Fifteen albums that will always stick with you.

[uberreiniger]

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.

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[anakin415.livejournal.com]

Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack - It is the first album I remember listening to.

Duran Duran Arena - The first album I ever owned

Prince Purple Rain - Completely blown away by Prince, I was and still obsessed with "When doves cry", its still very personal to me.

Def Leppard Hysteria - first album where every song has some sort of meaning or reminder to me.

Days of Thunder Soundtrack - first album I took a guys virginity to.

Salt n Pepa Blacks Magic - it was at a time where I was nearly 14 and thought I felt absolutely fearless... it was a rather empowering album.

Metallica Black - the entire album reminds me of what I went through while I was pregnant with my daughter.

Poison Open Up and Say Ahh! - the album somehow made me a bit more cocky, a little more sure of myself. When I first heard it, it was on!

Eagles 1971-1975 - There is nothing more that really needs to be said LOL

Fleetwood Mac Rumours - its simply and amazing album and "The Chain" seems to mirror a few of my past relationships lol

Fleetwood Mac Tango In the Night - I dont know why but it was just important to me, felt important to know it. I wore out Seven wonders though LOL

Inxs Kick - I learned the power of words, how important everything you say really is. How exactly one word can change your emotions.

U2 Joshua Tree - came about the same time as Inxs. While Inxs was emotional and freeing, U2 was reflective and intoverted.

Pearl Jam Ten - the album made me slow down and really listen instead of flying through.

John Mellencamp Words & Music - When it came out, though its a greatest hits, it felt like a reflection of life, my life from the earliest point I could remember until right then.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

The thing that surprised me most about this list was finding out you have a daughter! But if the Black Album is what you went through then I'm assuming that means you had terrible nightmares about werewolves, a bunch of holier-than-though types tried to sell you on a god that failed, and your attempts to become a nomad, vagabond what-you-will ultimately led you through the never. That is very sad, if true. If not, then I guess it doesn't matter. Nothing else matters either.

[anakin415.livejournal.com]

She will be 17 in October. I gave her up for adoption. It was an ugly time. My parents were splitting up in the midst of this, both having polar opposite views of what I should do. I was in a mad panic because everything I felt I was, who I was, fell apart right then. So on top of being 16 and all crazy emotional teenager I was tettering back and forth from falling to pieces and making it look like I had everything under control. It was a time I could have fallen through cracks to never again surface or somehow manage to not jump off a bridge. After she was born I went through a stage of rebirth... rebuild maybe is better. It kinda kicked me in the ass some.

Granted I have scars blah blah but the reminders help keep my head up.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you came through to be the person you are today. The world's a better place for it.

[anakin415.livejournal.com]

thanks dear, that means alot!

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

I went ahead and posted this....interesting to take a trip through memory lane.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yay, I got Jon to make a post!

[rustie25.livejournal.com]

That is a miracle in itself!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

"One summer afternoon I bicycled all the way across town to K-Mart to purchase this album. I have never regretted doing so."

Bahaha! - change the location, and this is exactly how I felt about Rust in Peace.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Rust In Peace almost made the cut for me. It was a close one!

[whiskeychick.livejournal.com]

Here here for Motorhead, Black Sabbath and Tool. And a nod for Linkin Park.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I am somewhat surprised to find that Aenima is not on my list. I'm very fond of it. 15 just isn't enough, I guess.

(I am not surprised to find that I failed to close a tag...)

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

I love seeing Loreena at teh bottom of your list. It's so different to the rest of the list, and also resonates for you for the reasons it does for me. :D I may sit and think on my 15.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I hoped Loreena wouldn't come off as the "token girl" on the list. That album really is amazing!