Astronomer

Here's my 10, in no particular order.

1. The Beatles, The Beatles ('The White Album.')
They are my earliest music-related memory, I remember listening to my dad's Beatles records as a child.

2. Tool, Ænima.
This was the first Tool album I ever heard, and I had never heard music like it before. I remember being overawed by their odd time signatures, progressive nature, and experimentalism. It influenced my love for the music I listen to today.

3. Tool, Lateralus.
Another Tool album because this album got me through some strange times in my life.

4. Jeff Buckley, Grace.
What can I say other than this album is amazing and I love and continue to be influenced by his music.

5. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes.
I love her and she inspired me with my piano/ songwriting/ musicianship.

6. Radiohead, Kid A.
When I first got together with my band we covered a lot of Radiohead songs from this album (and others). I have a lot of good memories with it

7. Karnivool, Themata.
I remember buying this album and seeing them live at the tiniest venues. Now they are huge in Australia. I love how I followed them all the way through to their success.

8. Korn, Issues.
Because it is the reason I met all of my current friends whom I love and couldn't live without.

9. Tori Amos, Boys for Pele.
Another Tori Amos one because this one got me into heaps of feminist stuff that is really important to me today.

10. Nirvana, In Utero.
When I was in primary school, my mum used to play this CD all the time. I loved it. Pretty sure it's influenced my love for rock music.

It was hard to pick only 10 and this list probably changes throughout the year. Depending on what I'm going through at the time. Sorry for not picking cool random obscure stuff.

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10. Digitalism - Idealism
It's this album that opened doors to me, not just doors to electronic music but rather doors to openmindedness, before that I didn't listen to much more than heavy metal.

9. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Dark, cold, but somehow comforting. It helped me through some difficult periods in my life.

8. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
My first introduction to one of the most innovative artists the world has known. The first day I heard it was after a teacher in school suggested it to me. I came home and I listened to it for the rest of the day, completely amazed by it's beauty.

7. Rush - Moving Pictures
I read about this album somewhere on the internet, and decided to buy it as soon as I could find it. The next day I picked it up from a secondhand record shop and put it on my turntable. I loved their sound, light but very touching. This was the album opening the doors to Progressive music, and soon albums by Camel, Genesis and Yes followed.

6. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Their first, best and last album they ever recorded, Never Mind The Bollocks got home with me after I had seen it in a store, and it grabbed my attention by the pink letters on a flashy yellow background. I played it a lot in my early teens, singing the complete album and pretending to be Johnny Rotten. I rediscovered it about a year ago, and saw them live in the summer. Critics were bored, but I had the time of my live in the mosh pit shouting along hundreds people who felt the same way.

5. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
I remember hearing Like A Rolling Stone on the radio and searching for one of his records in my dad's collection. I found Blonde On Blonde and put the first disc on my turntable. It still remains my number one album he ever recorded. And I'm very thrilled to see hem in April, when he's coming to Belgium.

4. Led Zeppelin - Remasters
This is a compilation album, but it was the first time I really listened to them, on our way to France.

3. The Doors - The Doors
Their debut record, which has always intrigued me with it's dark sound and, more importantly, Morrison's incredible voice. Throughout my years of growing up, this is probably the only album that I've been listening too since I was just a little boy.

2. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young at it's best, I remember nights lying awake just listening to this record, and not being able to understand that a song like My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) was only performed by one man, one guitar and one harmonica.

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
This is my favourite album of all time. It grabbed me when I was about 11 years old when my brother gave it to me. The energy and skill displayed in this album still amazes me and it remains most played album out of my entire life.

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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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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.

DJ Phoenix

These are 10 that have touched my life in various ways, and I became a huge music fan listening to these, in no order:


10)AC/DC-Back In Black
9) Depeche Mode-Music For The Masses
8) The Cure-Disintegration
7) VH-VH
6) KISS-Destroyer/Dynasty/Alive
5) 3rd Bass-The Cactus Album
4) Siouxsie and the Banshees-Hyaena
3) Journey(all the Steve Perry stuff)
2) Prince-1999
1) The Smiths-Meat Is Murder

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TockTockTock

Not in any particular order:

The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967) by The Velvet Underground
AMMMusic (1967) by AMM
Die Kunst Der Gerausche (2000) by Luigi Russolo
Axis: Bold as Love (1967) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Hear a New World (1960) by Joe Meek
Bert Jansch (1965) by Bert Jansch
Madvillainy (2004) by Madvillain
20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) by Throbbing Gristle
Led Zeppelin II (1969) by Led Zeppelin
Souvenirs (1989) by Django Reinhardt

Too lazy to elaborate on any of them (sorry). There are A LOT more, but I feel this is semi-accurate list of important albums to me. They definitely helped redefine my taste in music and knocked down preexisting prejudices I had dwelling within me.

The Bullet

If it weren't for music I probably wouldn't be alive right now. Most MBers probably wouldn't be, I'll bet. I've always wondered if this was the reason man created music (or stole it from bird, or whatever we did).

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mr dave

10 - jane's addiciton 'kettle whistle' - yeah it's a compilation but it was also my first taste of JA's music and unlike most comps, it wasn't just a collection of singles pulled directly from the albums. the live version of 'three days' is incredible.

9 - the jimi hendrix experience 'ultimate experience' - yes, another comp. but it was my first real taste of hendrix and it covers pretty much all the highlights from the 3 experience discs.

8 - soundgarden 'superunknown' - it's the album that really pulled me into my generation's music.

7 - fear factory 'demanufacture' - my first taste of metal with a singer who could go from growling to singing with ease and a full album that didn't have any guitar solos.

6 - the chemical brothers 'dig your own hole' - up until i heard the singles for this disc (setting sun / block rocking beats) i thought all electronic music was garbage. then again all the electronic music i had heard prior actually WAS garbage.

5 - monster magnet 'dopes to infinity' - sludgy psychedelic goodness that opened up doors for all sorts of other stoner rock.

4 - tomahawk 'anonymous' - a traditional 4 piece rock band that ends up sounding like the soundtrack for a native american period piece. they also accomplished it without having bus loads of guest musicians or each person playing 20 different instruments.

3 - SIANspheric 'there's always someplace you'd rather be' - i'd always liked whatever shoegaze i'd heard in the past but this was the first full album i was able to listen to. the closer 'puff, analogue, intelligent jungle' is massive.

2 - eric dolphy 'last date' - a fantastic live performance 3 weeks prior to his death, his playing on 'you don't know what love is' is sublime.

1 - red hot chili peppers 'blood sugar sex magik' - i wore out the cassette then i wore out the cd, that's how much i listened to it. i learned how to play the album on guitar and bass. i even went to a haloween party wearing a sock on my ****. i don't really care for the chili peppers anymore but i'd be a fool to deny their impact on my development.

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10. Van Morrison - Greatest Hits
This was the first CD I bought, when I was in 6th grade and wanted the song Brown Eyed Girl. Since I spent my hard earned money on it, I listened to every song hundreds of times and learned that there was more to music than what was played on the oldies station.

9. Modest Mouse - This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
Modest Mouse were my first obsession in music, and this album started it. I HATED this album the first time hearing it, it was the rawest and ugliest thing I'd ever heard. Now I adore it.

8. Comus - First Utterance
So nasty for acoustic instruments! This is ones of the best (albeit darkest and most terrifying) of folk albums. It's weird, demented, complex, and untouchable.

7. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
The album that got me into psychelic folk, which has long since become my favorite genre. He's my favorite solo musician.

6. Led Zeppelin - III
Just one of my favorite records ever, I have never tired of a single song off it and its one of the only albums I continue to play regularly years later.

5. Gráda- The Landing Step
Grada are a semi-traditional Irish/Celtic band, it is my favorite genre of world music and this is the best example of it from my collection. It's beautiful.

4. Love - Forever Changes
I think this album has my favorite lyrics of the 1960s, along with some of the most beautifully crafted arrangements.

3. Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
I am a psychedelic rock junkie, and these songs are just engraved in me by now. Jefferson Airplane played a rooftop concert even before the Beatles did, and they played my favorite song off this album ("House at Pooneil Corners")

2. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy
Listened to this and realized....country can be amazing. Not to mention the vocals are like smooth southern butter.

1. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
This isn't my favorite KC album (I can't choose), but it was my first KC album and my first prog album. It takes me where nothing else in the world can, such a brooding, magical atmopshere.

Fraig

Agreed, this album is in my top 10 somewhere. Though a couple of the tracks are kind of corny.