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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: chaz on November 06, 2003, 01:53:00 pm
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Ok there's been a lot of these types of threads lately but I was thinking about this on my way to work this morning.
Me? I'd have to say Huker Du's Zen Arcade totally blew my mind the most. I'd been into punk and underground stuff for a little while, but when I heard that record I knew I wasn't alone in the universe. Almost 20 years later I still love it just the same as when I was 14 years old.
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Joy Division- "Closer"
Changed how I listened to music
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Radiohead - OK Computer
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don't laugh: DM "Music for the Masses", '87 - perfect timing to release all that teenage angst; misery loves company.
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Shaggs-Philosophy of the World
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u2-joshua tree
it moved me away from more popular music and classic rock to what was then considered alternative and rock.
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Madonna - You Can Dance
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The Pixies 'Doolittle'
The The 'Infected'
both albums had this instantaneous, holy shit, what was that I just listened to quality
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rem- out of time, followed closely by pavement's "crooked rain crooked rain"
let's just say, that at the time out of time came out, it was exactly what i needed to hear (except for radio song and shiny happy people), and it put me on the musical road that i still am travelling. not to mention that "country feedback" is a fantastic song.
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public enemy--it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
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Definitely the first Vanilla Fudge album, which provoked the inspiration that spending several years stoned senseless would be the optimum use of my time. Definitely life-changing.
Um, you weren't specifying "changed your life for the better," were you?
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Dead Kennedys "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"
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Not that it changed my life, but The Housemartins' "London 0 Hull 4" was important in the sense that after that album I started to go more often to record stores and look for new and different (meaning not the bands you had all day long in the radio) bands.
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actually I would have to say Beastie Boys - License to Ill, my dad brought it back from the US for my brother (I got Whitesnake :( ), I must have played Brass Monkey 100 times in the next few days, I hate the song now, but that album was so different to other music I heard then
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Pink - She helped me find my inner confidence when I needed it most!!
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The Housemartins' "London 0 Hull 4"
first LP I ever bought - still listen to it
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Honorable mentions for me:
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
Violent Femmes - self titled
4 old 7"'s on a 12" - Dischord sampler w/ SOA, GI's, Youth Brigade & Teen Idles
Velvet Underground and Nico
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When I was a kid, it was
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I had listened to nothing but radio pop before hearing it.
As a teenager, as boring as it is, it had to be
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It got me into listening to music again, and pretty much lead me on the path (musically speaking) that I'm on today. Trite, yes, but you try finding new music growing up in Sykesville, MD with no older sibling.
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Several:
Jesus and Mary Chain "Upside Down/Vegetable Man" 7". First band from the underground that I got into. Pre-Psychocandy. Bought the record because it looked cool, those squeals and noises coming off the platter (you could hear it quite well with the stereo off), were amazing.
Butthole Surfers "Psychic, Powerless...Another Man's Sac". First band I ever found on my own. No one I knew had ever heard of them, I had never seen a review of their records, but one was for sale in the imports section at Kemp Mill Records. This record was uniquely crazy, no information about the band, where they were from, nothing. This opened the whole indie label thing for me. From then on I was buying SST and Touch & Go records almost exclusively.
The Orb "Live 93". I was against techno and electronic music in general until I bought this album based on a positive review in Option Magazine. This album is great, funny parts, good hooks, great songs. From then on, electronic music was legit in my book.
And from the deep past..."Purple People Eater" and "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron". These were records that I played on my little Pinnochio record player as a kid. Got me interested in music young.
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Way too many to even remember let alone note.
The first wasn't even a particular artist but an instrument. I was obsessed with the piano. My mother, who never, ever to this day understood me, thought that I had a crush on Eddie Fisher. I didn't. I couldn't care less about him. It was the piano that I was in love with. Whenever anyone was on tv playing a piano, I'd become totally absorbed in the show while studying and listening to the music. I use to beg my parents for piano lessons all throughout my childhood and never got them. And they never got a clue that that was what I really wanted out of life. :roll:
Second would be a tv show. Every single day I would watch the Buddy Dean Show. If it wasn't that, it was some other musical show or musical guest on tv. This started from when I was a baby and continued.
Third would be the transistor radio I got for Christmas when I was in 1st grade. That little thing was with me all the time and playing one of the several half way decent stations in Baltimore at the time.
The Beatles
I was still a very young kid but I completely ditched my kiddie records for real Rock N Roll.
Fairport Convention
Though I had been through many different genres and evolutions with my music, this opened up a whole new door for me.
Roxy Music/Brian Eno
Yet another important landmark and influence on me.
Doves - Lost Souls
This one is much more personal. It brought music back into my life after going through such bad times that I had lost almost all touch with my music. It was the saving grace that brought me back to life at a time when I needed it the most. That, and my cats.
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yes, i am sorry to say, but although the album sucks, it led me to the depths of the clubs for 10 whole years!!!!!
i guess you can say that changed your life....or direction of it anyway.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
i meant...
:D
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nah, but when i started going i was only 15, so i was a young guy ;)
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I didn't know rock music could be played like this before I saw the video for 100% on MTV.
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blondie.................
my dad would always listen to her when i was little and apparently i used to shake my nappy heartily to hanging on the telephone.............
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The Beatles â?¢ Sgt Pepper's
Led Zeppelin II
Muddy Waters â?¢ Hard Again
The Soft Boys â?¢ Underwater Moonlight
Thin White Rope â?¢ Moonhead
Joy Division â?¢ Closer
The Johnny Burnette Trio
Buzzcocks â?¢ Singles Going Steady
Simple Minds â?¢ Sons & Fascination
Mudhoney â?¢ Superfuzz Big Muff
16 Horsepower â?¢ Sackcloth & Ashes
...to name a few
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in that order
maybe...
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In particular order (that in which they changed my life, chronologically):
The Smiths -- the world won't listen
Nirvana -- nevermind
Bikini Kill -- pussywhipped
Sleater Kinney -- dig me out
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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Damn,how could i forgot them.Saw em at the Merriweather on their Freedom of Choice tour and my mind was melted.What a spectacle that boojie boy was.Any fans of Devo, I HIGHLY suggest purchasing the new
book out on them Are We Not Men? We Are Devo:
http://www.devobook.com/ (http://www.devobook.com/)
it is a great read. Pretty wild stories of their
beginnings and such.
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Damn,how could i forgot them.Saw em at the Merriweather on their Freedom of Choice tour and my mind was melted.What a spectacle that boojie boy was.Any fans of Devo, I HIGHLY suggest purchasing the new
book out on them Are We Not Men? We Are Devo:
http://www.devobook.com/ (http://www.devobook.com/)
it is a great read. Pretty wild stories of their
beginnings and such.
Hallelujah! Amen.
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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this one did some serious damage on me as well.. along with a couple of singles from elvis costello and the clash, "numbers "by kraftwerk, "live at budakon" cheap trick, "one step beyond" madness, and the first stray cats record.
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What an absolutely killer album.
I've got the enhanced disc with three videos! Gonna go watch 'em!
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Ride's Nowhere
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Weird Al - Even Worse
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Bruce Cockvurn's 1991 album, "Nothing But a Burning Light"
And seeing REM in concert for the first time... that was truly a life changing experience...
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Bruce Cockburn's 1991 album, "Nothing But a Burning Light"
And seeing REM in concert for the first time... that was truly a life changing experience...
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yippee! someone else who thinks that song is the best on the album. or one of the best.
they did perform that live on one of the dates of the tour that just ended a few weeks ago. i requested it thru the website for the dc show but didn't get it. but i did get "i believe" and "fall on me" so all ain't bad.
Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
not to mention that "country feedback" is a fantastic song.
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How about a single artist?
For me, with little doubt, John Cage.
Most recent major change: Merzbow.
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david gray for me.
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
How about a single artist?
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This album sounds as vibrant today as it did the first time I heard it in the late '70s. The grooves in the vinyl were worn white from the continuous play.
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at first I thought that these "change your life" threads were kind of overstatements...but in thinking more about it, I thinking that one's life can change a little every day...not be some big monumental thing...but, I guess I would say one of the more major thought-changing albums for me was XTCs Oranges and Lemons because I always thought that I hated the Beach Boys because my dad hated them (he was more of a Dead Head and Frank Zappa lover, though he did like the Flying Burrito Brothers and stuff like that) But, in hearing what I perceived to be a Beach Boys influence that I loved in Oranges and Lemons, with the bright poppiness and lush instrumentals, it opened me to this sound that is now one of the most common threads in all the music I like most...Wilco, Beulah, some Shins...I think the Beach Boys' music is among the most innovative of our century, if not the most...but it ws XTCs Oranges and Lemons that lead me to this...
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Well actually, I thought of an answer to this one. In 1995, my brother and I drove down from Baltimore to see Matthew Sweet play at the old 9:30 Club. Opening up were the Bottle Rockets, who looked the part of a Hank Williams Jr. roadie (actually the lead singer had been an Uncle Tupelo roadie). They were the biggest, ugliest, redneck dirtbags I had ever seen...so much so that I thought they were some kind of joke band. But once they started playing, they were amazing as Kurosawa would say. They blew Matthew Sweet away as some other boardies would say.
So I started listening to their music, and their songs helped me embrace my roots in an amusing and non-condecending way, whereas other influences in my life had previously taught me to shun them. They were touring on the album "The Brooklyn Side" at the time:
While the Bottle Rockets' brand of Skynyrd-esque raunch 'n' roll is considerably more good-timey than most of the band's roots-rock brethren, their incisive, provocative songwriting skills set them squarely among the genre's elite. The Brooklyn Side, produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, is fairly bursting with dead-on character studies exploring the realities and quiet desperation of rural Southern life, from the blackly humorous ("Sunday Sports," about a family man who finds that watching TV in his underwear is "the only way to get away from everything else" in his life) to the poignant ("Welfare Music," a depiction of the struggles facing a young single mother). The band also possesses a wickedly comic edge, as evidenced by "Idiot's Revenge" (a diatribe against alt-rock rhetoric), "1000 Dollar Car" (a eulogy for a used automobile), and the flamethrower single "Radar Gun" (the tale of a sadistic, ticket-happy traffic cop).
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Life changing! Well, the following did change my life as to how I appreciate music, with maybe a couple of exceptions.
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.
First live concert I ever saw, at the Apollo in Manchester actually. Before that show I had liked music as it came on the radio, but after seeing them I was hooked on music and live concerts for the rest of my life.
David Bowie.
Was probably the only Bowie fan in my school because I was a fan very early on before he 'caught on' as they say. I was the typical teenage boy, collecting every single, album, book etc. My dear old dad used to say, "I wish I could get you this interested in nuclear science, you'd be a nobel prize winning genius by age 20"
The Smiths.
Being born in the same city as Moz and right about the same age, I could really relate to his lyrics, especially, "Suffer little children" I can still remember my mum not letting me out of her sight during that period. Which was a change from being told every morning to bugger off out and play and not come home till it's dark. Later in adult life, when I was in a really bad place his lyrics became somehow comforting to me.
Albums,
Heroes, Bowie. Blew my cotton socks off!
Stranglers, Rattus Norvegicus. Punk is legit and for real.
Fishermans Blues, Waterboys. Started my love affair with the violin/fiddle.
Songs,
SMITHS/Moz
Suffer little children
There is a light
Cemetry Gates
Unhappy Birthday
Why don't you find out for yourself
Hairdresser on fire
Shane MacGowan
Fairytale of New York
Haunted by your ghost
Billy Bragg
Tank park salute. This album came out the same week my dad died....read the lyrics and you'll understand.
I could go on and on, but nobody probably got this far so I'll quit :D
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album that changed what role music will play in my life, metallica - kill 'em all. a friend handed me a tape, and from then on i started buying music, instead of listening to whatever my brothers were listening to.
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i actually like beach boy influenced bands more than the beach boys/brian wilson themselves... i think brian wilson was a genius when it came to arranging and producing, but the actually lyrics and songs leave me disinterested. especially the early "fun fun" nonscense. i'm thankful the beach boys left a mark on the andy partridges of the world, who is much better songwriter imho.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i actually like beach boy influenced bands more than the beach boys/brian wilson themselves... i think brian wilson was a genius when it came to arranging and producing, but the actually lyrics and songs leave me disinterested. especially the early "fun fun" nonscense. i'm thankful the beach boys left a mark on the andy partridges of the world, who is much better songwriter imho.
I love some of the mopey stuff from pet sounds and that era. Have you ever heard the Beach Boys Song 'Til I Die? Brilliant...
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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Damn,how could i forgot them.Saw em at the Merriweather on their Freedom of Choice tour and my mind was melted.What a spectacle that boojie boy was.Any fans of Devo, I HIGHLY suggest purchasing the new
book out on them Are We Not Men? We Are Devo:
http://www.devobook.com/ (http://www.devobook.com/)
it is a great read. Pretty wild stories of their
beginnings and such. [/b]
This is one of the first LPs I thought of when I saw this thread.
I just picked this book up a couple days ago. Looks pretty interesting.
Also, I highly recommend the Rhino release of Devo Live (www.rhinohandmade.com). It contains the entire concert the original EP was taken from.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i actually like beach boy influenced bands more than the beach boys/brian wilson themselves... i think brian wilson was a genius when it came to arranging and producing, but the actually lyrics and songs leave me disinterested. especially the early "fun fun" nonscense. i'm thankful the beach boys left a mark on the andy partridges of the world, who is much better songwriter imho.
I think you're right, for the most part...
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Sadly, I only liked bad music till i picked up At the Drive-In's "Relationships of Command". That changed everything I thought I knew about myself and music upside down. Since then, my entire life has revolved around music. Mostly good music at that. Though I still find some horrible little pop jingles so catchy....like that Hilary Duff single on the radio. It's so bitter-sweet to hear it, cause its cute and horrible all at the same time.
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In the early to mid 80s (a very young chap since I'm only 27) it had to be the Cure's Disintegration/Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me...
as I hit about 15yrs of age it had to be the Smiths (I heard the greatest hits before any particular album) and of course a record I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet, THE STONE ROSES..enough said...
at about 18 Nirvana came along and the whole grunge thing swept me for a while...
at 20 I regained my concience and decided rocknroll should be a religion with the mind blowing "Definitely Maybe"...
nothing has been life-changing sense... maybe listening to the Beatles as an adult I would say... god knows I had no idea what Eleanor Rigby or I am the Walrus was about while growing up...
ps: Vansmack, I agreed with your book selection.. but the book is called "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", not Willy Wonka and the C...
I heard the remake will feature Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka... and our very own Pollard as Veruca Salt and Markie as Augustus..
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Originally posted by Fico:
ps: Vansmack, I agreed with your book selection.. but the book is called "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", not Willy Wonka and the C...
You're absolutely correct. I've always confused the movie title and the book title.
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Originally posted by Fico:
and of course a record I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet, THE STONE ROSES..enough said...
I remember listening to Fool's Gold on my walkman as the anesthetic was taking hold for my wisdom tooth removal when I was 17 or so, maybe 18...grooooovy...
the dentistry was more "life changing" than the music, though, for me
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I always used to listen to I am the resurection before university exams to gee me up.....
that and REMs I am superman
always made me feel much better.
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Originally posted by lily1:
yippee! someone else who thinks that song is the best on the album. or one of the best.
they did perform that live on one of the dates of the tour that just ended a few weeks ago. i requested it thru the website for the dc show but didn't get it. but i did get "i believe" and "fall on me" so all ain't bad.
Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
not to mention that "country feedback" is a fantastic song.
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Brilliant Song and you guys aren't alone. There's a live version on the bonus disc of the new Best Of 1988-2003 Album where Stipe begins "We're going to do a request from the web site because it's my favorite song...."
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Originally posted by markie:
I always used to listen to I am the resurection before university exams to gee me up.....
that and REMs I am superman
always made me feel much better.
hehe - for me it was always "Oh Shit" by the Buzzcocks.
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Originally posted by markie:
I always used to listen to I am the resurection before university exams to gee me up.....
that and REMs I am superman
always made me feel much better.
When I was playing rugby, before a game I would always listen to "Old England Is Dying" by The Waterboys.
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The first 2 Ramones albums.
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
This is one of the first LPs I thought of when I saw this thread.
I just picked this book up a couple days ago. Looks pretty interesting.
Also, I highly recommend the Rhino release of Devo Live (www.rhinohandmade.com). It contains the entire concert the original EP was taken from. [/QB]
Been there, done that. Hardcore 1 & 2 are highly recommended by me to anyone. Are you getting the new DVD?
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Originally posted by Skeeter:
This is one of the first LPs I thought of when I saw this thread.
I just picked this book up a couple days ago. Looks pretty interesting.
Also, I highly recommend the Rhino release of Devo Live (www.rhinohandmade.com). It contains the entire concert the original EP was taken from. [/b]
Been there, done that. Hardcore 1 & 2 are highly recommended by me to anyone. Are you getting the new DVD? [/QB]
I haven't heard about it - what's on it? Is it a re-release of "We're All Devo"?
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DEVO DVD linkage (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000089QCI/102-3782939-2164921?v=glance)
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Weird Al - Even Worse
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
DEVO DVD linkage (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000089QCI/102-3782939-2164921?v=glance)
thanks!