Darth Fader
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This is probably the biggest credit to an artist - for a fan to acknowledge that his record changed your life.
1. List the albums that changed your life.
2. List it's significance in that regard.
3. This is not a great album list. It's not the list for tapes that never left the car stereo tape-deck for months on end. This list is for records that you emotionally connected with in a truly compelling, life changing way, that completed shifted your paradigm or how you saw/see the world, that may have made you felt that the writer/s understood you, how you felt, or where you were coming from. It consoled you in a way, getting you through hard times and was celebrated with as a best friend in good times. It was formative in making you are who you are today.
I'll start:
The Who - Quadrophenia
This might be the first teen angst record made and I discovered it in the midst of my own teen angst, in high-school, when you start becoming acutely self-aware, self-critical, aware of the two-faced hypocrisy of society, angry, hurt, and desperately want to get laid for the first time. It made me feel less alone with that big, heavy chip on my shoulder. I took solace in the beauty and artistry of this great album and a lot of other work by The Who/Pete Townshend. Oh, and yeah, it totally rocks. Rocker or Mod? I dunno, can't pick a side.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Floyd + weed makes you a good human being. It's been mathematically proven (Fader's Law). "Generals sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side." This album may be the greatest concept album of all time. It definitely helped me to become a more empathetic and recognize evil - ego & lack of empathy and compassion. It's almost a primer on good & evil in the world and the inescapability of both those forces - yin & yang, if you will. It also has a completeness about it (like The Wall), like a circle, which adds to it's artistry. Thank Zeus for this record!
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
EPIC! Yes, it totally effin rocked! Yes, it came out of nowhere and was a game changer; this was the original record that killed the hair bands, a lob-pitch that set-up Nirvana for the coup-de-gras. But it was more than that, it was a new identity. Is it like a religious awakening or an infection? It's as if part of my brain was switched out. This record affected me in such a profound way that, literally for a couple years, if you didn't know who Jane's Addiction was or didn't like them, I didn't want to know you. I don't really know how to explain it other than that. Their following album was even better, but this is the one that turned the worm.
Now it's time to go enjoy the finer things.
DF
1. List the albums that changed your life.
2. List it's significance in that regard.
3. This is not a great album list. It's not the list for tapes that never left the car stereo tape-deck for months on end. This list is for records that you emotionally connected with in a truly compelling, life changing way, that completed shifted your paradigm or how you saw/see the world, that may have made you felt that the writer/s understood you, how you felt, or where you were coming from. It consoled you in a way, getting you through hard times and was celebrated with as a best friend in good times. It was formative in making you are who you are today.
I'll start:
The Who - Quadrophenia
This might be the first teen angst record made and I discovered it in the midst of my own teen angst, in high-school, when you start becoming acutely self-aware, self-critical, aware of the two-faced hypocrisy of society, angry, hurt, and desperately want to get laid for the first time. It made me feel less alone with that big, heavy chip on my shoulder. I took solace in the beauty and artistry of this great album and a lot of other work by The Who/Pete Townshend. Oh, and yeah, it totally rocks. Rocker or Mod? I dunno, can't pick a side.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Floyd + weed makes you a good human being. It's been mathematically proven (Fader's Law). "Generals sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side." This album may be the greatest concept album of all time. It definitely helped me to become a more empathetic and recognize evil - ego & lack of empathy and compassion. It's almost a primer on good & evil in the world and the inescapability of both those forces - yin & yang, if you will. It also has a completeness about it (like The Wall), like a circle, which adds to it's artistry. Thank Zeus for this record!
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
EPIC! Yes, it totally effin rocked! Yes, it came out of nowhere and was a game changer; this was the original record that killed the hair bands, a lob-pitch that set-up Nirvana for the coup-de-gras. But it was more than that, it was a new identity. Is it like a religious awakening or an infection? It's as if part of my brain was switched out. This record affected me in such a profound way that, literally for a couple years, if you didn't know who Jane's Addiction was or didn't like them, I didn't want to know you. I don't really know how to explain it other than that. Their following album was even better, but this is the one that turned the worm.
Now it's time to go enjoy the finer things.
DF
