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DMB - Busted stuff David Bowie - Outside Aphextwin - RDJ I think if anything NIN ruined my life "Whaaa poor me" lol. |
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Autechre - Confield |
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damn i left out NIN - Pretty Hate Machine Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP Autechre - EP7 Autechre - Chiastic Slide ..& after Confield.. Dr Octagon - Dr Octagonocologist Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein El-P - Fantastic Damage |
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Joy Division "Closer" then Yello "Stella" started my interest in high end class A stereo equipment. "We are the League" by the Anti-Nowhere League started my descent into PUNK, then came along Primus "Frizzle Fry" and the Butthole Surfers "Locust Abortion Technician, where my dabbling in shrooms came about. Skeptics "Amalgam" brought out the true kiwi patriot in me and led me to do the Bailter Space sound engineering course. Godflesh "Streetcleaner" was the basis of a highly charged debate I had with flea who was then called Flesh Chamber 9 on the rec.music.industrial newsgroup, after that the Mortar complilation stole my heart after flea sent it to me and I won him over with God "Possession" and John Zorn's Naked City. Massive Attack "Mezzaine" and FSOL "ISDN" gave me optimism during a really dark period of my life when we were just really poor and living in a dump. Download's "Paradigm Shift" helped me enjoy loud music again. and I rediscovered the Internet after a long absence. Squarepusher "Selection Seventeen" and Caustic Window "Compliation" satisfied my urge for futuristic music as did Drukqs when it finally came out. |
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RJD2 Dead ringer. put my faith back in real hiphop. |
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first and foremost, probably tool - aenima |
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summer of 1993, i was pulling through records in little tokyo in LA, and just on the merit of the cover I purchased Artificial Intelligence... warp lp 006. this album affected my life more than any other, by far. next in line are: Rush - A Show of Hands Aphex Twin - On NIN - Downward Spiral Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and Bright |
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hey, props to titsworth for mentioning the Canadian Neil Young (even though I can't stand him, mostly because of his whiny voice)... |
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while i was visiting newfoundland this summer with my girlfriend, i got to hear some pretty cool neil young albums driving around gros morne |
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albums that have changed my life though? Well, I don't know if there have been many, if any, that have totally changed my life... but lots of music had a big impact... lets start way back in, hmmm, grade 8 or 9 or so... a couple pals of mine were HUGELY into Genesis (from the 70's, the Peter Gabriel era), and so one day one jof em played a song for me... I thought it was cool... so I went out and bought Selling England by the Pound... it's still one of my favorite albums, and that really opened my mind to "weird" music... from that point on I really never discounted any kind of music, and even looked for weird music... I think my openness to electronic music was started here, as I begun to really appreciate the synthesizer, and pretty soon Genesis instrumental songs were becoming my favorite tracks of theirs... the next band to have a big effect on me was Radiohead... I started listening to them just after The Bends came out, and have followed them ever since... The Bends because my favorite album... then Ok Computer surpassed that when it came out... and damn, I still remember listening to Kid A for the first time... that whole period of my life was so low and dark, probably the darkest time of my life, and I still remember the rainy day when I bought Kid A and listened to it over and over and over that day... it was a revelation to me... I hadn't heard anything like that before... also around this time I bought the album Passion by Peter Gabriel, and this album has probably had the single greatest effect on my life over any other album... it alone helped pick me up, and get me out of the low point that I was in... and it also opened my eyes to the vast styles of music around the world... I swear to me, there is more emotion and visual feel in an African drum then in the most gorgeous melody... Passion is still my favorite album... the big tracks that got me into electronic music were firstly Halcyon by Orbital... I remember going to a church retreat (of all places) and hearing this song on a v |
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video there... when I got home, I searched and searched for it... I knew it was on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack, but didn't know the group or anything... but I eventually found it, and was hooked... my first real electronic purchase was In Sides actually, because I went to the store looking for the brown album, but it wasn't there... then the two other tracks that hooked me for good to electronic music were Heliosphan and Xtal by Aphex Twin... a friend of mine sent them to me, and I just thought they were the best thing ever... ACTUALLY, not knowing how hard it was gonna be for me to get SAW85-92, I originally wanted to get that when I went to the store that day, but got In Sides after... and the rest as they say is history... those were the big turning points for me as far as music and stuff is concerned, and those special albums definitely helped me through some hard times... Passion especially... there are so many reasons why Passion is so close to my heart... but mainly because it was there for me like a friend... it's a weird thing to say, but it really helped me through a rough time, and now whenever I listen to it, I get so emotional because I can feel what I felt during that rough time... but then the album brings me out of that as it ends on a hopeful and uplifting note... also, Steely Dan helped spark my interest in jazz, which I've slowly been trying to explore... mainly the Aja album... that album is superb... and one final song that is really close to my heart is Moonlight Sonata by Beetoven... it's a piano piece, which I know how to play on piano, and whenever I feel a little sad I just play that... it's such a release for me... there, that's my story! |
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cool, what did you think of Newfoundland? Was that your first time there? |
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-every Massive Attack album has had its impact on my life. -blur 13 helped me recover from depression -nine inch nails the fragile opened up a new part of my brain -my bloody valentine loveless -autechre confield my first autechre perchase was peel sesh 2... i enjoyed it and then the following day took a risk by buying something that didnt make sense when i listened to it at the record shop... that changed everything -xanpha ep1.2 this changed my life in that when it was finally released, i released all the shit, negative energy and tension from the last 5 years of my life... there is a lot more, but ill keep it to this for your reading convenience. |
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it was pretty cool... twas my first time there... we spent most of the time at my girlfriend's dad's three story townhouse (the townhouses are real cool) just outside downtown st. john's... so i got to see all the cool graffiti and interesting little alleys and whatnot... "lanes" that are nothing more than glorified driveways, etc. got to see the battery, and signal hill... both were cool... and also cape spear... also very cool... in general it was cool... i like the way all the pizza places have garlic cheese fingers... the only thing i might say is that on some levels, it seems like St. John's is a little more culturally deprived than it has to be... i mean, there seems to be lots of enthusiastic free thinking youth... but access to things like vinyl seems pretty limited... and of course you don't get a whole lot of cool shows... i understand that there are perfectly legitimate reasons for this deprivation... i just think it's a shame, and hope that the youngins see fit to change it very soon (instead of moving away, out of sheer terror due to the freshly elected conservatives).... a beautiful place |
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heh, I don't much like downtown St. John's... it's too confusing for driving... :) I live up in Pippy Park there, up behind the confederation building, and I like it up there just fine... hehe... St. John's is a beautiful city though... the view from Signal Hill is quite nice... me and some pals of mine skipped off class one time in high school, and from downtown St. John's we made it out to Cape Spear in like 5 minutes... almost got into a head on collision too... :) and there aren't really a whole lot of music stores in St. John's anyways, let alone places to get vinyl... you can get some in Freds Records, but that's mostly second hand I think... but it's a cool place... and like you said, there aren't many shows there... we're pretty cut off from Canada, but why would a big band or singer go through the trouble of going to Newfoundland anyways, the population isn't big enough to justify it really... it's picked up a bit recently with the new stadium that was built, but it's still not the best... hehe, Ludacris is gonna be there in November I believe... too bad I won't get to see him... something about that just seems funny to me though... a big rap artist performing in Newfoundland, the land of fish and celtic music... hehe... :) |
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In order: Sleeper - The It Girl Aphex Twin - ICBYD Boards of Canada - MHTRTC Lustmord - An Early Document of Tactile Experimentation. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi |
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theres lots of albums that have been there when my life changed, and which i kinda identify with a time or place in my life. i wouldnt say that THEY changed it, except for pigface "fook", and in particular the song "i can do no wrong" ehich was the first non-mtv underground song i ever heard. and i immediately fell in love with it. |
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Great topic. The order I heard them: Deep Forest - Deep Forest Enigma - MXMCVIII (whatever it's called) Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms Aphex Twin - RDJ Album Aphex Twin - ICBYD Aphex Twin - SAWII Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Artificial Intelligence II comp. Autechre - Tri Repetae Amorphous Androgynous - The Isness |
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Autechre - Amber Autechre - Tri Repetae Pole - Yellow Richard D. James - Polygon Window FSOL - Lifeforms |
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Kraftwerk - Radio Activity! |
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for titsworth request of explaining in what way the albums changed my life: *a day at the races - queen (1987 when I heard it) it was my first album... I was 12 years old and I never listened to music till then... not my music at least... it introduced me into queen, which I love and I think they determined my vision of music from that moment onwards *use your illusion - gnr (1992 when I heard it) introduced me into sodt heavy... then I went with metallica, anthrax... *diferent class - pulp (1995 when I heard it) it was a happy poppy era of my life *mezzanine - massive attack (1998 when I heard it) my first trip hop album *drukqs - aphex twin (2002 when I heard it) my introduction to IDM |
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1. Squarepusher go plastic 2. Aphex twin drukqs 3. The Who sell out 4. Beatles Sgt Pepper 5. Beach boys Pet sounds |
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Tangerine Dream "Zeit" Depeche Mode "Some Great Reward" Brian Eno "Apollo" Klaus Schulze "X" Nitzer Ebb "Belief" Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" Alien Sex Fiend "First Compact Disc" Throbbing Gristle "TGCD1" Aphex Twin "SAW 85-92" Bruce Gilbert "This Way To The Shivering Man" Biosphere "Patashnik" Kit Clayton "Nek Sanalet" Autechre "Amber" Young Gods "L'Eau Rouge / Red Water" NIN "Broken" Clawfinger "Deaf Dumb Blind" Helmet "Meantime" and many more... |
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Love - Forever Changes Orb - Adventures beyond the Ultraworld Shack - Waterpistol Beta Band - 3 eps |
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Pink Floyd - The Wall This influenced my guitar playing more than any other album. Dave Gilmour rules! |
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that he does... he's probably my favorite guitarist! |
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Wow, I'm with supreme on this one. But ALSO, Guns N' FUCKIN' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (my aunt gave it to me when I was six or seven !!!) DJ Shadow - Endtrouducing... The first remotely avant - electronica album I ever owned, and in my books, it's still only behind... KID A. |
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AK47 - it's inspiring to see someone pull through tough times with help from music. But how is ISDN a shining example of optimistic, ultimately cathartic electronica ? |
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