When I was a kid I remember getting a hold the Cult's Love, which turned me on to a harder and darker brand of rock'n'roll that I had ever known previously. In retrospect, I think that album influenced my taste in music forever.

What first album affected or changed you in an unforgettable way? Post a picture of the album cover.

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http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000003TB9.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.beefheart.com/zine/003/radiohead.jpg

http://www.lapsus-gil.de/pix/quadrophenia_album.jpg

http://www.rockguiden.se/Bilder/smashing.jpg

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word

it was some beach boys greatest hits thing on casette. no way i'll find it on google images or anything.

There are lots I could probaly think of, but for whatever reason, this is the one I'll post.

http://img.verycd.com/posts/0512/post-316771-1134784923.jpg

Well I was raised on Hank by my dad thats all I really knew other than My moms love for Simon and Garfunkel. Which with Hank LOL I dont think you could get two bands/artist that were as much different than the other. With Hank I could see that he was one of the most influential artist's of all time, he was Rock n roll before there was a name for rock n roll. Think about any rock n roll artist that came in the hey day of rock. Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, even Chuck Berry. They were all influenced by Hank whether they admitted it or not. Anyways It would have to be probally a greatest hits album, I mean I've heard all of Hank's music but to pin point it all, I would have to go with.



http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/CYCLE_23/hank.jpg

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i second that word

http://www.dance-lyrics.com/ama/true_blue_b000002l9s.jpg

http://www.threecoopers.net/jon/stuff/itunes/artwork/mellencamp_john/lonesome_jubilee.jpg

http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages2/23512.jpg

i still listen to it all the time. i bought it as a stab-in-the-dark and it still impresses me to this day. Sure, people have a go at it for not being Daydream-esque noisey shoegaze, but its still a fine fucking collection of guitar pop.

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i change my answer to:

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my first love was when i bought nick drakes pink moon at the age of 9 (also the first record i ever bough). my second love was probably the queen is dead, which i bought at the age of 10 after hearing morrisseys intelligent vocals and johnny marrs arpeggiated genius on the radio.

shortly after starting high school i found myself to be done with pop-music, i abandoned it altogether and have only been listening to IDM, improvisational jazz and classical music since.

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drc500/c505/c5059430uqu.jpg


From about the age of two my Dad started playing me Klaus Schulz's Beyond Recall. The music was bizarre and ethereal, and completely mesmerised me, added to the stories my dad would tell to the music taken from folk tales he heard in South America. I still listen to it. That really got me interested in all forms of music from a young age.

your dad obviously was a pretentios little bastard. "get a job", i would say if i met him.

His response would probably be that he's a lawyer.

I'm ashamed of being so bourgeois :(

that's not a real job and you don't even know what eric blair means.

Can you tell me what it means then?

delete function is not functioning?.

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http://www.rollingstones.com/bin/galImg/siteFiles/021090836f24.jpg

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i'm glad at least a couple of you picked something from before 1995

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word

it really fucking was

I guess MCIS ... also mechanical animals by manson.. a few supertramp albums (only had a few records at my house)

it was some beach boys greatest hits thing on casette. no way i'll find it on google images or anything.

<img src="http://www.musicspace.com/images/images_small/S_MS0619.gif">

http://www.musicspace.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=MusicSpace&category%

It's really the cassette

<img src="http://www.jerzbear.com/media/music/images/18640f.jpg">

i'll make a montage myself too

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000001Y5X.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://transbenik.free.fr/prodigy/discographie/music.jpg

http://tay-g.tripod.com/aenima.gif

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002TS3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~mymail/images/misc_images/korn_self_titled.jpg (lol)

i'm glad at least a couple of you picked something from before 1995

Yeah, this thread is making me feel pretty old.

is gisher that guy who had a picture that made him look like something from the matrix?

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nope wasn't that one. the cover had an ocean scene, it was very kinda washed out and creamy looking and I don't think the members were on there.

I mean there's more than likely a large amount of beach boys greatest hits things that were released on casette.

oh yes and...

http://www.foofighters.com/discography/images/st_front_thumb.jpg

this was my first love:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DFVF.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

these were the first albums that changed me in unforgettable ways:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000035E3.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000028MA.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000024A70.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
yes

i'm glad at least a couple of you picked something from before 1995

Seriously. When your first favorite album just came out six years ago, you must either be about fourteen or fifteen, or really oblivious to music your entire childhood.

http://213.87.37.135/oea/John/img/albums/imagine-sndtrk-cover.gif

Seriously. When your first favorite album just came out six years ago, you must either be about fourteen or fifteen, or really oblivious to music your entire childhood.
i don't think i really listened to music until i was about 10 or 11. i mean i did like the beatles before and some rem songs but i didn't yet understand the concept of buying albums and listening to them back to back and paying attention to the lyrics etc.

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i nicked this and pablo honey from my dad and then bought all the other radiohead albums. got me interested in music

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/SmashingPumpkinsMellonCollie.jpg

still one of the greatest albums of modern times

Seriously. When your first favorite album just came out six years ago, you must either be about fourteen or fifteen, or really oblivious to music your entire childhood.
my choice came out 11 years ago and yes, actually, i grew up in a baptist home, so secular music was not allowed.

oh yeah, and honourable mentions to:
my bloody valentine - loveless
" " " - isn't anything
smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
the cure - disintegration
placebo - without you i'm nothing
" - black market music
radiohead - kid a
" - ok computer
sonic youth - daydream nation
" " - sister

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Yep, I never enjoyed an album (or hell, music) so much when I first listened to MCIS.

http://www.cdsound.it/copertine/BAUHAUS%20GOTHAM.jpg

http://tirydou.free.fr/MT/modern_talking_-_lets_talk_about_love_a.jpg
I remember when the friend of my father brought us this album when he came back from a trip to West Germany and we could listen to it for like one week!!
cheri cheri lady is the ultimate song, ever.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000024A70.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Thank you for finding this for me and saving the trouble.

i don't think i really listened to music until i was about 10 or 11. i mean i did like the beatles before and some rem songs but i didn't yet understand the concept of buying albums and listening to them back to back and paying attention to the lyrics etc.

I didn't buy my first cd until I was eleven or twelve. But I went to concerts before that and listened to my parents albums. The album I posted in this thread (an old John Mellencamp one) I consider my first love because I remember my dad listening to it all the time and it conjures up very specific memories and places and thoughts now.

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but out of all seriousness...
http://www.ilbaluardo.com/Cover/Audio/S%20-%20T%20-%20U/SMASHING%20PUMPKINS%20-%20Mellon%20Collie%20and%20the%20infinite%20sadnes s%20-%20Front.jpg

^^^ Could you find a bigger fucking picture. God damn~!

Just looking at the cover art of mellon collie makes me nostalgic.

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http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005Q3ZU.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.student.oulu.fi/~yliluoma/queen/kuvat/anatoi.jpg

I'm just adding some appreciation for CHERI CHERI LADY!
Modern Talking... Wow.

when last did you watch a video from them? it's good stuff.
I was driving in my bosses car, and he has one of those DVD player things, and he was TOTALLY jamming out the Modern Talking Greatest Video Hits.

It was good stuff.

i have to be honest here. i was 5! still have the LP...

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The first thing that popped into my mind when i read "the first album that really changed the way you listen to music" was OK Computer though. There are other albums that had its effects but this was just incredible. I was 15 when OKC came out and i'm 24 now, but no other album has had the impact that OK Computer had since.

same with the two covers i posted. it was pretty much a straight line from then on

:erm:

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rilly? I remember seeing that in the emi store back in the day as a 12" picture disc.

So I went and brought Queen's "A Night At The Opera" instead. On Vinyl.

http://www.galeon.com/allmusic/caratulas/b/Bjork_-_Post_-_front.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/john_kruper/artwork/chemical_brothers/exit_planet_dust.jpg

http://www.trip-hop.net/images/jacquettes/big/311.jpg

god i forgot how good this remix was

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and besides my facination with Modern Talking when I was around 8, that should officialy count:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LR3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Higher than the sun in particular

Has anyone seen the Cindy Crawford work-out video where she uses Screamadelica songs? I only heard about that - I can't imagine it, haha

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i borrowed this on tape from my babysitter when i was 11

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/perpon/pixies-Doolittle.jpg

http://critiquesdemusic.canalblog.com/images/Nirvana_Nevermind_Front.jpg

http://www.amazingbarkingspider.com/music/Covers/Pictures/Smashing%20Pumpkins%20-%20Siamese%20Dream.jpg

http://www.ilbaluardo.com/Cover/Audio/0-9%20-%20A%20-%20B/BJORK%20-%20Debut%20-%20Front.jpg

http://data1.blog.de/blog/r/richardwatkins/img/under-the-pink.jpg

Don't we ALL have MORE than one first love??

not all of us are promiscuous hollywood fags, aeroplane

Man I feel bad for posting this:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/csdgirl5/3eb.jpg
http://www.songlyricscollection.com/lyrics/e/everclear/so-much-for-the-afterglow/so-much-for-the-afterglow.jpg

Its not like I still listen to either band, get off my back

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/r/ra_sun~~~~~_lanquidit_101b.jpg

sun ra personally played this to me while i perused an avant garde tweed shop in London in the 70s while my uncle played trumpet. it was a truly transcendental experience that changed how i viewed stuff

i swear

serious thumbs up for anyone who mentioned queen's albums
netphoria surprises me sometimes

i am surprised no one has mentioned MCIS yet

Suprisingly, people still record music that influence my taste:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d550/d550667n708.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f904/f90431h03d1.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g405/g40574nu38h.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c477/c47779yigj1.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f746/f74615mwqe4.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e492/e492177ydv1.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g435/g43512a339a.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg400/g435/g43512a339a.jpg

lawl

rilly? I remember seeing that in the emi store back in the day as a 12" picture disc.

So I went and brought Queen's "A Night At The Opera" instead. On Vinyl.
rilly. i had it on tape though. ours was an all-cassette household in the late '80s

not all of us are promiscuous hollywood fags, aeroplane

HEY! I'm a promiscuous Koreatown fag, thank you very much!

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/320/327282.jpg

i'm glad at least a couple of you are also OLD
:rolleyes:

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Especially the second track on that album "High Flying Electric Bird"
I was around 7 years old at the time I think.

And MCIS.