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Title: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 12, 2008, 08:58:28 am
Are there any specifica albums that have influenced your life, and if so, what are/were they?

For me, I would probably have to say Seasons In The Abyss and Show No Mercy by Slayer. Apart from being the first two really heavy metal albums I heard, the material on each album has influence my own guitar playing style.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 12, 2008, 12:02:24 pm
1. The Pixies - "Doolittle" for influencing the majority of the artists that I listen to and being an amazing album on it's own, I'd say it's The Pixies' greatest album because of the tracks contained on it. To quote Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) on an interview about the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - "I was trying to write the ultimate pop song, I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies."

2. The Flaming Lips - "Soft Bulletin" it's probably the happiest album ever recorded, I think that listening to it can have a major influence on anyone's mood.

3. Texas Is the Reason - "Do You Know Who You Are?" from the band named in tribute to the Misfits' lyrics of "Bullet" (Texas is the reason that the president's dead!), it came out at the perfect time (1996) to introduce and lead the genre of post-hardcore emo, of if you don't follow the genre b.s., I can dumb it down as "emotional lyrics from the D.C. punk scene".

Those are my top three most influential albums that have affected my life and how I live with music as a large part of it.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Rocinante on July 12, 2008, 06:01:23 pm

Those would be the early influences, which I fell in love with from the ages of 6-12 I guess.  I'd pick an album to play depending on the mood I was in, and let it run - most of them would make me feel better, or enhance the mood I was already in by the time the last note ended.  After that, it was mostly an expansion of an artist's collection: Anything else by Pink Floyd, just about everything from Rush, Led Zeppelin's entire catalog, all Hackett-era Genesis (and a few gems here and there after he left), everything from Yes.  There's plenty more that I love to hear now, but it's pretty much guaranteed that if you play anything from any of the above mentioned albums I'll stop what I'm doing to reflect for a moment.  Or slam my foot harder on the gas pedal :>

Quote
Then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space,
He turned around and pointed revealing all the human race.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper, knowing all about the place.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Life
Post by: player1 on July 12, 2008, 10:02:21 pm
Quote from: Rocinante on July 12, 2008, 06:01:23 pm
(http://www.ferhiga.com/progre/portadas/yes-ctte.jpg) (http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/rickert_salvo/images/edge.jpg)

Yes (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y283/nyrab/Yes-band-np01.jpg) - Close to the Edge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_the_Edge)
 
Quote from: I Get Up I Get Down
In charge of who is there in charge of me.
Do I look on blindly and say I see the way?
The truth is written all along the page.
How old will I be before I come of age for you?
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Life
Post by: player1 on July 12, 2008, 11:14:08 pm
Quote from: Homer Simpson
Everyone knows rock achieved perfection in 1973 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_music).

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Topographic.jpg) (http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/studio/9021/yeswallpaper/tales.jpg)

Yes (http://yesmuseum.org/images/Yes1972.JPG) - Tales From Topographic Oceans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Topographic_Oceans)

Quote from: The Revealing Science of God
What happened to this song we once knew so well
Signed promise for moments caught within the spell
I must have waited all my life for this
Moment moment
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Life
Post by: player1 on July 12, 2008, 11:27:30 pm
(http://www.radiogalaxy.eu/interactive/pictures/yes_W_relayer_frontal.jpg) (http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/studio/9021/yeswallpaper/relayer.jpg)

Yes (http://yesmuseum.org/images/Yes1974.JPG) - Relayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relayer)

Quote from: The Gates of Delirium
Listen your friends have been broken
They tell us of your poison
Now we know
Kill them give them as they give us
Slay them burn their children's laughter
On to Hell
Title: Re: Albums That Blew My F#@k!ng Face Off
Post by: player1 on July 12, 2008, 11:55:41 pm
(http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-11-11/No_Sleep_til_Hammersmith.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motörhead)

Motorhead (http://streetrocknroll.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/mh.jpg) - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Sleep_'til_Hammersmith)

(including one of my favorite songs of all time, the LIVE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrtZRrS70w) version of Ace of Spades (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7A5TIj6Bqg))

Quote from: Ace of Spades
You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools,
But that's the way I like it baby,
I don't wanna live for ever,
And don't forget the joker!
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 13, 2008, 04:59:39 am
Since you are all going into such detail, I think I will to.

Chronological order, as far as I remember.

First off: The Vines - Highly Evolved. I loved The Vines back in the day. I remember downloading Outtathaway from Limewire and then going out a buying the CD the next day. I have since moved onto heavy things.
Secondly: Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf. One of the first albums that I can remember buying with my own money (there was one before that I remember, but I'm not telling what it was). QOTSA is one of my most influential artists.
Thirdly: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
. My friend lent me his copy of this, and subsequently got me almost addicted to NIN.
Fourthly: Metallica - ...And Justice For All. While Metallica are not on my Favorite Bands list, this album is the album that got me into metal. A milestone.
Fifthly: Slayer -  Every album up to Divine Intervention. Show No Mercy was awesome, Hell Awaits was awesome, Reign In Blood is a classic, South Of Heaven was awesome, Seasons In The Abyss is my favorite album of all time and Divine Intervention is the most evil album I have ever heard.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Archangel on July 13, 2008, 05:02:05 am
(http://www.davepearce.co.uk/images/interviews/29042004_oceanlab.jpg)
Oceanlab.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Jedarus on July 13, 2008, 09:42:44 pm
(http://api.ning.com/files/uHETS66ZfQlr8jP6SwqO-wuHAh7W9WicSXzsTjL7XaM_/hybrid_theory.jpg)

Awesome album.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Their Creators
Post by: player1 on July 13, 2008, 09:52:29 pm
Quote from: Jedarus on July 13, 2008, 09:42:44 pm
<img>linky parky</img>

Awesome album.

Unfortunately, they fell into the Boston Syndrome, and just kept remaking it. I really liked that album, though, as well as the Puddle of Mudd and Godsmack from the same era.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Life
Post by: player1 on July 13, 2008, 10:20:09 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/MilesDavisKindofBlue.jpg) (http://www.pclef.net/archives/Miles-Davis---Kind-of-Blue-Poster-C10112433.jpg)

Miles Davis (http://media.villagevoice.com/1930796.64.jpg) - Kind of Blue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue)

PERSONNEL: Miles Davis (http://hardbop.tripod.com/miles.html)(t), Julian Adderley (http://hardbop.tripod.com/cannon.html)(as), John Coltrane (http://hardbop.tripod.com/coltrane.html)(ts), Wyn Kelly (http://hardbop.tripod.com/wynton.html)(p, Freddie Freeloader), Bill Evans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans)(p), Paul Chambers (http://hardbop.tripod.com/chambers.html)(b), James Cobb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cobb)(d).

TRACK LISTING:
1. So What (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FAKRpUCYY&feature=related)
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC8sDz_V1uY)
4. All Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSemoMujQY)
5. Flamenco Sketches
6. Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)

Original Release Date: 1959 (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15310)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: + OPTIMUS + on July 13, 2008, 10:28:11 pm
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000H5K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) (http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/chaosad_500x500.jpg)
×.×
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Cover Flow
Post by: player1 on July 13, 2008, 10:46:16 pm
(http://www.synthmania.com/Famous%20Sounds/Images/JimmySmith-BATCS.jpg) (http://www.orinjj.force9.co.uk/JimmySmith/pix/hi/60s/chicken/chicken2.jpg)

Jimmy Smith (http://www.notlos.com/pictures/thumbnails/400x300/JSmith2.jpg) - Back at the Chicken Shack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_at_the_Chicken_Shack)

Track listing:
"Back at the Chicken Shack" (http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/75410) (Jimmy Smith) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Smith_(musician)) — 8:01
"When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) — 9:54
"Minor Chant" (Stanley Turretine) — 7:30
"Messy Bessie" (Smith) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_organ) — 12:25
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) — 8:01 (Appeared as a CD-only bonus track, not part of the original LP configuration).

Performers:
Jimmy Smith (http://hardbop.tripod.com/jsmith.html) - Organ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJeCjIwGFk)
Kenny Burrell (http://hardbop.tripod.com/burrell.html) - Guitar
Stanley Turretine (http://hardbop.tripod.com/stanley.html) - Tenor Saxophone
Donald Bailey (http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/default.aspx?aid=3776) - Drums
Title: Re: Albums That Redefined Everything for Me
Post by: player1 on July 13, 2008, 11:31:39 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/John_Coltrane_-_Blue_Train.jpg) (http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/49/017_PP0155~John-Coltrane-Blue-Train-Sessions-Posters.jpg)

John Coltrane (http://musicartistinterview.com/images/John%20Coltrane%202.jpg) - Blue Train (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Train_(album))

Track listing:
On the 1957 LP, and the 1990 CD release:
"Blue Train" – 10:43
"Moment's Notice" – 9:10
"Locomotion" – 7:14
"I'm Old Fashioned" – 7:58
"Lazy Bird" – 7:00
Alternate takes:
"Blue Train" (alternate take) – 9:58
"Lazy Bird" (alternate take) – 7:12

Personnel:
Recorded on September 15, 1957.
John Coltrane - Tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan - Trumpet
Curtis Fuller - Trombone
Paul Chambers - Bass
Kenny Drew - Piano
Philly Joe Jones - Drums


(http://www.spiralfrog.com/sfimages/covers/pop/cov200/drf500/f550/f55078jdswo.jpg) (http://www.answers.com/topic/the-best-of-john-coltrane-pablo?cat=entertainment)

John Coltrane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane) - The Best of John Coltrane (http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/2002/coltrane3.jpg)

Track listing:
Afro Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOYynQ-_Hw)
The Promise (http://www.songtrellis.com/sounds/viewer$617)
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Bye Bye Blackbird
Chasin' the Trane

Personnel:
John Coltrane (ts/ss)
McCoy Tyner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner) (p)
Jimmy Garrison (b)
Elvin Jones (d)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: snb on July 14, 2008, 02:24:55 am
one word: Rockwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1RP34FLXU)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 06:29:27 am
(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_DeLaSoul3FeetHighandRising.jpg)
3 Feet High and Rising (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Feet_High_and_Rising)

(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_BjorkDebut.jpg)
Debut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debut_(album))

(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_NearlyGod.jpg)
Nearly God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearly_God)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Bajsefar on July 14, 2008, 08:16:01 am
AFX- Chosen Lords
(http://i36.tinypic.com/281saoh.jpg)
For making me feel incredibly good, as well as providing eccelent music for working.
(No vocals, suble tracks- good for concentration)
And for opening me up to a new genre of music.
Here are some tracks:
Fenix Funk 5 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EB0yP76PvNs&feature=related)
Boxing Day (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tOMubYwehRQ&feature=related)
Crying In Your Face (http://youtube.com/watch?v=sae3pAR-DwY&feature=related)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 08:16:57 am
<3 The Aphex Twin, Drukqs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drukqs) is his best work ever.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Tycho on July 14, 2008, 08:36:40 am
Mine would be Rage Against the Machine - Battle for Los Angeles


I loved it and it generally changed my attitude and musical taste :) Still one of my ever favorite albums ;D
(RATM - Calm like a bomb (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-qMugOGQ8)) -3rd song on that album
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 14, 2008, 09:58:26 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 06:29:27 am
Debut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debut_(album))
Hell yes, Björk.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 14, 2008, 10:13:05 am
Quote from: TinMan on July 14, 2008, 09:58:26 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 06:29:27 am
Debut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debut_(album))
Hell yes, Björk.

Isn't she a nazi? Or am I misinformed?
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 14, 2008, 10:20:54 am
Quote from: Kaleo on July 14, 2008, 10:13:05 am
Quote from: TinMan on July 14, 2008, 09:58:26 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 06:29:27 am
Debut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debut_(album))
Hell yes, Björk.
Isn't she a nazi? Or am I misinformed?

Very very misinformed.
It might have come up because of the umlaut in her name, but she's not German, she's Icelandic.

Her views on sexuality, national liberation, and not having a religion clearly distance her from the Nazi party.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 14, 2008, 10:27:17 am
I knöw she wäs Icelandïc... Can't remember where I heard that she was a Nazi though.

Speaking of umlats...

Mötorhead!
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 10:28:26 am
Bjork and Nazis, I haven't heard that one before.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Tycho on July 14, 2008, 11:36:06 am
page one in a music thread and Godwin's Law is already in action ;D great... ;D
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 14, 2008, 12:27:34 pm
After a brief google search, I discovered that Tycho is indeed right.

Less Nazis boys.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 14, 2008, 03:03:32 pm
Google said it was and therefore it's a fact!
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 14, 2008, 03:38:42 pm
Quote from: Kaleo on July 14, 2008, 12:27:34 pm
After a brief google search, I discovered that Tycho is indeed right.

Less Nazis boys.
What about Les Boys, Dire Straits?
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Plague on July 14, 2008, 04:20:46 pm
Having a friend introduce me to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was the biggest album to change both my life and my musical interests/guitar playing. From the opening chords of Breathe/Speak to Me it was just an entirely new sound to me. Hearing David Gilmour's (who I had the amazing opportunity to see live with Rick Wright and Dick Parry) emotive, lyrical guitar playing was what made me change to a Strat. Subsequently, the other Pink Floyd albums starting at Atom Heart Mother and ending at the Wall, and the early- to mid-era King Crimson and Yes albums have all been influential.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: snb on July 14, 2008, 04:30:22 pm
Quote from: Tycho on July 14, 2008, 11:36:06 am
page one in a music thread and Godwin's Law is already in action ;D great... ;D

whats "Godwin"? im serious
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: + OPTIMUS + on July 14, 2008, 04:32:39 pm
google before we kill you.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 14, 2008, 06:03:15 pm
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: snb on July 14, 2008, 09:26:27 pm
Quote from: + OPTIMUS + on July 14, 2008, 04:32:39 pm
google before we kill you.

sry its a habbit, ill try not to asked googalable questions next time
Title: Re: Search Engines That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: player1 on July 14, 2008, 09:58:24 pm
Quote from: snb on July 14, 2008, 09:26:27 pm
Quote from: + OPTIMUS + on July 14, 2008, 04:32:39 pm
google before we kill you.

sry its a habbit, ill try not to asked googalable questions next time

hey check out this great new website (http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en)
Title: Re: Albums That Still Fucking Rock!
Post by: player1 on July 15, 2008, 12:10:14 am
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RXQ7QMFTL.jpg) (http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4068/hpiefoto5cx.jpg)

Humble Pie (http://www.ljplus.ru/img3/t/h/the_slider04/humble_pie.jpg) - Performance Rockin' the Fillmore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Rockin'_the_Fillmore)

Quote from: I Walk on Gilded Splinters
I Walk thru the fire
An I Fly thru the smoke
I wanna see my enemies
At the end of my rope

Title: Re: Albums That Came Along at Just The Right Time
Post by: player1 on July 15, 2008, 12:32:45 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/Live_Govt-Mule-CD.jpg/200px-Live_Govt-Mule-CD.jpg) (http://image.allmusic.com/56/amg/pic200/drP100/P185/P18501S0FWE.jpg)

Gov't Mule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gov't_Mule) - Live... With a Little help From Our Friends (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live..._With_a_Little_Help_from_Our_Friends)

Quote from: Thorazine Shuffle
Time drags by
When you're boring
Don't care what you do care what you say
There comes a time
When you got to let the monster inside you
Let him come on out, come on out and play
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Habits
Post by: player1 on July 15, 2008, 06:42:13 am
(http://hardrockhideout.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/kiss_alive_album_cover.jpg) (http://www.kisshangout.50megs.com/images/importd11.jpg)

KISS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band)) - Alive! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive!)

Quote from: Cold Gin
Its time to leave and get another quart
Around the corner at the liquor store
Haha, the cheapest stuff is all I need
To get me back on my feet again

Title: Re: Albums That Freaked Me Out
Post by: player1 on July 15, 2008, 06:56:38 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Too_Much_Too_Soon_-_The_New_York_Dolls.jpg) (http://image.guim.co.uk/Guardian/travel/gallery/2007/aug/03/usa.newyork/NYDollsGemRedfern-3366.jpg)

New York Dolls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Dolls) in TOO MUCH TOO SOON (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_Too_Soon_(album))

Quote from: Personality Crisis
All about that Personality Crisis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9aBySJkRQ) you got it while it was hot
But now frustration and heartache is what you got
Title: Re: Albums That Changed My Attitudes
Post by: player1 on July 15, 2008, 07:29:37 am
(http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/pics/acdcifyouwantblood1.gif) (http://www.sleazeroxx.com/bands/acdc/acdc1.jpg)

AC/DC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Want_Blood_You've_Got_It) - If You Want Blood (You've Got It) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3wXkv1VW54)

Quote
Whole Lotta Rosie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPwxD94IBkE)
Ain't no fairy story
Ain't no skin and bone
But you give it all you got
Weighing in at nineteen stone


Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 15, 2008, 08:28:42 am
(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_NeilYoungHarvest.jpg)
Harvest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_(album))

(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_LeonardCohenTheFuture.gif)
The Future (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 15, 2008, 09:22:08 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 15, 2008, 08:28:42 am
(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_NeilYoungHarvest.jpg)
Harvest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_(album))

Good taste, Lava.
Title: Re: Albums That Are Really Good, Too
Post by: player1 on July 16, 2008, 12:41:57 am
Quote from: Kaleo on July 15, 2008, 09:22:08 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 15, 2008, 08:28:42 am
Harvest

Good taste, Lava.

True. I also enjoyed Rust Never Sleeps and After the Gold Rush.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 16, 2008, 10:00:28 am
I'm not a big fan of Neil Young myself, but as musician, I respect him greatly.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Bajsefar on July 16, 2008, 11:07:29 am
Madrugada- The Deep End (cool Norwegian band, you probably haven't heard of it, but it is worthy of a checking out.
(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3816/night28qu.jpg)
Majesty (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xJCdfZk2eVo) (Not from that album, Madrugada material is somewhat sparse on The Tube.)
Stories From The Streets (http://youtube.com/watch?v=IPQL9SzHmjg&feature=related)

Of course, Pink Floyd- The Wall made an impression on me, and filled quite a few hours, weeks and months of my life.
(http://lineout.thestranger.com/files/2007/03/pink_floyd_the_wall.jpg)

This rough, disturbing collection of tracks by tool, Undertow, has moved me in the past, and still does.
(http://xpressurf.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/tool-undertow.jpg)
Prison Sex (http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5sIXUbMgF0)
It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young, vestal then, you know it hurt me.
But Im breathing so I guess Im still alive
Even the signs seemed to tell me otherwise.
Got my hands down, and my head down,
And my eyes closed, my throat wide open.
I do unto others what has been done to me.
Do unto others what has been done to you.
I'm treading water. I need to sleep a while.
My lamb and martyr, you look so precious.
Wont you, wont you come a bit closer.
Close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this. I cant stand to burn too long.
Release in sodomy. the one sweet moment Im whole.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 18, 2008, 11:04:22 pm
I wonder how I could forget this one... One of the few I still listen to on a weekly basis.
(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_PortisheadPortishead.jpg)

And while we are being all smart with the lyrics:

Western Eyes
Code: [Select]
Forgotten throes of anothers life
The heart of love is their only light
Faithless greeds, consolidating
Holding down sweet charity
With western eyes and serpents breath
We lay our own conscience to rest
But I'm aching at the view
Yes I'm breaking at the scenes just like you
They have values of a certain taste
The innocent they can hardly wait
To crucify, invalidating
Turning to dishonesty
With western eyes and serpents breath
They lay their own conscience to rest
But then they lie and then they dare to be
Hidden heros candidly
So I'm aching at the view
Yes I'm breaking at the scenes just like you
(I feel so cold on hookers and gin...this mess we're in!)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 19, 2008, 12:59:20 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 18, 2008, 11:04:22 pm
(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_PortisheadPortishead.jpg)

Oh god yes! I love that album. The genre is not my usual taste in music, but that album is perfect. Sort of an electronic-lounge fusion.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Sounded Great Since 1972
Post by: player1 on July 19, 2008, 07:31:34 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Machine_Head_album_cover.jpg) (http://www.dennishanna.com/purple222.jpg)

Deep Purple (Mk IIa) (http://www.thehighwaystar.com/rosas/misc/dp-tree.html) - Machine Head (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Head_(album))

Track listing:
All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.
"Highway Star" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXWTRuhFK1U&feature) – 6:05
"Maybe I'm a Leo" – 4:51
"Pictures of Home" – 5:03
"Never Before" – 3:56
"Smoke on the Water" – 5:40
"Lazy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6x8GGXrCFQ) – 7:19
"Space Truckin'" – 4:31

Personnel:
Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Ian Gillan - vocals, harmonica
Roger Glover - bass
Jon Lord - piano, organ, keyboards
Ian Paice - drums

Quote from: Highway Star
Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that Im on the road again
Oooh Im in heaven again Ive got everything
Like a moving ground an open road
And everything

Title: Re: Albums That Were Produced by Rick Rubin
Post by: player1 on July 19, 2008, 08:10:32 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Mastersofreality_cover_mastersofreality1988.jpg) (http://www.mastersofreality.de/assets/images/1988_mor_blue_garden.jpg)

Masters of Reality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Reality) - Masters of Reality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Reality_%28album%29)

Quote from: Domino
Dominos fallin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5IcnD9gqo)
Black spiders spinnin' (http://www.last.fm/music/Masters+of+Reality)
The white glove's flashin' (http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/1a/5b/363dd250fca0a6d0df718010._AA240_.L.jpg)
And I ain't winnin' (http://www.imheavyduty.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mastersofreality.jpg)

Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: kaziorvb on July 19, 2008, 09:48:18 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/MilesDavisKindofBlue.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Bob.JPG)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/BobMarley-Kaya.jpg)

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000HJV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Iron_Maiden_-_Brave_New_World.jpg)

(http://dan.friml.com/cds/Images/158.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Korn-Korn.jpg)

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e259/flowbeone/PerryP1995blackarkexperrymentsG.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Musicfor18cover.jpg)


Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Fukacz on July 19, 2008, 11:29:03 pm
(http://www.soulflyweb.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/disc02.jpg) Their lyrics really made me think about some 'problems'. Whole album's great.
 
(http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/discography_IMG/fearofthedark.jpg) - my 1st metal album, I really liked that one and it made me <3 Iron Maiden and then all the other bands
(http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/discography_IMG/numberofthebeast.jpg) - I mean the song "Hallowed be thy name" - its meaning ofc
(http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/discography_IMG/somewhereintime.jpg) - "Wasted Years', "Sea of madness", "Heaven can wait" - the lyrics & the meaning
+ some other songs of theirs' (too many pics to post all of 'em, I guess)

(http://www.killswitchengage.com/assets/Image/releases/7_alb_aojb_large.jpg) - mainly "Life to Lifeless" and "Just Barely Breathing"
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000H5K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) - "Cut-Throat", "Breed Apart", "Born Stubborn"
(http://www.pfk.one.pl/recenzje/kaliber44_ksiega_tajemnicza.jpg) Whole album. (hardcore psychorap)
(http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2416002.jpg) Whole album o' theirs'
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/615vKv1rWPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg) - "Live for This"
(http://www.wlochaty.most.org.pl/wydawnictwa/zmowa.jpg) - some songs of this Polish punk band

I guess there could be more, but I'm already bored of searching for mah "influencial" albums.

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON !!
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 20, 2008, 12:57:21 am
Probably the most influential album in my life.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Slayer_-_Show_No_Mercy.jpg)
Quote from: Slayer - Black Magic
Cursed
Black magic night
We've been struck down
Down in this Hell
Spells surround me day and night
Stricken by the force of evil light
The force of evil light

Cast
Under his spell
Blinding my eyes
Twisting my mind
Fight to resist the evil inside
Captive of a force of Satan's might
A force of Satan's might

Fighting the curse
Break it I must
Laughing in sorrow
Crying in lust

My strength slips fast
Soon I must fall
Victim of fortune
My sources grow small
Life slips away
As demons come forth
Death takes my hand
And captures my soul
Title: Re: Albums That Don't Have One Bad Song
Post by: player1 on July 20, 2008, 01:06:11 am
(http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-07-31/Heaven_Tonight.jpg) (http://www.musicphotography.com/FirstAve35/CheapTrick2003.jpg)

Cheap Trick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick) - Heaven Tonight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Tonight)

Track listing:
All songs written by Rick Nielsen, except where noted.
"Surrender" – 4:16
"On Top of the World" – 4:01
"California Man" (Roy Wood) – 3:44
"High Roller" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvBa6ZXwHMc) (Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson, Robin Zander) – 3:58
"Auf Wiedersehen" (Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson) – 3:42
"Takin' Me Back" – 4:52
"On the Radio" – 4:33
"Heaven Tonight" (Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson) – 5:25
"Stiff Competition" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBVmkZZUr8Q) – 3:40
"How Are You?" (Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson) – 4:21
"Oh Claire" (Bun E. Carlos, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson, Robin Zander) – 1:10

Quote from: Auf Wiedersehn
There are many here among us
You feel that life is a joke
And for you we sing this final song
For you there is no hope

link edit'd

Title: Re: Albums That Are Also Great
Post by: player1 on July 20, 2008, 01:34:05 am
(http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/2044913-1312550982.jpg) (http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/images/unknown.jpg)

Cheap Trick, In Color. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Color) ...And in Black and White. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/CheapTrick_Live_atBudokan.jpg)

Track listing:
All songs written by Rick Nielsen, except where noted.
"Hello There" — 1:41
"Big Eyes" — 3:10
"Downed" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wY8aAzZYoY) — 4:12
"I Want You to Want Me" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyzvU6OGr_U) — 3:11
"You're All Talk" (Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson) — 3:36
"Oh Caroline" — 2:59
"Clock Strikes Ten" — 2:59
"Southern Girls" (Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson) — 3:44
"Come On, Come On" — 2:41
"So Good to See You" — 3:37

Quote from: Downed
Ooh, you think of Jesus Christ
You walk on water but don't bet your life, oh no
All you walk is a fine line
Its such a strange strain on you


Title: Re: Albums That I Listened to Repeatedly
Post by: player1 on July 20, 2008, 01:59:31 am
(http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2007-07-29/Cheap_Trick.jpg) (http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/images/2007/09/05/cheaptrick.jpg)

Cheap Trick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=361Cx7OtcEQ) - Cheap Trick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Trick_%281977_album%29)

Track listing:
All songs written by Rick Nielsen except where noted.
"ELO Kiddies" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZjIDM_Bllk) — 3:41
"Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School" — 4:44
"Taxman, Mr. Thief" — 4:16
"Cry, Cry" (Nielsen, Zander, Petersson) — 4:22
"Oh, Candy" — 3:07
"Hot Love" — 2:30
"Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1K-hrMNlUo) (Terry Reid) — 4:35
"He's a Whore" — 2:43
"Mandocello" — 4:47
"The Ballad of T.V. Violence" — 5:15

Quote from: Taxman, Mr. Thief
He hates you, he loves money
And he'll steal your shit and think that it's funny
Like the Beatles he ain't human
Now the taxman is out to get you

Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 20, 2008, 11:07:11 am
Hi I'm player1 and because I'm scared people might overlook my posting, I just triple post.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Eeeew Spiders on July 20, 2008, 02:38:40 pm
The Shaggs philosophy of the world (1969)
note: can't believe this made it on a record, but you could view them as the godmothers of lowfi music, dissonances in pop music, the inspiration that get sonic youth to what they are now
(http://img13.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/f/c/6/b/1/fc6b11dac11e3d9a921ef29557b43c3d_full.jpg)
The Shaggs were an American all-female rock group formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1968. The band was composed of sisters Dorothy "Dot" Wiggin (vocals/lead guitar), Betty Wiggin (vocals/rhythm guitar), Helen Wiggin (drums), and later Rachel Wiggin (bass). The Shaggs were formed in 1968 on the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin, who believed that his mother foresaw the band's rise to stardom. The band's only studio album, Philosophy of the World, was released in 1969. The album failed to garner attention, though the band continued to exist as a locally popular live act. The Shaggs disbanded in 1975.
listen: myspace (http://www.myspace.com/itstheshaggs)
about: wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs)

Naked City torture garden (1989)
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003YUK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
With showing the cover of the actual "torture garden" record I would violate some forum rules, so the cover shown is of the album "Leng Tch'e (1992)".

Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" [1] to test the limits of composition (and improvisation) in a traditional rock band lineup. Its music incorporated recognizable elements of jazz, grindcore, surf, classical, heavy metal, country music, punk rock and dozens of other genres.
listen: myspace (http://www.myspace.com/nekkedcity)
about: wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_City_(band))
Ever believed you could put this many songs on one album? :D
Track listing

   1. "Blood Is Thin"
   2. "Demon Sanctuary"
   3. "Thrash Jazz Assassin"
   4. "Dead Spot"
   5. "Bonehead"
   6. "Speedball"
   7. "Blood Duster"
   8. "Pile Driver"
   9. "Shangkuan Ling-Feng"
  10. "Numbskull"
  11. "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh"
  12. "Jazz Snob Eat Shit"
  13. "The Prestigitator"
  14. "No Reason To Believe"
  15. "Hellraiser"
  16. "Torture Garden"
  17. "Slan"
  18. "Hammerhead"
  19. "The Ways of Pain"
  20. "The Noose"
  21. "Sack of Shit"
  22. "Blunt Instrument"
  23. "Osaka Bondage"
  24. "Igneous Ejaculation"
  25. "Shallow Grave"
  26. "Ujaku"
  27. "Kaoru"
  28. "Dead Dread"
  29. "Billy Liar"
  30. "Victims of Torture"
  31. "Speedfreaks"
  32. "New Jersey Scum Swamp"
  33. "S & M Sniper"
  34. "Pigfucker"
  35. "Cairo Chop Shop"
  36. "Fuck the Facts"
  37. "Obeah Man"
  38. "Facelifter"
  39. "N.Y. Flat Top Box"
  40. "Whiplash"
  41. "The Blade"
  42. "Gob of Spit"


Shellac terraform (1998)
note: this is prolly next to the Pixies the only rock band i like.
The great thing about shellac is their sound. Steve Albini, more known as a producer, has developed his own way for miking amplifiers and drums.
This is something you can hear for example on Nirvanas "In Utero", and ofcourse in the productions of his own band Shellac.
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000060LU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Shellac is an American rock group composed of Steve Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass guitar and vocals) and Todd Trainer (drums and vocals).
Although they have been classified as noise rock and math rock, they describe themselves as a "minimalist rock trio".
listen: myspace (http://www.myspace.com/shellacnorthamerica)

Coltrane impressions
note: The track India is what got me into free jazz.
(http://www.highfidelity.net/catalog/images/AS42.jpg)
with     John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Eric Dolphy and Reggie Workman
1.   India - (live)
2.   Up 'Gainst the Wall
3.   Impressions - (live)
4.   After the Rain

Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c9/ShapeOfJazzToCome.jpg)
The Shape of Jazz to Come is an influential album by Ornette Coleman. It was his debut album for Atlantic Records, who released it in late 1959.
The Shape of Jazz to Come was one of the first avant-garde jazz albums ever recorded. It was recorded in 1959 by Coleman's piano-less quartet. The album was considered shocking at the time, because it had no recognizable chord structure and included simultaneous improvisation by the performers in a much freer style than previously in jazz.
read: wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Jazz_to_Come)
listen: lonely woman (http://youtube.com/watch?v=NgTr8Z2ioMk)

Taku Sugimoto Guitar Quartett
Note: the thing that got me into reductionist music
(http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/Sugimoto_Guitar%20Quartet.jpg)
taku sugimoto - guitar
tetuzi akiyama - guitar
yoshihide otomo - guitar
toshimaru nakamura  - guitar
read: bagatellen review (http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/row/001141.html)

Fred Frith step across the border
note: this got me into free improvisation
(http://www.dicksondee.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/fredfrith_albumcover_stepacrossborder_1990.jpg)


Radian juxtaposition (2004)
note: maybe the only thing i like from austria :D
(http://www.radian.at/upload/Discography/juxta_mi.jpg)
Martin Brandlmayr - drums, vibraphone, sampler & sequencer
Stefan Németh - modular synths, guitar
John Norman - bass
listen & read: radian.at (http://www.radian.at/?n=Discography.Juxtaposition)

EDIT: fixed spelling
Title: Re: Albums That Are Very Free Form
Post by: player1 on July 21, 2008, 03:43:53 am
Wow, I followed some of the links. Very interesting. Thanks.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 24, 2008, 02:56:38 pm
(http://satgnu.net/upload/lava/album_cover_TomWaitsBlueValentine.jpg)

How could I forget the album that made me decide at I young age that I would take up smoking tobacco as soon as possible!?
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced My Speech Patterns
Post by: player1 on July 24, 2008, 07:58:25 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Nighthawks_At_The_Diner.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks_at_the_Diner)

Like Bukowski set to bebop, a minstrel for our time.

Quote from: Emotional Weather Report
...colder than a ticket taker's smile
at the Ivar Theatre, on a Saturday night

Quote from: Better Off Without a Wife
I like to sleep until the crack of noon
midnight howlin' at the moon
goin' out when I wanto, comin' home when I please
I don't have to ask permission
if I want to go out fishing
and I never have to ask for the keys

Quote from: Warm Beer and Cold Women
warm beer and cold women, I just don't fit in
every joint I stumbled into tonight
that's just how it's been
all these double knit strangers with
gin and vermouth and recycled stories
in the naugahyde booths

Quote from: Spare Parts
well the dawn cracked hard just like a bull whip
cause it wasn't takin' no lip from the night before
as it shook out the street, the stew bums showed up
just like bounced checks, rubbin' their necks
and the sky turned the color of Pepto-Bismol
and the parking lots growled
and my old sports coat full of promissory notes
and a receipt from a late night motel
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Menace13 on July 24, 2008, 11:25:38 pm
(http://www.okjomusic.com/images/switchfoot-beautiful-letdown.jpg)
Switchfoot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchfoot) - The Beautiful Letdown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_Letdown) -- The songs "Dare You to Move" and "This is Your Life" really changed my life. "Gone" and "Meant to Live" are awesome, too.

"Meant to Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WGYWyPU0I)" – 3:20
"This Is Your Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuE95Sq0QlU)" – 4:18
"More Than Fine" – 4:14
"Ammunition" – 3:45
"Dare You to Move (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_E7xS7AtQ)" – 4:15
"Redemption" – 3:06
"The Beautiful Letdown" – 5:20
"Gone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCFkZpK1XSQ)" – 3:45
"On Fire" – 4:39
"Adding to the Noise" – 2:50
"Twenty-Four" – 4:52

<3 Switchfoot!!
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 25, 2008, 01:18:27 pm
Oh and how could I forget...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Nin-the_downward_spiral800.jpg) (http://www.ninwiki.com/The_Downward_Spiral_(halo))
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You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you
Help me I broke apart my insides, help me I’ve got no soul to sell
Help me the only thing that works for me, help me get away from myself

I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God

You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything
Help me tear down my reason, help me it’s your sex I can smell
Help me you make me perfect, help me become somebody else

I want to fuck you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God

Through every forest, above the trees
Within my stomach, scraped off my knees
I drink the honey inside your hive
You are the reason I stay alive
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 25, 2008, 04:02:37 pm
NIN is cool if you have versions of their songs without all the emo whining, is my experience. Also, the amount of industrial clutter sounds you hear in NIN/Reznor productions that sound a bit like sounds used in id Software games is cute as fuck.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 25, 2008, 04:37:50 pm
Quake 1 nailgun ammo box ftw ;D
(http://www.ninwiki.com/images/0/0d/QuakeNailgunAmmo.jpg)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Bajsefar on July 25, 2008, 07:42:11 pm
NIN made a lot of Quake sounds, if I am not mistaken. :)

And, oh- NIN would not be the same without emo whining.

Some music needs to do heat bleedin' songs, too, even if it aint that cool. :p
It's not like it's new...
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 26, 2008, 12:45:18 am
I am insulted that you are associating NIN with emos. Seriously fucked up people, yes, but not emos.

In other news, russia's banning emos, apparently.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 26, 2008, 09:27:07 am
NIN is very "my parents don't understand me and the world sucks" emo.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Kaleo on July 26, 2008, 10:08:27 am
No, NIN is more "I took drugs and they fucked up my life".

If he's saying that life sucks, he's acknowledging that he fucked up his life and its his fault.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 26, 2008, 10:30:42 am
No, music is what you feel it is. Since I feel it different than you do, we are both completely right.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Eeeew Spiders on July 26, 2008, 10:38:20 am
May I suggest an alternative to NIN,

Scraping foetus off the wheel Hole
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2565916626_cd2d3216f1.jpg?v=0)
Foetus is J.G.Thirlwell.

Website (http://foetus.org/)
Time marches on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbe33jNTKz4)
Meet you in Poland Baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDre17rNvV0)

But I am so not anymore into industrial (since years and years), except maybe Merzbow, if you can call it that:

Merbow Pulse Demon
(http://www.emd.pl/wiki_data/images/e/e6/Merzbow_pulse_demon.jpg)
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merzbow)
Minus Zero (http://youtube.com/watch?v=pGzrL8J0t-c)
and talking computer games sound: Cannibalism of Machine (http://youtube.com/watch?v=A5FWAj6oSRQ&feature=related)
Here he uses a computer game (with his own sounds) as the instrument/interface/sound trigger

true meaning of industrial music? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z2aqOIFgp0Y)

But thats the last of industrial music i will post, thats so 80's, sheeesh
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 26, 2008, 03:52:12 pm
Quote from: Eeeew Spiders on July 26, 2008, 10:38:20 am
May I suggest an alternative to NIN,

Scraping foetus off the wheel Hole
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2565916626_cd2d3216f1.jpg?v=0)
Foetus is J.G.Thirlwell.

Website (http://foetus.org/)
Time marches on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbe33jNTKz4)
Meet you in Poland Baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDre17rNvV0)



That was terrible.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Eeeew Spiders on July 26, 2008, 06:34:11 pm
Quote from: TinMan on July 26, 2008, 03:52:12 pm
Quote from: Eeeew Spiders on July 26, 2008, 10:38:20 am
Scraping foetus off the wheel Hole
That was terrible.

I hope you wasn't expecting something beautiful from a band with that name
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 26, 2008, 07:40:52 pm
I was. Gutted With Broken Glass is pretty beautiful for a band that has a song titled Fetus Milkshake (NOT a cover)
Title: Re: If you listen close you'll hear cherubs cry
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 01:42:03 am
Something like this (http://www.venturebros.com/files/look%20away.mp3)?

Or you may just want to check out his (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Thirlwell)/their (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foetus_(band)) website (http://www.foetus.org/).

P.S. He did the music for the Venture Bros. (http://www.imeem.com/arthurt676/music/UeawRJaS/venture_brothers_open/), besides being an industrial music "pioneer" (at least according to the loyal fans of Foetus I knew back in NYC).
Title: Re: Hybridization, Intersection & Defying Genre
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 02:38:21 am
(http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/090/97014.jpg) (http://homepages.nyu.edu/~alr237/diekreuzen_2.jpg)

Die Kreuzen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Kreuzen) - October File (http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=162)

Check out the songs "Counting Cracks", "Cool Breeze", and "Man in the Trees", as well as the track "All White" from the first LP (now included with October File on the CD reissue).
Title: Hitting close to home, perhaps?
Post by: Rocinante on July 27, 2008, 06:06:37 am
(http://www.srhuston.net/junkpile/Rush_2112.jpg)

Rush - 2112 (1976)

One of my favorite albums of theirs, and apparently Jerry Stiller (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fssK62wQxxg) as well (at least A Passage To Bangkok (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8J_7ZMvnd0) anyway).  The more I listen to the title track nowadays, the more I want to start referring to the MPAA and the RIAA, and all of their ilk, as the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx:

Quote from: Part 2, 'The Temples of Syrinx'
We've taken care of everything
The words you hear, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It's one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls

Read the lyrics (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Rush/2112.html) in their entirety (the notes are part of the story, but not sung in the song) and listen along (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4588214823826435944&q=2112&ei=_f-LSPKxCI_UqAKR0e3OAw) if you like - I love the sound of part V (Oracle: The Dream) myself, which is unfortunately missing from that video there.

It may not be one of their radio staples like Tom Sawyer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnubQY4xpKI), but it's good listening - and like I said, almost prophetic when you hear about radio stations bought by CrapChannel and what the mafiAA is up to nowadays.
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 06:55:54 am
I <3 that record. Actually, I'm enough of a prog nerd to love all of the early Rush, up to and including the album that Tom Sawyer was on. But I really dig the crusty 70s stuff, up to and including All the World's a Stage. The next two studio albums after 2112 were awesome, too. After that, I was no longer on a strict diet of prog rock, and we somewhat parted ways (as in, I could no longer afford to buy every single album). Caress of Steel is a killer album, also. And Fly by Night and Rush were the stuff of high school keggers. My personal favorites at one time were the two after 2112: A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres.
Title: Re: Albums That Influenced Lots of People
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 07:19:38 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Budgie_Squawk.jpg/200px-Budgie_Squawk.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Budgie_Squawk.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/NeverTurnYourBackonaFriend.jpg/200px-NeverTurnYourBackonaFriend.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NeverTurnYourBackonaFriend.jpg)

Budgie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie_%28band%29) - Squawk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squawk_%28album%29) and Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Turn_Your_Back_on_a_Friend)

Quote from: Crash Course in Brain Surgery
Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
On they're burning quickly turning
Knife of words is driving me insane, insane
Yeah, yeah

Quote from: Breadfan
Breadfan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg)
Take it all away
Never give an inch
Gotta make a mint
Gotta make me a million

Covered not just by Metallica, but also Soundgarden, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, and others.


Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 27, 2008, 07:27:22 am
If so many albums have influenced your life, I wonder how moldable you must be.
Title: Re: 45s, 33s, reel-to-reel, cassettes, 8-tracks, CDs, mp3s & iTunes
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 08:08:43 am
Quote from: Lava Croft on July 27, 2008, 07:27:22 am
When I stop and think that so many albums have influenced your life, I remember how old you must be.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/The12yearoldgenius.JPG)

(http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/charles_countryf.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Supremesatcopa-1965.jpg)

(http://www.raw-tcsd.com/images/clark5.us.24128.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/HA_WhippedCream.jpg)

(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HBmkUv2EL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

(http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/H/herman_goodf.jpg)

Before I even started buying 45s, these were my favorite groups and albums. The first record I ever bought was a 45 of "I Feel Fine" (when it was a new song). I was also quite fond of Nat King Cole, Roger Miller, Hank Williams, Sr., Chet Atkins, and any kind of surf/spy/western guitar, latin/bossanova/cocktail stuff, or boogaloo/R&B/souljazz music. They had good music here in America, in '65. Before the British Invasion totally took over, and the rock era got fully underway. I was four. My family had a lot of records. We listened to a lot of LPs, AM radio, and watched a lot of variety shows. There was a console stereo in the living room about 3 feet high by 3 feet deep by 4 feet wide, with a well for LPs at one end, a phonograph with a 16-33-45-78 selector and a tuner with a giant dial. We never even switched it over to FM until about 1973. The first audio device I ever owned, besides the then-ubiquitous AM radio, was a consumer Aiwa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CBpaef1Vc) reel-to-reel tape deck, before cassettes were even used for music distribution in the US. I used to record songs off the AM radio, so I wouldn't have to buy the singles. I was maybe ten by then. Imagine that sound quality.

P.S. I was 11 the year your favorite Neil Young album came out. Check out what else came out that year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_in_music#Albums_released).
Title: Re: The First Two LPs I Ever Bought
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 08:37:13 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Ejgh.jpg)

With my first paycheck...

and, when I got my second paycheck:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/Jethro-Tull-MU---The-Best-Of-275073.jpg/200px-Jethro-Tull-MU---The-Best-Of-275073.jpg)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 27, 2008, 01:11:11 pm
Hey player1, if you just collect all album covers from Wikipedia and post them all here, you are done!
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Eeeew Spiders on July 27, 2008, 04:37:45 pm
I am pretty sure he owns or had own every single one he posted.
I can also name at least a dozen albums that i would call influential to me, or maybe even a dozen per life stage.
And also, many album covers are a treat just to see, bring back memories, or for the pure aesthetics of it.
Also referencing known sites is a hell lot easier than to having to scan them :D
Also with some postings, like the link he provided to wikipedia about foetus is helpful for those that just dismiss
it as ugly music, when in it's time it influenced a whole music genre: the music genre that bands exactly like NIN are
now collecting the fruits of.
The Stevie Wonder one is terrific :D

Also music diversity is not a sign of weak character, I really like a lot of music directions, the main thing is always for me, how
sincere the music is played, how well the music is played, originality, vibe and spirit.
It can be soul, punk, minimal, new music, rock, folk or experimental, it's how it is delivered.
Sticking to one genre is ..., well, you get to listen to lot of crap too :D

You yourself mentioned Harvest, an album I could have posted myself. One that I like equally is
Neil Young Sleeping with angels
(http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf500/f589/f58901r9k0d.jpg)
The sound on the album is incredible, very soft over the top distortion combined with fragile playing, driftin' away,
maybe the only Neil Young I still put on once in while since last century.

Things I still listen a lot:

Kletka Red Hybrid
(http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre700/e783/e783821db3s.jpg)
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcIFFjBVAFo)
Berlin based band, mixing up east european and jewish music with punk, surf and experimental.

Ne Zhdali Hey, Driver, Cool Down The Horses
(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/3095/cover_3411162372007.jpg)
Russian Avantgard Rock type of thing, blending punk energy with the complexity of true progressive rock (think Henry Cow), occasional
funk rhythms and Balkanese folk melodies.

The Necks Townsville / Drive By
Each record is a great one, here my favorites. Somewhere between jazz, improvisation, minimal music and rock, each concert, as well as most of their albums consist of one long (40 min - 70 min) set, based on a theme which develops from there.
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_cxtMb0Q5nEA/RyC2OR2Wz1I/AAAAAAAAAu8/qqy0il0O-pM/s320/RERNECKS2+The+Necks+-+Tovnsville.jpg)
Townsville is in my opinion their best live record, listen to it on a good stereo, the sounds, especially the piano sounds amazing.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21FNMQBR4FL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Drive By is a studio album, and is much more conceptual. Thats a 60 min slow groove, and a lot more electrical than most of their stuff.
website (http://www.thenecks.com/)
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Necks)
Kilt Maker on youtube (pretty old registration of one of their concerts) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=P0uCGDCNKno)

Phil Niblock
(http://www.anthemrecordsinc.com/products/Niblock%20Touch%203%20Cover.jpg)
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Niblock)
Music (http://touchshop.org/media/Sethwork.mp3?sessId=71007B4BB2764AE46AABBBC74525A035)
Quote: Phill Niblock's third release on the Touch label. Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V. Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. Touch Three is minimalism in the classic sense of the word, if that makes sense. Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones, and the result is sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, geologically slow. Changes are almost imperceptible, and his music has a tendency of creeping up on you.

The Ex scrabbling at the lock
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/278591.jpg)
One of two albums they recorded with Tom Cora. The Ex is a band from Amsterdam, Holland, formed in 1979, but are still very busy today.
Influenced bands like Sonic Youth and Tortoise, the guitar player from The Ex, Andy Moor has collaborated on many albums with members from sonic youth and others.
Maybe Lava knows them :-)
band website (http://www.theex.nl/)
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ex_(band))
myspace (http://www.myspace.com/theexnl)

Ex Orkest een rondje holland
(http://www.lucex.nl/images/rondje225.jpg)
Big band orchestra playing The Ex songs comprising of The Ex members plus several dutch musicians known
from the classical/avantgard music environment in holland.

Edit 1: fixed intro message, added a statement here and there.
Edit 2: Added the Ex
Edit 3: Its hard sometimes to add a link to music, especially with bands that produce albums, where no album is like the previous one,
the music linked to is not always the music from that album. Still, it should give an idea.
But that's what I like in some bands, where every album is completely different, many groups just produce one album after the other with just similar stuff.
Title: Re: Albums That Were Surprisingly Awesome
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 08:10:05 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Roxy_Music_Greatest_Hits.jpg/200px-Roxy_Music_Greatest_Hits.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxy_Music)

Roxy Music (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/assets/artists/roxy-music/gallery/1.jpg) - Greatest Hits (http://tachyonic.net/roxy/pics/roxy_band0.jpg)

Quote from: Love is the Drug
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AvCLJHypDU) I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug for me

Quote
Then: out of the blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9QpI3wVvek&feature)
Love came rushing in
Out of the sky
Came the sun
Out of left field
Came a lucky day
Out of the blue
No more pain

Title: Re: Bambi vs. Godzilla
Post by: player1 on July 27, 2008, 08:27:35 pm
Quote from: Eeeew Spiders on July 27, 2008, 04:37:45 pm
a dozen per life stage

@Eeeew Spiders: Nice. Thanks. Good stuff. I'm having fun chasing the links you posted. :)

@Mod LC:
(http://www.angelicdreamz.com/store/pillows/embroidered/sitbyme.gif)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Lava Croft on July 28, 2008, 08:30:26 pm
It's hard to notice when you are being teased, is it? :>
Title: We Don't Care What You Say...
Post by: player1 on July 29, 2008, 02:27:02 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/OverkillFUoriginal.jpg) (http://www.thegauntlet.com/interviews/pic/overkill-band2005.jpg)

Overkill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overkill_(band)) - !!!FUCK YOU!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!!!Fuck_You!!!)

Quote from: Fuck You
Fuck you!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZigZoX5xg)


Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: TinMan on July 29, 2008, 03:49:57 am
Hanson Brothers - Sudden Death
(http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/2285/hansonbrossuddendeathbd6.jpg)
1. Hockey Song
2. Stick Boy
3. We're Brewing
4. Not For Mary Lou
5. You Can't Hide The Heino
6. Third Man In
7. Danielle (She Don't Care About Hockey)
8. I Never Will Forget Her
9. Four Heads, One Brain
10. Rink Rat
11. Pea, Pie And Pub
12. I'll Ask The 8-Ball
13. My Problem
14. He Looked Allot Like Tiger Williams
15. Sudden Death
Title: Re: Ambience That Has Influenced Your Life
Post by: player1 on July 29, 2008, 08:39:45 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Music_for_Airports.jpg) (http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2007/01/note/Eno_-_Music_for_Airports_back.jpg)

Brian Eno (http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/eno77b.jpg) - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_1:_Music_for_Airports)

Track listing:
"1/1" : Acoustic & electric piano; synthesizer. – 16:30
"2/1" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLh3WanSfg) : Vocals only. – 8:20
"1/2" : Vocals; acoustic piano. – 11:30
"2/2" : Synthesizer only. – 9:30 (listed on most packaging as 6:00)
Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Eeeew Spiders on July 29, 2008, 10:38:07 pm
Quote from: Eeeew Spiders on July 20, 2008, 02:38:40 pm
Shellac terraform (1998)
note: this is prolly next to the Pixies the only rock band i like.
The great thing about shellac is their sound. Steve Albini, more known as a producer, has developed his own way for miking amplifiers and drums.
This is something you can hear for example on Nirvanas "In Utero", and ofcourse in the productions of his own band Shellac.
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000060LU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Shellac is an American rock group composed of Steve Albini (guitar and vocals), Bob Weston (bass guitar and vocals) and Todd Trainer (drums and vocals).
Although they have been classified as noise rock and math rock, they describe themselves as a "minimalist rock trio".

I found my favorite tune from this record to listen to, though it's split into two parts (12 minute track in 2x6min footage)
if you don't understand minimalism, this ain't for you .)
Didn`t We Deserve A Look At You... (Part 1) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MpGMUjlpzAc)
Didn`t We Deserve A Look At You... (Part 2) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wbt9SSK1wps)
I was never a fan of singing and lyrics in a song, and this is no exception, just listen past the intro singing.
(Lyrics always automatically means emo to me, xcept maybe with Randy Newman or songs in languages I dont understand).

More reading: Baseball and Canada: Shellac (http://www.urbanhonking.com/greatestband/archives/2005/02/baseball_and_ca.html)
Title: Re: Albums That Really Spaced Me Out
Post by: player1 on August 04, 2008, 08:03:02 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Ventures-In-Space.jpg/200px-Ventures-In-Space.jpg) (http://www.donwalker.net/images/ventures_logo_pic.jpg)

The Ventures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ventures_discography) - In Space (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ventures_in_Space)

Track listing (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Ventures/The%2BVentures%2BPlay%2BTelstar%2B%252F%2B%2528The%2529%2BVentures%2Bin%2BSpace):
Side 1
   1. "Out of Limits"
   2. "He Never Came Back"
   3. "Moon Child"
   4. "Fear"
   5. "Exploration in Terror"
   6. "War of the Satellites"
Side 2
   1. "The Bat" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvESbFvJqo)
   2. "Penetration"
   3. "Love Goddess of Venus"
   4. "Solar Race"
   5. "The Fourth Dimension"
   6. "Twilight Zone"

Personnel
    * Bob Bogle - bass
    * Don Wilson - guitar
    * Nokie Edwards - guitar
    * Mel Taylor - drums
    * Red Rhodes - pedal steel guitar
Title: Go-Go, Swing, Bar-B-Cue, Soul, Acid Jazz, Lounge
Post by: player1 on August 04, 2008, 08:18:41 am
(http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/images/local/250/9EDC5BCC14254CB7829D822F5AA74222.jpg) (http://www.orinjj.force9.co.uk/JimmySmith/pix/hi/60s/cat/cat2.jpg)

Jimmy Smith (http://www.notlos.com/pictures/thumbnails/400x300/JSmith2.jpg) - The Cat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJsE9fo9pT0)

Track listing:
   1. "Theme from 'Joy House'"
   2. "The Cat" (http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Smith/_/The+Cat)
   3. "Basin Street Blues"
   4. "Main title from 'the Carpetbaggers'"
   5. "Chicago Serenade"
   6. "St. Louis Blues"
   7. "Delon's Blues"
   8. "Blues in the Night"
Title: Re: Albums with Ginger Baker!!!
Post by: player1 on August 08, 2008, 08:15:03 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Mastersofreality_cover_sufferbus1992.jpg) (http://image.allmusic.com/56/amg/pic200/drP000/P019/P01935S4VCL.jpg)

Masters of Reality (http://www.mastersofreality.com/) - Sunrise on the Sufferbus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_on_the_Sufferbus)

Track listing:
All songs by Chris Goss, unless otherwise stated.
"She Got Me (When She Got Her Dress On)" - 2:47
"J.B. Witchdance" (Baker, Goss) - 3:37
"Jody Sings" - 3:03
"Rolling Green" - 3:41
"Ants In The Kitchen" (Baker, Goss) - 3:22
"V.H.V" (Googe, Goss) - 4:21
"Bicycle" - 0:47
"100 Years (Of Tears on the Wind)" - 4:06
"T.U.S.A" (Baker, Googe, Goss, Rey) - 2:59
"Tilt-A-Whirl" - 3:42
"Rabbit One" - 3:33
"Madonna" - 0:38
"Gimme Water" (Baker, Goss) - 2:23
"Moon In Your Pocket" - 3:31

Quote from: T.U.S.A.
Pour boiling water over the tea
How simple and clear
Can the instructions be?

Quote from: Ants in the Kitchen
There’s ants in the kitchen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aGae_AmU-g) baby
Thought I’d let you know
There’s ants in the kitchen
Thought I’d let you know

There’s two right there
Makin’ off with the stereo


Title: Re: Albums That Have Influenced Your Life
Post by: Bissig on August 08, 2008, 09:18:28 pm
Offtopic at Player1:

I once had a t-shirt.. dark green with black print on it stating "ants in your pants". Antssssssssssss. Ah, gotta make me an all over ants wallpaper... Ants are the better cats.