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uberreiniger) wrote2010-09-02 07:38 pm
uberreiniger) wrote2010-09-02 07:38 pm
15 more albums...
After doing the previous list of 15 Albums That Will Always Stick With You, I kept commenting on others' list and finding many albums they chose that I almost chose myself. This made me realize I had enough for a whole new list. So here are The 15 Albums That ALMOST Always Stick With Me...
Metallica - The Black Album - Depending on who you talk to, this is either one of the defining metal albums of all time or its a terrible mistake that marked the beginning of the end for one of the defining metal bands of all time. I'm somewhere in the middle. Is it as good as anything Metallica had released prior to it? No, it is not. Is it still better than what 98% of other bands out there can deliver on their best day? Absolutely. I associate this album with a deep period of depression; it was the black album in more ways than one for me. I still associate its songs with dark feelings and endless rainy summer days.
Metallica - Master of Puppets - Believe it or not, I don't listen to Metallica all that much anymore. But this album I associate with the time during which my grandmother was dying in a nursing home. It was not the kind of nursing home you hear horror stories about, but it was enough to still give me a negative opinion of nursing homes. All the songs, but particularly "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" enabled me to process the emotions it brought on.
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing - This came out while I was in college and it really fit my mood back then. I associate Sarah's music with emotions and certain occasions more than I do that of other artists and that time when I was first living by myself in an apartment is where this album takes me.
Mortal Kombat Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - I stayed obsessed with this mindblowing collection of awesome 90's metal and industrial long after the movie that inspired it had faded into so much background noise airing regularly on TNT in the evening between supper time and masturbation time. It was my first exposure to what are now some of my favorite bands.
They Might Be Giants - Flood - At some point in their career They Might Be Giants stopped being a quirky novelty act and became a band that serious music fans liked; the mere act of liking them being a mark of sophistication and taste. It's easy to pick the turning point and it's this album. It's like, if they were Led Zeppelin this would be the one that had the guy with the sticks on his back.
Rush - 2112 - This is the Rush album that non-Rush fans like, myself included. Hearing it the first time absolutely blew me away. It's intense and it's underrated and even though it's been years since I last listened to it, it still left a big footprint on my musical tastes.
Deliverance - The Weapons of Our Warfare - There was a brief window of time between the rise of Stryper and the blight that was 90's alternative music where the Christian heavy metal scene was unleashing bands that were often better than what the mainstream was churning out. Deliverance released a handful of killer melodic thrash metal albums before the band's leader abruptly decided they were actually a prog band and started making them dress in 30's gangster suits - I'm not kidding. Of those early albums this was their masterpiece. Got it in my early teens when I was still figuring out who I was and it helped put a positive balance on all the negativity.
Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery - Another product of the Christian thrash metal renaissance. I get very nostalgic for my teen years when I listen to this album, back when I actively cultivated a look that was just years away from becoming forever associated with Jason Mewes from the Jay and Silent Bob movies.
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos - In the early 2000's I came to the realization I had turned into That Guy, as in the guy who only listens to music that came out when he was in high school and college. Rather than complete the process by buying the Camaro and growing the mullet, I sought out new bands to listen to and Soilwork was one of the first I found. If Linkin Park defined the early part of my first few years in Kansas City, Soilwork defined the latter half.
Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel - Like Sarah McLachlan above, this album makes me think of a particular span of time in college when I lived alone. It also nicely defined the obsessive pattern I tended to have with romantic relationships at that time.
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes - I think most fans agree that Tori's early work is her best. This is such an emotionally raw album, and a good one for dealing with raw emotions. When she first came out I used to make fun of her, thinking she was just some ranty little feminist who wrote songs trying to figure out all the ways she could to say that she hated men. But once I really listened to her I saw how wrong I was. There is some amazing stuff going on here that still hits me deeply on a personal level.
Dar Williams - Mortal City - Such an amazing album. Contains the song "The Christians and the Pagans" which really comforted the personal religious turmoil I had at the time. Also contains a beautiful, sad song called "This Was Pompeii" that likens the end of a relationship to the world's most notorious volcanic disaster. Sounds silly but it's not. This is a folk album for people who don't like folk music.
Nine Inch Nails - Broken - The only one of Trent's releases that I find consistently good all the way through from beginning to end. He wasn't trying to be all artsy here, just do some good old-fashioned venting through some very raw, nasty songs. I still remember the night I drove to Salina with a girl I sort of had a crush on and purchased this album.
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - Another album that makes me nostalgic for another time and place. The whole album has an aura of melancholy and longing. It's another disc I like to break out when the seasons are turning and I'm feeling awkward about where my life has been and where it's going.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace - I think my generation acquired a sense as we grew up that war was something we'd never have to think about. Vietnam ended right as we were born and we spent our childhoods watching the Cold War deteriorate until it turned to dust along with the Berlin Wall. War happened in other places like Lebanon or South America, places not as fortunate as us and we never needed to think about it. Then the first war with Iraq broke out and the whole world changed. Suddenly with no warning war was something real and there was no getting away from it. Of course, Megadeth had been warning us of that all along. I can remember distinctly the night of the invasion, watching the green tracer fire on TV and listening to "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" over and over again because it was the only way to make sense out of a world that I suddenly couldn't take for granted anymore.
Metallica - The Black Album - Depending on who you talk to, this is either one of the defining metal albums of all time or its a terrible mistake that marked the beginning of the end for one of the defining metal bands of all time. I'm somewhere in the middle. Is it as good as anything Metallica had released prior to it? No, it is not. Is it still better than what 98% of other bands out there can deliver on their best day? Absolutely. I associate this album with a deep period of depression; it was the black album in more ways than one for me. I still associate its songs with dark feelings and endless rainy summer days.
Metallica - Master of Puppets - Believe it or not, I don't listen to Metallica all that much anymore. But this album I associate with the time during which my grandmother was dying in a nursing home. It was not the kind of nursing home you hear horror stories about, but it was enough to still give me a negative opinion of nursing homes. All the songs, but particularly "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" enabled me to process the emotions it brought on.
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing - This came out while I was in college and it really fit my mood back then. I associate Sarah's music with emotions and certain occasions more than I do that of other artists and that time when I was first living by myself in an apartment is where this album takes me.
Mortal Kombat Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - I stayed obsessed with this mindblowing collection of awesome 90's metal and industrial long after the movie that inspired it had faded into so much background noise airing regularly on TNT in the evening between supper time and masturbation time. It was my first exposure to what are now some of my favorite bands.
They Might Be Giants - Flood - At some point in their career They Might Be Giants stopped being a quirky novelty act and became a band that serious music fans liked; the mere act of liking them being a mark of sophistication and taste. It's easy to pick the turning point and it's this album. It's like, if they were Led Zeppelin this would be the one that had the guy with the sticks on his back.
Rush - 2112 - This is the Rush album that non-Rush fans like, myself included. Hearing it the first time absolutely blew me away. It's intense and it's underrated and even though it's been years since I last listened to it, it still left a big footprint on my musical tastes.
Deliverance - The Weapons of Our Warfare - There was a brief window of time between the rise of Stryper and the blight that was 90's alternative music where the Christian heavy metal scene was unleashing bands that were often better than what the mainstream was churning out. Deliverance released a handful of killer melodic thrash metal albums before the band's leader abruptly decided they were actually a prog band and started making them dress in 30's gangster suits - I'm not kidding. Of those early albums this was their masterpiece. Got it in my early teens when I was still figuring out who I was and it helped put a positive balance on all the negativity.
Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery - Another product of the Christian thrash metal renaissance. I get very nostalgic for my teen years when I listen to this album, back when I actively cultivated a look that was just years away from becoming forever associated with Jason Mewes from the Jay and Silent Bob movies.
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos - In the early 2000's I came to the realization I had turned into That Guy, as in the guy who only listens to music that came out when he was in high school and college. Rather than complete the process by buying the Camaro and growing the mullet, I sought out new bands to listen to and Soilwork was one of the first I found. If Linkin Park defined the early part of my first few years in Kansas City, Soilwork defined the latter half.
Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel - Like Sarah McLachlan above, this album makes me think of a particular span of time in college when I lived alone. It also nicely defined the obsessive pattern I tended to have with romantic relationships at that time.
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes - I think most fans agree that Tori's early work is her best. This is such an emotionally raw album, and a good one for dealing with raw emotions. When she first came out I used to make fun of her, thinking she was just some ranty little feminist who wrote songs trying to figure out all the ways she could to say that she hated men. But once I really listened to her I saw how wrong I was. There is some amazing stuff going on here that still hits me deeply on a personal level.
Dar Williams - Mortal City - Such an amazing album. Contains the song "The Christians and the Pagans" which really comforted the personal religious turmoil I had at the time. Also contains a beautiful, sad song called "This Was Pompeii" that likens the end of a relationship to the world's most notorious volcanic disaster. Sounds silly but it's not. This is a folk album for people who don't like folk music.
Nine Inch Nails - Broken - The only one of Trent's releases that I find consistently good all the way through from beginning to end. He wasn't trying to be all artsy here, just do some good old-fashioned venting through some very raw, nasty songs. I still remember the night I drove to Salina with a girl I sort of had a crush on and purchased this album.
King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - Another album that makes me nostalgic for another time and place. The whole album has an aura of melancholy and longing. It's another disc I like to break out when the seasons are turning and I'm feeling awkward about where my life has been and where it's going.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace - I think my generation acquired a sense as we grew up that war was something we'd never have to think about. Vietnam ended right as we were born and we spent our childhoods watching the Cold War deteriorate until it turned to dust along with the Berlin Wall. War happened in other places like Lebanon or South America, places not as fortunate as us and we never needed to think about it. Then the first war with Iraq broke out and the whole world changed. Suddenly with no warning war was something real and there was no getting away from it. Of course, Megadeth had been warning us of that all along. I can remember distinctly the night of the invasion, watching the green tracer fire on TV and listening to "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" over and over again because it was the only way to make sense out of a world that I suddenly couldn't take for granted anymore.