[Masonjar]

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Originally posted by Iron_Dreamer Judas Priest - Turbo Yes, it was the attemped sell-out wanna-be hair-metal career nadir of these metal pioneers that actually made me get really interested in music, to the point where it became a major part of my life. The title track was the first I'd ever heard Halford, and I remain hooked on his voice to this very day. I would also mention Dream Theater - Images and Words, which I bought after reading favorable opnions on some random metal site, and it really opened my ears to the possiblites of more complex music, as well as the sheer beauty that music makes possible.

boy I really wanted to like TURBO. I did for a year maybe, then I kind of lost interest in it. I don't even go back to DEFENDERS as much as I used to, maybe I got burned out on it. The ones I go back to more often are POINT OF ENTRY, SIN AFTER SIN and STAINED CLASS.

-jar

 

[danaa]

One night, when I was in junior high, me and my friends were down at the beach grunion hunting. Grunions are small fish that, believe it or not, wiggle up onto the wet sand on the night or a full moon to lay their eggs. Hard to believe, huh? Anyway, I didn't want to leave you guys confused.

Anyway, I was in my mom's car taking a break and all of a sudden, Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone came on. It was a transforming experience for me. Didn't join my friends on the beach the rest of the night...just waited for the song to play again.

 

[MusicLover]

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and Machina

 

[UberNewb]

Nirvana - Nevermind

 

[mkmelt]

1967, the seminal year in Rock. This was the famous Summer of Love in San Francisco and the Monterey International Pop Festival.

There were quite a few landmark albums released that year including some that forever changed people's perception of what popular music was meant to be:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
The Doors - The Doors

From the liner notes of Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine (a 2-LP Doors collection) - "After listening to The Doors, sitting down to dinner with your parents wasn't the same anymore."

 

[eyeteeth]

Real rip roaring rage to match my own, and an expulsion from school!

 

[daycart1]

Brahms' Clarinet Quintet (Budapest Qt with Oppenheim on Columbia)

An anthology of Charlie Parker stuff on Pickwick

 

[eyeteeth]

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Originally posted by daycart1 Brahms' Clarinet Quintet (Budapest Qt with Oppenheim on Columbia)B]

HOW? (Just idle curiousity,I have some interest in Brahms)

 

[chadbang]

Originally posted by eyeteeth
Real rip roaring rage to match my own, and an expulsion from school!

Go eyeteeth!!

I was there in 1976 (freshman in college) when that album broke. What a life changer is right! What a change in music it wrought!

 

[eyeteeth]

Originally posted by chadbang
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Originally posted by eyeteeth Real rip roaring rage to match my own, and an expulsion from school! Go eyeteeth!! I was there in 1976 (freshman in college) when that album broke. What a life changer is right! What a change in music it wrought!

Revelation I felt as if I was mankind and had discovered both Fire & Sex on the same day! The Venom within me had found a voice! Of course you had to be a messed up kid & hear it when it was new. AHH, the Good old Bad Days

 

[daycart1]

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Originally posted by eyeteeth HOW? (Just idle curiousity,I have some interest in Brahms)

My mom played it a lot when I was a little tyke. Got my own when I went to college.

 

[eyeteeth]

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Originally posted by daycart1 My mom played it a lot when I was a little tyke.

The free flexible 45rpm's cut square that came in the mail as advertisments to purchase Tchaikovsky or Beethoven had an affect upon me. I listened to them over & over. I was about 8 years old.

 

[Music Fanatic]

Glassworks by Philip Glass was quite influential to me -- it opened my attention to the possibilities of minimalism.

 

[VicAjax]

husker du -- zen arcade
- for how it changed me as a person

tom waits -- swordfish trombones
- for how it changed the way i listen to music.

new day rising and rain dogs, respectively, probably ended up getting more play, and became my preferred albums. but these two albums were the catalysts... they transformed me.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

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Originally posted by Masonjar boy I really wanted to like TURBO. I did for a year maybe, then I kind of lost interest in it. I don't even go back to DEFENDERS as much as I used to, maybe I got burned out on it. The ones I go back to more often are POINT OF ENTRY, SIN AFTER SIN and STAINED CLASS. -jar

It's funny, since I really don't like Turbo very much, save the title track and Reckless. I would rate it below all Priest albums, save Rocka Rolla and Demolition, but it still holds a special place for me, since it was my first. My second Preist album was Stained Class, which is still my favorite by a hair over Painkiller.