• Which albums have shaped and changed your music taste forever?
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Listened to Muse and Snow Patrol and Lily Allen and Kate Nash And then I listened to "The Midnight Organ Fight" by Frightened Rabbit [img]http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/11351-midnight-organ-fight.jpg[/img] And now I listen to whiny-vocaled songs about about relationships a lot more. "In The Distance Fading" by God Is An Astronaut taught me that I really really love songs with huge climaxes. And I guess it also got me into post-rock, after listening to a load of God Is An Astronaut and then other post-rock bands, trying to find more. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-wtWoFNTjQ[/media] "Die Weide und der Fluß" by Equilibrium was the first metal song I ever listened to where the intrumental just made my distaste for the vocals so so irrelevant. Listening to it helped me get over metal vocals pretty much altogether and now I don't mind them that much anymore. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vguAAT1A5oc[/media]
[img]http://static.musictoday.com/store/bands/93/product_large/ZLDD48.JPG[/img] [img]http://shagrath.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/soilwork_-_stabbing_the_drama_a.jpg[/img] [img]http://images.digital-tunes.net/releases/the_5th_exotic/full_size.jpg[/img] Haste the Day's Burning Bridges album was what originally got me in to Metalcore and stuff. Ever since they got a different lead vocalist, I've completely disliked them, but their old stuff is great. Soilwork's Stabbing the Drama got me in to Melodeath and they're practically my all time favorite band. Some people tell me that Melodeath is a dying genre but I disagree. And I pretty much fell in love with Acid Jazz and Trip Hop after listening to Quantic.
[QUOTE=TheGuru;26685425] [img_thumb]http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/kasabian.jpg[/img_thumb] The album that got me into alternative and subsequently indie rock. [/QUOTE] That's probably one of my all time favourites, I think Kasabian is a brilliant band. I've had a strange mix of musical influences in my life though, my dad played loads of Joe Jackson and this is one of my favourites: [img]http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTmhg_7v5pupf_z1OJ_HvHa5OntZLL18tSDLSEjEa5cS5GE4jcd[/img] I also listened to a lot of Blur and Semisonic when I was younger: [img] http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCCMbK2RZy_7mm9sqYzd4JJ-cHeTm8C0fOgVZVZ-lfaSwcd2qTQA[/img] [img]http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuvT5FqO8Qiuvfhlfs9Sd_fAWd1Pl3gzb0tdfe6c6vEYtlYrTngQ[/img] I listen to anything except metal now. From 80's pop to the Black Keys kind of thing.
This: [img_thumb]http://www.amiright.com/album-cover-themes/images/album-System-of-a-Down-System-of-a-Down.jpg[/img_thumb] Eventually got me into this: [img_thumb]http://m.blog.hu/al/album/image/borito%20200x200/2008-10/Tool-10000-Days.jpg[/img_thumb] Which got me into this: [img_thumb]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GQVF34RQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img_thumb] And eventually to all kinds of cool stuff, like: [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Yes-close.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SmTmoNCaX0U/TPtSv51hJaI/AAAAAAAAA9E/jc7rM02A8E8/s320/pink_meddle.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vc3H5q9pmgg/SNaeDeClySI/AAAAAAAAAek/4qi1uMWbVnA/s400/Tarkus.jpg[/img_thumb][img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Moving_Pictures.jpg[/img_thumb] + [img_thumb]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i1MSxdKMKRs/TJuBjmPnsFI/AAAAAAAAAe0/joefzl7KrTE/s1600/dopethrone.jpg[/img_thumb] So i guess I somehow owe it all to SOAD then. I have no idea why I like Electric Wizard, but everyone seems to love them :v:.
I don't think any albums have changed my music taste forever, I am always wandering between different genres.
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IBhY92eXKmU/SMHc0miNtdI/AAAAAAAABk4/87nepeW1kNk/s320/The+Fall+Of+Troy+-+Doppleganger.jpg[/img] This album turned me into the path that I'm now on, relating to music that is. [img]http://musicoogle.com/uploads/posts/2010-10/12877740623618.jpeg[/img] Also this. [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SAof8NpgL.jpg[/img] And this. [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fanN2OGXDn4/TMCX_aIKUnI/AAAAAAAAACI/ggOy6qv-dbE/s1600/completed.jpg[/img] And this.
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As a kid I was exposed to Pink Floyd a lot, since my dad is almost addicted to them. [media]http://gyazo.com/c82a1aa24bb5324ebf6d5050f7c818ad.png[/media] Then I discovered Tool. I remember spending all the time I was on my computer listening to as many Tool songs as I could find on youtube. [media]http://gyazo.com/a15fe4f63bb1bc2b920bf349a1a7980e.png[/media] My cousin got me into Lamb of God not too long after. As The Palaces Burn is still my all time favorite album. [media]http://gyazo.com/4ca94fe5244c41d5ca92d42c9b7577e0.png[/media] Shortly after I was exposed to Gojira, and then my friend got me into Meshuggah. [media]http://gyazo.com/e25c06f0b08413f84be257a85f753b0b.png[/media] [media]http://gyazo.com/c46aa69f6a089df54bcb7168d626a417.png[/media] Most recently, is another band that my friend showed me, After The Burial. The rerelease of Rareform blew me away. [media]http://gyazo.com/5faab230846fed3f512eb5c8bba4d8c2.png[/media] That all pretty much brings me up to where I am today.
[QUOTE=En-Guage V3;26709150]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[/QUOTE] Wrath is brilliant Really a masterpiece
now that I think about it there is one album that drastically changed me musically [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51969F4MJSL.jpg[/img] I bought it at best buy when it came out because it looked cool it's what got me into dnb
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[img]http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1/cover_471501342009.JPG[/img] This album is just... A crying keyboard lets ring a chord, it sounds like strings, but it clearly isn't, it's imperfection giving it a voice of it's own. It slowly builds, with such subtle intensity, it builds, repeats, falls back, one instrument alone, no melody, purely chords, chords filled with emotion, chords ready to leap forward. Then it stops. But wait, it's coming back, quiet, but it's coming. Then a bass guitar comes in. [I]Dugga dug dug dug, dug, duggadu, duggadu...[/I] Building with a simple, yet satisfying tap of the hi-hat, still building, you can feel it's going to hit, then it does. [I]DUGGA DUG DUG DUG, DUG, DUGGADU, DUGGADU.[/I] The next 50 minutes is one of the greatest progressive rock albums of all time, cementing my love of Symphonic Prog Rock in forever (I already knew a few other artists) and showing me theatrics and vocal preformances I never thought possible in the genre. I fucking [I]love[/I] this album.
Ah the 90's greatest decade of all time... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de2W3rtZsA[/media] Rage against the machine, Battle for LA Great album
All albums by Marilyn Manson. MM 4 Lyfe
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61UE5cNNbJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] Got this album when I was in 6th grade. Prior to listening to it, all I listened to was the bad generic nu-metal that plagued the radio stations at the time (2003). All I listened to was Linkin Park, Smile Empty Soul, Taproot, Drowning Pool, Mudvayne, etc. After hearing Sing the Sorrow, I started listening to similar artists, and the bands that inspired AFI; The Cure, the Smiths, Morrissey, Misfits, Bahaus, Nine inch Nails, etc. [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61cEnr71lrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] I never really listened to electronic music until I heard this album. And once hearing it, I gained an appreciation for electronic bands/artists. I went from listening to nothing electronic, to now listening a lot of artists with a strong electronic bakcground: Depeche Mode, BT, Tiesto, Bankai, Creature Feature, Freezepop, Innerpartysystem, La Roux, Panic Lift.
I've seen a lot of Porcupine Tree in this thread, but not the one that impacted me. In Absentia opened me up to all things progressive and atmospheric. They are still one of my favorite bands, but helped me discover Electric Wizard, Opeth, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kyuss and many others. [IMG]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc390/homelesshorde/Porcupine_tree_in_absentia.jpg[/IMG]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Gybeslowriot.jpg[/img] I had never heard anything like it before.
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/51MBt29+u-L._SL500_AA280_.jpg[/img] will you find me by Ida nothing amazing, but all I listened to before Ida was shit I heard on alternative radio (Jet, Nickelback, Metallica, Incubus, etc.). Now my library consists of about 600 bands which range from twee pop to swedish depressive black metal
[QUOTE=Mariosnail007;26724371]All albums by Marilyn Manson. MM 4 Lyfe[/QUOTE] [img]http://images2.memegenerator.net/Futurama-Fry/ImageMacro/2851414/NOT-SURE-IF-TROLL-OR-JUST-VERY-STUPID.jpg[/img]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlyjlM2IWk4[/media] Pretty much determined my future.
maybe a stupid troll? Probably not troll but you never know [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZhYv0DPeL._SL500_AA280_.jpg[/img] This was the first metal album I ever listened to. The song Can I Play With Madness was the first one I ever heard :buddy: [img]http://www.metalcry.com/files/Elvenking_TheScythe_cover.jpg[/img] This was the first metal album I heard that wasn't Iron Maiden style. I loved it so so so much. Actually the best music I had ever heard. [img]http://www.amorphis.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/skyforger_kansi.jpg[/img] This brought me further into 'different' metal. [img]http://www.insomnium.net/uploads/images/taittokuvat/releases_atww_big.jpg[/img] The album which pretty much defined my musical tastes, along with Skyforger. This brought me into the more extreme side of metal (although I would hardly call insomnium extreme) as in death metal and the like. [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31fzvLdcTYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/img] Album that got me into screamo (the punk kind) [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iSORJxQsdZ4/SluV-_6oZoI/AAAAAAAAAF8/aWYxKNZ4PHg/s320/Dying%2BIs%2BYour%2BLatest%2BFashion.jpg[/img] This got me into post-hardcore/metalcore
With this, Metal became a preference... [IMG]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2101/60568446.jpg[/IMG] ...but with this, it became an obsession: [IMG]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7564/metallicaridethelightni.jpg[/IMG]
[img]http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/27/l_0f377bbb1d9d4bc5a43ed2b7f6d438ce.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://www.jazz59.com/joefarrell/images/theblacksaintandthesinnerlady.jpg[/IMG] Jazz [IMG]http://image.betamonline.com/sdimages/disk18/154048.jpg[/IMG] Electronic Music [IMG]http://cdn.sk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/A-Tribe-Called-Quest-The-Low-End-Theory-Album-Cover.jpg[/IMG] Hip Hop [IMG]http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/b/brian_eno-ambient_1_music_for_airports%281%29.jpg[/IMG] Ambient
[media]http://www.nuclearblast.de/shop/artikel/bilder/heaven-shall-burn-iconoclast/148353.jpg[/media] Forgot to mention that this album by Heaven Shall Burn got me in to the really heavy death metal, but I haven't really explored the genre yet. There's a lot of bands I can't get used to because of the vocals being too ridiculous. I absolutely love the art for this album too. I was a little disappointed in the cover for their latest album "Invictus" though.
[IMG]http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2162/nineinchnailsprettyhater.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7343/600pxtheslipnineinchnai.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6229/piccoverlarge.jpg[/IMG] These albums really got me into the more Synth and Industrial types of music.
[img]http://www.covermesongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Black-Sabbath-Paranoid-Image.jpg[/img] [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dERJ69_UesI/SxFy3UCZDcI/AAAAAAAAAPs/q-h7RC6gng4/s1600/120094380241.jpg[/img] [img]http://strangereaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/misfits_earth-ad.jpg[/img] [img]http://dickgraves.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/1012_1214285015.jpg[/img] [img]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:nnAN00j9T6CV_M:http://i37.tinypic.com/64dx03.jpg&t=1[/img] i grew up with all of that except for dopethrone i discovered dopethrone about 4 months ago and i have hardly listened to anything else except for maybe cky/smashing pumpkins/occasional hardcore
[QUOTE=mynames2long;26718352]Wrath is brilliant Really a masterpiece[/QUOTE] Not sure about a masterpiece, but it's certainly fucking awesome. I love Grace, it shows how creative they are with that incredible intro. They're a great band, I'm getting back into them. I'm still not kicking myself for seeing them when they came to my town though.
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Did you go and see them Mokkan? I remember hearing they played at thebby or adelaide oval or something a couple weeks ago.
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