The album of your life

They played at my wedding... #srs

either this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFfqQBtfr0

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrgVN2TzUGw

actually dont know what else , but kraftwerk in 1981 was mind blowing music .

It still is.

Holy shit. How did you manage that?

Late 90s Memphis kids, just got to know them while I was out there... Used to buy old 45s in the record shop the guitar player worked in, he'd let me take my pick at a buck a pop when the manager wasn't there...

I did have the whole wedding gig on a MiniDisk, it's long gone unfortunately... This was before they'd even released anything... :(

Ashamed to admit I missed out on it the first time round, despite being 15 when it was released and having no idea why being called Ian Brown (no joke) was suddenly a thing.

Until a few years ago barely a week would go by without listening to it. Much less frequently now, but it still holds much more significance than any other album and I don't think that will ever change.

Honourable mention for Belle and Sebastian's Tigermilk. Different kettle of fish, but lived in Glasgow for the first half of the 00s and that will always remind me of good times (and some bad ones).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lQ4e9qLOTI

For me this was a bit like Saul on the road to Damascus.
There was before this and after this. A very clear line was drawn when I first heard it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOCejueexI

That would have been amazing. A Memphis wedding sounds like it would be proper messy!

I was pretty blown away when I first herd them on a BMX DVD back in the day. Have been pretty obsessed ever since. I dont think they travel out of the states though (and certainly not down under).

i thought about this long and hard, and seeing i am not as old as all you lot seeing the choices.. but this album still holds so much valur. putting idioteque on in a room with friends stupidly loud and all singing along on the top of our voice forged some friendships..

second choice wouldve been roog with "the sound of love and dedication" from 2000. that got me into house, clubbing in my local bar eventually evolving into living in berlin with the benefits of the broad offering of electronic music here as a large reason..

good thread, good memories

Really can't split between these two, both for very different reasons.

I'd been raised in a very strict religous household where secular music was not allowed, a school mates older brother who had a great record collection played me this and it blew my frickin mind

Legged it as soon as I could from the valleys to London, this was the first cassette I bought for my new walkman [OG with the orange foam pads] and introduced this not so skinny white boy to a completely different music adventure

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Impossible to pick one but this is up there:
(Alongside aforementioned Public Enemy LP)

It's a really obvious one for me:

No other album has managed to affect me so much on the first listen (and every one since). There is still nothing like listening to this in a pitch black room, with big headphones and plenty of volume...

A close second is obviously this masterpiece:

Fine choice, their 50/50 best album along with Amnesiac IMO

raised in a very strict religous household where secular music was not allowed

Intrigued by this

Hail to the Thief or GTFO

Thats my favourite Radiohead album.
Thom Yorks Eraser was amazing as well.

Bit of a controversial one this. I was introduced to it by a babysitter we had when I was about 14. She was the most gorgeous girl I'd ever seen. She gave me one headphone of her Walkman. I thought I was so cool. I thought it was such an amazing upbeat sound. Still do.

woo @Itisaboutthebike PM Dawn love! The Bliss Album was one of the two first bought proper cassette tapes my sister and I got, up til then we'd just been recording stuff off the radio or 3rd/4th hand from friends. We were let loose in a department store in Malaysia on a family holiday and told to choose things, kept us quiet for a bit. I don't remember what the other album was... I also remember vividly going on a weekend residential trip with Art A-level (a few years later) and taking two albums - that and Welcome To The Pleasuredome, and it being some sort of pin-turn of coolness when one of the upper-sixers asked whose tape it was, and that they liked it. All the upper-sixers who did sculpture were inherently cool and therefore their approval was a thing of significance. Later that day we did some interpretive dance in costumes inspired by Kandinsky's Cossacks, to a soundtrack of the FGTH version of Ferry Cross the Mersey...

Somewhat duller than either of those contenders, mine has to be The Bends.

At the end of a week's work experience, must've been at the start of 5th year, the firm weren't officially allowed to pay us but gave me a £10 Andy's Records voucher. Which I held onto for months until the album was out. I knew I was waiting for something important. It was my first album bought with my own money. That autumn I saw Radiohead as my first gig - a month or so after starting 6th form and with a sense of newly found freedom. I went alone and got sweaty down the front and bumped into other kids I recognised and felt all grown up.

There's been a distinct pattern of Radiohead firsts in my life (first band to see twice, too) and while other albums have meant more socially, or showed me more about music, life or art, The Bends was the first I held out for, obsessed over, played over and over on walkman late at night and soundtracked my teenage wanderings.

@hoefla yeah love a bit of PM Dawn. I might cough know all the words to If I Was You.

was too young to catch that at the time but that's defo my all time fave album.