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5: The Clash - Combat Rock
My parents were always really into alternative rock. I grew up listening to a lot of REM, Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr, and Talking Heads. Combat Rock was my favorite though because of the Rock The Casbah song.
10: Korn - Follow The Leader
This came out in fifth grade for me and it was a big deal. Everyone I knew whose parents would let them got this album and those who couldn't get it who get copies burned for them. This was also the first album I listened to that made me realize how much I wanted to play bass at some point.
15: 311 - Evolver
Around the age of 15 I got really into bands like 311, Sublime, and Slightly Stoopid. My parents owned a beach place and I was planning on moving to Wilmington when I graduated college, so I got really into "reggae rock". This was around the time in my life I started playing guitar.
20: LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
At the age of 20 I was in college at UNCW and had just started living off campus. I had a roommate that was really into indie rock and we would play music constantly in our apartment. This was one album that we both loved and could listen to over and over again.
25: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
This was a good year for me. I had been working at my job for about a year and was traveling a lot. It gave me time to listen to a bunch of music. I was really into Hot Chip, Frankie Rose, Lotus Plaza, and Mac DeMarco too.
I feel like I've done this before on here. Truth is, I don't remember.
5
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
There was always music playing in my house growing up. My father was more into Nashville country and my mom was more into the LA sound. They ended up playing a lot of soul to compromise. Marvin, Johnny, Al. All the names were there but Otis became a staple of my childhood.
10
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Anyone that was 10 years old when it was released and them NOT saying it was a life changing moment is lying. I had the jacket. I had the glove. I moon walked. End of story.
15
The Replacements - Tim
I used to clean up apartments for my dad when someone just up and walked out of a lease. I got $10 and dibs on whatever I found stashed in there. One of the first places I cleaned had a slew of albums in it. Mostly crap, Foreigner, Asia and the like. He did have Tim though. Little known to me at the time, some random dude had introduced me to what was gonna become my favorite band and a life long obsession with finding new music. Side two became my soundtrack to high school.
20
The Hated - What Was Behind
20 was a turning point in my musical gestation. I blame The Hated. I blame WDC. I liked Minor Treat and all those DC bands but The Hated put a Husker Du spin on that sound. I went gaga for it.
25
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
1997 was a great year. OK Computer, Wu Tang Forever, Homogenic and so many more. Ladies and Gentleman has probably gotten more plays than any record I own. I'm constantly coming back to it some 17 years after the fact.
30
Beck - Sea Change
Let me set this record straight. I don't like Beck. Not the Midnight Vultures,I'm A Loser BABYYYY Beck. Once I have a preconceived notion of how an artist will sound, it's hard for me to shake it (I'm looking at you Belle & Sebastian). I was surprised when Sea Change changed how I looked at him.
35
Radiohead - In Rainbows
This album became my soundtrack as I started falling in love with my best friend. It's not the best album by any means, She loved it though. That was all I needed.
Post by snowmanomura on Sept 27, 2014 9:56:11 GMT -5
5
This is the first artist I ever remember being "into." I listened to the shiz out of some Raffi around this age. I feel like a lot of my friends had no idea who he was until they listened to him ironically. Well, I had that shiz on vinyl (seriously). I also loooved Michael Jackson. My parents still had a huge vinyl collection at this age, and it included the entire MJ catalog. My dad had a ton of Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. My mom had this tradition of playing Linda Rondstadt records on Saturday mornings and cleaning the house. I loved sitting in front of their floor speakers and looking through the crates of vinyl. I loved sitting on the floor in front of their floor speakers and flipping through their LP's and looking at a ll the cool pictures.
10.
By ten years old I had discovered the local alt rock station and was really into the big albums at that time: Dookie, Ten, Nevermind, August and Everything After, The Offspring's Smash (Gotta keep 'em separated!) etc. But this was the first album I felt real anticipation about its release. I bought the double CD the day it came out, and it cost nearly all the money I had saved. Another of my favorites as this time was "what's the story (morning glory)". I used to build elaborate lego sets, and then create movies using the lego guys as the characters. I remember making movie using some pirate lego sets that I had, and I used the water sounds from "champagne supernova" in the background as the hero sailed into the sunset.
15.
This was about freshman year of high school. I had been into Dave Matthews Band for awhile (the first time I remember hearing them was in fourth grade, when some guy brought in his older brother's copy for Under the Table and Dreaming) but around this time was my peak. I left my confirmation early so I could go to Beale Street Music Festival (with my dad). He stayed at the blues tent and left me to wander around the DMB crowd alone. I had my first taste of corn and felt like a total rebel. Around this time I was also listening to 311, Incubus, Sublime, and was revisiting my dad's collection of Zeppelin, Pink floyd, the Beatles. And I was just getting into some band called widespread panic.
20.
This was around the peak of my jamband phase, having seen WSMFP throughout most of the southeast. I would have listed moe., Umphrey's, the Dead, and radiohead as my favorite bands around this time (and a couple of them still today). I got into Ryan Adams through an indie radio station in Memphis when "Gold" came out. I had gotten into more of his back catalog when I got to college. By this point the ipod was ubiquitous and music downloading was becoming a "thing." I was really excited about Cold Roses. I had been to 3 bonnaroos by this point, so I was growing accustomed to "expanding my musical horizons" so to speak. Good News for People who Loved Bad News was opening me up to more indie stuff, and there was a music server at the lab where I worked that had a ton of Sigur Ros and Talking Heads. I also saw Wilco for the first time, at the Tennessee Theater, and it blew my quacking mind. Still one of my favorite shows ever. I was also listening to a lot of bluegrass. I lived right across the street from WDVX studios and they had artists play live in studio every weekday at noon (the blue plate special). So I was listening to a lot of americana/folk/bluegrass music. Knoxville also a really great college radio station that has shows that cover a broad spectrum of genres and styles, so I spent a lot of time letting music be served to me via the radio.
25.
I had just started grad school, and I got really into portugal. the man. Other stuff I listened to around this time was Vampire Weekend, Radiohead (I quacking love King of Limbs. It was my go-to study music) and more electronic stuff like James Blake, FlyLo, and Four Tet. I was also really, really excited about seeing LCD Soundsystem at bonnaroo that year. A lot of the music I listened to was instrumental type stuff, because I was doing a lot of reading and writing for school.
It was all motown in my house growing up. Chose the Four Tops as a general representation of the musical style. My parents weren't big classic rock fans, basically they loved the music they heard at frat parties in the south growing up in the late sixties, and this was it.
10
Yeah that's right. I listened to the fuck out of this cassette in fifth grade.
15
For a brief period, MM was our god.
Gotta double up in this area. Hard to boil it down to just two records, but basically it was metal and punk.
20
A general misunderstanding of Phish is that their popularity strictly came out of the Grateful Dead and similar hippy music. I listened to zero hippie music when I came to Phish. I think for a lot of fans the embrace of Phish came not from psychedelia necessarily, but from alternative music, and an extremely strong revulsion to MTV and the mainstream. I loved it because it was the least radio-friendly music I'd ever heard. It had the "fuck you" sensibility of punk, the emotional intensity (bone brain and cock) of metal, and the basic groove of the motown I listened to as a kid. Its where all my musical interests collided, and over a decade of seeing Phish later I still don't totally understand what the hell is going on. See you in Miami.
25
As much as I love Phish, I definitely went through that period when Phish was 90% of my music listening. I did enjoy other music during that time, but Ween was the next band after Phish I was truly head over heels obsessed with. It encompassed all the darkness of Phish and took it to the 1,000th degree of darkness. I think they might be some of the greatest songwriters of all time, along with The Beatles and The Smiths.
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I'm 33 now, not really sure what to pick for the 25-30. I began hitting festivals and live music heavily in the past several years, and its hard to pick a genre I don't like.
Post by snowmanomura on Sept 27, 2014 11:12:12 GMT -5
It was avtually phish (roses are free) that led me to ween. They are so awesomely fucked up. There were many times in college where my friends and I would get home from the bars at 3 or so and then stay up til sunrise watching the ween dvd.
My parents were into big band, Dixieland and crooners. Pete Fountain and Louis Armstrong were on pretty often too. And of course Sinatra.
10: The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Big surprise here. When I was 10 pop music was all 45s. The Beatles b-sides were as popular as the featured song. It was all British invasion all the time. The Stones, Dave Clark Five, The Kinks.
15: Love - Forever Changes
My brother had over 500 45s and over 100 albums by now and was so into hit he kept his own personal Top 40. He inducted me into album rock which was now replacing the 45 industry. I can only bow to his taste in music and thank him endlessly for introducing me to it.
20: Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - Last Train to Hicksville
At college in my early twenties alternative rock stations were proliferating. My next door dorm neighbor who I still keep in touch with was a DJ on the college station and I would sit in with him and pick shit out to play. I loved eccentric musical styles in addition to the standard alternative rock stuff being played.
25: Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
For the most part for me new music started to suck big time. From having so many great alternative bands to listen to the pickings were slimmed down by the onslaught of disco. I was really bummed and if it weren't for Bruce, Bowie, The Clash, The Police and the Talking Heads I think I would have slit my throat.
30: Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
My music world still sucked for the most part. I wasn't into MJ who became the next big thing so I delved into the more obscure stuff and genres I basically ignored growing up. I don't regret it.
35: R.E.M. - Reckoning
Popular music was beginning to rebound for my tastes. U2, R.E.M., Inxs, The Smithereens. Alternative music was sounding much better and the disco influence was finally quiesced.
40: Pearl Jam - Ten
Grunge rock dominated the airwaves and my playlists.
45: Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead knocked me out. It was the first time in many years that I listened to newer music that just blew me away. I wore out my CDs of The Bends and OK Computer. Of course DMB, Third Eye Blind and Alanis were there too.
50: The Strokes - Is This It
My son was now old enough to turn his old man on to some new stuff. This among others and I'm glad he did. Arcade Fire was soon to come. Teach your children well.
55: My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
I was only mildly interested in MMJ when I went to my first Bonnaroo in 2008 because I thought Evil Urges was only meh. But it caused me to research them more and was so glad I went back in time because the old stuff made me appreciate them properly.
60: Trampled By Turtles - Stars and Satellites
Going to Newport Folk Festival and seeing these guys for the first time was amazing and opened my eyes to a genre of music that I enjoyed as a young adult but hadn't indulged in for decades. Now I can't get enough and look for new stuff in the folk/alternative genre constantly.
Hope to make it to 65!
Damn website wouldn't show my album covers. assholes!
I grew up in a family that didn't really care about music. I just heard a lot of whatever was on the radio, which means a lot of 80's music. Pop and pop-rock from my mom, some rock and hair metal from my father. When the 90s sounds started coming popular, the grunge and alternative - it got completely skipped over in this family. My father turned more towards classic rock, and my mother stuck with the soft rock. I still had mostly been interested in 80s sounds, not knowing much else different and not being close to my father. (My grandparents listened to country, but I knew I didn't like that.)
Albums from that era Genesis - Invisible Touch (or I Can't Dance) Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The Way It Is (or Scenes From The Southside) Breathe - All That Jazz Prince - Purple Rain Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
I still listen to a lot of that, even to this date.
15 (2000)
My father was beginning to stop listening to music altogether, and my mother was turning towards CCM (contemporary Christian). We would go on these road trips to Florida, 19 hours one way, and the radio would be off for 80% of the time and the other 20% would be some generic boringness about Jesus. Luckily for me, I picked up rap from the other kids at school. I quickly became the black sheep of the family, and all the rap music pissed everyone off - but I didn't really care. It opened my world beyond the tiny confines of a small New England town, an introverted and conservative family, and expressed the emotion of 'shit's fucked up and bullshit, but we're gonna make it anyway.'
I wished I could do a 8, 13, 18, 23, 28 summary rather than on the 5 years. It would have more accurately portrayed the changes in my music listening. In 1998, No Way Out and Life After Death were huge. By 2003, I was listening to a lot of Stillmatic/It Was Written/I Am (probably one root cause of my political related actions) and a bunch of stuff from Memphis/New Orleans/Houston. 2000 however:
Lots of Ruff Ryders, all the time. This just seemed unbelievably badass and over the top, therefore some really cool shit to listen to.
20 (2005)
2005 was a transition year for me. All that weird hyphy and snap shit was coming out of Atlanta and starting to get big here, but I hated it. Nas was right, saying Dem Franchise Boyz were killing rap. I'd add Soulja Boy too. The last great rap album I liked was Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury (in 2006), and I was still listening to some Houston and Memphis stuff, but I mostly stayed away from rap for a good 5 years afterwards.
Meanwhile, I had picked up house and trance from my cousin Will. It sounded new and exciting, and a much better alternative than rap at the time. I never got into the club scene, but I loved driving around listening to this stuff.
25 (2010)
Another transition year. (2008 would have been so much better, but oh well.) I was fading away from the house/trance stuff. I had picked up interest in classic rock, blues, roots reggae, and DMB from friends of mine in college. 2010 was also the first year I went to Bonnaroo, and was picking up tons of stuff I learned off exploring the lineup and starting to be on Inforoo.
While recorded at Bonnaroo 2004, I didn't first hear this until 2009. I listened to it a lot in 2010, and played it every time after I landed at Nashville heading towards Roo.
5 First CD I discovered on my own in my parents collection.
10 Dare to be Stupid was the first album I ever bought on my own, and Beatles 1 was a gift from my parents
15 The first Foo Fighters record I ever purchased and listened to front to back. I had always liked them at a younger age, but had never experienced one of their albums in full. As a young and easily influenced teenager, I thought it was the coolest damn thing that disc one was hard rock and disc was delicate and acoustic. I loved it. Now it's my least favorite of their albums. Funny how that works.
20 I had listened to The Wall and Darkside as a teenager but at the age of 20 my ex girlfriends dad gave me his old vinyl collection. This was the first time I heard WYWH
25 Solid.
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I received this as a gift from my uncle back in the day. It was the first music I ever owned. Michael Jackson owned the 80s, so it was obvious to a kid that "Eat It" was a parody song. Decoding rest of Weird Al's body of work (other parodies, polka medleys, originals) made me do some detective work. I would go on to own almost exclusively Weird Al albums for the remainder of the cassette era, with the exception of a couple tapes of wrestlers' theme songs I bought when I went to see the WWF.
Honorable Mention: Whatever was on MTV. I was born a year before MTV was launched, to parents aged eighteen and twenty, so I absorbed as much MTV as Sesame Street in those formative years.
10: They Might Be Giants Flood
I took a liking to this one above and beyond anything else in Dad's brand-spanking-new compact disc collection. This reigning elementary school geography bee champion was a sucker for the Istanbul/Constantinople references, and it certainly helped that their songs were on Tiny Toon Adventures after school. This album began my transition from that kid with novelty tapes to the teenager buying rock albums, with a very strong shove from Nevermind the following year.
Honorable Mention: Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, the first album I ever bought with my own money.
15: Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves
Grandpa often called me "punk kid" when I got out of line growing up... I guess it became a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy? This certainly wasn't my first exposure to punk (that honor went to the Dead Kennedys at thirteen, with Green Day, NOFX, the Offspring and others soon to follow) but I listened to this more - and it's stuck with me a a greater degree - than most of what else I was into during that mid-90s Skapocalypse. The fastest, easiest way to take me back to high school in my head is still that bassline from "Journey to the End of the East Bay." This whole album helped channel that youthful aggression, helped an insecure kid feel a bit more empowered, made me feel for those friends whose parents wouldn't allow this kind of thing in their house, makes me reminisce on my first time in a parked car (even though it was "MMMBop" that actually came on the radio) and the eventual fallout, and made for some damn good fast driving music along the way. Even in my thirties, this album has still found new ways to get me. After burying my best friend Phil who opted out last year, I can't even listen to "Daly City Train" anymore without at least fighting back tears.
Honorable Mention: The first two weezer albums, which respectively came out when I was 13 and 16, that made them my high school rock & roll heroes and changed my life.
20: Weezer Weezer (aka The Green Album)
This selection has absolutely nothing to do with the album itself, but for its importance to me at a pivotal moment in my life. The story that follows is one that went to the grave with my aforementioned friend Phil, but I strangely feel the need to get it off my chest anew and this audience should understand better than most anyone.
It was somewhere around spring break time of year back in Y2K. I was 19, in my second semester of college, living in a crash pad with four of my friends after bailing out of the dorms when they got kicked out. That first year was a wild ride, in which I went from high school honor student to C student in college indulging in (what I thought was?) better living through chemistry. Part of that involved the peaks of blowing my serotonin load followed by... valleys. I was locked in my room through the wee hours one night, contemplating the state of my life, wondering where things went wrong... considering a permanent solution. Reason intervened, telling me that a situation requiring police in our apartment would be trouble for my surviving roommates. I followed this muse, daring myself - in true hipster fashion - to come up with five reasons not to do it. I succeeded, but those five reasons were all based around others. I needed a reason for me, and I was struggling to find one. Eventually, I looked around the room. Saw that old faithful poster of the blue album cover on my wall, the only holdover from my old basement bedroom that had followed me to my first college apartment there. At the time, it was merely rumors and speculation that my high school rock & roll heroes would emerge from obscurity/exile to mount a comeback... but there was that shred of hope, which was exactly what I needed at that moment in time. I unlocked that bedroom door and decided to go on with my life.
This album? I think I can safely call it mediocre. The promise of it, back then? Never let it be said that music can't save lives.
Honorable Mention: Radiohead Kid A, which had my friends & I gushing "This is what the 21st Century is going to sound like!" listening to it after its midnight release sale.
25: Spoon Gimme Fiction
I grew up. I got my act and myself together. I got my first phone that could take pictures. I went back to school at 25 and finally got it right. ...and I did it all after a mass exodus of those crazy kids with whom I started college.
This was the soundtrack to my comeback.
Honorable Mention: The Hold Steady's Boys and Girls in America, which strongly divided my friend Phil & I. My argument in favor was "This album is basically about us." Oh, those aimless mid-twenties...
30: Arcade Fire The Suburbs
I graduated college at 27 just before the meltdown, and at 29 had no other choice but to boomerang back into the parental basement in my hometown. A year after that, The Suburbs came out... and to me, it captured so much of where my life was at the time. Six months after its release was when the shit hit the fan up at my state capitol and forever changed my life... and to me, it captured so much where my life was(/is?) going. Never before has there been such a right album for such a right time in my life.
Honorable Mention: Titus Andronicus The Monitor, because you can't go wrong by quoting Abraham Lincoln for starters and finishing with bagpipes.
Post by Dave Maynar on Oct 10, 2014 6:42:24 GMT -5
I hadn't seen this thread before. I will get on this when I can. It's surprising how easy it was to think of certain ages. Some albums are just so imprinted on you.
Not even MJ's best, but it's what was big at the time. And I rocked the hell out to it on my living room floor.
10:
My older brother had this on repeat in his room next door. I was into more conventional pop at the time, but this was just weird enough that it started to grow on me.
15:
I was in a series of one-act plays freshman year of high school, and one of the other plays ended with an alcoholic belting out Rock the Casbah after a fight with his brother. Hearing that over and over got me to start digging deeper into The Clash and checking out full albums. Then Joe died about a year later, right as I had been falling in love with his music. It felt like I'd lost my new best friend.
20:
I'd recently started going to concerts again after a 4-year hiatus or so (NH problems), and my first major concert was Porcupine Tree in late '06. 80% of the reason I went was because a cute girl with good taste in music invited me along (she was the friend who first told me about Bonnaroo). They blew me away, and started opening me up to a world of prog. Then this came out six months later, and it seemed like just what I needed to hear at that time in my life.
25:
This album came out the year before, and I was underwhelmed. Then the following March, I had tickets to see Radiohead in Atlanta with a large crew of Inforoosters. Long story short, there was a lot of bad blood between me and another Inforooster who would be in attendance, in particular surrounding the logistics of that show. Between the drama, the travel costs from Boston, and being underwhelmed by TKOL, I very nearly didn't attend the Atlanta concert. Eventually I said fuck it, and realised the only thing that would make the situation worse would be not seeing Radiohead. So I went, and I bumped into this Inforooster in the lobby right before showtime. We hugged it out, and then proceeded to see one of the best shows of either of our lives. I got back to Boston, put TKOL on the turntable, and have heard the entire thing in a completely different light ever since.
Post by Dave Maynar on Oct 11, 2014 11:10:35 GMT -5
5:
My stepdad is totally a country guy. My mom really liked KISS and other various classic rock acts, but he dominated the radio. Seeing Merle at Bonnaroo was so great.
10:
Pour Some Sugar On Me was the jam, is the jam and will always be the jam.
15:
Much like and Thriller, if you are my age and this album isn't at least in the conversation for age 15, you are either a fucking liar or have terrible taste in music. I listened to a lot of music in high school, but nothing even comes close to defining that time period like this album does.
20:
Jon Spencer is the man. The show of his I caught in this era in Nashville stills ranks as one of my favorite ones ever.
25:
Fugazi - The Argument 25 is when my older son was born, so it marked the beginning of a sharp decline in the new music I was listening to. Starting around here and lasting until about 30, most of my rotation was stuff I had had for a long time.
30:
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz This was the real end of the music hibernation, my first Bonnaroo and when I joined inforoo. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were a band I had picked up somewhere in the interim and was one of my top acts that I was looking forward to seeing that year.
35 (which is right now btw):
This one actually came out when I was 32, but like NIN, I can't really think of an album that defines this period of my life more than the National and this album in particular.
if you are my age and this album isn't at least in the conversation for age 15, you are either a fucking liar or have terrible taste in music. I listened to a lot of music in high school, but nothing even comes close to defining that time period like this album does.
Crap, I'm your age and not a liar. I just have shitty taste.
if you are my age and this album isn't at least in the conversation for age 15, you are either a fucking liar or have terrible taste in music. I listened to a lot of music in high school, but nothing even comes close to defining that time period like this album does.
Crap, I'm your age and not a liar. I just have shitty taste.
Didn't think I'd share an album with Dave in this thread, but my mom was and is a huge Def Leppard fan, so there was a lot of this being played. Also: Motley Crue, Pat Benatar, and Stevie Nicks.
10:
Third grade, this was my MOTHERFUCKING JAM. It really represented my first foray into music. I played the shit out of this album, and danced and sang to it all the time while cleaning my room. The only other band I was really into at this point in my life was The Spice Girls. I didn't really begin to get into music until I was about 12 or so.
15:
It was tough for me to pick an album for this period in my life, because I listened to so much (within the hip-hop genre, at least), but Country Grammar was really the first album that made me to "Woah, I like this." I can remember camping and playing this in my Walkman until the batteries ran out. The first rap song I ever wrote was to the beat of Country Grammar - it was about sucking titties, being iced out, and general thuggin'. Because that was totally me at 15. Throughout my high school years I listened almost exclusively to rap; other artists featured prominently in my ears were Eminem, Ja Rule, and Lupe Fiasco (pre-The Cool). I ended up listening to Em much more than anyone else, but Country Grammar is what started it all.
17.5:
Sorry for breaking the five-year format, but this album was too instrumental to not mention. I fell in love with this album on the first listen, and I haven't looked back. It's my favorite album to date, and one I still bump semi-regularly.
20:
Oof, this is getting tougher.
When I hit college, everything changed. I didn't start listening to non-rap until my senior year of high school (Good Charlotte's The Young and the Hopeless is what caused me to venture out), and by my sophomore year of college, I really begun to blossom (las drogas may or may not have had a lot to do with this). Oh my God, The Beatles. Such beauty in simplicity. I navigated ethereal soundscapes with Paul, John, George, and Ringo at the helm, and they were some of the most beautiful moments of my life. My love of The Fab Four soon overflowed into Hendrix, Marley, Incubus, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Iron & Wine...pretty much the building blocks of my current musical tastes. The Beatles started it all.
25:
I'm only 11 months into my 25th year, so there's currently not much competition, but this album definitely is a head above the rest. It's incredibly cohesive, poetic, and combines both folk and electronic influences, which to me represents a smooth transition from my latest folk-influenced phase (Mumford and Sons, Avett Brothers, Conor Oberst) into my current and more wubby tastes (Bjork, James Blake, Sylvan Esso). An Awesome Wave is currently only second to The College Dropout in my list of favorite albums, and though Chance's Acid Rap is also a strong contender for the past year, it just can't quite reach AAW's level of transcendent beauty.
Edit: Fuck, I just remembered that I discovered In the Aeroplane Over the Sea this year. I don't think I like it more than AAW, but it comes damn close. Either way, it deserves a mention. Aeroplane is fanfuckingtastic.
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5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Crap, I'm your age and not a liar. I just have shitty taste.
It's not even in the conversation? Madness!
I didn't hear a lot of NIN in '96 besides the videos on TV which I enjoyed. When I was 15 some friends and me spent lots of time in the garage making songs with a fader, beat machine, keyboards, and a karaoke machine. Reasonable Doubt would probably be my top album from that year. Jay-Z, along with Nas and GZA, were probably the lyricist I most admired at the time. I was also listening to UGK's Ridin' Dirty all the time. I loved the Southern grooves on it and the live instrumentation, especially the guitars.
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Post by palmettokid on Oct 11, 2014 13:55:37 GMT -5
5
I would love to say I avidly listened to cool music in the '70s, but this was the reality
10
C'mon. Who wasn't listening to this?
15
2112 was the first post-disco/post-KISS '70s rock phase LP for me followed by Floyd's The Wall and Van Halen's Women and Children First, but Rush's early '80s run with Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure had me hunting down every album they had out (and I'm still grabbing them up on release dates)
20
While ...Fables was my first REM discovery, the quick succession of Life's Rich Pageant, Document, and Green on the cusp of the Alternative/Grunge breakthrough put them on the top of my most active list at the time
25
Saw LIVE (virtually unknown, kicking out Mental Jewelry) at Philadelphia's Tower Theater with Blind Melon, Big Audio Dynamite, and Public Image...with easy-to-relate-to lyrics, was an easy sell
30
"Slide" was the first song I heard the morning my son was born. 'nuf said.
35
The last real favorite before DC's WHFS went off the air and the start of an era where 40 meant making .mp3 playlists from all the CD's acquired during the golden age of '80s-'90s alternative or listening to XM's Lucy, Fred, and Ethel channels
45
Mid-life crisis. No matter how much I listen to this, my middle-aged brain cannot get down the fucking rap parts to these songs. Becoming OCD.
I love seeing the 5-15 and the sharp turns from 20 on. You really don't have any choice as to what you listen to at 5 and at from 10-15 it's whatever the other kids in school say is cool. When peer pressure starts to lose it's grip I guess is when you find your own taste in music.
Fugazi - The Argument 25 is when my older son was born, so it marked the beginning of a sharp decline in the new music I was listening to. Starting around here and lasting until about 30, most of my rotation was stuff I had had for a long time.
I'm starting to set myself up to revisiting older albums. I'll add this to the list.
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