top 5 albums that changed your life [Archive]

dornoforpyros

Jul 6, 2006, 12:57 PM

How exactly does an album change your life?

I feel sorry for you that you have to ask that.

Anyways here we go:

1)Discovered this compilation in early high school. Pretty much shaped my musical taste for the remainder of high school
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2)I think I listened to this album every day for about 3-4 months when I first got it. NIN is still my favorite band
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3)Rape Me was the first song I was able to play on guitar when my brain and my fingers actually "clicked" and I could understand guitar. You know when you first pick up an instrument and it's a foreign object and you can't figure out how anyone can communicate with it?

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4)I'm pretty sure this is the first album I ever bought with my own money. Sure I had some CD's before that I'd gotten as gifts and such, but this was the first one I bought

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5)This is the album that eventually lead me to Nirvana via "Smells like Nirvana". Laugh if you want, this guys a genius

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celebrian23

Jul 6, 2006, 12:59 PM

Even x&Y by coldplay didn't change my life- it influenced it in some ways, but it didn't alter my path any :p

Diddiyo

Jul 6, 2006, 01:17 PM

Refused - The shape of punk to come
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Millencolin - Life on a plate
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Boysetsfire - After the eulogy
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Mad Caddies - Quality Softcore
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Dog eat dog - All boro kings
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dornoforpyros

Jul 7, 2006, 12:50 AM

Refused - The shape of punk to come

nice! that would defiantly be in my top 10 favs of all time

mannix87

Jul 7, 2006, 12:51 AM

How exactly does an album change your life?

...if you were down to your last 15$ and you're still itching to buy that new Britney Spears CD then that might be life-altering :D

dontpanic

Jul 7, 2006, 12:24 PM

i think the album that shaped the music i listen to now would be ok computer

i started listening to way more music after that

i don't think any other album has really changed my life, i don't think it can

usclaneyj

Jul 8, 2006, 10:29 PM

Refused - The shape of punk to come

good call w/ that one!

i'd have to go w/
Nevermind - Nirvana
Radiohead - OK Computer
Thursday - Full Collapse
Cursive - Bust & Bloom EP
Minor Threat - In My Eyes

KingYaba

Jul 10, 2006, 12:26 AM

Ok stuff that shaped my life, here we go

1.) Creed - My Own Prison
Inspired me to get a guitar and start playing. Since then I have been playing for almost 8 years! Woo hoo!

2.) Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
Got me into the whole Metal genre, also changed my style of playing guitar.

3.) Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Boy do I worship this band. I first heard them about six years ago and I have not stopped listening to their albums. Also led me to meet a few people who like them as well and we jammed for a while. Was great fun. I try to emulate them on my guitar.

4.) Nightwish - Once
Got me into liking that style of music as well. I met a nice lady friend who could sing :cool: :D Need I say more?

5.) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Favorite album of theirs. My fascination with them led me to meet a friend who also enjoys that style of music. We still jam today. We are trying to organize a band, but we can't seem to find a drummer. Our bass player is a drunk/pot head and doesn't want to take things seriously. :mad:

quigleybc

Jul 11, 2006, 03:53 PM

Let's see..in order it would be:

1. Morphine-Good
2. Bob Marley-Legend
3. Phish-Rift
4. Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
5. Slick Rick-The Great Adventures of Slick Rick

:)

Squareball

Jul 11, 2006, 03:54 PM

My transition from lame music to amazing music happened in two stages.

1. For Squirrels - Example
2. Subrosa - Never bet the Devil Your Head
3. bloom. - Veda Hubbell

this was all in the mid/late 90s.

Then I started to burn out and really had nothing to listen to anymore.. my roommate told me how great this band Coldplay was (this was in 2000 and I had never heard of them and most people I knew hadn't either). I told him I wasn't into it when he had me take a listen.. but then.. in 2001 enter.. Grandaddy

4. Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump

This lead me to

5. Radiohead - The Bends

From there it was of course Ok Computer (after I got used to Radiohead and felt comfortable with their guitar rock) and then to Kid A/Amnesiace. At this time I got into Coldplay as well.. but it was those 5 that really prepped me for what I listen to now.

quigleybc

Jul 11, 2006, 07:44 PM

How exactly does an album change your life?

If you have to ask, then you probably wouldn't get it anyway....

Jovian9

Jul 11, 2006, 11:59 PM

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Kid A
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Low - Secret Name

Gorydays

Jul 12, 2006, 10:02 PM

1. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Need I say anything else? This album changed my views on Hip Hop.

2. Sabac Red - Sabacolypse
After you listen to this album you won't be the same. With Necro on production, you know the beats are going to be top notch, but Sabac is sick on this album, rapping about everything from stopping corrupt police to organizing to AIDs. He is revolutionary, nobody is doing what he is doing. An album that will open your eyes.

3. Necro - I Need Drugs
If I had never listened to Your F***in' Head Split, I would have never gotten into the best form of Hip Hop, Death Rap.

4. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design
Classic, every song on here is five star. Vinnie Paz rips **** up, and Stoupe is a genius. Another album that got me into Hip Hop.

5. Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2
Great politcal album with great beats. Better than Vol. 1 as a whole album. Another album that will open your eyes on the government and racism.

ahunter3

Jul 12, 2006, 11:21 PM

1) Pink Floyd • Dark Side of the Moon

2) Leopold Stokowski, the 1964 Phase 4 Stereo recording, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, London Symphony Orchestra

3) Yes • Fragile

4) George Winston •*December

5) Michael Hurley, homemade cassette compilation from a friend, encompassing songs from Blue Navigator, Hi Fi Snock Uptown, Long Journey, Have Moicy!, and Snockgrass.

Felldownthewell

Jul 12, 2006, 11:41 PM

Interestingly enough, my life changing albums have changed since this waas first posted. So here is the first of probably many edits:

This is NOT in order because I can't decide. Seriously, I've sat here for 10 minutes trying to decide an order and I can't. Anyway, here it is:

Punk-O-Rama 5 and 7 (they have to count as one. Please!)

Nevermind, Nirvana

Californication, RHCP

The Battle of Los Angeles, RATM (Replacing The Dungeon Master's Guide, by DieselBoy)

Oh Inverted World, The Shins (Replacing I am the Movie by MCS)

nimrodsson

Jul 22, 2006, 11:29 PM

1) GREEN DAY - NIMROD
This album was completely different to what i had ever heard before. Redundant being my favourite track. It contains great lyrics to great melodies the whole album is spectacular. It sort of reminds me of early beatles stuff like nowhere man mixed with buzzcocks

2) THE LIVING END - ROLL ON
Once again, like nothing i'd ever heard before. This album is spectacular. The upright bass is so fitting with the style of the album. The whole feel is spectacular. The first album I actually owned. It was a gift one christmas from my parents.

3) WEEZER - PINKERTON
The first album i bought with my own money. it still has the great melodies like from the first album but its more edgy and it has more a feel. you feel fore rivers. although i would have loved to have seen songs from the black hole. this album is the best weezer album, i love it.

4) PIXIES - DOOLITTLE
The first Pixies album i bought, my brother bought Surfa Rosa the same day and then I bought Bossonova the next day. Doolittle is great. I had nothing like it before. It was screams but great melodies and quite verses loud choruses. the way they could have like such a calm tune like wave of mutalation and sing about it then scream. and frank blacks lyrics are great i have heard nothing like it before.

5) ASH - FREE ALL ANGELS
I don't know what it is about this album but its so great i remember just listening to it and just thinking it was so great it would lift me up. I would spend hours singing along and wasting all my energy to this album.

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Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Green Day - Dookie
The Libertines - The Libertines
Pixies - Bossonova
Weezer - Blue Album
The Living End - Modern ARTillery
Ash - Intergalactic Sonic 7's

d wade

Jul 30, 2006, 07:43 PM

incubus - make yourself

elcerrito494

Jul 31, 2006, 01:19 PM

The albums that changed my life. And boy did they change it!

1. KISS Symphony (Alive IV)
Ahh, the first taste of KISS. I was hooked from then on. About two years ago I downloaded a few tracks from the album offa iTunes, then I downloaded all of their albums lol. KISS with a symphony is CLASSIC, much like metallica and Collective Soul did. I'm a fan for symphony concerts!!! But no really, KISS is and always will be the best band. YOU WANTED THE BEST, YOU GOT THE BEST! THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD, KISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

2. Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
My brother got this album before I was born, and even though it's too scratched to play, I still have it. Wow. People hated Metallica for this album, I love them for it. I think speed metal is a buncha trash. But this on the other hand, this is awesome. It has 80s metal mized in with a little bit of Metallica's own unique style. Amazing.

3. RHCP - Califnornication
My grandma bought me this at Costco when I asked. (When I was 7 :D ) Little did I know, it had mofo quite a few times on the CD. haha. I remember sitting on the couch and saying "LOOK DAD! IT ONLY SaYS THAT WORD 11 TIMES IN THE WHOLE ALBUM!!!" Later, they explained, awkwardly, what it meant. I didn't care if they took it away from me. I found it on top of the fridge and that started my RHCP frenzy! lol

4. Motley Crue - Red, White and Crue
Man, what can I say to a Motley Crue album. I'm so glad tht they came out with this compilation because I never would've listened to them otherwise.I hated 80s hair metal. HATED it. But then Motley Crue re-came out and I was hooked. Bought a few tracks offa iTunes, then downloaded their whole collection. lol I love em. And now I love 80s hair metal. My favorite genre by far!

The biggest life changer though is this one... WOW....

5. Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
If you guys believe me, I remember wathing this on TV when I was 2. 1994. When it first came out lol. I remember my dad coming and getting me out of my crib and taking me into the living room to watch this. I was hooked. The eagles have rocked my world for 12 years now, and man do they rock! I sae 'em in concert. and while their stage show isn't NEEEEARLY what a KISS show is, they are and always will be my biggest influence. *tear...*

There ya have it! Will Smith's life! (That actually is my name - grandpas name was Bill, they named me after him)

BurtonCCC

Jul 31, 2006, 02:08 PM

The Format "Dog Problems"
The Academy Is... "Almost Here"
Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlanticism"
Bright Eyes "Lifted"
Wilco "Kicking Television: Live In Chicago"

I've probably forgotten many.

Daniel.

Capt Underpants

Jul 31, 2006, 02:23 PM

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The album that made me want to start listening to music. Up until then, I hadn't been exposed to music I could relate to. It was the perfect album for that time in my life.

Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
Why was this album so influential? It led me to more of Elliott Smith's stuff. I now have every full length CD and a lot of hisi B-sides. Every song is amazing... this guy is a major contributor to me picking up guitar, and "Twilight" is the first song I ever learned all the way through on the guitar.

Damien Rice - O
Amazing CD... gets me through bad days (along with Elliott). Cheers' Darlin' hit close to home when I first heard it... still does

Those are the three major ones right now... really the only ones that deserve to be on the life-changing list. I'm still young and impressionable, though, so this list is bound to change.

gonyr

Jul 31, 2006, 03:22 PM

in random order...

1. Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
3. Neil Young - Unplugged
4. Roger Waters - Amused to Death
5. The Doors - Best of

bobscliff

Aug 5, 2006, 01:41 AM

In no particular order,

1) The Doors by The Doors: Introduced me to classic rock in general. all just because i wanted to hear that one song i recognized from Apocalypse Now, "The End"

2) Gladiator OST: Actually my first cd. Before that I didnt really listen to music. Also introduced me to the great Hans Zimmer.

3) Substance by New Order: got me into 80s music which I'd mostly ignored before.

4) Piano Concertos by Rachmaninov: spurred my interest in classical music in general

5) War by U2: a great album that made me fall in love with U2

TourBusLive

Aug 8, 2006, 01:42 PM

The Doors by The Doors

Did it for me, too. Not sure what album it was but, Riders on the Storm hooked me in.

TourBusLive

Aug 8, 2006, 01:51 PM

5)This is the album that eventually lead me to Nirvana via "Smells like Nirvana". Laugh if you want, this guys a genius

Side note: I just met the, not so Weird Al, last weekend. What a great photo opp that was. Nice guy, too.

Piarco

Aug 9, 2006, 05:55 AM

In no order:

1) The Beatles: Revolver. I grew with 3 main musical influences; Neil Diamond (Mum), the Classics & The Beatles (both thanks to my Dad). This album never ages for me, not only does it remind me of a simpler time in my life, but the songs sound as good as they did when I first heard them. Just a shame my kid brother wiped out my Dads entire original Beatles LP's by using them as fribees:mad:

2) Pearl Jam: 10. Brilliant for many reasons. Never liked Nirvana (!) and Pearl Jam were more accessible. Completely different to my music tastes back then, and many a time coming back from the pub singing "Alive" :D

3) Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation. I've traditionally always been about dance music, and have been a fan of the Prodigy since "Where Evil Lurks". This album took dance music in a completely different direction. Just brilliant.

4) Cream: Live. Not the Eric Clapton group, but a compliation album from Liverpools Superclub back in the haydays of 1994. Soundtrack to my first year at Uni. Still the album I whack on loud if I'm having a Big Night Out.

5) Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Sir Colin Davis. Musical perfection. I'm leaving it at that.

kristiano

Aug 14, 2006, 05:08 AM

1.) Nirvana- Nevermind
2.) The Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks...
3.) Avril Lavigne- Let Go
4.) John Lennon- Imagine
5.) Britney Spears- Oops!... I Did It Again (First album I got into, for good and for bad)

JackSYi

Aug 14, 2006, 06:02 AM

Sgt. Pepper
Kid A
Pet Sounds
Highway 61 Revisited
Imagine

MIDI_EVIL

Aug 14, 2006, 07:16 AM

In no particular order:

Aphex Twin: Drukqs

The most ecclectic offering from a pioneer in electronic music, Richard D. James. A beautiful two disc album, with ambient prepared piano, and moments of spine tingling genius as perfectly arranged electronic blips, bleeps and future sounds collide with intense drums and bass, creating a mathematical soundscape like nothing you've heard before.

Radiohead: OK Computer (Good to see so many votes for this)

A solemn and tradgic album that has always given me hope and filled me with spirit. Beautiful!

Biffy Clyro: The Vertigo Of Bliss

A little known trio from Scotland, a heartwarming and gutwrenching offering, full of modesty and passion!

Kyuss: Sky Valley (AKA 'Welcome To Sky Valley')

This is their middle album out of the 3 worth mentioning. ('Blues for the Red Sun', '...And the Circus Leaves Town') Thick, downtuned riffs and heavy drums carve their way through an intense physcadelic landscape, whilst a John Garcia leads you away with his hypnotic voice.

Death From Above 1979: You're A Woman. I'm A Machine.

Fast, hard, dirty rock and roll. Two guys, bass and drums/vox, beating their instruments into oblivion, with disco beats and stoner riffs.

Rich.

netdog

Aug 14, 2006, 07:34 AM

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mkjj

Aug 14, 2006, 08:07 AM

No order:

Slade – Slayed
Never Mind – Pistols
2nd Honeymoon – Deaf School
Hotel California – Eagles
Live & Dangerous – Thin Lizzy

Sharewaredemon

Aug 14, 2006, 08:16 AM

Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Get Up Kids - On A Wire
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Tie between the Sea and Cake - One Bedroom and Pinback's first two cds.

Although I have both of those B&S cds there I would say that I like If You're Feeling Sinister more than DCW but DCW did "change" my life a lot.

mulletman13

Sep 9, 2006, 11:35 PM

No particular order:

Bright Eyes -- Fevers and Mirrors
This album got me into Bright Eyes and the world of Conor Oberst. Even though people label it as "emo" and whatnot, I don't care. It's great music, great lyrics and it really enhances whatever mood I am in.

Elliott Smith - Self Titled
Again, like above this introduced me to Elliott Smith. I absolutely love his sound, lyrics and can calm down from whatever is stressing me out by playing this album.

Weezer - Blue Album
Not my favorite Weezer CD, but it got me into the band. Helped me get through my teen years, established my style, attitude and whatnot. Also lead me to get introduced into other good music.

Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
I appreciate this CD because it is essentially raw emotion, and reminds me of my first true 'love', before everything ended up blowing up a year later. Listening to any DC really brings back terrible memories, and will have a huge effect on me.

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Toss up between GIve Up, Plans and this CD. Ultimately this CD is a great disc to just listen to while walking around and admiring everything. I love how this makes me feel, and it is very upbeat.

If you guys don't agree with my musical choices, or think that the music is simply bad, please don't flame. Thanks for hearing me out :)

vectormasked

Sep 10, 2006, 12:13 AM

calculus

Sep 11, 2006, 11:22 AM

Electric Warrior by T.Rex - First album I ever bought.

Transformer by Lou Reed - After buying this I discovered that he used to be in The Velvet Underground who since then have been my all time favourites.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Opened me up to the possibilities of all kinds of diiferent music.

The Ramones - Imagine you had been listening to Yes, ELP etc. and this came along. This one changed my life forever!

A Love Supreme by John Coltrane - start of another habit!

nukiduz

Sep 11, 2006, 12:47 PM

in no particular order:

the cure - disintegration

nine inch nails - the downward spiral

joy division - permanent

depeche mode - violator

radiohead - kid a

FattyMembrane

Sep 13, 2006, 01:23 PM

no particular order...

1. Julian Bream - Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar
2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3. Beck - Mellow Gold
4. Apollo 100 - Joy!
5. The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication

honorable mention goes to Boards of Canada's "Music has the right to children" and Ennio Moricione's soundtrack to "The good, the bad, and the ugly".

HecubusPro

Sep 13, 2006, 07:03 PM

No particular order...

1. Philip Glass - Powaqqatsi
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Star Wars OST - John Williams
4. Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
5. Pixies - Doolittle

Silencio

Sep 14, 2006, 09:29 PM

Albums that changed my musical direction or otherwise broadened my horizons in life, in order of their discovery by me:

Rush, Signals
New Order, Brotherhood
Steel Pole Bath Tub, Tulip
Tortoise, s/t
Belle & Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister

The honorable mentions list would be very long indeed, but I think the first four best encapsulate the sea changes in my musical tastes over that time period. My tastes are so eclectic now, I find it hard to believe someone will come along and alter my consciousness like that again, but... who knows?

macmanmatty

Sep 17, 2006, 04:07 PM

My top 5 In no paticular order

Johnny Cash "American IV"

Mark Knopfler "Ragpickers Dream"

Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson "Pancho and Lefty"

Jimmy Buffet "Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes"

Richard Dobson "State of the Heart"

and the 2nd place 5 In no paticular order

Merle Haggard "Rainbow Stew Live"

Charlie McCoy "The Real Mccoy"

B.B King & Eric Clapton "Riding With the King"

Eagles "Desperado"

Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"

demajr

Sep 19, 2006, 01:57 AM

How exactly does an album change your life?

It is funny how people see music differently...;)

For me - It is almost as if my life has been defined by the records I have discovered or been listening to at any given time. Science may say that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory, but for me it is music. And after that grandiose introduction, my 5 :

The Beatles - 'Red' hits record - The 1st record I ever bought with my own money, and well what can you say about that collection? Covers so many bases.

The Doors - Absolutely Live - my first hint that rock could be subversive, ' Mom, I want to AHAGHAGHAGHA you!! Lizard King ? I was 10...

The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime - The record that made me realize that popularity has nothing to do with 'quality'.

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill - The soundtrack to my high school years. Nothing to do with music, just living. The 'Boys evolution since puts them on the list.

The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black - This record reminded me just how fun music can be. And for that, I will always love it. And Mick Collins.

This list is so abbreviated, personally I have about 40 or more records that I could name that had a HUGE influence me, but I tried to name 5 that made a change in my life. It has nothing to do with favorite bands, those are another list/thread.

demajr

spicyapple

Sep 19, 2006, 02:12 AM

Lara Fabian - Lara Fabian
George Michael - Amazing
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi
Keali'i Reichel - Melelana
Will to Power - Journey Home

zero2dash

Sep 19, 2006, 10:09 AM

(no particular order)

sorry I cheated with 6:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Kurt Cobain (in a weird and twisted way) was my idol growing up and someone I looked up to as a person who understood what it was like to be a teenager. I'm not afraid to say I cried when I found out he killed himself because I felt like I lost a brother.

Pearl Jam - Ten
Two reasons: Black and Jeremy. Couldn't have written how I felt about life and my problems any better than in those two songs.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest musician that will ever live. His talent is just unbelievable. Way ahead of his time, and he left the world way too soon.

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
One of the best albums of the 90s...musically, just brilliant. (Evil Empire was as well.)

Linkin Park - Meteora
Hybrid Theory was great - Meteora blew the doors off. Phenominal

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Got me into indie music. I listen to Modest Mouse probably the most now out of any band around. Every single one of their albums is excellent.

Other noteworthy exemptions:
The Doors - The Best Of The Doors
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Depeche Mode - Violator
Slipknot - Slipknot
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Beastie Boys - License To Ill
Beck - Mellow Gold
The Cure - Disintegration
Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone
Papa Roach - Infest
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Modest Mouse (every other album of theirs)
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

I've got too many others I could mention so I'm gonna cut it short now. :)

heyonian

Sep 19, 2006, 02:53 PM

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
This album has it all. Its got some rockin songs, some really mellow ones, and some long drawn out beautiful ones. 64 minutes of greatness. Recommended songs: "Lucky Denver Mint", "Goodbye Sky Harbor"

Weezer - Pinkerton
When I heard this album I was just starting to branch away from punk type music and when I heard all the different little layers on this CD, I fell in love with it. I still hear stuff in it I've never heard before. Its probably one of the most lyrically honest albums I have ever heard. Recommended songs: "Across the Sea", "El Scorcho"

The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
When I first started getting into mellower music that wasn't really punk oriented, I got really into this album. I miss these guys. I wish I could have gone to their last show. Recommended songs: "Overdue", "Walking on a Wire"

Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
This album salvaged my waning interest in punk rock. I got so sick of bands with political agendas and what not, and then I found these guys. I was so disappointed that they broke up long before I got into them, but they are back together and they've got an album coming out in the next few months.
Recommended songs: "Theme Song For a New Brunswick Basement Show", "25 Cent Giraffes"

Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
Oh man. This album got me through high school. My favorite ska/punk album ever. Recommended songs: "Lockdown", "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts"

Honorable Mentions:
the Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Troy Hutson - Of Women and Whiskey (local kid from Wichita KS)
The Clash - London Calling
Ozma - Rock and Roll Part 3

ecopod

Sep 19, 2006, 03:11 PM

No set order and liable to change without warning. Read through previous posts and saw some fine top fives/sixes/sevens.

Psychedelic Furs: Forever Now - Comming of age and all that, used to think I was so cool listening to that. Actually had it on at the weekend again.

The Jam: All Mod Cons - For my angry at everything stage.

The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow - For my angry at everything but with a flower in my pocket stage

REM: Green - I'm mellow but inquisitive now

Harmonica Slim: You Can't Kill a Pig - Guess I'm older now

Help there are about 47 others I could go with, I'm off to find some old CD's.

Cooknn

Sep 19, 2006, 04:07 PM

I wouldn't say they changed my life, but these 5 albums were a big part of my rock n' roll youth. In no particular order for me as well...

Queen - A Night at the Opera (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=27243429&id=27243381&s=143441)
What can you say? This album was one of the greatest. Freddie, Brian, Roger and John at their best. Saw them live a couple of times. Great rock show.

Yes - Yessongs (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=602643&id=602656&s=143441)
I actually got an 'A' in a college course titled "History of Rock and Roll" by writing a paper on Yes. Great band and superb live album. One of the best of all time, IMHO. Saw them twice. Once live and once 'in the round'. Rick Wakeman kicked ass on the keyboards.

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Salad_Surgery)
I used to blast this album. Karn Evil 9. Again, what can you say? Incredible. Never got to see these guys live, but my older sister did. I remember her laying on the couch the next day in pain and nearly deaf. Not sure if the pain was from the volume or the drugs that I'm sure were in abundance :p

Van Halen - Van Halen (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=6725452&id=6725322&s=143441)
The essence of rock and roll for me back in the day. Great show live. David Lee Roth getting airborne and Eddie knocking over stacks of speakers. This album is a classic for sure.

Boston - Boston (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=929999&id=544486&s=143441)
Brings back memories of my high school days playing air guitar :D Saw a great live show with Boston, Black Sabbath, Van Halen and Sammy Hagar at Aneheim stadium way back in '78.

nadyne

Sep 21, 2006, 01:06 AM

This one's a hard one ...

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (especially the title track)
Cowboy Junkies - Black-Eyed Man
Paul Kelly - ...nothing but a dream
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
R.E.M. - Out of Time (is there a more perfect song than 'Country Feedback?)

Special thanks has to go to the Until the End of the World soundtrack, but it just misses the mark.

/nm

evilgEEk

Sep 21, 2006, 01:35 AM

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
This is the only album that I can honestly say changed my life. I was about 15, and my mom came home with this album out of the blue. I had never heard them before but when I put it in my cd player I listened to it six times in a row. Whenever I've had a bad day or am at a creative roadblock I put on CTD and everything's better. :)

The only other album that has had an influence on me would have to be:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Unfortunately I didn't start listening to this until about four months before Kurt Cobain's death.

Other favorites:

Collective Soul
Foo Fighters
Nickelback
Creed
Live
Young Dubliners

gladiator

Sep 29, 2006, 11:25 PM

The Doors-Best of The Doors (got me into classic rock)
Talking Heads- 77
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Cream-Best of Cream
Meatloaf-Bat out of Hell

thugpoet22

Sep 30, 2006, 12:06 AM

The 5 albums that changed my life are,

1, Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 chambers - Wu Tang Clan
2, It was written - Nas
3, Reasonable Doubt - Jay Z
4, Ready to die - B.I.G
5, Be - Common

These albums are outstanding, im a hip hop head, if anybody is the same im sure they will enjoy the lyrics in these albums.

pdxflint

Oct 2, 2006, 08:07 AM

It would be impossible to pick 5, so I'll just start at the beginning:

Meet the Beatles
Sgt. Pepper - Beatles
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
Bird of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Toulouse Street - Doobie Brothers
Fragile - Yes
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Desperado - Eagles
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson
Reggata de Blanc - Police
Combat Rock - Clash
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Who's Next - The Who
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
Avalon - Roxy Music
Diamond Life - Sade
As Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Desire - Bob Dylan
Striking it Rich - Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Individual Choice - Jean-luc Ponty
Bill Nelson - Quit Dreaming
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Security - Peter Gabriel
Elegant Gypsy - Al DiMeola
Fumbling Through Ecstacy - Sarah Maclachlan
Joshua Tree - U2
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Nirvana - Unplugged

There were probably many other albums that significantly made an impact on my life, but definately the listed ones all had the effect of signposting various eras. The funny thing is, most of the music I listen to (over the last 5 years) has been individual tracks not albums...

kgarchar

Oct 5, 2006, 03:46 PM

this would be tough

explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place

fall of troy - doppelganger

appleseed cast - two conversations

gatsbys american dream

this is tough...

OwlsAndApples

Oct 6, 2006, 11:57 AM

Happiness in Magazines - Graham Coxon

OK Computer - Radiohead

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Is This It - The Strokes

Headhunters - Herbie Hancock

(6 how did this creep in?) Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Hard to choose...

vendettabass

Oct 7, 2006, 05:01 AM

velvet revolver - contraband
gnr - appetite
aerosmith - nine lives

fhsbando

Oct 8, 2006, 08:44 PM

George Winston - December
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bela Fleck - Tales From The Acoustic Planet

Like to learn more about my musical adventures? Visit the Good Music Adventure (http://goodmusicadventure.blogspot.com), my daily music blog.

LucasKinder

Oct 30, 2006, 11:22 AM

Radiohead - ok Computer
Mansun - Return of the Grey Lantern
Manic street Preachers - Everything must go
Moby - play
Verve - Urban Hymes

From depression to times of our lives someway somehow these albums have helped define and design my life from time to time!!

vi2867

Oct 30, 2006, 11:33 AM

Abbey Road - The Beatles
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Joshua Tree - U2
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
Songs About Jane - Maroon5

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 01:10 PM

Hmm---do I even want to try and answer this?

1 Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
2 The Doors - The Doors (1967)
3 John Frusciante - Niandra Lades & Usually Just A T-Shirt
4 Brian Eno - Music for Films
5 Neil Young - Harvest

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 01:17 PM

Thinking it over, I may have to trade out Harvest for Miles Davis' Bitches Brew for #5.

Bowie should be in there somewhere too. And Electric Ladyland. Hard question, like choosing your fave band or album of all time.

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 01:22 PM

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Kid A
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Low - Secret Name

Low is just a great group. Trust and Things We Lost In The Fire I love by them too.

It's astonishing how much ppl. cite OK Computer as the album that changed their life---hard to believe just how big that album was/is---pretty much a phenomenon. I guess if I was being honest it definitely changed my musical outlook too..

BoyBach

Oct 30, 2006, 01:24 PM

It's astonishing how much ppl. cite OK Computer as the album that changed their life---hard to believe just how big that album was/is---pretty much a phenomenon. I guess if I was being honest it definitely changed my musical outlook too..

It's not as good as 'The Bends' though.

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 01:27 PM

In no particular order,

1) The Doors by The Doors: Introduced me to classic rock in general. all just because i wanted to hear that one song i recognized from Apocalypse Now, "The End"

Led to many great things for me too, that self-titled debut.

I remember that on the soundtrack to the Oliver Stone biopic about the Doors, there was this weird song called "Heroin" by this band called The Velvet Underground; that led to a whole other obsession for me over them and Lou Reed.

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 01:33 PM

It's not as good as 'The Bends' though.

Whew--do you really start this conversation?

Great songs on The Bends:

The Bends
Fake Plastic Trees
Nice Dream
Just
My Iron Lung
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Great songs on OK Computer

Paranoid Android
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Exit Music
Karma Police
No Surprises
Lucky

Damn, I guess it's really close. I lean a little more toward OK, I know lots of ppl. love The Bends.

BoyBach

Oct 30, 2006, 01:56 PM

Whew--do you really start this conversation?

...

Damn, I guess it's really close. I lean a little more toward OK, I know lots of ppl. love The Bends.

Yes, 'OK Computer' is a good album, bit it didn't have the same affect on me as when I first heard 'The Bends.'

Going by the title of this thread, back in 1995 'The Bends' was the right album at the time. In my 'formative' teenage years, and before Radiohead became indie superstars, they were my own little 'musical secret' whilst everyone else at school was into Nirvana and Oasis. And we all know that when you're young you don't want anyone else listening to 'your' music!

lmalave

Oct 30, 2006, 01:58 PM

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (Importance: perfect teen angst album. Don't listen to it much now, but got me through my college years)

Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (O.K., I know this is a Greatest Hits album, but I don't think I'm alone in discovering Madonna at a later age through this album) (importance: moved away from grunge and towards dance music in my post-collegiate days)

New Order - Substance (O.K., only 2 new songs on this album, but see same rationale as above) (importance: perfect mix of pop and lovesick teen angst, listened to it regularly from high school through my young adulthood)

Guns 'n Roses: Appetite for Destruction (Heavy metal with a punk attitude. It's easy to forget now how dramatically this album was a departure from the relatively soulless Motley Crue/Poison/Def Leppard heavy metal that came before it)

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (importance: this is when I really started listening to hip-hop. I miss intelligent hip-hop like De La Soul and Public Enemy)

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 02:09 PM

(6 how did this creep in?) Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Hard to choose...

One of those watershed debut albums that is so rare these days..
http://i14.tinypic.com/2eykp51.jpg

Here's another classic that really opened up my mind..
http://i14.tinypic.com/2d8f4gm.jpg

lmalave

Oct 30, 2006, 02:12 PM

Yes, 'OK Computer' is a good album, bit it didn't have the same affect on me as when I first heard 'The Bends.'

Going by the title of this thread, back in 1995 'The Bends' was the right album at the time. In my 'formative' teenage years, and before Radiohead became indie superstars, they were my own little 'musical secret' whilst everyone else at school was into Nirvana and Oasis. And we all know that when you're young you don't want anyone else listening to 'your' music!

But then again, OK Computer captured kind a global end-of-millenium angst that transcended a particular age. For example, I was in my early 20's and already working when OK Computer came out - and I thought THAT was the right album at the right time. Not that there's ANY comparison musically, but I would put Zooropa by U2 in the same "perfect millenial angst" category.

P.S. I don't think Radiohead was exactly a "secret" before OK Computer. I mean, "Creep" was HUUUUUUUUGE hit on MTV which is as mainstream as you can get...

A-Dog

Oct 30, 2006, 02:14 PM

But then again, OK Computer captured kind a global end-of-millenium angst that transcended a particular age. For example, I was in my early 20's and already working when OK Computer came out - and I thought THAT was the right album at the right time. Not that there's ANY comparison musically, but I would put Zooropa by U2 in the same "perfect millenial angst" category.

P.S. I don't think Radiohead was exactly a "secret" before OK Computer. I mean, "Creep" was HUUUUUUUUGE hit on MTV which is as mainstream as you can get...

Of course everyone expected them to disappear after that song, one-hit wonder style; which is why The Bends and OK were such a surprise.

BoyBach

Oct 30, 2006, 02:15 PM

P.S. I don't think Radiohead was exactly a "secret" before OK Computer. I mean, "Creep" was HUUUUUUUUGE hit on MTV which is as mainstream as you can get...

They were a secret in my school! ;)

lmalave

Oct 30, 2006, 02:27 PM

Of course everyone expected them to disappear after that song, one-hit wonder style; which is why The Bends and OK were such a surprise.

"Fake Plastic Trees" was on the soundtrack to "Clueless" though, so Radiohead wasn't completely off the radar :) But I agree, it was really OK computer when they exploded into the mainstream consciousness. It's interesting how this has happened to a fair number of "alternative" bands in the last couple of decades: they have one or two notable hits, and then they go supernova:

R.E.M.: "The One I Love" went Top 10,then their next album went supernova
Depeche Mode: "Strangelove" went Top 40, then their next album went supernova
Metallica: "One" went top 40, then their next album went supernova (o.k. I know Metallica isn't the standard "alternative" band, but believe me, they were definitely *not* mainstream before)
The Cure: "Just Like Heaven" was top 40, then their next album went supernova

Oh, this reminds me of 2 albums I overlooked in my Top 5:

Depeche Mode - Violator
The Cure - Disintegration

Wow, yeah, those 2 were HUGE in my college years

Nermal

Nov 2, 2006, 01:27 AM

4.) Nightwish - Once
Got me into liking that style of music as well.

Once was the first of theirs that I heard, but I now like Century Child much better (as you may have guessed from my avatar) :D

GrannySmith_G5

Nov 2, 2006, 01:54 AM

Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Minutemen - Double nickels on the dime
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Cybix

Nov 2, 2006, 02:02 AM

Nirvana - Nevermind
Faith No More - The Real Thing
RHCP - blood sugar sex magic
Chicane - Far from the maddening crowds
Stereo MC's - Connected

Killyp

Nov 2, 2006, 05:31 AM

1. Counting Crows - This Desert Life
http://www.zero.co.nz/music/images/Counting%20Crows%20-%20This%20Desert%20Life.jpg

The best week of my life ever was the time I spent at Kilve Court, a residential centre in Kilve, near Bridgwater earlier this year. I went there on a music course and met my best friends while I was there. On the way there, I listened to this album, while I was there, I listened to this album a number of times through, and on the way back, I listened to it again. The mood this album puts me in always takes me back to the time I spent there, which is why, if I had to choose one album from my CD collection, it would be this one. As of yet, I haven't heard an album which has the same kind of climax as this one. Dark Side of the Moon is great, but still doesn't come close to this one IMHO. Every track off this album is absolutely fantastic, not a single song that I don't like to listen to, but what's also great is how it gels as an album.

The first song I heard off this album was 'colorblind', which is still one of my all time favourite songs.

2. Counting Crows - August & Everything After
http://www.zero.co.nz/music/images/Counting%20Crows%20-%20August%20and%20Everything%20After.jpg

Counting Crows fans will say this album is better than This Desert Life, but I prefer the other. Still a great album. 'Mr Jones' is a classic, and possibly my favourite from this album. Technically, a great recording, but IMO not as good as This Desert Life. One of the things they got perfect on This Desert Life was a capturing the performance of the musicians perfectly on a recording medium.

3. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007FOMP.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

The greatest soul album ever? I would say so. The story behind it, how Motown nearly didn't release it, until they released the single of the first track, which went straight to number one. The emotion and feeling in Gaye's voice is incredible, and the arrangements and quality of the songs is amazing. Fantastic lyrics as well.

4. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
http://static.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2024754.jpg

The first song I heard off this album is a legend of a song, 'Iris'. They write fantastic songs, of which there are a lot of on this album. 'Black Balloon' and 'Slide' are also fantastic songs.

5. Van Morrison - Enlightenment
http://www.christoftrepczyk.de/bilder/mor20.jpg

Again, this album always takes me back to the time I spent at the music course at Kilve. 'In The Days Before Rock N Roll' is one of my all time favourite songs, and again, this album works fantastically as a whole album. One of the best recordings made IMO, and really well constructed and performed songs.

So there you have it, my top 5 albums which changed my life, if you could put it that way...

Nym

Nov 24, 2006, 09:51 AM

Rage Against The Machine (self titled) - I was 12 Years old when I heard them for the first time, completely blew my mind off, lyrics, instruments, everything, brutal and real.

Portishead (Both Albums) - No words for these guys, fantastic composers, too bad they stopped after the second album.

Tool (Aenema) - Tool is fantastic, it's hard to get it, but once you do, you can't ever go back :)

Lamb Of God (Ashes Of The Wake) - Best metal album I've heard in a while, completely "out of the box" riffs and drum playing, excelent musicians.

Pink Floyd (The Wall) - This album really influenced me when I was a teenager and really is a journey to listen to it.

a lot of different music genres I know, I'm an open minded person :)
nice thread BTW, I always wondered what Mac users listened to :D

pink-pony115

Nov 26, 2006, 04:59 AM

*scrolls through iTunes*

(What's the Story? Morning Glory?- Oasis
Back to Bedlam-James Blunt
X&Y- Coldplay
Late Registration- Kanye West
Hopes and Fears- Keane

Carguy172

Nov 26, 2006, 08:57 AM

Mine are

1.Queen-Classic Queen
2.Queen-Queen's Greatest hits
3.Survivor-Ultimate Survivor
4.Styx-Come Sail away
5.Bon Jovi-cross roads

Sean.Perrin

Dec 6, 2006, 07:18 PM

This list changes all the time... but the first two always remain the same.

1) Radiohead - Kid A
2) Univeristy Of Calgary Wind Ensemble - Gardens Of Dreams
3) Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
4) Liars - Drum's Not Dead
5) Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die

donidonuts

Dec 6, 2006, 11:04 PM

city and colour - helped after 4+ year break up
any weezer CD cause they always find a way to get me smiling
old oasis albums cause they always bring out the natural born singer in me :D

xsam22

Dec 7, 2006, 06:03 AM

1. Prince & the Revolution: Purple Rain - This CD had all the angst, alienation and separation I was feeling from my family inside it's songs. Especially "When Doves Cry," of course. It helped forge who I was to become as an individual growing up as a teenager in the 80's. It had a phenomenal impact on my life. This was the single most important CD in my life.

PreacherKane

Dec 9, 2006, 09:15 AM

This was easy and hard at the same time. I like certain songs on certain albums but not the whole album. These 5 albums changed my perception of life and how I think about music in general.

1) Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
2) Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
3) Zero 7 - When it Falls
4) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
5) Daft Punk - DISCOVERY

Mitthrawnuruodo

Dec 9, 2006, 02:10 PM

1) Marillion - Misplaced ChildhoodThat is an awesome album... one of my all time favourites... :)

wmmk

Dec 9, 2006, 04:44 PM

The Joshua Tree- U2
Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
The Yes Album-Yes
In the Hall of the Crimson King-King Crimson
One O'Clock Jump-Count Basie

Buschmaster

Dec 9, 2006, 04:46 PM

The State by Nickelback is the only one that really "changed" my life to the degree it did. It made me interested in Nickelback enough to get their next CD and go to a concert. At the concert they blew me away and I now run the Official Nickelback Forum.

As far as others, Metallica's black album really pushed me to become a lot better at guitar.

Queen's Greatest Hits album made me really want to be able to sing

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits taught me it was okay if I wasn't able to.

Rojo

Dec 9, 2006, 04:56 PM

OK, I tried to take the question seriously and not just pick my favorite albums (it’s hard to resist that urge), but instead pick the ones that actually, literally, CHANGED my life in some way. Here goes:

THE BEATLES – ‘SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND’
Even as a wee lad, I was really into music – but all I had to listen to was my parents’ vinyl records. My mother had a fondness for Neil Diamond, but even then he was a bit too cheesey for me. Simon & Garfunkel were favorites of theirs too, but while their music was pleasant, it was just too “soft” for my tastes. They had a bunch of other albums from other artists that I don’t even remember, they were so bad. But ‘SGT. PEPPER’S was the only thing that stood out for me, as it felt the most modern and progressive. In a way, I think it was the most influential album for me, as I’ve been a fanatic of British bands ever since. (see #2-4). If it hadn’t been in my house, my life would have taken a much different turn, and I’d probably be listening to the cheesey Top 40 stuff that my friends were listening to at the time. Interestingly, I haven't really listened to the Beatles much in over 20 years until just this past month and the 'LOVE' album.
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – ‘OCEAN RAIN’
This album made me gay. Ok, let me explain. There’s nothing remotely gay about the band or this album’s music – but it was a favorite of my best friend’s older brother, and I was obsessed with him, and didn’t know why. They were also another band from Liverpool, and that intrigued me. I listened to this album religiously in order to get some sort of clue about my obsession, but it was my other best friend, a girl, who figured it out for me: she deduced I was gay, and forced me to come out to her at 14. It was another five years (see #5) until most of the other people in my life knew this, but it certainly made the next few years of my life quite… interesting.
So ok, it didn’t make me gay (I was born that way, of course!), but OCEAN RAIN was certainly the first step in me becoming comfortable with my sexuality.
TEARS FOR FEARS – ‘THE HURTING’
The two best friends mentioned above died within ten days of each other, the second death being a suicide – all when I was still only 14. Immediately after, my family and I moved out of NYC and back to a place I never wanted to be again: Los Angeles. Needless to say, I was pretty depressed. ‘THE HURTING,’ an album that I discovered after ‘SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR’ became huge, was the only thing that stopped, well… the hurting. This album didn’t just change my life, it saved it.
THE SMITHS – ‘STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME’
The first Smiths album I actually bought myself turned out to be their last, and I listened to it over and over until the tape cassette (remember those?) literally fell apart. This resulted in my life-long love for Morrissey, and was probably the next biggest influence (after ‘SGT. PEPPER’S) on shaping my musical choices for pretty much the next two decades. Wow, has it really been that long? When you ask me a “Stranded on a desert island” type of question, the music I would always take with me is Morrissey’s. He instantly became #1 for me, and has been so ever since.
R.E.M. – ‘OUT OF TIME’
I was already an R.E.M. fan for years when this came out, but this album truly brought me comfort during a nine-month period in a rehabilitation center after a spinal cord injury at the age of 19. It kept me upbeat not only then, but from that point onward. My doctor told me I’d never walk again, but I was determined to prove him wrong, and I did. I learned to never give up during this time, and I also came out to the rest of my friends and family by then. I knew that “Losing My Religion” wasn’t about religion, but rather being at the end of one’s rope – which I felt I was. “Half a World Away” reminded me of the miracle of life, while making me long to go back to my birthplace of New York. I made it my mission to return there, and eventually I did just a few years later. And “Shiny Happy People” – laugh all you want – really made an impact on me, allowing me to never lose hope.

While all these are great, of the above list, only ‘STRANGEWAYS’ makes my top five favorite albums of all time.

letsgorangers

Dec 20, 2006, 10:47 AM

no particular order

1. mineral - endserenading
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000009QUG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
track suggestions: for ivadell, gjs, a letter

2. american nightmare - background music
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JD7B.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
track suggestions: there's a black hole in the shadow of the pru, am/pm, hearts, farewell

3. denison witmer - philadephia songs
http://www.sweetjanemusic.com/covers/denisonwphiladelphiasongs.jpg
track suggestions: chestnut hill, remember the things you have seen, stations

4. old 97's - satellite rides
http://www.aversion.com/bands/old97s/images/rev455.gif
track suggestions: designs on you, buick city complex, weightless

theblotted

Dec 21, 2006, 04:32 AM

Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Behind the Sun - Chicane
Junta - Phish
DSOTM - Pink Floyd
Castle in the Sky - Original Sound Track

g6120

Dec 23, 2006, 07:09 PM

Oh man, there are so many good ones posted here....for me I am very Neil Young centric and his music was central to us as teenagers growing up so my top 5 will have mostly Neil in it.

Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

Neil Young - On The Beach

Neil Young - Living With War

Beatles - Seargent Pepper

Pixies - Doolittle

Don't get me wrong. I like and own and play on guitar a wide variety of music. It's just that Neil is the one who inspired me and my friends to pick up a guitar and start playing.

Cassie

Dec 29, 2006, 09:33 PM

Back in Black-AC/DC- I first discoverd 80's Rock. :)
1984-Van Halen
Highway to Hell- AC/DC
Pyromania-Def Leppard
Greatest Hits- Tim McGraw

billypilgrim

Jan 11, 2007, 11:17 PM

Amnesiac by Radiohead (best album...really)

OK Computer by Radiohead (but everybody says that)

Dookie by Green Day (it showed me the true meaning of life)

Travelling Without Moving by Jamiroquai

ELO's Greatest Hits by (duh)ELO (they're like an early radiohead)

DMBGuru

Jan 13, 2007, 02:42 AM

Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Matisyahu - Shake Off The Dust... Arise

siurpeeman

Jan 13, 2007, 03:36 AM

no doubt - tragic kingdom
oasis - (what's the story) morning glory
save ferris - it means everything
weezer - pinkerton
u2 - joshua tree

OK Computer by Radiohead (but everybody says that)

i like that album, but i love the bends.

DMBGuru

Jan 13, 2007, 03:41 AM

i like that album, but i love the bends.

I gotta agree with you, it was a hard choice for me to decide between OK and The Bends.

The Bends is definitely my favorite Radiohead album, but I had to choose which one changed my life more (as per the topic of the thread). Most definitely OK changed my life and turned me on to a whole new world of progressive music and actually completely influenced the type of music I perform and write nowadays. The Bends may be a better album (I mean common, Just is one of those classics..), but OK is definitely more influential for most Radiohead listeners that have been "turned on" to them by friends. It's much more accessible.

SMM

Jan 13, 2007, 03:56 AM

1) Sgt Pepper
2) Darkside of the Moon
3) East-West
4) Who's Next
5) Chicago Transit Authority

After G

Jan 13, 2007, 04:05 AM

umm let's see...not in any particular order ... and with no reasoning whatsoever :D

With the Beatles
The Sign - Ace of Base
Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers
Ian Van Dahl - Ace
S.H.E. Forever

DMBGuru

Jan 13, 2007, 04:07 AM

umm let's see...not in any particular order ... and with no reasoning whatsoever :D

With the Beatles
The Sign - Ace of Base
Vienna Teng - Warm Strangers
Ian Van Dahl - Ace
S.H.E. Forever

With The Beatles, eh? I always find it interesting when people like their really early stuff - I personally love their older stuff, when they got more experimental. For some reason I just don't quite like when the Beatles sing "Roll Over Beethoven.." I'd much rather hear "I Am The Walrus."

Seems to be their own material, not them trying to do songs like their influences (Elvis, etc).

Bluefusion

Mar 29, 2007, 10:29 AM

Albums that changed my life? ALBUMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE? I don't buy music that doesn't. :)

1. Tool - "Lateralus" - there are no words.
2. Delerium - "Karma" - turned out to dramatically shape the direction of my own music for years to come
3. Steve Reich - "Music for Eighteen Musicians" - the Seventh movement is the most profoundly moving piece of music ever written (imo)
4. Shpongle - "Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost" - what a head trip... there's still nothing else remotely like it. It's like dropping acid without the acid.
5. Massive Attack - "Mezzanine" - the soundtrack of my most turbulent years ('gravity zeroes, see me stall / I bounce off walls, lose my footing and fall; / I can be sweet, so / incomplete though.')

ObsidianIce

Mar 29, 2007, 12:14 PM

No particular order

Wu-tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang
Dave Matthews Band Under the Table and Dreaming
Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels And Paths Of Rhythm
Tony Rich Project Words
Sigur Ros ()

there are still so many others, picking just 5 is hard:o

1GANDALF

May 13, 2007, 12:09 AM

Creed, human clay
Eagles, hell freezez over
Journey,greatest hits
boston, greatests hits
REO speed wagon, ballads :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) o yea
feel good music
anything about love and any classic rock

Kashchei

May 13, 2007, 12:22 AM

Oingo Boingo - "Only a Lad"
Chicago - "Chicago IX"
John Coltrane - "The Gentle Side of John Coltrane"
Bill Evans - "Live at the Village Vanguard"
Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"

nickster9224

May 13, 2007, 12:29 AM

well i cant pick albums so i'll do 5 artists/bands that changed my life.

Jim Morrison- such a great artist, but left wayy to early

Jimi Hendrix- inspiration to me on the guitar, yet again taken too early

The Who- inspires me to be creative

Tom Petty- what started me into my "Classic Rock" phase

Nirvana/Kurt Cobain- awesome music, gets what you go through being a teen. i have the nirvana With The Lights Out boxed set, a good pickup if you can find it.

nnick

May 14, 2007, 04:42 PM

The Police - Synchronicity
The Clash - Combat Rock
Van Halen - 1984
Black Flag - Everything Went Black
The Cult - Love

These Are the albums that made me a music nut forever!

killmoms

May 14, 2007, 04:45 PM

Beethoven's 6th Symphony — what started my love affair with classical music as a small child (to the exclusion of basically everything else)

Savage Garden's self titled — got me listening to modern music.

Orgy - Candyass — got me listening to hard rock.

The Arcade Fire - Funeral — solidified my interest in indie rock.

Sigur Rós - ( ) — the album that got me into post-rock.

Sequencial1

Jun 1, 2007, 12:39 PM

This isn't in any particular order:

Eberg - Voff Voff
Eberg - Plastic Lions
Kaki King - ... Until We Felt Red
ATB - No Silence
Blind Melon - Blind Melon

rockosmodurnlif

Jun 1, 2007, 10:26 PM

How exactly does an album change your life?

If you have to ask, then you probably wouldn't get it anyway....

Agree ... but I will try to explain. For me 'changed my life' means it got me into more and different music, hence more and different people. Here are my 5.

Green Day - Dookie
First CD I owned. Tre' made me want to play the drums and I met a lot of my friends in high school because we all wanted to start bands. I got one of my early friends into rock with this record and a friend who became a guitarist I played with learned to play by learning all the songs from this record.

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Growing up on punk rock and rock and Load-era Metallica, hearing this record turned me onto more 'progressive' forms of music. It also changed the way the band I was in at the time played because nearly all of us got into metal at the same time. I was Slayer (mainly because of Dave Lombardo), and our two guitarists each got into Megadeth and 'Old' Metallica respectively.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
If it wasn't for this album I'd still be listening to only punk rock and metal.

Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Took me out of my jazz phase as I started to branch out into other forms of music. Hip hop, R&B (obviously), Funk, Soul, Blues, Country, etc. Special mention to "If Your Girl Only Knew" which made me by the Aaliyah record even if that song wasn't on this album (which I didn't know at the time).

Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom
Opened my eyes to electronic music. And made me realize I had to start limiting myself to what I really liked as I only had a 40GB iPod at the time. Slashed and burned a lot of records I really wasn't listening to and helped me realize what kidn of music I really liked.

neildmitchell

Jun 2, 2007, 12:18 AM

In no particular order.

The Cure - The Walk
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Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
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My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus
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The Orb - Orbus Terrarum
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Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
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mgmktx

Jun 2, 2007, 01:21 AM

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Green Day - Dookie
Weezer - Blue/Pinkerton
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (and Butthole Surfers/Live PCPPEP)

teleromeo

Jun 2, 2007, 04:48 AM

not an album but a Live show :

Miles Davis - Jazzfest Berlin 1983
Die Neue Philharmonie is a incredible piece of modern architecture and the the show was a masterpiece, I was really impressed that jazz could be that good.

my Albums (random order and much more than 5):
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bams27

Jun 2, 2007, 06:20 AM

I can't just list 5! i'm kinda a music freak but here are 5 that come to mind that changed my life:

Cat Power - Moon Pix (I Love Her She's the Greatest!)
Incubus - Morning View (Can't Stop Listening)
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York (Perfect)
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (You Have to listen from the beginning up to the end)
No Doubt - Return of Saturn (Wow!)

Special Mention: these all changed my life

Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled (Damn!)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (By The Way) - (Great!)
Dido - No Angel (Emotions)
DMX - It's Dark & Hell is Hot (Brilliant)
Hole - Live Through This & Celebrity Skin (Grunge, Courtney at her best!)
LimpBizkit - Significant Other (sorry but i like it)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory - (same)
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (Techno Dominated Back then)
Chemical Brothers - Come with Us (Drug Album!haha)
Postal Service - Give Up (Nice!)
Sean Lennon - Into the Sun (Relaxing)
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (Nice Going Jack!)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Got Addicted 4 a while)
Bone Thugs N Harmony - E1999Eternal & Disc 1 of Art of War
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
N.E.R.D. - Both Albums!
Outkast - Aquemini
The Game - Both Albums!
Good Charlotte - The Young & The Hopeless
GoldFinger - Hangups
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped, Sonic Nurse

Soundtracks:
Elizabettown Soundtrack 1 & 2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
All Final Fantasy Music by Nobuo Uematsu

Dj BW

Jun 3, 2007, 03:23 PM

Doc Martin - "Unlock Your Mind"

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Terry Mullan - "Speaker Phreakers"

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Jason Blakemore - "Live @ JuJu Beats"

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Dj Dan - "Loose Caboose"

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Jason Blakemore - "Upstream ~ Downstream"

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kazpa

Jun 4, 2007, 03:17 AM

Outkast-southerplayalisticadillacmusik
Scarface-untouchable
Mosdef-any album
Devin the Dude-any album
Tupac-me against the world

Mord

Jun 4, 2007, 07:41 AM

Sketches of spain - miles davis
Rage against the machine - rage against the machine (It hit the spot when i first listened to it aged 16 with a massive chip on my shoulder)
Substance - Joy dvision
Dark side of the moon - pink floyd
While the establishment burns - bob dylan

psychofreak

Jun 4, 2007, 08:11 AM

I'm 16, and so I'm sure this will change in the course of my life A LOT, but here goes:

Elvis Presley - Elv1s 30 number 1 hits
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish?
Cat Stevens - The Very Best Of Cat Stevens
Johnny Cash - The Legend Lives On
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger

Not my favourite albums, but the ones that have changed me, and my music taste.

wyatt23

Jun 4, 2007, 08:20 AM

californication - red hot chili peppers

rock and roll: part III - ozma

rubber soul - the beatles

liquid swords - GZA

double plaidinum - lagwagon

neildmitchell

Jun 4, 2007, 10:56 AM

Thought this was an interesting topic, and thought I would expand on the idea and create a chronological list of albums through my life. A work in progress.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Scream (1978)
The B-52's - The B-52's (1979)
The B-52's - Wild Planet (1980)
Visage - Visage (1980)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Kaleidoscope (1980)
Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
Kraftwerk - Computer World (1981)
Soft Cell - Non-stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)
Visage - The Anvil (1982)
The Cure - The Walk (1983)
Ministry - With Sympathy (1983)
The Police - Synchronicity (1983)
Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex (1983)
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (1984)
Art of Noise - Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? (1984)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time (1986)
Sonic Youth - EVOL (1986)
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
Sonic Youth - Sister (1987)
Slayer - South of Heaven (1988)
The Curch - Starfish (1988)
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI (1988)
Front 242 - Front by Front (1988)
Delerium - Faces, Forms and Illusions (1988)
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus (1989)
Skinny Puppy - Rabies (1989)
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park (1990)
Sonic Youth - Goo (1990)
Depeche Mode - Violator (1990)
Deee Lite - World Clique (1990)
Orbital - Orbital (1991)
The KLF - The White Room (1991)
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Superstition (1991)
Lords of Acid - Lust (1991)
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (1991)
Sonic Youth Dirty (1992)
KMFDM - Money (1992)
Ministry - N.W.O (1992)
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant (1992)
Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen (1992)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - 13 Above the Night (1993)
The Cranes - Forever (1993)
Sheep on Drugs - Morotbike (1993)
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993)
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994)
Future Sounds of London - Accelerator (1994)
Deee Lite - Dewdrops in the Garden (1994)
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum (1995)
Moby - Everything is Wrong (1995)
Deep Forest - Boheme (1995)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…(1996)
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar (1996)
White Zombie - Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (1996)
Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure (1996)
Thievery Corporation - Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi (1997)
Roni Size - New Forms (1997)
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (1997)
Luke Vibert - Big Soup (1997)
Paul Oakenfold - Global Underground 007 (1998)
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions (1998)
Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll (1998)
John Digweed - Global Underground 014: Hong Kong (1999)
John Digweed - Bedrock (1999)
Thievery Corporation - DJ-Kicks: Thievery Corporation (1999)
Thievery Corporation - Abductions And Reconstructions (1999)
Sofa Surfers - Cargo (1999)
The Prodigy - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One (1999)
Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy (2000)
Paul Oakenfold - Perfecto Presents Another World (2000)
Deep Dish - Global Underground 021: Deep Dish, Moscow (2001)
Paul Oakenfold - A Voyage into Trance (2001)
Paul Oakenfold - Traveling (2001)
Sofa Surfers - Encounters (2002)
Maenad - Flowers for Solomon (2002)
NOFX - War on Errorism (2003)
DJ Spooky - Rhythm Science (2004)
James Holden - Balance 005 (2004
Paul Oakenfold - Creamfields (2004)
Ferry Corsten - Passport: Kingdom of the Netherlands (2005)
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood (2006)
Thievery Corporation - Versions (2006)

discodave

Jun 4, 2007, 11:32 AM

Sorry, the best I could do was narrow it down to 7. There are too many artists with too many albums to pick just 5 that have affected me in some way. These are in no particular order. I strongly suggest checking out all of them.

Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself -> A stunning follow up to her 1st solo album.

Keane - Under The Iron Sea -> Full of mixed emotions and written when the band was on the verge of a break-up, this album is just wow.

José González - Veneer -> Just Beautiful Music

Frou Frou - Details -> I don't know what to say about this one. I put it on very often and never get tired of it. The melodies coupled with Heap's vocals are just the perfect cocktail.

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister -> Their best ever album.

Rachael Yamagata - Happenstance -> Again, this album is just fantastic. Rachael has such an amazing voice. The album touches home on so many levels.

Sigur Rós - Takk... ->Their best 'uplifting' album, but it kills me to leave out some of their most older, most beautiful work from '( )' and 'Agaetis Byrjun'.

Sorry for going over five. I have slapped myself on the wrist.

nownot

Jun 4, 2007, 11:11 PM

lyfe- 283-192
paul wall and chamillionaire - get your mind correct
dr dre - 2001
r kelly - the collections disc 1
george straight - 50 number 1's

dotkraft

Jun 5, 2007, 11:24 AM

Well, "changed my life" would be inaccurate. I'd say Pearl Jam has had a huge impact on me. They're still my absolutely favourite rock band. :)

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pearl Jam - MTV Unplugged 1992
Pearl Jam - Binaural

And their live concerts, of course.

Qoxiivi

Jun 11, 2007, 07:36 PM

Blind Melon - Blind Melon

Blind Melon are such an underrated band.

In no particular order:

Ok Computer - Radiohead
The Bends - Radiohead
Blind Melon - Blind Melon
Grace - Jeff Buckley
American Pie - Don McLean

catmarigold

Jun 13, 2007, 01:09 AM

1. Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
2. School for the Dead - The New You
3. Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway
4. Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

kukuio

Jun 14, 2007, 01:08 AM

Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home--enough said
The Beach Boys- Endless Summer--summer time!!
Dave Matthews Band- Crash--every song is good on this album
Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie & Infinite Sadness--underrated
Bob Marley-Legend--best album to chill too

Just my opinion, but I do recommend to everyone.

killr_b

Jun 16, 2007, 05:58 PM

Slayer- Reign in Blood
Got it when I was 11. And now I'm here.

Marilyn Manson- Antichrist Svperstar
Took it to a whole new level of evil.

Slipknot- Iowa
Most hardcore album EVER.

In Flames- Come Clarity
There really are high philosophical messages in metal lyrics.

Evanescence- Fallen
Toned it down and reminded me to be hardcore and a gentleman.

Music is the flavor of your soul.

TequilaBoobs

Jun 16, 2007, 06:08 PM

sublime - 40 oz to freedom

beasties - pauls boutique

bjork - post

tricky - maxinquea

portishead - dummy

rockthecasbah

Jun 16, 2007, 06:52 PM

These all make me exude undescribable emotions I've felt while listening to them... In no particular order:

Kenna - New Sacred Cow
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Bob Dylan - Live At The Gaslight 1962
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Sigur Rós - Takk...

rockosmodurnlif

Jun 19, 2007, 10:52 PM

dogbone

Jun 20, 2007, 02:54 AM

Ummagumma

Sgt Peppers

We're Only In It For The Money

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Thick as a Brick

sonarghost

Jun 20, 2007, 03:48 AM

in no particular order:

Radiohead - ok computer
nine inch nails - Pretty hate machine
Crystal Method - Vegas
Nirvana - Nevermind
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

All very different but all had a great impact on me..

Killyp

Jun 20, 2007, 05:52 AM

I'm going to be a webbel and add two extra albums to my already five long list (see a few pages back):

Radiohead: OK Computer

Absolutely love this album. Dark, scary and kinda uplifting at the same time, with No Surprises stuck in the middle of all this dark music. Fantastically written, recorded and performed. One of the most important rock albums ever IMO.

Radiohead: The Bends

Again, I love this album. Everything about it is special, the way each and every song is an absolute classic, and the way it also gels as an album (although not quite on par with OK). It also seems incredibly influential, look how many bands have tried to copy that sound, and none have really done it quite as well as Radiohead.

Michelsparrow

Jun 27, 2007, 05:36 AM

Hi all
Any album cannot change my life. I am giving the name of album that I like most. I do not know they change my life. However, I listen these albums.
1. Morphine-Good
2. Blue Album – Weezer
3. Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
4. David Crowder Band – Illuminate
5. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse

aspro

Jun 27, 2007, 05:59 AM

Not quite five :)

The Decemberists - Picaresque

Say Anything - …is a Real Boy

Muse - Absolution

and although I can't stand it now The Used - The Used.

killr_b

Jun 27, 2007, 07:47 AM

Wait a minute ... you've listened to one of the greatest metal records of all time and early In Flames (i hope) and you call Iowa "Most hardcore album EVER" ?

Uh, yeah. Do you mean "Reign in Blood" or "Come Clarity"? In Flames isn't all that insane. And some people who are insane aren't hooky and catchy. I also don't see the solo as a hardcore element to metal.

Slayer is definitely the bringers of hardcore metal. No one has done it better for longer. But the solo isn't the cause of their greatness. Their hooks and catches are. Almost everyone who like metal likes Slayer for this reason. It's not a coordination of scales or a cleanness in their fast picking, it's the distinctive and original riffs like the intro to the song reign in blood that makes Slayer stand out. You know what I mean?

But Iowa is the hardcore album of all time thus far because it has one thing Slayer doesn't- Corey Taylor. His vocals are the definitive sound of american frustration and he has enough voice to move the listener through initial angst and into calculated aggression. It also contains a unique and original sound that has no foundation of 80's metal. But it pops and drops and pushes and whispers. It's nuts. :D

I don't know what else to say. I'm a musician- a bassist firstly and guitarist secondly. I think "Iowa" is a uniquely approached madness. No other metal album sounds like it.