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Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run"
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I would proudly rather listen to the Pipettes and Dressy Bessy than Judas Priest, Elton John, Nancy Sinatra, Michael Jackson, or Prince.


Sad really- lets see where the Pipettes and/or Dressy Bessy are in music history 5 years from now. Then compare them to MJ, Prince, etc


If Dressy Bessy changes their name to a symbol and the Pipettes start molesting little boys, the children of the future are better off.


Funny, I thought we were talking about music. Good luck with the Pipettes though..


music sucks. tell me where these little boys are at.

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Led Zeppelin - III. This was maybe the biggest classic rock album for me in my early teens. Punk and related rock (outside of maybe Nirvana) was totally unknown to me at the time, and for the most part all that I was exposed to was metal (mostly of the hair variety), grunge, country, rap, and limited samplings of older stuff. The only thing close to a good radio station that I had when I was growing up was a classic rock station that played mostly '70s rock, the best of which was easily Zeppelin. I was totally captivated by their relatively dark, mysterious, and slightly weird sound. I think I heard "Immigrant Song" for the first time on VH1 when LZ was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame, and I had to have this album. Initially Plant's vocals were a little off-putting for me, but it wasn't long before I started to love this album and bought the rest of Led Zepp's albums. To this day, it's my favorite of theirs, and I still think it sounds fairly current. (There were a lot of things at the forefront of my explorations into classic rock at around the same time, namely The Beatles, The Doors, and Jimi Hendrix, but I was the most passionate about Led Zeppelin).

Peal Jam - No Code. THE album for me in my mid-to-late teens. Kind of marked a turning point in my musical interests where I was drawn towards more emotional and introspective music. This album also played a big part in motivating me to check out some Neil Young, and to this day I still feel like this album does a pretty good job of evoking a lot of Young's mid-'70s soul searching.

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album. When I first heard stuff like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher in college, I didn't know what to do with it. I was used to electronic music having a metronomic 4/4 dance beat, and I just couldn't find anything to latch onto with the fluid, skittering, constantly changing beats and strange, yet evocative, melodies. Before long, though, I was asking my roommate to make me copies of all of this stuff, and this album in particular was a watershed in what I looked for in music. It began my fascination with adventurous and experimental music, especially that which can still resonate emotionally and impact me on a personal level, not just an intellectual one.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. My first foray into jazz and still my favorite jazz album. When I first bought it, I was disappointed. It was that same boring jazz stuff that my drawing teachers had always played in class. I don't when it happened, but somewhere along the lined it clicked for me in a really big way. It taught me just how rewarding jazz could be, but it often requires some patience for it to sink in.

Gang of Four - Entertainment!. I'm not exactly sure which I got first, this or Can - Ege Bamyasi, but both of those albums opened up whole new worlds of music to me. I may also have been getting into the Talking Heads at around the same time (my last year in college), but Entertainment! blew me away like nothing else and led me into bands like Wire, Pere Ubu, and the post-punk era in general. It also prompted me to give a lot of punk bands another chance, being an area of music that I had previously written off as too simplistic, preachy, artless, or just dumb. Along with Can and the Talking Heads, Gang of Four were a gateway into all sorts of ainteresting areas of rock, funk, and world music.


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The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks/Some Girls. Hot Rocks I bought in HS after an obsession with Tour of Duty led me to seek out "Paint it Black," loved it, but assumed that they were as deep as their greatest hits. My sister bought me Some Girls for my 20th Birthday, and that was the road to ruin.

Bob Dylan - Live at Budokan -- Introduced me to Dylan, and really set me on the wrong path in life. The first album that I UNDERSTOOD

Paul's Boutique -- Bloor and another friend of mine made me listen to this. Thanks for ruining my life ;)

Wilco - Being There -- I bought this sound unheard after reading about it in Rolling Stone. One of the first albums I discovered on my own and turned my boys on to.

Ice Cube -- Death Certificate -- this is going back a ways, but its still my favorite of early 90s gangster rap

Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison and San Quentin- picked this up for 8.99 at circuit city, and it brought back a flood of memories and re-introduced me to country

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you guys as kids were too cool for me. :gir:

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Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger: This is the first album I bought that none of my friends listened to at the time (I was living in Columbus, Ga.). I had just visited my "cool" cousin in Califonia and she was freaking the hell out about these guys. My first musical obsession.

Sting - Ten Summners Tales: This is an album I actually have had to buy three times because I wore out the CD. This album made me want to be a better musician. Too bad I'll never be that good. To me, that album is perfect, from beginning to end.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream: This is probably the most time I ever spent on one album. It was when I first got deep into guiatr so I spent time listening to all the instruments. Every one. I spent soooooo much time learning every single song.

Wilco - Being There: I just remember listening to this album thinking, "Wow, this isn't that complicated, but it's so fucking good!". I hadn't felt so excited about an album since Siamese Dream.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live in NYC: This is kind of a lie because it was actually the HBO special that got me, but I was never a fan a Bruce before this. And I just remember being so excited when I first heard (saw) this. I bought every BS album within two weeks of seeing it. And every party we had would end with this being BLASTED from the stereo. I do own this album now though


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i'd venture a guess that those listing gang of four as an album "from their youth" are full of shit

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i'd venture a guess that those listing gang of four as an album "from their youth" are full of shit


I didn't list it, but I did have Gang of Four's "Hard" when I was around 15. Got it for 2.99 in a bargain bin at (gulp) Record Bar.


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First off.....busty this is scary that you have 2 of my albums as well..christ i could easily name 10...here is 7

Sting - Ten Summners Tales
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Cure - Disintegration
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
The Misfits - The Misfts
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Radiohead - The Bends

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The Beatles - Meet the Beatles
This is the album (along with a slew of my dad's 45s) that started my obsession with music. I began listening to my dad's 8-track copy at about the age of 6 and never looked back.

Devo - Freedom of Choice
I got this as a gift from a friend for my 11th birthday. It really got me into "different" music, and I seriously doubt I'd be as big of a Devo fan today if I had received the "Whip It" 45 instead of the album.

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vebetables
At age 15 I heard this and found what was suited just for me: loud, obnoxious, and fast music. This prompted my love for punk, to my parents' chagrin.

The Kinks - Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround
My aunt played this and One for the Road for me when I was 9 or 10 and staying at her house. It's still one of my favorite Kinks albums and that same aunt also took me to see the Kinks live a year or so later.

Corrosion of Conformity - Technocracy
Although not really a metal album (it's crossover, and really is an EP), it sparked my interest in metal. For a while, these guys were all the talk on the punk/hardcore scene. I bought this, saw them live, and was hooked. A metalhead friend was a big fan and because we had COC in common, he subjected me to a fair amount of metal in the late 80s (most of which I didn't care for, but some of which blew me away), that I probably otherwise wouldn't have otherwise heard.

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i'd venture a guess that those listing gang of four as an album "from their youth" are full of shit


Well if this is directed towards me, Id say that I didnt say it was from my youth (nor did the other person mentioning Entertainment!)- I didnt get back into 'rock' until graduate school..


Id say read better- this isnt the 'youth' thread now is it?


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i'd venture a guess that those listing gang of four as an album "from their youth" are full of shit


Why? Because it was too obscure in your opinion or too "out there" for a kid to "get"?

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First off.....busty this is scary that you have 2 of my albums as well..christ i could easily name 10...here is 7

Sting - Ten Summners Tales
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Cure - Disintegration
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
The Misfits - The Misfts
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Radiohead - The Bends


What's even more scary is that I came VERY close to putting The Bends in there.
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i'd venture a guess that those listing gang of four as an album "from their youth" are full of shit


Really? Anyone who followed Fugazi would've probably been introduced to them along with Bad Brains, pre-Fugazi projects, etc. Additionally, the Rollins/Rubin Infinite Zero label re-released most of the Gang of Four catalog in the mid-90s, which is the first time I remember being able to find Entertainment!, etc. on CD (in Colorado Springs, to boot).


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Cure - Disintegration

shit, forgot this one.

re: gang of four. sorry, i let my sunburn get the best of me. i guess i just saw it as an answer wreaking of "coolness" instead of honesty. and yeah, i guess i was assuming this was all albums from our youth.

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Wreaking of coolness? Just you wait until I list *my* top five. All the perceived coolness you can/cannot handle...


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from the way i read this thread, yeah. if any of y'all were listening to gang of four at age 13...that's pretty impressive. and cool.

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I'm interpreting "important" to mean "top 5 that affected and changed your taste in music". That seems to be how things are looking on other people's lists.

So it would probably be something like:

The Lowest Of The Low - Shakespeare My Butt
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Vince Guaraldio Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Violent Femmes - s/t

in order of how I discovered them.


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The Beatles - Reel Music: It always goes back to the Beatles, doesn't it? Why would I dare include this, a lame compilation instead of one of the sacred albums? Because this really was the first. A nine or ten year old me listening to this in the back of my dad's pickup truck on a little boombox with friends. I didn't even really know what I was listening to at the time. It obviously meant something to me because half of my listening choices today reflect back on what the Beatles were playing in the bed of the truck when I was a kid.

Def Leppard - Pyromania: The soundtrack to countless camping trips with my friend Matt as a kid, Pyromania would blast from the cabover bunk of the motorhome as we made our way from place to place with my parents. More than just a soundtrack, this is, without a doubt, one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time. There isn't a bad or wasted moment on it - from start to finish, it's one solid wall of simmering, burning guitars, great hooks, and catchy choruses. Not a hint of filler. Well, except for that weird drum-loop thing that winds out the album.

Rush - Presto: When I was a teenager, I would regularly lull myself to sleep with music. Usually a tape in my Walkman was the preferred method, but sometimes one of the two good local rock stations, 98 KUPD or 93.3 KDKB, would do the job. One night, the moment my headphones went on, I heard something I immediately knew I wanted more of, but when the song ended it faded directly into another song, and I never heard who the band was. In those pre-internet days, it just wasn't possible to Google the lyrics, so I kept listening, night after night, hoping I'd run into the song again. Sure enough, many nights later, the song came on again and, afterwards, the announcer gave me what I needed to hear. Two words: Rush, and <em>Presto</em>, the title of which was the very song I'd been listening to. I knew something was very different when I picked up that cassette in the Wherehouse - it just looked different than everything else I listened to. So minimal - no gaudy mascots, no garish colors, no cheesy band photographs. So . . . classy. I bought it with little hesitation. When I got home I anxiously listened to it, there in my room, on my little home stereo, and then I listened again. The lyrics were something worth reading through more than once. The band played a lot in each song, yet it felt right (in years to come, of course, I'd find that I was among a small, but extremely devoted legion of fans who feel that way.) Everything felt different and beautiful and right in a way I'd never heard music sound before. Seventeen years later, it still feels exactly the same way.

Bill Frisell - Live: My first real exposure to jazz was either John Coltrane's Sun Ship or this - time has erased the gap between the two, but it matters little. Either way, I was in way over my head. I bought both in quick succession, but found Sun Ship simply way too much and traded it in shortly. Somehow, I held on to Live - something about it spoke to me. Frisell's twisting, turning, yearning guitar kept me baffled for years about what was really going on. It didn't help that bassist Kermit Driscoll worked similarly odd lines on his instrument, and that drummer Joey Baron refused to play a straight beat, or even play normally, clacking and clanging about his kit instead of just hitting the cymbals and drumheads. Perhaps it was the billing on the wrapper of Frisell being "jazz guitar's Hendrix" that kept me coming back, but I just knew there had to be something serious going on with this guy. I was right.

King Crimson - Thrak: Just because King Crimson is one of my all-time favorites of all-time doesn't mean that I have to trot out the old standard In the Court of the Crimson King. I don't particularly care for it, regardless of it's standing as a prog-classic. The one that I return to, time and time again, is 1995's Thrak. Not because it was my first - because it wasn't - but because it was the first that really involved me in the music. The rest that I had up to that point - Starless and Bible Black, Red, Discipline, Beat - I listened to, but not into. Thrak got me to sit down and really tear apart the music, listening for each note and how it reflected on what another musician was playing - like good free jazz would cause you to do. It's probably no coincidence that jazz was just starting to make a serious dent in my musical life at this point. Where many have come and gone, however, King Crimson has stayed.

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Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard (in general) It all comes back to the Beatles, doesn't it? In a roundabout fashion, I mean - Guided By Voices is about everything that's happened in rock in the past 40 years, but the Beatles (among many, many others) are a big part of that. Where King Crimson got me to be hypercritical, Guided By Voices allowed me to free myself from that and simply listen to the song again. Because that's how you have to take Guided By Voices - purely on the quality of the song. The recording quality varies so greatly, from the lowest of lo-fi boombox recordings to polished studio material, that you either settle on a few higher quality ones and go no further, or you just give up on the band altogether, or, like me, you just give in and embrace it all. Hidden under the hiss and the rumble, mixed in with the jump-cuts and jumbled song structures, the dedicated listener can find some of the finest rough-cut gems rock music has to offer. That Pollard makes little effort to make it easy on us makes it all that much better. Where many musicians obsess over making sure every note is nuanced and perfect, Pollard simply wants to get his music done and heard and will do whatever he needs to do so, including putting it out, quickly, under countless pseudonyms that keep the followers on their toes. With a mind this creative, asking him to overdub a flubbed note will simply stifle him. Better to let him get on to his next 30-second long gem. As the joke he says goes, he comes up with 5 songs sitting on the toilet, and 3 of them are good. Why hold that back?

It's pretty easy for me to see how these form a strong backbone of my musical self. It's not all I listen to, but the majority of what I listen to branches off from directions set in motion by each of these. It's really rather amazing how simple it gets when you trace it all back to the roots.

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I think I would typically pick these as being fairly influential

Kiss - Alive II - One of my first LPs, it came with tatoos and much influence upon my listening habits thereafter (see Motley Crue et al.)

The Forgotten Rebels - In Love with the System/Boys will be Boys/This Ain't Hollywood - First time I ever really heard punk (or more glam rock/punk in this case.) Either way, I started listening a lot of Sex Pistols/PiL and T.Rex after getting a taste. I still listen to this cassette that got dubbed for me. It's over 20 years old and is probably in slightly better shape than the Dead Sea Scrolls right now.

The Rolling Stones - High Tide and Green Grass - My nanny gave me a bunch of her hippie son's LPs. This was among them, thank god. I don't explain how meaningful this was.

David Bowie - Changesonebowie - My aunt had a lot of typical 70s LPs (read a LOT of Bob Seger), but I did come across this and put it on one time. Immediately became Bowie fanatic. I should be cool and put down that 'Ziggy Stardust' appealed to me most, but I'll be honest and say I loved 'Young Americans' most of all.

The Stones Roses - I heard this when it first came out in '86 or '87 and totally loved it. Still digging the Brit stuff now.

I only listed proper albums, but I was a fiend for 80s pop sponsored by K-Tel, so Hit Explosion! and Totally Hot Hits! were probably just as influential. This is where I first heard Haircut 100 and bands of that ilk.

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Run-DMC - "Raising Hell"

First music I ever really loved... I remember memorizing it and singing along with it while working in the cornfields of Nebraska on my Walkman while the other people working in my "crew" thought I was a complete dork... my gateway album to some of my favorite artists (Public Enemy, Digital Underground, De La Soul & A Tribe Called Quest)


Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"

A friend of mine (from the same cornfield work crew) gave me a copy of "Physical Graffiti" that I used to listen to every day in the car (I had just turned 16). I still distinctly remember that the copy he made me had a static pop right in the middle of a long pause from "In My Time of Dying" that was perfectly timed with the music. Until I bought the real album, I thought that it was actually part of the song.


Pearl Jam - "Ten"

I was a bigger fan of this than Nirvana, but both of them were a HUGE part of my life during my junior and senior years in high school. Finally got me to stop listening to only Gangster Rap (not that there's anything wrong with that).


Green Day - "Dookie"

It's kind of sad, but I learned about punk music from this album. At first thought, looking back, I wouldn't say that "Dookie" was that an important album to me, but without it I never would have discovered the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, Buzzcocks, etc. An ass-backwards way of discovering punk, but a worthwhile discovery nonetheless.


Liz Phair - "Whitechocolatespaceegg"

My first Liz Phair album, bought on a whim, which indirectly led me to almost everything I've listened to since. I discovered the CMJ board shortly after becoming infatuated with this album. And that has led me to here.


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