I liked reading Marco Raaphorst's thread on what's changed your music the most in the last 10 years, and thought this might be a similarly interesting question.
Which artists and albums stick out to you as the most important in your life? Did they change the way you think about music, expand your horizons? What about them was transformative?
Here are mine:
1 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - first, I heard Under the Bridge, then I had to have the album, then the album was nothing I expected and I kind of hated it, but I stuck with it, and fell in love with the album - this is what got me into wanting to really make music in the first place
2 - Fugazi - this is where I learned how truly visceral and emotive music can be
3 - Dredg - El Cielo - when this came out, I thought I'd only sort of like it, but I couldn't believe the sense of scope - this is when I realized how expansive and truly wondrous music can be - I still get chills listening to it
4 - The Mars Volta - I liked De-Loused in the Comatorium, but when Frances the Mute came out, I was floored - This took the energy of Fugazi, and the scope of Dredg, and turned them both up to 42 - also, I can't think of a better drummer than Jon Theodore; the man is an absolute beast on the kit - actually, they're all incredible musicians
5 - Fischerspooner - I somehow saw the video for Emerge - I couldn't believe my senses; any of them - before this, I thought electronic music was crap that didn't require any talent, because you could just press buttons and program everything - seeing their dedication to the total experience of music, including the visual presentation was what showed me that electronic music was no different than any other musical genre, in the right hands; it was now elevated to its rightful place as art in my mind
6 - Joanna Newsom - Ys - this album is bar none the most beautiful piece of art I've ever heard - Van Dyke Parks (who is amazing, BTW) orchestrated it - this is nowhere near my normal fare, but it is stunning in every way
Which albums had the biggest impact on you?
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There are so many and it varies from time to time but pivotal moments...
#1 - Jan & Dean Story - saw the movie and had to have the record. Played it over and over. Also had Neil Diamond's Jonathon Livingston Seagull & Holst's Planets that I played about as much but it was Jan & Dean that was mine.
#2 - U2 Under A Blood Red Sky - live at Red Rocks. It was the time and the passion in Bono was so great.
#3 - while I could say Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and host of other bands incl Joan Jett I adored, it was hearing Manfred Mann & the Earth Band's Live in Budapest & Emerson Lake & Palmer's Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen on the radio's live concert evening that blew me away. Around the same time I happened upon Deep Purple's Deep Purple (the one everyone seems to forget) and it was also a revelation that you could do things like Chasing Shadows and April. I also scored a copy of Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny that made me a lifelong fan.
#4 - see above but Alan Parson's Eye In The Sky was too great for words and I still feel that way.
#5 - next pivot was hearing Screaming Blue Messiahs Wild Blue Yonder and Shreikback's Nemesis that showed me that music had another layer. I only got the albums a few years ago but still what cool stuff.
#6 - had a flatmate who played Gary Numan's Replicas almost every morning and that synth sound bled into my dreams. I also played his VHS of Ultravox's Monument concert and it was so exciting.
#7 - Front 242's No Comment (the original) was bought with no real idea and it opened me to EBM Industrial and a new flavor, Numan but meaner.
#9 - later Candlemass' Epicus Doomicus Metallicus opened the door to all sorts of newer Metal. But that and King Diamond's The Eye remain my faves.
#10 - Tangerine Dream's Poland, Cyclone & Phaedra were great and allowed me to accept being a pure synthesist. Later I finally got a Best of Vangelis and that let me see that synths could still be very soulful whilst being superbly electronic.
To be honest, since the mid 90's there has be so little to give me a sense of revolution. Heard it all before, buzzsaw guitars (Ramones), wubbery (Tomita), edits (80's remixes and Megamixes)...
#11 - Gary Alan's Smoke Rings In The Dark & Trisha Yearwood's Songbook got mt to listen to a lot of Country and mine the greats like the Georges Jones & Strait, Willy, Walon, Cash etc, and of course Ole Hank & Dwight.
I still look for new sounds and ways of expression but feel cold with the modern idea of what makes a good record. I feel there is no self-expression there. It's like everyone is too afraid to really let anything out and reliy on engineering tricks (mislabeled as Production).
Anyway, that is a pretty big list.
#1 - Jan & Dean Story - saw the movie and had to have the record. Played it over and over. Also had Neil Diamond's Jonathon Livingston Seagull & Holst's Planets that I played about as much but it was Jan & Dean that was mine.
#2 - U2 Under A Blood Red Sky - live at Red Rocks. It was the time and the passion in Bono was so great.
#3 - while I could say Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and host of other bands incl Joan Jett I adored, it was hearing Manfred Mann & the Earth Band's Live in Budapest & Emerson Lake & Palmer's Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen on the radio's live concert evening that blew me away. Around the same time I happened upon Deep Purple's Deep Purple (the one everyone seems to forget) and it was also a revelation that you could do things like Chasing Shadows and April. I also scored a copy of Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny that made me a lifelong fan.
#4 - see above but Alan Parson's Eye In The Sky was too great for words and I still feel that way.
#5 - next pivot was hearing Screaming Blue Messiahs Wild Blue Yonder and Shreikback's Nemesis that showed me that music had another layer. I only got the albums a few years ago but still what cool stuff.
#6 - had a flatmate who played Gary Numan's Replicas almost every morning and that synth sound bled into my dreams. I also played his VHS of Ultravox's Monument concert and it was so exciting.
#7 - Front 242's No Comment (the original) was bought with no real idea and it opened me to EBM Industrial and a new flavor, Numan but meaner.
#9 - later Candlemass' Epicus Doomicus Metallicus opened the door to all sorts of newer Metal. But that and King Diamond's The Eye remain my faves.
#10 - Tangerine Dream's Poland, Cyclone & Phaedra were great and allowed me to accept being a pure synthesist. Later I finally got a Best of Vangelis and that let me see that synths could still be very soulful whilst being superbly electronic.
To be honest, since the mid 90's there has be so little to give me a sense of revolution. Heard it all before, buzzsaw guitars (Ramones), wubbery (Tomita), edits (80's remixes and Megamixes)...
#11 - Gary Alan's Smoke Rings In The Dark & Trisha Yearwood's Songbook got mt to listen to a lot of Country and mine the greats like the Georges Jones & Strait, Willy, Walon, Cash etc, and of course Ole Hank & Dwight.
I still look for new sounds and ways of expression but feel cold with the modern idea of what makes a good record. I feel there is no self-expression there. It's like everyone is too afraid to really let anything out and reliy on engineering tricks (mislabeled as Production).
Anyway, that is a pretty big list.
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#1 - Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time - dat sound!
#2 - ZZ Top - Afterburner - dat sound!
#3 - Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack - dat sound!
#4 - Skrillex - Bangarang - dat sound!
#5 - Deep Purple - Purpendicular - dat guitar and organ!
#6 - Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet - dat guitar!
#2 - ZZ Top - Afterburner - dat sound!
#3 - Vangelis - Blade Runner Soundtrack - dat sound!
#4 - Skrillex - Bangarang - dat sound!
#5 - Deep Purple - Purpendicular - dat guitar and organ!
#6 - Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet - dat guitar!
Led Zeppelin - III
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Deep Purple - In Rock
The Beatles - white'68
Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah
J.S.Bach - WTC
Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm of a Dying Sun
Metallica - And Justice For All
Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming
Hol Baumann - Human
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Deep Purple - In Rock
The Beatles - white'68
Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah
J.S.Bach - WTC
Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm of a Dying Sun
Metallica - And Justice For All
Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming
Hol Baumann - Human
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Slipknot - Self titled
Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation - Fat Of The Land
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Björk - Homogenic
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation - Fat Of The Land
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Björk - Homogenic
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
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huh...
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
kraftwerk - the man machine / computer world
orbital - in sides
jan hammer - the first seven days
tangerine dream - ricochet / force majeure
klf - chill out
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
kraftwerk - the man machine / computer world
orbital - in sides
jan hammer - the first seven days
tangerine dream - ricochet / force majeure
klf - chill out
prodigy - jilted generation
aphex twin - ambient works one and come to daddy ep
cristian vogel - all music has come to an end.
aphex twin - ambient works one and come to daddy ep
cristian vogel - all music has come to an end.
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Have you heard that album? I think it's really original. Chuck's vocals are, let's say, characterfulnormen wrote:What did you learn from Faith No More? That the music industry and its consumers are a bunch of idiots?
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Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
Captain Beyond - s/t
One was a record club accident my Dad gave me, the other a birthday gift from my aunt. I learned you could count music in fives and sevens.
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Dad found a cassette on the side of the road while jogging. Hello new wave.
King Crimson - Discipline / Beat / Three of a Perfect Pair
Combining progressive music with a new-wavish pop delivery - and veering into some experimentation and noise.
The Residents - Heaven? / Hell!
A pair of CD compilations introduced me to some very weird artists and sent me exploring far away from the mainstream.
Negativland - s/t / Points / A Big 10-8 Place
Revealing that you could make albums with long stretches of abstract sounds and have it still be interesting.
Wire - The Ideal Copy (and well, everything)
How to marry beautiful pop with distressing sounds and oblique lyrics.
Cabaret Voltaire - Code
Ministry - Twitch
Both produced by Adrian Sherwood, bringing me on board with aggressive EDM, where I'd pick up on Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, et al.
BogArt/Per Theobaldt - Leadership
A cassette from the venerable Sound of Pig label that showed me a whole world of people making music and releasing it on low-budget cassettes in the way way underground.
Captain Beyond - s/t
One was a record club accident my Dad gave me, the other a birthday gift from my aunt. I learned you could count music in fives and sevens.
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Dad found a cassette on the side of the road while jogging. Hello new wave.
King Crimson - Discipline / Beat / Three of a Perfect Pair
Combining progressive music with a new-wavish pop delivery - and veering into some experimentation and noise.
The Residents - Heaven? / Hell!
A pair of CD compilations introduced me to some very weird artists and sent me exploring far away from the mainstream.
Negativland - s/t / Points / A Big 10-8 Place
Revealing that you could make albums with long stretches of abstract sounds and have it still be interesting.
Wire - The Ideal Copy (and well, everything)
How to marry beautiful pop with distressing sounds and oblique lyrics.
Cabaret Voltaire - Code
Ministry - Twitch
Both produced by Adrian Sherwood, bringing me on board with aggressive EDM, where I'd pick up on Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, et al.
BogArt/Per Theobaldt - Leadership
A cassette from the venerable Sound of Pig label that showed me a whole world of people making music and releasing it on low-budget cassettes in the way way underground.
Dang, looks like I've got some stuff to add to my list...
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Greatest Hits
My dad owned this Album. Listened to it first when I was 10.
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Made me a Die Hard Megadeth fan for many, many years.
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Outstandig. Never heard something similar.
Trancemaster 7 - The Future Watch (Compilation)
Introduced me into Techno/Trance stuff (and what comes with it
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My dad owned this Album. Listened to it first when I was 10.
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Made me a Die Hard Megadeth fan for many, many years.
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Outstandig. Never heard something similar.
Trancemaster 7 - The Future Watch (Compilation)
Introduced me into Techno/Trance stuff (and what comes with it
)
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My Top 35+ most influential:
#1 - Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973), Five Miles Out (1982), Crises (1983), Amarok (1990), Tubular Bells II (1992)
#2 - Vangelis - Heaven and Hell (1975), Albedo 0.39 (1976), Spiral (1977), Opéra Sauvage (1979), China (1979), Antarctica (1983), Private Collection (1983), Soil Festivities (1984), Blade Runner (1982 / 1994)
#3 - Jean Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China (1982)
#4 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974), Tangram (1980), Poland (1983), Underwater Sunlight (1986), Livemiles (1988)
#5 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
#6 - The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), The Instrumental Works (1988)
#7 - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality (1981), Dazzle Ships (1983)
#8 - Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982)
#9 - Ultravox - Rage in Eden (1981)
#10 - Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame (1982)
#11 - Van Halen - 1984 (1984)
#12 - Dire Straits - Alchemy (1984), Brothers in Arms (1985)
#13 - Francis - Stilleto (1986), Rota dos Ventos (1989)
#14 - Antonio Pinho Vargas - As Folhas Novas Mudam de Cor (1987)
#15 - Art of Noise - In No Sense? Nonsense! (1987), The Best of the Art of Noise (1988)
#16 - Klaus Schulze - The Dresden Performance (1990)
#17 - Rodrigo Leao - Ave Mundi Luminar (1993)
#18 - Michael Nyman - The Piano (1993)
#19 - Eric Serra - The Fifth Element (1997)
#20 - Bjork - Vespertine (2001)
#21 - Yann Tiersen - Amélie (2001)
#22 - Bernardo Sassetti - Indigo (2002)
#23 - Bach !
#24 - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (RV 269 / RV 315 / RV 293 / RV 297)
#25 - Mozart - Requiem (Mass in D minor K. 626)
#26 - Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L. 86)
#27 - Holst - The Planets (Op. 32)
#28 - Mussorgsky / Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition (1874 / 1922)
#29 - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
#30 - Santana - Caravanserai (1972)
#31 - Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (1975)
#32 - Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (1978)
#33 - Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
#34 - Pat Metheny Group - Offramp (1982)
#35 - Philip Glass - Glassworks (1982)
#1 - Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973), Five Miles Out (1982), Crises (1983), Amarok (1990), Tubular Bells II (1992)
#2 - Vangelis - Heaven and Hell (1975), Albedo 0.39 (1976), Spiral (1977), Opéra Sauvage (1979), China (1979), Antarctica (1983), Private Collection (1983), Soil Festivities (1984), Blade Runner (1982 / 1994)
#3 - Jean Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China (1982)
#4 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974), Tangram (1980), Poland (1983), Underwater Sunlight (1986), Livemiles (1988)
#5 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
#6 - The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), The Instrumental Works (1988)
#7 - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality (1981), Dazzle Ships (1983)
#8 - Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981), Rio (1982)
#9 - Ultravox - Rage in Eden (1981)
#10 - Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame (1982)
#11 - Van Halen - 1984 (1984)
#12 - Dire Straits - Alchemy (1984), Brothers in Arms (1985)
#13 - Francis - Stilleto (1986), Rota dos Ventos (1989)
#14 - Antonio Pinho Vargas - As Folhas Novas Mudam de Cor (1987)
#15 - Art of Noise - In No Sense? Nonsense! (1987), The Best of the Art of Noise (1988)
#16 - Klaus Schulze - The Dresden Performance (1990)
#17 - Rodrigo Leao - Ave Mundi Luminar (1993)
#18 - Michael Nyman - The Piano (1993)
#19 - Eric Serra - The Fifth Element (1997)
#20 - Bjork - Vespertine (2001)
#21 - Yann Tiersen - Amélie (2001)
#22 - Bernardo Sassetti - Indigo (2002)
#23 - Bach !
#24 - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (RV 269 / RV 315 / RV 293 / RV 297)
#25 - Mozart - Requiem (Mass in D minor K. 626)
#26 - Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L. 86)
#27 - Holst - The Planets (Op. 32)
#28 - Mussorgsky / Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition (1874 / 1922)
#29 - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)
#30 - Santana - Caravanserai (1972)
#31 - Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (1975)
#32 - Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (1978)
#33 - Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
#34 - Pat Metheny Group - Offramp (1982)
#35 - Philip Glass - Glassworks (1982)
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The Chemical Brothers - Brothers gonna work it out
The Prodigy - The Fat of the land
Sasha - Involver
Minilogue - Animals
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Man with no name - Teleportation
And then i cant remmember any album, I liked so much.
And then i cant remmember any album, I liked so much.
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If you like Fischerspooner, then may I point out that this:guitfnky wrote:Dang, looks like I've got some stuff to add to my list...
...Is actually a cover of a Wire song, from Wire's 3rd album , 154, circa 1979.
If you're into the raw energy of punk bands, then my own personal punk favorite is Big Black. A sample:
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