Albums that changed your life(or something)

stu_69

Right shams,
I was having this discussion with my mates down the pub the other night just wanted to hear what ye lot reckon:
What album would you say changed your music direction and stuff(changed your life if you want).
I was about 10 or 11 and was probably listening to 2unlimited or Dr.Albarn or some sh!te like that when my cousin called round heard what I was listening to and decided to help me and gave me tapes by the following:

Nirvana - Nevermind
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Pearl Jam - Ten

These albums totally changed my view on music I no longer listened to shite and moved on to real music. Nowadays I listen to anything and there have been some albums which have knocked me sideways since Smashing pumpkins - Melencolie, Leftfield - Leftism to name a couple. What do ye reckon???

Shiminay

U2's Actung Baby started me listening to proper music after spending whatever length listening to 2 Unlimited and the likes.

Machine Head's The Burning Red started me on the trail to being the metal fan I am today (that was about 2 years ago - whenever The Burning Red was released as it was new).

Dr. Loon

Pearl Jam - Ten .... as well for me, I think that's it...
Actually has anyone heard Beyond the 7th Galaxy? I can't remember the rest of the title/band, but I do know Chic Korea plays and Stanley Clarke.... all amazing musicians!! That changed me in the sense it had me strive to be a better drummer.......

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eclectichoney

mmm for me it would have to be jeff buckley's grace, up till then i was only into a couple of bands like radiohead and the cardigans, but after i heard that album it just opened up so much more to me and i started listening to anything and everything. its also the first album that really affected me in such a big way.

a classic

DerekD Goldfish

Westlife's debet album has to be the greatest of all time the songs are so origonal and all display such unbelivable talent i was listining to such comercial rubbish as radiohead.


(No sarcasim intended of course)

tibor

metallica's black album, had me into metally stuff for ages. since then the biggest influences over what i've listened to would probably be nevermind, weezer's blue album and prodigy's music for the jilted generation.

b20uvkft6m5xwg

Prolly And justice for all... by Metallica.

It was the first(real music) tape I bought in 1988. I bought it along w/ Iron Maidens Seventh Son of Seventh Son in HMV the week before I went on holiers to the Canaries.

All I can remember of that holiday is listening to that tape (of course between cannonballs into the hotel pool) and thinking how amazing it was and how much better it was than Jason & Kylie and Rick Astley that were infesting the music charts @that time.

I suppose it gave me an appreciation of what real music is and not just the manufactured eye candy most youngins think it is these days.

I still have the Tape BTW- except now I just use the CD version I bought of it:)

cournioni

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell and Vulgar Display of Power (got two of em at the same time)
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Nirvana - Nevermind
Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - And Justice For All
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Kali

jamiroquai - emergency on planet earth... everything up to that point had been dodgy rave/techno/whatever ye want to call it stuff... three years of mainly bjork/massiveattack/tricky/portishead followed until I came across floyds wish you were here while quite ****ed one day.. then the mind got opened as it were

FreaK_BrutheR

AC/DC - For those about to rock. first album i bought when i was about 9 or 10...****in still love it.

after a period of listening to all kinds of heavy metal long as it had metal in it for about 4 years after wards....... i bought violent femmes - violent femmes and my world was turned upside down . i was listening to everything again.

Now i could say Metallica's Kill em all and Slayer's reign in blood but the main heavy influence in me was ac/dc back ages before.

Captain Beefheart - trout mask replica

The Soft Machine - Volumes I and II

beck mellow gold.

jeff buckley - grace.

also were seriously life changing for me.

there's been so much of my life devoted to music it's a hard question. all in all i think grace probably i will never get sick of and will always remember when, where and with who i first listened to it with. so i spose grace is the most influencial. (soft machine comes damn close!!!)

TwoShedsJackson

'Automatic' by the Jesus & Mary Chain. 'Ritual de lo Habitual', and 'Nothing's Shocking' by Jane's Addiction.

DrunkLeprachaun

Rollins Band - The End Of Silence, got me listening to proper music(still one of my favorite albums ever).
Pantera - CFH, VDOP & TGSTK, because metal rules.

chernobyl

7day theory (Pac)
Korn (Korn..duh )
The Battle of LA (RATM)

lots more too..

PiE

Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"

All I knew were football chants before that

Supercell

Probably ZZ TOP - Eliminator when it came out, as i look through the tracks each one brings up another teenage memory..(messy slobbery snogs mostly)..haahah, it did affect me i suppose, my music taste has always since then favoured heavy guitar music and sweet sweet base

Haven't listened to it in years. /me totters off to soak in nostalgia and legs blehh..

stu_69

I have to add Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese just because it made me like such a crap band. Les Claypool I bow at your bass playing stuff.

adnans

jamiroquai - return of the space cowboy, then i went into reverse and never looked back

adnans

Bard

While I'm sure there'd be more, these albums certainly had a memorable impact on me at some stage for one reason or another:

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Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A
Live - Throwing Copper
Metallica - Metallica (Black Album), S&M
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Gladiator - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Christy Moore - Live at the Point
U2 - Best of 1980-1990 ... & B-Sides
Paul Simon - Graceland

Varied, huh?

stu_69

Originally posted by Bard

Paul Simon - Graceland

We got ourselfs a couch from a second hand shop in Bondi last week and I found that cd down the back of it!!! :cool:

WhiteWashMan

primus -frizzly fry
suicidal tendencies -how will i laugh tomorrow when i cant even smile today
eine kliene nachtmusik- motzart
metallica-S&M
GnR-appetite for destruction
AC/DC-back in black
pink floyd-wish you were here

probably the albums i s listened to mostly at different periods of my life

Monkey

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
The Doors - Morrison Hotel

scuzzy

Well I bought Thin Lizzy's 'Live And Dangerous' album, essential listening for lovers of live music.
The next week I went out and bought 'Jailbreak'.
The next week I went out and got The Who's 'Who's Next'.
The next week I went out and got Lynyrd Skynyrd's Essential.
The next week I went out and got Led Zep Vol 1...
The next week I went out...
And got pissed.:p

Karl Hungus

I suppose way back when...

Metallica - Black Album - '91

That started me off, I guess.

But what really done it for...

Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace - '97

It was like, WOW! I've never heard anything like this before, this is totaly ****ing amazing!
From then on, I really started to get into music in a very big way.

atonal

And the winners are....
Cars - Heartbeat City
Beatles - White Album
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nirvana - Nevermind
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Crowded House - Woodface
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
Radiohead - The Bends

Recent Thanks:
David Gray - White Ladder
The Prayer Boat - Polichinelle
& so many little Irish bands

electroshock

Autechre - LP5 : my first ever encounter with the wonderful institution that is Warp Records
Radiohead - The Bends : or more to the point Fake Plastic Trees. First song to ever make me cry.
Orbital - Insides : My first ever "dance" album. I think I played The Girl With The Sun In Her Head for two months non-stop.
Nirvana - Nevermind: My first "proper" album.

screamager

Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - The Bends
were the first few real albums i remember getting and then i veered sharply towards metal when i got some sepultura/pantera tape off my mates brother.

seamus

For about 4 years between the ages of 8-12, Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying, was my favourite album. Then I strayed onto the beaten track for a few months and was listening to scooter and that bollox. I would have to say the Cranberries brought me back into the world of real music and I got progressively heavier stuff from then on. Nirvana-nevermind--->RATM, and then Korn - Follow The Leader brought me fully into the world of real music and Korn- Korn sealed the deal. There ya go a brief history

GoneShootin

AC/DC : Highway to Hell
BB King : Dueces Wild

nice to see that ac/dc was listed already

TinCool

I wouldn't say the below changed my life but they're albums that I still play every now and then after having them for many years:

Peter Gabriel - So
Yello - Stella
Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene
Depeche Mode - Violator
Moby - Play - fairly recent but still brilliant
Chemical Bros - Dig your own hole
Stan Getz - Jazz Samba

black_wizardd

MetallicA - Master of Puppets. (Got me into Metal in general)
Slayer - A Decade of Aggression (Got me into Thrash Metal)
PanterA - Vulgar Display of Power (Added to my love for Thrash Metal)
Ozzy Osbourne - Rhandy Rhoads Tribute (Got me into classic Metal)
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast (Got me into Black Metal)
Deicide - Legion (Got me into Death/Gore/Grind Metal)

Twilight Dawn

Nirvana-Nevermind
Radiohead-Ok Computer/The Bends
These are what I can think of now but a lot of cds my friends copied for me with the best songs by bands like RATM ,Weezer,Pavement, Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age,Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins helped too.

Executive Steve

dEUS - all their albums until the ideal crash came out. only "band" i've ever really given the time of day.
goldie - timeless [without jungle life would suck]
boltthrower warmaster - first cd i ever bought - what was i on
nirvana nevermind - only heard it fotr the first time a year after he died. it was dreadful and the fac i had one of those god awful t shirts with his talentless junkie mug on it made me ashamed. i vowed to know what i was advertising on my chest from then on in.
type o negative october rust was there for me when some downright odd thngs were happeniing [eg i was homeless and me girlfriend had left me for someone who killed cattle for a living.]
dj hype true playaz in the mix volume 2 [well here most of the tunes on it are by the man himself and hes scratchin all over it so dont give me any of that dead-trees-elitist decks arent an instrument stuff]

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