Top 3 Rock Albums that changed your life
downtownrobbrown
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I come from a more rock background so I'm interested in what people here might say. Sorry about all the heavy hitters but that's how it all went down.
1. Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
First Zeppelin album I ever got. Nuff said.
2. Pink Floyd - "The Wall"
Some burnout gave it to me on the grade school bus. Blew my mind.
3. Grateful Dead - "Live/Dead"
So cosmic.
1. Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"
First Zeppelin album I ever got. Nuff said.
2. Pink Floyd - "The Wall"
Some burnout gave it to me on the grade school bus. Blew my mind.
3. Grateful Dead - "Live/Dead"
So cosmic.
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - s/t
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
When I was young and dirt poor, dubbed cassettes were considered a luxury. My mum used to get Univ students to babysit, and some of them would leave tapes behind. Along with an Otis Reading a-side/Run DMC b-side, L.A. Woman was a standout tape. I was too young to understand a lot of the now obvious meaning to the songs, but the music was unlike any pop music I might???ve heard on the radio in the mid ???80s, and completely changed my appreciation of music.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Friends of mine at school heard this and all wanted to become guitarists. I heard it and wanted to be a drummer (never happened though, cost + noise :whycry:, record collector = frustrated wannabee musician?).
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Even Jimi didn???t make me want to learn guitar. He made me want to take drugs.
Led Zeppelin - Zepellin III (Tangerine was one of the first songs I learned on guitar, also kicked me straight out of a short-lived pop punk phase)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (I'm a guitarist, this album simultaneously blew my mind and made me really push to get better... and what Duderonomy said re: Hendrix)
Led Zeppelin - II
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
2. Nirvana Nevermind (cleaner than Bleach, more accessible to my ears, went huge as I was a 16-year-old in Seattle)
3. Band Of Gypsies (I've looked at my informationTunes "plays" stats and the numbers don't lie)
I can listen to all of those at any time, except Nirvana. Sometimes Nirvana makes me sad and I'll cry. Forget about that MTV one I can't go near it, I'll curl up in a ball on the floor. Tenderberry Grunge Cobbler.
AC/DC - Back In Black, originally got it in 1980 when it came out. Because the title song is probably my all time fav rock tune
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast. Because Iron Maiden was my favorite band in high school, and would lead me into heavy metal, and joining my first band in 9th grade.
Sgt Peppers - Got it for my 13th bday.
Barry Goldberg Blue Band Blowing My Mind - Pulled out of my brothers collection. First recording for Harvey Mandel and Charlie Musselwhite IIRC.
English Beat Whap'pen - At a time when I disdained all rock music my roommates were playing this and Specials, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Go Gos, Bruce Springsteen, Stray Cats... allowed me to reappreciate the genre.
Ramones - Animal Boy (first punk rock tape. Know it front and back.)
Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing ( it never left my tape caese for about 5 years)
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Bad Brains - Rock For Light
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Not the best musically speaking, but it was my first 'adult' tape at age 8.
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Best sk8 rock record of all time. Love live vert. ...and skulls.
Nirvana - In Utero
Nevermind was huge, but this one never left my walkman for a year straight.
The Doors: Strange Days again, in my folks records. I pulled it out and was like "Who the fuck are these freaks?" before I knew it I was becoming an introspective pot head. Thank god they didn't have any Nick Drake.
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dreams a record that was on Constant rotation in the last year of high school, we played that shit to death and then listened to it again.
1. fugazi - 13 songs
2. hemet - meantime
3. jane's addiction - ritual de lo habitual
Aside from fugazi, i don't really listen to the others that much, but these bands def got me open to realizing that a one genre lifestyle was not the way to go.
Doolittle - Pixies
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Prior to that I was only buying hip hop.
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Guns and Roses: Appetite For Destruction
Nirvana: Nevermind
The Jam - Setting Sons
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
First album I loved all the way through
First one that opened my ears to varied soundscapes within a cohesive concept and captured the Local Experience to boot
First gateway into the GOAT band
jeff beck - blow by blow/wired
hendrix - radio one and live at winterland in particular
Jimi Hendrix - in the west
Prince - purple rain
We could argue if punk and funkrock are allowed for this top 3.
Led Zeppelin - IV - first LZ album I got
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi – Da Lama Ao Caos
- for a kid who was only into english language hard rock and heavy metal this was the album that got me into Brazilian music in a real way. Hard to classify it as a pure rock album but its heavy metal influences were what got me hooked, while the rest of the styles they mixed made me realize there was so much good music out in the world and the vast majority of it wasn't rock and wasn't in English. Blew my 15-year-old brain wide open.Scientists – This Heart Doesn't Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn't Run On Love.
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2.Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
3.Megadeth - Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
The Clash - London Calling
The Stooges - Fun House
metallica- kill master lightning ( like duke said) helped me channel my pubescent angsty awkward boy rage. thankyou metallica. ride the lightning ifn i had to choose one.
ledzep first 5...helped me get vaguely mystical and stoned out in late high school days. if i had to pick...it would be the first one.
white album...one of the rock records ive listened to the most in the last three years. they run thru the rainbow of moods on this one. strangely, its one of the only ones not in the house when i was growing up so it was somewhat new to me (altho i vaguely recall listening to it on a walkman when i was ten)
sorry to be boring and repetitive, but those are classic albums for a reason
When a counselor at camp laid this on me as a child I realized you don't have to define what kind of music your band represents. It drew from so many influences (although at the time I was unaware). Plus the synthesizer sounds in Rock The Casbah, to me, were the coolest things ever...
Murphy's Law - Back With A Bong
This band captured my heart when I was a teenager hitting hardcore shows in Boston. Another band that melded styles together (signs of early sampling bug?)
Warlock Pinchers - Circusized Peanuts
If you haven't heard it...I'm so sorry...the only band to ever get the rock/rap thing right...many styles melded. I was starting to get obsessed with sampling...which warlock pinchers incorporate jaw droppingly on there...here's one of my favorite songs off it...
I grew up as a kid in a typical black neighborhood, rock music was for whiteboys, period. Classic rock especially, totally missed me. I hated (and still don't have much use for) the Beatles, Stones, Who, etc. Then this record came out and Frankie Crocker was playing "Voices Inside My Head" on WBLS everyday. I couldn't deny that I loved it. I went and bought this record, and even though I dug the shit out of it I would hide it from my friends so they wouldn't see it in my room and clown me. The shame of the secret rock fan.
General Public - General Public
I've told this story on here before, but this record was weirdly enough the gateway into all of the punk rock, hardcore, reggae, etc. That I ended up becoming obsessed with. I saw their video on MTV and liked this record and when I read about the members being from bands called the English Beat and The Specials I had to go find those records and hear them. And from those records I went backwards to the Clash and Public Image. And also back to Desmond Dekker and The Skatalites. And it just kept going...
Bad Brains - ROIR Tape
I had heard some hardcore and was kind of underwhelmed. The Dead Kennedys were funny and all but I wasn't in love with the genre, too whiteboy for me again. Then someone told me about these rastas who were the baddest band ever. Holy shit did this take my head off. They inspired me so much that I decided I had to learn guitar so I could play like them. And I'm still trying to do it, almost 30 years later.
Fishbone EP
Replacements - sorry ma