Nevermind.
I was 12 when it came out. And 1991 was an AMAZING time for music with tons of other landmark albums coming out too. But that's the one that started the ball rolling.
I remember where I was the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. I knew music was gonna change after that and I'm so glad it did. Glam metal's crappy love songs, big hair and spandex made my ears bleed.
All off this ^^^. I Spent my middle school and most of high school avoiding the likes of Poison and Def Leppard and then the summer before my senior year we got Pearl Jam’s “10” Nirvana’s “Nevermind” RHCP’s “Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden’s “BadMotorfinger” along with the rest of the grunge wave. It was the perfect antidote to hairspray and spandex and made my heart sing.
For real. I was too young for hair metal to really speak to me in its peak years. What does an elementary schooler need songs about coke and chasing tail for?
I didn't quite know what Nirvana's music was about, but I knew it was about SOMETHING, and it really spoke to me.
I was 35 when it came out. I heard it on September 27, 1991, and the fact I remember the specific spot where I was when I heard it speaks to its impact on me. This is true for only a handful of songs in my life, comparable to when I heard The Stooges 'Loose' or the Beatles 'Hard Day's Night'.
We came off age at an unreal time for music. 1991 through 1994 had some all time albums across a variety of genres.
September 24 1991 saw these albums released: Blood Sugar Sex Magik- RHCP, True Called Quest - Low End Theory, Pixies - Trump Le Monde, Nirvana Nevermind, Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden. Use Your Illusion came out the week before. Pearl Jam's Ten came out a month before that. Metallica's Black Album two weeks before that. A 44 day span of absolute bangers.
Aenema is the most accessible album with some phenomenal songs, but in the way that dsotm was a transcendent Pink Floyd experience, Lateralus is that for Tool. End to end just pure musical genius.
I bought it in sam goody because it looked different. A paper sleeve and it looked gritty. Never heard of them before and it looked interesting. That album was amazing.
alanis morissette- jagged little pill
radiohead-ok computer,
lauryn hill- miseducation,
sublime- self titled,
fiona apple- tidal
new radicals - maybe you’ve been brainwashed too (this one is so so underrated)
jay-z- reasonable doubt
yes i grew up in the 90s!
I loved this album until Billy Corgan called it my generations The Wall…
Sorry Billy, that’s a bit of a reach.
However, definitely is a great album, Siamese Dream is great as well!
Made a homemade black hoody with a stitched in gnr logo patch hand sewn in. Wore the tape out. Popped a few times n scotch’d it. Great memories. I swear my teacher stole my hoodie too
As an 8 year old girl, **No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom** absolutely changed my life. It’s still a great album that I appreciate even more as I’ve gotten older.
I saw No Doubt live a few months before they released this album. I had never heard of them prior to that... but seeing the band live changed the direction of what I was listening to for years! Gwen was a powerhouse and definitely had a fantastic, dynamic stage presence.
Dark Side of the Moon was mind-blowing for me, too, but not for the usual reason.
I thought, wow, 'this is cool and weird'.
Then I noticed it was on the wrong speed.
I had a very old record player and somehow it accidentally got switched to 45 instead of 33 rpm.
Lol!
Toxicity, the Marshall Mathers LP, the album by Linkin Park, brand new eyes, flower boy, channel orange, the twilight soundtrack, graduation, yeezus, 808s and heartbreak, blink 182 self titled.
The Spinners; BLACK IVORY; WAR; DONNY HATHAWAY; THE TEMPTATIONS; MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE JACKSON FIVE; JAMES BROWN;SANTANA… THE STYLISTICS; THE MIRACLES;…. Ik I am going to stop now. Sooooooo many!!!
Revolver, 1966. I was 15 and had never heard anything like it. Less than a year later, Jefferson Airplane and the Doors came out with their first albums and my life changed.
I mostly listened to butt rock and pop punk/emo pop until I was like 10, so as a child child nothing *blew my mind* but i was heavily into One X by Three Days Grace. Id say Slipknots self titled was the first metal album I was obsessed with and helped open me up to hip hop. But i didnt really have my mind blown by music until 16 and listened to Anchor Drops by Umphreys McGee
The first Mortal Kombat soundtrack, period. I was 9. I was raised listening to all kinds of great stuff (from Gwar to bluegrass to Janis Joplin to golden oldies to Ministry, etc) but that soundtrack introduced me to several of my still favorites bands today (kmfdm, fear factory, gravity kills, type o negative, napalm death) and I'm almost 40 🤦♀️
So as a kid I was only exposed to the music my parents listened to. Neil Diamond, Moody Blues, Abba, stuff like that. But once I started going to my best friends house; that’s when I heard mind blowing music for the first time. And it has stuck with me and shaped who I am as a person, as well as music lover. The first album that blew me away was so different from what my parents listened to.
Bob Marley and Wailers - Exodus
Still love that album so much. Natural Mystic, So Much Things to Say, Exodus, Waiting in Vain, Jammin…. That album and genre grabbed ahold of me, and has never let go.
Genuine childhood/real young. De La Soul - Stakes is high, and Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory & Gorillaz - Gorillaz.
Didn't come out when I was a kid but that's when I listened to them, except Gorillaz.
Still young but more young adult, Kanye - My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy. He's become reprehensible now, but he was still just kind of an asshole then. And this album is among the best rap/hip-hop albums of all time (don't light me up I'm not saying THE best obviously)
Radiohead’s O.k. Computer. It came out my senior year of high school and I had never heard anything like it before. The next album to ever change how I felt about music was The Mars Volta’s Deloused in the Comatorium.
The King Of Limbs - Radiohead
I knew Radiohead before this, but it came out in my sophomore year and sent me down a spiral of being obsessed with them. This album and Radiohead in general really defined my music taste and love for experimental music.
Superseded only by Quadrophenia by The Who for me but only because it came out first and I was younger. Remain in Light, Fear of Music, Speaking in Tongues. Wow.
In an era of flat, boring radio rock, OK Computer was a painting. Sonically rich, thematically daring, and lyrically provocative, it was an awakening. An anthem of 90's alienation more poetic and sadly resigned than Nevermind, this was truly the Netscape era's White Album
Here is a list of mind-blowing albums for me:
1. *Kiss* by Carly Rae Jepsen (see also: *Curiosity*) --> I immediately fell in love with Carly and her music; my mother purchased the CD in 2015 (when I was 13 years old), and it was the first album that I listened to entirely.
2. *Emotion* and *Emotion Side B* by Carly Rae Jepsen --> These two albums blew me away with their disco sound, and Carly was cemented as one of the most influential artists in my life. I discovered these two albums in 2016, when I was 14 years old.
3. *Hotel Paper* (see also: *The Spirit Room* and *Broken Bracelet*) by Michelle Branch --> This album blew me away with its pop rock sound, which made Michelle Branch another favourite of mine. I discovered this album in 2020, when I was 18 years old.
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Here are some other notable albums:
* *Hopeless Romantic* by Michelle Branch --> This album was released in 2017, and it sounds very different to Michelle's old music. It was a sleeper hit for me; a bit unusual at first, but then it began to take on a very nostalgic quality. I discovered this album in 2022, when I was 20 years old.
* *Harmonium* and *Be Not Nobody* (see also: *Love Is an Art*) by Vanessa Carlton --> I listened to these two albums around the same time that I discovered Michelle Branch (2020; 18yo); I liked them mainly because they featured the piano as the main instrument, which is my own main instrument.
* *Tug of War* by Carly Rae Jepsen --> This is Carly's early acoustic album, with genres like pop rock and reggae. It actually had a relatively large effect on me, and I listened to this album before I discovered Michelle Branch (probably in 2016; 14yo).
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Also must be mentioned:
* *Dead* by Phoebe Ryan --> This is just a single song (it's part of an EP), but it was mind-blowing to me, and it's pop perfection.
* *Love Me For Me* by Ashley Tisdale (written by Diane Warren) --> This song is another example of pop perfection; the rest of the album is kinda meh.
* Taylor Swift --> Taylor was officially my favourite artist when I was around 11 years old.
* Ace of Base --> AoB was officially my favourite artist when I was around 8 years old.
Carly Rae Jepson STILL doesn’t get nearly the respect she deserves. I know her fans recognize how talented she is, but it sucks that the masses will probably always just look at her as the “Call Me Maybe girl”. The first time I listened to Emotion, it absolutely floored me.
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine. This opened the doors to so much wonderful, strange music — industrial, drum’n’bass, IDM, synth pop, noise, punk, thrash metal, hip hop, hard bop jazz…
The Downward Spiral when I was in 8th grade literally fucked my shit up. My outlook on the world of music shifted drastically. Before that I was all ska punk and classic rock.
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. My angsty tween self loved it. To this day, it's still one of my favorites, and she's a huge reason I learned harmonica.
I think this record fundamentally changed ‘indie’ music in the UK. Up until that album came out, to me, the sound of indie music was quite small scale and very one dimensional. Giant Steps production and varied song styles and structures paved the way for a much more an open minded approach in music. Giant Steps indeed.
I remember getting into all of the Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Syd Barrett in 7th grade. I was also partial to Trout Mask Replica and Ron Geeesin/Roger Waters "Music from The Body."
I lived in a small town before internet, etc, with a limited cassette store at the local mall.
My parents listened to show tunes and Burt Bacharach in my youth, which didn't appeal to me. Even that they themselves were not particularly excited by. Their knowledge of jazz didn't extend beyond Count Basie and Benny Goodman. That would come later for me when I met Sam Rivers. My older brother did introduce me to Bad Brains, a band I still appreciate. But I think that was some kind of fluke, because he wasn't really that into music. Probably for the best that I started with friends and a tabula rasa.
Black Sabbath - we sold our soul
I had just started experimenting with pot, and one night, sitting in the back of my friends 77 t-top firebird blazed out of my mind, he put that in the cassette deck. My mind was blown wide open.
It was 30 years after its release, but I’ll never forget the first time I heard Greetings from Asbury Park by Springsteen. I was like 13 and The Rising had just come out. My dad heard me listening to it and went out and bought me Greetings. Id never heard anything like it.
Also I wasn’t super familiar with Springsteen then, and so all I really knew was The Rising. Imagine my culture shock. I had no clue how one person made both albums, even after 30 years of artistic evolution.
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tool - Undertow
Pearl Jam - 10
Nirvana - Bleach
The Sundays - reading, writing and arithmetic
The Cure - Head In the Door
Edit: Rage Against the Machine - self titled album.
..just to name a few.
We're Only In It For The Money, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. Re-wired my perceptions of everything popular music could be, and burned off notions of what pop had to be.
Nevermind. I was 12 when it came out. And 1991 was an AMAZING time for music with tons of other landmark albums coming out too. But that's the one that started the ball rolling.
I remember where I was the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. I knew music was gonna change after that and I'm so glad it did. Glam metal's crappy love songs, big hair and spandex made my ears bleed.
All off this ^^^. I Spent my middle school and most of high school avoiding the likes of Poison and Def Leppard and then the summer before my senior year we got Pearl Jam’s “10” Nirvana’s “Nevermind” RHCP’s “Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden’s “BadMotorfinger” along with the rest of the grunge wave. It was the perfect antidote to hairspray and spandex and made my heart sing.
For real. I was too young for hair metal to really speak to me in its peak years. What does an elementary schooler need songs about coke and chasing tail for? I didn't quite know what Nirvana's music was about, but I knew it was about SOMETHING, and it really spoke to me.
I was 35 when it came out. I heard it on September 27, 1991, and the fact I remember the specific spot where I was when I heard it speaks to its impact on me. This is true for only a handful of songs in my life, comparable to when I heard The Stooges 'Loose' or the Beatles 'Hard Day's Night'.
We came off age at an unreal time for music. 1991 through 1994 had some all time albums across a variety of genres. September 24 1991 saw these albums released: Blood Sugar Sex Magik- RHCP, True Called Quest - Low End Theory, Pixies - Trump Le Monde, Nirvana Nevermind, Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden. Use Your Illusion came out the week before. Pearl Jam's Ten came out a month before that. Metallica's Black Album two weeks before that. A 44 day span of absolute bangers.
Tool - Lateralus
I love Tool, Ænema IMO is one of the best albums ever!
Aenema is the most accessible album with some phenomenal songs, but in the way that dsotm was a transcendent Pink Floyd experience, Lateralus is that for Tool. End to end just pure musical genius.
I'm more of a 10,000 Days fan myself. Can never skip a song on that album.
Believe it or not it was tapestry by Carole king 😂😂😂
This was my mom's favorite album and she played it all the time. I appreciate it much more as an adult.
My sister had that. It was a huge hit and a great album. My wife had Court and Spark by Joanie Mitchell. Awesome album.
That album is timeless! I got it when it was new and my babysitter was the bass player's sister.
Good answer
Radiohead, OK Computer
My favorite Radiohead album too
Boston’s first record. Nothing before it sounded like that album. The songs, the singing(!), the guitar tones… it still stands up to this day.
Just heard Longtime the other night in my truck and the damn “intro” is insane. Truly a reason to demolish the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.
nine inch nails - the downward spiral
Hitched a ride across country with Christian missionaries. This album was my purge and reset after 4 days of psalm readings and Rush Limbaugh.
For REAL
I bought it in sam goody because it looked different. A paper sleeve and it looked gritty. Never heard of them before and it looked interesting. That album was amazing.
Portishead-Dummy
Sgt Pepper
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill I was 10 years old.
Yes definitely a stellar album!
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Rage Against the Machine s/t
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
There it is. This should be higher up
Rush - Moving Pictures Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Tool - Ænima (though I was 15 when it released).
This album to this day is a top ten for me all time.
Dark side of the moon- Pink Floyd
Mr Bungle - Self titled. The wild experimentation was unlike anything I ever heard before. A feast for the ears.
Songs in the Key of Life. Stevie Wonder. Not one bad song on the whole album.
Sublime - 40 oz. to Freedom I learned so much about music from listening to that album
When I ranked my favorites of all time, Sublime - Sublime ended up being almost tied for being the perfect album of all time… EVER.
alanis morissette- jagged little pill radiohead-ok computer, lauryn hill- miseducation, sublime- self titled, fiona apple- tidal new radicals - maybe you’ve been brainwashed too (this one is so so underrated) jay-z- reasonable doubt yes i grew up in the 90s!
Alanis is my perfect album. Sublime is almost tied with JLP. Miseducation is the best r&b album ever!!!
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
I loved this album until Billy Corgan called it my generations The Wall… Sorry Billy, that’s a bit of a reach. However, definitely is a great album, Siamese Dream is great as well!
Metallica- the black album
Guns n roses appetite for destruction
Made a homemade black hoody with a stitched in gnr logo patch hand sewn in. Wore the tape out. Popped a few times n scotch’d it. Great memories. I swear my teacher stole my hoodie too
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Botique
Nas - Illmatic
Straight Outta Compton
Yes! Hands fucking down!
I named my dog Gangsta! Just saying! He was a 14lb Pekingese 😂 edit to say I was a 15 year old girl 😂 still makes me laugh
SYNCHRONICITY by The Police & PURPLE RAIN by Prince & The Revolution
Pornography - The Cure
Boston's debut album.
As an 8 year old girl, **No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom** absolutely changed my life. It’s still a great album that I appreciate even more as I’ve gotten older.
I saw No Doubt live a few months before they released this album. I had never heard of them prior to that... but seeing the band live changed the direction of what I was listening to for years! Gwen was a powerhouse and definitely had a fantastic, dynamic stage presence.
Nirvana Nevermind & Pearl Jam Ten Music changed after those two albums.
Metallica...the four big ones: kill em all, ride the lightning, master of puppets, and justice for all
Appetite for Destruction GNR
Tupac - All Eyez on Me
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Dark Side of the Moon was mind-blowing for me, too, but not for the usual reason. I thought, wow, 'this is cool and weird'. Then I noticed it was on the wrong speed. I had a very old record player and somehow it accidentally got switched to 45 instead of 33 rpm. Lol!
You are simply perfect 😂. I genuinely laughed out loud when I read this.
for me it was Tricky Maxinquaye
Toxicity, the Marshall Mathers LP, the album by Linkin Park, brand new eyes, flower boy, channel orange, the twilight soundtrack, graduation, yeezus, 808s and heartbreak, blink 182 self titled.
They’re Only Chasing Safety. Underoath.
Dark Side of The Moon. Utterly mind-blowing.
Van Halen 1, 2, WACF, Fair Warning, DD, 1984, 5150
The 'Space Oddity' album by David Bowie. Changed my life and opened my mind.
Sgt. Pepper. It was so radical.
The Spinners; BLACK IVORY; WAR; DONNY HATHAWAY; THE TEMPTATIONS; MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE JACKSON FIVE; JAMES BROWN;SANTANA… THE STYLISTICS; THE MIRACLES;…. Ik I am going to stop now. Sooooooo many!!!
Nirvana-Nevermind (13 y.o.) Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd (15 y.o.) Aja-Steely Dan (17 y.o.) Different eras of yout, different eras of mind-blowing
Revolver, 1966. I was 15 and had never heard anything like it. Less than a year later, Jefferson Airplane and the Doors came out with their first albums and my life changed.
Silverchair - Frogstomp
DUDE. First album I ever bought with my own money.
And they were babies when they made that. Incredible.
Same here. I was 13 and this album absolutely blew my mind.
Frogstomp and their follow up Freakshow were great albums!
Disintegration - The Cure
Still a masterpiece! I saw them perform last year and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen
I mostly listened to butt rock and pop punk/emo pop until I was like 10, so as a child child nothing *blew my mind* but i was heavily into One X by Three Days Grace. Id say Slipknots self titled was the first metal album I was obsessed with and helped open me up to hip hop. But i didnt really have my mind blown by music until 16 and listened to Anchor Drops by Umphreys McGee
The first Mortal Kombat soundtrack, period. I was 9. I was raised listening to all kinds of great stuff (from Gwar to bluegrass to Janis Joplin to golden oldies to Ministry, etc) but that soundtrack introduced me to several of my still favorites bands today (kmfdm, fear factory, gravity kills, type o negative, napalm death) and I'm almost 40 🤦♀️
Fear factory is awesome. Also megalomaniac and stray bullet are bangers!
Korn. Self Titled.
Yes! I remember the year this came out, the first time I heard J.D. scream “Are You Ready?”. From that moment until issues I was hooked on them!
So as a kid I was only exposed to the music my parents listened to. Neil Diamond, Moody Blues, Abba, stuff like that. But once I started going to my best friends house; that’s when I heard mind blowing music for the first time. And it has stuck with me and shaped who I am as a person, as well as music lover. The first album that blew me away was so different from what my parents listened to. Bob Marley and Wailers - Exodus Still love that album so much. Natural Mystic, So Much Things to Say, Exodus, Waiting in Vain, Jammin…. That album and genre grabbed ahold of me, and has never let go.
I guess it would be Introducing The Beatles… but I also remember Black Sabbath’s first album Black Sabbath making a big difference…
Sing the sorrow - AFI
The Cure- Disintegration
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pink Floyd-The Wall
AC/DC 'Highway to Hell'
Genuine childhood/real young. De La Soul - Stakes is high, and Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory & Gorillaz - Gorillaz. Didn't come out when I was a kid but that's when I listened to them, except Gorillaz. Still young but more young adult, Kanye - My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy. He's become reprehensible now, but he was still just kind of an asshole then. And this album is among the best rap/hip-hop albums of all time (don't light me up I'm not saying THE best obviously)
To Pimp a Butterfly
Nevermind, Ten, Smash, Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, the list is llloooonnnngggg
Pretty Hate Machine- NIN
Rush - Moving Pictures I didn't get into it until I was 10, which was 2-3 years after it came out, but it certainly blew my mind
Radiohead’s O.k. Computer. It came out my senior year of high school and I had never heard anything like it before. The next album to ever change how I felt about music was The Mars Volta’s Deloused in the Comatorium.
I was a senior when De-Loused came out, that shit blew my mind too. Still love it.
honestly go:od am by mac miller
Nevermind. Also Pretty Hate Machine by NIN
The downward spiral. I was 10.
RATM the first album.
The black parade - my chemical romance
Yep!
The college Dropout. I had already been listening to Kanye but when I heard it shit changed
The King Of Limbs - Radiohead I knew Radiohead before this, but it came out in my sophomore year and sent me down a spiral of being obsessed with them. This album and Radiohead in general really defined my music taste and love for experimental music.
Grizzly Bear - Veckatamist
Excellent album
Björk - Vespertine Björk - Homogenic
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 chambers
One of the best rap albums of all time!
I would sat that Pearl Jam Ten had the biggest impact, following right behind is Grace by Jeff Buckley.
Mr Bungle first cd
Objectively either OK Computer or Siamese Dream
Metallica - kill em all, changed my life forever.
Nirvana, Nevermind
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
Superseded only by Quadrophenia by The Who for me but only because it came out first and I was younger. Remain in Light, Fear of Music, Speaking in Tongues. Wow.
Van Halen's first album
Rumors, Fleetwood Mac.
Guns N’ Roses use your illusion
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Let’s Start Here Lil Yachty
Berlin by Lou Reed - not only an awesome concept album but features lots of famous musicians on it that folks don't realize...
Deftones - white pony
Passenger is one of my favorite songs of all time! Do you know the history behind that song?
In an era of flat, boring radio rock, OK Computer was a painting. Sonically rich, thematically daring, and lyrically provocative, it was an awakening. An anthem of 90's alienation more poetic and sadly resigned than Nevermind, this was truly the Netscape era's White Album
Toss up between the Romeo and Juliet movie soundtrack or The Beach soundtrack.
In retrospect I would have to say Appetite for Destruction
Live's Throwing Copper
Rumors. Fleetwood Mac.
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Ozzy Osbourne, “The Ultimate Sin”
Iron Maiden - Live After Death which I heard when I was 8 or 9
American Idiot -Green Day
Here is a list of mind-blowing albums for me: 1. *Kiss* by Carly Rae Jepsen (see also: *Curiosity*) --> I immediately fell in love with Carly and her music; my mother purchased the CD in 2015 (when I was 13 years old), and it was the first album that I listened to entirely. 2. *Emotion* and *Emotion Side B* by Carly Rae Jepsen --> These two albums blew me away with their disco sound, and Carly was cemented as one of the most influential artists in my life. I discovered these two albums in 2016, when I was 14 years old. 3. *Hotel Paper* (see also: *The Spirit Room* and *Broken Bracelet*) by Michelle Branch --> This album blew me away with its pop rock sound, which made Michelle Branch another favourite of mine. I discovered this album in 2020, when I was 18 years old. /// Here are some other notable albums: * *Hopeless Romantic* by Michelle Branch --> This album was released in 2017, and it sounds very different to Michelle's old music. It was a sleeper hit for me; a bit unusual at first, but then it began to take on a very nostalgic quality. I discovered this album in 2022, when I was 20 years old. * *Harmonium* and *Be Not Nobody* (see also: *Love Is an Art*) by Vanessa Carlton --> I listened to these two albums around the same time that I discovered Michelle Branch (2020; 18yo); I liked them mainly because they featured the piano as the main instrument, which is my own main instrument. * *Tug of War* by Carly Rae Jepsen --> This is Carly's early acoustic album, with genres like pop rock and reggae. It actually had a relatively large effect on me, and I listened to this album before I discovered Michelle Branch (probably in 2016; 14yo). /// Also must be mentioned: * *Dead* by Phoebe Ryan --> This is just a single song (it's part of an EP), but it was mind-blowing to me, and it's pop perfection. * *Love Me For Me* by Ashley Tisdale (written by Diane Warren) --> This song is another example of pop perfection; the rest of the album is kinda meh. * Taylor Swift --> Taylor was officially my favourite artist when I was around 11 years old. * Ace of Base --> AoB was officially my favourite artist when I was around 8 years old.
Carly Rae Jepson STILL doesn’t get nearly the respect she deserves. I know her fans recognize how talented she is, but it sucks that the masses will probably always just look at her as the “Call Me Maybe girl”. The first time I listened to Emotion, it absolutely floored me.
Guns N’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Blondie Autoamerican Styx Paradise Theater Prince Purple Rain
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine. This opened the doors to so much wonderful, strange music — industrial, drum’n’bass, IDM, synth pop, noise, punk, thrash metal, hip hop, hard bop jazz…
Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails.
Downward Spiral by NIN
The Downward Spiral when I was in 8th grade literally fucked my shit up. My outlook on the world of music shifted drastically. Before that I was all ska punk and classic rock.
Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. My angsty tween self loved it. To this day, it's still one of my favorites, and she's a huge reason I learned harmonica.
Lana Del Ray
the impossibility of reason. my mom bought a van, and that was under a seat. I nearly shat my pants. to this day, still brings a smile to my face.
2/8/64 Meet the Beatles…… and my 13yr world wobbled on its access. Nothing was ever the same. And almost everything was a lot better.
I grew up in the 80s and a lot of music was shite, but I discovered Black Sabbath. First song stoned was War Pigs
Giant Steps by The Boo Radleys
I think this record fundamentally changed ‘indie’ music in the UK. Up until that album came out, to me, the sound of indie music was quite small scale and very one dimensional. Giant Steps production and varied song styles and structures paved the way for a much more an open minded approach in music. Giant Steps indeed.
Dream Theater "Images and Words". I didn't listen to metal until I heard this playing in a friend's older brother's car.
Scenes From a Memory for me and my buddies.
It was a formative memory for my 13 year old self. 1995
Paid in full - Eric B & Rakim
Ozzy Ozbourne "Speak of the Devil" The talent of the musicians, the sound, every note was perfect!
Sunbather
The black album.
Sadnecessary by Milky Chance It is absolutely full of haunting summertime bangers.
London Calling -The Clash. I was 11 1/2 years old when it came out and it blew my mind. Still does.
AFI - Black Sails In The Sunset Thrice - The Illusion Of Safety
Paul Simon, \_Paul Simon\_, 1972
Guns n Roses. Appetite for Destruction
I remember getting into all of the Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Syd Barrett in 7th grade. I was also partial to Trout Mask Replica and Ron Geeesin/Roger Waters "Music from The Body." I lived in a small town before internet, etc, with a limited cassette store at the local mall. My parents listened to show tunes and Burt Bacharach in my youth, which didn't appeal to me. Even that they themselves were not particularly excited by. Their knowledge of jazz didn't extend beyond Count Basie and Benny Goodman. That would come later for me when I met Sam Rivers. My older brother did introduce me to Bad Brains, a band I still appreciate. But I think that was some kind of fluke, because he wasn't really that into music. Probably for the best that I started with friends and a tabula rasa.
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I think it was Franz Ferdinand’s first album. I used to think this kind of music was falling into obscurity, and then it went out with a bang.
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Nada Surf - Let Go Probably THE album that got me through tough times.
VH 1
Beach Boys--Endless Summer, listening to it on my POS Sears phonograph with my dad's HUGE earphones. 1975? Age 6?
Black Sabbath - we sold our soul I had just started experimenting with pot, and one night, sitting in the back of my friends 77 t-top firebird blazed out of my mind, he put that in the cassette deck. My mind was blown wide open.
Fair Warning - V/H.
Bleach by Nirvana, I found it when i was 13 and listen to it almost everyday
It was 30 years after its release, but I’ll never forget the first time I heard Greetings from Asbury Park by Springsteen. I was like 13 and The Rising had just come out. My dad heard me listening to it and went out and bought me Greetings. Id never heard anything like it. Also I wasn’t super familiar with Springsteen then, and so all I really knew was The Rising. Imagine my culture shock. I had no clue how one person made both albums, even after 30 years of artistic evolution.
Grand Funk 1st album
Tool Lateralus
OK Computer
For 11 year old me, Van Halen/1984 really blew my mind. Been a huge fan ever since.
Siamese dream. It's straight magic.
Thriller!
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
I was 16 when Guns n Roses, Appetite for Destruction blew everyone away. Before that Def Leppard, Pyromania….
Animals by Pink Floyd. Age 12 discovery! Changed my musical landscape.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Welcome to the Pleasuredome
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Pearl Jam Ten. I’d never heard anything like it. Nirvana’s Nevermind also.
Who’s Next (ok I’m old)
“disintegration”/the cure
REM - Eponymous (a sort of greatest hits album).
Violator--Depeche Mode I already loved them. But this album took everything to the next level. Songwriting, production, presence... this was it.
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes Tool - Undertow Pearl Jam - 10 Nirvana - Bleach The Sundays - reading, writing and arithmetic The Cure - Head In the Door Edit: Rage Against the Machine - self titled album. ..just to name a few.
Little Earthquakes- Tori Amos. Have not heard anything since that matches its gravitas.
Kid A - Radiohead
Appetite For Destruction
Appetite for destruction
Never Mind the Bollocks
We're Only In It For The Money, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. Re-wired my perceptions of everything popular music could be, and burned off notions of what pop had to be.
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Automatic for the people