The fifteen track album to share your influences

[robsco]

There are a few artists out there who have released compilation albums to display their influences, and to show how they came to explore their own musical direction. This got me thinking of what I would choose as my fifteen track album to best illustrate the artists who have had the biggest influence on my musical tastes. There's only one rule really - let each artist have an absolute maximum of two entries. Thought this might be interesting for those of us who love a good list. I'll kick off...

1. Big Hard Excellent Fish - Imperfect List
2. Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal
3. Morrissey - Speedway
4. James - Sometimes (Lester Piggot)
5. Oasis - Columbia
6. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
7. Roxy Music - Remake/Remodel
8. The Beatles - A Day In The Life
9. Pulp - Sunrise
10. Belle & Sebastian - Judy And The Dream Of Horses
11. Klaus Nomi - Death
12. The Velvet Underground - What Goes On
13. Suede - The Wild Ones
14. The Durutti Column - Never Known
15. John Lennon - Jealous Guy

[Fantuzzi]

Oooh good thread.

1. Black Sabbath - NIB.
2. Ozzy Osbourne - Mr Crowley
3. Rainbow - Tarot Woman
4. King Crimson - Red
5. Megadeth - Holy wars - in truth the whole of the rust in peace 1991 album is metal at its best.
6. Queen - I want it all
7. Elvis - Rags to riches - Or any big belting emotive Elvis song, but this one is rather awesome.
8. Jason Becker - Opus Pocus
9. Guthrie Govan - Uncle Skunk
10. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
11. Dio - Shame on the night
13. Kign Crimson - Matte Kudasai
14. Vivaldi - Winter!
15. Whitesnake - Still of the night.

That was hard, partly because some songs summed up my interests in a style so well, and others as there weren't enough room! Could have included about 3 more Sabbath tracks, and a rather more recent interest in Robert Fripp and Brian Enos more ambient work

[Debaser]

robsco said:

9. Pulp - Sunrise

What a great song!

[option click]

Lots of these conjure up amazing memories of gigs attended as a teenager, or jumping around in sweaty London indie clubs.
Ah, happy days

In no particular order...
1 Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
2 The Prodigy - Their Law
3 Leftfield (& Lydon) - Open Up
4 The Cure - Just Like Heaven
5 Carter USM - Shoppers Paradise
6 Pop Will Eat Itself - Dance of the Mad
7 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
8 Eat - Shame
9 DJ Tim & Misjah - Access
10 Faithless - Insomnia
11 Neds Atomic Dustbin - Happy
12 Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
13 Blur - Popscene
14 The Mission - Deliverance
15 NIN - Head Like a Hole

[Patch1875]

1. Bob Marley - no woman no cry
2. Guns n Roses - paradise city
3. Inxs - taste it
4. Bassomatic - facinating rhythm
5. Nirvana - lounge act
6. Dexys midnight runners - geno
7. The dandy warhols - ever day should be a holiday
8. Primal scream - loaded
9. Manics - design for life
10. Bruce Springsteen - born to run
11.U2 - one
12. The Clash - white man in the hammersmith palais
13. Frank Sinatra - my way
14. Rage against the machine - killing in the name
15. Death in Vegas - Scorpio rising


Struggling with only 15 really need a volume 2!

[The Hypno-Toad]

Debaser said:

robsco said:

9. Pulp - Sunrise

What a great song!

Mr Hoppy?

In no particular order.

1.) The Build Up - The Kings Of Convenience
2.) Blue Monday - New Order
3.) This Town Isn't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks
4.) Bonny - Prefab Sprout
5.) Freeway - Aimee Mann
6.) I Wish - Eg & Alice
7.) Hobart Paving - Saint Etienne
8.) I Wanna Stay Home - Jellyfish
9.) Nice Weather For Ducks - Lemon Jelly
10.) EMI - The Sex Pistols
11.) Forest Fire - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
12.) Heroes - David Bowie
13.) I Was Right & You Were Wrong - Deacon Blue
14.) Love & Affection - Joan Armatrading
15.) From The Morning - Nick Drake

[blindmaninchains]

1. Steve Vai - Whispering a Prayer
2. The Beatles - Fool On The Hill
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
4. QOTSA - Go With The Flow
5. Joe Walsh - Birdcall Morning
6. Blur - This Is A Low
7. Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy
8. Duran Duran - Rio
9. Massive Attack - Protection
10. Guns N' Roses - Coma
11. Radiohead - The Bends
12. Suede - Asphalt World
13. The White Stripes - Ball & Biscuit
14. Pink Floyd - Time
15. Manic Street Preachers - From Despair To Where

Edited by blindmaninchains on Wednesday 26th February 20:24

[Meteor Madness]

1. Ronnie Dawson - Action Packed
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Had A Gal Called Sal
3. Cocteau Twins - Shallow Then Halo
4. The Meteors - Low Livin' Daddy
5. The Sonics - Psycho
6. Johnny Burnette - Train Kept A-Rollin'
7. The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog ?
8. John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen
9. The Phantom - Love Me
10. Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love ?
11. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Enter The Exterminator
12. Gene Vincent - Who Slapped John ?
13. Echo & The Bunnymen - Over The Wall
14. Wynonie Harris - Quiet Whiskey
15. Elvis Presley - Baby Let's Play House

[Seeker UK]

Hopefully, there's no limit on length of the album :-)

1. Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Part 1
2. Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
3. King Crimson - Starless
4. Pink Floyd - Echoes (Live at Pompeii)
5. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pt1
6. Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge Pt1
7. The Cure - A Short Term Effect
8. Neu! - Hero
9. Ultravox - The Voice
10. Miles Davis - Shhh / Peaceful
11. Kraftwerk - Numbers
12. The Durutti Column - Requiem for a Father
13. Throbbing Gristle - Discipline
14. Amon Duul II - Soap Shop Rock (Live in London)
15. Can - Mother Sky

[Warw1ckHunt]

1) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness.
2) Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot.
3) Crass - Do They Owe Us a Living?
4) Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe.
5) Grace Slick and the Great Society - Somebody to Love (much rawer than the Jefferson Airplane version)
6) Love - She Comes in Colors.
7) Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles.
8) Public Enemy - Burn Hollywood Burn.
9) Wire - Outdoor Miner.
10) Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal.
11) Converge - Homewrecker.
12) Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress.
13) PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home.
14) The Fall - The Classical.
15) Arab Strap - Blackness.

Edited by Warw1ckHunt on Friday 28th February 15:29

[kiteless]

I like to think that I can listen to most styles of music, these days (with only a couple of notable exceptions), and I reckon the following opened the door to each genre / style:

1. Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear
2. Genesis - Musical Box
3. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
4. Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
5. Muddy Waters - She's Nineteen Years Old
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
7. Pearl Jam - Alive
8. Megadeth - Hangar 18
9. Death In Vegas - Dead Elvis
10. Cafe Del Mar - Energy 52
11. Thelonius Monk - 'round Midnight
12. Antonin Dvorak - Serenade For Strings
13. J.S. Bach - Violin Sonata No.1 BWV1001
14. Philip Glass - Metamorphosis #1
15. Chic - I Want Your Love

Good thread. Got me thinking that did

[Fantuzzi]

Seeker UK said:

1. King Crimson - Starless

Awesome song, great choice.

[Crackie]

Some great stuff so far

In the chronological order I remember starting with S&G in 1970 when I was 5.

1. Simon and Garfunkle - The only living boy in New York.
2. Harry Nilsson - Without You.
3. Alice Cooper- School's Out.
4. Donna Summer - I feel love.
5. Queen - Seven seas of Rhye.
6. Rush - The spirit of radio.
7. The Police - Message in bottle.
8. The Cure - A Forest.
9. New Order - Blue Monday.
10. The Smiths - This charming man.
11. Human League - The Lebanon
12. Pixies - Monkey gone to heaven
13. The Sundays - You're not the only one that I know.
14. Stone Roses - Fools Gold.
15. Sequential - Jono Grant.

Good fun . Need a lot more than 15 though.....

Edited by Crackie on Saturday 1st March 19:44

[theboyfold]

Debaser said:

robsco said:

9. Pulp - Sunrise

What a great song!

Great track, I love fact it's pretty much just an outro!

[HD Adam]

Again, in no particular order

1. Moonage Daydream - David Bowie
2. Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Bobby Womack
3. Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf
4. Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughn
5. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Iggy & The Stooges
6. Breakfast In Bed - Dusty Springfield
7. Little Child Runnin' Wild - Curtis Mayfield
8. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
9. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
10. If I Were A Carpenter - Four Tops
11. Ol' Man Trouble - Otis Redding
12. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
13. Double Barrel - Dave & Ansell Collins
14. Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett
15. Voyage To Atlantis - Isley Brothers

I think as a few have said, needs to be a double album at least

[AnimalMkIV]

Sort of chronological order

1. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell [my dad got me into rock from an early age]
2. Dio - Holy Diver
3. Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera [then progressed to metal]
4. Motley Crue - Shout At the Devil
5. Metallica - Whiplash [then Thrash happened]
6. Slayer - Hell Awaits
7. Exodus - The Toxic Waltz
8. Vio-Lence - Calling In The Coroner
9. Forbidden - Chalice Of Blood
10. Napalm Death - Scum [I saw Napalm Death on TV and was gobsmacked, kept showing it to mates as a laugh and it started to grow on me]
11. Carcass - Ruptured in Purulence [so I got more into Grindcore]
12. Hawkwind - Space Is Deep [until I left home and discovered pot]
13. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
14. Gong - Flying Teapot
15. Desecration - Bathroom Autopsy [then as a follow on from Grindcore, I found more Goregrind/Brutal Death Metal bands]

[toon10]

Great thread. OK there’s a million more I could add to this but if I look at my musical influences over time then these stand out.

1. Fade to Grey by Visage
2. Voodoo Ray by Voodoo Ray
3. Papua New Guinea by Future sound of London
4. Oneski by Richard H Kirk
5. 14:31 by global Communication
6. Sweet and Tender Hooligan by The Smiths
7. Then by The Charlatans
8. Happy by Neds Atomic Dustbin (great to see another poster with this track)
9. Roads by Portishead
10. Private Universe by Jon Hopkins
11. Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack
12. An End Has A Start by Editors
13. Undisclosed Desires by Muse
14. The Pretender by Foo Fighters
15. Reunion by The XX

[Justin Cyder]

No Particular order but all are music that has either influenced or spoken to me over the years.

Fools Gold - Stone Roses
Lodi - Creedence Clearwater revival
Oh Pity - Cashier no. 9
Julie's been working for the drug squad - The Clash
As - Stevie Wonder
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Where is my mind - The Pixies
Running away - Roy Ayers
There is a light - The Smiths
Your love - Frankie Knuckles
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
The Planets suite - Holst
Hallelujah - Happy Mondays
Waterfall - Stone Roses
Nature Boy - George Benson version from In flight.

[PedroB]

I quite like this idea. In no particular order:

1. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
2. John Martyn - Solid Air
3. Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl
4. Fairport Convention - Come All Ye
5. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
6. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
7. Neil Young - Old Man
8. Audioslave - Cochise
9. Kate Bush - The Big Sky
10. Wild Beasts - Deeper
11. The National - 90 Mile Waterwall
12. ISIS - False Light
13. Iron and Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
14. Terry Callier - You're Goin' Miss Your Candyman
15. Outkast - Spread

Edited by PedroB on Friday 28th February 12:48

[Rids64]

1. At the Edge - Stiff Little Fingers
2. White Riot - The Clash
3. Complete Control - The Clash
4. Atmosphere - Joy Division
5. Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
6. What Do I Get - Buzzcocks
7. Killing an Arab - The Cure
8. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
9. Bela Lugosis Dead - Bauhaus
10. The Cutter - Echo & the Bunnymen
11. Public Image - PIL
12. Mickey - Spear of Destiny
13. Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts
14. Motown Junk - Manic Street Preachers
15. Babylon's Burning - The Ruts