What's the top album that changed your world when you first listened to it?

[clonedude]

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I was pretty young when I found Shout at the Devil in the cab of one or our tractors. My older brother had been listening to it and I was transfixed. To this day I still remember that feeling, and I still love this album (Too Fast for Love is also great, the others...meh (except for the Corabi album which is fantastic)).

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I was in high school when I first heard this, and I couldn't believe how this guy could tell stories. I had never heard of Prine before. It is great but leaves a lot of good stuff out. RIP John.


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My college buddy had this album, and I just fell in love with them instantly. Such a great album which led me to Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and the Jayhawks. I bought a few more Son Volt cds, but none were as good nor captured how I was feeling at the time like Trace. Amazing album that helped me through my late college anxiety/border line depression (Prine helped with that too).

Son Volt is a great call!

 

[Sigmapolis]

I guess a 26X platinum album for having every song with three chords isn't so bad.

 

[AdRock4Cy]

Going to see them tomorrow night in Minneapolis along with Smashing Pumpkins! Supposed to be playing Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety.

Me too!!!! I'm pumped. Pumpkins and Rancid too. Should be a great show.

 

[RonBurgundy]

Don't really have an album that changed my world, but this video about a song from this album sure did.

I've posted many times, but the breakdown of this song has changed the way I listen to music

Never seen this. Just totally amazing how this dude breaks down a song. I knew there was a reason I loved Boston. Scholz was a genius.

FYI - Saw them in concert once in early 80's and they weren't great since their sound was such a studio/mixed sound. But the songs still rocked and everyone was jamming.

 

[Cyclone06]

 

[State2015]

2 of the best from my formative years and really opened me up to music

 

[zumbro clones]

Tool is one of my favorites too! Made me appreciate how songs/albums are put together.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Not many here are going to like this type of music but it introduced me to experimental metal. I listened to it so much that I can hardly listen to it anymore.

 

[0u812]

great thread and a tough question for me. Lots of killer albums over the years, most of which I still love today. The ones that changed my world were....


Master, because of how they were faster, louder, and better than everyone else at that point in time. Simply a killer album from beginning to end. A classmate in grade school made a copy of another cassette for me. I was really grateful and wore that tape out in my Walkman.

Raising Hell, as for a group from NYC to become big in small town Iowa, it had to be catchy. Such a good album and well produced. First cassette with the warning label on it for me. My mom bought it for me as she knew it would piss my dad off. She was right.

 

[demoncore1031]

Slayer's Reign in Blood album for me. I had no idea that music like that existed. That was a life changing experience for sure and after that I became a huge nerd for the heavy stuff.

 

[mkadl]

This album was about 8 years old when I discovered it. I am listening again.

 

[Hubbs4cy]

1. Green Day - Dookie
Easy #1, seeing the video for Basketcase as a child changed something in me.

2. Tool - Lateralus
Really the first album I got into for heavy/prog metal, opened up a new genre for me.

3. Eminem - Slim Shady
I'm a stereotypical midwestern white boy and I'll own it. Before Eminem the only rap I knew was played on the radio/MTV. Again, opened up a new genre for me.

4. New Found Glory - Sticks and Stones. I was a basic moldable teenager listening to pop music and mainstream rock at the time, or what my friends were listening to. This album solidified my love for pop punk on my own without input from media or friends and I never grew out of, it's not just a phase.

 

[Mr Janny]

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I was pretty young when I found Shout at the Devil in the cab of one or our tractors. My older brother had been listening to it and I was transfixed. To this day I still remember that feeling, and I still love this album (Too Fast for Love is also great, the others...meh (except for the Corabi album which is fantastic)).

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I was in high school when I first heard this, and I couldn't believe how this guy could tell stories. I had never heard of Prine before. It is great but leaves a lot of good stuff out. RIP John.


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My college buddy had this album, and I just fell in love with them instantly. Such a great album which led me to Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and the Jayhawks. I bought a few more Son Volt cds, but none were as good nor captured how I was feeling at the time like Trace. Amazing album that helped me through my late college anxiety/border line depression (Prine helped with that too).

Love Son Volt. Had an opportunity to spend some time with Jay Farrar when I was in college, and he did a live session at the radio station I was working at. Very nice guy. I think I still prefer Tweedy, tho.

 

[ISUinOR]

An all-time favorite. For me, different eras each had an album or two that were incredible - that I will still listen to in their entirety today. Many of them are listed already.

 

[KnappShack]

Never seen this. Just totally amazing how this dude breaks down a song. I knew there was a reason I loved Boston. Scholz was a genius.

FYI - Saw them in concert once in early 80's and they weren't great since their sound was such a studio/mixed sound. But the songs still rocked and everyone was jamming.

Just watched again for at least the 30th time

That could very well be the greatest rock song ever produced

Brad ******* Delp!!

 

[Jer]

I had Coal Chamber's self titled in my original post of the 4 first hard rock albums that really pulled me in, but I haven't listened to it forever. Just had a go and damn I forgot how great Coal Chamber's self-titled album was.

 

[Peter]

 

[pourcyne]

1969 Georges Moustaki

 

[CYCLNST8]

Can't list just one.

 

[Texbudman]

The Wall from my dad’s album collection when I was a kid. Runner ups In Through the Out Door and Breakfast in America.

Yes to all three of those