2006 (approx. 9 years old): "Modern music is good!", arguably the first indie album I heard, opened me up to many artists like Arctic Monkeys, and it still impacts on the music I like today.
2011 (approx. 13 years old:) "Modern music is good!", I stopped listening to 'modern music' around 2009-2010, just keeping to the albums I'd picked up the past few years from Arctic Monkeys, Hard-Fi, Klaxons, The Fratellis, The Libertines, The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, We Are Scientists, The Enemy, etc. and stuff on the radio (unfortunately). I listened to this and I then listened to a load more from stuff like Two Door Cinema Club, The xx, later Arctics, etc. Basically got me back into listening to music again.
2011 (approx. 13 years old): "Older indie music is good!", one of the first British records I picked up dating back to pre-90s (fair enough, it's '89, but it's a start), which then got me to...
2011 (approx. 13 years old): "60s music is good!", after listening to this compilation I decided to listen to Beatles' albums, and Stones' albums, and The Who's albums, etc. which eventually led to...
2011 (approx. 13 years old): "I didn't know 60s music could be this good!", yeah this got me into weirder stuff from art rock, prog rock, avant-garde, etc. I like it a lot but it wasn't as important to me as the others.
2012 (approx. 14 years old): "I didn't know indie could be this good!", this got me into more intricate indie citing chamber and twee music rather than post-punk and Britpop.
2012 (approx. 14 years old): "I should try doing this!", and so I picked up my acoustic guitar and wrote my first full composition. It's a short four-chord song with decent lyrics, but because of this album I decided to write even more.
2013 (approx. 15 years old): "I didn't know music could be this good!", basically got me into post-rock itself, and other more minimal music types. The only reason I like albums such as Hospice, Kid A, Loveless, F#A#, etc., is because I listened to this with an incredibly open mind, and continued to do so. It also made me realise you didn't have to sing in English (or even for that matter sing) to make beautiful music, you just had to know how to do it.
And that's basically it. Hope it wasn't too much to read. _________________
SuedeSwede, you were listening to music from a very young age! 😲 I only started listening to music when I was 15.
I know I have a brother who would have been around 14-15 when I started listening to music and he pretty much got into Oasis when I did, whenever he put them on I'd go into the same room as he was. He almost controlled what I listened to until I actually understood I could ask for a copy of the CD myself and get a CD player, in which I was free to listen to what I liked. He then introduced me to Whatever People Say I Am, then I went my own way and found so many other great bands. _________________
It was around 2007-2008 when these three were absolutely played the crap out of in our car. I guess it introduced me to rock music, as well as listening to songs in album form.
Got this for Christmas 2009, before delving deeper into Muse's discography and loving Origin of Symmetry. At the same time I began appreciating The Beatles, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, The Strokes and other bands that I had available on my iPod, but had never really taken advantage of. This started my listening to new music, however, it was not for a few years that I actively went and tried to discover new music that wasn't immediately available at my house.
I happened to stubble across this from my Dad, who had it on his computer but never really listened to it. I listened to it after being a little bit bored by constant plays of about 1,000 of the same songs on my iPod. After hearing this I actively went and tried to discover music, whether through the Internet or books, that I had never done before. It also started me being a bit more adventurous in what I listened to, as well as trying new genres.
This told me that the greatest jazz albums could easily be as good as the best rock albums. For a while, when listening to jazz, I thought that it was alright, but nothing truly special. However, after hearing this, I went out and tried to discover more and more jazz. This also led me to try other genres that I had once no appreciated as much- the main example of which is hip-hop.
meccaleccaVoice of ReasonProfile The Land of Enchantment
My chart pretty much sums it up, but here's a few rather big pieces to the puzzle.
Rubber Soul & The White Album. I could name pretty much any Beatles album here but those are the two I most fondly remember from my childhood. My mom was a huge fan and owned them all on vinyl, so many of my earliest music memories revolve around the Beatles.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn. My brothers were quite a few years older than me. I was maybe about 7 years old when one of them made me a tape of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, opening up my world to a surreal musical palette unlike the synth heavy new wave and vapid hair metal ballads that were ruling the airwaves of the time.
Mr Bungle. Angel Dust. Sailing the Seas of Cheese. I was in 5th grade. Friends of mine were idolizing Kris Kross. Girls were obsessed with New Kids on The Block, and Nirvana was just blowing up. My brother had been learning to play bass. He was obsessively listening to Primus, Mr Bungle and Faith No More, learning the bass parts. Suddenly my musical tastes transitioned from classic rock to contemporary alternative. Primus' absurd sound would eventually be my gateway to The Residents and Zappa. Mr Bungle would provide a hint of just how diverse music could be, eventually leading me to adventure into the avant jazz world of john Zorn.
Minor Threat - Complete Discography. Fugazi - Repeater. London Calling. In my early teens, Green Day exploded and led me to obsess with punk. From Black Flag to Bad Religion to The Clash, I found an outlet for my naive teen angst. Everyone I knew was in a terrible punk band. Nights and weekends were spent watching awful hardcore bands. The gospel according to Ian McKaye and The Clash set the foundation for my expectation of music to be passionately executed, with a purpose.
OK Computer. Doolittle. I was in high school when it happened. The videos for Karma Police and Paranoid Android mesmerized me. Quickly Radiohead became my favorite band alive. Around the same time, a mix cd from my oldest brother led to an obsession with The Pixies.
Kid A. In my first year of college, on my own and living in New York City. The city was overwhelming, preparing to eat me alive. Tragedies of previous years had crippled me with depression. Kid A was my soundtrack from the moment I bought it on October 2, 2000. Its presence was key to my survival.
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. Let It Come Down. 13 (Blur). Following a very rough break up, the death of my grandfather as well as that of three of my friends. I was ready to throw in the towel. I was defeated. These three albums helped carry me to salvation.
I think I can comfortably sum it up with three albums...
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Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
It made me desperately long for life in a rural area with just nature around me...it actually made me want to live somewhere in the UK. I'm kind of obsessed with the folklore of the UK, and just the atmosphere associated with it all. Weird, huh? I still do really want to live there..but just anywhere where I can live in peaceful harmony without a bunch of hustle and bustle. <3 Love you Vashti.
Well, it gave me words that I kind of love and live by...
"Be soft don't be stern
We all want we all yearn"
An album that absolutely positively declares sympathy and empathy as the best things a person can have.
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Giles Corey by Giles Corey
I think it made me something like...a pantheist. Perhaps not a pantheist, but definitely more spiritual.
And I think some honorable mentions would be The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (soundtrack), Fantasia (soundtrack), and Piper at the Gates of Dawn for feeding my imagination, all at different points. And Cross Paths by The Motifs for reinforcing my want to have a lovely relationship all of my life with my lovely girl. 😄
I can certainly mentioned 3 albums that defined everything in my life.
1) Christmas 2000
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I was 9 yrs old, honestly I didnt care much about music, few months before I went to my first concert, The Backstreet Boys, hell yeah! so basically this was a christmas present that changed everything for me, I couldnt stop playing this album, I knew every single song. And after that I forgot all about the BSB, N'sync, etc and just focused on pop oldies. Big change for a 9yr old, who's friends were still crazy about S Club 7.
2) Christmas 2002
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Another Christmas present. 11 yrs old, didn't care of anything other than the Beatles. But thanks to this album I got involved in a whole new other World, it took me a couple of years to really get into (I had an R.E.M phase before) but kind of defined my music taste for the future.
3) Around christmas 2008
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17 years old. not a present, but it myself. My cousin introduced me to the band as his favorite ever. I have only heard Creep. So i said what a hell, let's give it a try... And this fuckin' album made me who I am today. I became obsessed with Radiohead, and then I just wanted more, I kept digging for similar bands, and similar music... and then I was just listening to every weird ass album I could possible find.
This album created my obsession with music. _________________ "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"
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