The album of your life

It was a great record at the time, I loved it... One of the first LPs I bought with my own money...

Or maybe White Room by KLF.

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Master of Puppets is the one I have to say changed my life. Torched my entire worldview and from then on it was black clothes, long hair, contempt for everything. Probably added a good couple of years to my virginity.

Can't listen to it now - seems so tame and plodding - but at 14 it said it all.

This changed everything for me:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDTBMyByX_w

^ Totally in my top five...

Oh god this just made me go and look at all the Grace stuff on Youtube. I love her so much. She's the don gargon. Art, fashion, music, humour, it's all there.

I always said this is playing at my funeral. Actually I'd like it playing during my death rattle.

Easy:

The start of a downward spiral some might say...

The Charlatans - Between 10th and 11th. Tunes, beats, ambient stuff, guitar effects, probably seeded my interest in so many different types of music over the years, nothing's off limits (except psytrance)

I was living off tapes (home recording kills the industry, kids) of oasis, blutones , seahorses , nirvana, greenday and obligatory Essex dance/DnB/Jungle, then when I was 15 I got my first cd player with 4 cds:
Deep Purple - In Rock
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

But the album that changed it all was being given Black Sabbath's debut!

daydream nation started a sonic youth / noise / dischord obsession in my 20s
Aphex Twin Drukqs brought me back to electronic dance and all nighters

But my doom, drone, desert, stoner rock love which is most prevalent now stems back to being given Black Sabbath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6GchbPFuNo

Very simple for me. First album I ever heard that approached punk/hardcore.

^ listened to the re-master the other week and you forget how musical it was, especially the basslines, really good

Hello Nasty - Beastie Boys.
I was about 17 when it came out.
Amazing.

Also The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly, but thats because of my family and our mutual love of the band.

I was supposed to be working in a chicken kiev factory when Hello Nasty came out, bunked off and went up town with a mate to buy it instead. I remember when their website dropped a teaser of Intergalactic, took ages for it to load up on dial-up

I have been mulling this over after my rash posting earlier (which I stand by) and have a couple more to throw into the mix.
When i first moved to Basildon, when i was about 11, one of my 1st friends dubbed* me a copy of Use Your Illusion by Guns'n'Roses.
Infact UYI 2 was probably the 1st album i bought.
I guess it kick started my love affair with hard-than-the-charts rock/ metal.

The other album I want to mention is Super Furry Animals - Out Spaced.
This album has such strong memories for me.
I remember playing it to my dad on a car journey, he patiently listened to the whole thing and pretended to like it.
For years he would casually throw out a "Oh, have you heard the new Small Furry Creatures album?" or similar, getting the name wrong (probably not intentially either), making stuff up, generally just remembering that i once played this album to him (itself a revelation, he never remembered my birthday) and thought it was still relevent to me.

He died a few years ago and the first thing i did was play that album (man, this is making me well up) and remember that car journey.

A track from it randomly came on my ipod recently and i broke down in tears, my wife had no idea what was going on as we were driving to Ikea at the time and wasn't aware of the dad/SFA connection.

Music is powerful stuff.

*Yeah, tape to tape MoFo's!

I've got that Outspaced rubber CD sleeve in yellow - great album

Two of my favourite LPs of all time, OF ALL TIME are the Jean M J doublet Oxygene/Equinoxe, which were actually force-fed to me by my parents on long car jaunts across France in the 80s, I'm sure they'll take on greater significance after they shuffle (in the biblical sense rather than the iPod sense)

For me, it was Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.

I was already listening to a lot of music but this opened the door to everything else from punk to hip-hop to blues and jazz and right through to techno, house and disco.

It really opened up my mind to everything as well as making me consider actually caring about politics and social justice.

I saw the Bluetones in 1994 when they were supporting Strangelove (in a pub in Glasgow.)

That mist have been a pretty early tour and they were excellent.

So many over the years. But, loads have come and gone. This got me into this band and I have loved every album ever since. Not many bands do that. Still my go to band after 10years.

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No doubt this album for me .

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