The album that changed your life?

[Justin Cyder]

I've heard that, though really Sid Vicious was never really there for the music was he?

[RISK]

Slayer -South of Heaven - A teenage oh my god moment
Nirvana - Nevermind - resounded with a new career that I had chosen
Radio 6 Music, every week I hear something amazing and my hard earned is drained into the iTunes accounts.

[PomBstard]

Probably different albums at different ages...

Thin Lizzy - Black Rose and 10cc - How Dare You when I was about 10 and kept me away from pop music
Iron Maiden - Live After Death when I was about 13
Pearl Jam - Ten at the age of about 20'ish was what I was looking for at the time

Since then, probably Sleepy Jackson - Lovers as it was finally an Aussie album I could listen to

[qube_TA]

PomBstard said:

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Iron Maiden - Live After Death when I was about 13

Best gatefold sleeve ever, I used to sit in front of my Midi-system playing that with the sleeve open, helped to visualise the concert.

[Baz Tench]

Three different ones for me. These sent me off in all different directions musically. And I'll be forever grateful to them.

[Justin Cyder]

At the time, the Street sounds Electro albums were the centre of my musical universe. I loved them unconditionally. Then it went all rap & I lost interest. Two of the most enduring tunes from the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPqTFoNbuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tsfJn8YdwQ

[ATTAK Z]

[Baz Tench]

Justin Cyder said:

At the time, the Street sounds Electro albums were the centre of my musical universe. I loved them unconditionally. Then it went all rap & I lost interest. Two of the most enduring tunes from the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPqTFoNbuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tsfJn8YdwQ

Aah the joys of being a 14 year old lad sat on a park bench or the local underpass and a mate turns up with his rasta blaster (sorry politically correct types) and started blasting this stuff out. Magic!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Loads of good memories here so far, and many that resonate with me.

One of the ones that really 'changed my life' was Marillion's Brave.

I'd been a fan for years before that, but that album affected me in a way I hadn't expected. Coincidence of time, place and events of course, but by golly it made an impact.

[B.J.W]

Lots of defining individual songs (I too grew up with the Electro's). However, for me the defining album for me was this......



Clubbing was a major part of my life during the mid 90's - I recall Leftism first being played after we had got back from a amazing night at The House in Nottingham. After that point it became our default post-club 'relaxation' album.

[dinkel]

Justin Cyder said:

Ditto.

Then famous Dutch DJ Ferry Maat changed his radio Soul Show to entirely play that album. Legend.

[Justin Cyder]

I really like Journey through the secret life of plants, but don't tell anyone.

Anything Stevie really. What a patch of form he had from Music of my mind to Hotter than July. Such a musical giant.

[dinkel]

Agreed!

[Mobsta]

qube_TA said:

For me it was this record:

A few of us, if like me, were enjoying Jean Michel Jarre without knowing what we were listening to, watching demos on the AMIGA back in the 90's. Quite a popular album to rip, used on a number of discs, the tracks played well in the day on the midi board inside the Amiga. Popcorn was/is great!

A link to popcorn if you're too young to remember it, or were kidnapped (or lived underground with badgers) during that generation.

[Highway Star]

qube_TA said:

PomBstard said:

P
Iron Maiden - Live After Death when I was about 13

Best gatefold sleeve ever, I used to sit in front of my Midi-system playing that with the sleeve open, helped to visualise the concert.

Scream for me,Long Beach!

I was 12 when I picked this up in 1990 in John Menzies in Poole because I was attracted the the cover art on the double cassette, at the time the only other album in my collection was Michael Jackson's 'Bad'. Has fuelled a metal and classic rock passion that lasts till today.

[dinkel]

Baz Tench said:

Three different ones for me. These sent me off in all different directions musically. And I'll be forever grateful to them.

Oddly, these 3 had a massive impact on me: when they came out:
- Local DJs used Kraftwerk stuff in their mixing: together with SoulSonicForce and Malcolm McLaren stuff.
- my encounter to disco / electro mixing
- 'William' was a smash in my face!

[dinkel]

Mobsta said:

qube_TA said:

For me it was this record:

A few of us, if like me, were enjoying Jean Michel Jarre without knowing what we were listening to, ...

Again local DJs used JMJ stuff in their mixing . . . early 80s were adventurous.

[MarshPhantom]

[Justin Cyder]

Good call. Great record.

Every single song is either about getting stoned, being stoned, or coming down from being stoned.

[satan 59]