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The "Rules": Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what albums my friends choose.
I'm not tagging. You don't have to either.
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Say what you will, it's a great rock n' roll album. The anger and retaliatory lyrical content really gave this picked-on overweight 12 year-old a sense of justification. I can still remember the day I showed up at school in a Guns N' Roses t-shirt... and a whole crowd of people burst out laughing at me. Some of you who were in that crowd will read this on Facebook. To you I say hey, no hard feelings... but seriously, go fuck yourself.
Voivod - Nothingface I had been coasting on thinking bands like Bon Jovi were metal and Guns N' Roses was as hard as it got. Then I accidentally bumped into these guys and shit got weird, ugly, and very, very real.
Voivod - War and Pain Having bought their then-most-recent album Nothingface it made sense to seek out their very first album as well. Nothingface was prog rock and got them tours with Rush and Faith No More. War and Pain was pure, unadulterated death metal in its ugliest larval stage and so another musical door was opened.
Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine I I'll never forget hearing this in my friend Paul's car as he gave me a ride home one day. It was my first introduction to gothic metal and I've never been the same since. Still my favorite album of all time.
Metallica - And Justice For All As a child I wandered into a shopping mall restroom and saw a mysterious and sinister message scraped into the mirror: "Metallica Rulz." Several years later I saw the video for One and found out just why the cryptic message was indeed true.
D.A.D. - No Fuel Left For the Pilgrims A surf guitar-driven hard rock band from Denmark who released this one album in the States before heading back home. Very thought-provoking lyrically with songs approaching relationships, partying, and politics in a manner not typical of your average leather-clad 80's hair band. If you can find it, give it a listen.
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith Rocked this a lot at the same time I was soaking in the juices of Voivod's War and Pain. Like the latter, Motorhead's live sound also sounds like a post-apocalyptic battlefield.
Pink Floyd - The Wall This album single-handedly triggered a year-long suicidal depression. I have a better relationship with it now, and I owe it a lot for driving me to change myself into something I liked better.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid One summer afternoon I bicycled all the way across town to K-Mart to purchase this album. I have never regretted doing so.
Tool - Aenima If you do this list and listen to Tool, you're probably going to put them on here. They are that amazing. This album really defined a time in my life.
Type O Negative - World Coming Down - Another era-defining album for me. I still associate its songs with autumn and unfulfilled wishes. It'll be a little harder to listen to this fall knowing that Peter Steele is gone.
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory - Don't laugh at me for including a Linkin Park album. The songs on this album parallel with events in my life the first year after I moved to Kansas City.
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime If you know me then you knew it was going to be here. I shouldn't have to keep explaining.
Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th Son Mike, Matt, Shannon, Willie, Justin... I'm up for another round of D&D in the garage whenever you guys are.
Loreena McKennit - The Mask & Mirror This album still astounds me. It began my love affair with womanly medieval music and in all the years since I've found few musicians in that genre who can consistently give this album a run for its money.
I'm not tagging. You don't have to either.
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Say what you will, it's a great rock n' roll album. The anger and retaliatory lyrical content really gave this picked-on overweight 12 year-old a sense of justification. I can still remember the day I showed up at school in a Guns N' Roses t-shirt... and a whole crowd of people burst out laughing at me. Some of you who were in that crowd will read this on Facebook. To you I say hey, no hard feelings... but seriously, go fuck yourself.
Voivod - Nothingface I had been coasting on thinking bands like Bon Jovi were metal and Guns N' Roses was as hard as it got. Then I accidentally bumped into these guys and shit got weird, ugly, and very, very real.
Voivod - War and Pain Having bought their then-most-recent album Nothingface it made sense to seek out their very first album as well. Nothingface was prog rock and got them tours with Rush and Faith No More. War and Pain was pure, unadulterated death metal in its ugliest larval stage and so another musical door was opened.
Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine I I'll never forget hearing this in my friend Paul's car as he gave me a ride home one day. It was my first introduction to gothic metal and I've never been the same since. Still my favorite album of all time.
Metallica - And Justice For All As a child I wandered into a shopping mall restroom and saw a mysterious and sinister message scraped into the mirror: "Metallica Rulz." Several years later I saw the video for One and found out just why the cryptic message was indeed true.
D.A.D. - No Fuel Left For the Pilgrims A surf guitar-driven hard rock band from Denmark who released this one album in the States before heading back home. Very thought-provoking lyrically with songs approaching relationships, partying, and politics in a manner not typical of your average leather-clad 80's hair band. If you can find it, give it a listen.
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith Rocked this a lot at the same time I was soaking in the juices of Voivod's War and Pain. Like the latter, Motorhead's live sound also sounds like a post-apocalyptic battlefield.
Pink Floyd - The Wall This album single-handedly triggered a year-long suicidal depression. I have a better relationship with it now, and I owe it a lot for driving me to change myself into something I liked better.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid One summer afternoon I bicycled all the way across town to K-Mart to purchase this album. I have never regretted doing so.
Tool - Aenima If you do this list and listen to Tool, you're probably going to put them on here. They are that amazing. This album really defined a time in my life.
Type O Negative - World Coming Down - Another era-defining album for me. I still associate its songs with autumn and unfulfilled wishes. It'll be a little harder to listen to this fall knowing that Peter Steele is gone.
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory - Don't laugh at me for including a Linkin Park album. The songs on this album parallel with events in my life the first year after I moved to Kansas City.
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime If you know me then you knew it was going to be here. I shouldn't have to keep explaining.
Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th Son Mike, Matt, Shannon, Willie, Justin... I'm up for another round of D&D in the garage whenever you guys are.
Loreena McKennit - The Mask & Mirror This album still astounds me. It began my love affair with womanly medieval music and in all the years since I've found few musicians in that genre who can consistently give this album a run for its money.
