al Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Warning. Participation in this little questionnaire could potentially date you. I'd be interested to know what records/cds, when you first heard them, stopped you in your tracks and made you say, "Wow, what is this?" And, got you thinking about music in a different way. I have several that I call "turning point records", but if I could narrow it down to just one, it would be War by U2. It was like riding along on a smooth mulit-lane highway, and then finding oneself on a cowpath in a magic forest--Or something like that. Bye for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I gotta say...the band 'TOTO' has been a major influence in my musical career for pretty much 20 years. Composition, arrangment, musicianship, production, you name it. Especially the last two CD's, "Mindfields" and 'Falling In Between". Well worth a listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sondod Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Electric Ladyland and Bitches Brew. Both because of the history of what was happening in the studio for them. So many techniques were invented during these two records and they really opened my eyes to creativity in the studio beyond merely the performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubstock Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Counting Crows August and everything after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben parsons Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 i'm a U2-er also, but for me it was The Joshua Tree... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvgtr Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 ...chronologically...I can't pick just one! Elvis Presley - 50 Golden hits (not sure about the title...greatest hits collection in the 70's...dude was the first rock star) John Williams - Star Wars Soundtrack (episode IV now but was just Star Wars then...my introduction to classical styling) Kiss - Kiss Alive II (these guys made me want to play, Van Halen made me want to play well) Pink Floyd - The Wall (my introduction to Floyd...I got into Darkside later) Van Halen - Women and Children First (again, the introduction to the band) Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (can you tell I'm a guitarist?! ) The Police - Synchronicity (what The Edge is to others, Andy Summers is to me...love them both, though) Run DMC - "King of Rock" (single) (first fave rap tune...kinda fuzzy on when it came out) Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (Malsteen and Vai set the bar in this era) Nirvana - Nevermind (the punk Beatles) NIN - The Downward Spiral (it was around this time that I started listening to production as well as songs...great for both) There are a lot more that kicked me in the head but these have made me what I am today (for better or worse). 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonc Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Great post dvgtr! You definitely put up some classics. I'm going to add.. - Van Halen - Fair Warning: I was blown away that Logic had a preset that even tried to emulate this guitar tone. One of the most elusive guitar tones in history. - Sting - Nothing Like The Sun - Parliament Funkadelic - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (in-credible.) - Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out & Trilogy ( I Am A Viking. What? sickness.) - Led Zep - Zeppelin 2 - Beatles - almost everything - Kiss - Kiss Alive 2 (2nd vote from me, that record may be why I play music) - NWA - Straight Outta Compton - Ice Cube - Death Certificate - Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation.. - Pat Metheny - ST (the one w/ Face Dances) - Bob James - One - Miles Davis - On The Corner - Tom T. Hall - Merle Haggard o.k. I'll stop there Anybody that's playing music from the gut I like, no matter the genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lupin Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 For me it's probably Dylan - John Wesley Harding. Awesome, awesome album with some of the most amazing lyrics. Check out The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. And yes, TOTO are heroes. Hold the line is amazing, for all the reasons mentioned. I would also say Africa, but I just can't help laughing at the lyrics... Oh, and have you seen that video!!!??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral Pop Will Eat Itself - This is the day, this is the hour, this.. is this U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky Pink Floyd - The Wall Dire Straits - Alchemy Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1983) Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Faith No More - We Care a Lot VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater Nirvana - Nevermind Radiohead - OK Computer Tool - Aenima New Model Army - Thunder & Consolation ... and currently on my CD player: Muse - Black Holes and Revelations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkgross Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I'll just have to add: anything and everything by Tomita Yes_Fragile Elton John_Madman Across the Water (string arrangements to die for) Amin Bhatia's 'Interstellar Suite" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshi Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 -Micheal Jackson, thriller. i was still a kid ok -the Prodigy, experience , my introduction into electronic music -Coldcut, let us play... has been the major shock in my life!!! -DJ shadow, entroducing -Aphex twin selected ambient works, on of those soundtracks of my life. and of course...Come to daddy, yeah that was shocking -Kruder & Dorfmeister the K&D sessions, i definetely stopped breathing there for a moment...This is the one for me These definetely have been the major CD's in my life and I still listen to all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I was hesitant to put 'The Prodigy, Experience', or even 'Music for the jilted generation', but the truth is my first really big big shock was when I heard the single "Breathe with me". Still love their older stuff. Michael Jackson - Thriller. I was a kid, and listening on a tiny radio. What a shock when I got the vinyl and discovered it was a male singing!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Tomasi Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street Duran Duran-Rio Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy Blondie-Parallel Lines R.E.M.-Green The Beatles-The White Album Roxy Music-Avalon The Doors-L.A. Woman Depeche Mode-Music for the Masses Def Leppard-Pyromania and of course... Nirvana-Nevermind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mis-phit-toy Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 "the one" for me is NIN, The Fragile .... not only did it make me listen to music in a whole new way, it helped me see life in a whole new light ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcel72 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 The Beatles - The White Album Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon The Stooges - Fun House The Cure - Pornography The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand Radiohead - Amnesiac Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin Fleetwood Mac - Rumors Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space The Clash - London Calling Bowie - Changes And many more, actually. These are the ones that I would be a different person if I had not heard. Best, Marcel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Pink Floyd- All Radiohed- The Bends. Simon and Garfunkel- my first tape as a child was a best of, later it was nearly everything they recorded. Joe Jackson- Blaze of Glory, Jumpin' Jive, Stepping out Leftfield- Leftism Loyd Cole- Loyd Cole and the Commotions, best of 84-89. But the most important album for me and most inspiring to play an instrument (Tenor Sax) was The Waterboys. Bought on a whim and not knowing anything about them other than what I saw on the cover. It was the best of the Waterboys, 81-90, Mike Scott plaing Mandolin on the front cover with Anthony Thistlethwaite on Saxophone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero1 Posted January 4, 2007 Share Posted January 4, 2007 This is always harder after others have posted. Makes the list potentially much longer ...but for me: Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart! Possibly the greatest pop song ever!!! Made me realise that it is about communication, not technique! Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On. Beatles: Everything...! Pink Floyd: Again, everything, but especially the early albums. Doors: Morrison Hotel! NIN: Everything And finally, my hero, Bob Marley: The albums 'Catcha Fire' and 'Burnin' radicalised my thinking about music and life! ( I wish you were still here man!!! ) Also like Exodus ! Great link here if you want to read about Bob Marley's life and career: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nublu Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 &otThe recording that has affected me most is by Vladimir Horowitz, the inspired Russian Pianist.It is from his Album ;The Historic Return to Carnegie Hall. It's a recording of Bach's Tocatta, Adagio, and Fugue in Cmajor... which was transcribed by Busoni for Piano. Mister Horowitz had taken a leave from touring for reasons of fatigue. A leave which lasted some ten years. He walks on stage to a standing ovation. Everyone is so glad he is back. Opening phrase... he makes a mistake, (which he refuses to edit out of the recording). The music procedes to sheer mastery and another standing ovation. The King is back. So cool. I have broad eclectic musical taste but I regularly return to this recording specifically, and Horowitz generally, when I feel the need to contemplate how it is that someone can touch everything he/she does with magic and finesse. Did I mention depth? Still blown away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prospect Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Public Enemy - Fear Of The Black Planet Nirvana - In Utero DJ Shadow - Entroducing Portishead - Dummy Hybrid - Wide Angle BT - Movement in Still Life (UK and US editions) BT- This Binary Universe The Dandy Warhols - self titled The Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - self titled Deftones - Around the Fur Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Prefuse 73 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine (HOW COME NOW ONE HAS POSTED THIS ONE ON HERE YET?!?!?!) Bob Marley - Legend The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Ani DiFranco - Joyful Girl EP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 For me it's probably Dylan - John Wesley Harding. AGREED! John Wesley Harding is such a great album among so many great Dylan albums (Blonde on Blonde/Planet Waves/Bringing It All Back Home etc.) Levon Helm mentions those strange indian dudes posing on the cover of JWH with Bob in his book "This Wheel's On Fire". Kenny Buttrey kills me - all those nashvillee cats- i though that Norbert Putnam was playing bass on JWH but it's Charlie mcCoy the harmonica guy(?) Anyway any LP with those guys on it at around that time is worth checking out e.g. Moonshot or Quiet Places by Buffy Sainte Marie, Any Day Now by Joan Baez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 The Dandy Warhols - self titled The Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales I really have to buy those albums. I only know a couple of Dandy Warhol songs and just love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prospect Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Dude. Get ALL The Dandy's records. I love them all. My favorite is Welcome To The Monkeyhouse. There have been times when ALL I listen to is The Dandys. Sometimes this can go on for months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supravista Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 The first Psycotrance CD in the ongoing series under Moonshine. Released in 94' this was psychedelic trance techno at it's early stages (before all the sub-genres and before synths came with "trance" presets... despite the technical limitation (compaired to todays standard) these guys were moving mountains with there sounds and sequences. [i should note that phychotrance is a DJ mixed compalation]. There was nothing "cookie cutter" about these tracks. The producers where venturing into unknown territory and as a result reported back with there very unique take on trance techno. All the above rambling was in hindsight... At that time then I was becoming aware of such sounds, I felt blessed to have found such strange and wonderful music. And the knowledge that people were capable of making these soundscapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supravista Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) Oh, I can't forget : Plastikman - sheet one I think it was released in 93'... blew allot of minds, that album. man! the good ol' days!!!! Edited February 15, 2007 by supravista Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Massive Attack - Mezzanine (HOW COME NOW ONE HAS POSTED THIS ONE ON HERE YET?!?!?!) I LOVE Massive Attack, but I don't think I ever got a revelation when I first listened to it. I DID, however, have a revelation the first time I heard Black Steel from Tricky's first album. I think that changed my life. I got the same kind of trip a couple of years ago when I first heard Hot Ride by Prodigy. Love that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supravista Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Prodigy's "voodoo people" sure bent some brain cells love the acid line in that one!! still gets me today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) OK I just remembered watching the video from 'Daydreaming', Massive Attack's first single. I think it was the first time I heard someone rap calmly, without anger. Edited February 15, 2007 by David Nahmani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supravista Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Lately I've been collecting oldschool acid house from 88', 89', ect. Before my time (I was all of ten).... A Guy Called Gereld - Voodoo Ray Together - Hardcore Uproar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 MAGIC people, VOODOO people. The voodoo, who-do-what-you-don't-dare-do people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supravista Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 thats great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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