Name 3 Albums

[snez1]

That have meant the most to you in your life and why. They don't have to be the best albums you've owned or even music you're particularly proud of, just 3 albums that remind you of periods of life in a positive way. Here are mine:

 

What's the story Morning Glory - Oasis

 

Probably the first album I ever owned. I was 10 or 11 when it came out and my overriding memories whenever i hear songs off it are of blasting it out my brother's shitty old ghetto blaster after a long hard day of P.E and Maths at Primary School. The sun is shining and i'm getting ready to play another mammoth session of football with all my mates. Definatly the first album that i remember loving and is responsible for getting me into music. The sound track of my youth.

 

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

 

I came across this masterpiece very late. I heard Mersey Paradise on the "One Night In May" documentary and had to search out the band who wrote it. A girl I started seeing at uni had the album, so i robbed it off her and it became my all time faveourite album. Reminds me of having lots of sex, being very drunk, parties, drugs and falling in love for the first time. The relationship may not have endured but my love for the Roses did.

 

Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails

 

Not their best album but my brother played it to me when i was about 13. No one else i knew had really heard of them and i felt like it was "my" album as i introduced some mates to it and they loved it. Some belting tunes that again, like Morning Glory, just remind me of being young and summer time. Pick a Part that's new is still one of my all time feel good tracks and probably always will be.

[Flying Pig]

The Worzels Greatest Hits - for the guitar riffs.

 

Shirley Bassey Live in Monaco - reminds me off hanging around Utting Avenue as a child.

 

The Communards Cry Boy Cry - The first album Lurzy every bought me. I refused.

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Beastie Boys - Licensed to ill - Bmxing, jumpers for goalposts just a great album for the boys at that time.

 

Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet - Teenage angst remedied with that album.

 

Cypress Hill - Black sunday - Drug-fuelled college days were never complete without this album.

[Cosmos]

Nirvana, Nevermind - made me realise that I was right, all the whiny, scruffy virgins were into it because it was music for whiny, scruffy virgins.

 

Blur, Modern Life is Rubbish - a positive blueprint for everything I didn't want to be or say.

 

Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica - a melodious, structured opus which ranks alongside anything The Beatles put out in terms of pop sensibility. It made me realise that the world is a bright, shiny orb of pure sex.

[Hooch]

Whats the story Morning Glory - Very similar to Snez actually, t'was my first ever album and I too was about 10 or 11. A truly brilliant album and it reminds me of being a kid.

 

Eminem - Marshall Mathers album. - Reminds me of being a moody 15 year old lad. I used to do a paper round and I'd have it on my walkman constantly as I did it. Must of knew every word to every song.

 

The Streets - A Grand don't come for free. - This album has a place in my soul that will never be moved. Every song just resounded with me, the story of the album was so similar to things going on in my life so I could relate to absolutely every aspect of it.

[BENIRL]

Inflammable Material- Stiff Little Fingers. So raw. Great band great tunes and great times.

 

Screamadelica- Primal Scream. Great band great tunes and great times

 

The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses. Great band great tunes and great times

[snez1]

Whats the story Morning Glory - Very similar to Snez actually, t'was my first ever album and I too was about 10 or 11. A truly brilliant album and it reminds me of being a kid.

 

Eminem - Marshall Mathers album. - Reminds me of being a moody 15 year old lad. I used to do a paper round and I'd have it on my walkman constantly as I did it. Must of knew every word to every song.

 

The Streets - A Grand don't come for free. - This album has a place in my soul that will never be moved. Every song just resounded with me, the story of the album was so similar to things going on in my life so I could relate to absolutely every aspect of it.

 

Knew i'd forgotten one, MMLP. Bastard.

[snez1]

Nirvana, Nevermind - made me realise that I was right, all the whiny, scruffy virgins were into it because it was music for whiny, scruffy virgins.

 

Blur, Modern Life is Rubbish - a positive blueprint for everything I didn't want to be or say.

 

Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica - a melodious, structured opus which ranks alongside anything The Beatles put out in terms of pop sensibility. It made me realise that the world is a bright, shiny orb of pure sex.

 

That's some funny shit. I'd rep you if i could.

[JohnnyH]

Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced : Made me want to learn guitar

 

Gun n Roses - Appetite for Destruction : Made me want to break things, and get better at the guitar

 

Madness - The rise and fall : Made me look at other types of music and broadened my views. It was also ace.

[MAC5]

Stone Roses - The Stone Roses, Heard it playing out of my brothers room when i was 11/12 robbed it and still listen to it a least once week for the last 26/26 yrs, an unbelievable record.

 

Definatly Maybe - Oasis.The rawness of this album can still be heard today when i play it. 2nd best debut album after the Stone Roses debut album.

 

Sergeant Peppers - The Beatles. The first ever album i ever listened to in my life, found the LP in my dad's wardrobe and was allowed to play it on the Record Player when i was 7/8 yrs of age, brings back many happy memories of my child hood. It was only many many years later that i really appreciated the album for what it was.

 

ps. also found pornography in my dad's wardrobe at the same time, made a mental note and came back to it years later. Happy days, happy days

[Skrtel Milk]

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine: Brings back many happy memories from my youth. An album with fantastic songs and inspirational lyrics. Been my favorite band since I first heard the riff from 'Killing in the Name' at the age of 12. A stunning debut album.

 

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon: Just a magic voyage really. The album cover haunted me through out my childhood. It popped up eveywhere and made me think there was something special about it, but didn't listen to it before I found it in my brother's collection in my teens. Just a perfect record me thinks.

 

Tool - Ænema: Love it. Fantastic musicians with no show off cells in their bodies. Made me appreciate techical progressive music. A very good period i my life when I first heard them so the standard 'good memories' bit is very much relevant here aswell.

[Bloodred]

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

 

Made me realise how much I loved music, I can remember listening to it in our garage with my mates on my sisters getto blaster.

 

Counting Crows - August and Everthing After

 

Though I was a true rocker till I heard this, blew me away. Subtle and beautiful, still gets me to this day.

 

U2 - The Joshua Tree

 

My parents played this constantly when it came out, reminds me of my childhood, every tune a classic.

[gramby]

Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction

The best rock album ever

 

Oasis - Definatley May a class album which they have never bettered.

 

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms. Just listening to this again after finding it while having a clear out.

[Antynwa]

X&Y Coldplay

 

Got me through a few rough months

[King Emlyn]

Enregistrement public a l'Oympia 1964 - Jacques Brel

 

Heroes - David Bowie

 

ok computer - Radiohead

 

 

I can remember being almost struck dumb at the sheer beauty and power of these three albums when i first ever heard them. Most albums are "sleepers" and grow on you. Not so with these three masterpieces.

[Nick Leeson]

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours. No idea why, I just like the songs.

 

Bob Marley - Legend. Made me wake up and listen for a while.

 

REM - Out of Time. Made me go back to sleep again but a happy. Not a Shiney Happy Sleep. Always skipped that track.

[hamstrung]

Faith No More - The Real Thing.

 

Heard it when I was about 15 I think. I cast aside the bad heavy metal that had previously dominated my turntable. Kind of the gateway music into a lot of the grunge/alternative stuff that would come a year or two later.

 

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream

 

I felt like I'd found the music I was meant to be listening to. The only one of the three I have picked that I would still listen to with any regularity.

 

The Lemonheads - Its a Shame About Ray

 

Reminds me of meeting the missus. Turned up loud to drown out the sex noises at the (now) in-laws*

 

 

 

 

 

*Even now they have really loud sex.

[sh#t waffle]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

The album that got me truly obsessed with music in the first place. Without them, I'd probably still be listening to Echobelly. Song for song, it's still up there with any rock'n'roll album I've ever heard

 

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

The first hip hop album I truly loved; Rakim's flow is still unsurpassed

 

Coldcut - Journey's by DJ

The soundtrack to a great many of my favourite nights (both in and out) that I've ever had

[Kev Saunderson]

Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel - The first person I got into musically as a teenager.

 

Prodigy - Experience - I loved Hardcore rave as a 17/18 year old. There was nothing better than this stuff. I could still listen to it now.

 

Oasis - Definitely Maybe - This was the album that got me away from all the dance music shite that I used to think was like fucking Mozart.

[dudek#1]

The Queen Is Dead - If not for hearing this I'm sure I'd still believe Oasis, Green Day or The Beatles were the pinnacle of music. Purchased it on vinyl from a car boot sale when I was 13. To hear "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" at that age was nothing less than orgasmic. I don't even think it is The Smiths' best album, but it motivated me to buy the back catalogue throughout my teens. Only a handful of other people in school had a clue who Morrissey was too, which made it all the more special. Rarely listen to it these days, but it is the first real album I can claim to love.

 

 

In one fell swoop, Blue Lines by Massive Attack blew open all my ignorance and uninformed views of certan musical genres and styles. Got me into a litany of new acts, introduced me to hip hop, reggae, electronica and ambient music. Used to be the standard album to listen to after a night out, great times.

 

Bubbling under, I listened to A Certain Trigger by Maximo Park, The Futureheads' first album, Capture/Release by The Rakes, Different Class by Pulp and OK Computer by Radiohead endlessly throughout my student years and they all remind me of those three years in their different ways.

[hamstrung]

Bugger. The Queen is Dead should have been on mine too.

[cochcaer]

Some Rolling Stones album of my dad's that included The Last Time. Played that track to death and it got me into music.

 

Madness - One Step Beyond. One that got me into buying albums regularly in my teens.

 

Gun n Roses - Appetite for Destruction. Got an advanced copy and played the fucker to death like no album since.

[Stu Monty]

There's so many that it's hard to pick so I'll just go with the three that come to mind and hopefully that'll be a decent barometer of how they've hit me.

 

Gomez - Bring it on: This was on massively heavy rotation in my first two weeks at Uni. This music, which I loved and had never really heard anything like mingled with the new found freedom of living away from home was a great combination. My best mate from high school was at the same Uni and we were both really into it. It's a bit bittersweet for me though because although I mainly remember the positive conitations my mate died at the end of freshers fortnight and so when I think of it I always go through that same thought process of: Gomez - Happy - George - Sad.

 

Kid A - Radiohead: I'm not sure why this one seems to pull at me in ways that the other Radiohead albums don't. I don't think it's a better album than OK Computer but whenever I think about it I always remember it being part of my transition from being a kid to forming more adult behaviour as Uni went on. Always used to chuck this on as I went to sleep, really quiet, so it's hypnotic tunes are almost imprinted on my brain.

 

Tracy Chapman - eponymous: I think this is one my first memories of music that I really liked when my dad used to have his music blaring on a Sunday afternoon with all the doors and windows open. I remember, maybe for the first time, understanding lyrics that meant something and weren't just there to sing along to. Still love it now.

[aladdinsane]

David Bowie - Station to Station

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

[WaltonRed]

Morning Glory - similar reasons to the others mentioned.

 

Is This It? - made me grow my hair

 

Everybody knows this is nowhere - Neil Young, just a fucking ace album which helped through a rough patch!