Nirvana- In Utero
Refused- The Shape Of Punk To Come
Radiohead- OK Computer
Radiohead- Kid A
John Frusciante- Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt
John Frusciante- To Record Only Water For Ten Days
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols
Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
Slowdive- Souvlaki
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground and Nico
and since I can't decide which Pearl Jam album I'd say changed my life the most ill just say
Pearl Jam- Discography
"I sometimes wonder why there isn't a Tee-Pees R Us."
A Collection of Beatles Oldies But Goldies
The Who Live at Leeds
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Most of my Hendrix collection
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
The Madcap Laughs - my much-missed, mad bastard neighbour
Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 - Tim Buckley
The Tumbler - John Martyn (it showed me what an acoustic guitar could sound like!)
Rubber Soul- The Beatles
Pearl Jam- Binaural
Radiohead- Kid A
Sigur Ros- ( )
Better Than Ezra- How Does Your Garden Grow? (VERY underrated album)
Lifehouse- No Name Face (made me appreciate pop rock)
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Wilco- Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
Jimi Hendrix - The JH Experience
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps
Nirvana - Nevermind
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bruce Sprinsteen - Born to Run
Pearl Jam - Ten
Chris Whitley - Living with the Law, Dirt Floor
Peter Gabriel - So
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Bob Marley - Legend
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Beatles - White Album
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Probably many more I can't list......these were very influential.
Queensryche - "Empire"
Queensryche - "Operation:Mindcrime"
Pearl Jam - "No Code"
Rage Against the Machine - "Battle of Los Angeles"
Live - "Throwing Copper"
TooL - "Aenima"
Sublime - "Sublime"
Radiohead - "Ok Computer"
Guns 'N Roses - "Appetite for Destruction"
Pink Floyd
Reggatta de Blanc - The Police
Graceland - Paul Simon
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Live at Winterland - Jimi Hendrix
The Joshua Tree - U2
The Doors - The Doors
vs. - Pearl Jam
Nevermind - Nirvana
Near Truths and Hotel Rooms - Todd Snider
pj- ten
springsteen- born to run
the who- quadrophenia
twin peaks and twin peaks: fire walk with me soundtracks
only living witness- innocents
far- water & solutions
scissorfight- new hampshire
Nirvana - Unplugged
Aerosmiths Greatest Hits <<Why I started playing guitar.
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
Hey! Good to see another Chris Whitley fan. I love his stuff. I'm on a Chris Whitley kick right now. I've only been listening to Living with the Law, Terra Incognita, and his live record for a bout 2 weeks now.
Sleep on horseback
Far moon in a continuing dream
Steam of roasting tea
these arent necessarily my "favorite" albums of all time, but they are the ones that changed my life as far as getting into music and appreciating it. the 1st four were my dads lp's that i played out as a kid.
sgt. pepper
born to run
exile on main street
the freewheelin bob dylan
dr. feelgood
appetite for destruction
bleach
Cheat the odds that made you
Brave to try to gamble at times
The only album i can say that really changed my life is "Fun House" by the Stooges. Before this album, I never knew that rock music could be so loud and melodic and sexy and dirty at the same time. It really opened my eyes because I usually don't listen to that heavy of music. But the way you can just feel these guys sweating and playing their hearts out on these songs they knew would never be excepted by main stream culture just proves that there are those few bands who really do play for the love of music and nothing more, not to be famous or successful, not for the fans, but for the love of music to satisfy one's own self. Just purely beautiful.
The only album i can say that really changed my life is "Fun House" by the Stooges. Before this album, I never knew that rock music could be so loud and melodic and sexy and dirty at the same time. It really opened my eyes because I usually don't listen to that heavy of music. But the way you can just feel these guys sweating and playing their hearts out on these songs they knew would never be exepted by main stream culture just proves that there are those few bands who really do play for the love of music and nothing more, not to be famous or successful, not for the fans, but for the love of music to satisfy one's own self. Just purely beautiful.
Great post. Agreed.
Sleep on horseback
Far moon in a continuing dream
Steam of roasting tea
Hey! Good to see another Chris Whitley fan. I love his stuff. I'm on a Chris Whitley kick right now. I've only been listening to Living with the Law, Terra Incognita, and his live record for a bout 2 weeks now.
I'm surprised - only 1 other person has mentioned him....he's really great. I love "Dirt Floor", tho it's just a few songs. His record "Weed" is pretty good too. Sadly I never got to see him play in concert before he passed on......I'm looking forward to getting his last album.
... as one particular song.
when i was nine i heard stevie wright sing his epic 'evie'. everything i listen to today is because of that one song. it is the reason i listen to rock music. and it remains one of my favourite songs. when i was 14 i got to see and hear stevie sing this song at a outdoor concert. it was then and still is one of my most endearing rock memories.
hear my name
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
I just came up with this list for another forum, but I thought I'd share and you guys could share yours.
here's the records that changed my life:
Modest Mouse - Moon and Antarctica
GBV - Human Amusements
The Replacements - Let It Be
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Bonnie "prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
edit: haha I guess I got a bit carried away at first. these are my definitive, life changing records.
We must be living within the same frequency stoneg82......
Bonnie "Prince" Billy- I See a Darkness
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neil Young- After the Goldrush
Pearl Jam- No Code
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks
Federation X- American Folk Horror
Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
"I wanna believe in the mercy of the world again."
There are a few records which changed my life. This is just a short list:
The last supper-Black Sabbath
Appetite For Desruction-Guns N Roses
Led Zeppelin 3- Led Zeppelin
Dirt-Alice in Chains
In Uttero-Nirvana
Live through this-Hole
With your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothing done!
What's the story morning glory Oasis
Mosley Shoals and Marchin Already Ocean Colour Scene
Quadrophenia The who
Whatever people say I am is what I'm not The Arctic Monkeys
Sgt Pepper and a hard days night The beatles
Ten Pearl jam
"listen to tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your future." - anita miller (zooey deschanel), almost famous
Before the film came out . I was in school and I had the album about a few months. I gave it to a mate of mine in school .Anyway I told him to turn off all the lights and listen to sparks at full volume and let his mind just float.
I realized I like poetry as stories; that feeling alone is OK in NJ, that NJ is in my blood as long as the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike, Rt 17, and Rt 4 are still going. Means, that all the street signs, and neon lights "show the way" in more ways than one. Some of us where meant to try out many places before figuring out what is home.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Records that changed my life? That's a tall order. I first became obsessed with music when I was about 13, and it never stopped. There were a LOT of records that changed my life, but I'll try and keep it to under 20:
U2- The Joshua Tree
Led Zeppelin IV
Guns N' Roses- Appetite for Destruction
The Tragically Hip- Up to Here
54-40- self titled (the green album)
Nirvana- Nevermind
Pearl Jam- Ten
Radiohead- The Bends
R.E.M.- Life's Rich Pageant
Neil Young- Harvest
The Doors- The Doors
The Clash- London Calling
Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska
Tom Waits- Rain Dogs
Rheostatics- Whale Music
Change of Heart- Smile
The Weakerthans- Left & Leaving
Wilco- Being There
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
Midnight Oil- Diesel and Dust
The Lowest of the Low- Shakespeare, My Butt
Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
Skydiggers- Restless
Blue Rodeo- Five Days in July
Sarah Harmer- You Were Here
Steve Earle- I Feel Alright
The Police- Synchronicity
Ok, I lied. There's a little more than 20 there.
"I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."
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Refused- The Shape Of Punk To Come
Radiohead- OK Computer
Radiohead- Kid A
John Frusciante- Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt
John Frusciante- To Record Only Water For Ten Days
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols
Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
Slowdive- Souvlaki
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground and Nico
and since I can't decide which Pearl Jam album I'd say changed my life the most ill just say
Pearl Jam- Discography
-Ed
A Collection of Beatles Oldies But Goldies
The Who Live at Leeds
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Most of my Hendrix collection
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
The Madcap Laughs - my much-missed, mad bastard neighbour
Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 - Tim Buckley
The Tumbler - John Martyn (it showed me what an acoustic guitar could sound like!)
Pearl Jam- Binaural
Radiohead- Kid A
Sigur Ros- ( )
Better Than Ezra- How Does Your Garden Grow? (VERY underrated album)
Lifehouse- No Name Face (made me appreciate pop rock)
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Wilco- Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
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Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Pearl Jam - Vs. and No Code
but most of all, Patti Smith - Horses
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Jimi Hendrix - The JH Experience
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps
Nirvana - Nevermind
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bruce Sprinsteen - Born to Run
Pearl Jam - Ten
Chris Whitley - Living with the Law, Dirt Floor
Peter Gabriel - So
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Bob Marley - Legend
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Beatles - White Album
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Probably many more I can't list......these were very influential.
Queensryche - "Operation:Mindcrime"
Pearl Jam - "No Code"
Rage Against the Machine - "Battle of Los Angeles"
Live - "Throwing Copper"
TooL - "Aenima"
Sublime - "Sublime"
Radiohead - "Ok Computer"
Guns 'N Roses - "Appetite for Destruction"
Pink Floyd
Pearl Jam-Ten
No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
U2-All That You Can't Leave Behind
RHCP-By The Way
It's Sunshine! (seagoat2)........
Nevermind, I thought you were someone else....I have the wrong person.
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
Tool - Lateralus
Patti Smith - Easter
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Graceland - Paul Simon
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Live at Winterland - Jimi Hendrix
The Joshua Tree - U2
The Doors - The Doors
vs. - Pearl Jam
Nevermind - Nirvana
Near Truths and Hotel Rooms - Todd Snider
springsteen- born to run
the who- quadrophenia
twin peaks and twin peaks: fire walk with me soundtracks
only living witness- innocents
far- water & solutions
scissorfight- new hampshire
"listen to tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your future." - anita miller (zooey deschanel), almost famous
Aerosmiths Greatest Hits <<Why I started playing guitar.
Far moon in a continuing dream
Steam of roasting tea
--Basho
sgt. pepper
born to run
exile on main street
the freewheelin bob dylan
dr. feelgood
appetite for destruction
bleach
Brave to try to gamble at times
Great post. Agreed.
Far moon in a continuing dream
Steam of roasting tea
--Basho
I'm surprised - only 1 other person has mentioned him....he's really great. I love "Dirt Floor", tho it's just a few songs. His record "Weed" is pretty good too. Sadly I never got to see him play in concert before he passed on......I'm looking forward to getting his last album.
when i was nine i heard stevie wright sing his epic 'evie'. everything i listen to today is because of that one song. it is the reason i listen to rock music. and it remains one of my favourite songs. when i was 14 i got to see and hear stevie sing this song at a outdoor concert. it was then and still is one of my most endearing rock memories.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
We must be living within the same frequency stoneg82......
Bonnie "Prince" Billy- I See a Darkness
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neil Young- After the Goldrush
Pearl Jam- No Code
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks
Federation X- American Folk Horror
Flaming Lips- The Soft Bulletin
WAR + MAGIC BEANS = PEACE
The last supper-Black Sabbath
Appetite For Desruction-Guns N Roses
Led Zeppelin 3- Led Zeppelin
Dirt-Alice in Chains
In Uttero-Nirvana
Live through this-Hole
Rancid - ... And out come the Wolves
Pearl Jam - YIELD
Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
the bad idea or me befallen by it?
Mosley Shoals and Marchin Already Ocean Colour Scene
Quadrophenia The who
Whatever people say I am is what I'm not The Arctic Monkeys
Sgt Pepper and a hard days night The beatles
Ten Pearl jam
Nevermind - Nirvana
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Sgt. Pepper - Beatles
Yield & Ten - Pearl Jam
Doolittle - Pixies
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Before the film came out . I was in school and I had the album about a few months. I gave it to a mate of mine in school .Anyway I told him to turn off all the lights and listen to sparks at full volume and let his mind just float.
I realized I like poetry as stories; that feeling alone is OK in NJ, that NJ is in my blood as long as the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike, Rt 17, and Rt 4 are still going. Means, that all the street signs, and neon lights "show the way" in more ways than one. Some of us where meant to try out many places before figuring out what is home.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
U2- The Joshua Tree
Led Zeppelin IV
Guns N' Roses- Appetite for Destruction
The Tragically Hip- Up to Here
54-40- self titled (the green album)
Nirvana- Nevermind
Pearl Jam- Ten
Radiohead- The Bends
R.E.M.- Life's Rich Pageant
Neil Young- Harvest
The Doors- The Doors
The Clash- London Calling
Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska
Tom Waits- Rain Dogs
Rheostatics- Whale Music
Change of Heart- Smile
The Weakerthans- Left & Leaving
Wilco- Being There
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
Midnight Oil- Diesel and Dust
The Lowest of the Low- Shakespeare, My Butt
Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
Skydiggers- Restless
Blue Rodeo- Five Days in July
Sarah Harmer- You Were Here
Steve Earle- I Feel Alright
The Police- Synchronicity
Ok, I lied. There's a little more than 20 there.
-Tom Waits