What Album Changed You?

My friend follows a page on FB, and they posited a question: what album changed you?

I have a little (lot) bit of "I can't decide" when it comes to music, and my playlists are all over the place, so listening to an entire album is pretty rare for me. I can only think of a few that didn't really change my life, but they kept me company through some lonely years.

• Metallica (all the Albums pre re-load)
• Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
• Stabbing Westward - Wither Blister Burn & Peel
• Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

How about you?

 

Not sure if they changed me, but I certainly remember a few.

Journey Escape
Rush Fly By Night and 2112
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall

More recently, Miranda Lambert The Weight of These Wings

The Cars, Van Halen, REO Speedwagon...

I also enjoy a lot of the one hit wonders of the 1980's.

 

Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe"

 

Ooh, you guys, you should add your favorite songs from your albums, and we should make a Spotify Playlist of them to share with everyone and share our favorite music. Just a thought.

And if anyone wants to share WHY it was lifechanging, or just really excellent, I'd love to hear those stories.

 

I'm the complete opposite - I prefer listening to an album from start to finish (my Spotify Wrapped last year even called me out on it)

A few albums that changed my outlook on music:

Benny Benassi - Hypnotica - this album opened my eyes to electronic music outside of the USA, and brought me to other artists such as Ferry Corsten, Tiesto, and Armin Van Buuren

ATV Offroad Fury 2 Soundrack - this was my introduction as a child to modern (at the time) rock music. Filter, SOAD, Korn, etc. I would just drive my ATV around the map in freeride mode and listen to the entire soundtrack of the game on repeat

Opeth - Blackwater Park - this album allowed me to appreciate lighter, progressive metal (at the time the metal I was listening to was only heavier stuff like Whitechapel, Cannibal Corpse, Nile, etc), and opened me up to new artists such as Soen, Katatonia, and Agalloch

The Antidote - Morcheeba - expanded my interest in trip-hop outside of Gorillaz. On repeat for me (as well as the rest of Morcheeba's discography at the time) for several years when I discovered it

 

"ATV Offroad Fury 2 Soundtrack" I didn't know they made soundtracks like this! I always love hearing about people's special interests and then learning new things about how things like art, tv and music cater to them, especially when it's outside of my areas of knowledge. That's neat.

 

Oh yeah, a lot of PS2 and Xbox games from that era had really great soundtracks. All the THPS games of course, but racing games as well as GTA games. Game designers of that era were still figuring out how to fill up a whole game DVD with content, especially when it came to racing and sports games (which are oftentimes more simple and take up less space) so they started filling them up with licensed soundtracks which were very loudly advertised on the backs of most of those game boxes

 

Journey - Escape

I have the record and cassette

Pink Floyd - The wall

I have the records

Johnny Rivers - Realisation

Absolute gold!!!!!!!

 

"Songs From the Big Chair" by Tears for Fears was one album I loved listening to in 2004. It was very successful in the US during Britain's second big musical foray in North America. Then after the third album, Curt Smith departed, kind of like how Paul Humphreys left Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Although the 90's TFF and OMD was still interesting.

 

I just came across this gem again.

 

I'm more into hit singles than albums. But the Billboard site is hard to use. Lacks a decent search facility.

That's the primary pop music chart for the US. There was once a similar records chart called Chart Box, which became notorious for Wayne Newton getting to number one under dubious circumstances.

 

Johnny Rivers - Realisation

got that

forever changes by love is good

 

Rush, "Roll the Bones"

 

A lot, but probably most Kamelot - The Black Halo. Specifically the track 'Soul Society'.

 

Wow, my age is showing my favorites are very different.
I am not sure if any album changed my life.
New York Tenderberry- Laura Nyro
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James
CSN&Y
Temptations
Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terral.
Mockingbird and Lose Yourself Eminem
Nessun dorma Pavoritt
Off the top of my head.

 

Moody Blues was my Mom ( RIP) favorite, she had the album I think it was called Live at Red Rock or something like that.
I still love Nights in White Satin.

 

Your timeless Tim My choices me showed my "agelessness now"

 

I haven't bought music in a long time. Because I have unlimited data and YouTube's ad free service, I can just play any song available that way.

 

I would love getting JIMI HENDRIX AT WOODSTOCK in analogue!!

There has to be an analogue recording of it somewhere........ (On VHS,etc)

 

Doesn't really matter to me they were edited a bit. I wasn't born in 1969 so to hear more live or "live" versions is only good. I actually do have that 1999 cd, and used to play it quite a lot. It's still good.

 

It's amazing that so many older albums are on this list, and kind of sad that nothing post 1990 (I think, I didn't google or anything) is on there. What do you think that says about the quality of modern music? And how sad that these kids have very little that's iconic to take into the future with them, they'll just be jumping to WAP in the nursing homes...

 

I suspect it's more about the average age of the posters than of the quality of post-90s music. I mean, my stereo is set to a local oldies station (and I'm still disturbed that stuff I listened to in the 80s get played there), and most of my CDs and vinyl are Big Band, 60s, or 70s.

 

I've officially reached the age when things I listened to come over the oldies station at the grocery store and I am indignant.

 

Indignation is good: it keeps one's blood pressure up, and high blood pressure is better than no blood pressure!

More people should get more indignant more often, then maybe things would start to change...hopefully for the better.

 

I don't know, there seems to be a lot of self-righteous, instead of righteous indignation. I don't want anything to do with half of the people I encounter so change towards their ideals seems... non ideal

 

I agree fully, and now that we've strayed a bit from the topic, perhaps we should let it become what it was again...before our blood pressure soars and we pop like swollen ticks.

 

Back on topic:

I was going through my music collection, (That's a wild ride) and remembered my love for all things pre-Load Metallica. I used to listen to them for hours on my Walkman (*cough*) to escape my surroundings.

 

I (vaguely) recall one summer where I wore out multiple copies each of ELO's "Out of the Blue" and Jim Croce's "Photographs and Memories"...on my eight-track player.