Music that takes you back...

duga · 07-08-2010, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I bought all 4 of these albums in the space of a few weeks back when I was 19.

They basically made me realise that most of my entire record collection of crap metal albums was redundant and totally changed how I looked at music.
The fact that I still play all 4 regularly today shows just how much they changed my life & outlook on things.

If you were really into metal at the time, what inspired you to check these out? I had a similar experience when I first heard Ziggy Stardust. I decided it was time for a dramatic music shift. Before I got the album, I had never even considered David Bowie. I had no idea where to go in terms of music, so when I ran across the album I thought I would give it a chance. I have no idea what I was expecting, but what is on that album surely wasn't it. Been a Bowie fan ever since.

Interestingly enough, the same relationship that I mentioned in my first post was really good at the time I bought it so it always reminds me of that.

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

I was around 19 and had no permanent abode. I left home around a year earlier and spent lots of time out drunk and sleeping on sofas, chairs etc. I spent a night on a friends chair and got woken up around 6:30 am in the summer with this playing.

I had barely heard this sort of ambient music before but it worked brilliantly and never forgot that feeling of peace and a bad hangover! I still love this over 20 years later.

I can see how you could be relaxed and in pain from the hangover all at the same time with this one. I love it!

duga · 07-08-2010, 08:20 PM

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

This was the album my friend was playing when he sat me down and said, "You've never been stoned? You are going to get ****ed up right now." I then proceeded to get totally blazed for the first time. Music never sounded so damn good.

downwardspiral · 07-09-2010, 04:26 AM

I'll do this properly when I get home, but a specific bunch of songs remind me of the first time I ever had a spliff. Me & my friend Ali got baked in his room listening to a mix cd he'd made. I was 14 at the time, the songs I remember hearing were:

JJ72 - Snow
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis - Supersonic
Cast - Walk Away
Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers
Foo Fighters - Low
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Feeder - Descend
The La's - There She Goes

Then we proceeded to drink a crate of 24 Carlsberg between us and fell asleep watching Shaun Of The Dead.

ahhh.

Bulldog · 07-09-2010, 05:34 AM

I could think of a list of albums, but no doubt it'd inadvertently turn into one of those top 10 most important albums to you lists, so I won't bother. I can literally pin down one moment and two songs that basically changed my life though...

^ I was on the way back home from school in a taxi one night (I think it would've been 2000/2001 or something), the driver had Virgin Radio on and, in the 10-odd minutes before I was dropped off back at my house, these two songs played back to back. I'm sure a few of us remember Kazaa (an older form of Limewire for those who don't), but I loved what I heard and downloaded both those songs that same evening. It might have taken a few years longer, but these two songs basically changed my approach to music, and thus a very large part of my life, completely.

Tea Supremacist · 07-09-2010, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by downwardspiral

JJ72 - Snow
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis - Supersonic
Cast - Walk Away
Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers
Foo Fighters - Low
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Feeder - Descend
The La's - There She Goes

Then we proceeded to drink a crate of 24 Carlsberg between us and fell asleep watching Shaun Of The Dead.

ahhh.

This was pretty much my weekends right up to about a year ago. Especially Cast and Shaun of the Dead. The quote "Alright, Gay" just reminds me of awesome times...

This was the first album that really made me sit up and pay attention to music. I was only 10 and my older sister was playing it and I actually fell in love! Being 10 years old, this was a lot different to the stuff I was hearing and I just loved the originality of her music and her unique 'marmite' voice (it's generally true, you love it or hate it)... That was an important time for me cos in the next couple of years my friends were arguing over Take That and East 17 whilst I was listening to Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Pixies, Rancid, Fugazi, The Levellers, Suede, Tori Amos, Pearl jam... anything I could get my hands on really.

Bjork - Debut

The one album that takes me back and can cheer me up even now is...

Not a particuarly good album by not a particuarly good band (although I do have much love for them) but it reminds me of summer '96. I was 13, going away on holiday with my friends family, spent most of my holidays on Bournemouth beach, got my first 'proper' boyfriend... Good times. It seems to come to the rescue without me even thinking about it. At the start of the year I lost a baby, was in and out of hospital, things weren't good with my partner, I lost my job, it was all going to **** and I remember sitting in my room crying (self pity was rather a strong point for me then) and 'The Circle' randomly came on followed by 'Policemen and Pirates' and it was the first thing that made me smile in about 4 weeks. Ocean Colour Scene = Good times indeed

Landon · 07-09-2010, 08:03 AM

I don't really have an album that is linked to a certain memory, but I have too have a song that sticks out: Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers. I was about 11 and asked for a Red Hot Chili Peppers CD for Christmas and they got me the Greatest Hits. First thing on Christmas morning I stuck it in the CD player and the first song on it was Under the Bridge. I had never heard it before and I must have played it about twenty times that morning. Now whenever I hear it on the radio I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside thinking about Christmas dinner.

GravitySlips · 07-09-2010, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by duga

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

This was the album my friend was playing when he sat me down and said, "You've never been stoned? You are going to get ****ed up right now." I then proceeded to get totally blazed for the first time. Music never sounded so damn good.

I've actually some fond memories of this album too, I got it when it came out and loved it. What it reminds me of is seeing them live, I was so obsessed with the band when I was about 15 that I went to see them myself. straight after school. It was the first gig I ever went to by myself, a wee 15 year old laddie in a Glasgow club for the first time. 'Twas an amazing gig too!

07-08-2010, 08:20 PM	#12 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites This was the album my friend was playing when he sat me down and said, "You've never been stoned? You are going to get ****ed up right now." I then proceeded to get totally blazed for the first time. Music never sounded so damn good. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

07-09-2010, 04:26 AM	#13 (permalink)
downwardspiral Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 734	I'll do this properly when I get home, but a specific bunch of songs remind me of the first time I ever had a spliff. Me & my friend Ali got baked in his room listening to a mix cd he'd made. I was 14 at the time, the songs I remember hearing were: JJ72 - Snow Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Oasis - Supersonic Cast - Walk Away Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers Foo Fighters - Low Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird Feeder - Descend The La's - There She Goes Then we proceeded to drink a crate of 24 Carlsberg between us and fell asleep watching Shaun Of The Dead. ahhh. __________________

07-09-2010, 05:34 AM	#14 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	I could think of a list of albums, but no doubt it'd inadvertently turn into one of those top 10 most important albums to you lists, so I won't bother. I can literally pin down one moment and two songs that basically changed my life though... ^ I was on the way back home from school in a taxi one night (I think it would've been 2000/2001 or something), the driver had Virgin Radio on and, in the 10-odd minutes before I was dropped off back at my house, these two songs played back to back. I'm sure a few of us remember Kazaa (an older form of Limewire for those who don't), but I loved what I heard and downloaded both those songs that same evening. It might have taken a few years longer, but these two songs basically changed my approach to music, and thus a very large part of my life, completely.

07-09-2010, 08:03 AM	#16 (permalink)
Landon Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: The Emerald Isle Posts: 145	I don't really have an album that is linked to a certain memory, but I have too have a song that sticks out: Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers. I was about 11 and asked for a Red Hot Chili Peppers CD for Christmas and they got me the Greatest Hits. First thing on Christmas morning I stuck it in the CD player and the first song on it was Under the Bridge. I had never heard it before and I must have played it about twenty times that morning. Now whenever I hear it on the radio I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside thinking about Christmas dinner.