records that changed your life

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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
    Tool - Lateralus
    Patti Smith - Easter
    Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
  • endlessparade
    endlessparade Posts: 99
    it all comes down to quadrophenia. there has never been a greater album than that one.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    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
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    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
  • uninnocent
    uninnocent Posts: 1,565
    JaneNY wrote:
    Tommy


    "listen to tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your future." - anita miller (zooey deschanel), almost famous
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    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
  • Sathogwa
    Sathogwa Posts: 227
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Not in any order.....

    Chris Whitley - Living with the Law, Dirt Floor

    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

    --Basho
  • off_the_record
    off_the_record Posts: 843
    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
  • pearlzepfan
    pearlzepfan Posts: 456
    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.
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • Sathogwa
    Sathogwa Posts: 227
    pearlzepfan wrote:
    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

    --Basho
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Sathogwa wrote:
    seagoat2 wrote:
    Not in any order.....

    Chris Whitley - Living with the Law, Dirt Floor

    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.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    ... 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
  • alobar
    alobar Posts: 310
    StoneG82 wrote:
    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."

    WAR + MAGIC BEANS = PEACE
  • iluvslash
    iluvslash Posts: 121
    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!
  • MCG
    MCG Posts: 780
    NoFX - Punk in Drublic
    Rancid - ... And out come the Wolves
    Pearl Jam - YIELD
    Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
    QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    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
  • Tengil
    Tengil Posts: 4
    Siamese Dream - SP
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Definitely Maybe - Oasis
    Sgt. Pepper - Beatles
    Yield & Ten - Pearl Jam
    Doolittle - Pixies
    Funeral - Arcade Fire
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    uninnocent wrote:
    "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.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,386
    Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen.

    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
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    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."

    -Tom Waits

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