[stu666]

I would go for TYPB if videos were allowed. The only film I've watched more than that was Up In Smoke! (both heavily influenced me )

If I had to pick a record I'd probably say Nevermind...

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Everyone just stop stealing my memories! Nevermind? Electric ladyland? 1991 punk broke??m up in smoke????

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo

To me SY came first and after that Nirvana. I heard GOO first time about half year it´s release. But reason why I like it so much is that it reminds me many of the sixties stuff I loved. So the reason I started to love it wasn´t any "this is music I´ve never heard before" it´s more like "really great some today´s band have made an album that is so much the music I love".

But I also really remember when I heard "Smells like teen Spirit" first time. It had pure energy that I hadn´t heard a long time. My brother bought Nevermind and I brought it to some our school´s party. Of course the most of the people didn´t understand it at all, but there were maybe three guys who went absolutely grazy about it and asked me what´s this, it´s really great! Even that song has become some kind of Stairway to Heaven of grunge, I still remember that my first feeling always when I hear it. Later of course I met guys, who had been Nirvana-fans already in Bleach-time (you know there are always guys who heard great bands from their first demos, Metallica was playing in a very small Place in Finland after they had made Kill Em All, there were guys watching it, but not me).

I think those were great times, I think grunge was the last true youth movement. Year after hearing Smells like teen spirit like many other fans in Finland I went to see Nirvana in a Ruisrock-festival. It was a little bit disappointment to me, but I think I will remember it rest of my life.

Anyway Nirvana become a band almost everybody of my friends listened, SY was never as popular here. But even I liked Nirvana then and has liked it also later, it never became as important to me as SY.

About Nirvana & the Beatles, I have always thought Nevermind is kind of Beatles-album made in the nineties way.

Great post, i love a European perspective on nevermind

[Mortte Jousimo]

About music and coping mechanisms, I believe music is a coping mechanism in those who love music passionately. I can be of course wrong. I mean there are persons to whom this world is too much, kind of sensitive guys, who needs some art to survive. I spent some times alone when I was quite small and I think music become to me replacement of human relations in those situations. No-one of course did put me into room with a music, I think i just was interested about music myself. And because my parents had to be in the work (my mother was only few hours a day) and I enjoyed to be myself with the music, there were those moments. One of my longest friend from childhood has told me, that she asked me to go out but I had said "No, I just want to listen rock". I don´t remember it myself.

Anyway as music therapy view of this, I believe music can also prevent some people to face his problems. I mean music can be so big defense to person who has been in it most of his life.

But also, I think my life would have been really much worse without music! I think I have coped with really hard times with the help of great people & music.

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Hex Enduction Hour

[EVOLghost]

Honestly...I would have to say Kill Yr Idols/Confusion is next. It's the 2nd album by SY I listened to. That CD totally changed the way I viewed music. I didn't know such sounds were possible with your standard rock outfit. ANyways...SY as a whole changed my whole view on life period....especially after reading Goodbye 20th Century. I mean...I guess SY came into my life at the right time. I listened to them at the start of high school and that time is a very influential period...we're all beginning to find ourselves....and SY really just told me, 'fuck it'.

[Mortte Jousimo]

I heard Goo first time also in the first grade of high school. It was quite messy period in my life, so it was really great soundtrack of it!

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SONIC YOUTH - EBOLA

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by pepper_green

first Stooges album. Black Sabbath. White Light White Heat.

These have been really important to me also, kind of milestone albums. Black Sabbath vol.4 is the first album I remember to listen, from cassette (before my brother bought vinyl player, we had cassette player). Of course didn´t really understand it that time, but I still remember the feelings it woke in me. Then there was period I thought Sabbath was boring. Then one of my friends recommend me Paranoid-album and so Sabbath became back to me and I still love those 6 first albums.

Nico-album & White light become important to me same time as Joy Division-albums. Really great music to the adolescent who just a little before has found punk.

Stooges came to me little bit late. I had heard Raw Power, but really didn´t first understand why people thought it was a great album. I think the sounds were the main reason (now I really love those sounds). I heard three cover-versions from the first Stooges album (Not Right, No Fun & Ann) and because I really liked them, I wanted to hear the originals. Then I finally heard first Stooges in one of my friend, he put it me into cassette and I become a big Stooges-fan!

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Vol 4 is a Sabbath masterpiece

[Severian]

Snowblind is fucking awesome. The song itself is so great that even that godawful System of a Down couldn't ruin it. Even their version had some of the haunting energy of the original.

I'm not a "Sabbath Guy" in any way, and I can get by with well put together playlists and "best of" collections for the most part, but Vol. 4 is an album I can't go without. It's their best as far as I'm concerned.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Dudes, will you all just get out of my head and stop stealing my ideas and tastes in music! This has become my favorite thread

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Do yall like Sabotage? Its truly my fav Sabbath album

[Mortte Jousimo]

I think I like all those six first as much. Sabotage is also really great! Symptom of the Universe, Megalomania, Supertzar, Am I going Insane, really great classic Sabbath tunes! Hole in the sky has of course great riff, but I think in that song band started to go to the little bit boring direction. Of course there are some not so great songs also in the earlier albums.

But if I have to say my favourite of those I think it´s also Vol.4. Maybe just because it was my first Sabbath and also my first rock album I remember to listen.

About my parents, they introduced me only this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5SrkzxYdY

[Mortte Jousimo]

About System of down, never really understand why people think it´s a great band. It´s not bad band, but I think Nomeansno & Minutemen have done same thing a lot better.

Just listened their Snowblind-version, I think it`s horrible.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

The first record Self Titled is brilliant, original, and fierce. I love that record.. all the other shit is just that, shite.

[Toilet & Bowels]

System of a Down is garbage, like any of those bands. Seriously. Why are we even talking about them here?

Anyhowz. I don't like the percussive hippy folk bit in Supernaut, it detracts from the riff-majestry. And FWIW Sepultura did a much better incorporation of that kind of stuff on Roots.

[selkcip]

piece for jetsun dolma

[Mortte Jousimo]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Anyhowz. I don't like the percussive hippy folk bit in Supernaut, it detracts from the riff-majestry. And FWIW Sepultura did a much better incorporation of that kind of stuff on Roots.

I like percussions in both. Sepultura`s version of the Symptom is also really great! Like the acoustic end of it!

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Terre Thaemlitz - Couture Cosmetique

totally blew me away when I heard it for the first time. It's actually the record that encouraged me to make music, and more specifically, that kind of music that I do.