What album changed your life? - Page 3

[rainsmom]

for me:

Joni Mitchell - Blue.....the first lp I ever bought and the one I played over and over again until it finally wore out!

U2- Joshua Tree- i was travelling in europe and heard this all over when I was there......it will always remind me of that free spirited time

Peter Gabriel - SO....same reason as above, and for that amazng song "in your eyes"

Ani Difranco - Dilate...I caught on late to her, but got ALL her cds after I got this one......wow.......

REM - MURMUR ....cant even make a comment, it changed everything and finally brought some decent music to the crap of the 80s!

Elvis Costello - any of his cds, but especially King of America and the song "Indoor FIreworks"

Replacements - DOnt tell a soul

Buffalo Tom - big red letter day

Ben Harper - welcome to the cruel world

Toad the wet sprocket - Dulcinea

Tom Petty - Hard promises

Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose

Lenny Kravitz- let love rule and the 3 or 4 after that too!

Sarah Mclachlan - fumbling thru ecstacy

Graham Parker - Burning questions.....another brit with wit to match Elvis C.

The waterboys - fishermans blues - combining irish music with rock

Sting - nothing like the sun.......just pure beauty

Bob Marley - whatever cd has "3 little birds" his finest moment amoung others

Tori Amos - little earthquakes - got to meet her once on this tour and on the Under the skin tour......vulnerability never sounded so sweet!


GUess Ill stop here......but I could go on for days!

[mojomom]

T Sorry for hijacking the thread but I noticed a few Elvis Costello fans. Have you heard his new cd? Last week they played almost the whole thing on my fav. public radio station. It is so good. Something about his music totally transports me. Makes me feel like I am walking thru his songs and feeling everything he is singing about. Well sorry for hijacking.

[merpk]

The several mentions of Peter (Gabriel) have reminded me of the first time I heard "Supper's Ready."

Remembering the colors, too ...

Guess that adds "Foxtrot" to my list ...












(Just to clarify for any young Genesis fans ... Peter did do "Supper's Ready" first ... )

[RaRa7]

Indigo girls "Rites of Passage"----We 'd just moved from Maine to Florida-I was 16.
My sis and I would sing along-perfectly-REALLY=]
Also grateful Dead-Reckoning-defined my freshman and sophomore years-weird as they're mostly folk tunes???
The remaiminng 2 years of highschool were filled w/ every one of Bob Marley's albums
Senior year there was Jane's Addiction-can't remember the album?
Later- in college- Ani DFranco's Puddle Dive
Oh I forgo tot mention early9on my freshman year Sinead O'Connor "Lion and the Cobra" was my bible--oh for those days...........................

[Birth Junky]

I can think of tons of albums that I have loved, tons of albums that have moved me emotionally, but only one that truly changed my life: Dar Williams' "Mortal City", the first Dar Williams CD I ever owned, which kicked off a decade-long (so far) love affair with her music. I now own EVERYTHING she has put out, have seen her in concert numerous times, and consider her my all-time favorite solo artist.

[ericaz]

Lots of REALLY good picks so far...

First I have to say that I can't believe no one has mentioned Beach Boys SMILE. Now there's a classic.

Many albums have defined portions of my life, simply because I played them over and over and over until they became a part of my psyche. For whatever reason, they spoke to me whether they were exceptionally fantastic or not. Here are some off the top of my head:

Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
~This was one of the first albums I ever bought and it made me a DM fanatic throughout middle and high school.

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me/Disintegration
~Some would argue that neither of these are their best album but I still think they are pretty stinkin' incredible. Haven't listened to either in ages, though.

The House of Love - The House of Love
~Slightly obscure band who's album was played to death while I was in college. I was a tiny bit obsessed with my then bf and it was his album. I fell in love with the album mainly because it reminded me so much of the guy.

Red House Painters - Red House Painters
~I came down with this weird flu while during my early college years and was pretty much bed-ridden for a month. This album proved invaluable. I recall hallucinating a tad bit when the illness was at it's prime and these moody, melancholy songs kept me sane (or maybe not).

Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn/Saucerfull of Secrets
Syd Barrett was a mad genius.

Radiohead - The Bends/Kid A/Amnesica
The three of these are such impressive works of art I can't even imagine never having heard them. We listened to Kid A on the way to the hospital when I was in labor with Isadora.

Beastie Boys - License to Ill/Paul's Boutique
Both of these were instrumental in all the doobie smoking I did in college

That's all for now. Over and out.

[shishkeberry]

Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness.

I would be a totally different person if I never heard this album.

[beatgirl]

So many albums changed me at different times of my life for so many different reasons...

A few that stick out..

Beatles- White Album

Beatles- Sgt Pepper (this album was actually released the month and year of my birth , so its pretty significant )

Elton John- Madman Across the Water

Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

David Bowie- Hunky Dory

David Bowie- Diamond Dogs

Pink Floyd- The Wall

Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

Elvis Presley- The Sun Sessions

The Clash- First Album

The Clash- London Calling

The Clash- Combat Rock

The English Beat- I Just Cant Stop It

The English Beat- Special Beat Service

The Specials- The Specials

The Selecter- Celebrate the Bullet

The Jam- In The City

The Jam- Sound Effects

The Jam- The Gift

Squeeze- Eastside Story

Elvis Costello- This Years Model

Elvis Costello- My Aim is True

Van Morrison- Moondance

Sinead OConnor- The Lion and the Cobra

Sarah McLachlan- Fumbling Towards Ecstasy


I know there are tons more...I could go on for days

[mirlee]

John Lennon, Imagine

or maybe it was my very first album purchase with own money

Kiss, Alive II

[EStreetMama]

I would not be alive today without Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen.

[Plady]

This is a fun thread!

Childhood: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack and some Captain and Tenille record.

Pre-teen: The Wiz soundtrack (Broadway version), Annie soundtrack, West Side Story soundtrack, South Pacific soundtrack (hmm, I'm beginning to notice a theme here...)

Early Teen: U2 War, followed almost immediately by U2 Unforgettable Fire and Boy and then the rest, Also Sting's Nothing like the Sun and Bob Marley's Legend

Later teen: Cat Stevens, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane yada yada yada

[mommytolittlelilly]

I'll go along with several that others have mentioned:

U2 - Joshua Tree

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (Lodger, too)

The Clash - London Calling

Also, Woodie Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads - really special and important to me.

I also love Moby on 18.

And Lou Reed's Transformer.