• Which albums have shaped and changed your music taste forever?
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When I was younger, I was listening to nothing but the mainstream stuff shown on TV. I had no other sources for music, until at age 10 I was introduced to this album: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast [img]http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/discography_IMG/numberofthebeast.jpg[/img] Since then, I was listening to nothing but Heavy Metal - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc... Then a few years later, I decided to give The Beatles a try, such as the Abbey Road album. [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DQWRBTrf6o8/SbE-bgZTlEI/AAAAAAAABes/oaRp-3IsygE/s320/Beatles_-_Abbey_Road.jpg[/img] Since then, I began listening to many different classic rock bands including The Who, Queen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and many more, while still listening to Heavy Metal. Which albums shaped and changed your music tastes, Facepunch?
[img]http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/65/Agadez.jpg[/img] Got me into Progressive-Rock. And once you're into Progressive you can kind of find something to like in everything. Except country.
Obligatory Crack The Skye. Okay, a better example would be: [IMG]http://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/mastodon.jpg[/IMG] This album right here. OH MAN THIS ALBUM. If it wasn't for this album I would not be so deep into music as a whole as it is of today. [IMG]http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/e/electric-wizard/album-dopethrone.jpg[/IMG] No need to explain this one.
[img_thumb]http://www.dragoncogames.com/files/holydiver.jpg[/img_thumb] Before I started listening to Dio it was pretty much classic/southern rock, now it's mainly power metal. I cried when he died.
ELP - Tarkus that opening man that opening
When I was 11 I listened to gay alternative rock music on the radio like the rest of the kids. Until I found this [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NfyeDjSPL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img]. Then I started swearing a lot more often then I started listening to Tenacious D's inspirations like The Who, Black Sabbath, ETC. And I started to appreciate old rock and heavy metal and started hating my generations music. I was always like that till... I found this [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618JeSQpRjL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] And then I started opening up to a lot more experimental progressive bands and musicians and learned how to play the drums by trying to copy Neil Peart and I learned that I have a really good singing voice when I started singing to the songs. I can also reach the same pitch as Geddy Lee except for when he takes it to a whole other notch and i'm like "fuck dat". And now that I am 16 I can appreciate a lot more music like Reggae, Hip Hop (The good kind, not the gangster shit), some electronic (does Ronald Jenkees count in this department?). Thanks to these albums and bands I was able to realize I was born with a gift of musical talent. And now I actually have a GOOD taste in music.
[img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlcVnKcEKd5tHnb3njK5Fr718Tw2l083JrR6BxXS_8CVP9OQ1iMA[/img] Just. Yes. [img]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHgIPds7E5F6qwclxHzS_zntBAxufTciePY2XC5Wo4jMxgZUolYg[/img] and yes, I know it's cool to pretend you hate this^ but hey, what other time do you get to legitimately use child porn on a forum ! [img]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4f9drqO459Pyel6hB9m86O4TZByKirDH-vUy4JjUAPXXB5CesVw[/img] & [img]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-B6YsMyzi7eLlLepXW1Oiq0gcEpnSQwyiI-n9hM10Inl3OExdFw[/img] ^ were the first two 'heavy' albums I ever bought, I must have been about 11 or 12. They got me onto the music I love today.
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[QUOTE=BenJammin';26684694]And now that I am 16 I can appreciate a lot more music like Reggae, Hip Hop (The good kind, not the gangster shit)[/QUOTE] where do the likes of NWA, public enemy, and ice cube fall under? the gangster shit or the good shit?
[img_thumb]http://www.amiright.com/album-cover-themes/images/album-System-of-a-Down-System-of-a-Down.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Mutter.jpg[/img_thumb] I don't really listen to SOAD and Rammstein much anymore, but it still counts. I used to listen to crappy pop music.
This album single-handedly shaped me into the music lover I am today. [img_thumb]http://junkyardgod.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/scar-symmetry-holographic-universe.jpg[/img_thumb] Before discovering it, I listened to whatever my dad listened to. Which was a bunch of 70s and 80s rock. More on the pop side. Though I have to admit that if it weren't for this album, I probably would never have pursued paths that ultimately led me to the above album: [img_thumb]http://www.melodic.net/img6/terminsationbliss.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img]http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/r/red-hot-chili-peppers/album-by-the-way.jpg[/img] The album that got me to start listening to music more than just because it was on the radio. [img]http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/metallica-ride-the-lightning.jpg[/img] The album that got me into metal. [img]http://homenucleonics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2005-deadwing.jpg[/img] The album that made me listen to more than just metal, namely progressive rock. [img]http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/kasabian.jpg[/img] The album that got me into alternative and subsequently indie rock. [img]http://chopsteakmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/deltron-3030.png[/img] The album that got me into hip hop. Those are probably the most important for me. I listen to pretty much everything these days.
[QUOTE=TheGuru;26685425][img_thumb]http://chopsteakmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/deltron-3030.png[/img_thumb] The album that got me into hip hop. Those are probably the most important for me. I listen to pretty much everything these days.[/QUOTE] Yea Deltron3030 is some good stuff, I remember it sparking some interest in trip-hop for me as well. First album to get me into industrial/ebm [img]http://s2.imgimg.de/uploads/vnvjudgement4b5b8f77jpg.jpg[/img]
[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8WmUMszBGOo/S-Vj9fsXqkI/AAAAAAAAA30/B-2r_Rat7cQ/s1600/668px-Nin-the_downward_spiral800.jpg[/img] Introduced me to industrial rock/metal [img]http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3841/cover_445212492008.jpg[/img] introduced me to [b]good[/b] metalcore + it made me dwell deeper into the whole progressive metalcore and, somehow, the sludge metal scene [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__RTO9DwA3W0/SASxlnYplOI/AAAAAAAAAg8/V-Lci9wVOOQ/s400/symbolic.jpg[/img] introduced me to [del]good[/del] old-school death metal (screw that, old-school dm is always good, no exceptions.). There are myriads of other albums too that have shaped my musical preferences in many ways, but I can't name all of them right now. [editline]15th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Spawndex;26684792][img_thumb]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHgIPds7E5F6qwclxHzS_zntBAxufTciePY2XC5Wo4jMxgZUolYg[/img_thumb] and yes, I know it's cool to pretend you hate this^ but hey, what other time do you get to legitimately use child porn on a forum ![/QUOTE] What the fuck are you talking about, nobody hates Nirvana :colbert:
This is what really started my love for non Nu-Metal and the like. [IMG]http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/3/0/130.jpg[/IMG] The Amesoeurs self-titled is part of what made into Post-Rock. As well as got me into Post-Punk and Shoegaze. While so far I mostly only got into Post-Rock. Once I get around to it I'm should dive deeper into Post-Punk and Shoegaze. [IMG]http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/2/6/3/226305.jpg[/IMG] I picked this over Two Hunter by Wolves In The Throne Room, mostly due to getting into Post-Rock, Crust and even more into "Cascadian" Black Metal. Due to that it kinda helped me get into Neofolk. [IMG]http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/3/2/0/232063.jpg[/IMG]
[img]http://www.project-11.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/art-of-motion.jpg[/img] I realized that it was the best piece of music I'd ever heard, and that it was probably the greatest thing that anyone had ever done, ever
"Green Day? MCR? Man, you should listen to this" [img]http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Lamb-of-God-lamb-of-god-561124_500_500.jpg[/img] On that day a metalhead was born.
Killadelphia is far better, I only like a couple of LOG's albums, one of them being their mainstream abomination. Ashes of the wake is p. cool, but Wrath is better imo
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AYNULoDgJ2I/Sz3w1ND167I/AAAAAAAAAfc/N9NbxDE0Ll4/s400/neon+bible.png[/img] It really got me into the sort of almost operatic, emotion-filled anthems Arcade Fire puts out.
Wrath is probably my favourite, but if I'm honest it wasn't really that album has a whole that got me into metal, just the first song I heard on it. I think I went out exploring this whole new genre I had never heard of before I actually listened to the rest.
[img]http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/3081-yoshimi-battles-the-pink-robots.jpg[/img] Showed me that all music didn't have to be melancholic and depressing. [img]http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc200/c264/c26452g73j8.jpg[/img] Introduced me to a whole new range of genres I would grow to love in their own ways. [img]http://991.com/newgallery/Ether-Strange-425768.jpg[/img] The first band I loved from an early age, and one that would define my taste in music and my love of quirky vocalists. [img]http://www.realmusicforum.com/wp-content/2009/06/lateralus_inside.jpg[/img] Blew my fucking mind.
QOTSA - Songs for the deaf, my first foray into anything that didn't exist solely on the Radio and MTV, fucking loved this album, totally changed my perception on what music could be, it wasn't just pop fucking jingles, there was some really fucking dark shit floating around if you knew where to look. [img]http://www.simplysyndicated.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/QOTSA+-+Songs+for+the+Deaf.jpg[/img] Metallica's Master of Puppets, introduced me to Thrash Metal and planted the seeds for my ever lasting quest to find something thicker and heavier, seguing me neatly to... [img]http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/ddbf43df351c08870743e027ff811d0c/1593.jpg[/img] Meshuggah - Nothing, This album fucking blew me away, any preconceptions I had about how music SHOULD be died a death when I heard this album, this introduced me to the wonders of Djent [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Meshuggah-Nothing.jpg[/img] And last but not least, at least for now, is! Cobalt - Gin, this album is amazing, seriously brilliant, first black metal album I can say that I genuinely love every single part of. In one word, spectacular, in 6 words, Holy mother of fuck it's glorious. [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vfn-OFW-Wq0/S9QLg40hwUI/AAAAAAAAAxU/DNriO41ClyE/s320/folder.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/In_Flames-The_Jester_Race.jpg[/img] [editline]15th December 2010[/editline] Changed my music taste dramatically.
Ensiferum - Dragonheads EP Dragonheads was the first metal song I heard, and the album was the first metal album I fully listened to. It seems that I am not a metalhead for that long. [img]http://midiarock.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ensiferum-dragonheads-300x297.jpg[/img] Meshuggah - Nothing This was the album that got me into a whole new world of metal, Djent. I am still blown away everytime I listen to this masterpiece. [img]http://www.cmdistro.com/images/xlarge/22662.jpg[/img] Reel Big Fish - Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free This got me into the wonderful world of Ska, my favorite genre besides Metal. [img]http://gnwp.ru/uploads/posts/2010-01/1264839710_535057806_8c9c31ddb2.jpg[/img]
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip [img]http://akuheibakery.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/nin-the_slip-cover.jpg[/img]
A few years ago, I was at a friend's house, and saw this album. I was interested in the cover and asked if I could borrow it. He said yes. I went home, listened to the whole thing through, and immediatly fell in love. I couldn't stop. This music, pure and raw from the 1960's, felt so much better and comfortable than the processed, generated crap we have today. I then got the rest of their albums, and have been listening to them every day since. I don't plan on stopping. The album was this. [img]http://christopherave.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/beatles_-_abbey_road.jpg[/img] I decided afterwards to look at more 60's music. I looked at this fellow, and was amazed at his guitar skill. The way he played, how fast he played, the technique and sound was just incredible. He has influenced me to take on the guitar. [img_thumb]http://onlymusic.biz/bbs/data/album/c0024768_01112288.jpg[/img_thumb] Some other albums I've looked at since then. [img_thumb]http://www.ephemeron.net/wp-content/uploads/cover-the_who-tommy-1969.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://blog.turntablelab.com/images/Disraeli%20Gears.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Music/Queen/Albums/Queen.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/The%20Velvet%20Underground_Andy%20Warhol.jpg[/img_thumb] 60's rock has became my most favorite period of music, forever. And yes I know Queen and some of The Who are 70's but still.
I kinda listen to bits and pieces of most things which are about, but in terms of the music I make, my big 4 are: - Still Life/Blackwater Park - Opeth (introduced me to the power of melodic sections within incredibly dark and heavy songs, taught me to try and use balance) - Ashes Against the Grain - Agalloch (showed me how beautiful harshness can be, and I liked the flow in that the songs kind of moved into the next) - Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree (I would argue this isn't their best album, but it's an album which whenever I hear it makes me think of being young and inspires strange things even though i only heard it two years ago) [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pUOITrKsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img][img]http://jackrugile.com/opeth/images/blackwater-park.jpg[/img] [img]http://anthemrecordsinc.com/products/ashes_against_the_grain.jpg[/img][img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tnSugDbs3V8/TIvh6r1xzUI/AAAAAAAAAZk/3n0QDTeC3iM/s320/porcupine+tree+fear+of+a+blank+planet.jpg[/img] Each of these albums also opened up a gateway into similar albums of their kind, but all of them are still special to me and I listen to them often :3:
[img]http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kobqs8BMu41qzj93go1_500.jpg[/img] Pretty much flipped my musical taste entirely.
my parents would play these albums a lot when i was younger, so i think they were sorta what led me to where i am today: [img]http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2342/ledzeppelinii.png[/img] [img]http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/7499/onesizefitsall.png[/img] [img]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8877/moondance.jpg[/img]
Nevermind by Nirvana got me into alternative rock, but the albums that really got me into alternative rock were In Utero and OK Computer.
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