix for me is that you hear from birth that its amazing, yeah yeah yeah, and then you hear it and think "oh yes, actually this is pretty good isn't it?" No harm in that.

As for me, I didn't say "wow pink floyd dark side of the moon, is amazing" but I can't see what's wrong with saying it anyway. Just cause something's from the past...and anyway your analogy with artists doesn't work, musically the equivalents of Van Gogh etc would be musicians from a hundred years ago, Floyd et al would be the equivalents of Francis Bacon. Saying liking Metallica is absurd is as silly as saying liking Van Gogh is absurd.

[Guest Scorge Spike]

Regardless of my music tastes through time, that album made me want to play music and seldom went without play for the arse end of three years. This thread has made me decide to crack it out now.......

[framheim]

The thing with stuff like Hendrix for me is that you hear from birth that its amazing' date=' yeah yeah yeah, and then you hear it and think "oh yes, actually this is pretty good isn't it?" No harm in that.

As for me, I didn't say "wow pink floyd dark side of the moon, is amazing" but I can't see what's wrong with saying it anyway. Just cause something's from the past...and anyway your analogy with artists doesn't work, musically the equivalents of Van Gogh etc would be musicians from a hundred years ago, Floyd et al would be the equivalents of Francis Bacon. Saying liking Metallica is absurd is as silly as saying liking Van Gogh is absurd.[/quote']

i think gridlocks point is that it's too obvious, it doesn't have anything to do with when it was made. i don't see what the obviousness of music or the mainstream values that it has have to do with whether or not it has merit as life changing music(hmm, not sure if that sentence works but i'm gonna run with it anyway). if it changes your life it changes your life, it doesn't matter if it's nirvana or philip jeck.

my philosophy has always been that even if it starts with shit it can lead onto gold. someone could get into a band who are considered mainstream but they could hear a little bit of something more interesting in it and seek out that sound leading them onto ever more interesting paths of music that push more and more boundaries. but did the end product change their life or was it the original artist that they heard that sound in?