Yup. It's probably the greatest rock roll album of all time.
The most influential albums in your life.
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I still have most of the mix tapes I made as a kid.
That's really sad. I feel bad for you.
Between Waters lip-syncing most of the vocals and the glorified tribute band he had as backup (Smith is the only one with any real talent, and Kilminster is a walking cliché.), the performance was hugely lackluster.
While the LED screen may have been visually stunning in an flashy Avatar eye-candy way, it lacked the size, scope, and profound atmosphere of the original.
Seriously, if that's the best show you ever seen, you need to see more shows.
No need to feel sorry for me.
I'm not sure what show you saw. Lacking in size and scope? The second time I saw it was front row at AT&T Park, and it was Massive...in all senses of the word.
I have seen hundreds of concerts in my lifetime. I can respect that you didn't like it.
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01. Def Leppard - Pyromania
02. Metallica - Metallica(Black Album)
03. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
04. Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
05. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
06. Bush - 16 Stone
07. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
08. Eminem - Slim Shady LP
09. Slipknot - Slipknot
10. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
02. Metallica - Metallica(Black Album)
03. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
04. Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
05. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
06. Bush - 16 Stone
07. Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
08. Eminem - Slim Shady LP
09. Slipknot - Slipknot
10. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
I think the single most influential album for me is a Beach Boys Greatest Hits album I had when I was about 6 (on cassette; stole it from Dad). To this day, I love summer, the beach, surfers and cars. And harmony. Brian Wilson is solely responsible for teaching me about vocal harmony.
Then there's the Beatles. I'd say Sgt. Pepper for getting me to appreciate a melodic bass line. The Beatles entire catalog somehow convinced me to major in music, even though I can't play an instrument.
I think Pet Sounds is an important album and one of my all time favorites, but not very influential on me. I also love Weezer's Blue album, Paul McCartney's Ram and Off the Ground... not influential to me though. And emotional touchstones in my life are more likely to be singles.
Maybe I'm overthinking this.
Then there's the Beatles. I'd say Sgt. Pepper for getting me to appreciate a melodic bass line. The Beatles entire catalog somehow convinced me to major in music, even though I can't play an instrument.
I think Pet Sounds is an important album and one of my all time favorites, but not very influential on me. I also love Weezer's Blue album, Paul McCartney's Ram and Off the Ground... not influential to me though. And emotional touchstones in my life are more likely to be singles.
Maybe I'm overthinking this.
Green Day - Dookie
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Live - Secret Samadhi
Beck - Odelay
Rammstein - Mutter
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Toad The Wet Sprocket - P.S. (A Toad Retrospective)
Gin Blossoms - Outside Looking In
Del Amitri - Hatful of Rain
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape
Live - Secret Samadhi
Beck - Odelay
Rammstein - Mutter
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Toad The Wet Sprocket - P.S. (A Toad Retrospective)
Gin Blossoms - Outside Looking In
Del Amitri - Hatful of Rain
The Beatles 1962-1966
The Beatles 1967-1970 I sort of knew who the Beatles were prior to that, but I wasn't all that into music prior to 1973. These were the first albums I bought. From that point on I had to own all of the Beatles albums. Rubber Soul/Revolver is the band at their peak.
Imagine John Lennon- My favorite Beatle solo album. Like a lot of Lennon's work it's personal, yet somehow universal.
The Beatles 1967-1970 I sort of knew who the Beatles were prior to that, but I wasn't all that into music prior to 1973. These were the first albums I bought. From that point on I had to own all of the Beatles albums. Rubber Soul/Revolver is the band at their peak.
Imagine John Lennon- My favorite Beatle solo album. Like a lot of Lennon's work it's personal, yet somehow universal.
I'd skip both the Beatles and the Stones and listen to the Doors instead to be perfectly honest.
Definitely. Especially Strange Days.
Anything by Britney Spears!
I love Toad. The song "Before You Were Born" felt like it was written for me.
Green Day: Dookie. the first album i ever bought. one of my friends had this album and i bought it to be 'cool'. but it really opened me up to music. i don't think i paid attention to music before this. i was in 2nd or 3rd grade maybe.
Pink Floyd: The Wall. for the same exact reasons auntiehill stated.
The Killers: Hot Fuss. this is one of those albums i have lots of great memories attached to. and when my life was falling apart i would listen to this album and desperately try to hang on to my good memories.
Fiona Apple: Tidal
Bjork: Homogenic. before this i never took Bjork seriously. but this girl i was seeing got me to actually listen to the music and lyrics. it really made me rethink my opinion of what 'music' was. and to not pre-judge things.
The Beatles: Revolver. i love the Beatles. and its hard for me to pick just one of their albums...but Revolver was the first album of theirs that i listed to and i was hooked.
Smashing Pumpkins: Adore. i bought this on its release and hated it. many years later i rediscovered it and loved it.
Garbage: Garbage
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. like Bjork, i never took Elton John seriously for some reason. but i ended up buying this record because at the time i was collecting Oz related stuff.
Nirvana: Nevermind. the first CD i ever bought.
Adele: 21. can't tell you how many times i've listened to this album.
Pink Floyd: The Wall. for the same exact reasons auntiehill stated.
The Killers: Hot Fuss. this is one of those albums i have lots of great memories attached to. and when my life was falling apart i would listen to this album and desperately try to hang on to my good memories.
Fiona Apple: Tidal
Bjork: Homogenic. before this i never took Bjork seriously. but this girl i was seeing got me to actually listen to the music and lyrics. it really made me rethink my opinion of what 'music' was. and to not pre-judge things.
The Beatles: Revolver. i love the Beatles. and its hard for me to pick just one of their albums...but Revolver was the first album of theirs that i listed to and i was hooked.
Smashing Pumpkins: Adore. i bought this on its release and hated it. many years later i rediscovered it and loved it.
Garbage: Garbage
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. like Bjork, i never took Elton John seriously for some reason. but i ended up buying this record because at the time i was collecting Oz related stuff.
Nirvana: Nevermind. the first CD i ever bought.
Adele: 21. can't tell you how many times i've listened to this album.
Great song. Though, if we're talking 90s alt-rock albums and songs, I prefer This Picture's A Violent Impression - specifically "Naked Rain" and "Death's Sweet Religion".
One of the great Scottish pop bands.
I still doubt i'd like them, I'd probably just be less aware of the fact that I don't like them
My favourite Rolling Stones song is "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve.
In no order whatever:
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac. Okay, this one might be "in order". It's almost perfect (ditch "Never Going Back Again", include "Silver Springs") and if I had $5 for every time I've listened to it I'd be independently wealthy.
The Kick Inside, Kate Bush. Just brilliant. Particularly considering she was a teenager when she wrote most of it.
Making Movies, Dire Straits. Not their best album (shut up, digits) but the one that really introduced me to the complete greatness of that band.
Broken English, Marianne Faithfull. Another near-perfect and quite brilliant album.
The Unforgettable Fire, U2. Similar to Making Movies in that this isn't the best U2 album but I'm pretty sure it's the first one I bought (not sure why I hadn't grabbed October and War, but whatever) and that makes it special.
Weirdly enough I can't pick one particular Beatles album. They seem to have always been there, somehow.
There may be others but those came immediately to mind.
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac. Okay, this one might be "in order". It's almost perfect (ditch "Never Going Back Again", include "Silver Springs") and if I had $5 for every time I've listened to it I'd be independently wealthy.
The Kick Inside, Kate Bush. Just brilliant. Particularly considering she was a teenager when she wrote most of it.
Making Movies, Dire Straits. Not their best album (shut up, digits) but the one that really introduced me to the complete greatness of that band.
Broken English, Marianne Faithfull. Another near-perfect and quite brilliant album.
The Unforgettable Fire, U2. Similar to Making Movies in that this isn't the best U2 album but I'm pretty sure it's the first one I bought (not sure why I hadn't grabbed October and War, but whatever) and that makes it special.
Weirdly enough I can't pick one particular Beatles album. They seem to have always been there, somehow.
There may be others but those came immediately to mind.
I guess that's very debatable.
Well, no particular order, and there might be more than this. They came into my life at specific times and were part of my lifetrack, my personal soundtrack.
Deep Purple: Made In Japan and Perfect Strangers. DP are still y favourite band of all, their latest Now What?! is pretty good too.
The Police: Regatta du Blanc. I said to the guy at my local music store, "I want to listen to something different", and he gave me a cassette of this album. Two days later I went back and bought my own copy. Played it 'til it broke.
Led Zeppelin: IV Aside from Stairway, there's Black Dog, Rock & Roll, When the Levee Breaks, Battle of Evermore. Just wow.
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Great album, powerful and sad.
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Before I bought my own copies, a friend recorded those two on either side of a C-90, and I played that for years 'til I lost it in a move.
Rush: Hold Your Fire and Roll The Bones. I had Permanent Waves before, but the songs on these spoke to me in different ways, especially Time Stand Still and Dreamline.
Hawkwind: Warrior On The Edge of Time, Quark Strangeness & Charm, Astounding Sounds Amazing Music and The Xenon Codex. I was a Moorcock fan before I found the cassette of Warrior, and it blew me away when I was 15. QS&C also has Damnation Alley and the title song. A lot of Hawkwind is great IMO.
Queen: Night At The Opera, Innuendo and Made In Heaven Opera was a revelation at the time, and the last two albums with Freddie are powerful, especially Heaven, made from outtakes and rerecoded backing tracks, and the last songs he sang.
Gary Moore: Run For Cover. A rocking album, but it has a great song about the end of a relationship called Empty Rooms. Also has Glenn Hughes in good form.
Jon Lord: Pictured Within. This album reflects on the death of his mother, and I found it just after my own had passed away. I can't listen to it too often, it hits me so deep.
Rainbow: Down To Earth Blackmore finally assembled an ace band, with Glover, Don Airey and Cozy Powell, with one of the great rock voices in Graham Bonnet. Shame it didn't last longer.
Yanni - Live At the Acropolis Some may mock this, and his studio albums are a bit vapid, but this is a great msuical accomplishment, with some solo piece in it that are astounding, as well as Aria, which just soars.
The Who - Who's Next and a selection of Best Ofs. I've just read Townshend's autobiog, and it made me aware I'm actually a Who fan, and Next is a really, really good album.
As I said, maybe a few more, butt hat's the essentials, I can listen to them any time.
Deep Purple: Made In Japan and Perfect Strangers. DP are still y favourite band of all, their latest Now What?! is pretty good too.
The Police: Regatta du Blanc. I said to the guy at my local music store, "I want to listen to something different", and he gave me a cassette of this album. Two days later I went back and bought my own copy. Played it 'til it broke.
Led Zeppelin: IV Aside from Stairway, there's Black Dog, Rock & Roll, When the Levee Breaks, Battle of Evermore. Just wow.
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Great album, powerful and sad.
^
Before I bought my own copies, a friend recorded those two on either side of a C-90, and I played that for years 'til I lost it in a move.
Rush: Hold Your Fire and Roll The Bones. I had Permanent Waves before, but the songs on these spoke to me in different ways, especially Time Stand Still and Dreamline.
Hawkwind: Warrior On The Edge of Time, Quark Strangeness & Charm, Astounding Sounds Amazing Music and The Xenon Codex. I was a Moorcock fan before I found the cassette of Warrior, and it blew me away when I was 15. QS&C also has Damnation Alley and the title song. A lot of Hawkwind is great IMO.
Queen: Night At The Opera, Innuendo and Made In Heaven Opera was a revelation at the time, and the last two albums with Freddie are powerful, especially Heaven, made from outtakes and rerecoded backing tracks, and the last songs he sang.
Gary Moore: Run For Cover. A rocking album, but it has a great song about the end of a relationship called Empty Rooms. Also has Glenn Hughes in good form.
Jon Lord: Pictured Within. This album reflects on the death of his mother, and I found it just after my own had passed away. I can't listen to it too often, it hits me so deep.
Rainbow: Down To Earth Blackmore finally assembled an ace band, with Glover, Don Airey and Cozy Powell, with one of the great rock voices in Graham Bonnet. Shame it didn't last longer.
Yanni - Live At the Acropolis Some may mock this, and his studio albums are a bit vapid, but this is a great msuical accomplishment, with some solo piece in it that are astounding, as well as Aria, which just soars.
The Who - Who's Next and a selection of Best Ofs. I've just read Townshend's autobiog, and it made me aware I'm actually a Who fan, and Next is a really, really good album.
As I said, maybe a few more, butt hat's the essentials, I can listen to them any time.
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