Your Long and Winding Road o' Albums

1-6] whatever my mom played. the beatles, joni mitchell, pop country, bonnie raitt, sometimes weird disco.
7-12] Nirvana, pearl jam, alice in chains, rage against the machine, type o negative... that type of stuff.
13-14] pop punk like offspring,BAD RELIGION, green day, no use for a name, avail, social distortion
15. black flag, dead kennedys, descendents, ramones, HUSKER DU, Sugar, still liked pearl jam... etc.. lots of sonic youth
16. more "emo" type stuff like promise ring, capnjazz, get up kids, jazz june, etc...
17. olivia tremor control, pavement, neutral milk hotel, boysetsfire, converge, SONIC YOUTH A LOT,bardo pond, merzbow+ other easily available noise.
18. lightning bolt, palatka, prurient, wolf eyes, jackie o motherfucker, comets on fire, halo perfecto, pearls before swine, the beatles, rolling stones,
19. in the past few weeks i've been listening to : Palace, Wolf Eyes, The Dead C, The Beatles LOTS, simon & garfunkel, animal collective, olneyville sound system... grah grah.

Uh, you could have spent less time searching for the various threads in the archive that do the same thing. ;-)

I actually did this, but then I somehow deleted my efforts, and now I don't have the energy to start again. I will admit to a childhood fondness for Barry Manilow, which I can't blame on my parents. Everyone had me pegged for gay until I discovered Bob Seger.

1974 - An evening with John Denver
1975 - PF -Dark Side of the Moon
1976 - Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Just Another Band from LA
1977 - Kiss - Destroyer
1978 - Aerosmith - Rocks
1979 - Alice Cooper - Goes to Hell
1980 - Clash - 77
1981 - Blondie - Plastic Letters
1982 - Damned - The Black Album
1983 - The Jam - Setting Sons
1984 - XTC - Black Sea
1985 - Grateful Dead - American Beauty
1986 - Cream - Greatest Hits
1987 - Jimi Hendrx - Are You Experienced
1988- Meat Puppets - II
1989 - Yuri - Aire (Mexican pop)
1990 - Sugarcubes
1991 - blair 1523
1992 - The Orb - Beyond the Ultraworld
1993 - 1997: a blur of psych/garage rock and local LA bands
1998- 2002: a blur of noise and drone
2003 - Paris Combo - Attraction

The "blur" years are because i was so involved in music that no one album *can* stand out.

It so true. You can't be accustomed to being in control of yourself, or you'll surely go plain nuts. Imagine your dad on acid.

(face drops, realizing the truth and terrible weight of it all)

oh no...

(despondent)

I will start at 14, for that was when I listened to music.

14. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
15. Metallica - ..AJFA
16. Poe - Hello
17. Portishead - Dummy (oh no! here's where I start on my road to being indie!)
18. Massive Attack - Mezzanine (but first, let's get this trip hop out of the way)
19. Portishead - Portishead
20. autechre - Tri Repetae++
21. Mogwai - Come on Die Young
22. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
23. Bardo Pond - Amanita

Shortcut: It starts with the soundtrack to Dumbo and ends with The Man on the Burning Tightrope by Firewater and Killing Joke 2003

*i now return you to the list thread, already in progress*

I should get the Award For Biggest Improvement. I should also switch Bardo albums to On the Ellipse.

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this was fun. but i left out lots of records that made [make] me bawl my head off [10,000 maniacs, "foolish" by superchunk] or blew my mind [birthday party's best of, voix mysteres de bulgares], and lots of records that i listened to for extended periods in order to be able to copy them [phil ochs, lennie tristano, stereolab, monty python] but the ones listed above i expended the most thought about, and made the strongest identification with [as ridiculous as it is for me to "identify" with a late period fela lp etc]

1. mom's records: scott joplin, roberta flack; dad's records: james taylor (that's all i can recall)
2. puff the magic dragon, plus assorted "kiddie crap"
3. phil collins, michael jackson, madonna
4. old genesis
5. assorted late 80s/early 90s hip-hop and R&B
7. b-52s
8. nirvana, deee-lite
9. pearl jam, alice in chains, pj harvey, belly, nin, sonic youth
10. hole, liz phair, green day
11. pavement, silver jews
12. guided by voices
13. boy sets fire, bad religion, nofx, assorted other punk rock my homies were into
14. sebadoh
15. autechre, stereolab, belle & sebastian
16. eminem
17. microphones
18. jicks

what am I forgetting? damn. i know i'm forgetting a lot...

1-7: Songs For Swinging Lovers - Frank Sinatra
8: Dizzy - Tommy Roe (45)
9: 2001 A Space Odyssey - Soundtrack
10-13: Various 45s by The Jackson 5, Sweet, Mud, Gary Glitter, The Osmonds
14: Elton John's Greatest Hits
15: A New World Record - ELO
16: All Mod Cons - The Jam
17: Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
18: Planet Rock 12" - Afrika Bambatta
19: Dare - Human League
20: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever - Orange Juice
21: A Kiss In The Dreamhouse - Siouxsie & The Banshees
22: Blue Monday 12" - New Order
23: Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout
24: Various Northern Soul compilations on the Kent label
25: Venceremos 12" - Working Week
26: James Brown's Funky People - v/a
27: Three Feet High & Rising - De La Soul
28: Foundation - Ten City
29: Club Classics Vol. 1 - Soul II Soul
30: The White Room - The KLF
31: So Tough - Saint Etienne
32: Morning Dove White - White Dove
33: Definately Maybe - Oasis
34: Walking Wounded - Everything But The Girl
35: Come From Heaven - Alpha
36: Drawing a blank here
37: Chrominance Decoder - April March
38: Some smooth House music on the Naked label like “Music And Wine” by Blue 6
39: Mama’s Gun - Erykah Badu
40: We Love Life - Pulp
41: At Las Vegas - Noel Coward

1:  Probably wasn't listening to music then.
2:  Ditto.
3:  Ditto.
4:  No real albums, just oldies radio.
5:  Ditto. Plus children's records (but they were 45s).
6:  Ditto. Plus I got into my Mom's old 45 collection.
7:  Ditto. I love The Supremes' "I Hear A Symphony".
8:  Ditto. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell are brilliant.
9:  Oldies radio plus little hints of classic rock radio.
10: Ok, I'm grown up. I should listen to classic rock radio now.
11: Mostly an embarrassing year. Classic rock PLUS Herb Alpert's Rise. The tail end of it, though, changed my life.
12: They Created A Monster: Duran Duran's Rio and Seven and the Ragged Tiger hooks me in.
13: It's a Thirteen Two-Play: Duran Duran's The Wedding Album and Nirvana's In Utero.
14: Catching up with the '90s: The Breeders' Last Splash and The Posies' Frosting On The Beater.
15: Just discovered Arcadia and David Sylvian's solo material this year, so that plus whatever was on "Alternative Nation" at the time.
16: Stone Temple Pilots' Tiny Music enters the atmosphere.
17: The Year Of Duran Duran's Medazzaland. Favorite album ever slot gets permanently filled.
18: Catching up with the '90s Part Two: U2's Pop enters the fray.
19: I think I remember retreating into my '80s adoration and early '90s nostalgia at this point.
20: "Ooh, look at that, The Cure's Bloodflowers!"
21: I am living in a (Duran Duran's) Pop Trash movie.
22: Hey, it's good to be a fangirl.
23: OH MY BLOODY GOD LOOK AT ALL THE MUSIC I'VE MISSED OUT ON. (i.e., The year I discovered ILM.)
24: Who knows? I'm thinking, though, that at least one of those albums will once again be fangirlish in nature.

6 K-Tel Hit Explosion and Joan Jett I Love Rock n' Roll

7 Men at Work - Business as Usual and Cargo

10-11ish - Motley Crue (Shout At The Devil), Ratt (out Of the Cellar), Judas Priest (Defenders of the Faith)

12-13ish - Metallica - Master of Puppets, Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time, Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime

14-15ish - NWA Straight Outta Compton, PE - Takes a Nation of Millions

15-16ish - Pixies - Doolittle, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road to the Riches, Faith No More - The Real Thing

17ish - Nine Inch Nail - Pretty Hate Machine, Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache the BBC sessions, Nirvana - Nevermind

18ish - Gear Daddies - Let's Go Scare Al, Uncle Tupelo - All Albums, Urge Overkill - Saturation, Big Star - Third, Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me & Tim

19ish - The Band - Greatest Hits, Johnny Cash Columbia 3-disc Box Set, Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, Wu-Tang- Enter the Wu-Tang

20ish - Notorious BIG - Ready 2 Die, Nirvana - In Utero, Beastie Boys something....

21ish - Vic Chestnutt - West of Rome, Dr. Octagon....at this point taste starts to get so broad and I start buying so many records it's hard to pinpoint.....bands that mean alot in coming years: Joy Division, Outkast, Gang of Four, Shellac, Gaunt, The Smiths, Yo La Tengo, Jay-Z.

Okay that's the jist of it, I didn't have any albums between 0 and 12.

1978 - Dave Clark 5 - Coast to Coast

1980 - Beach Boys - Endless Summer

1981 - B52's - that yellow album

1982 - Sex Pistols - Nervermind the Bollocks

1983 - The Clash - London Calling

1984 - New Order - Temptation

1985 - Depeche mode - Speak and Spell

1986 - Smiths - Queen is Dead

1987 - a Tie: Jesus and Marychain Psychocandy/Velvet Undergroud and
Nico
1988 - Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion

1989- Felt - Goldmine Trash

1990 - Nuggets/Pebbles

1991 - New Order - Movement

1992 - things get pretty murky from here on in because I was smoking pot and drinking quite a bit so the years might be a bit off.

1993 - World Domination Enterprises - Let's play domination

1994 - My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

1995 - Cub - the single with that song about the fish on it. I played that song everyday before I went to work.

1996 - Dub Syndicate - hits Vol. ?

1997 - Creation Rebel - vol I or something

1998 - King Tubby - Rockers Uptown

1999 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds/Endless Summer

2000 - Thievery Corp - Abductions and Reconstructions

2001 - OMD - first record

2002 - Simon and Garfunkel - Live at Carnegie Hall

2003 - Trojan Box Set - 12 inch mixes

Nothing can be more embarrassing than Alanis as one's way into music.

10 NOW DANCE 93 compilation
11 2 Unlimited - Real Things
12 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
13 Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
14 The Verve - Urban Hymns
15 Gomez - Bring It On
16 U2 - Achtung Baby
17 Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
18 Pixies - Doolittle
19 Weezer - Pinkerton
20 British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power

wee child: sesame street records
8/9: Nirvana - Nevermind taped off my dad's cd
10: V/A - Waynes World and V/A - Beavis and Butthead Experience tape which some kid ruined on purpose
11: Nirvana - In Utero
12: The Offspring - Smash, Green Day - Dookie
13: Nirvana - Unplugged
14: Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
15: Wu-Tang Clan - Forever
16: Velvet Underground - "" and Nico and Dj Shadow - Preemptive Strike
17: Tribe Called Quest - Beats Rhymes and Life
18: Pavement - S&E, Nas - Illmatic (start buying lots of CDs here so it gets tougher to pick one band)
19: Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American, Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary and stuff off Dischord (after having Minor Threat Disc for about 2 years, who I knew nothing about)
20: Beat Happening - Box Set, Wire - Pink Flag, Shins - Oh, Inverted World
21: Unrest - Perfect Teeth, Wrens - Meadowlands, Sebadoh - Freed Weed

Weirdest/Funniest year has to be when I was 19.

3-4. Various Neil Diamond and Peter Paul & Mary 8-Tracks
5. "Jesus Christ Superstar" soundtrack
6. "My Fair Lady" soundtrack
7. "Evita" soundtrack
8. I was much more preocupied with "discovering" sports this year than with anything musical
9. Weird Al Yankovic, "In 3-D"
10-13. Again, most of my attention was directed to my sports obsession.
14. George Michael, "Faith"
15. Don Henley, "The End of the Innocence"
16. Eagles, "Greatest Hits 1971-75"
17. Queen, "A Night At The Opera"
18. Clash, "London Calling"
19. Mott The Hoople, "Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective"
20. Pavement, "Slanted And Enchanted" or Rolling Stones "Exile On Main Street" (tie)
21. Rancid, "...And Out Come The Wolves"
22. New York Dolls, "Rock & Roll"
23. Alice Cooper, "Greatest Hits" (I have fond memories of walking out of my last law school final singing "School's Out")
24. Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds"
25. Frampton Brothers, "File Under F (For Failure)"
26. Weezer, "Pinkerton"
27. Ben Folds, "Rockin' The Suburbs"
28. Cobra Verde, "Easy Listening"
29. Fountains of Wayne, "Welcome Interstate Managers" (Of course, I still have about six months left with being 29. If we were talking individual songs, Graham Parker's "Discovering Japan" would be an overwhelming choice for this year.)

1-4] Probably Sesame Street stuff
5-7] My dad's Pink Floyd albums
8] Prince, Around the World in a Day
9] Repo Man OST
10] Joan Armatrading, Walk Under Ladders
11] The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
12] The Beatles, Yellow Submarine
13] no real idea here; was too busy loathing school
14] Nirvana, Nevermind; De La Soul is Dead
15] Sonic Youth, Dirty
16] Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffitti
17] The Clash, London Calling
18] Beck, Mellow Gold
19] A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory; DJ Shadow, Endtroducing; Beck, Odelay
20] Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole
21] The Stooges, Fun House; Company Flow, Funcrusher Plus
22] Funkadelic, Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
23] Outkast, Stankonia; Grandaddy, The Sophtware Slump; The Essential Radio Birdman: 1974-1978; Lifter Puller, Half Dead and Dynamite
24] Cannibal Ox, The Cold Vein; Avalanches, Since I Left You; Basement Jaxx, Rooty; Daft Punk, Discovery
25] Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele; El-P, Fantastic Damage; Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt; White Stripes, Elephant
26] Basement Jaxx, Kish Kash; Atmosphere, Seven's Travels; Dizzee Rascal, Boy In Da Corner; the Rapture, Echoes

5: Michael Jackson - Thriller
6: Michael Jackson - Thriller
7: Michael Jackson - Thriller
8: Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
9: Bon Jovi - New Jersey
10: Bon Jovi - New Jersey
11: Led Zeppelin II
12: Led Zeppelin IV
13: Led Zeppelin IV
14: REM - Eponymous
15: Sonic Youth - Dirty
16: Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
17: Glenn Branca - Symphony No 5
18: Joy Division - Closer
19: Steve Reich - Tehillim
20: La Monte Young - Well-Tuned Piano
21: Ryoji Ikeda - +/-
22: Ryoji Ikeda - Matrix/Rush - 2112
23: Fred Frith Guitar Quartet - Ayaya Moses/Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 5
At this moment: Sonny Sharrock Band - Highlife.

...that brings me up to about 1996.

-3 Sesame Street, Raffi
3-5 Ninja Turtles - Coming Out of Their Shells & Vanilla Ice
"Ninja Rap"
6- My mom begins to play her records around me, overexposure
to the Beatles begins.
7- Beatles fixation continues, listen to whatever comes on the local
kids radio.
8- Ace of Base - The Sign. Sorry. It's catchy when you're 8.
9- The Beach Boys Greatest Hits.
10- Sublime s/t or the Urge
11- I buy my first CD, Ben Folds Five - Whatever & Ever, Amen on the strength of Brick. I still listen to this today.
12- The Urge - Master of Styles. It's okay because they were a local band. Operation Ivy's Energy and the Dead Kennedy's work their way into my music arsenal.
13- Jimi Hendrix, more punk, stupid, stupid ska, and David Bowie's Changesbowie, for some reason.
14- Bob Marley - Legend, Outkast - Stankonia. It would be this period that I would start inserting my name in songs when singing them. "Ain't nobody dope as Steve/ he dress so fresh, so clean" "da da da da da da, it's the mutha fucking S-T-E-V-E (STEVE!)" I also find the Velvet Underground (via High Fidelity, sorry, sorry, party foul.)
15- Weezer, more ska (tho now mainly the Slackers and the Skatellites, which is slightly less offensive), and a lot of pot. I also begin dating a stupid raver girl and buy Portishead, the Gorillaz and Basement Jaxx to try to impress her, then end up loving them and dumping her. I also discover Belle & Sebastian and Pavement, opening up a world of indie snobbery.
16- Between ages 15-17 the floodgate breaks and I abandon all hobbies except listening to music and going to concert. Start listening to the Streets and My Bloody Valentine. Fuck skateboarding.
17- This is me now. Kish Kash, Boy in Da Corner, and Four Tet's Rounds were all favorites this year. Also discovered T. Rex, which led to about 3 weeks of listening to nothing but. Oh, and ILM.

Born December 1972.

0-4: Sesame Street, kid songs ("John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" and the like)
5: The Beatles, "1967-1970" (my uncle got it for me as a prescient gift)
6: Barry Manilow, "Live"
7: Barry Manilow, "Even Now"
8: ABBA, "Super Trouper"
9: John Lennon / Yoko Ono, "Double Fantasy" + Marty Balin's single "Hearts"
10: Air Supply, "The One That You Love"
11: Journey, "Frontiers" / Men At Work, "Cargo"
12: Weird Al, "In 3-D"
13: Duran Duran, "Seven and the Ragged Tiger"
14: Starship, "Knee Deep in the Hoopla"
15: Billy Joel, "Greatest Hits", plus everything by the Monkees as I was (re-?)discovering them
16: New Order, "True Faith" single
17: Tears for Fears, "The Seeds of Love"
18: George Michael, "Listen Without Prejudice"
19: PM Dawn, "Of the Heart ..."
20: (a Steely Dan mix tape my brother made for me - the attempt at conversion worked)
21: everything by the Doors, due to a serious crush who was a Morrison devotee
22: Seal, "Seal"
23: Smashing Pumpkins, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack (it was a melodramatic and defeatist year for me)
24: Everything But the Girl, "Missing" (single/remix)
25: not so much albums, but the SF modern-rock station that was playing great stuff like Space, "Female of the Species," Whitetown, "Your Woman," and OMD, "Walking on the Milky Way"
26: Nina Simone, "Verve Jazz Masters"
27: Matthew Sweet, "In Reverse"
28: PJ Harvey, "Stories from the City"
29: Bran Van 3000, "Discosis" and all the Grace Slick solo albums
30: Dandy Warhols, "Welcome to the Monkey House"
31: we'll see, but OutKast has the early lead

Aww, St. Lou in the house. I lived at Urge shows when I was like 16 ('92ish).