the first album you heard and were a changed person?

[ate_teenfourevr]

you heard it and were just like holy fuck i this is the most insanely amazing thing i have ever heard in my life..

mine has to be dookie, and then the next day kerplunk.. when i was like 12 i think

my mom actually cut the cd's in half cause she heard longview on my stereo.. i cried hahah

[DanTGD]

I had listened to Green Day since i was a baby, as my mum listened to it to. The first band I listened to by myself with Blink-182, a friend played his brothers Dude Ranch CD when I was 8 or 9 I think.

My mum didn't approve at first cause of the foul language but eventually gave up after i re-bought the CD for the 4th time.

[BryterJonah]

you heard it and were just like holy fuck i this is the most insanely amazing thing i have ever heard in my life..

mine has to be dookie, and then the next day kerplunk.. when i was like 12 i think

my mom actually cut the cd's in half cause she heard longview on my stereo.. i cried hahah
Based on your grammar, I'd guess it wasn't for the best?

[five inch taint]

Back in Black by AC/DC. I was in the 3rd grade the first time I heard them. I used to wear a Flick of The Switch concert shirt even though I was never there.

[fishguts182]

ac/dc - ac/dc live

I was about 5 or 6 when i heard this record being played by my dad. I was just amazed at the guitar work on this cd and also by how intense the live show seemed to be without being there

[Dedsexi]

Enema of the State

[theguy77]

no shame. deja entendu. and i still love that record 6 years later, with that last year being the most important considering how wildly my tastes have changed.

[Kyle Huntington]

There's two that I feel had an effect on me, my uncle and step-dad always loved their music and introduced me to a whole bunch of stuff I listen to today. Growing up always wanting them to always put on The Smiths - The Smiths and Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures shaped the music I listen to today and they remain in my top 5 records of all time.

[gurlanachronism]

Damien Rice - O.
After I heard that, I really fell in love with music.

[zack-182]

Well, the album that changed my life was blink-182 // Untitled

[Alex DiVincenzo]

http://www.emok.tv/wp-content/2008/08/legoalbumcover-16.jpg

[Barthelme_fan]

Sgt. Pepper, cliched I know =(

[McIrish]

Chumbawamba -Tubthumper

[mulcahy67]

Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary

ive never loved a record more.

[xJesusFreakx]

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/d/dc-talk/album-jesus-freak.jpg

[bernie16wb]

Elliott Smith - XO

I think I was in eighth grade. Started me on the path to listening what I listen to today.

[kearn1tm]

Take This to Your Grave was the album I was listening to heavily when I started getting laid, so that one.

In fact, it's the album that spawned a near-obsession in music within me (and got me to pick up a bass and start a shitty band and want to go to school for journalism to write about the medium). I still love it as I did the first time I listened to Tell That Mick..., mostly out of nostalgia, and partly because it's infectious Powerpop that's just so damn catchy.

[cdn012698]

The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It

[Viva Sonata]

The Cambiata - To Heal.

[tbone0329]

all killer no filler

[Nettn07]

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory changed me forever. It changed the kind of music I was listening too at the time, from pop to rock. Got me into Blink-182, Green Day and so on. To this day today, I still love that album.

[bard]

mewithoutYou - [A->B] Life

[theguy77]

Elliott Smith - XO

I think I was in eighth grade. Started me on the path to listening what I listen to today.

i think this guy just out cred'd everybody

[Lirr168]

Chumbawamba -Tubthumper

Me too! First album I ever listened to cover-to-cover. I think BOATS probably changed me more than Chumbawamba, but theirs was definitely the first one that really struck me.

[Readyfuels]

Mae - Destination: Beautiful

[trappedintime]

Relient K - MHMM

[DanEmo]

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory changed me forever. It changed the kind of music I was listening too at the time, from pop to rock. Got me into Blink-182, Green Day and so on. To this day today, I still love that album.

kinda similar here, though it started with Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl, that was the album that started it all. It made me listen to Blink, Third Eye Blind etc etc ...it even got me to Slipknot concerts in the end...!

[Derka Derka]

It's tie between Norma Jean's Bless The Martyr And Kiss The Child or MewithoutYou's A→B Life. Both of those albums are what got me into the kind of music I listened to today and both of them are what made me want to play music.

[heroesofthepast]

enema of the state....hanging out in my friend driveway, playing basketball listening to this album...its what made me a music fan

[xJesusFreakx]

i think this guy just out cred'd everybody

I dunno...

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory changed me forever. It changed the kind of music I was listening too at the time, from pop to rock. Got me into Blink-182, Green Day and so on. To this day today, I still love that album.

[bard]

I dunno...
hahahahaha

[xJesusFreakx]

I guess I should clarify that the above post of mine was only half sarcastic/ironic; I do love Hybrid Theory. Such a fun album for sure.

[Crowe41]

Enema of the State.

[IWasaCamera]

The Blue Album was the first to spur any sort of infatuation with music, so I'll go with that.

[sleepyseanzzz]

i got mx 2002 featuring ricky carmichael for ps2 and it had fat lip and makes no difference by sum 41, so i played the game nonstop thinking they were great, and when i got all killer no filler for christmas that year (which was one of my first cds) i was just blown away and it opened me up to music completely.

[crypticv24]

Places..., by Dashboard Confessional. Not even because the lyrics helped through a breakup or anything, but I can specifically point to the time when I first heard that album and see how my interaction with music (listening to and playing) change significantly after that, for whatever reason.

[Loyaltabk]

I listened to rap all my life, and was never really exposed to rock music. One day I listened to Infinity On High. It raped my face, so I've been into rock ever since. pretty much stopped listenin to rap.

Musically white since 2007!

[kbi the crowing]

Linkin Park - Hyrbid Theory
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
both of those put me down the road to rock rather than from shitty hip hop

then when I was 16 or 17:
The Fall of Troy - Doppleganger
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice

those two were like a second awakening for me, I started to really got involved in music, started buying albums, etc.

[miketheauthor]

all killer no filler
I probably have to agree

[kemppettyjohn]

I was on the way to a football game with my dad, and he put in a Grateful Dead live CD. changed my life.

[boysandbulletsx]

The first one that comes to mind is "Catch for Us the Foxes", but it's definitely not the first album that changed me. It's the album that has had the biggest impact on me, spiritually - though I should say that about mewithoutYou as whole. The album (and the band in general) really opened my eyes and gave me a different way of viewing God, the world, and myself.

[yoyostring]

Third Eye Blind - S/T... then years later... Say Anything - IARB

[DCFCutie]

Death Cab's Transatlanticism.

[pleasedontpanic]

New Found Glory - Self-Titled

I remember getting an NFG sampler at a local skate shop that had "Better Off Dead" on it and thinking, "This is music." I went and got the full album, and got in trouble because it had playboys and condoms on the cover. Eventually, I got it back, and fell in love. It was the gate that opened me into the musical world. I remember seeing them when I was 12 w/ Midtown, Teen Idols, and Less Than Jake. I met Ian (I only played bass at the time) and swore I would never wash my hand again.

[only the clouds]

Jawbreaker - Dear You

made me realize that good music was being made before this decade.

[erccentea]

Relationship of Command- At the Drive-In

[briewer]

The Blue Album or Pinkerton.

[relaxrelapse830]

Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave and From Under The Cork Tree. My friend burned them for me in 7th or 8th grade and it made me realize that there was music besides what was on the radio.

[ReadyForAction]

War All The Time made me realize that lyrics could be just as important as the music. So that one

[inasaltwateroom]

the first time me and my cousin heard dammit by blink 182 and he learned to play it on his guitar i think was my first exposure to pop punk. he later traded me dookie for some pokemon cards. i think i got the better end of the deal haha.

[JustinSxE]

Simple Plan's "Still Not Getting Any" and Green Day's "American Idiot." I was like 12.

[bluecrunchy]

mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

I bought the album on a whim and didn't really listen to it for about a month after buying it because I was really into pop punk at the time and thought it was too different. I was going through a really difficult time in my life when I gave it another chance, and I immediately related to it so well. It's still my favorite album.

[MattDennis]

http://www.stevesbeatles.com/cds/album-covers/rubber_soul.jpg

[Formatfun]

Blink-182's "Enema of the State" really changed me as a kid. Later, it was Fall Out Boy's "From Under the Cork Tree", The Dresden Dolls' "Yes, Virginia...", The Format's "Dog Problems", and then Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". They all changed me in different times of my life.

[bard]

The first one that comes to mind is "Catch for Us the Foxes", but it's definitely not the first album that changed me. It's the album that has had the biggest impact on me, spiritually - though I should say that about mewithoutYou as whole. The album (and the band in general) really opened my eyes and gave me a different way of viewing God, the world, and myself.
i chose [A->B] Life, but this pretty much sums it up for me as well.

[IntoTheSun]

When I first heard Radiohead- The Bends...my second revelation came two weeks later with Ok Computer <3

[Poe-tryGirl]

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

No shame whatsoever.

[NeededYouMost]

Polythene by Feeder

their song High was my gateway into music
Then Adam's Song by Blink 182 propelled me into it even further. i've never looked back since

[Greg.Kushlan]

My friend wouldn't stop talking about The Artist In The Ambulance, and I finally picked it up after having him tell me about it for 2 months. I didn't know what to think about it at first. I usually never listened to anything as heavy as it but I still liked most of it, and the tracks I had trouble with I grew to love over time.

[dumbcorey]

The Artist in the Ambulance & War All the Time

[chelsea [cult]]

MAINLY...From Under The Cork Tree and Take this to your grave, and Bayside Self titled of course.


Three cheers for sweet revenge also played a big role as well a Enema of the State, New found glory's self titled, and say it like you mean it.
They have all been mentioned, but they are all very influential.

[guitarpickheart]

Honestly, How to Save a Life... I realize it's not one of the greatest albums written, but I was ten and thought it was pretty. Which eventually paved the way to me buying other albums by better bands etc. etc.

eta: also, War All the Time...It took me awhile to get used to, but got me interested in more complicated music than what I had been listening to.

[cubine]

Probably Linkin Park's Meteora. I was 11 and I had never seriously listened to any kind of rock music before, my 16 year old cousin gave it and the Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty to me for Christmas and I don't think it left my CD player (also a new christmas gift) for months. It took me a lot longer to figure out the genius in the Beastie album, and looking back I have to say it's the better album of the two I got, but Meteora is what turned me on to the music world.

[SophGod]

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory when i was in 3rd grade changed me.

but to be honest, Taking Back Sunday's Where You Want To Be probably changed me even more when i was in 6th grade.

[warp]

I am the movie changed my music tastes into what I like today.

[Rob_Suspect]

When i was like 9 or so my older cousin went out on a limb and grabbed me a copy of Dead Milkmens Big lizard in my Backyard on cassette and the rest is punk history

[eliselovesmusic]

Sigur Ros' song Ara Batur

[xevandox]

Millencolin's "Melancholy Collection" in 6th grade started it off...later it was Tell All Your Friends, TTTYG, and The Shape of Punk To Come. those really got me to where I am now.

[murrich]

Vheissu by Thrice got me into a lot of the stuff I listen to now.

[Genuma]

Pinkerton, no doubt in my mind. I knew every lyric on that album the day I got it, it really started to define me as a musical individual.

[PoweredbyPJ]

Mae - Destination: Beautiful

that was seriously such a beautiful release from them.

I'd have to say either that, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 by Coheed, or Blink 182's self titled. All 3 albums definitely got me through the early years of high school

also Imogen Heap's "Speak for Yourself"...just had to throw that in there

[more heart]

Feeling like I would say Mutiny!. That record has had a huge impact on my personal like. I love it more than anything else than I know. I bought it a few days before I started high school as a freshman so that may have played a huge role.

[porttheman]

Sigur Ros - ( )

[CTMarshall]

Commit This To Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I know it's not that old, but before I only listened to the bands my dad got me into (The Beatles, The Who, etc.). When I heard "Everything is All Right" on Fuse I finally found a new band I could get into. Definitely opened my eyes to newer music

[bradsonemanband]

Blink 182 - Enema of the State

[theguy77]

I dunno...

hahahha oh shoot, true, thats an obscure one

[kearn1tm]

I was born with a fucking Paik album in the womb! Kinda-esoteric Post-Rock name drop! They weren't even a band when I was a fetus, that's how awesome I am! PUNCTUATION

[dea221]

the first time i listened to the devil and god are raging inside me i was lost, ill go with that. my musical tastes changed and i started questioning alot of things in life and this was a year ago

[hitormiss92]

Probably Take This To Your Grave, but Hello Rockview was kind of a coming of age album for me as well

[billy_yo]

tell all your friends - taking back sunday. i saw the music video with flava flave and loved the song. so i bought the cd. i was in 4th grade. this cd change me.

[chassmariee]

Deja saved my life.

[sweepthenation]

All Time Low - The Party Scene

Mustve been about 17

[dsd is too high]

TBS- Tell All Your Friends
Thrice- The Artist In The Ambulance
Norma Jean- Bless The Martyr...
Blink-182- Enema Of The State

[cryates]

I really don't understand some of these answers

[cryates]

Sigur Ros - ( )

Good Answer.

My album choice for this would be Agaetis Byrjun. It changed my whole outlook on music and the beauty that could come out of it without hooks or a catchy rhythm. From this I watched Heima, which made me see even though Iceland is a poverty stricken place, there is still alot of beauty flowing through places like that.

[WhatJulianSaid]

There's quite a couple of albums I got when I was a kid but I'd say a tie between The Vines - Winning Days, Afi - Shut your mouth and open your eyes, and As I Lay Dying - Shadows are security that's gotta be just the outer layer of it anyway I grew up listening to a lot of what my mom had on which was the monkees, the beatles, jannis jopplin etc.

[Thriftstoresuit]

the most recent was probably back when I first got my hands on I'm Wide Awake it's Morning.
before that, it was probably Tell All Your Friends back in middle school.

[Genuma]

I really don't understand some of these answers
haha honestly. It's exaggeration central in here.

[cryates]

tell all your friends - taking back sunday. i saw the music video with flava flave and loved the song. so i bought the cd. i was in 4th grade. this cd change me.

lol

[TheFaceOfZach]

Queen - A Night at the Opera.

I was really into My Chemical Romance. And when Gerard Way said Queen was his favorite band. I was like omg. I should so listen to them. So I did. And Queen became my favorite band of all time. I have their entire discography on my iPod (120GB FTMFW)

[kianacarly]

Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American, for sure. I bought it when I was in 6th grade because I liked The Middle when I was a more casual music fan, listened to it once and thought it was a total waste of money, and let it collect dust in my room. Then a year or so later I decided to listen to it again on a whim, and now Jimmy Eat World is my favorite band and while it's not my favorite JEW album, it's what got me really into music and brought me out of my lame 12/13 year old angsty stage.

[Mochem]

Commit This To Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I know it's not that old, but before I only listened to the bands my dad got me into (The Beatles, The Who, etc.). When I heard "Everything is All Right" on Fuse I finally found a new band I could get into. Definitely opened my eyes to newer music
Same here. I remember hearing about the band and thinking they were just another stupid "emo" band. Then I heard Everything Is Alright on the radio (which was the one and only time they ever played it...I think it was a battle of the songs type thing). I checked them out, and the rest is history. That album fit perfectly into my life.

So what got me into what I listen to today was probably a combination of Commit This To Memory and making fun of Senses Fail and Hawthorne Heights. I would listen to 187 and Ohio Is For Lovers and sort of laugh at it...but then look for more bands in the genre. I don't listen to SF or HH anymore, but they got me to explore new music.

[Holly HoX!]

ac/dc - ac/dc live

I was about 5 or 6 when i heard this record being played by my dad. I was just amazed at the guitar work on this cd and also by how intense the live show seemed to be without being there

Wow. I remember my dad putting this on and literally being freaked out when Hells Bells came on...it's just so loud and sinister. This is ironic because it came full circle when my dad and I went to AC/DC in January. What a great memory.

Anyway, I think Dookie certainly got me in the right direction. That was one of my first CDs. I also listened to a lot of my dad's record when I was younger and I know that had an impact on my now. The Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Golden Smog, Son Volt and Wilco can all be traced by to my childhood days.

[Holly HoX!]

P.s. this thread makes me feel old.

[joppyxtsl]

Thrice's Vheissu and The Artist in The Ambulance. I was in 6th grade when I saw the commercial to Vheissu on Fuse and I enjoyed it. So I bought that and TAITA a couple days later.

[DeadCityScars]

Thursday - War All the Time
The first songs I heard were Signals Over the Air, War All the Time, and Where the Circle Ends (from Waiting).
After buying that album, it led me to other bands like Thrice, Glassjaw, ATDI....
and this website.

War All The Time made me realize that lyrics could be just as important as the music. So that one

well put. Geoff's lyrics were so smart, intimate and fresh compared to what I was used to. They still are.

[DeadCityScars]

Thrice's Vheissu and The Artist in The Ambulance. I was in 6th grade when I saw the commercial to Vheissu on Fuse and I enjoyed it. So I bought that and TAITA a couple days later.

Wow, you must be pretty young then. That's awesome. I wish I was into bands like Thrice when I was in 6th grade.

[porttheman]

Good Answer.

My album choice for this would be Agaetis Byrjun. It changed my whole outlook on music and the beauty that could come out of it without hooks or a catchy rhythm. From this I watched Heima, which made me see even though Iceland is a poverty stricken place, there is still alot of beauty flowing through places like that.

Im not suprised to see Agaetis Byrjun as a obvious pick over ( ). I love AB as much as the next person and your views on it are legit. I just have a stronger connection with ( ), I love the blend of dark(#1) and light songs(#3) on it. Besides, #1 is not only my favorite from any SR song but its probably my favorite song of all time.

Im just glad when people talk highly of this band like I do:-)

[peaceluvrejects]

When the World Comes Down by the All-American Rejects
changed my life forever :)

[wildpaint]

when i was 13..
the mars volta - de-loused, funeral for a friend - casually dressed, opeth - deliverance, afi - sing the sorrow.

[.FromTheGarage.]

I think that Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson's 'Unnoticeable in a Tiny Town, Invisible in the City' really opened my mind musically. Before then, I mostly just listened to hardcore and screamo. YPOFH opened my ears to subtleties in music and really got me into post-rock. It definitely made me more open minded in my musical tastes. I listen to a lot more indie music now, which I guess I could say indirectly caused this. Post-rock is a genre that I think most people should check out if you're into really climactic, mostly instrumental music.

[cirerelleum]

Good Charlotte's Self titled
Does This Look Infected~ Sum 41


^I've come a long way I suppose.

[tyramail]

tell all your friends by taking back sunday. i was 14 when i first heard that record and it's been one of the very, very few that actually had an emotional impact on me.

[antimatter]

the illusion of safety

[Paulb-182]

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/116/116264_1_f.jpg
And it's still pretty much my favourite album to this day, kind of joint top with In Utero

[boysandbulletsx]

i chose [A->B] Life, but this pretty much sums it up for me as well.
I wasn't into mwY's sound when they released that album, but time passed and then they released CFUTF and I liked that album and I got really into mwY.

[f00te]

my brother gave me copies of Saves the Day through being cool, Blink 182 Dude Ranch, and New Found Glory Nothing Gold can say and i went from there

[mmmmmpoetry]

Deja Entendu in all honesty.

[BryterJonah]

http://wcuk.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/weezer-blue-album.jpg

Then

http://saltoalvacio.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/sigur_ros-agaetis_byrjun-frontal.jpg

And Finally

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Nick-Drake-Pink-Moon.jpg

Nothing really has to happen after you've discovered Pink Moon.

[BryterJonah]

Good thing I never had a Deja Etendu phase. That's pretty much equivalent to saying Catcher In the Rye changed how you looked at literature.

[tonyt3524]

Angels and Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper.

[A Regular]

...And Out Come The Wolves

[cubine]

...And Out Come The Wolves


I'm gonna give that a giant HELL YEAH

[SlprLkStrght]

Probably Chuck or Does this look infected to you?

[Machu505]

Cursive's Happy Hollow without a doubt.

[doyouhas?]

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Nick-Drake-Pink-Moon.jpg

Nothing really has to happen after you've discovered Pink Moon.


I love Pink Moon as much as the next guy, but it doesn't hold a candle to Fire Leaves Left.

[doyouhas?]

And the album for me would be:

http://www.laughinsam.com/GoldenImages/BobDylanBlond2.jpg

[StreetSpirit76]

I love Pink Moon as much as the next guy, but it doesn't hold a candle to Fire Leaves Left.

How so? Not that I have a problem if it's your preference, but I'm just curious.

[La La Lie]

Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
and, Fall out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
thought I would hate Fall out Boy but as soon as Tell That Mick.. started playing, I was sold.

[Nourez]

Dookie for me as well. First album that really got me outta my single whore phase and into full albums. Green Day is still to this day my favourite band.

[mulcahy67]

Brand News "Deja Entendu" i think was really what stemmed kind of my transformation into what is my current music taste. before that i was into mostly classic rock, but since then ive been mostly a modern guy.

[doyouhas?]

How so? Not that I have a problem if it's your preference, but I'm just curious.


It just feels like more of a complete album to me. Pink Moon is completely perfect, but I like that Fire Leaves Left is fleshed out a bit more. Also, in my opinion, there are no songs on Pink Moon that can compete with songs like Three Hours and Cello Song.

It's just a discrepancy. I think he put out three flawless albums, and I frequent all of them.

[StreetSpirit76]

It just feels like more of a complete album to me. Pink Moon is completely perfect, but I like that Fire Leaves Left is fleshed out a bit more. Also, in my opinion, there are no songs on Pink Moon that can compete with songs like Three Hours and Cello Song.

It's just a discrepancy. I think he put out three flawless albums, and I frequent all of them.

Well to each his own, but "Three Hours" and "Cello Song" aren't even my favorites on Five Leaves Left. And frankly I don't think there's a song on that album that can compete with any track on Pink Moon, barring "Horn" and "Know".

But then again I prefer Nick when he is stripped down to the core, and obviously you favor the more fleshed out approach. Either way, we can both agree that all three of his albums were very good.

[Chrisj182]

Enema of the State.

[anthonydarko]

New Found Glory- Sticks and Stones

[doyouhas?]

Well to each his own, but "Three Hours" and "Cello Song" aren't even my favorites on Five Leaves Left. And frankly I don't think there's a song on that album that can compete with any track on Pink Moon, barring "Horn" and "Know".

But then again I prefer Nick when he is stripped down to the core, and obviously you favor the more fleshed out approach. Either way, we can both agree that all three of his albums were very good.


:nod:

[greenteaallday]

Deja entendu got me off all the typical shit of a 7th grader. I know how common this answer will probably be whatever.

[Nick Le]

Relient K's mmhmm the summer going into Junior year pretty much did it for me.