OctaneHugo

I ****ing love you

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TheCunningStunt

I kind of like the idea of adding an album you absolutely hate, then again giving one of your spots to twats like Nickelback over a band that actually means something to you..

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Well I'm not paticularly in love with American Idiot or Dark Side anymore, they just really do mean a lot as they pushed me in a certain direction. Nickelback definitely DEFINITELY pushed me in a direction, which would be to better music.

TheCunningStunt

I've never actually listened to a full album of Nickelbacks.. it just can't be done. Well done for sitting through it though.

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Ok so.. Numbers 6-10 are not in any specific order, since it's too hard to decide which ones influenced me more past my top 5 :p

10. Billy Talent - Billy Talent
One of the first rock albums I ever liked. Before that you could say I didn't have a real taste in music since it wasn't such a big part of my life. This was the first step towards change.

9. Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
A year or so after my Billy Talent era (which goes back to when I was 14), I started getting into Alice In Chains. Something about Laney's voice just drew me in more and more with each listen. This is how I got into grunge.

8. Nirvana - Nevermind
I discovered it not too long after Alice In Chains, quite obviously. It created the same effect for me as Alice In Chains did, but I ended up getting into it much more than Alice In Chains. Favorite songs: Lounge Act, In Bloom and Come As You Are.

7. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
A fairly recent discovery of mine (a couple of years back) made me completely fall in love with this great band. Myles Kennedy completely blew me away with his 4-octave range.

6. Audioslave - Audioslave
This is an breathtaking album, from Cochise to Gasoline and Like A Stone. Chris Cornell is a legend. Tom Morello will be forever in my heart.

5. Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
The whole album is just so moving and powerful. I've been hooked since hearing the intro and never stopped loving them since. They don't just make noise like a lot of other hardcore (or more hardcore than my usual taste) bands, they know exactly where to add those little guitar solo or screamo vocals.

4. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory / Meteora
It's too hard to decide which one of those albums had a bigger influence on me. I think they're one of the few bands that combined rap and rock beautifully, alongside Rage Against The Machine (sorry, they're not on this list, discovered them way too late). Chester's screams almost bring me to an orgasm.

3. Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Do I even need to say anything? They're one of the greatest bands that ever lived. I am proud to be alive while they're still playing.

2. Radiohead - OK Computer
Wow, it was almost impossible to pick my favorite album by them. This is one of those bands that change your understanding of music. I wouldn't even call them a band. They're in a league of their own. Brilliant. Heart stopping. Can't say enough. They make me shiver.

1. Muse- Origin Of Symmetry
Since the moment I heard Citizen Erased for the first time I knew they were going to be my favorite band for a long time. And I was right, it's been 4 years and I still listen to this band more than any of my other music combined. Their music excites me in ways I cannot even describe. It brings me to tears of joy, and that's not an over-exaggeration. I completely forget about everything bad in this world, and I come to complete peace and bliss when I listen to this album. Muse has actually made me a more complete person, and that's why they are number one for me. Matthew Bellamy, I question my sexual orientation when I hear your voice and your heart touching solos. That's all I can say.

dankrsta

Albums from 10-6 represent a chronological order in which my taste was shaping, and 5-1 albums indicate the power of impact they had on totally redefining it.

10. Madonna - Like a Virgin Give me a break, I was a kid. But it's the reason why I still like that often cheesy 80's pop and electro-pop. Nostalgia and guilty pleasure.

9. U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987) My first rock album I listened from the beginning to the end. Even greater nostalgic reasons.

8. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun (1968) This introduced me to the music of 60's and 70's. These songs were unreal for me at the time, and I spend a whole period of my life listening only to this period of music. (Led Zeppelin were my other favorite at the time)

7. Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1969) When I first heard "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" every hair on my body was up. Because of this early period of Pink Floyd, I will always have a soft spot for psychedelic and cosmic rock.

6. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982) I rediscovered punk, hard-core, punk-rock. I fell in love with its simplicity, energy and directness to the point that I started to hate all those progressive bends from the 70's I used to listen.

5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979) I started to really listen to the exiting and rich world of this New Wave period, post-punk and 'dark-wave'.

4. Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivitat (1975) Made me appreciate electronic music and indirectly got me into kraut-rock and industrial. Radioaktivität is such a magical song.

3. Jessica Bailiff - Even In Silence (1998) has everything I love the most about post-rock, seemingly simple but so many layers beneath the surface.
Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998) I couldn't decide which one I love more, this or Jessica Bailiff, so I included both. This album has a personal meaning for me.

2. Swans - Holy Money (1986) This was my introduction to Swans. It was the darkest, most personal and the most self-loathing music I've ever heard. This kind of avantgarde, but at the same time very personal, dramatic, passionate and honest music is very important to me. But still, my personal favorite from Gira is SKIN-Shame,Humility,Revenge (1988)

1. Sonic Youth - EVOL (1986) I got into Sonic Youth through this album. It opened a whole world of alternative and avantgarde music I wasn't even aware of. It taught me to actively listen to music, made me passionately search for and discover different kinds of artists. It was a revelation. The music itself didn't quite sound like rock although it had that energy and directness, guitars didn't sound like guitars, it wasn't like anything I've heard before. What made the greatest impact on me was a kind of strange duality, some interplay of dark and bright tones, of heaviness and lightness, of building and breaking, order and chaos (sometimes in the same tone), beauty and ugliness and I've never found it in other bands to that effect. This album still remains one of my all time favorites.

downwardspiral

I will add some reasoning later, but for the time being I'll just make a list.

Placebo - Black Market Music
Deftones - White Pony
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Pixies - Bossanova
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug

scottsy

Seriously, it's a challenge to just get through one song...

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TheCunningStunt

The Beatles - Revolver
My favourite Beatles album. 'Nuff said really.

The Pixies - Doolittle
Just song for song, I was hooked when I first heard Debaser, I love the change of pace in this album, starting off slow and then getting louder. Such passion, my favourite Pixies album.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
This is an album that always gets played, I went through a phase of listening to it every day, I just couldn't stop myself. One of my favourite albums.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
Indie music like I'd never heard it before.

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
This album introduced me the QOTSA and got me into the hard riffs they drill into you. I adore this album.

Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)
This is the reason I took an interest in popular music.

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
This was released when I was 14, when I heard it. These were my favourite band a long with Oasis. I only had two favourite bands and a load of crap chart stuff, but them two bands were all I needed. The interest in this band led to other things.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
I didn't get it for a long time, then when it clicked, I was like woah.

Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
A more recent find, I'd always known about the band, but never really got into them. Then I decided to listen to this album..

The Beatles - Help
I didn't want to put two albums of the same artist in, but this is the reason I started to give a shit about The beatles.

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Top 10 are :-----
1: Green Day: Dookie
2: Soundgarden: Superunknown
3: Tool: Aenima
4: Soft Machine: The Soft Machine albums 1 and 2
5: System of a down: Toxicity
6: Tool: 10,000 days:
7: Led Zeppelin: IV
8. Dave Matthews Band: Before These Crowded Streets
9. Of A Revolution: Between Now and Then
10.Coldplay: A Rush of Blood o the Head

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