5 albums that changes your life (or at least adolescence life) completely...

1: Pearl Jam- Ten and Vs.
2: Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
3: Rage Against The Machine- Self titled
4: Guns and Roses- Appetite for Destruction
5: Temple of the Dog

jorgems wrote:

For me:

1. Pearl Jams Vitalogy (Ten deserves to be on a list of its own obviously)
2. REMs Out of Time (my first actual CD!)
3. Guns and Roses Use your Illusion I and II
4. Counting Crows: August and Everything After
5. Heroes del Silencio: El Espiritu del Vino

anyone else share any of these?

GNR albums had an impact...especially Appetite...it was a change in music
Nirvana Nevermind... turned me into a grungy teen with no aim in life
Pearl Jam VS..
Sublime 40 oz

counting crows - august and everything after
death cab for cutie - transatlanticism
pearl jam - vitalogy
bright eyes - lifted
elliot smith - figure 8

Pearl Jam-Vs.
Counting Crows- Recovering the Sattelites
Goo Goo Dolls- Dizzy up the girl
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness/ Aeroplane Flies High (Box Set)

Good thread!!!!

1. Vs. - Indifference (hence the SN) had a MAJOR impact on how I approached life. "I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind." "I will walk arms outstrectched, pretend I'm free to roam." "I'll keep taking punches, until their will grows tired." In short, it was what gave me the will to fight back and take a stand against how much shit people gave me.


2. Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral - Much of the same inspiration to get pissed off and take control of my life. Probably the best album from my 2nd fav. band too.

3. Counting Crows - Live on a Wire Though the cumulative songs are from mult. albums, Duritz just cranks up the inensity of the frustration and sadness on this album. Any day I'm REALLY feeling self-loathing, I just listen to this album and be thankful I'm not that guy!

4. Rage Against the Machine - Self titled Though my political views have "mellowed" quite a bit since, I have this album and their other work to thank for making me MUCH more conscientious of politics.

5. Kid A - Kiss my ass you whiny Ok Computer fans, this is THE BEST ALBUM OF THE 90's, and the best thing Radiohead ever did! It transcends the way we normally LISTEN to music, and it has an almost "atmospheric" and spatial feel to it. How to Disappear Completely was the ONLY thing I listened to on 9/11 because it captured the helplessness and denial of what was happening that day so well.

Other noteworthy mentions:

The rest of the Pearl Jam catalog - As it's been said many times before, the boys have been writing a soundtrack for our lives. I can always point to one song or another that seems to capture my mood at any given point. Thankfully I'm hanging up Sleight of Hand and Unemployable for awhile now that I've got a job I'm happy with.

Bright Eyes - Lifted and Desperadicios. I didn't discover Oberst til about 2002 or so, but if I had heard Read Music, Speak Spanish back when it came out in 97 I would've FLIPPED!!! Very similar to my views on urban sprawl, The American Dream, etc.

Tool - Undertow and A Perfect Circle - Mer De Mons - 3 Libras and The Rose have had a pretty strong effect on me. So did some of the songs on Undertow.

Sigor Ros - I don't listen to them often, but they do music a similar justice with the way their sound is layered similar to Radiohead.

Death Cab for Cutie - Plans I've been a big fan of this band since I discovered them because they throw a "lyrical sucker punch" much like Radiohead. You're listening to something kinda upbeat and Popish at times, and they you get socked in the gut with what Gibbard has to say. I Will Follow You into the Dark and What Sarah Said came out right as my Grandpa was suffering from cancer and I always have a hard time listening to those songs for the positive (Follow) and very negative (Sarah Said) sides of losing someone you love to some kind of illness.

The Beatles - Revolver (I was 6 when I first heard it... definitely had some impact on my musical taste growing up)

Pearl Jam - No Code (the most meaningful PJ album to me)

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (the opening chords of Teen Age Riot get me every single time)

Fugazi - 13 Songs (Give Me The Cure -> Suggestion might be the best 2 song transition of all time)

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (two words... Steve Malkmus)

1. Fugazi "13 songs". I grew up on country and a.m. radio, and didn't know there was other types of music out there. Then I went to High School and met other people with different taste's of music. This album changed everything.

2. Pearl Jam "VS.": Good god I thought Ten was the greatest thing since sliced bread, then this came along. Others followed that I think are almost perfect to, but this is where it started.

3. Stevie Ray Vaughn, "Texas Flood": Non stop straight through every song, everything about it. Just gives me the chills.

4. Social Distortion "Love, Sex and Rock N Roll": Reminded me that true punk will never die. This album is perfect. Don't get me wrong all their stuff is completely strong. This one has heart and soul, that means the world to me.

5. Beatles "SGT. Pepper...": I can't believe this was produced and recorded when it was, over the top amazing.

Pearl Jam-Ten- This along with facelift, dirt, badmoterfinger, lounder then love, bleach, nevermind, blood sugar sex magic, temple of the dog, motherlove bone all these albums all really stem from me loving ten and getting into some great music of hte early 90's

Neil Young - Harvest- I heard old man and i instantly knew this was someone i had to hear more of. Luckily there was a lot more neil out there for me to obsess over.

Modest Mouse- Moon & antartica- I finally got that indie music i always heard so much about. This lead to an obsession with built to spill, pavement, and many other bands to follow.

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue- Jazz its cool. I love it and i got into it because of this album.

not sure about a fifth hopefully that one is coming soon

Queen - News of the World (We Are the Champions)
Guns & Roses - Appetite
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pearl Jam - Ten

Honorable Mention
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Most of the albums listed came out during time in the Army. Good drinking and mind altered listening.

pearl jam - ten
live - throwing copper
pink floyd - animals
the doors - strange days
radiohead- the bends