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what albums changed your life?

Tool - Lateralus -- my first Tool album. It's actually my dads, but my mother wouldn't let him keep it ;/ He put it on in the living room, and not 10 seconds had passed before I expressed my desire. Mom: "That is certainly not the kind of music I'm going to listen to!"

Tool - Ænima -- the second Tool album. By the time I'd finished Stinkfist, I was trembling at the knees. (Fortunately I was sitting.)

Peter Tosh - Reggaemylitis -- didn't really "change my life", but the minute I heard the title track I was hooked. The bass is so awesome, you could get away with building a monument. On a sidenote, does anyone know who played bass / drums here? Was it Sly & Robbie?

the Who - Who's Next -- my first of 20 Who albums. I guess that pretty much says it all.

the Who - Tommy -- this album really hit something deep inside me. I don't think it's the general theme, in fact I think it's the awesome and insanely intelligent musicianship of the band.

the Doors - L.A. Woman -- most everyone has heard Riders on the Storm. It's incredible. When I realised the Doors were behind it, I ran out and bought this album. I remember sitting on the edge of my bed, playing L.A. Woman again and again.
 
Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind - bought it for the album art when I was 9. This opened a whole new world of music that wasn't based on what I heard on the radio

Pink Floyd: The Wall - Helped me understand the depths of what music could convey

PJ Harvey: Dry - Attitude is everything

Fugazi: Steady Diet of Nothing - "got with the program, swallowed it whole. Sugar made it easy, Ice made it cold"

Morphine: Cure for Pain - blew my mind with their tone.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mothers Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik - 'nuff said

Radiohead: Ok Computer - The artistic level I hope to achieve some day (aim high).
 
SRV: Couldn't stand the weather.
Rush: 2112 and Signals.
311: Music and Soundsystem.
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew and Kind of Blue.
NIN: The Downward Spiral.
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland.
Dave Brubeck: Time Out.
John Coltrane: Giant Steps.
Nirvana: Nevermind.
Smashing Pumpkins: Gish and Siamese Dream.
 
Nirvana - Nevermind

im 17, i got this cd when i was 16, it came out in 91 and it just plain amazes me. It is absoltly incredible, it changed the whole world and it cleary made a difference in the way i live my life....incredible....if i never heard this cd id think i would go insane

other cds that changed my life are all nirvanas cds, like, bleach, in utero, inceticide, unplugged in new york, and everything else by nirvana =)
 
In no particular order:
Up And Down (single) - McCoys
Sgt Pepper's Lonely etc
Get Yer Yah-yahs Out!
Beggars's Banquet
The Beatles (White Album)
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (RTF)
Live Evil - Miles
Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett
Spectrum - Billy Cobham
Science Fiction - Ornette Coleman
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Close to the Edge - Yes
Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
Tarkus - ELP
Shakti - McLaughlin, et el
A Love Supreme - Coltrane
 
Pat Boone: Stardust
The Ventures: In Space
The Beatles: Please Please Me
Leadbelly: 21 Original Recordings
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
The Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday
The Band: Music from Big Pink
Yusef Lateef: Detroit (w/ Chuck Rainey)
Aretha Franklin: Live
The Velvet Underground: (3rd album)
Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica
Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy
Lewis Taylor: Lewis I
 
The Beatles - Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver,
Yes - Close to The Edge
ELP - Tarkus
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
Cactus - Restrictions
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
The Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Fillmore
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly
Govt. Mule - Dose
Neil Young - After The Goldrush, Harvest
Quincy Jones - Q's Jook Joint
Our first release, Doc Holliday - Doc Holliday
and many more!
 
When I was younger I listened to a lot of heavy stuff, but three bands in particular changed my life (in alphabetical order):
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Great music, with a dark atmosphere. You really get into the twisted soul of Reznor. Wow. A masterpiece. I love this band since I’m 15 years old and I think even at 40 I will still love this band.

Opeth - Blackwater Park
I love Opeth. I could also have named their latest album, or Still Life, but anyways. I love their prog vibe that goes from super heavy death metal to '70 prog rock. [Borat's voice] Very nice! [/Borat's voice].

Tool - Lateralus
This is the first album that really got me into progressive stuff. A masterpiece, also. I love their deep, low, heavy sound. And the guitarist's sound is so great. And the bassist's tone too. The entire band sounds great, that is.


And since i'm really more open-minded (still in alphabetical order):
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Yes it's his latest, but it's his best, IMO. I could name many other albums; they're all good. The artist itself changed my life actually.
Amon Tobin manipulates sound with such meticulousness. While listening to it, you try to focus on his melodies under layers and layers of sounds of all sorts, treated in many ways, with a great beat to sustain it all. He's a genius.

Jean Leloup - Exit
An artist from Québec :D . It’s his last album, a live album. Wow... you get really deep into his eccentric character. But for the music, it's really cool also, it turns around folk. I got attached on this album for about two weeks. He’s a great artist.

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
:eek: Wow. Just wow. Great mix of influences (latin, prog rock, psychedelic rock, jazz, etc) in a continuous album. It’s sooo awesome. The musicians are sooo amazing. Can't tell more, I’m speechless. :eek:

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
:eek: OMG this album.... wow!!! :eek: If you like the little electronics from Radiohead... it's nothing compared to this. A hard groove with a really deep research for rich sounds, dark guitars atmosphere, with a good style of "dull" singing that fits really well to the genre... you feel like your head is floating in the clouds... while your feet are down-to-earth with the groove. A masterpiece. Long live to trip-hop.

Radiohead - Ok Computer
That's a nice one. Radiohead are so good at composing really beautiful songs, and since this album, the touch of electronics they usually add takes a bigger place. Very cool.

RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Great funk rock. Nothing else to say, huh!! Many of you here know it very well, though. Long life to RHCP.:bassist:

Soulive - Turn It Out
With this album I really got into jazz, especially jazz-funk. They are so good musicians. I’m still amazed how tight are the articulations and phrasing on the soli melodies of the organ and guitar. Nice solos, etc. Great joyful and light stuff to listen in a party with friends.
 
beatles- help, sgt. peppers,
nirvana- nevermind, unplugged, in utero
aphex twin- richard d. james album, drukqs, s.a.w. II
boards of canada- music has the right to children, geogaddi, twoism,
nin- downward spiral
sublime- 40 ozs, sublime sublime
pink floyd- dark side, the wall
legowelt- classics, squadra blanco,
bangkok impact- traveller
kraftwerk- homecomputer
tool- aenema, lateralus, opiate, 10,000 days
daft punk- voyager
interpol- turn on the bright lights, antics
rhcp-BSSM
skinny puppy- last rights, the process
beach boys(brian wilson)- pet sounds, SMILe
primus- frizzle fry, sailing the seas of cheese
 
:eek: :p I applaud you for having the stones to list a Pat Boone album!

My mom used to dig Pat Boone when I was about nine. So we had that album, and not many more. I loved those songs: Stardust, Deep Purple, Ebb Tide, Autumn Leaves... They had some tricky intervals, and I think listening to old Pat taught me a lot about pitching.