Five albums that changed your life

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Keppa4v wrote: imarrrobot wrote: Dookie - Greenday Yeah, I'm not the only one

Some cool lists in here. Here are 5 of mine that I can say changed my life:

Edited by ji baby - September 05 2009 at 16:06

1. MAGMA - Kohntarkosz (1974)

BLACK SABBATH ~ Paranoid
YES ~ Close to the Edge
PINK FLOYD  ~  Animals
IRON MAIDEN ~ Piece of Mind
MORBID ANGEL ~ Covenant

there are really sooo many others I'd like to add ( Rainbow ~ Rising , ELP ~ Tarkus etc. ) but oh well....

but just recently in the last week  
ANEKDOTEN ~ Vemod ( just got me back into prog again in a big way )

Edited by PeyoteWereWolf - September 24 2009 at 06:41

Edited by mystic fred - September 26 2009 at 03:02

1. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour.  The Beatles were the band that really got me into music.  I was obsessed with them.  While I owned Anthology 2 first, MMT is the first "real" Beatles album I had.

2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.  Floyd was my second musical love and DSOTM is probably the album that cemented that for me.

3. Savatage - Streets.  While I don't really enjoy them much anymore, and the band has done a lot of things to irritate me, this album really opened up the world of metal to me and melodramatic type stuff.  From this I really got into european power metal, thrash metal, etc. 

4. Dream Theater - Images and Words - DT became possibly my all time favorite band and got me into modern prog.  After this came Spock's Beard, Shadow Gallery, and lots of others...

5. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss.  This got me to really start looking into jazz (along with Mingus Black Saint and the Sinner Lady).

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime
Dream Theatre - Images & Words
King Crimson - Three Of A perfect Pair
Rush - Signals

So I've been watching this thread bounce across the main forum page for a few weeks now and never really had anything constructive to add.  I could never think of any one album that truly changed my life or had a life changing impact.  Sure, there's a slew of albums that have strongly influenced my musical tastes but I couldn't think of anything that actually had a profound and life changing impact on me . . . until last night.

I rented a concert video from one of my favorite bands and was instantly taken back to high school, my very formative years if you will.  As I watched the video I realized that my sense of fashion was still rooted in the late eighties.  Every day I wear a jacket to work, at times with a pair of jeans.  I prefer the dark jacket with a white shirt or turtle neck.  Generally an upscale look, and it all comes from what I will now consider a life changing album:



Yes, for as derided as it is on this website, Invisible Touch was probably the most influential album in my life.  This really was the moment in my life when I adopted so many of my current mannerisms, yet I hadn't considered it until I saw the video last night.  The video for the title track and Tonight Tonight Tonight in particular were both examples of how a band should look. 

And yes, even today I accept that the song Invisible Touch is a little cheesy and that the album itself is not on the same level as some of their earlier works, but you know what . . . at that time and place, they were amazing and, apparently, highly influential.

I can't say that any album changed my life outside of music so I will try to fulfill the requirements of this thread as best I can.

1.
Paradox Hotel - The Flower Kings:
This is the first album I ever anticipated. I bought it on it's release date, which was a particularly beautiful spring day. I got home from high school, instantly hopped in my car and drove to my local FYE. I hadn't preordered or requested this at all and in retrospect I shouldn't have expected them to carry it. Luckily they did. I put it on in the car, instantly fell in love with it, drove to a park on the lakefront and sat on a bench listening for a couple hours. I now equate the album with a beautiful warm sunny day. Some specific songs also have other thoughts tied with them. Fantastic day.

2.Fragile - Yes:
The first prog album I ever listened to (it happened to be on vinyl). In the spring of 2004, I was at the tender age of 14. My friends and I would usualy spend time after school at Brian's house. One spring day we were outside doing whatever kids that age do and Kyle decided to put on some music. He had a CD with "Yours is No Disgrace," "Starship Trooper," " I've Seen All Good People," and "Don't Stop Believin," "Separate Ways," "Lights" and "Anyway You Want It" by Journey. The Yes portion of that CD was my first introduction to prog. I brought it up at home and my mom had Fragile and Close To The Edge on vinyl. I listened to Fragile first and loved it.

3.
Lizard - King Crimson:
This was my first introduction to a jazzy sound in music. I loved the sax and thought it was all instantly accessible outside of the titular track. It was fall of 2004 and my friend Aaron had gotten this album one day then lent me a burnt copy the next day (although at the time I didn't know it was the next day). After I had given the album a listen, I jokingly accosted him in the halls (I still remember quite well where) and questioned him as to why he kept such a musical gem from my ears.

4.
MDK - Magma
My first introduction to Zeuhl. I heard "Da Zeuhl Wortz Mekanïk" from the free mp3 stream here on PA to try expand my horizons and I liked it fairly quickly. I got the album shortly thereafter and got pretty much what I was expecting. Not particularly memorable or anything but it introduced me to one of prog's more obscure genres so I guess that's good.

5.
And I really can't think of a fifth one. MDK was even tough to think of and I'm not entirely sure it deserves a place on this list. Maybe "Meet The Flower Kings" because I have never fallen in love with a song quicker (less than a second with the opening track "The Truth Will Set You Free." Sophomore year of high school probably late fall of 2004), maybe "Wish You Were Here" as the biggest letdown. I really don't know. Also, no non-prog album can be in here. I have probably less than 20 non-prog CDs, and I can count on a hand how many I actually like.


Edited by TheCaptain - September 28 2009 at 14:49