If that's the case then add the Men in Black soundtrack to my list. First cassette I ever bought...

10. Nevermind by Nirvana--come on, it's Nevermind. It has iconic singles but songs like "Polly" are great too. If Bleach finished stronger it would be here, but Nevermind is a front-to-back listen.
9. You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.--It's low-fi, it's got Barlow, and it's catchy. Dino Jr.'s best album and my favorite true indie album.
8. Fungus Amongus by Incubus--Funky and fun as hell, it's so underrated in my book. Incubus did funk rock almost as good as the Chili Peppers and this album makes me wish they would have kept making that sound.
7. Aenima by Tool--Tool is an album band and it was tough for me to pick just one album; the only criteria I knew was it had to be one with Chancellor. In the end, Lateralus is too experimental for me and 10,000 Days has to much empty space.
6. Good News for People Who Like Bad News by Modest Mouse--the best "indie" sounding album I have ever heard. Very catchy and the right amount of weird.
5. Dookie by Green Day--my favorite (pop?)punk album. Another album you can listen to all the way through. It's got just the right production values too; it's quality is improved over previous work but it still has a simple, stripped-down feel.
4. Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins--sex for the ears. Corgan is great on the guitar (well, every instrument for that matter) and the whole things flows together nicely.
3. Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine--another favorite band, and this is their best album. Only two songs I don't like ("Settle for Nothing" and "Township Rebellion"); it's the best rap metal album I've heard. All four members are at their best here.
2. Frizzle Fry by Primus--Primus is my second favorite band and this is my favorite record by them. Les has plenty of skill by this point in time and everything he plays is catchy. This and Seas of Cheese are my favorite time period for Primus because they were still metal and jammed plenty without too much prog. The only song that doesn't do it for me is "Hello Skinny/Constantinople".
1. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers--it's my favorite record and it's what got me into listening to whole albums. There isn't a song I dislike, and it's pretty ****ing long. You can tell they spent a lot of time getting every mix right. Kiedis is in his singing prime IMO--just the right mix of rant and melody. Flea throws down some sick funky lines and John is right there with just the right amount of melody. Perfection. :)

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Ah, see? That's much better. :)

Top Personal Milestone Albums

Backstreet Boys (millenium)
First album I listened to from beginning to end.

Saliva (every six seconds)
First CD i ever bought.

XBOX Soundtrack (various)
First CD I mixed in a cassette tape, cutting songs and turning them into other things. The beginning of my experimentation.

The Album Leaf (into the blue again)
First indie album i ever bought.

Neutral Milk Hotel (in the aeroplane over the sea)
First album that changed my life completely.

Talking Heads (fear of music)
First record I ever bought.

Nick Drake (pink moon)
only album i can listen to on repeat forever

It's pretty hard to beat that as a starting point.

Since this is a milestone list, I'm just going to tweak the numbers a tad. I've only been album-whoring for about 2 months mind you.
I'll go in chronological order.


8)My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade
The first album I bought myself, one year ago. While, yes, looking back it it quite an embarassment, when I bought it I was blown away (probably because I my low standards at the time. :) )
However, I do still spin it every now and then just to see how far I've come from it.
Key Tracks: Welcome to the black parade, Cancer


7)AFI- Decemberunderground
After a few albums I came across AFI. I picked up their latest work, DU.
It was the first album I bought that I TRULY loved. Track-for-track (back when I had low standards) it was great, and was also the only album I owned at the time where the singles paled compared to the rest of the tracks.
Key Tracks: Prelude 12/21, Summer Shudder, 37mm

6)System of a Down- Toxicity
From my first 20 albums, this is the only one I still listen to today regularly.
While it didn't seem like a giant step for me at the time, it was now that I look back. The only reason I picked up because it was at Hot Topic, as I was a little emo kid for the first half 2008. While it took a little while, this is the album that lifted me off the ground from emo kid to true music fan, as the quality of my music taste shot off afterwards.
Key Tracks: ATWA, Chop Suey!, Deer Dance, Prison Song

5)Rodney Crowell- Fates' Right Hand
I took a chance and attempted to expand my musical horizon (C'mon, a hottopicore kid listening to COUNTRY?), and Jesus Christ did it pay off. Exellent song-writing, amazing lyrics, and heart-felt vocals. This album also proved to me that you CAN NOT judge an entire genre by whats on that genres radio station.
And soon after, the process of album whoring began.
Key Tracks: Earthbound, Riding Out the Storm, Fates' Right Hand

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4)Rush- 2112
This is the album that jump started my appreciation for music. However, it did come with a mild case of fanboyism that I had to fight with for a bit.
After getting Moving Pictures and Perm Waves, I thought I would go back into Rushs' Discography, and I came across this. The fact the title track was twenty minutes astounded me. I took a while to fully appreciate, but soon this album gave way to my love of Progressive Rock.
Key Tracks: 2112, The Twilight Zone, Something For Nothing

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3)Coheed & Cambria- No World for Tomorrow
Soon after my discovery of Rush, I explored modern Prog rock bands, the first being Coheed & Cambria. I started with the album (...)Fear Through the Eyes of Madness and was honestly disappointed. I left them alone for a while and continued my excessive album consuming. After a bit, I decided to give them a second chance, and I did so with this album. From the psuedo-ballad 'Mother Superior' to the five track suite 'The End Complete', the sheer diversity of this album was enough to impress me, and the fact that they pulled it all off damned well with no filler amazed me. I'm terrible at explaining things, go listen to this. Now. I may post a review of this later.
Key Tracks: Feathers, Mother Superior, The End Complete IV: The Road and the Damned.

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2)Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
THE most heart-felt and sincere album I own. I off on whim when I got this. The thing I knew is that he did the original of the oft-covered 'Higher Ground'.
I was skeptical, as this was the first time I had bought an album without having a clue as to what kind of content was on there.
Well, I was pleasantly surprised to say the least.
I am a man of few words, so I'll just summarize.
This album gave me my favorite hobby, buying a CD without any clue as to what is on it. Sure, you'll probably get crap, but if you find a gem, well, then that'll make your whole damn day worthwhile.
Key tracks: Living for the City, Visions, Higher Ground.

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1)The Mars Volta- De-Loused in the Comatorium
There comes a time in a music fans' life where the one album that changes his/hers' perspective on music or even life itself. This album was it for me.
It's the musical interperatation of a very strange death of a friend. Back when The Mars Volta was At the Drive-In, A close of friend of the bands' Injected himself with rat poison and went into a week long coma. During that coma, he experienced psychedelic trials. However, upon awaking he couldn't take the turn back to reality. He exclaimed that the dream world was for him.
He soon took his own life by jumping to his death.
Anyways, how's the music? Well, upon a first listen, I thought it was rubbish.
It took me WAY out of my comfort zone (which I now think every prog record should), and just sounded like random notes played fast and loudly.
But I wasn't going to give up on it, I gave it many listens. Infact, It took me a FULL WEEK of almost nothing of this album for me to truly fall in love with it.
I can't explain in words what makes this album so wonderful. You'll just have to listen to it.
Key tracks: Drunkship of Lanterns, Cicatriz ESP, Televators.

I Zimbra on vinyl? Fantastic :hphones:

I think Fear of Music may be the only album I own on vinyl, CD and cassette.

why all the versions?

I've done this in in chronological order, which makes more sense I think. I 'got into' music comparatively late (15/16), not having the guiding influence of a 'rock dad' or especially musical parents even, just music magazines and those awful channels that show back-to-back video promos into eternity.

So this is early 2001 onwards really.

1. Stereophonics - Word Gets Around

I still rate this one, they got shit after this. Aside from silly pop cassettes and the odd soundtrack this was (probably) the first rock album I got. Just great songcraft that I could listen to all day and lyrics about boring old Wales. I was bored too. Either this or the Offspring's Americana which prompted my first gig.

2. Pixies - B-Sides

Q Magazine said it was worth a shot, I had some pocket money.
I didn't know what a B-side was, had to ask my dad. Before we had wikipedia so the Pixies were this mysterious wailing entity and the sleevenotes were by a bloke called Frank Black?... Cool!

3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - discography up to and including Californication

Oh yes, this band were straight on the CD walkman as soon as I got out of class, at lunch, wherever. Fratboy funk/cock rock, it had that essential energy that a sexually-frustrated, pubescent kid demands; and I thought all the band members were the best IN THE WORLD at their respective instruments. Obviously I've moved on, but Bloodsugar, Hot Minute and Californication endure.
I even had the Out In L.A. rarities disc, which I fucking loved and made me write pages of awful lyrics for a band I would never be in.

4. Various - Pop Art: Underground Sounds from the Warhol Era (soundtrack compilation to Channel 4 documentary I didn't see)

I am going to make my hellspawn kids listen to this as soon as they grow their first ears because it did me a world of good.

1. I'm Waiting for the Man - The Velvet Underground
2. Search and Destroy - Iggy & the Stooges
3. These Days - Nico
4. You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
5. Kick Out the Jams - MC5
6. I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
7. Andy Warhol - David Bowie
8. Jet Boy - New York Dolls
9. Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
10. X Offender - Blondie
11. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - The Ramones
12. Marquee Moon - Television
13. Hello It's Me - John Cale, Lou Reed

5. the Clash - the Clash

I was embarking on a punk/post-punk odyssey and this was everything to me; it was angry young man music and it was ENGLISH. 'London Calling' had a similar effect on me, these albums gave me hope and energy. That year Joe Strummer died, I read the NME articles and went out and got more albums.

6. Joy Division - Substance

Introduced me to desolate and desperate sounds that made me want to start a band more than anything. Unfortunately everybody else was listening to Led Zeppelin. Bastards.

It just went perfectly with where I was at the time, directionless, isolated. I could even play along to the songs on my starter-kit guitar!

7. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty

The Eminem albums came before this but it no way got me into hip-hop.
This destroyed preconceptions. It was not massively representative of the hip-hop I'd come to love, but it was B-boy before I knew what that was and it was just energizing and a bit alien. I had a friend who decided he hated hip-hop and loved metal, he gave away all his classics to me - NWA, Wu-Tang, Dr. Dre.

8. Manic Street Preachers - the Holy Bible

There was worse to come but this album is responsible for nearly pushing me over the edge. Relentless and stone-cold f*cking sober.

9. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove (cheapo best-of)

First album I got stoned to (I don't smoke anymore incidentally :))

10. the Beatles - Rubber Soul

Revolver got me into them and nudged the door but this one kicked it open at a low-point in my time on planet earth thus far. 2006, the long one :D
There are any number of shot-away 60's albums and dance mixes I could reel off here but you get the idea.

****
Post-'06 various postal-ordered grime mixtapes and CD-Rs from my DJ mate who educated me on electronic music of all kinds; these gave me the huge slap I needed.

Buying my own desktop in 2007 has rendered this kind of list almost pointless, it ends here!:(

Honourary mentions that I couldn't fit into the 10 (there were honestly real life-savers/eye-openers) chronological:

blur - modern life is rubbish
the strokes - is this it
jeff buckley - grace
love - forever changes

10. Ga Ga Ga Ga-Spoon
9. Who's Next-The Who
8. Faust IV-Faust
7. Loveless-MBV
6. Proyecto A-Proyecto A
5. Transatlanticism-DCFC
Got me into surface Indie, a small but vital step in my musical evolution.
4. Wildhoney-Tiamat
Showed me what metal can be.
3. The Cold Vein-Cannibal Ox-
Got me into undeground Hip Hop.
2. Wind In The Wires-Patrick Wolf
I don't what it is about this album, but it's like a musical ligthhouse for me. No matter how far I stray off my own beaten path I'll always have this to come back to.
1. In The Court Of The Crimson King
Of all the records I own this one will always standout to me, even though I rarely listen to it anymore, as the one that kickstarted my love of the avante-garde, the obscure...I'm convinced that no matter how many thousands of albums I will listen to in the course of my life none will ever surpass the majesty King Crimson's debut.
The yellow jester does not play, but gently pulls the strings...smiles as the puppets dance in the court of the Crimson King...

good list, especially Cannibal Ox (for me it was Company Flow).

So what the hell is 'surface indie'? Like just under the mainstream but with enough clout to keep from being submerged into the underground?

Yeh, where DCFC used to be, got some air time, sold plenty of records, but not really in the mainstream conscious.

I thought i'd done this but i didn't! In order of when i got them, ish.

1. RHCP - Californication
The first album i bought, and my favourite for a while as well. I don't think i've listened to this in about 4 years but i still have good memories of it.

2. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
I got this in a 4 for £20 deal at HMV for the hell of it. On the first listen i have NEVER been blown away by an album as much as i had been with this. It was incredible, i was thinking "this is nearly 30 YEARS OLD and it sounds more exciting and fresh than anything i've ever heard before".

3. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Me and my best mate at the time were enormous Libertines fans and i remember a load of great nights just drinking, singing along to this and playing Fifa. I still play it every now and again, both for nostalgia and it's great for a knees-up!

4. NME Compilation - Kurt's Choices
The NME had a CD for free full of some of Cobain's favourite artists and this was a huge inspiration for me. Bad Brains, MDC, Melvins, Gang Of Four and a certain PJ Harvey are all regulars for me now.

5. The Clash - London Calling
Because it's essential for anyone with even a remote interest in music. It's the first one i always reccommend when someone asks for a music tip.

6. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Well, you know the story here :)

7. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
I thought they were the coolest band ever, i used to play this to everyone but no-one liked it and it was around now i started using internet messageboards because i was frustrated with no-one listening to the same stuff i did, kind of a milestone. I also tried to look like Thurston Moore for a bit.

8. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
When you're a young indie kid it's easy to go by the stereotype that all hip-hop is guns and hoes but, and i think this is the same with a lot of people, this album blew that idea out of the water for me.

9. Slayer - Reign In Blood
My best mate now is a huge metal-head and we'd quarrel all the time about what music to listen to when hanging out because i hated metal (i blame this on him listening to mostly Trivium at this point). He introduced this to me one day though and it clicked. It's still one of the most aggressive albums ever, it's insane.

10. Melt-Banana - Cell-scape
I'm not an expert music-wise by any means because i flit around too much, but if there's one genre i would be nearly comfortable calling my own it's noise rock. You never know what you're going to get but you know it's always going to push you to your limits and i fucking love that. If music challenges you it's always going to reward you in the end. When i came across this album it was a mind-**** but i loved it and played it over and over and over. And now i'll listen to anything!

I'll make a new list soon, my old one was ****, and a lot of those aren't even important to me.

Yeah same,... A lot were just faves...

I do love me some FIFA :thumb:

Pro Evo's better, i was so naive!

Aye, Pro Evo is way better.

nice post gunnels; loved your story about Tenors on Tour, nonsubmissivewife--I could picture the scene! This is such a great thread--feel like I get to know folks and their influences, and definitely see some new music to explore...

I could not possibly come up with an order of importance.

10. Graceland- Paul Simon- I suppose equally as important as the record was the VHS tape from the Graceland Tour that I spent hours watching on repeat as a boy of about 3, sitting in my little rocking chair, strumming a broom for lack of a guitar.

9. Physical Grafitti (Disc 1)- Led Zeppelin- I say just disc one because when I bought the record at a yard sale only Disc 1 was in it. Bonham changed my life forever.

8. Aenima- Tool- Buying this record was when I really, truly started taking music seriously.

7. The Letting Go- Bonnie "Prince" Billy- This is pretty recent. Rarely have I played a record so much immediately after buying it. Its my folk dream come true.

6. Abbey Road- The Beatles- This and Graceland were the two records that I can remember being played repeatedly in my house while growing up. This will always be my favorite Beatles record.

5. McLusky Do Dallas- McLusky- Reminded me how awesome true grit can be. Also that music doesn't always have to be serious.

4. Grassroots- 311- This may not be a popular selection on this forum but when I was 13 this record was a humongous influence on me. It still retains plenty of nostalgic value, and I do genuinely still enjoy a lot of it.

3. Music For 18 Musicians- Steve Reich- My introduction to minimalism. This piece has definitely left a huge impact on me ever since I heard it.

2. Vespertine- Bjork- This was one of those records that was introduced to right at the perfect time. Also, reminded me how beautiful the female voice can be.

1. Bitches Brew- Miles Davis- This is the only record that is in order on this list. Hearing it for the first time completely blew my mind. Since I have been looking for the next step musically and I have yet to find it. Live At The Fillmore 1970- It's About That Time rekindled my love for this era of Miles to a new precedent as well, but I'll just call that a derivative of BB.

10 Important albums to me as an individual. Wow. This takes some thinking.
Not sure that I can just pick albums. In no order of importance here is a list.

1) I think that the 1st 7 inch single I got was pretty important a record. Spending my hard earned money from my first week on a paper round on Coz I Luv You by Slade.

2) Ziggy by Bowie. This is the first album that I ever got that had impact on the senses that made me realise that music was a passion. I still play this album to this day.

3) Pictures At An Exhibition by ELP. I was introduced to this by an older mate who told me I listened to kids stuff at the time. In hindsite a lot of rot but as an impressionable teen I trusted his judgement. This record opened up a new world of music as when I played it my Mum recognised Mussorgsky and it made me realise that I did really like all that music that she had played. I just did not want to admit it.

4) Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. Records like this make an impression that lasts for ever.

5) King Of The Swingers by Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen. My dad had this obscure record and I loved it when I was a kid. It made me listen to Jazz and from this Trad band lots of other weird and wonderful sounds evolved.

6) (I'm) Stranded by The Saints. This was the record that has made me rail against elitist bullshit artists in the music world. This was the ducks guts, the beez kneez, a power laden surge of adrenalin and I loved it with a passion. So what did I get from my wanky mates? Derision with such garbage as "they can't play their instruments". Hang about boys they can actually but you are too limited in your outlook to hear.

7) John Williams wonderful Rodrigo:Concierto De Aranjuez. This piece of music my mum played when I was very young but what version I do not remember. One day I asked her about it and she got this for me as a gift. This is really a wonderful record that not only provokes memories but also sadness for the emotion of the music.

8) The entire output of Dead Can Dance. The recordings of this remarkable group just do it for me. No matter the feelings I put them on and get transported to another world. Sorry a bit of a cheat but such is life!

9) Beat by Chris Knox. This had a emotional impact that at the time hit a spot. It is strange how music can have that effect.

10) Is All Over The Map by Giant Sand. I realised that this very good album was Country Music and opened my eyes to a whole new world. Put your prejudices away folks.

I based this list on what albums have had the greatest role in shaping what I listen to today. Some I never listen to anymore, some I still listen to daily.

(No Order)
Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs - This is the first album that I sort of found on my own. You know that feeling you get when you find a really great artist that you think no one else knows about? This was the first time I got that feeling.

The Beatles - White Album - The Beatles are probably the one band that has had the greatest role in shaping what I listen to today. This album still remains one of my favorites of all time.

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas performed by Claudio Arrau - The reason I love music. Absolute perfection.

Chopin's Nocturnes performed by Artur Rubinstein - The nocturnes are my favorite pieces to play and they are also a big reason why I love classical music so much. One of the first set of classical pieces I truly loved.

Elliot Smith - S/T - This album is one of the reasons why I love folk music. It helped me get out of my "classic rock" phase when I was younger, and really expand my taste in music to many more genres.

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things - First jazz album I fell in love with. And it's still my favorite jazz album to this day.

Led Zeppelin - Zepp IV - I remember when I was maybe ten years old I listened to one of my dad's old cassettes of zepp IV everyday. I thought that they were the best thing to happen to the world. My first favorite band, though I can't say I listen to them much at all anymore.

Radiohead - Amnesiac - Favorite album from one of my current favorite bands.

Pink Floyd - Animals - Huge influence on what I listen today. Also helped open the door to many other genres of music.

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells - This album has had a very large impact on what I listen to today.

Me and my friend had a chuckle the other day when we thought we unlocked some awesome achievement for the 360, and it was just the one for having over fifty hours played. And it's mostly us, I've got like 80 games played or something ridiculous like that.

50 hours? Psshh... you should see the time I have logged into Final Fantasy 10 haha

1. Green Day - Dookie
They just got me into rock music and i sorta started from there
2. Guns n roses - Appetite for destruction
I remembering hearing this and i was like OMG i wanna be like Slash. He is my inspiration for music and hes the reason i started guitar
3. Escape the fate - There's no sympathy for the dead
Ronnie Radke, literally hes voice sends shivers down my spine. After hearing this it sorta starting getting me hooked onto emo/punk songs and finding soulful lyrics. "The ransom" on the album helped me through alot as it described how i felt perfectly...."tell me how you can swim when theres rope wrapped around your limbs...."

1. ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars - bowie. when i first heard this album it took me away, i thought i was ziggy for a while.
2. dark side of the moon - pink floyd. man talk about taking me away like some part of the universe.
3. breakfast in america - supertramp. i use to love taking the long way home.
4. la women - the doors. classic songs like la women, love her madly and riders of the storm but i like the low down blues of songs like cars hiss by my window and crawling cane snake.
5. rock and roll - led zeplin. just sheer rock and roll with a blast of blues.
6. back in black - acdc. another great rock band from oz.
7. a night at the opera - queen. the best album, in my opion.
8. shaved fish - john lennon. the best of the beatles solo albums, in my opion.
9. road to hell - chris rea. one of my favorite albums. great slide blues and electric guitar.
10. the wall - pink floyd. had to put them in twice. when i was thinking of albums i like pink floyd keeps coming up. double album when i first heard it i listened from cover to cover. it was great like a story that kept building right to the last song. of course i was well under the influence.

Chronologically:

1. Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
Representative of my early years, this album is probably the first I can remember listening to. My parent's have a home video of me as a toddler dancing and singing along to Remember the Alamo in my diaper and Dad's cowboy boots. Not only was I was fucking adorable, but I knew my shit.

2. Hanson - MMMBop
As I progressed into childhood I decided that I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up. I would spend hours on end listening to the band that shared my aspiration. Laugh all you want, I bet you still know the words.

3. Kansas - Leftoverture
4. Journey - Escape
My growth from a child into a pre-teen is best represented by these albums. A good deal of my memories from that phase of my life could feature Carry on My Wayward sun and Don't Stop Believing as the soundtrack. Cliche as it may be, these albums are very important to me still, and every time I listen they bring with them an air of adolescent bliss.

5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
It's the year 2000, I'm 10 years old. The music video for Californication is continually being played on MTV, and I can't get enough. My Dad was a big influence on my taste in music growing up, and he was as obsessed with the song as I was. Not only did he buy me the cd, but a RHCP t-shirt.

6. KoRn - Take a Look in the Mirror: Greatest Hits (Head's Departure)
7. System of a Down - Toxicity
So I went through this phase where I thought it was really "cool" to be depressed all the time, tell people I was bi-polar wear all black and listen to Metal. I wrote poems about suicide, displaced myself from my friends my entire freshman year of high school, etc., etc. These were the only albums I listened to. It's a time of my life I don't care to look back on, but I admittedly still rock out to Toxicity.

8. Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
As I emerged from the shadows of my juvenility, and at the request of my family, I started listening to "less depressing" music. I wasn't satisfied with the shallow crap on the radio, instead I searched for something with lyrics that touched me in all the right places.

9. Elliott Smith - Either/Or
The first album I downloaded purely from the influence of MusicBanter members. It definitely think it was a stepping stone to the broadening and enhancing of my music taste, and I have you guys to thank. :)

10. The Beatles Discography
To avoid going into a lengthy rambling of my devotion to the band I'll simply say this: No band has had the same effect on me. I don't think I'll find another band I like more, and I am perfectly at peace with that.

Nope, I don't know the words. But I was an adult when that song came out so that's probably why.

MMMbop tick a ta ba do ba
dubi da ba do ba
tick a ta ba doo
yeah eh yeah
MMMbop tick a ta ba do ba
dubi da ba do ba
tick a ta ba doo
yeah eh yeah

^^^ha ha. Glad to see Kansas (and Journey for that matter) made it to someone else's list. They get a bad rap, and it's true that compared to British rock, they pale. But there's nothing like Kansas lyrics (and that violin) for catharsis during adolescent angst.... For that alone, they rank high on my list!

Rankings aside....Kansas have always seemed to be one of prog. rock's biggest failures to me. You go from their S/T, Song for America, and then hear them completely drop the ball with a AOR, Styx-esque piece of junk like Leftoverture within two freakin' years!!

yeah, consistency is not their forte...

lol

The Replacements
 

Tim

Not quite ten is it?

I've never really been into albums. When I was younger I always preferred "greatest hits" compilations or live albums.
I guess I could mention "Aerosmith: A Little South of Sanity", since it made me love Aerosmith; the first band I called "my favourite band". Even these days I never like a full album, if I buy a new one I listen to it a few times and then rip my favourite songs to the computer and let the cd collect dust.

The only *real* "most important album" would be Dream Theater's "Scenes From a Memory", since it made me love Dream Theater and it's probably still my all-time favourite album!

You need to listen to a lot more albums then. My word, you're missing out on so much. :bonkhead:

It's strange that you like such proggy music but don't like albums.