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qwert9579
qwert9579
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Age: 27
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 00:20
- Post subject: The album that broke you free of genre shackles.
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This has almost definitely been discussed before but I can't find it, so, here it is.
When I was a young lad and just getting into music, I listened exclusively to rock and metal (mainly because all my favourite bands were found on Guitar Hero). Everything else was garbage and everybody else was missing out. Obviously, this way of thinking is a thing of the past. However, I remember a specific album being a reason for this change of heart.
It may not be a favourite on this site, but Scream by Chris Cornell made me realise that maybe other genres aren't so bad.
I was wondering if anyone else had an album that opened them up to other kinds of music.
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meruizh
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Age: 32
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 00:32
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A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay
I used to be a boy band type of guy. Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Westlife and all those amazing bands, that are so much better than the One Direction crap we have now a days.
This Christmas present back in 2002 changed my whole idea of music.
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 00:37
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| meruizh wrote: | | Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Westlife and all those amazing bands, that are so much better than the One Direction crap we have now a days. |
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Precedent
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 00:41
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| meruizh wrote: |
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A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay
I used to be a boy band type of guy. Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Westlife and all those amazing bands, that are so much better than the One Direction crap we have now a days.
This Christmas present back in 2002 changed my whole idea of music. |
The Coldplay album is DOPE, but One Direction isn't that bad, homie.
Mine is:
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Before this album, I thought that all hip-hop (bar Eminem, Yeezy, and Drake) was awful, but with this, I realized that the genre can have an artistic BOOM.
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Hammy
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 01:17
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none, i was born free
no actually this blew me away on first listen when i was like 15, opened me up to jazz then later classical (when i took a music history course)
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The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
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denmarkman
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Age: 30
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 02:12
- Post subject: Re: The album that broke you free of genre shackles.
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Holy hell it's amazing that that's the album you picked 
Anyway, I've had a number of reawakenings thanks to certain albums, but I'd say this is the one that originally made me realize there was good music after the '70s:
Superunknown by Soundgarden
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eyezayzay
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 02:14
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Foxy Shazam by Foxy Shazam
I don't know what it was about this album but I loved it, saw them live, and then fell in love. After that point I started branching out from Anime Music and Hip Hop, lol.
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dougotto
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Age: 29
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 02:27
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| Precedent wrote: | | Before this album, I thought that all hip-hop (bar Eminem, Yeezy, and Drake) was awful, but with this, I realized that the genre can have an artistic BOOM. |
That's really interesting considering your chart. I can tell you're very open minded, much more than I wish I could be haha.
Anyways, for a while, all rock n' roll/punk gave me a headache until I listened to Twins by Ty Segall. It's not one of my favorites, but there are definitely a few gems on here that helped open a whole world of music I was weary of.
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TracyJacks
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- Posted: 07/28/2014 12:39
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The genres and bands I listened to were mostly psychedelic/prog rock from the 1960s and early 1970s. I was also a fan of late 1990s music simply because I was a teen back then, and I listened to pop and rock from the era. Blur was amongst my early favourite bands but it was their '13' album which I loved and I didn't care about their britpop era albums.
Then when I was watching a video on Youtube I realised that the background music was Blur, it was their first single, 'She's So High'. I immediately liked it and realised I should check albums which influenced them.
I discovered The Stone Roses and it completely changed my mind on everything about listening to music.
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The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
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