I was kind of thinking about music as personal experience and stuff, and like what are the most important (and not even necessarily favourite) bands, records, gigs, etc that I've lived through. Either way I came up with this list of stuff I think is pretty much wired to my psyche:
- Pavement (Westing through Wowee Zowee, special emphasis on 'Internal K-Dart', 'You're Killing Me' and 'Loretta's Scars')
- Talk Talk- Laughing Stock
- The Mountain Goats live December 2007
- Pixies- Surfer Rosa and 'Monkey's Gone to Heaven'
- I'm Widely Spread/Parcel Force (included as one category because they were respectively, myself and my friend's sixth form bands)
- Animal Collective- 'Winter's Love' and 'Turn Into Something'
- cLOUDDEAD- cLOUDDEAD
- Life Without Buildings- 'The Leanover' and 'Love Trinity'
- Far- Water & Solutions
- At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command
- Slint- Spiderland
- Godspeed You Black Emperor- A#F#OO
- The Fall
- TV On The Radio- 'Blind', 'I Was A Lover' and 'Wolf Like Me'
- Interpol- Antics
- Why?- Elephant eyelash
- Subtle- For Hero:For Fool
- Les Savy Fav (particularly Rome (written upside down))
- Brainiac
- SixNationState live at the Railway Inn sometime in spring 2006
- Meho Plaza- 'The Beach'
- Ros Sereysothea- 'Bong Ban Khernh Sre'
- The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls In America
- Gang of Four- 'What We All Want'
- Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
- Wolf Parade
Well, that's me, just in case you at all care. Its probably an ever-expanding list, but I think you can put together a pretty sound picture of my life from basically the age of 14 up until now using it. How about all of you? I for one am genuinely interested here.
In chronological order
Red hot chili peppers - blood sugar sex magic
John frusciante - Niandra lades/ usually just a t shirt
Radiohead - The bends/kid A
Mars volta - De loused...
At the drive in - Acrobatic tenement
Joy division - closer
More recently, cant really do an order
Daniel johnston - Don't be scared
Joanna newsom - ys
Elliott smith - roman candle
Bright eyes - fevers and mirrors
Wu tang - 36 chambers
subtle - For hero:for fool
Yeah and more and stuff. Good ole music. All of those albums mean a lot to me.
jeff buckley - grace
Dunno
Silent Alarm is pretty special. (- indie points)
i dont know.....
....its far far too difficult. I've been going to about 2-3 gigs a week since 2000 and have seen so much great stuff as well as loads of great records.
It's hard to narrow it down
but the album that got me into music was definately Up The Bracket, so that will always be kind of special, even though nowadays i don't really listen to music like that very much.
Sentimental value and all that.
Also, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. I got it when i was 14, i remember feeling well cool walking out of a record shop with that in my hands.
Actually thinking about it
both Neutral Milk Hotel and the Olivia Tremor Control should probably be on my list as well.
Million Dead - A Song To Ruin
You
get to be my lover now.
Probably stuff like
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime (especially History Lesson Part 2)
At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command
LCD - Sound of Silver
Sonic Youth - Sister
Strokes - Is This It (I know it's not cool to say I like them, but it was like my first proper album, what can I say...)
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Radiohead - The Bends
And just music in general non-album specific that is, Frank Turner, Dartz!, Mystery Jets
not in chronological order
or any order at all really (which is a shocker for me)
Generation Terrorists (first album i bought - i didn't have a cd player til i was 13 and obsessively obsessed with the Manics)
Holy Bible
Up The Bracket
The Milk-Eyed Mender
Ys
Six
Capture/Retreat and Ten New Messages (same level of importance)
La Maison du Mon Reve
there's probably tons more but these are always up there
oh, and
i'm not sure how, but i forgot Funeral. endless love for that album
Low
in no order
The Velvet Underground - as i can remember the first time i heard them.. it totally rocked my world and its what got me into music properly.. still my fave band now
de la soul/beastie boys - opened my ears to more than just indie
bis/belle and sebastian/beat happening - all very special when i was 19/20
Motown and the Beatles - both remind me of my parents... and both are completely brilliant
Camera Obscura - as they are my friends and their music reminds me of other friends
Flipper "Sacrifice"
The Stooges "Dirt"
Negative Approach "Nothing"
records
- The Libertines - Up The Bracket. Got me into music, inspired me to start playing an instrument.
- The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
- Arcade Fire - Funeral
- Velvet Underground - VU&N
i listened to these records and subsequently discovered a ton of bands i love, like Belle & Sebastian, Neutral Milk Hotel, At The Drive in...
Back of the old onion bag
All systems go - Donna Summer
(First album I ever liked)
Tango in the night - Fleetwood Mac
(First album I ever bought on tape)
Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith
(Summer soundtrack when I was 16)
Soft Metal/Pure Soft Metal comps - V/A
(Favourite stuff when 13/14)
Loco Live - Ramones (First vinyl I ever played, also first band I saw live. Favourite live album, still)
From out of nowhere - Faith no more
(First seven inch bought)
Runaway train - Soul Asylum
(First CD single purchased)
Nighthawks at the diner - Tom Waits
Mixed up - The Cure
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Use your illusion II - Guns and roses
(First albums I bought on CD in one go)
Ten/Vs/Vitalogy
&
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger/Superunknown
&
s/t - Temple of the dog
(Early college and drug years. Some flannel shirts worn, with DMs and bad hair)
Diamond dogs - David Bowie
(Debauchery, teen sex, parties)
Be a girl - The Wannadies
(Best teenage summer, probably the best summer pop record of all time)
This world and body - Marion
(First great 'lost' album)
Bloodflowers - The Cure
The Fragile - NIN
Girls can tell - Spoon
A swinging safari - Bert Kaemphert and
The Theme To Black Beauty
(Uni memories, all over the place)
Summerteeth - Wilco
Headhunters - Herbie Hancock
Almost Killed me - The Hold Steady
Citrus - Asobi Seksu
(favourite found albums from the last few years)
I like this thread.
My first love and my discovery of Grace occurred simultaneously. Seeing as that album is 99% about love and is 100% brilliant thats important to me.
Listening to 'Aeroplane...' for the firt time was special, I guess all NMH fans would say the same.
also chronological
My shift from shitty NME bands to half decent music was fairly swift, so when I say 'The Libertines' I really mean, 'NME bands circa 2004/2005'. The catalyst was such a strange one too...
-Greenday (YEAHHHH)
-Joydrop - Metasexual
-The Libertines
-The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
-Arcade Fire - Funeral (esp. Wake Up)
-Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People (& pretty much the whole of the Arts & Crafts rostra)
-Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy, Godrevy Point and his general 2005 'persona'.
-Final Fantasy - Has A Good Home
-Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
-Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles & Knife Play
-Belle & Sebastian - Expectations
-Pavement - Brighten The Corners
-Joanna Newsom - Ys
-BARR - Summary (esp. Context Ender)
-Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane...
-Parenthetical Girls
-Huggy Bear
-Hefner
-of Montreal
Not really that long, and largely 2007-based; but I guess there had been very few bands/artists I've ever felt truly passionate about. Everything post-2005 (ie. after Final Fantasy) I still genuinely love and I can definitely see that music still being important to me 10 years down the line.
I was going to
come up with a big long list, but basically all the music I love is trace-backable to The Holy Bible.
Even though I hardly ever actually listen to that anymore.
Lots....
....these ones immediately spring to mind:
Nirvana - Nevermind
(for just blowing me away as I was listening to total shit before that)
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
(When I was 17, arsing about with friends in the summer listening to Range Life and the line "out on my skateboard and the night is just humming"...halcyon days..
There's more but:
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire at Brixton
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
LCD Soundsystem at Brixton
Murder by Death at the Barfly
etc.
In no particular order
Tool - Lateralus
Merzbow - Pulse Demon
Speedranch & Venetian Snares - Making Orange Things
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Throbbing Gristle - Second Annual Report
Converge - Jane Does
Isis - Oceanic
Eden Maine - Treachery Pact
cLOUDDEAD - Ten
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Fantomas - Directors Cut
Cocteau Twins - Stars and Topsoil
Crass - Feeding of the 5,000
The Clash - London Calling
The Astronauts - Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs
Burial - S/T
Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings
John Fahey - Red Cross
Boredoms - Soul Discharge/Early Boredoms
Melt Banana - Charlie
Sunn 0))) - White One