Five albums that changed your life

Dean wrote: tszirmay wrote: and the #1  Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure (music-style-fashion-intellect-romance) That one deserves to have Amanda shown in all her glory...

I'm sure you don't know that Amanda (Lear) became a celebrity in Italy in the Eighties... Most of her fame rested on her ambiguous posturing, and very deep voice - the rumour was she had undergone a sex change. I actually used to like her very much - she had oodles of class and humour, and was anything but your typical dumb bimbo.

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Raff wrote: Dean wrote: tszirmay wrote: and the #1  Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure (music-style-fashion-intellect-romance) That one deserves to have Amanda shown in all her glory...       I'm sure you don't know that Amanda (Lear) became a celebrity in Italy in the Eighties... Most of her fame rested on her ambiguous posturing, and very deep voice - the rumour was she had undergone a sex change. I actually used to like her very much - she had oodles of class and humour, and was anything but your typical dumb bimbo.

This kind of post is always hard, but here goes:

1. Yes - Going for the One.

The album that introduced me to prog.

2. Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Hearing the mellotron and incredible symphonic pieces for the first time hooked me for life. Plus, of course, THAT cover, which convinced me as a teenager that art and music were intertwined.

3. Genesis - Duke

Because prog and commercial do sometimes go together, and this proved it to me.

4. Peter Gabriel - III (Melt)

The album that had us all going nuts in the last year of secondary school and proved there was life after a huge legendary band.

5. Marillion - Marbles

This album proves to me that the whole genre is in absolutely safe hands as we face the threat of the older, "classic", bands passing into inevitable old age and death. An album that manages commercial, melancholy, scary, touching, and incredible all at the same listen - pushing the boundaries.

I could, of course, choose many more, but I think these are the ones that absolutely changed my perception of music and its potential, plus its effect on me as a person.

PINK FLOYD DARKE SIDE OF THE MOON (DISCOVERY OF THE PROG SCENE)
YES SONGS (MY FIST TRY TO PLAY "AIR GUITAR")
GENESIS FOXTROTT (MY FIRST DISCOVERY OF A LONG CONCEPT SONG)
RUSH A FAREWELL TO KINGS (DISCOVERY OF MY FAVORITE BAND)
LED ZEPPELIN SONGS REMAINS THE SAME (MY FAVORITE ROCK ALBUM, NOT PROGRESSIVE)
DREAM THEATER IMAGES AND WORDS (MY FAVORITE METAL BAND)
RONNIE STOLT FLOWER KINGS (MY DISCOVERY THAT NEW PROG WAS SIMILAR TO THE 70's)
IQ TALES FROME THE...(DISCOVERY THAT PROG WAS STILL ALIVE)
MARILLION SCRIPT... (DISCOVERY OF SOMETING AS GOOD AS GENESIS)

Hmmmm.  Just how difficult is this? 

1. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
I won't try to explain how profound this album is for me, and I know I wouldn't be the first to do so. This album has taught my lessons and gave me insight that are now a part of my everyday life.

2. Close to the Edge - Yes
I do not follow any organized religion, I personally believe that spirituality and morality comes from within. This album sparked those things within me.

3. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
My first jazz album when I was 14 years old. This completely changed my outlook on music: There was something beyond the 3 minute, 3 chord pop songs with catchy melodies. I always felt that Miles didn't create licks or riffs with his trumpet, he create large and abstract paintings.

4. Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator
This was my first exposure with progressive rock. To be honest, I hated it at first. To me it was uncomfortable to listen to, too dramatic, poorly produced. It would take me a long time to get used to this album, but once I did, I was stunned. I had learned to invest myself in music in order to reap the rewards.

5. In The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
From the hard rock of Schizoid Man to the beautiful I Talk to the Wind, a song that sounded like wind itself, the spacey avant-garde all the way to the triumphant final track. This album is really an amazing journey.

that's a hard one... of course I'm taking it literally... have had NUMEROUS albums that hit me like a ton of bricks... but only a couple I could say that were life changers...

1.

college was so much more than babes and booze...it was a real education hahhaha.  I knew  this woman that supplied my ...ahhh... smoking materials and was a Billie freak and started me down the path of being a lifelong fanatic of jazz and blues. 


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one of the first Italian albums I got... which of course..  was a life changer indeed hahah


can't really think of anymore... those were the two that really changed my life...

hahahhahhahha... oh that's great..... and about right....  just substitute this for Debbie...(she's top 10.. not top 5)

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