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Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

As someone who had mainly only been into Hip-Hop and Metal up until that point, the Boss took me on a goddamn musical and spiritual journey that day.

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Brand New - "Deja Entendu"

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Probably the David Bowie greatest hits when I was really young. It was the first musical thing I really liked and it got me totally absorbed in music.

More recently, maybe like 7 years ago, I listened to Call of the West by Wall of Voodoo and it got me into more crazy and fun creative new wave music. I imagine that bled into my personality a bunch too. They remain my favorite band

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Any beatles album

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public void by penelope scott, probably.

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Outkast: The Love Below/Speakerboxxx was my gateway into rap music.

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Reanimation was the first album I owned.

I needed it.

Dream Theater - Metropolis II: Scenes from a Memory

That album and Dream Theater as a whole basically put an end to a teenage fueled J-Pop phase that I went through in high school.

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Rammstein - Mutter
First album I've heard by my favorite band.

Mastodon - Crack The Skye
First time hearing an absolute 10/10 album, still my favorite album.

Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
This one showed me black/death metal wasn't all noise, and surely opened that door for me.

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I dont think an album has ever changed my life.

Dark Side of the Moon

Abbey Road

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Bone Machine by Tom Waits, or it might have been Mule Variations

I would typically listen only to singles, and hearing some of his songs made me think "what in god's name am I listening to? I need to hear more of this", and what first made me actually listen to albums.

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Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Still love it and it has my all-time favorite song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu1eZpZsrvg

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Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1472

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Shotgunnova posted...

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Still love it and it has my all-time favorite song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu1eZpZsrvg

Great album.

For me, it's probably Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate. Or OK Computer by Radiohead.

All three of these Decemberists albums changed my life:
Picaresque
The Crane Wife
The King is Dead

The songs are so good and its not remotely introspective, so its interesting.

If you havent already, check out the Mariners Revenge Song:
https://youtu.be/lEmy2DBaeTc

Richard Pryor's 1974 album that ****** crazy

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Hemispheres, Spooky, and the Glass Handed Kites, Speaking in Tongues, Reign in Blood


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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Operation Ivy - Energy
Radiohead - The Bends
Sam Cooke - Live at Harlem Square Club

Pimp a Butterfly had me feeling as Black as the hypothetical white nightmare hotep black person that kendrick was subtely dissing in Blacker the Berry TBH.

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Makeveli_lives posted...

Pimp a Butterfly had me feeling as Black as the hypothetical white nightmare hotep black person that kendrick was subtely dissing in Blacker the Berry TBH.

I like good kid better, but yeah, solid album

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Until then I'd never really known an album to span an entire story of a life. The way it weaves the biography of Pink with the isolation and solitude of his lifestyle was pretty amazing. Really see how The Wall was built, as some one with metaphorical walls of his own, it speaks to me.

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maybe The Weeknd - House of Balloons

I just really dug its aesthetic, and that ended up influencing a lot of what I was into from there on.

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Crime Mob - Crime Mob

from that day on my life has been fucking CRUNK

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Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

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EffectAndCause posted...

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

I've never listened to too much Springsteen, but the main character in Battle Royale (the book) is a huge fan, which helped influence his rebellious nature.

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Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory or Meteora are probably the only albums that had a life-changing impact on me. I needed those lyrics to get me through school, straight up.

Old_Monkey posted...

Reanimation was the first album I owned.

I needed it.

That album was great too, cover art was awesome.

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Cocteau Twins - Treasure

Some of the most gorgeous music and melodies I had heard up to that point.

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smoke_break posted...

That album was great too, cover art was awesome.

Im listening to it now.

I used to just lay there in the darkness, trying to recapture whatever was going through my little head when I first heard it. Its like the perfect song exists somewhere there in theory, splintered amongst the various tracks. In that music, I would see visions of horizons & all sorts of things.

Ppr:Kut

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

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pink floyd - dark side of the moon
yes - fragile
led zeppelin - physical graffiti
outkast - w/e their greatest hits was called
the beatles - sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band
rush - 2112
tool - lateralus
smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
grateful dead - live/dead
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Payzmaykr posted...

I dont think an album has ever changed my life.

This. The closest I can think of are the albums of Rise Against.
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Red

Nothing else feels life changing

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Queen - Night At The Opera.

Whole album is legit as hell, but I swear those opening chords for Sweet Lady did something to me, and cemented my love of rock and good guitar.

System of a Down self titled

Suite Pee was like nothing I'd ever heard before, and the rest of the album was just as mind blowing

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Gwynevere posted...

System of a Down self titled

Suite Pee was like nothing I'd ever heard before, and the rest of the album was just as mind blowing

NGL, SOAD was probably one of the most unique bands I've ever heard get mainstream attention.

mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Grimes - Art Angels

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No album changed my life, it only helped me get through times or help elevate my mood when things were going well.

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The Decline

I heard this when it first came out in 1999 and it was pretty incredible.

https://youtu.be/qnFVMkTWaBw
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Pink Floyd

Wish you were here

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DespondentDeity posted...

mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
Grimes - Art Angels

art angels was a lovely album tbh

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RadiantJoyrock posted...

NGL, SOAD was probably one of the most unique bands I've ever heard get mainstream attention.

Yeah, it's really great. Serj Tankian really is such an amazing dude, and the message of their music only makes more sense as I get older.

Hell, they're the only reason I even knew that the Armenian Genocide happened.

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Aus-Rotten - The System Works for Them

I first heard this back in 2002 or 2003 and it was my introduction to crust punk. I instantly loved it and to this day it's still my favourite genre of music.
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