By "changed your life," I assume you mean the album changes the way you think about life or music, or how your life relates to music (or the other way around?).
Too many to list, but here are a few I could think of:
Grade school[/b]:
Middle school[/b]:
High school[/b]:
Post high school[/b]:
At least, this is the one that really got the ball rolling...
DocMcCoy"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,913 Posts
The record that made me stop waiting for Led Zeppelin to condescend to play anywhere apart from London, and made me realise that you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music. I remember literally running home from my boy's one night because John Peel had said the previous night that he'd be playing something by the Ramones on the following night's show. I taped "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", took it to band practice a few days later and told the rest of the band, "We need to be doing stuff like this". They laughed. A week or so later, they threw me out of the band.
The record that made me realise that "Rapper's Delight" wasn't a novelty record. Discovering this record, and others, for myself without having read about it in the music press, or heard it on the radio or in clubs, was a real thrill for me. Early rap was the most exciting thing I'd heard since punk rock.
B-Side wins again. "Rebel" was an absolutely titanic game-changer of a record. Nobody had ever heard anything like it, simply because nobody had ever made anything like it. The bar had been raised.
At the end of 1986/beginning of 1987 (I can't recall exactly when), I remember going to one of the regular soul/funk all-nighters they used to hold at Legends in Manchester. Despite the name, the musical brief at these events tended to be fairly broad - around then, you'd hear current hip-hop tunes (Mantronix productions were particularly popular) alongside the sort of soul/funk that might be described as "modern" now - the first Tashan album, lots of Paul Laurence Jones/Kashif productions, early Jam & Lewis like SOS Band, Change, Alexander O'Neal or anything off that Thelma Houston album they produced, and Nick Martinelli joints like Loose Ends, 52nd Street, etc. This particular night was different, though. Many of the DJs had suddenly abandoned the soul/funk/r&b stuff they usually played in favour of what was then becoming known as "house", and that night it was the only stuff that was getting the kids - particularly the young black kids from Hulme and Moss Side - on the floor and keeping them there. One DJ in particular, a young kid of about 18 or 19 named Patrick Boothe, absolutely smashed it. He was the first person I ever heard properly DJ-ing all that shit, throwing in all kinds of cuts, scratches, chops and quick mixes as he tore through his set. The energy level went up 100% and the floor was packed for an hour solid. I just stood at the side watching everything and quietly grooving on it, not really sure what was happening but nevertheless convinced that something definitely was happening. I heard Fingers Inc.'s "Can You Feel It" for the first time that night. I heard Patrick Boothe spin at the PSV in Hulme a month or two later, but never again after that. He seemed to disappear off the face of the earth not long afterwards, and his name never comes up in any lists of pioneering UK house DJs. Two years later, almost every club in the UK was playing house music all night long.
0-12 years old[/b] beastie boys - licensed to ill dire straits first lp blue and red beatles comps first paul simon solo lp thriller
12-18 years old[/b] bloodsugarsexmagik atcq - low end theory pantera - vulgar display of power early palace music releases afghan whigs - gentlemen
18-23 years old[/b] lee scratch perry - arkology boxset 12" releases on full cycle, v, prototype and photek recordings johnny cash' american recordings aquemini(sp) meters - rejuvination donny hathaway - everything is everything
23-29 years old[/b] nick drake - bryter layter pharoah sanders - upper and lower egypt joe bataan - singing some soul
Kiss - Alive II Dead Kennedys - Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables The Ex - History is what's happening Black Flag - Damaged Minor Threat - Out of Step 7 Seconds - The crew Youth Brigade - Sound and Fury Miles Davis - Kind of Blue John Coltrane - Love Supreme Smashing Pumpkins - Gish Sonic Youth - Sister Stevie Wonder - Inner Visions Marvin Gaye - What's going on Minutemen - What makes a man start fires Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions
the list is endless but these are all milestone records in my life....
My very first vinyl album, and the first joint where I felt to need to listen to it with all lights off while laying on the living room floor staring toward the ceiling
Parliament - Mothership Connection
The album that let me know that Funk would be the way of my walk for the rest of my life.
Metallica - And Justice for All
The album that made me kick all hair metal to the curb and listen to real metal.
and as lame as it sounds, BDP's Edutainment. As a young white kid from the suburbs, it was the first hip-hop that brought up issues I'd never thought about before. It made me very aware of my whiteness. Plus I bought the tape. A lot of hip-hop I had heard thus far belong to friends or other kids at school. I had a chance to really sit down with Edutainment.
Beatles - Meet The Beatles (the record that got me in to music in the first place) Beastie Boys - Paul???s Boutique (the first time I really listened to sampling in music production) Style Council - Confessions of A Pop Group (an 80's "pop" album that replaced the traditional band backings with a full string section on side 2; blew my tiny little mind at the time) Lewis Taylor - S/T (sheer genius) Carl Carlton - S/T (the album that began my Modern Soul phase) Daft Punk - Discovery (the album that inspired me to collect analog synths)
these 2 were the records that really spoked to me on a musical and humorous level. It gave me a lifestyle and a way to be and act. Yeah i was into the samples- but they were also cool as hell!
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the orb - u.f.orb
atcq - low end theory
That's my foundation, right there: the music that got me into music.
Miles Davis-"Bitches Brew"
Dinosaur Jr.-"Green Mind"
and many, many others......
Too many to list, but here are a few I could think of:
Grade school[/b]:
Middle school[/b]:
High school[/b]:
Post high school[/b]:
At least, this is the one that really got the ball rolling...
hehehehhehe....
The record that made me stop waiting for Led Zeppelin to condescend to play anywhere apart from London, and made me realise that you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music. I remember literally running home from my boy's one night because John Peel had said the previous night that he'd be playing something by the Ramones on the following night's show. I taped "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You", took it to band practice a few days later and told the rest of the band, "We need to be doing stuff like this". They laughed. A week or so later, they threw me out of the band.
The record that made me realise that "Rapper's Delight" wasn't a novelty record. Discovering this record, and others, for myself without having read about it in the music press, or heard it on the radio or in clubs, was a real thrill for me. Early rap was the most exciting thing I'd heard since punk rock.
B-Side wins again. "Rebel" was an absolutely titanic game-changer of a record. Nobody had ever heard anything like it, simply because nobody had ever made anything like it. The bar had been raised.
At the end of 1986/beginning of 1987 (I can't recall exactly when), I remember going to one of the regular soul/funk all-nighters they used to hold at Legends in Manchester. Despite the name, the musical brief at these events tended to be fairly broad - around then, you'd hear current hip-hop tunes (Mantronix productions were particularly popular) alongside the sort of soul/funk that might be described as "modern" now - the first Tashan album, lots of Paul Laurence Jones/Kashif productions, early Jam & Lewis like SOS Band, Change, Alexander O'Neal or anything off that Thelma Houston album they produced, and Nick Martinelli joints like Loose Ends, 52nd Street, etc. This particular night was different, though. Many of the DJs had suddenly abandoned the soul/funk/r&b stuff they usually played in favour of what was then becoming known as "house", and that night it was the only stuff that was getting the kids - particularly the young black kids from Hulme and Moss Side - on the floor and keeping them there. One DJ in particular, a young kid of about 18 or 19 named Patrick Boothe, absolutely smashed it. He was the first person I ever heard properly DJ-ing all that shit, throwing in all kinds of cuts, scratches, chops and quick mixes as he tore through his set. The energy level went up 100% and the floor was packed for an hour solid. I just stood at the side watching everything and quietly grooving on it, not really sure what was happening but nevertheless convinced that something definitely was happening. I heard Fingers Inc.'s "Can You Feel It" for the first time that night. I heard Patrick Boothe spin at the PSV in Hulme a month or two later, but never again after that. He seemed to disappear off the face of the earth not long afterwards, and his name never comes up in any lists of pioneering UK house DJs. Two years later, almost every club in the UK was playing house music all night long.
0-12 years old[/b]
beastie boys - licensed to ill
dire straits first lp
blue and red beatles comps
first paul simon solo lp
thriller
12-18 years old[/b]
bloodsugarsexmagik
atcq - low end theory
pantera - vulgar display of power
early palace music releases
afghan whigs - gentlemen
18-23 years old[/b]
lee scratch perry - arkology boxset
12" releases on full cycle, v, prototype and photek recordings
johnny cash' american recordings
aquemini(sp)
meters - rejuvination
donny hathaway - everything is everything
23-29 years old[/b]
nick drake - bryter layter
pharoah sanders - upper and lower egypt
joe bataan - singing some soul
For me,
Headhunters and pretty much all 70's Herbie.
Sylvers I, II, III
Musical Massage
I Want You
Don Blackman
Hutson I, II
I was 12 years old, and I was blown away. I remember bumping Happiness is a Warm Gun a lot, hell, the whole album.
Joe Smooth 'Promised Land'. 1988. Discovered warehouse parties, house music, oms and doves.
I bought a copy from a pile of records with no covers in a thrift store on Powell Street in San Francisco February, 1990.
Dead Kennedys - Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
The Ex - History is what's happening
Black Flag - Damaged
Minor Threat - Out of Step
7 Seconds - The crew
Youth Brigade - Sound and Fury
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Love Supreme
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Sonic Youth - Sister
Stevie Wonder - Inner Visions
Marvin Gaye - What's going on
Minutemen - What makes a man start fires
Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions
the list is endless but these are all milestone records in my life....
I didn't know crap about jazz when I first heard this. It blew my mind then and it still does now.
My very first vinyl album, and the first joint where I felt to need to listen to it with all lights off while laying on the living room floor staring toward the ceiling
Parliament - Mothership Connection
The album that let me know that Funk would be the way of my walk for the rest of my life.
Metallica - And Justice for All
The album that made me kick all hair metal to the curb and listen to real metal.
and as lame as it sounds, BDP's Edutainment. As a young white kid from the suburbs, it was the first hip-hop that brought up issues I'd never thought about before. It made me very aware of my whiteness. Plus I bought the tape. A lot of hip-hop I had heard thus far belong to friends or other kids at school. I had a chance to really sit down with Edutainment.
Beastie Boys - Paul???s Boutique (the first time I really listened to sampling in music production)
Style Council - Confessions of A Pop Group (an 80's "pop" album that replaced the traditional band backings with a full string section on side 2; blew my tiny little mind at the time)
Lewis Taylor - S/T (sheer genius)
Carl Carlton - S/T (the album that began my Modern Soul phase)
Daft Punk - Discovery (the album that inspired me to collect analog synths)
Black Nasty
Clipse - teh one about cracks
Le Copt: The Album
Nanokinunu Rail Singers - A Great African Band
Identical
and on and on
School me on the Tootsie fonk.
these 2 were the records that really spoked to me on a musical and humorous level. It gave me a lifestyle and a way to be and act. Yeah i was into the samples- but they were also cool as hell!
and this was the other sound in my head!
still my #1
at age 15 and being a metal head, hearing the distortion and power, but with pop hooks blew my mind...
age 18, finally decided to look into old/local music...I learned what a groove was from this...soul addiction begins here
while looking for soul sounds early on (I was 19 or 20) a buddy gave me a cassette of this...raer soul addiction starts here:
i neeeeeed that, pleeeease!
this is when funk was born again!