The First Album that Got You Into All this Stuff?
 

Obviously you weren't always the kid with the cool record collection, so what was that one album that set the bulb off in your ears?

I'd have to go for the Cramps comp. Bad Music for Bad People, which I must've got when I was around thirteen or fourteen. I think it was probably hearing the song 'She Said', which I thought was the most bizarre thing I'd ever heard in my entire life. And still do, to a large degree.

NYC Ghost & Flowers opened the world of experimental music. It was the first SY album I heard and I was about 15 or 16. Free City Rhymes made my jaw drop.

Out of laziness, quoting myself from sonicl's similarly themed thread from a couple of year's ago.

That's weird because I think the first band I really loved was Showaddywaddy. I remember seeing them in their coloured drape coats and naively thinking they were the coolest thing in the world. The Darts too! I think after that (given the inevitable Madness obsession) it was The Police. But they were still a 'pop' band really, so it was still The Cramps that got me out of simply following the charts.

Showaddywaddy were pretty cool if you were 10.

And what I left out of my original post was that the Damned led to Vice Squad, GBH and Discharge before I got to Meat Puppets, Minutemen etc.

What were you saying in the Oi! thread about ignoring this part of music's history?:o

When I was 11 I got the Greatest Hits II of Queen. Then I listen to Aerosmith & GNR and when I was 14 I first listen to MTV's Nirvana Live & Loud and it blowed my mind. And I think, like many I started digging what influence Nirvana. There come Sonic Youth to me, Washing Machine CD was the first of my collection. I like all sort of music now, I'm kind of wide open minded, but the soundtrack of my life is SONIC YOUTH.

when I was 9-10 I had Quiet Riot Metal Health, Motley Crue SHout @ The Devil, Def Leppard's Pyromania, and van halen 1984. Thios were my first favorite records.

I was a hardcore metal head/headbanger through thrash and speed metal. then, oh then

I bought this album



and I saw these guys


and I was like WHO THE FUCK?

and the music sounded so different, heavy, yet beautiful, insane, yet structured, screeching and fast, slow and grooving, all of it.
I listened to it endlessly and because of it I started watching 120 minutes as well as headbanger's ball.
then I bought daydream nation....

it was all gravy after that!

Probably In Utero.

It's sort of true. You read 90% of books about punk and they act as though it ended with the Winterlands concert. The fact that nobody seemed to tell thousands of kids that explains how bands like Discharge managed to continue largely unnoticed by the media well into the 80s. Oi! as crucial to the early 80s as potato puffs, Farah trousers and Tucker Jenkins.

First one to point me in the right direction:

Good place to start. I would have picked that, but since it's already been stated, I guess I'll go with...

I fell in love with that PIL song watching the cyberpunk B movie HARDWARE

The first album of my collection was Tyranosaurus Hives by The Hives. But I'd say the album that really "got me into all this stuff" was NYC Ghosts & Flowers - I heard Nevermind (what was it anyway) on the store where I bought that Hives album and that made me discover the band and stuff

Same here. I got that when I was like 12 or something? I don't know. Mellow Gold by Beck soon followed.

I have to thank my old man for this:






EDIT: It's not strictly an album, but who gives a frig.

I was horrible through my teen years. Before that I liked some unusual stuff, at least for my age. Classical, Ragtime, 50's rock, etc. No theme, unless you consider the fact that I didn't let anybody else decide for me what I liked. Then as I hit my early teens, insecurity set in. My cousin, along with people at school, started influencing me towards mainstream music. By 16 I was all about Master P, Juvenile, Usher, all of that crap. It wasn't until Ruda came along (otherwise known as RdTV on the board) that I was able to start breaking free from the brainwashing I had undergone. He helped me get back to my roots; maybe not musically, but towards how I originally viewed music, where it wasn't a determining factor of your social status, but rather just something that you should enjoy for your own satisfaction. In addition to his constant playing of Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Radiohead, etc., etc. - that I didn't like at the time - I also started getting into the guitarist Buckethead. In and of itself that maybe be the best stuff out there, but it led me to Bill Laswell and he led me to a plethora of other musicians, and the doors swung wide open.

I went through a strange trasistional period too. It could almost be likened to schizophrenia, except I wouldn't consider it in anyway dangerous. I would go through "phases," if you will. I would be ALL about rap, for instance, for 2 weeks and almost hate anything else. Then my mind would switch. I would be all into, say, punk, and hate everything else, including rap. This would go around and round (not just with rap and punk of course, but with many types of music) until finally Ruda had to face me about it and I realized what was going on. All is well now; I'm very settled and content with my music, and the insanity is over.

So that's my story, and to answer the question here, I would have to say the first album that really got me thinking outside the box was Buckethead's Colma. Not crazy-out-there by any means, but it was the start of things to come.

probably surfer rosa, daydream nation.. heard them both the same day... and after that probably isnt anything.

This one too.

nirvana - nevermind, back in 1991 aged 12
also either, de la soul's 3ft high and rising, or public enemy back in 1989, i can't remember which i heard first.

i don't know, i never thought i had an uncool record collection at any point, i think it's a fair balance between utterly brilliant in it's mindblowingness and utterly brilliant in it's ridiculousness.

Nor did I. But looking back, I have to say that I was very, very, VERY deluded. And probably still am!

for every bon jovi album i had, i also had nirvana and megadeth to counterbalance, if it's cred we're talking about.

OK Computer was a pretty big record for a kid like myself growing up in the nineties surrounded my Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana and other mainstream alternative. There was more experimentation there which lead me to the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, and whatever else since.

ahh, what was the first pseudo-experimental album i got into/bought?

nine inch nails' downward spiral.

In Utero, radio friendly unit shifter just blew my mind. And it still does.

Radiohead.

album please?

I was gonna say Dirty, but now that Hayden and pbradley mention it I think I had OK Computer for a while before that. It just took me a while to enjoy it. I specifically remember not liking either CD until they clicked at about the same time.

Sticky Fingers.

I obsessed over getting this one for weeks because I had to save up allowance money, and I had to worry about what my parents would think. The zipper/jeans cover seemed obscenely outrageous to me. This was 1971 and I was barely 16.

Then there was this inner sleeve photo that sealed the deal for me. I was fascinated with it.

The Doors - The Doors
Laurie Anderson - United States Live I-IV
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Not my top five or anything, but these were seminal for myself.

Call me Mr Obvious, but it's another "aye" for Nevermind.

Yes, me too.

i wish i was enlightened enough when i was younger to appreciate yes.

when i bought nevermind, i thought it was good but not that special, i can't really count it as "woah! it fucked with my perseption of music".

Unplugged in New York got me started playing guitar.

same here, followed shortly by Pixes, Sonic Youth, Babes in Toyland etc.......

I found this cool looking oval Owner of a Lonely Heart single a while ago

oval - y'mean that shot isn't in perspective...cool!<--post #900

the fucker is OVAL! it looks hilarious spinning around the turntable