What are the 5 CDs that have made the biggest impact on your musical tastes, social lives, personal lives, mentalities, blah etc, you know what I mean.
1. Bruce Springsteen Box Set - I never bought this per se, but my dad owned it, and played it constantly when I was very young. The songs were great, but there was this one song that I really loved, and that was the live version of "WAR", in which Bruce talks to the audience of growing up during the vietnam war, seeing it on TV every day. But then they break off into this MASSIVE song, and it was the heaviest thing I've ever heard. Its still close. I've pinpointed that song as the single tune that got me into heavy music.
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets - this album got me into metal. I didn't like it at first, it was too different to everything else I'd heard. But then i grew on me like a plauge, and I entered the phase that is almost a prerequisite for being a metalhead, the Metallica phase.
3. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Someone reccomended this to me sometime, and when my dad was in Europe (I didn't know they had US distrobution), I asked him to pick it up for me. He did, and when I listened to it, I realized that this killer music was coming from a band I'd never even heard of! That brought me to the world of underground metal.
4. Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory - I had a friend that would go off about Dream Theater as being fuckin the shit, but I'd never heard of em. I put it off till I read Chris Jericho go off on his website about how its his pick for Album of the Year (I was into wrestling back then. Not anymore, fuck that shit.). So while scanning up and down the aisles in the CD store for something to get, I remember that DT just put out a supposedely great new album, so I bought it on a whim. Lets just say 2 minutes into Overture 1928, they became my favorite band, and enter the Dream Theater phase.
5. Opeth - Morningrise - This album took quite a long time to grow on me. I saw Opeth open for Nevermore during the tour, but had never heard them before. I HATED THEM. I was there for Nevermore, ready to kill people in the pit, and this fucking Opeth band comes on. What the fuck is this midtempo clean lame bullshit? I booed them. "Get off the stage!" But everyone around me was going nuts for em. I didn't understand it. So after the show, I decided to buy this one, based on Amazon.com reviews claming it as the best album ever made. After about 3 months of nonstop of bathing in Morningrise, I realized that they were correct, and that just opened the fucking floodgates.
I know I left out some classics in my musical development, such as Nevermore's Dreaming Neon Black, Pink Floyd's Animals and Wish You Were Here, Porcupine Tree's Signify, and Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, but those were pretty much the 5 pivotal points (that I can remember right now
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What were the milestones in your musical development?
1. Bruce Springsteen Box Set - I never bought this per se, but my dad owned it, and played it constantly when I was very young. The songs were great, but there was this one song that I really loved, and that was the live version of "WAR", in which Bruce talks to the audience of growing up during the vietnam war, seeing it on TV every day. But then they break off into this MASSIVE song, and it was the heaviest thing I've ever heard. Its still close. I've pinpointed that song as the single tune that got me into heavy music.
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets - this album got me into metal. I didn't like it at first, it was too different to everything else I'd heard. But then i grew on me like a plauge, and I entered the phase that is almost a prerequisite for being a metalhead, the Metallica phase.
3. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Someone reccomended this to me sometime, and when my dad was in Europe (I didn't know they had US distrobution), I asked him to pick it up for me. He did, and when I listened to it, I realized that this killer music was coming from a band I'd never even heard of! That brought me to the world of underground metal.
4. Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory - I had a friend that would go off about Dream Theater as being fuckin the shit, but I'd never heard of em. I put it off till I read Chris Jericho go off on his website about how its his pick for Album of the Year (I was into wrestling back then. Not anymore, fuck that shit.). So while scanning up and down the aisles in the CD store for something to get, I remember that DT just put out a supposedely great new album, so I bought it on a whim. Lets just say 2 minutes into Overture 1928, they became my favorite band, and enter the Dream Theater phase.
5. Opeth - Morningrise - This album took quite a long time to grow on me. I saw Opeth open for Nevermore during the tour, but had never heard them before. I HATED THEM. I was there for Nevermore, ready to kill people in the pit, and this fucking Opeth band comes on. What the fuck is this midtempo clean lame bullshit? I booed them. "Get off the stage!" But everyone around me was going nuts for em. I didn't understand it. So after the show, I decided to buy this one, based on Amazon.com reviews claming it as the best album ever made. After about 3 months of nonstop of bathing in Morningrise, I realized that they were correct, and that just opened the fucking floodgates.
I know I left out some classics in my musical development, such as Nevermore's Dreaming Neon Black, Pink Floyd's Animals and Wish You Were Here, Porcupine Tree's Signify, and Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, but those were pretty much the 5 pivotal points (that I can remember right now
)What were the milestones in your musical development?
), and it just clicked. It's 100% thrash, with a little bit of Prog in there for interest's sake. 
