Gobias Industries Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 the Clash - London CallingWilco - Being Therethe Beatles - A Hard Day's NightNeutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the SeaGeorge Harrison - All Things Must PassBob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisitedthe Band - Music from Big PinkBon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Something like that. The really big one is London Calling, I would be listening to shit for music if it weren't for that album. And I could name a whole slew of Beatles albums, but I think A Hard Day's Night is the first Beatles album I really "got." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
myboyblue Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 REM - Murmur - Freshman year in high school... pulled me from the grasp of average 'classic rock' My love of REM, led me to purchase any and all Pete Buck produced stuff... Uncle Tupelo - MarchReplacements - Let it Be I haven't really looked back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalle Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Nick Drake - Pink Moon The Beatles - Revolver All for different purposes but all just as relevant and like the thread says, life changing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 traveling wilburys - volume 1george harrison - cloud 9mermaid avenue - wilcoled zep IV - led zeprobert johnson complete recordings..ish - 1927 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 The first one for me was Europe 72 which started a 5+ year binge of listening mostly to the Dead. The two albums that shook me out of it were Husker Du's Flip Your Wig and REM's Reckoning. Harborcoat remains one of my favorite all time songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stooka Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 1979 - Sophmore year in high school, my oldest brother Clay (29) died and I inherited his Sansui 2000, a pair of Jenson kit speakers and about 100 or so records. Since his girlfriend had jacked all ones she liked, I was left with the older stuff. Jimi, Yardbirds, James Gang, The Who, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, etc. I started taking music more seriously when the songs on these albums provided some kind of link between me and my brother. To this day, I find great joy and comfort in music and if I had to look back and pick just one, it would have to be Are You Experienced?. ....that was the first one I listened to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 A few that pop out at me, in order and without elaboration: GD: AoxomoxoaRolling Stones: Between the ButtonsFrank Zappa: ApostropheSex Pistols: Never Mind the BollocksMeat Puppets: Up on the Sun Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky speaks Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 They didn't change my life but I have fond memories (some old, some new) of the first time I heard them......In no particular order...... Sgt Pepper / BeatlesAfter the Gold Rush / Neil YoungJohn Lennon Plastic Ono BandLet It Bleed / StonesWhite Album / BeatlesHome Free / FogelbergLive At Leeds / WhoGood Feeling to Know / PocoSky Blue Sky / WilcoLet it Be (bootleg version) / BeatlesSweetheart of the Rodeo / ByrdsMarx and Lennon / HCYBI2PAO (Nick Danger) / Firesign Theatre http://www.firesigntheatre.com/albums/hcyb2.mp34 Way Street / CSNYGirlfriend / Matthew Sweet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Animals - Pink FloydBee Thousand - Guided by VoicesCrooked Rain, Crooked Rain - PavementMurmur - REM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hootenanny - Replacements - My brother bought it for me because we learned to ski on Buck Hill. I wonder if I would've discovered elsewhere.Workbook - Bob Mould - Hit me in the gut emotionally. Never listened to Husker Du, bought it strictly because of the Rolling Stone review (which I re-read periodically)Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus - The first jazz record I really, really dug. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Desire (for serving as my proper introduction to the work of America's greatest artist, living or dead), Automatic for the People (for being the first great album I ever listened to that still rings significant today), Being There (just because), Swordfishtrombones (for introducing me to Waits and the stranger, more exciting side of American song), Sloan's One Chord to Another (for showing me that I could actually love modern rock back when I was a high school naif), and Harvest Moon (because every 13 year-old should be allowed such a graceful contemporary opportunity to fall in love with Neil's body of work). Also, I think the Replacements are an okay band, but I hated Tim the first time I heard it. I still think it's a middling record by their standards. To each their own! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
c.lo Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 During March break when I was in grade 8, I was sent to my Grandma's and so was my older cousin. Up until then I was listening to top 40 radio- he introduced me to a whole new world of awesome music that week:Nirvana's NevermindRed Hot Chili Pepper's BSSMNed's Atomic Dustbin's God FodderNIN's Pretty Hate Machine Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime... blew my mind the first time I heard it, still surprises me every time I listen to it now. Soooooooooo good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 In order: Squeeze - ArgyBargyElvis - This Year's ModelElvis - Get Happy!Beatles - Abbey RoadDylan - Blonde on BlondeWilco - YHFYLT - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As OneGBV - Alien Lanes all changed my life and taught me something new about myself, the world, and my place in it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 First REM album I bought was Out of Time. I was 11 when it came out. It really blew my mind. Funny thing now is it is probably one of my least favorite REM albums as it stands now. Anyway I have been a diehard REM fan since 1991 and haven't looked back. Other albums that had a big impact on me were Radiohead the Bends (In my opinion the best rock album of all time!) Every time I listen to it I discover new hidden sounds and layers. Listening to it on headphones is an expierence no one should miss. Bjork Post had a big impact on me as it helped me get into electronic music. This album is a scortcher. Listening it at night hypnotizes me. I can't explain it. Medeski Martin and Wood Combustication also helped steer me in a new direction. It was a type of jazz I never heard before and I was captivated. The band is really unbelievably skilled! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Minutemen - Double Nickles on the Dime... blew my mind the first time I heard it, still surprises me every time I listen to it now. For me, "Three Way Tie (For Last)" is still near & dear to my musical heart............That record showed the path of where Boon was headed as a creative force to be reckoned with... -Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kathyp Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Replacements - Tim Introduced me to my favorite band and songwriter. Add me to the list. I don't know if I'd say Tim changed my life, but it definitely was my "gateway drug." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Add me to the list. I don't know if I'd say Tim changed my life, but it definitely was my "gateway drug." Oh yeah, my "gateway" to the underground:Meat Puppets - Up On the Sun Odd, in the time when REM and The Smiths were rising in popularity (late 80's) that the Pups would be the band to turn me on the the underground. But I read an interview in a guitar magazine and HAD to hear them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 The first album to change my life: Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy The next: R.E.M. - Murmur (or possibly Chronic Town) Then: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland Followed by: Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart Then: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue And finally... Uncle Tupelo - No Depression That takes me up through 1990. I'm not sure anything since then qualifies as life-changing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'm not a big fan of the "changed my life" tag, but these are a few that were quite influential to me: Kiss - Alive II (One of the first records I ever owned. This record made me want to play guitar and be Ace Frehley. I started with a cardboard facsimile, then started playing my Dad's old El Degas acoustic with strings about a half inch from the neck.) The Replacements - Let It Be (like others here, this was the one that introduced me to my favorite band and songwriter.) Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (Made me realize that lyrics could be something more than just words to sing over music. Also made me realize that you don't have to have a perfect voice to be a good singer or interpreter of songs.) Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson/Son of Schmilsson (Showed me that great rock music could be quirky, eclectic and still catchy as hell.) Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (These guys really got me to delve into Funk and Soul music a lot deeper than I had up to that point.) Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' OnCurtis Mayfield - CurtisVan Morrison - Astral WeeksThe Who - Who's NextTownes Van Zandt - Those early records of his So many more I could mention, but I'll stop there for now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
howdjadoo Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 When allowance was still written in capitals: and a few years later when I met these guys: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (These guys really got me to delve into Funk and Soul music a lot deeper than I had up to that point.) Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' OnVan Morrison - Astral WeeksThe Who - Who's NextAll of these could have been on my list too -- though Maggot Brain was my next Funkadelic acquisition after first being hooked by Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 Also, I think the Replacements are an okay band, but I hated Tim the first time I heard it. I still think it's a middling record by their standards. To each their own! Was that really necessary? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Was that really necessary? John Smith, meet the Maker. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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