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Post by RadicalRex on Aug 3, 2023 15:45:43 GMT
Please share albums that have had a profound impact on your life, be it a turning point in your musical journey or for other reasons. I'll start with:
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
I was 11 years old and listening to the same pop music as my peers, but also loved video game music. I loved the soundtrack of Rock'n'Roll Racing and when I found out it was using actual rock music tracks, I started looking up and borrowing records by those bands from the local library. First were Steppenwolf and Deep Purple--which were cool--but then I found this.
It was so heavy and dark it blew me away. I had no idea something like this existed, everything changed overnight, nothing was the same again. I expected it to blow everyone else away the same way, but to my great surprise nobody else liked it and they stuck to charts pop, so it marks the point where I'd developed an individual, divergent taste in music. I was only interested in heavy metal from now on, I got into Judas Priest all that, although Sabbath remained a favourite for years. My first electric guitar was an SG because of Tony Iommi, and it's still my favourite guitar model.
The album has had a mixed reception, but I think it's very underrated. It's not my favourite Sabbath album overall, but my favourite one with Dio.
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Later I may have scoffed at how it's the alcopop version of black metal, but in fact when I was 15 it was the perfect starter drug. It's the only album that ever came close to repeating how Dehumanizer blew me away and opened up a whole new world in front of me. It was just so dark and evil and cool and shit. From now on, all my life was about black metal, I quickly moved down the rabbit hole via Gehenna, Emperor, Satyricon, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum etc. all the way down to Abruptum. I grew long hair and wore only band shirts. My first gig was Dimmu Borgir on the Enthrone tour, and yes I did wear panda makeup (in my defence, I only did this once).
Although I eventually grew out of being a black metal fan, I still enjoy some of the music, especially Mayhem who remain one of my all-time favourite bands. Can't really listen to Dimmu Borgir anymore though.
So what are yours?
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Post by wunty on Aug 3, 2023 16:58:29 GMT
Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
My mate bought Donkey Kong Country for the SNES and it came with a free CD of tunes. Can’t remember much else on it apart from a Primal Scream song and Everything’s Cool by PWEI from the above album. I couldn’t get enough of that tune and when I got the album I listened to it to death. I know every word and every note from that thing. It put me on to the rest of the PWEI catalogue which was genuinely the soundtrack to my teenage years.
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and her Embrace
Like Rob with Dimmu Borgir, you would be hard pressed to describe CoF as black metal but what this album was, was my entry point to a more extreme sub genre of music that spoke to me. From this and Dimmu I went to Emperor, Mayhem, Zyklon, Burzum and everything else. I never went back to those bands much after my early twenties but I do still have a soft spot for CoF.
On a side note, very sad to read about Nick Barkers health issues recently. The man is surely one of the best and most prolific extreme metal drummers out there.
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Post by quadfather on Aug 3, 2023 17:10:09 GMT
Talking heads - remain in light
Iron maiden - somewhere in time and powerslave
Goldfrapp - felt mountain
Pepe deluxe - queen of the wave
Fuck there's far too many. This will go on too long for me.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 3, 2023 17:24:02 GMT
Metallica - LoadOkay, it's derided by a lot of people, but it was one of the first albums I ever had - it was a present, I got it along with a CD hifi player for Christmas, and it was pretty important for me in helping shape my musical taste. In retrospect, it's not a classic and it's overlong, but there are a few top tier songs on their and the musical landscapes the best tracks create just sound grand in a way that their songs rarely do.
Levellers - A Weapon Called The World Also a band easy to mock, but I just love the overall sound, folky, punky... I liked this before I even had my own stuff as I stole it off my older sister. It scratched an itch from an early age and it still very much does.
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
One of the first albums I really look forward to getting. I bought the single Breathe on tape, before even having my CD player, and to a teenage kid it was edgy and loud and cool. Looking back it's not my favourite album of theirs but it's certainly iconic, and it got me into electronica in a big way.
The Offspring - Americana
After spending a few years dallying around with electronic music it was this that got me back into guitar music. Frankly I think it's still a banger of an album.
I mean shit I can keep going but you'd get bored.
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Post by Lizard on Aug 3, 2023 17:56:11 GMT
No-one going for Definitely Stefy?
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Post by mothercruncher on Aug 3, 2023 18:04:23 GMT
Fuck, I know, or the exquisiteness of the Peter Andre OEUVRE
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Post by Humperfunk on Aug 3, 2023 18:12:06 GMT
Probably very obvious but OK Computer when I was 12, borrowed off a mate whilst on a French trip with school and absolutely changed everything for me.
Certainly inspired me to get into that type of music and pick up a guitar, and made music my main passion in life.
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Post by suicida on Aug 3, 2023 19:16:18 GMT
Here's two of mine, one really old and one more recent, and they couldn't be more different.
Slayer - Reign in Blood
I was 14/15 ish, probably early 1988, just starting to listen to heavier music after years of being into Madness and other chart music. Master of Puppets was great, Powerslave and Live After Death both got played a lot, but then I heard Slayer and their 25 minute masterpiece that is Reign in Blood and it totally and utterly blew my mind. The absolute fury of this record was like nothing I had ever heard. My mum absolutely despised it which only made me love it even more. Still the best thrash metal album ever recorded, Slayer were on another level. RIP Jeff
Persona 4 - Original Soundtrack
Playing Persona 4 Golden on my Vita, I find myself humming the songs while I'm at work, and rushing home to put the game back on. Over the course of playing what became my favourite game of all time those tunes got lodged in my brain like nothing else so I bought the CD off ebay, and then all the other Persona soundtracks, and then all the live Blu-rays, and then all the SMT soundtracks. If you'd told teenage me that (nearly) 50 year old me's favourite music would be a Jpop videogame soundtrack he'd have laughed in your face, but *nothing* makes me happier than listening to these albums. Shoji Meguro is god
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Post by elstoof on Aug 3, 2023 19:48:55 GMT
Diana Vickers’ Songs From the Tainted Cherry Tree
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Post by Vortex on Aug 3, 2023 20:55:22 GMT
Diana Vickers’ Songs From the Tainted Cherry Tree Not Burkeys black metal follow up album 'songs to skin corpses to'? |
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Post by Dougs on Aug 3, 2023 21:02:51 GMT
The Smiths - The Smiths
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Bowie - Hunky Dory
AC/DC - Back in Black
Pulp - Common People
All a but of a mix but in regular rotation still now.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 3, 2023 21:05:28 GMT
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Mogwai - Come on Die Young
Radiohead - Kid A
Green Day - Dookie
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Post by hedben on Aug 3, 2023 21:49:51 GMT
Maybe taking the prompt a bit too literally, but Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine set me on a path to being a hobbyist breakbeat DJ 10 years later, moving to Nottingham where there was a good club night that had the same vibe as the one I liked in my hometown, and meeting my wife at a pub near her student halls.
(NIN 1989-1994 / a lot of breakbeat in the early 2000s: “what if electronic music was also loud, industrial and ANGRY!”)
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Post by elstoof on Aug 3, 2023 22:06:49 GMT
I was 14 when OK Computer came out, magazines like Q raved about it so I was expecting some really good Britpop which was the best music I’d heard until then. It blew my tiny mind, the first time I’d heard anything greater than the typical I IV V progressions filling the charts. The first time I realised music could be more than some catchy hooks or anthemic choruses. There’s been a few more albums since then which similarly opened my ears but nothing can top that experience
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Post by Nanocrystal on Aug 4, 2023 0:08:13 GMT
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Radiohead - Kid A
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Each of these albums resulted in that band becoming my all time fave and obsession. Never thought Radiohead would get bumped into second place, but it happened.
Edit: Should also add FM-84 - Atlas which sent me down a synthwave rabbit hole that lasted several years.
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Post by Cosmopolitan on Aug 4, 2023 5:33:39 GMT
Can't say an album changed my life that would be exaggerating a bit. There are some that left a deep impression though.
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pink Floyd Animals
Led Zep 2
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Deep Purple In Rock
...to name just a few.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Aug 4, 2023 5:54:07 GMT
We had some Vinyls by Queen back home. I think it was It's a kind of magic and Innuendo, but it has been a long while.
Other than that it's difficult to really pin down, but I think it was Tool, Mastodon, Isis, Neurosis which started my interest in various Extreme Metal, Prog and Avant-garde things. That happened many, many years after initially getting confronted with something that wasn't just some random thing playing on the radio or TV.
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Post by dmukgr on Aug 4, 2023 6:02:12 GMT
Adam & The Ants - Dirk wears white sox.
This opened my eyes to music outside of the top 40 and to the fact that a lot of bands and musicians have a history and didn’t manage to appear on Top Of The Pops with zero effort having decided to be in a band the week before.
It also led to me getting the NME & Melody Maker as an alternative to Smash Hits. I used to see the Indie Charts and genuinely wonder why India had better taste in music than the UK.
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Post by mikeck on Aug 4, 2023 9:06:05 GMT
I was 14 when OK Computer came out, magazines like Q raved about it so I was expecting some really good Britpop which was the best music I’d heard until then. It blew my tiny mind, the first time I’d heard anything greater than the typical I IV V progressions filling the charts. The first time I realised music could be more than some catchy hooks or anthemic choruses. There’s been a few more albums since then which similarly opened my ears but nothing can top that experience Same for me elstoof - this was an absolute turning point for me, it completely overwhelmed me and was one of the few albums that I poured over every lyric, every inch of the CD inlay and knew (and still know) that album inside out. I had Pablo Honey but that was fairly standard stuff (with the odd exception) this was something else. I've loved Radiohead ever since, and enjoy all their albums (Hail to the Thief is my absolute favourite though) but OK Computer was a pivotal moment for my musical tastes. The other big moment I had was for an often derided album (Metallica's St. Anger) but it was a real bonding moment between my then-girlfriend's brothers and I, we were big fans and were looking forward to new stuff. Even though it wasn't classic Metallica, the three of us were so excited about the release we'd spend hours listening to music and smoking and generally geeking out. Simpler times. |
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Post by BeetrootBertie on Aug 4, 2023 9:21:03 GMT
As another one that spent much of my teens listening to a lot of metal, I suppose I owe a lot to the softer albums that opened the gates - Def Leppard's Hysteria and Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet.
I think later on, albums like Bjork's Post and the Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and DJ Shadow's Entroducing really helped me open up my musical tastes.
Mogwai's Young Team was a great way of introducing music that was still heavy, but not necessary metal too.
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Post by Psiloc on Aug 4, 2023 9:26:20 GMT
Nevermind by Nirvana and Grace by Jeff Buckley
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Post by Psiloc on Aug 4, 2023 9:28:53 GMT
Love the Rock n' Roll Racing reference in the OP, I discovered some music through that too. The harsh sound of the Megadrive suited that soundtrack to a T
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 4, 2023 9:40:38 GMT
'Jungle Hits: Vol. 2'. I got it when I got my decks and learned to mix with it. By the time I finished, I could get a tight hour set out of it without even having to plug my headphones in.
Genuinely the best compilation album I can think of. Every single track is an absolute, solid gold banger.
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Post by hedben on Aug 4, 2023 10:22:57 GMT
'Jungle Hits: Vol. 2'. I got it when I got my decks and learned to mix with it. By the time I finished, I could get a tight hour set out of it without even having to plug my headphones in. Genuinely the best compilation album I can think of. Every single track is an absolute, solid gold banger. Nice- I had exactly the same thing but with Explicit Beats - (compiled by) Rennie Pilgrem. Amazing range of tracks and moods. Edit- now that I listen back to it, it’s maybe not quite as good as I remember… still a definite gateway to what I liked and played after that though. |
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Post by killerbee on Aug 4, 2023 10:25:40 GMT
I think different music has been important to me at different times of my life, so it’s hard to narrow things down… but here goes:
Sky2 - by Sky
This is perhaps not well known, but the album topped the UK album charts in 1980, so isn’t that niche!! I was a toddler when it was released, so my exposure to it is entirely down to my Dad, who obviously liked guitar-based, entirely instrumental prog rock back then. Looking back, I definitely credit Sky2 with establishing my love of classical music, as well as popular, and also for making me really listen to compositions and try to understand musical concepts - especially with respect to time signatures beyond 4/4.
The track F.I.F.O. is one highlight of many, but certainly the most epic. On the double vinyl, it takes up a whole side, split across four movements, and plays wonderfully with different and unusual time signatures in a way I didn’t hear anywhere else until Tool’s Lateralus.
I still have the 1980 vinyl, and have since rebought it on CD of course. It’s an album that reminds me of my early childhood onwards and I listen to it regularly without ever tiring of it. I’d probably ask for the track Scipio to be played at my funeral - it’s the single most uplifting and joyous piece of music I’ve ever known and never fails to make me feel better about everything.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 4, 2023 10:45:46 GMT
Nice- I had exactly the same thing but with Explicit Beats - (compiled by) Rennie Pilgrem. Amazing range of tracks and moods. Edit- now that I listen back to it, it’s maybe not quite as good as I remember… still a definite gateway to what I liked and played after that though. Yeah, I dont think its aged that well. I think he was a bit of a 'Fatboy Slim Remix' ubiquitous for a while, turning up on a lot of stuff with some fairly workmanlike efforts. He did a few things for moving shadow, so I ended up with a few bits and bobs. But, yeah, it was the gateway into the Adam Freeland type breaks stuff which I did quite like. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Aug 4, 2023 12:47:28 GMT
I'm not 100% sure of the order, but I think it was Led Zeppelin albums (1-4) that got me into rock music (Closely followed by Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Rage etc...)
That not only set my musical taste for years to come, but it also was a pretty strong factor in who I became best friends with at school, which then affected things like meeting my wife, going to Japan, etc... But really, there are too many albums that were part of my youth, but it's hard to pick out specific ones that changed my life as they were mainly all points on a trend. |
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Post by quadfather on Aug 4, 2023 13:03:16 GMT
I think different music has been important to me at different times of my life, so it’s hard to narrow things down… but here goes: Sky2 - by SkyThis is perhaps not well known, but the album topped the UK album charts in 1980, so isn’t that niche!! I was a toddler when it was released, so my exposure to it is entirely down to my Dad, who obviously liked guitar-based, entirely instrumental prog rock back then. Looking back, I definitely credit Sky2 with establishing my love of classical music, as well as popular, and also for making me really listen to compositions and try to understand musical concepts - especially with respect to time signatures beyond 4/4. The track F.I.F.O. is one highlight of many, but certainly the most epic. On the double vinyl, it takes up a whole side, split across four movements, and plays wonderfully with different and unusual time signatures in a way I didn’t hear anywhere else until Tool’s Lateralus. I still have the 1980 vinyl, and have since rebought it on CD of course. It’s an album that reminds me of my early childhood onwards and I listen to it regularly without ever tiring of it. I’d probably ask for the track Scipio to be played at my funeral - it’s the single most uplifting and joyous piece of music I’ve ever known and never fails to make me feel better about everything. I have this vinyl too, and I also like to just let it unfold itself. Every time I put it on, I just play the whole thing. It's a great album. In fact, I might put it on now! |
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Post by JonFE on Aug 4, 2023 13:03:34 GMT
As a teenager, I started listening to metal, but being in Greece, a lot of releases from smaller record companies could not be easily/cheaply imported, so only groups with an establish record company behind them were accessible without costing me an arm and a leg. That meant a music diet of Maiden, Priest, Scorpions, Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin etc... ... until the blessed day when a new Greek import company appeared dealing with Metal Blade, Roadrunner, Megaforce and other record companies, so suddenly the likes of Metallica (Kill 'em All), Mercyful Fate (Melissa), Slayer (Show no Mercy), Manowar (Into Glory Ride/Hail to England), Anthrax (Fistful of Metal) etc. showed up on the selves.
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Post by dmukgr on Aug 4, 2023 13:12:39 GMT
Whenever I am in a car in Greece (fairly often) and the radio is on, I am always amazed at how popular rock is still over there - it's always like going back in time. Obviously this is heavily biased towards my friends listening habits, but yeah, enough people listen to keep these stations going.
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