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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:01 am
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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:16 am
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This is the music that shaped me as a kid. The albums I got as gifts and bought with my allowance when I was between the ages of 5 and 13. These are what made music such an important part of my life. It's the music that shaped me. Still shapes me, honestly. These are the albums I use to ground me. It all started when my cousin gave me a copy of London Calling for my 5th birthday. (1979) Still have it. Still put it on the turntable on Sunday mornings after a Saturday night gig sometimes when everyone else is sleeping in and I can't seem to rest.


London Calling by The Clash
Combat Rock by The Clash
Walk Among Us by The Misfits
Rocket to Russia by The Ramones
Nevermind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols
The Sky's Gone Out by Bauhaus
Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me by The Cure
Hyaena by Siouxsie and The Banshees


This is last one is important to me because it's the album that gave me that last push and made me realize I wanted to play music, start a band, and finally pick up the bass at 13.


Appetite for Destruction by Guns n' Roses


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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:10 am
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Not sure I would classify any as life changing, but certainly landmarks in my musical taste.

Beatlemania - The Beatles
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
The Beach Boys in Concert (1973) - The Beach Boys
Watermark - Art Garfunkel
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers


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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:28 am
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I cannot fathom how any album could literally change one's life. :?

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:36 am
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Martian wrote:
I cannot fathom how any album could literally change one's life. :?

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.



Really? That's kind of sad. I'd think most musicians could name at least one album, or at least song that had a profound effect on their life. I'd think most of us should be able to pinpoint the moment that we KNEW we needed to pick up an instrument and play and what work it was that gave us that feeling.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:48 am
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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:02 am
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TheKingofPain wrote:
Martian wrote:
I cannot fathom how any album could literally change one's life. :?

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.



Really? That's kind of sad. I'd think most musicians could name at least one album, or at least song that had a profound effect on their life. I'd think most of us should be able to pinpoint the moment that we KNEW we needed to pick up an instrument and play and what work it was that gave us that feeling.


Yes but I don't think it's sad at all. As to pinpointing when I wanted to learn guitar, that I can tell you: When I was very young, my cousin was playing Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock on his record player. I heard the guitar but didn't know what that sound was. I really liked it and asked my cousin what it was. He told me. Thereafter, I'd listen for guitar in any tune I heard and a few years later, I began taking lessons. Again and maybe it's just semantics, but no album or in my case, 45 RPM had any "life changing" affect on me.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 10:38 am
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I'm with Martian. I hestitated posting because I didn't think any of my favorite albums actually changed who I was or where I was headed.
The Beatles White Album came out during a time when major things were happening in my life. I was 16, just got my drivers license, had a girl friend that wanted to explore. The White Album was the soundtrack for that entire period, and I think it affected society as a whole, but didn't change me personally. But that would be the one album that comes closest.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 10:47 am
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Perhaps we have a different definition of "life changing". Inspiring someone to pick up and instrument, put in a countless amount of time and dedication into learning it. That. To me. Would qualify as life changing. It changed the path of your life, I'd think. All that time you spent on music, all the connections you may have made because of it, the way you view things as an artist. All that affects how you interact with the world around you. Had you never heard that "one song", or "one album". Who would you be? We are a sum of our experiences.

I don't mean "life changing" in the way of something traumatic. I lost my father at a young age. That changed the person I likely would have become. Obviously more drastically than hearing Appetite for Destruction. However, had I never heard that album I might have never actually started playing. If I never started playing I would have never met the people I have. Been touched by them. I think even the small things in life are life changing if they resonate with you.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 12:11 pm
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I probably wouldn't play guitar, or be in bands, or have the friends I have if I didn't hear this album when I was about 11 or 12 years old.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 1:28 pm
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Ah, yes. Nice post Buxom! 8)

Instant recall! My definitive choice is (and I guess we all want for others
to go and listen to our fancy):

CORRIDORS OF POWER. GARY MOORE

...the riffs, the solo takes, the mix, the song list. I dare you! 8)

He weilds a Strat on the cover, and it has been a life-long question for
me whether there are any Les Pauls on the record. Perhaps someone could
throw light on the subject.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 1:33 pm
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Martian wrote:
I cannot fathom how any album could literally change one's life. :?


I used to listen to 'Are You Experienced' over and over, I chain-smoked that album. I remember hooking up my little boom-box to my piece-o-crap guitar amp because I wanted to hear it louder. After I started playing, I naturally got into playing other stuff, but nobody came close to Hendrix for me. Considering how much time I invested in trying to play like him, I would say it was a game changer and a life changer for me. Put it this way, there were a lot of things I didn't do because I was too busy playing Hendrix in my room.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:48 pm
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TheKingofPain wrote:
Martian wrote:
I cannot fathom how any album could literally change one's life. :?
As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.


Really? That's kind of sad. I'd think most musicians could name at least one album, or at least song that had a profound effect on their life. I'd think most of us should be able to pinpoint the moment that we KNEW we needed to pick up an instrument and play and what work it was that gave us that feeling.


No, I don't get it either. My Lit professor told me reading War & Peace would do the same. I was 38 at the time, so not straight out of school.

If you're wired to be motivated to do something like learn to play, you'll do it. Different music triggers it for different people. Does learning to play an instrument really CHANGE your life. Unless you go on to make a living from it?

Seems to me it simply adds something to it. And it's not sad, or any less enjoyable.


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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:34 pm
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The album that made me, be me, was In Utero by Nirvana. Prior to that I had barely any interest in music, was hiding up everything about me, and felt so god damn alone. Not in the case that I didn't have any friends, cause I did, but I just felt like I came from a different planet. But I wasn't showing that, I wasn't showing anything except a fake smile.
By total luck I heard that album, and the first listening experience for me virtually changed every aspect about me. Well, it didn't really 'change' me. It just spoke to me in countless different ways, that essentially made this guy who was trying to be like everyone else and totally ignoring his true self, to be his true self.
Nowhere near my favourite album, anymore, but certainly a life changing album, for the better.

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