Life-Changing Album
When I was 18 I heard AFI's Sing the Sorrow and it completely changed my life. Now I hardly listen to it, but I still credit it with changing my life, because I never wrote poetry until I heard that album. And, once I started writing poetry my style of writing changed, which turned out to change my outlook on almost everything creative. Therefore, Sing the Sorrow changed my life.
I don't care if you love it or hate it, I'm just curious as to what album changed YOUR life (if there was one). It can even be something you hate now, but when you first heard it, it changed you.
Spill! I wanna know.
Z, I love that album. It was one of the albums I listened to when I was having a hard time in college.
The other, was this:
I don't expect anyone to have heard of these, but they changed my life fourteen years ago and continue to do so still. This music tears me and heals me. It is a part of me like no other music can be.
when I was 12
I got quothed!
Then, at 14, my weird austalian cousin came to stay. She was about 23/24ish, I think. She was some sort of
activist.Anew-wave hippie type lesbian with a shaved head, very hairy legs. And she had this uber-cooltattoo of a little geometric pterodactly on the small of her back. She was always stoned on something. Never drunk booze though.
Most of my family absolutly hated her(behind her back, of course). I fucking loved her.
When she left she grabbed a handful of CDs from her rucksack and a very tidy little tenbag from her pocket and said something like, 'here ya go cuz. get off ya box and listen to this shit. you'll freak. you'll love it'.. BLAH blah.
Changed my life monumentally.
60's garage compilation.
VU. Nuff said.
I smoked a joint and put this on and totally shhskitzed out. He sounded like a demented cartoon hell-bent on terrifying me. And I was terrified. Actually terrified.
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn. Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd.
I even bought the t-shirt.
pj harvey.
oh and this
the singers a complete bell-end though.
then about a year and a half ago I got these;
psychedelic horseshit - magic flowers droned.
bird names - wooden lake/ sexual diner.
the fall. legends.
Having a love of Bright Eyes is how I made the best friends I've ever had.
sigor ros, agaetis byrjun
david bowie, outside (also Live in Santa Monica '72, not pictured)
radiohead, ok computer
bob dylan, free wheelin'
explosions in the sky, how strange, innocence
mewithoutYou, brother, sister
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Radiohead - The Bends
Sia - Colour the Small One
Röyksopp - Junior
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
All around the end of 1991, early 1992.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
Hooverphonic-Blue Wonder Power Milk
Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
Tom Waits--Bone Machine
Sigur Ros--( )
Bright Eyes--Fever and Mirrors
Elliott Smith--Either/Or [but really just about all of his albums]
Radiohead--OK Computer
Brand New--Deja Entendu
Rage Against the Machine--The Battle For Los Angeles
Ugly Casanova--Sharpen your Teeth
The Blood Brothers--Burn Piano Island, Burn
Iron and Wine--Our Endless Numbered Days
m83--Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Man Man--Six Demon Bag
Sparklehorse--It's a Wonderful Life
I got it around the time my sister died and listened to it through the funeral so it will always hold a lot of meaning for me.
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities."
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, 'cause it completely changed my taste in music.
I think music just heals us all. A life without music is a life without purpose. SO much of the music you've all posted is exactly the music that I can't live without (i.e. Sigur Ross, Radiohead) and some of it I've never heard of! So, I'll have to give some of it a listen.
Hooverphonic-Blue Wonder Power Milk
I like the album, though it is sort of ridiculous.
Air Pocket Symphony
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
Eivind Aarset - Light Extracts
I listen and enjoy alot of the above listed music, but I'm an "oldie" and sharpened my teeth on:
Iron Butterfly
Guess Who
Jimi Hendrix
Mamas and the Papas
Mariann Faithful
Doors
May your light shine from my eyes and may the joy remain when I am gone
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
Ac-Dc: Highway To Hell
Dio: Holy Diver
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Suicidal Tendencies: Suicidal Tendencies
Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine
ANYTHING by Celine Dion, Kenny G, Micheal Bolton or David Hasselhoff
Alot of others, but these probably stand out the most. Especially Hasselhoff stuff!!!!!
i aint here to live, i'm just here to dream
It was my sister's album. I listened to it when no one was around. Heresy scared me as a kid because it said God is dead and my family was pretty religious. I liked closer because it said fuck. March of the pigs showed me just how fast and heavy songs could be.
This was the first I album I ever bought. The first album my mom allowed me to buy. I got the edited walmart version minus the pentagram and x carved in the forehead. I figured out that I got the wrong one later on.
My friend at school introduced me to this band whom I had no idea existed. It was pretty angry like I was at the time.
Got this at the library of all places. It seemed more heavier than most things I was listening to.
This showed me that there was a whole other type of music scene not on MTV that was even more angrier than any of the shit I was listening. Quite possibly the most extreme cd in my collection.
My brand new 2011 halloween comp:
http://soundcloud.com/brosupremo/hallowmix-2-the-deadening/s-BKf8z
Björk scares me! But I do like some of her quieter songs.
Have you ever heard Liam (Sifl & Olly) Lynch's Fake Bjork Song? It's eerily accurate.
You know who else had Bjork as a life changing album? This guy-
Lou Reed - Transformer
Mando Diao -Bring em in
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins
Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu Tang Clan
Welcome to the Monkey House - The Dandy Warhols
("The Last High")
Machina: Machines of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
("Stand Inside Your Love")
Till the Sun Turns Black - Ray Lamontagne
("Lesson Learned")
Maladroit - Weezer
("Slob")
Make Yourself - Incubus
("Miss You")
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
When I first heard Dream Theater's Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory; I'd been playing guitar for a few years but I started looking at it differently. That album is one of the best produced progressive metal albums of all time. Every last detail of every single instrument is clear and balanced, and the album has an intriguing storyline to boot.
I've learned every last song (on guitar, at least) form that album, it was all I ever drew from for recitals in college. I listened to it every day for almost two years and I have yet to get sick of it, though I only pop it in once a week or so now.
I'm not really into prog rock that much, either, I just love this album.
I'm sure there are others that changed my life, but this is the first one that came to mind.
| adj | facebook | an american atheist| warmed and bound |
An old cassette tape I always listened to growing up which was The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At the time I had no idea who made the music but it captivated me as a kid. Later on I found Modest Mouse and they inspired me to the point of tracking down thier entire discography, as well as opening up a whole new world of music for myself. I would have to say that Modest Mouse changed my life rather drastically.
Hi, How Are You?
blah blah blah, I am a spambot.
random bump ?
Help! by The Beatles, the first Beatles album i bought and fully appreciated. The Beatles have always made me smile since and i think they always will
Dookie by Green Day
The bassline to Longview is what inspired me to pick up bass guitar. Now I can barely stand GD.
Undertow by Tool
Unbeknown to me Undertow had a big influence on me, when I was young I watched MTV all the time and liked all of the pop and hip-hop at the time, but these weird videos were on all the time and I always watched and liked them - it was many years before I realized that was Tool and they were such an awesome band. Probably, half my gateway to good and heavier music.
Niel Young - This Note's for You and Muddy Waters - Chess Box
My dad would play these for me when I was really young (sub 6) - I absolutely loved Ten Men Working and Hoochie Coochie Man, respectively and sang along with them all the time
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
California by Mr Bungle. Still think it's some of Mike Patton's finest work.
Yeah, I liked that Zappa album too. Him and his crazy titles!
Wow, I could post up a laundry list but the condensed version would have to include:
Last One Dead Is A Sissy
Actually, a guy I work with listens to Floater all day long and makes it a point to see them live every time they come through town. So it's like I've heard of them but more like a third party heard of situation.
I think that still counts?
Last One Dead Is A Sissy
13 songs is a classic. Are they still together? The Argument is another life-changer for me
In Chronological order to my discoveries:
Each of these albums changed the way I saw music, and life. The earlier ones were my sort of "declaration of independence" from my mother's music, while the later ones became my musical preferences.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
It's odd how many bands are fronted by guys named Steve Perry. Journey. The Daddies. Even Aerosmith has that guitarist Steve Perry, although he's an unholy two headed monster.
Also also, I heard an interview with Steven Adler recently, and he couldn't stop talking about Steven Tyler's "Rig".
LOVE THIS post sooo hard! And I totally agree. Getting a "Bright Eyes" half sleeve real soon 
"For most of this century, scientists have worshiped the hardware of the brain and the software of the mind; the messy powers of the heart were left to the poets."
"For most of this century, scientists have worshiped the hardware of the brain and the software of the mind; the messy powers of the heart were left to the poets."
