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List 5 to 10 albums that have had a huge influence on your life and/or musical development

Pittsburgh Footy said:
This is a great thread idea.

The Chronic - Dr. Dre - Evokes memories of the summer of 1993 riding around town with my boys, 16 year old bliss, no cares in the world.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Didn't sound like anything else at the time, really hits as a young high schooler. My favorite band from that era.

Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews Band - Was the foundation upon which I explored other types of music as I went into college. It was different than anything else I had heard up to that point, and then it essentially was the soundtrack of my freshman year of college - it was everywhere.

Meddle - Pink Floyd - In one of life's cruel jokes as an Evertonian, Fearless is my favorite Pink Floyd song. Found Pink Floyd in college and this album was the beginning.

Billy Breathes - Phish - My favorite band as an adult. I can pick any number of albums here, but this was the one that hooked me forever in college.

Kid A - Radiohead - Already a fan by this point, it's the best album of all time for me. When the first notes hit, I immediately get locked in back to the first time I heard it. It's perfection

Transatlanticism/Plans - Death Cab for Cutie - Two albums that got me through a period of reflection and growth in the late 2000s

Okonokos - My Morning Jacket - It's a live album and the original soundtrack for my life post-2009 with Mrs. PF and our friends since that time.


There are literally hundreds of others I can add to this list, but these pop out off the top of my head as real gamechangers for me either in regards to personal change or marking life events.
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I don't think there is anything more in the world that separates living in the UK and America than Phish and Dave Matthews band

A critic I like was saying how she went to the college in the US for a year, didn't get them at all and 6 months later she was obsessed with them.... Then she moved back to the UK and hasn't listened to them since hahaha

I guess bands like Hawkwind might be the UK equivalent, despite the music being fairly different

I've been trying to get into Ween, but again I think it helps if you listen to them in the US
 
coollino said:
I don't think there is anything more in the world that separates living in the UK and America than Phish and Dave Matthews band

A critic I like was saying how she went to the college in the US for a year, didn't get them at all and 6 months later she was obsessed with them.... Then she moved back to the UK and hasn't listened to them since hahaha

I guess bands like Hawkwind might be the UK equivalent, despite the music being fairly different

I've been trying to get into Ween, but again I think it helps if you listen to them in the US
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Yep, no doubt. I'm sure there are bands like you mention that have rabid, if not super large, followings in the UK that Americans just don't get.

Phish is a very, very American band. They are wholly unlike any other American band, but part of "getting" Phish and whether you will die for them or hate them forever is you have to see them live. So much of the Phish experience is the live experience, the scene so to speak, which you can't get without living here. Lots of other reasons, but that's a key one
 
coollino said:
I don't think there is anything more in the world that separates living in the UK and America than Phish and Dave Matthews band

A critic I like was saying how she went to the college in the US for a year, didn't get them at all and 6 months later she was obsessed with them.... Then she moved back to the UK and hasn't listened to them since hahaha

I guess bands like Hawkwind might be the UK equivalent, despite the music being fairly different

I've been trying to get into Ween, but again I think it helps if you listen to them in the US
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I like this post and agree with muchof it. Though as an American, I could never really get into Dave Matthews or Phish (though I saw the later in 1991). But I did try to get into Hawkwind back in high school. Never stuck, and I never saw the appeal despite trying to.

Ween is by far one of my favorite bands ever, and most definitely should have been on my original list in this thread. But I think their appeal is age-dependent...I got into them in my 20s...I don't know how much I would like them if I got into them in my 40s.
 

Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction; not fully sure how these were my favourite band when i was 12 or so, but they were and this was my fave album of theirs. I used to watch a load of skating vids and buy the punk-o-rama CD's as they were like £5 for 2 CD's worth of songs.

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity/Bleed American; the first albums where it wasn't mainly bands from the above

Postal Service - Give Up; i think this is the first 'electronic' album I loved so it changed a lot for me

Daft Punk - Homework; drugs finally made sense

the Skull Disco Soundboy comps with Shackleton, Appleblim; when dubstep in the clubs was perfect, but sadly didn't last long

Burial - Untrue; goes with the above

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972; the first album that got me into a different work of electronic music. I think, maybe

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; me and my gf's 'album' when we didn't live together

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless; i found the way I liked guitars to song and not my dad telling me someone called 'Eric Clapton' is good

Charli xcx - Vroom Vroom EP; not so much this EP really. But it's the time people such as Sophie and PC music made it into more mainstream pop and changed the sound of a lot of pop forever

Tinashe - Aquarius; perfect pop from an artist who gets better and better
 

coollino said:
Bad Religion - Stranger than Fiction; not fully sure how these were my favourite band when i was 12 or so, but they were and this was my fave album of theirs. I used to watch a load of skating vids and buy the punk-o-rama CD's as they were like £5 for 2 CD's worth of songs.

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity/Bleed American; the first albums where it wasn't mainly bands from the above

Postal Service - Give Up; i think this is the first 'electronic' album I loved so it changed a lot for me

Daft Punk - Homework; drugs finally made sense

the Skull Disco Soundboy comps with Shackleton, Appleblim; when dubstep in the clubs was perfect, but sadly didn't last long

Burial - Untrue; goes with the above

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972; the first album that got me into a different work of electronic music. I think, maybe

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; me and my gf's 'album' when we didn't live together

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless; i found the way I liked guitars to song and not my dad telling me someone called 'Eric Clapton' is good

Charli xcx - Vroom Vroom EP; not so much this EP really. But it's the time people such as Sophie and PC music made it into more mainstream pop and changed the sound of a lot of pop forever

Tinashe - Aquarius; perfect pop from an artist who gets better and better
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Oooooh. I just finished listening to Meddle. Gonna round out my day at work with Give Up
 
1. Low - David Bowie
Bowie off the drugs and at his best

2. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
This changed everything

3. Closer - Joy Division
Sad and beautiful at the same time

4. Songs of Faith and Devotion - Depeche Mode
Dave on the drugs and evolved into the ultimate rockstar. So many fave songs on this album

5. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Just pushed every boundary. Unbelievable first album
 
Bulls on Parade - R.A.T.M. (1996) was backpacking in Australia when this came out and opened me up to music other than Hip Hop / Rave / House music that I had only previously entertained.

Three Feet High & Rising - De La Soul (1989) was on the juke box of the first boozer I was allowed in so has some nostalgia attached and reminds me of summer.

Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy (1990) First record with an overtly political message that grabbed my attention, greats tunes and a couple of great videos.

In Colour - Jamie XX (2015) listened on repeat during a challenging time, took me back to happier times.

Fat of The Land - the Prodigy (1996) again released while I was abroad but full of classics that I’ll still turn to if I need pumping up or just a trip down memory lane. Sound track for younger more hedonistic days.

Sound City - Reel to Reel (compilation / sound track - 2013) great story (and film) behind this with some great musicians. Still regularly listen to it.

Ronin II - Unkle (2022) favourite Unkle album and listen to it every night putting my little’un to bed.

Dinner Party - Dinner Party (2020) great to unwind to or listen on a lazy Sunday morning.
 
Everything below takes me back to a time in my life, for whatever reason.

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You had to be there (ie. when it was released).



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The soundtrack of highschool, for me.



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Again, you had to be there. You knew you were listening to an album they and
other bands were going to find it hard to top. A nuclear work.



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I was Introduced to them late, this one stood out for me after going through
their back catalogue. The soundtrack to discovering insatiable women do exist
and some aren't afraid to show it.



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Like all these choices, will transport me back to a time. Thought I'd throw
something new'ish in as I've not had that feeling from an album
in quite a while.


One small handful from a lifetime of tunes...**feck, just realized you said 5 to 10. Oh well, I'd have invariably still left something out and be all sad about it.**
 
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