Husky McDump

These aren't my favorite albums, just the ones that played vital roles in my music development.

1 being the most important...

10 - As Cities Burn - Son I Loved You At Your Darkest
This cd is probably my favorite album to listen to from start to finish. Captivating album driven by so many different styles of music, hard to pass this one up.

9 - Unearth - The Oncoming Storm

This cd was my gateway into modern metal, very well written album as well.

8 - Iron Maiden - ...Edward the Great (Greatest Hits)

Soon after Thrice was introduced to me I wanted to figure out where all the inspiration was coming from for some of the artists I was listening to at the time. I fell in love with Maiden, never looked back since.

7 - At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command

My sister had this cd when it first came out and i stumbled upon it in 6th grade. Such an unbelievable first glimpse at alternative for me.

6 - Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

This album sparked my interest in singing. I've been a Blink 182 fan since "Dammit" came out haha. Don't care what anyone says, these guys can make some decent music =]

5 - Norma Jean - O' God the Aftermath

First metalcore album I owned, I was listening to Underoath a lot in 8th-9th grade and one thing lead to another and I started listening to these guys. Pretty amazing album.

4 - Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out Of Something

Like I've mentioned in other threads, this album changed the way I look at writing music, lyrics and my world view. Brilliant album made from the boys from WA.

3 - Jimmy Hendrix - Axis:Bold As Love

Started playing guitar to this album. Can't argue with that haha.

2 - A Wilhelm Scream - Mute Print

First punk based cd that I ever really got into, but these guys blew me away when I first heard them.

*drum roll........*


1 - Thrice - Artist In An Ambulance

Alright...so when I first heard "All That's Left" on MTV2 (back when MTV2 played music videos 100% of the time) I basically popped off my couch and listened to every second with all the attention I could put forth. This cd opened more doors than any other album/band/song/anything has done for me music-wise. I still look at it as one of the best albums written in the last 10 years.


and there you have it!

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Husky McDump

You and I have mentioned these two albums frequently on this site =D.

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crash_override

Yes, I agree with both of these. As Cities Burn is great and this album definately showcases that. As for Artist In The Albulance, this album was my religion for a while, seriously i know how to play every song from start to finish.

p.s. The bassline on Stare at the Sun is incredible.

333

I'd have to agree with Emsanders. Though not all these are my favorite, they most certainly shaped my musical taste today. Also, they're in no specific order:

-Alice in Chain: Jar of Flies
It's gotten me through some emotional times. In my opinion, not Staley at his best, but nonetheless, amazing. Also, I think Layne Staley can be sometimes overrated. It was Cantrell and Staley together that really spoke to me. Jerry's solo stuff is pretty mind-blowing, too.

-Tool: Aenima
This is where I started with Tool. I backtracked to Undertow and Opiate from here, and just a couple of years ago moved on to Lateralus and 10,000 days. I can't wait to see they're coming out with.

- Pink Floyd: Meddle
One of my favorites. Words won't express the significance of this album for me, so I'll stop here.

- Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come
Mr. Cooke pulled me out of my limited music tastes a few years back when I was introduced to him with this album.

- Miles Davis: Live Evil
I really appreciate this album because of how experimental he gets. It's quite moving.

- Mr. Bungle: Self-titled, Disco Volante, California
I think I've said enough on Bungle in the this forum for right now.

- Mos Def: The New Danger
He opened me up to the better qualities of hip-hop with this album. When I bought it, I feel like I was too young to understand, but the more I listened, the more I was blown away. I also love his singing voice.

- Acid Bath: When the Kite String Pops
Back in junior high, these guys opened me up to some dark music and I ****ing loved it. Dax Rigg has a great voice and the band he started with his sister, Dead Man and Elephant Boy doesn't nearly showcase it as well as When the Kite String Pops does.

- Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
This is how I was introduced to Tom Waits, and I couldn't have asked for a better way.

- Can: Ege Bamyasi
I have difficulties finding the right words to describe this album, much less the band. At first listen, I wasn't so impressed, but within minutes after the second go-around, I was sold.

jackhammer

Same here although it was probably before you were born! (1989)

Superb album although some people don't like the emphasis on the guitar tracks on here.


Definitely get's better with each listen but Soundtracks and Future Days are preferable for me.

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crash_override

Great pick, I love Acid Bath. Although I feel 'Paegan Terrorism Tactics' is far superior.

Gone Sugaring

These were all albums I discovered around the same time;

10. If You're Feeling Sinister-Belle and Sebastian. Initially, it was those soft somewhat up lifting melodies that made me want to listen. It wasn't until later that I discovered that the lyrics were, well somewhat more "sinister" than I realized. The album that made me listen more closely to lyrics.

9. Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division I had never heard an album before that was truly able to create such an atmosphere of gloom.

8. Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan Soon after I heard "If You're Feeling Sinister" I heard this one. Again, an album that really made me both look and listen closely to the words.

7. Daydream Nation-Sonic Youth From the opening song to the closing one, this album overwhelmed me in the best way possible. I heard noise shape into music and it fascinated me.

6. Magical Mystery Tour-The Beatles Sure it has "Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane and All You Need Is Love" but it's the George Harrison song "Blue Jay Way" that really impressed me. Psychedelic rock that didn't sound self-indulgent to me.

5. Let It Be-The Replacements My favorite song off this album, "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" is a song I always hear people call "necessary filler" Maybe it is, only for the sake of a good transition to "Androgynous" Messy in the best way possible, fun and I feel like singing every song at the top of my lungs.

4. Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)-Wu-Tang Clan In terms of sheer attitude, I'm convinced this is one of the most punk albums ever created, despite it being a hip-hop album. When the only hip-hop I knew was the stuff I hated on the radio, this album came as a gateway to entire genre of music I didn't know.

3. The Velvet Underground and Nico-The Velvet Underground I couldn't believe this album came out in the 60's the first time I heard it. It sounded so, "not typically 60's" It wasn't cute, it wasn't exactly poppy, it wasn't quite punk, goth, new wave, so what was it?" It was everything I loved about music blended into one album.

2. Roman Candle-Elliott Smith By the time I heard this album, I'd already heard his self-titled album and Either/Or, but it was this album that made me realize how amazing he really was. He recorded it in a basement, only him, a guitar and a four track recorder. Technically it's probably his simplest album, and yet every time I listen, it surrounds me and makes me feel like I'm listening to a freaking orchestra. The title track has to be one of angriest subtle song I've ever heard.

1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea-Neutral Milk Hotel I'll keep this description short due to the fact if I try and describe my feelings towards it I could go on forever. Never had I heard an album like this, never had I heard an album that made me feel like this one, and I doubt another album ever will. Amazing.

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savannah

in no order:

1) guy clark- old number one
growing up the way i did in small town texas, listening to guy clark was much like breatheing, and there are so many of his songs that lend themselves to the soundtrack of my life,....i'll go with old number one, because it was his first,....and my first of his,....it includes LA Freeway, which is quite possibly my very favorite song ever, he has a way of turnin the simplest of phrases into some kind off accidentally romantic poetry......hearing guy clark is much like drivin down a tree lined dirt road, with all the windows down, just as the sun starts to set, and breatheing really deep,taking in the smell of fresh cut hay,....guy clark is home


2) traffic - heavy traffic
i've always been a huge steve winwood fan,.....traffic, and later blind faith, played a large role in the identity of my high school self,.....technically interesting, yet undeniably feel good while being thought provoking,......meh, who am i kiddin,....i was smokeing alot of pot

3) pat green - live at billy bobs
considered my generation's jerry jeff walker, pat green inspired many a road trip weekend,.....his songs were fun,..light,....about beer, and burritos, and music, and texas, and love,.......it was all about a good time, or a good time to avoid heart break,.....sometimes good music isnt good because its original, or thecnically steller,....but it envokes some kinda of memory, connection, within you,...pat green does that for me and many of my friends,.....because of this album, we set off on our own,......we ate ramen noodles all week just so we could afford five dollar cover and dollar beers in some run down side of the road beer joint, that was packed with others just like us,....tryin to figure out who we are, where we are goin,......what we knew is that we would get there with pat on the radio, an allsups burrito in our belly, and lone star beer in a cooler behind the seat

4) neil young – harvest
my father,….and much of my relationship with him

5) the toadies – rubberneck
Almost every good memory I have can some how be tied into this album,…..be it playing in the back ground,……or quoted in conversation,……or just a general vibe,……this album provides a song for almost any situation I can think of,…..and in a way that’s alittle ****ed up

6) ani difranco – not a pretty girl
This album has gotten me through every breakup I’ve had thus far,…cliché as it may be

7) various artist – hi fi soundtrack
Be it bob dylan’s most of the time, or john Wesley harding’s I’m wrong about everything,…..or 13th floor’s your gonna miss me,…..in a way the book, movie, and soundtrack can easily be a road map and instruction book for life

8) kasey chambers – wayward angel
Singable, realatable, non man hateing chick music,…….if I’m getting ready to go out, or I have a big day planned,…..i can just slip this album in while I’m getting ready and by the time I run out the door, I’m calm, happy, and ready for anything

9) mike mcclure – everything upside down
I feel in and out of love with this in the back ground,…

10) lyle lovette – Pontiac
Because all I ever wanted was a boat

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Dieselboy

Dont think any of these are actually my favorites, but they are the most influential I guess when I actually thought about it.

Tried to put this in somewhat chronological order...


1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
The cd that got me into metal when I musta been in 6th-7th grade. My friends brother owned this and we'd listen to it whenever he wasn't around. Everntually I went to buy it for myself, ended up getting countdown to Extinction instead, and it just kinda snowballed from there.

2. Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Reminds me of listening to this on tape while driving to and from baseball or basketball games with my dad. My pops (a minister) hated most of my music, but actually dug this cd too. This actually made it seem cooler to me, believe it or not.
I Forgot about it for awhile until I remembered and bought and started listening to it again in recent years.
Probably the only album on this list that would actually be on my actual "top 10" list too.

3. DC Talk - Jesus Freak
Anyone who went to a christian school or was in a youth group like I was when this cd came out knows what I'm talking about here. I owned a copy and so did almost everyone else around me. It was pretty much the only half-decent christian cd out there, so it was huge. Everyone had the first few songs at least, memorized.

4. Bush - Sixteen Stone
This entire cd was pretty much and anthem for my clique of friends my freshman year in high school. We all owned a copy and had every single song memorized.

5. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life Volume 2
Pretty much the first hip-hop cd I ever enjoyed. Listened to this all the time on my disc-man the summer it came out. Bought a new copy recently and its still pretty great.

6. DJ Dan - Another Late Night
A HUGE turning point in the way I looked at music. A friend lent me this cd and blew me away. At work the next day I pretty much insisted that he let me borrow every other electornica cd that he owned. This sent me in so many diffrent directions and sub genres of the scene, it was pretty overwhelming. My next couple on this list prove it.

7. Dieselboy - The Sixth Session
You knew this was commin... One of the cd's my friend lent me. Not Dieselboy's best cd by far, but it totally made me fall in love with drum and bass, and I bought my own copy soon after.
Now I own his entire discography, a couple shirts, and try to steal his name on every forum I sign up for and every online game I play.

8. Happy2bHardcore Chapter 3
I know most people hate happy hardcore, but this cd kicked my butt the 1st time I heard it, and I had to buy more. I have all 7 chapters now, and many many other discs of the same genre, and always list it as one of my favorites genres when asked. Its so cheesy, I love it

9. Misfits - Famous Monsters
One of the 'new' misfits cd's that 'real' fans hate. I bought this cause I heard one song on it and enjoyed it.
Later a friend that I really admired, who was also a music fan, saw me listening to it and said how much he loved them. Because of this, I ended up going backwards through all their earlier music and discovering many awesome early punk bands in the process that I still love.

10. Coltrane - A Love Supreme
One of the first jazz cd's I heard when I was trying to get into the genre. Fell In love with it and listen to it like crazy now...sometimes daily. Inspired me to finally pick up an instrument (the sax) and learn to play.

Sorry if its all kindsa long..

scottsy

No apology required! That was a really interesting post to read! I love it when. people really understand why they love their music and give detailed reviews the way you did, so kudos to you!

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