Top 5 Albums that shaped your life

[Justin Fox]

This was going around FaceBook not too long ago. So hard to narrow it just to 5! If possible, try to include (through Google search) the album cover art too.

[Justin Fox]

I'll start:

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Appetite for Destruction - My relos from Indonesia used to send me a huge load of cassette tapes every year (they were all pirate copies). One year this album was in amongst the tapes. It was the first time I'd heard so much swearing in music (Why don't you just... FUCK OFF!) and the insane art on the inside cover gave me a stiffy (Robert Williams is the artist if you want to Google it). Sweet Child'O"Mine still still rocks my world. I never got over it.

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The Real Thing - My first ever Compact Disc purchase. It was so special to me at the time, the new cover art size, the CD case, the way you load it into a brand new CD player, and no matter how many times I played it the audio quality stayed amazing. Patton is a genius. This threw me into heavy metal with a difference, these guys had groove as well as weight.

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Nevermind - Teenage Angst. It made my ears bleed, my heart too. It sounded exactly like how I was feeling. Rebellious, angry, very angry and confused. I learnt every single song on the album (on the guitar) I formed a 3 piece rock band I screamed like Kurt and took to the stage playing in shitty pubs all over Sydney for $30/night.

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Dig Your Own Hole - This album, along with the Prodigy's Music for the Jilted Generation, changed my perception of electronic music. I realised that electronic music can be rock'n'roll too and that there were more drugs to abuse than just weed and booze :icon_lol:

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Grace - Initially I was scratching my head. But yeah, Jeff Buckley isn't human, he sings like an Angel. It's deep, emo, totally emo. You either love him, to death, or hate him. I love him.

[STOIE]

Haha before I opened the thread I was going to say Nevermind, but you beat me to it!

Top 5 is hard...

[nath_mk6]

So growing up in Tassie, yes I had the head removed, I didn't really get into the music scene until I started highschool.

5 top albums of my youth then would be.

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This would have to be my Nevermind, became a huge fan of the pumpkins and the cassette lived in my walkman for a long long while.

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Sound Garden were my first real departure into the wide world of music outside the pumpkins, 'feel the rythym'

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Yes I admit to being a fan, also spotted Eddie in a pub in Tassie one night with some friends, turns out that he spent many a holiday there surfing because people just didnt recognise him often.

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At some point I got my first Nirvana album, not the hard core Nirvana but I really liked the chilled vibe of the unplugged album

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Of course no teenage angst is complete without a really angry at the man type album, when I got into the skating side of teenagedum through some friends I got into Rage.

Heaps of other albums like Grace, The Wall, Transmission all played parts but it was only a top 5....

[10d]

Growing up in Indo you tend to listen to a lot of rock and heavy metal
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Then to mellow out
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[Justin Fox]

Fark we have similar tastes guys:

The Beastie Boys – Paul's Boutique YEAH BOIIIII! I mean seriously, there's that one bit where they break it down and chuck a sample from an organ in there... that's one moment that's GOLD.

Nine Inch Nails –The Downward Spiral - YEAH this is deep, it's so fucking emotional, it's all about feeling. Trent is God on this album.

Massive Attack – Protection - YEAH so smooth, so good, so new to my ears at the time, so got into them live, so into Tricky afterwards too.

Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream - YEAH, yes yes yes. Have seen them live unplugged with a group of only 50 people. Insane drumming, love love love this album. Couldn't put it down when I first heard it, was so new to my ears back then too.

Pearl Jam - Yup, still playing it in the car now. Alive, one of the best free form guitar solos ever. Jeremy, too powerful. Vedder is God on this album.

Rage Against The Machine - FYIWDWYTM! Man, that song's ending is heavier than Deicide!

Metallica Black Album was the album of theirs I really wanted to hate (as I loved their old ones) but to ne honest I farking loved it and learnt many of the songs from it on the guitar.

[10d]

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Almost forgot.
Hypnotic sound

[shida]

In no particular order:

Bic Runga - Drive
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Crowded House - The very best of Crowded House
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Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
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Tracy Chapman - The Collection
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Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
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[nath_mk6]

Bump for this one!

[G-rig]

Can't really narrow it down, but some great ones in there!!