Cds' that changed your life

scorpio01169

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I dont know if this has done before, but name five bands who's had one album that when you first heard it that made you say "dayum thats the music i wanna do" i mean one of those cd's that you kept in your cd player for a week or more, you loved not just one song but the whole cd.

mine is in this order

Metallica: Master of puppets
Slayer: Rein in blood
Death: Leprosy
Obituary: Cause of death
Suffocation:Effigy
 
The are a ba-zillion...

BUT...

The first five I can think of are..

Metallica: ...And justice for all
Faith no more: Angel Dust
Tool: undertow
Dream Theater: Change of seasons
Iron Maiden: Live after death
 
Metallica- MOP
In Flames- Whoracle
NIN- The Fragile
Shadows Fall- Of One Blood
Opeth- Still Life
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Radiohead- OK Computer
Acid Bath- When The Kite String Pops

These aren't necessarily my favorite albums, they're just the ones that most affected me at the time I discovered them.
 
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Strapping Young Lad - City
James Murphy - Convergence
Carcass - Heartwork
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto & Astro Creep 2000
Led Zeppelin - all albums
Opeth - all albums
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Nevermore - Dead Heart, in a Dead World
Death - Symbolic
Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Meshuggah - Destroy, Erase, Improve
The Beatles - all albums
The Police - all albums
Rush - all albums
NIN - The Fragile
King's X - Dogman
Cryptopsy - None so Vile
Björk - Post
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
 
I was 9 years old when I heard "Psycho Holiday" by Pantera. That moment changed my life and I wouldn't have a career in the music business if that moment hadn't taken place.

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Metallica - Ride the Lightning and/or Kill Em All
 
Metallica - 1st four records
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Ozzy - Blizzard of Oz
Rush - Moving Pictures
Pantera - CFH
Rammstein - Herzeleid/Sehnsucht
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
YJM - Rising Force
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Dimmu Borgir - PEM
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

(and many, many classical composers - Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, etc, etc)
 
ok...this is off the wall and it's not metal...but i was a drummer before but back in the 80s there was a reggea group of kids called Musical Youth....when i heard that Record (album) ha ha, i then knew bass is what i wanted to play.
 
Maybe not metal but...got me through some tough times

Depeche Mode - Violator
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Wumpscut - Wreath of Barbs
Placebo - Placebo
NiN - The Fragile
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom

No metal album has " changed " my life, as much as i love it.
 
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance.

After hearing that, my parents heard nothing but "Buy me a guitar!" from me. Six months later, they caved. That was in 1985.
 
Art of Noise, The - In Visible Silence
Beatles, The - Meet the Beatles
Beatles, The - Abbey Road
Kings X - faith hope love
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - And Justice for All
Night Ranger - Seven Wishes
Queen - Jazz
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Van Halen - 5150
Zappa, Dweezil - Confessions
 
Metallica - Justice AND Master
Megadeth - Rust AND Countdown
Queensryche - EVERYTHING
Porcupine Tree - EVERYTHING
Soilwork - Chainheart Machine
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

That combination of shit is STILL probably that which most heavily affects my writing... oddly enough.
 
Dream Theater - first, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, and then everything else popped right into place. First real metal album I heard, that had quite a bit to do with my tastes from then on.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace came first, and I worked 'outward' from that album
SYL and DTB - everything
Opeth - everything
Nevermore - started with Dead Heart in a Dead World, worked 'outward' from there
Cynic - Focus
Death - Sound of Perseverance and Symbolic
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Meshuggah - Chaosphere, I, Nothing
Celtic Frost - Monotheist

Jeff
 
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Metallica - Justice
Death - Spiritual Healing
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Deicide - Deicide
Sabbat - History


Piece of Mind - 20 years after first hearing them, I still love "Still Life" and "Flight of Icarus". Damn I'm getting old.

Metallica - Dyers Eve, woah.

Spiritual Healing, what a song, what an album. Chuck and James on guitars, crazy.

Reign - Killer, start to finish. Hope they play it live in 23 days time :lol:

Deicide - Lunatic, Carnage in the temple...Awesome. ".....quick, drink the potion, they've come to kill us. Quick, drink the wine, drink the wine, they'll be here with flamethrowers. Drink, Drink. In a few seconds you'll feel drowsy, you'll lie down go to sleep, sleep forever". Awesome!

History - Bell, book and candle, candle book bell...... Love how so many words end in "ah". Hell"ah"


Holy shit, listening to Deicide now. This is AWESOME!!!! Havent heard it in a while. It must be because it's the remastered version. :lol: Quote from the sticker on the CD Cover "Digitally remastered gold disc with new expanded package - sounds better, rocks harder, looks killer!" :lol:

Had to add some more, I can't stop.

Megadeth - Peace Sells, Killing is my Business, So far so good (Mary Jane is a coooool song), most of Rust.
Morbid Angel - Altars, Blessed, Covenant
Carcass - Necroticism :headbang: Symphonies, Heartwork

Sorry for breaking the rules for naming 5 only. I should just read the name of these kinds of threads and just walk away. They get me too fired up. :lol:
 
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Exodus - Bonded By Blood

Those were the days we were running to the recordshops for the "new" releases to come out.
 
So, what albums made me go "that's what I want to do" are slightly different than what would be my favourite albums, but here they are:

Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Front Line Assembly - Millennium
Delerium - Spiritual Archives
Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
 
5 bands/albums would be a hard choice. I'd have to say
Evergrey- In Search of Truth
Dark Tranquillity- Damage Done
Death- Symbolic
Iced Earth- Alive in Athens
Blind Guardian- Imginations from the oter side
 
Iron Maiden:Killers
Metallica:Ride the Lighting
Metal Church: Metal Church
Opeth:Morningrise
Nevermore:everything