5 albums that changed your life.....

[southee]

I have not idea if this has been posted before.

It would be interesting to find out what 5 albums changed some of SAFooty's posters lifes.....

Albums that if you had a choice to take only 5 on a island...what would they be??

Albums that will stay with you forever.

I will post mine later as I have to think about it now!! LOL

[Magpiespower]

Deserted island five...

A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary
Brand Nubian - One for All
Redman - Whut? Thee Album
NWA - Straight Outta' Compton

[7-Dog]

Metallica - Metallica (or all of them)
Nirvana - Unplugged Live in New York
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Garth Brooks - Double Live
Bon Jovi - Crossroads

[Wedgie]

I can honestly say that no album has ever changed my life but if I had to take 5 albums to a deserted island then The Angels Liveline would be at the top of my list.
The other 4 wouldn't matter as they'd never get played!

[Baron Greenback]

Bon Jovi - Crossroads
Green Day - Insomniac
Metallica - Metallica
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Muse - Origin of Symmetry

[Gingernuts]

I wouldn't call these life changing, but a mate of mine use to call it 'soundtrack to your life' when you had an album that worked for you at a certain stage in your life, and when you play it back it makes you reminisce about that time.

On that basis I would go with:

Powderfinger - Odyssey #5 - Having a tough time with work & life in general just after uni, but also inspires the memory of being at a 1 day match at the Adelaide Oval on Aust day and hearing them get #1 on the Hottest 100 during the innings break (must've been a dozen radios going in the hill that day!)

Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head - Before it got flogged to death on commercial radio. Did a road trip to QLD, was the first time I really did a holiday without the family and it always reminds me of that.

Foo Fighters - One by One - the band themselves don't rate it, but it became my 'soundtrack' for while there. Saw them @ the BDO after this one too. I'd probably take their best of though if I was stuck on a desert island.

Muse - Absolution - The album I discovered these guys with and they blew me away. Now easily my favourite band on the planet.

Mumford & Sons - Sigh no More - A recent addition to the list, just a different sound that worked for me when I first heard it on the radio.

[JK]

Not in any order:

Bryan Adams - Reckless (possibly belongs in the embarressing artists topic, but I grew up on this in my early teens)

Guns'n'Roses - Appetite for destruction (reckon I broke and fixed this tape through over playing so many times it wasn't funny)

Led Zeppelin - Remasters (Probably dined out on this as long as any album Ive ever had)

Urban Hymns - The Verve (loved this album in the 90's and was given to me by an ex that I'll probably always remember)

Yourself Or Someone Like You - Matchbox20 (At the time this came out, I thought these guys were excellent and it was one of the rare albums where I thoroughly enjoyed every song - Has similar reminiscing reason to the one above)

Truth be told, if I could only take 5 discs/tapes on an Island most likely some of these would be bumped for compilations that revolved around Metallica, AC/DC and G'n'R.

[tazz]

Guns and Roses - Appetite for destruction
The Poor - Who Cares
Disturbed - The Sickness
Godsmack - Hard to pick just 1
Veruca Salt - 8 arms to hold you with

[Leaping Lindner]

Livin' in the 70's - Skyhooks (After suffering Sherbet, Hush etc I couldn't believe Australian music could be this good. Played my original vinyl copy so much I actually wore out the vinyl - okay a shit needle didn't help)
I'm Stranded - The Saints (After Skyhooks turned into a soft rock joke (Straight in a Gay Gay World) I couldn't believe Australian music could be this good - again. Seeing them do the title track on Countdown DID change my life)
Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols (Whether you liked them or loathed them this album changed EVERYTHING overnight like no album before or since. I happen to think it changed things for the better)
The Clash - The Clash (Didn't have the overall effect that Bollocks did but is the best album of the punk era.)
Funhouse - The Stooges (If you have to ask you haven't heard it )

[Dogwatcher]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son: Beautiful songwriting and musicianship. Introduced me to a wonderful performer.

Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti: I don't own this album. Never have and have listened to it only once at a friend's place (his dad owned it). It taught me there was other music out there other than what was on commercial radio. For that I am grateful.

Paul Simon - Graceland: A wonderful album with some catchy tunes. But it is on this list solely because my mum bought it in Wagga Wagga on a road trip up to Queensland. It reminds me of those wonderful times with my family. I don't own this one either, but I know all the words!

James Brown - Live: The Godfather of Soul, The Hardest Working Man in Showbusiness. What a legend. It is this album which took me from soul, through to funk (Parliament, Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield) and on to hip hop (Public Enemy and NWA).

Violent Femmes - The Blind Leading The Naked: The first CD I ever bought. Not their greatest or best known. But enjoyable.

I'm going to cheat and add one more:

Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home: The Bard from Barking isn't everyone's cup of tea but for me he is up there with Nick Cave and Iggy Pop as my favourite artists. A personable artist and a very personal album.

[FattyLumpkin]

I sometimes think that LL and myself are the same person!

Clash, Pistols & Skyhooks - yes. When "Bollocks" came out it was as if a light came on. Finally, an end to bland elevator music.

I was a bit of an Alice Cooper fan - Billion Dollar Babies (Actually - most of my Year 11/12 poetry/creative writing was chock-full of obscure AC lyrics. I took a calculated risk of examiners probably not being into this genre!)

Loved the Buzzcocks "Another Music in a different Kitchen" to death too


Finally - I rate Iggy & the Stooges "Wanna be your dog" as my fave song of all time.

Have we ever been seen in the same room at the same time LL?

[Hondo]

I have more limited musical experience compared to most on here but here's my 5 life changers:

Prince - Purple Rain: first album I ever bought

Def Leppard - Hysteria: first CD I ever bought and my favourite of my collection for a long time

The Hooters - Nervous Night: my first non mainstream album purchase (at the time I bought it "And We Danced" wasn't a hit yet. I had got into "All You Zombies" before it was a hit via SA-FM which was not the SA-FM it is today)

U2 - All that you Can't Leave Behind: I dropped out of music following for a number of years of my life where I was in an unhappy situation. This CD was the first purchase after I was free of that situation. "Beautiful Day" is one of my favourite songs.

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising: Another purchase as my life moved on to a happier place and while I think it is a fine album it links back to a particular time of my life that I remember both fondly and sadly (an ex relationship). It's a very uplifting CD.

[Dogwatcher]

Hondo, I'm not a massive U2 fan. But Beautiful Day was my wedding song.

[Drop Bear]

Tough decisions!
Not necessarily life changing, but I'll never get sick of these albums. Eddie Vedder inspired me to pick up a guitar, along with Ben Harper, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and Jack Johnson.

Pearl Jam - Ten.
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled.
Ben Harper - Live from Mars DVD/CD (If I can have a stereo on a deserted island I may as well be allowed a DVD player).
Metallica - Master of Puppets (used to "borrow" it from my older brother).
Eddie Vedder - Walks On His Own.

[Rik E Boy]

Led Zeppelin IV

Growing up with Abba and the Bay City Rollers wasn't much fun. Even when I was ten I worked out that was utter shite. My Uncle gave me one of those old green BASF tapes. One side had Led Zeppelin IV on it and the other side had Beatles Abbey Road.

I flogged the shit out of Led Zeppelin IV and all of a sudden I started trying to snaffle out some more of my Uncle's tapes including Zeppelin I. IV remained a long time favourite and for many years the multitude of mixed tapes had that hard/soft type of order that IV has. Once I started digging that hard rock sound my musical direction was marked. From a very early age for me it was go hard or go home....as long as you could actually play Punk Losers.

Dark Side of the Moon

The Wall aside, I was a bit of a late starter when it came to Floyd. I thought that the Wall was OK at the time and didn't like Final Cut all that much but when I discovered the hooch and chucked on Dark Side of the Moon it was 'REB - A stoner born'! The line 'one day you'll find ten years have got behind you no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun' turned out to be prophetic in my case.

Physical Graffiti

I remember this older dude I used to know and he said 'If you like Zep and you haven't heard Graffiti you haven't heard nothing yet'. Of course, I knew better but I had to fess up that he was right after hearing what remains my favourite album. Zeppelin knockers have quite wrongly writing off the Zep as a one trick pony but this album shows off the band at their peak, being brave enough to try anything and everything long before the Heroin and egos brought the Zeppelin crashing spectacularly down to earth. Kashmir, In the Light, The Rover, Ten Years Gone, Bron Yr Aur, Night Flight, Houses of the Holy represent and endless parade of rock classics that remain off the air while dipshit radio programmers play Bob Seeger yet again. Get a clue and get Physical Graffiti.

The Number of the Beast

It was the eighties and Zeppelin were gone and the creativity that was the late seventies and early eighties was rapidly turning to shit. A friend of mine chucked on Number of the Beast and I responded with my predictable 'Why bother with this when you've got Zeppelin' tirade but I did take the tape home with me and listened to it a few times. Unlike the boring Powerdfinger tape that Booney lent me, I started to get into it. All of a sudden I was banging my head like a veteran Saxon fan. 666 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST HELL AND FIRE SPAWNED TO BE RELEASED. They got even better with Piece of Mind and Powerslave but it was Number of the Beast that led me to Dio style Sabbath, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Metallica and beyond.

One Hot Minute

You've got to hear this band REB, you know that song 'Under the Bridge'? OK, so I listened to Blood Sugar Sex Magik and was as usual at the first hearing of an album underwhelmed. It took me a long time to appreciate that one but it was love at first hear for One Hot Minute, an album that has been panned by almost everyone even including the Peppers themselves so it seems. Warped is a kick arse opener. Deep kick rocks the known universe and Flea's bass solo in Coffee Shop remains my favourite with that instrument. In One Big Mob there is a sound that sounded like a baby crying. This was when my son was on the way and it kind of freaked me out a bit. Soon after I was thrashing One Hot Minute my whole life changed as my kid was born and I got married. One Hot Minute was pretty much my swan song for the age when it was still about me. Now am very much down the pecking order but this one still gets a run. CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED.

regards,

REB

[Leaping Lindner]

I sometimes think that LL and myself are the same person!

Clash, Pistols & Skyhooks - yes. When "Bollocks" came out it was as if a light came on. Finally, an end to bland elevator music.

I was a bit of an Alice Cooper fan - Billion Dollar Babies (Actually - most of my Year 11/12 poetry/creative writing was chock-full of obscure AC lyrics. I took a calculated risk of examiners probably not being into this genre!)

Loved the Buzzcocks "Another Music in a different Kitchen" to death too


Finally - I rate Iggy & the Stooges "Wanna be your dog" as my fave song of all time.

Have we ever been seen in the same room at the same time LL?

Sometimes I forget who I log in as!!!

[Magpiespower]

Hondo, I'm not a massive U2 fan. But Beautiful Day was my wedding song.

Sure it wasn't...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xHKLB9fJgo&feature=related

[Leaping Lindner]

Led Zeppelin IV

Growing up with Abba and the Bay City Rollers wasn't much fun. Even when I was ten I worked out that was utter shite. My Uncle gave me one of those old green BASF tapes. One side had Led Zeppelin IV on it and the other side had Beatles Abbey Road.

I flogged the **** out of Led Zeppelin IV and all of a sudden I started trying to snaffle out some more of my Uncle's tapes including Zeppelin I. Once I started digging that hard rock sound my musical direction. From a very early age for me it was go hard or go home....as long as you could actually play Punk Losers.

Dark Side of the Moon

The Wall aside, I was a bit of a late starter when it came to Floyd. I thought that the Wall was OK at the time and didn't like Final Cut all that much but when I discovered the hooch and chucked on Dark Side of the Moon it was 'REB - A stoner born'! The line 'one day you'll find ten years have got behind you no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun' turned out to be prophetic in my case.

Physical Graffiti

I remember this older dude I used to know and he said 'If you like Zep and you haven't heard Graffiti you haven't heard nothing yet'. Of course, I knew better but I had to fess up that he was right after hearing what remains my favourite album. Zeppelin knockers have quite wrongly writing off the Zep as a one trick pony but this album shows off the band at their peak, being brave enough to try anything and everything long before the Heroin and egos brought the Zeppelin crashing spectacularly down to earth. Kashmir, In the Light, The Rover, Ten Years Gone, Bron Yr Aur, Night Flight, Houses of the Holy represent and endless parade of rock classics that remain off the air while dipshit radio programmers play Bob Seeger yet again. Get a clue and get Physical Graffiti.

The Number of the Beast

It was the eighties and Zeppelin were gone and the creativity that was the late seventies and early eighties was rapidly turning to ****. A friend of mine chucked on Number of the Beast and I responded with my predictable 'Why bother with this when you've got Zeppelin' tirade but I did take the tape home with me and listened to it a few times. Unlike the boring Powerdfinger tape that Booney lent me, I started to get into it. All of a sudden I was banging my head like a veteran Saxon fan. 666 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST HELL AND FIRE SPAWNED TO BE RELEASED. They got even better with Piece of Mind and Powerslave but it was Number of the Beast that led me to Dio style Sabbath, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Metallica and beyond.

One Hot Minute

You've got to hear this band REB, you know that song 'Under the Bridge'? OK, so I listened to Blood Sugar Sex Magik and was as usual at the first hearing of an album underwhelmed. It took me a long time to appreciate that one but it was love at first hear for One Hot Minute, an album that has been panned by almost everyone even including the Peppers themselves so it seems. Warped is a kick arse opener. Deep kick rocks the known universe and Flea's bass solo in Coffee Shop remains my favourite with that instrument. In One Big Mob there is a sound that sounded like a baby crying. This was when my son was on the way and it kind of freaked me out a bit. Soon after I was thrashing One Hot Minute my whole life changed as my kid was born and I got married. One Hot Minute was pretty much my swan song for the age when it was still about me. Now am very much down the pecking order but this one still gets a run. CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED.

regards,

REB

It's never gonna work is it REB???? That's my mixed tape from hell!

[Footy Chick]

Well LL, you'll love mine then (but would you expect anything less from me? )

INXS- KICK - just cos it's INXS
Guns n Roses - Lies or Appetite for Destruction, elements of both that I admire..
Def Leppard - Hysteria
ABBA - ABBA - First album I ever listened to that wasn't Patsy Biscoe

Don't know about the 5th one... maybe History by Michael Jackson, or Bat out of Hell by meatloaf

[Rik E Boy]

It's never gonna work is it REB???? That's my mixed tape from hell!

LOL. I was waiting for a comment like that. I actually have a few albums you would like and some I suspect you might like

Never mind the Bollocks - Not bad. Can imagine the impact it might of had but it gets old fast.
London Calling - I don't hate this album but cripes it's got some filler and is CRIMMINALY OVERRATED.

I also like stuff like Madness and Specials, not sure if you are into that as well as Ian Dury who cops a lot of flak he doesn't deserve. All of my mates liked similar music (i.e. Heavy Rock and Metal) but when I wanted everyone to **** off I'd put Ian Dury or Elvis Costello on and out they went.


regards,

REB