Albums that changed your life. Explain how

>Albums that changed your life. Explain how.

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the black saint and the sinner lady. made me realize music was done

I became a nu-male

the album that looks like pic but without Hannibal Buress' face

I'm so fucking done with all you fucking morons ruining every kind of thread with this fucking meme

>implying

got me into my animal collective obsession

I started smoking way more than before.

Got me into music.

first exposure to the realities outside my bubble. changed my perspective on life. no longer mormon.

Showed me what music could be. Used to listen to rap the majority of the time and ignore most genres. Kid A broke my ignorance

got me into metal

Became obsesssed with instrumental shit.

>Never listened to much music as a kid because everything my friends listened to and everything on the radio sounded like some candy ass shit
>decide I want a hobby
>decide to make my own music to listen
>go into local guitar store
>bro I buy my axe off of is playing this in the background:

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Didn't know music could sound like this up until that point; changed everything for me.

neutral milk hotel was a revelation when a friend showed them to me in high school. other than that easily trout mask replica

changed my view of what music was capable of doing (which i assumed was just a shallow means of quasi-entertainment) and gave me a whole new found respect for it as one of the most intimate forms of art. it also introduced experimentation and the avant garde to me.

This, unironically

Demon Days got me interested in music, and Purple by Stone Temple Pilots got me "into" music. Flood by Boris got me into posting on Sup Forums

I first heard Songs for the Deaf when I was 12, and 10 years later it's still my favorite album ever

>Explain how.

Saved my life.

made me start listening to industrial roots and now i have a deeper understanding of electronic music beyond "bleep bloop"

Tessio got me over my oneitis

>BABY IT'S OKAY

Fucking loser.

Every time that's happened it's just been a mirage. Imo It's a sign you're depressed or mentally ill and not a good thing at all

I was on LSD and was screaming with joy the first time I heard it. Days of Future Passed just completely elevated me, it truly got me into any and every possible thing that even resembles the sound of music, it made me start working out, I started caring about my physical apperance, it got me back into literature, gave me this newfound empathy, this deep desire for wanting to understand, it's everything to me.

Dragged me out of depression.

Oh shit, you're me.

Took my fucking brains and guts and spewed them out of my body and all over the floor leaving me to pick up the pieces trying to find a pattern and/or figure out what anything is while just being.

>tl;dr: Made me cry, laugh, scream and helped me grow up more in a year than in 20.

supercavitation was the first album i made

Made me realize there's better music out there then what's on the radio and MTV. Deron miller got in me into a shit load of death metal bands and introduced me to My Bloody Valentine's "loveless"

I heard REAL avant-garde music.

>15
>Angsty af
>Angry all the time
>Get in in trouble almost every day

Then I discovered Sgt.Peppers, and I learned to not care to much, to stop and smell the roses, enjoy the littlle things. I made a lot of friends, became a lot more social and for the first time in my life I was happy.

And even to this day, years later, and while my music taste has changed. I would still consider 'The Beatles-Peak' (Revolver-Sgt.Peppers-Magical Mystery Tour) some of my all time favourites

Learned what Swans was through the remake of "Everything At Once" on this album, and became obsessed with them. Shortly thereafter, through the newer Swans albums, I discovered Sup Forums.

>be me
>sophomore in high school
>be super fucking depressed
>decide I'm going to kill myself
>the night I decided on comes
>decide that before I do it I'm gonna listen to my fav album one last time, Ian Curtis-style
>listen to pic related
>Rock N Roll Suicide comes on
>something about the lyrics really hits me hard, I start crying uncontrollably
>first time I had felt any real emotion in a year or so
>don't go through with the attempt

when Bowie died it hit me like a truck

I can still find joy despite my shitty circumstance and if that's not enough for me, I should probably just kill myself.

tera melos - drugs to the dear youth

easily my fave release of all time. so many melodies crammed into such short periods of time and then expensive "improvised" sections.

things i learned:
- your music doesn't need to be instantly gratifying.
- folks often talk about the "certain something" that a pop song has that makes it stand out above all the other pop songs that are floating around. this concept covers lots of music not just pop.
- technical proficiency is a good thing. although not essential, when paired with imaginative songwriting it can be emotionally shattering.
- lyrics can chill out most of the time
- there is something in the water in california...

also, as a bonus this record was originally released with a pretty wack mix. it was still mind blowing and had some immediacy to it and i listened to it on repeat. but after they signed to a label it got remixed and remastered and it was ACTUALLY like hearing my fave record for the first time again. big ups

rock n roll suicide is huuuge track.

bless up user u r gr8

how did you feel about blackstar?

Idk about you guys, but i'd say there are some records that changed my life in maybe different ways, but the thing that all of them made was help me not kill myself and deal with a lot of shit

man blackstar was pretty crazy imo, because when it dropped I thought it was great, but then he died and it like changed the whole album from me. People say you should separate circumstance from music but man I'll never have a moment in music like that again, where the other ball drops and the entire perspective shifts.

This but with In The Aeroplane

fuck yall nirvana is pretty good

this album and this band drove me to learn to play guitar by ear and more over it made me realize how much fun music can be

I WANNA BE PUSHED ASIDE SO LET ME GOOOO
(NO, NO TURNING BACK NOW)

kek
go back

I'D RATHER BE

ALL ALOOOOONE

I must say that is pretty nice user.

Are you Annulus?

Transformed me from a 16 year old American into a stimulant-loving British raver from 1992.
Note that this was two years ago.

It got me into non dad rock.

This will sound very gay but there is something on this record that makes me not lose hope and make me feel alive

I didn't understand what I liked about any kind of art until I stopped hating this album

That's such a good album never see it get much love

It was the first non-conventional album I listened to, and it made me understand that there's music beyond harmony and melody.

Got me into good music

>this album made you LESS depressed

This album made me a white nationalist.
I was studying in China at the time and had just broken up with my girlfriend. I was drunk and walking through all the filthy streets, just listening to this and taking in the late night rainy atmosphere. Halfway through "After the Flood" I got to thinking how Chinese people would never, EVER dare to make something this evocative and forward-thinking. It's just not there in their bug-like oriental brains. They only understand material comfort and never seek to transcend that and create something truly beautiful.

It made me think about how I was wasting my life already in this backwards shithole, and how if I had a child with a women here it'd be incredibly ugly and fucked up. I realized I needed to move back to the Netherlands raise a family with a white woman as beautiful as the songs on this album.

...

lmao wtf

That album didn't do anything. Being a shitty person made you a white nationalist.
The Chinese didn't begin to industrialize until the 1970s and 80s. No shit they aren't making music on the level of the West. The technology may be there, but the culture isn't.

This is Sup Forums take it or leave it

Not him, and not even a nationalist, but Chinese people living in China are legitimate subhumans

This is beautiful

Oh cool, it's somebody who has never been to China making excuse for their barbarism.

It's not just white people you know. Viet Nam, Japan, Philippines Taiwan: they all look down on Chinese as completely amoral savages.

Yeah dude that's because the Chinese are garbage. Valuable trash. Expendable.

what the fuck

literally shifted my entire music taste from video game soundtracks to indie folk stuff. From here I discovered the felice brothers, tom waits, beirut, and lonesome leash, along with other stuff.

tl;dr it gave me a deep interest in music so that I was no longer a casual listener (i was in school band though so I at least had some previous above-average interest).

i agree and it not getting much attention on here is probably a good thing, i mean people tend to find random reasons to hate any album that's supported a bit too much. the main criticism ive heard from Sup Forumstants on this album is that its mostly to cales credit which i think is a half truth.

one thing that annoys me is that it isn't lauded by current day critics which is silly because its truly the pinnacle of avant garde folk music imo (neofolk came from this album as far as im concerned).

I don't disbelieve you. I've never been there, but I've seen a lot of horrible things. That being said, Britain and America were similar during their industrial revolutions.
By our (and most) standards, the Chinese are shitty human beings. I won't argue against that. I'm just saying that if I lived on a farm all my life and saved enough money to move to the city, I might be seen as similarly shitty. Most Chinese weren't born and raised the way we were.

music

>>/po/

The papercraft and origami board?

Picked me up from the state of depression during a scorching walk around Houston.

Completely rebuilt my self-confidence and allowed me to stop giving a fuck about everything.

Unironically this album, got me into prog and I went into several other genres from there.

Nihilism is gay

I'll rephrase that. I stopped giving a fuck about anything that was bothering me at the time. I do agree, nihilism is pretty gay and only appropriate for a Turgenev novel.

This was the album that made me pick up a guitar and learn how to play. I wanted to play like that, so technical and raw, but still kind of beautiful in a way. I wanted to let out my emotions through art like that. It inspired me to be creative like that with just bare bones essentials. It made me appreciate that something doesn't have to sound good to be good. It also helped that Jack was from my home state and grew up poor like I did, kind of inspiring me like, "Hey Jack White did it, so can you."

This album let me vent my frustrations, as well, and let my emotions out. It was raw and visceral and loud and fuzzy, but soft at times and melodic. I love that it can still kind elicit that feeling from me when I listen to it. I'll always remember being like, 13 and angry and sad and frustrated at everything and hearing "Jimmy the Exploder" and just being like, "WOW" as it bombarded me. This was the jumping off point for me as a music fan and a musician.

It's a lot of fun to explore conceptually but when people actually apply it goes south immediately

>YOU'RE NOT ALONE!!

A few weeks after Bowie died a good friend of mine killed themselves and hearing that felt like him calling out. I don't know.

I decided not to kill myself because I realised that there's so much beauty in the world and the presence of hate doesn't change that

Used to think lyrics are everything, unless it was Aphex Twin. This album really got me into the actual music, not just lyrics.
Also made me wanna visit desert land in California really bad. Minnesota is such a fucking bore.

You're in US dude, just drive.

Ain't got the money right now, plus I got connections here.
But man, do I fucking fantasize about it.

not all, you stupid fuck

(You)

I'd imagine it would be awesome. I remember reading how Kyuss would organize these gigs in the middle of the desert and just announced it viva voce on the same day. I'd kill to go see something like that.

You're not alone. I've never left the east coast. North Carolina is unremarkable and cultureless, aside from the food and the racism.
I wanna see the kitschy Americana side of the country. Route 66 vibes and all that good stuff. I've never even seen a desert or a grassland. Just a bunch of fucking trees.

Bro, trees are way cooler than the desert. I've gone hours without seeing a building during drives. And the oil pumps ruin the scenery in many places.

This. Never realized how much I value trees until I went into the plains area that has no trees.

Nice

Guess it all don't have to be a change for the better.

This made me go "deeper" because I found music and lyrics that touched my edgy teenage soul.

yeah it needs more people on it

Helped me slide into and out of a 4 year long existential crisis and consequential depression.

Essential neck-beard core

>I started smoking more because it's his gimmick!

Are you fucking stupid?

i became a fuccboi after hearing Yeezus

it was an embarassing time

This. Along with other of his songs, there is one called "when you're dead", and it helped me shape the way I treat others and see mortality, and made me give a shit about other people, and one of the reasons I haven't commited suicide yet. Yet.

Not one of my favorites anymore, but definitely had the biggest impact on me. One of my biggest "milestones" towards patrishunhood.

Fantastic post

This album was just another awful pop rock record that I had to review for my college radio station, but it's shitty celtic themes made me want to research about the country my family is from, Ireland.

I am a Catholic, so when I found out abortion was illegal in Ireland, I wanted to get a citizenship and move there one day to try to keep it that way. It seems like a much more humane country than the US, other than the IRA.

tl;dr This album made me want to leave the US

I genuinely had no idea music could be this raw and emotional, it made me want more

found love of my life :^)

It was my first decent rock album, it instantly turned the band into one of my favorites and it made me look for different things in rock that I haven't looked into yet and it was the one to get me into this listening to albums thing.

Later the one that changed me the most was Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint, apart from blowing my mind it was really important since it opened my eyes regarding making music.