Which album means most to you and why?

[Whirlysplat]

Does any album define an important time in your life or just call out to you with meaning. This isn't a favourite album thread it's about meaning, either past or present.

If you can explain why it means so much all the better.

For me it's either Stone Roses/ Stone Roses at it defines being at University or The Sundays/ Monochrome as he reminds me of that road not taken and a girl I really loved and still think of a lot, about a decade and a half or more later.

What about you?

 

[spike spiegel]

It's hard for me to pick an album...but...

I'd have to say The Eleventh Hour, by a band called Jars of Clay. For spiritual reasons. It definately resonates within me on a few subjects, including love and spiritual need. That album was awesome.

 

[The Chairman]

The quarter of Saloon Song albums Sinatra cut at Capitol (In The Wee Small Hours, Where Are You?, Only The Lonely & No One Cares). Each of them affects me in just about every way imaginabel - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Everything from the way he sings to the depth and realism he puts into each song is incredible.

 

[Mr.Webs]

In The Wee Small Hours from Sinatra is definitely one that strikes a chord with me emotionally. When I heard it, it was time in which I needed an album like that...desperately.

Hard Day's Night by The Beatles is an album that will always remind me of good times, when I was much younger. Almost any happy memory from the last two years will be able to coincide with that album.

And then, Johnny Cash's Unchained and Solitary Man albums. Both dark, unsettling albums that helped me through a very personally troubling time.

 

[SpideyVille]

Mine would have to be the first album I brought on my own, which is 'Fallen' by Evanescence. Whenever I listen to songs from there I remember exactly what I was going through a few years ago. It was the summer before my first year in high school. I spent the whole summer alone in my stepdad's house because that's what my mom used to force me to do every summer vacation. My brother wasn't around to hang out with, and I wasn't in touch with any of my friends so all I did was listen to my radio all day. I was just in a bad place mentally and physically. Then I remember hearing 'Bring Me To Life' for the first time and instantly falling in love with it. I was never into music that much back then, but ever since that summer, I learned a lot about my taste in music and Evanescence was what really got me started. In fact 'Bring Me To Life' is my all-time favorite song.

 

[teh Puffy]

Well I will answer with a local band here in Arizona. Bless The Falls' His Last Walk...So many reasons as to why its the most meaningful and important album to me so let me get a few out.

I have had depression for years now, with no medication and it will continue for another 10 months for sure. (Christian Screamo music genre). So I would listen to the album and be taken away from the screams to jesus or god or heaven or how one would have there own life end for anothers to live longer cause they had been taught so much through that person. The spirtualness of the song kind of made me happy. The lead singer I went to school with, and that showed me hey "if he can do it I can do it too." To me it wasnt that I was like happy like fuzzy rabbits or rainbows. But I was better off mentally. I was able to say I wanted to do something and mean it.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Metallica's Black Album, & G'n'Rs Appetite For Destruction. Metal has never sounded so sweet to me than the first time I listened to these bad boys. Also Poisons Open Up & Say AHHHH.. holds a special place in my heart.

 

[The Evolutionist]

Toxicity- System of a Down

It marks a complete change in my musical perspective, I really don't know where I'd be without it.

 

[Eggyman]

What's The Story, Morning Glory? by Oasis. I think it's just that when that came out I was having a great time and was on the verge of becoming an adult. I guess it was the soundtrack to an important - and very memorable! - time of my life.

 

[Protest the Hero]

it's raining outside
there's a storm front on my back
trying to keep me back, trying to keep me away from you
a stranger's up ahead
trying to keep, trying to keep me away from you
the stars are falling now, breaking up the road
trying to keep trying to keep me away from you
i'll scream til i bleed, i'll scream stay away from me
you can't keep me back, keep me back

 

[Manic]

This is going to sound weird, but Kanye West's College Dropout spoke to me. There I was, enrolled in a community college, working everyday at the mall, feeling unmotivated by bullcrap classes and my bosses. And damned if I didn't take a "temporary hiatus" from school (I dropped out for 2 years after dropping an excessive number of classes two semesters in a row).

 

[Odin's Lapdog]

janet jackson's velvet rope got me through some times but i can't even bring myself to listen to it anymore.

 

[William_C]

OutKast's Stankonia. It was the first music I started to pick up when I got into high school. I think it really shaped me into being open minded. The music was new, the school and city I was in was new. It just pieced together.

 

[The Chairman]

In The Wee Small Hours from Sinatra is definitely one that strikes a chord with me emotionally. When I heard it, it was time in which I needed an album like that...desperately.

That was the man's gift. Frank releated to people through his music. The song "Where Is The One?" on Where Are You? hit me emotionally like few songs ever did.

Come to think of it, though it's different in theme and concept, I'd list The Concert Sinatra as well. His recording of "Ol' Man River" was the first time I was really left breathless by a recording.

 

[Victor Creed]

This is probably my favorite Metallica album, and IMHO, the best. You have a nice mix of heavier songs (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Creeping Death, Ride the Lightning) and the great solos and harmony in Fade to Black and Call of Ktulu flesh out the album. It's one of those albums that you aren't just buying for one song and forcing yourself to listen to the others.

I'm not sure why this means the most to me, sometimes you are introduced to an album or songs on an album at a point in your life and it becomes reflective of that. It's probably because I found this album when I was in middle school, and I like to listen to it to remind me of those times with friends I have lost soon after to those tragic twists of fate in life.

 

[hippy fascist]

Mine would have to be the first album I brought on my own, which is 'Fallen' by Evanescence. Whenever I listen to songs from there I remember exactly what I was going through a few years ago. It was the summer before my first year in high school. I spent the whole summer alone in my stepdad's house because that's what my mom used to force me to do every summer vacation. My brother wasn't around to hang out with, and I wasn't in touch with any of my friends so all I did was listen to my radio all day. I was just in a bad place mentally and physically. Then I remember hearing 'Bring Me To Life' for the first time and instantly falling in love with it. I was never into music that much back then, but ever since that summer, I learned a lot about my taste in music and Evanescence was what really got me started. In fact 'Bring Me To Life' is my all-time favorite song.

You should really just kill yourself now and spare the world the pain of your continued existence

 

[Victor Creed]

You should really just kill yourself now and spare the world the pain of your continued existence

What'd you expect from someone who has a SM3 avatar.

 

[hippy fascist]

Not a lot

 

[hippy fascist]

Primal Scream: Screamadelica

Reminds me of my Days running club nights at uni. I ran a madchester night at my student union and actually managed to make some serious profit (around 400% per event)

Every week I closed the set on the same three tracks

Hallelujah: Happy mondays
I am the resurrection: The Stone Roses
Loaded: Primal Scream

When you manage to find just the right song and the dancefloor just goes off on one, there really is no feeling quite like it.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Jay-Z: Blueprint

Album dropped on 9/11. I remember when the towers fell, we were dismissed from school. My oblivious ass had no idea why people were making such a fuss; I didn't know it was related to terrorism at the time, just thought it was some negligent pilots O). So I'm excited to be outta school so I can rush to K-Mart and buy this CD; not to get home to my family. So I get to K-Mart and people are haulin ass to get outta there, while I'm shovin ass to get in lol. I finally make it to the register with the CD and hand it to the guy.

Me: YES!
Clerk:
Me: This CD is awesome, today is awesome!
Clerk:

I still have no idea what's goin on the world, all I'm concerned with is getting this CD into my eardrums. Few hours later, after listening to the CD a few times, I turn on the TV and then it hits me






"Rumor has it The Blueprint classic
Couldn't even be stopped by Bin Laden
So September 11th marks the era forever
of a revolutionary Jay Guevero"

 

[spike spiegel]

You should really just kill yourself now and spare the world the pain of your continued existence

Yeah!!! And rightly so!!! *shakes fist*

How dare he let music move him during downtime in his life! Let alone an Evanescance song!

grrrrrrrr

 

[Victor Creed]

Yeah!!! And rightly so!!! *shakes fist*

How dare he let music move him during downtime in his life! Let alone an Evanescance song!

grrrrrrrr

It was more of a statement that his story made him sound like an emo Harry Potter, lol.

Emo Harry Potters deserve death.

 

[chrisfishlock]

Rancid - ...And Out Came The Wolves eems to put my feelings into words and it sort of became my favourite album through that but i cant really explain why.

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am Is What I Am not is another album that means alot to me becuase the amount of memories it carrys around with me, although i dont think its an amazing album, when i first got it i was obsessed and i listened to it all the time for ages and i just have loads of memories with it.

another album meaning alot to me is Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge becuase it feels like it really represents the youth of today, particuly in Britian and my general feelings about being a teenager and the problems i go through and what i feel.

 

[hippy fascist]

It was more of a statement that his story made him sound like an emo Harry Potter, lol.

Emo Harry Potters deserve death.

No it really was just the Evanescance fandom

If you listen to sh**ty music you're a worthless moron and the world's better off without you

If you listen to Evanescance you should be castrated before death as well just to be certain

Just my 2 cents

 

[Victor Creed]

No it really was just the Evanescance fandom

If you listen to sh**ty music you're a worthless moron and the world's better off without you

If you listen to Evanescance you should be castrated before death as well just to be certain

Just my 2 cents

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