A Dozen Records That Changed My Life
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- Ok, I actually did 10. Just trying to pick up on something @MelindaMurphy and @mazzysmusic started. She did 20 records. He did 12. I came up with 10 very quickly so I thought I'd stick with that. I could expand it further, but I liked having some limitations here. Some of these were gateways to other bands for me. Some redefined genres. Some expanded my worldview. And some just rocked like nothing I had ever heard before. I'd love to hear the albums that changed your life as well. Of course the age you were when the records came out makes all the difference. For me this is a period from age 10 to 26.
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I had fun doing this, I bumped my weekly vid to do this. For me, it had to be several records that were in my first 40 that I bought with my own money back in 1971 as a 14 year old kid.. Lots of changes condusive to the times way back then. Enjoying yours. and I like all of the bands that you are speaking of..
Excellent video. The back stories were fantastic. Well done
I loved hearing your stories. ♥️🤗. We are of the same era so I can relate to how you felt about a lot of these albums including 1984. I still remember getting enough birthday money to be able to buy the Grease soundtrack as a kid. Journey was an excellent choice back at that time. ♥️ Thank you and I look forward to the Van Halen video. Have a great weekend.
Thanks Melinda! Love it when you talk about Van Halen. I’ll do my VH sometime soon.
started surfing at 12yo, so Beach Boys Surfin USA was key. THEN thru my BFFs older sister "Freak Out" changed everything. this was 1966, i was 13yo! i went right out and bought "Absolutely Free" and was hooked.
Great video. I've been enjoying these in this series from you, Pardo, Melinda, Mazzy, Rob, etc. I've come up with a good list to do one, but awhile back there was a thread that was something like the 10 albums you have listened to the most in your life. I'd say about half of the ones I came up for this I also discussed in that video. So I'm on the fence about doing one of these, but I also really want to. I mean, when else will I ever talk about Peter Frampton? I don't know. Anyway, great stories and I really enjoyed the video. Maybe I'll just make a Part 2 to the Terrible Albums thing...
If you like Springsteen storytelling I highly recommend picking up the solo acoustic show from Sept 25 1996 in Akron OH. Available on Springsteen's web site. Fantastic.
Hi Todd I thought really ! Can I do this ?.. maybe I can. But Records that change your life is a bold statement .. journey are part of your journey 😃 in the 80s politics and music the two were intertwined for me Wilco , rem Bruce Radiohead .. lots of interesting tales. I need to do one of these you’ve inspired me 👍
Appreciate your non snob approach. Honesty...yeah, a VH video would be nice.
Journey was always background music at best for me. Never paid any attention... until Tony Soprano chose "Don't Stop Believing" over Tony Bennett's "I Gotta Be Me" in the last few minutes of the series finale of "The Spranos" in 2007. Suddenly that song had MEANING for me and now a forgotten 1981 pop song I barely even noticed for a quarter century gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it. I never wanted to actually own it, though. Context is everything.
P.S. I caught that glimpse of "Document" over your shoulder before you fully revealed it and at first I thought it was the cover of Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic." I'd never consciously made that connection before! (As for Guns 'n' Roses, they were actually the last of the Sunset Strip hair metal bands. It was impossible to listen to -- or look at -- Axl Rose shimmying and slithering around after you'd seen and heard Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. I know a lot of people who hated G&R for their reactionary proto-Trump politics as much as their music, but will still defend "Appetite For Destruction" as a product of its time. For them, it had its moment. But not for me.)
Yet another awesome video! Here is my list of albums that changed my life.
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
The Stooges - Funhouse
The MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Kiss - Alive 2
The Ramones - Ramones Mania
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Motorhead - Motorhead
Thanks! Wow, that’s an excellent list. Ramones Mania was my intro to the band. Wore out my cassette copy. Such a good comp.
I always loved the Ramones. I first saw them in the Rock n Roll High School movie on TV, but living in Canada, their albums were hard to find until I saw Mania, which was my first ever Ramones purchase.
Agreed on "Stone In Love" by Journey. I'm actually a fan of their stuff before Escape. If I believed in the notion of a guilty pleasure, Journey would be one of mine.
I distinctly remember walking into a Sound Warehouse location in Houston in 1984 and asking one of the employees for "the Bruce Springsteen tape". I didn't feel like I needed to qualify that I was looking for "Born in the U.S.A." because my dumbass self thought he was a new artist and that he only had the one album out. Granted, I was like 10, but still, I can definitely relate to what you were saying.
I seen a few including yourself and Mazzy do this list
I would like to see
10 albums you got for 1 penny from Columbia House
And be honest
I will help get you started
Let me guess Ten : Pearl Jam
Ok 9 to go
Tommy Bolin - Teaser !!!
“Born in the USA” mainstreamed Springsteen because, on the surface, it seemed so jingoistic Murca-fuck-yeah big stadium anthems. The album art direction underscored this, but a closer reading of the lyrics revealed more critical commentary on the USA. But the die was cast and Springsteen became a Reagan-era icon. When I saw R.E.M. at the Spectrum in Philly in the late 80s (the Feelies opened), Michael Stipe did a whole muscle-flexing routine making fun of Springsteen while singing “The highway’s jammed with broke heroes on a last chance power drive…”
Those songs come alive for me when he performs them acoustically and all the bombast is stripped away. Great Stipe story’
Sorry to ask, maybe i missed it, but who is the artist and what is the title of that last album you showed, the one with the citrus head? I’ve seen this album art so many times over the years but i have no clue what sort of music to expect. Thanks in advance!
I second that: Electric Fetus?
@@patrickvancompernolle9291 I figured it out in the end: Neutral milk hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea. Will listen to it today, curious and absolutely do not know what to expect.
Regarding Born in the USA, if you remove yourself from the hype, the radio overplay and listen to it with fresh ears, you might be able to appreciate it as a thematically cohesive unit rather than a collection of radio hits. The storytelling is still there, it's just communicated on a less complex and more in your face level, and there's something to be said for that. I love the wordiness of earlier albums, but I've also thought that one of the primary facets of Springsteen's brilliance is his ability to achieve profundity via simplicity.
Enjoyed your video! Like yourself, I never had any older siblings so had to find things out for myself or through friends (generally ones who had older siblings). Document & Appetite… brilliant! I could have added them to my video, though it probably would have been Green for me. Between the ages of 14-18, almost everything I heard seemed to be a life changer. Never got into the Replacements until later, but what a great band. In The Aeroplane would have been one of mine too, I lived in Cyprus when it came out so it has a very “time & place” feel too. Great stuff, check mine out if you’ve got time, Jack
Saying that an album or band “changed my life” has been a thing forever. It’s really an overblown way of saying that you connected with an album, that it opened up new possibilities and resonated with you at a specific point in your life. I’m surprised you didn’t have any such experiences with an older album. Classic Rock was still everywhere in the 80s, even into the 90s. From my POV, the Who and Led Zeppelin were way better and heavier than Journey or Van Halen.
I think the purpose of this video (and the other ones people are doing on the subject) are a little different than what is better than something else. It is about music that had a big impact on one's life at different points. Like he said in the video, he doesn't particularly love Journey or even own any other Journey. But that song, that record, had a huge impact at a key point in his life. That seems to be the criteria of these videos. I've been enjoying them, it gives people a chance to talk a bit more about how their lives intersected with this music.
You lucky man, all that good music to discover. Fortunately you started at the bottom with that mundane American cardboard rock. The only way is up.
One saving grace though, you didn't choose the Eagles, the musical equivalent of acid reflux
Changed my life….pretty strong, dramatic….don’t know that I’ve had my life CHANGED that many times total in life.
And to think an Eagles record….not the breadcrumbs I want to leave.
Did you have to use those words Pete?
Just happy bangerz is not mentioned
The 10 albums that changed my life all belong to Led Zeppelin
Phenomenal band. But they only made 8…
It seems she has started another mini trend. Seems sort of shallow or green, like buying or recommending audiophile pressings of Bob Dylan. That was never audiophile material in the least. Dense layered complex instrumention is where you might be thrilled with audiophile pressings. Months ago there was another nauseating trend of people like crazy doing videos titled Top 10 Records I Listen To. This is pretty much the same, at least you would think that records that so called changed ones life would get the most play. But how can music really change your life? How can sounds in a certain arranged pattern change your life? Your selections are from the time period where it is pretty much acknowledged that music creativity and quality, pretty much took a dive into the dumper. After many decades of glorious music creativity. I do remember "sort of" liking some 1980s music. Bands like Midnight Oil, R.E.M., Counting Crows etc. But compared to the decades before, 1980s music was basically nothing much there. Creative melodies pretty much disappeared. It took much less creativity to come up with a beat pattern that even a caveman could have conjured up and center the music around it. Maybe lLYRICS can change your life by promoting a new way of looking at things. But why then is nobody mentioning lyrics, or citing what lyrical words in particular changed their life? I hope someone starts a trend on here of "music that didn't change my life." I think that wpuld be more entertaining by far. Here are some of my "music that didn't change my life" selections. Some of these are songs and some of these are albums. Most of these are obscure and will be hard to look up.
My Hat Won't Screw On Right by Oozing Puss. ...Not to be confused with All Around My Hat by Steeleye Span.
The Infinite Spirit Of Evil by It's Really Only The Hot Core Of The Eart
Visit Us Kindly But Don't Bring Your Dog by Moby Whale
The Sh*t Hasn't Hit The Fan Yet But It Is Making Rattling Sounds by Wallace Blackfield
Copperheads And Lincoln Didn't Do Us Any Favors by The Zoot Suits
Ch ckens Should Have Rights by Russell Pettibone
What's In A Worm? by The Moles In Daylight
How can music change one's life? Anything can have a massive impact on your life if it is important to you. For me, beyond my job and family, music is really central. It always has been. I mean, if someone is REALLY into movies, then certain films could have a massive impact on their life. If someone is REALLY into model trains, then certain model trains can have a big impact on their life. Whatever one cares about immensely can have a huge impact on their life. It seems odd to question what could or should greatly impact someone else.
But the heading says "Records That Have CHANGED His Life. Maybe they enhance his life for 40 minutes until the record is over; but CHANGED his life? Actually as the host openly admits, he adopted or copied this "clickbait" heading from a woman who also does lp videos on here. When you get married...when you have children.... when you get a great paying job or promotion.....or strike it rich....or get incurable cancer, those are LIFE CHANGING things. Not a piece of vinyl that you like to listen to for 40 minutes every now & then.You must really suck it all in. Pieces of vinyl, even if you really like the music is not life changing. It's fun...it's pleasant....but NOT life changing! You must take Clickbait.. .hook, line and sinker. What IS ODD is someone inferring that listening to a specific record, is the same thing as enjoying music in general. Maybe enjoying listening to music in general can shakily be considered life changing, but listening to a particular piece of vinyl changing your life? Maybe for someone who doesn't have a life and sits up in the wee hours trying to find things wrong with what others say on a record forum.