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Wednesday, 9 September 2015
quote [ Take 15 minutes to list 15 albums you'll never forget and will always stick with you. List why the album will stick with you, because really, who wants to just read lists. ]
It's a stupid Facebook meme that's wound up hugely popular in my social circle - and it's genuinely fascinating to see what people love and why. This isn't a "list your top fifteen", any fifteen will do - so long as they were memorable and influenced you, and yes, that includes albums that negatively influenced you as well.
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b said @ 4:46pm GMT on 9th September
Ooh fun! Let's see..
1. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing. My entrance in to trip hop, turntables, instrumental hip hop and DJs as musicians. Mind blowing album for me. Probably tops my list of all time favourites.
2. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet. One of my first two rap albums. I didn't understand the message at the time, but I could appreciate that Chuck was saying something important. I had it on cassette back in the day, ordered via Columbia House to my home in the town of 3000 I lived in. I didn't know anyone else listening to that kind of music and I'd never heard it before. For some reason it got inside me and kickstarted my lifelong relationship with rap and hip hop.
3. Digital Underground - Sex Packets. The second rap album that arrived with PE's Fear of a Black Planet. The message on this one was much more clear to my teen self: sex. The beats were dirty and funky, the raps were funny and they talked about sex. I was on board.
4. Tool - Ænima. I had moved to Vancouver and, basically, had no friends. Met a guy at work who I remain friends with to this day. He introduced me to modern metal and prog rock. We used to play this album, among others, while sitting in his room, smoking weed and drinking tea. I'd long ago abandoned any "rock" music, as my only experience with it was garbage like Motley Crue and Poison or my dad's classic stuff. Tool was a whole new world.
5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030. Jesus Christ.
6. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle. After PE, Digital Underground, Run DMC and other 80s rap, I didn't have the resources or means to explore new artists. 93 was the year I graduated highschool and the year I moved away from home. Muchmusic or some shit was playing Snoop's video, What's My Name, and it kind of blew my mind all over again.
7. Dr. Dre - The Chronic. Naturally, after hearing Snoop, I was all in on Dre too. Overall, The Chronic is a better album than Doggystyle, but they're both classics in my mind.
8. Madvillain - Madvillainy. Yikes. Wow. This was more mindblowing shit! Madlib had a whole new sound to me and would further shape my musical tastes. After the gangsta rap bubble burst for me (it all sounded the same and the lyrics became so trite and repetitive and boring) I needed new rap, but East Coast stuff wasn't doing it for me. Cue Madvillainy. The production was amazing, Doom's raps were like nothing I'd heard before. The voice, the irreverence, the obscure references, I loved it all.
9. MF Doom - Mm.. Food. I think I'd actually heard Doom before listening to Madvillainy, but I was listening to both at the same time. Hard to pick just one Doom album, so I'm listing Mm.. Food. But Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villain and Venomous Villain (both as Victor Vaughn) still get regular play for me.
10. DJ Krush - Jaku. I found DJ Krush because I was looking for more sounds like DJ Shadow. Krush didn't disappoint. Jaku was probably the first Krush album I bought and listened to through all the way, most other tracks I'd heard being downloaded via Napster or Limewire or some shit. Meaning, I wasn't downloading albums. But once I heard this and Zen I was hooked. Seen him live twice and his show is so minimalist and intense, it's amazing. Unfortunately for some reason his last tour date for Vancouver was cancelled so he put on a special live streaming show for everyone. Was a nice gesture, but I would have really liked to see that live show again.
11. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives. I don't remember exactly how I found this one, but it was probably because MF Doom is on the track Blacklist on this album. In my quest for new, unusual and unique sounds, I found myself in this realm of glitches, synths and all sorts of electronically created sounds. It was hip hop, but most of the tracks didn't have an MC. It was different and new to me. I still love this shit and I am in fact listening to this album right now. This was also right around the time that I had been single for a while, after breaking up with the girl I moved to Vancouver with. I was a poor bike messenger and my dispatcher was this super cute chick with dreads and a perfect ass. Eventually we had a three month fling and it was glorious. Sad b when it was over.
12. Massive Attack - Mezzanine. My British trip hop spirit animal. What can I say about this one that hasn't been said? A classic. Still holds up today, imo and like all the music I've listed, still makes it into the rotation. If there's ever an album for listening to sometime between midnight and dawn and you're super stoned, it might be this one.
13. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonagynecologist. Huge Kool Keith fan, and this was his first solo joint. Teaming up with Dan the Automator, DJ Q-Bert and DJ Shadow put this firmly in the centre of my universe for a while. Such weirdness, such darkness, such inventiveness... it's easily in my all time faves list.
14. Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac. For me, these are basically one album and as y'all probably know, both were recorded during the same sessions in studio. Everyone I knew was head over heels for OK Computer, and, of course, Karma Police is a great song, but the rest of the album didn't really do it for me. (Now I appreciate it much more, but at the time I wasn't into it) These two albums though. Holy shit. They're the ones that made me a Radiohead fan.
15. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein. An amazing rap album. I don't even know what to tell you about it. You just have to listen to it. Sharp lyrics, sick beats. Just... if you like rap and hip hop and haven't heard this, you should. Go now.
Just a couple of honourable mentions: Nas - Illmatic, Aesop Rock - Pretty much anything, GZA - Liquid Swords (love me a good concept album), Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust, QOTSA - Rated R, Tool - Lateralus... so much more.
b said @ 4:58pm GMT on 9th September
Ooh fun! Let's see..
1. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing. My entrance in to trip hop, turntables, instrumental hip hop and DJs as musicians. Mind blowing album for me. Probably tops my list of all time favourites.
2. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet. One of my first two rap albums. I didn't understand the message at the time, but I could appreciate that Chuck was saying something important. I had it on cassette back in the day, ordered via Columbia House to my home in the town of 3000 I lived in. I didn't know anyone else listening to that kind of music and I'd never heard it before. For some reason it got inside me and kickstarted my lifelong relationship with rap and hip hop.
3. Digital Underground - Sex Packets. The second rap album that arrived with PE's Fear of a Black Planet. The message on this one was much more clear to my teen self: sex. The beats were dirty and funky, the raps were funny and they talked about sex. I was on board.
4. Tool - Ænima. I had moved to Vancouver and, basically, had no friends. Met a guy at work who I remain friends with to this day. He introduced me to modern metal and prog rock. We used to play this album, among others, while sitting in his room, smoking weed and drinking tea. I'd long ago abandoned any "rock" music, as my only experience with it was garbage like Motley Crue and Poison or my dad's classic stuff. Tool was a whole new world.
5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030. Jesus Christ.
6. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle. After PE, Digital Underground, Run DMC and other 80s rap, I didn't have the resources or means to explore new artists. 93 was the year I graduated highschool and the year I moved away from home. Muchmusic or some shit was playing Snoop's video, What's My Name, and it kind of blew my mind all over again.
7. Dr. Dre - The Chronic. Naturally, after hearing Snoop, I was all in on Dre too. Overall, The Chronic is a better album than Doggystyle, but they're both classics in my mind.
8. Madvillain - Madvillainy. Yikes. Wow. This was more mindblowing shit! Madlib had a whole new sound to me and would further shape my musical tastes. After the gangsta rap bubble burst for me (it all sounded the same and the lyrics became so trite and repetitive and boring) I needed new rap, but East Coast stuff wasn't doing it for me. Cue Madvillainy. The production was amazing, Doom's raps were like nothing I'd heard before. The voice, the irreverence, the obscure references, I loved it all.
9. MF Doom - Mm.. Food. I think I'd actually heard Doom before listening to Madvillainy, but I was listening to both at the same time. Hard to pick just one Doom album, so I'm listing Mm.. Food. But Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villain and Venomous Villain (both as Victor Vaughn) still get regular play for me.
10. DJ Krush - Jaku. I found DJ Krush because I was looking for more sounds like DJ Shadow. Krush didn't disappoint. Jaku was probably the first Krush album I bought and listened to through all the way, most other tracks I'd heard being downloaded via Napster or Limewire or some shit. Meaning, I wasn't downloading albums. But once I heard this and Zen I was hooked. Seen him live twice and his show is so minimalist and intense, it's amazing. Unfortunately for some reason his last tour date for Vancouver was cancelled so he put on a special live streaming show for everyone. Was a nice gesture, but I would have really liked to see that live show again.
11. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives. I don't remember exactly how I found this one, but it was probably because MF Doom is on the track Blacklist on this album. In my quest for new, unusual and unique sounds, I found myself in this realm of glitches, synths and all sorts of electronically created sounds. It was hip hop, but most of the tracks didn't have an MC. It was different and new to me. I still love this shit and I am in fact listening to this album right now. This was also right around the time that I had been seeing a new chick for a while, after breaking up with the girl I moved to Vancouver with. I was a poor bike messenger and my dispatcher was this super cute chick with dreads and a perfect ass. Eventually I dumped my current gf and had a three month fling with my 21 year old dispatcher and it was glorious. Sad b when it was over.
12. Massive Attack - Mezzanine. My British trip hop spirit animal. What can I say about this one that hasn't been said? A classic. Still holds up today, imo and like all the music I've listed, still makes it into the rotation. If there's ever an album for listening to sometime between midnight and dawn and you're super stoned, it might be this one.
13. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonagynecologist. Huge Kool Keith fan, and this was his first solo joint. Teaming up with Dan the Automator, DJ Q-Bert and DJ Shadow put this firmly in the centre of my universe for a while. Such weirdness, such darkness, such inventiveness... it's easily in my all time faves list.
14. Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac. For me, these are basically one album and as y'all probably know, both were recorded during the same sessions in studio. Everyone I knew was head over heels for OK Computer, and, of course, Karma Police is a great song, but the rest of the album didn't really do it for me. (Now I appreciate it much more, but at the time I wasn't into it) These two albums though. Holy shit. They're the ones that made me a Radiohead fan.
15. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein. An amazing rap album. I don't even know what to tell you about it. You just have to listen to it. Sharp lyrics, sick beats. Just... if you like rap and hip hop and haven't heard this, you should. Go now.
Just a couple of honourable mentions: Nas - Illmatic, Aesop Rock - Pretty much anything, GZA - Liquid Swords (love me a good concept album), Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust, QOTSA - Rated R, Tool - Lateralus... so much more.
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b said @ 4:46pm GMT on 9th September [Score:1 Good]
Ooh fun! Let's see..
1. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing. My entrance in to trip hop, turntables, instrumental hip hop and DJs as musicians. Mind blowing album for me. Probably tops my list of all time favourites.
2. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet. One of my first two rap albums. I didn't understand the message at the time, but I could appreciate that Chuck was saying something important. I had it on cassette back in the day, ordered via Columbia House to my home in the town of 3000 I lived in. I didn't know anyone else listening to that kind of music and I'd never heard it before. For some reason it got inside me and kickstarted my lifelong relationship with rap and hip hop.
3. Digital Underground - Sex Packets. The second rap album that arrived with PE's Fear of a Black Planet. The message on this one was much more clear to my teen self: sex. The beats were dirty and funky, the raps were funny and they talked about sex. I was on board.
4. Tool - Ænima. I had moved to Vancouver and, basically, had no friends. Met a guy at work who I remain friends with to this day. He introduced me to modern metal and prog rock. We used to play this album, among others, while sitting in his room, smoking weed and drinking tea. I'd long ago abandoned any "rock" music, as my only experience with it was garbage like Motley Crue and Poison or my dad's classic stuff. Tool was a whole new world.
5. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030. Jesus Christ.
6. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle. After PE, Digital Underground, Run DMC and other 80s rap, I didn't have the resources or means to explore new artists. 93 was the year I graduated highschool and the year I moved away from home. Muchmusic or some shit was playing Snoop's video, What's My Name, and it kind of blew my mind all over again.
7. Dr. Dre - The Chronic. Naturally, after hearing Snoop, I was all in on Dre too. Overall, The Chronic is a better album than Doggystyle, but they're both classics in my mind.
8. Madvillain - Madvillainy. Yikes. Wow. This was more mindblowing shit! Madlib had a whole new sound to me and would further shape my musical tastes. After the gangsta rap bubble burst for me (it all sounded the same and the lyrics became so trite and repetitive and boring) I needed new rap, but East Coast stuff wasn't doing it for me. Cue Madvillainy. The production was amazing, Doom's raps were like nothing I'd heard before. The voice, the irreverence, the obscure references, I loved it all.
9. MF Doom - Mm.. Food. I think I'd actually heard Doom before listening to Madvillainy, but I was listening to both at the same time. Hard to pick just one Doom album, so I'm listing Mm.. Food. But Operation Doomsday, Vaudeville Villain and Venomous Villain (both as Victor Vaughn) still get regular play for me.
10. DJ Krush - Jaku. I found DJ Krush because I was looking for more sounds like DJ Shadow. Krush didn't disappoint. Jaku was probably the first Krush album I bought and listened to through all the way, most other tracks I'd heard being downloaded via Napster or Limewire or some shit. Meaning, I wasn't downloading albums. But once I heard this and Zen I was hooked. Seen him live twice and his show is so minimalist and intense, it's amazing. Unfortunately for some reason his last tour date for Vancouver was cancelled so he put on a special live streaming show for everyone. Was a nice gesture, but I would have really liked to see that live show again.
11. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives. I don't remember exactly how I found this one, but it was probably because MF Doom is on the track Blacklist on this album. In my quest for new, unusual and unique sounds, I found myself in this realm of glitches, synths and all sorts of electronically created sounds. It was hip hop, but most of the tracks didn't have an MC. It was different and new to me. I still love this shit and I am in fact listening to this album right now. This was also right around the time that I had been seeing a new chick for a while, after breaking up with the girl I moved to Vancouver with. I was a poor bike messenger and my dispatcher was this super cute chick with dreads and a perfect ass. Eventually I dumped my current gf and had a three month fling with my 21 year old dispatcher and it was glorious. Sad b when it was over.
12. Massive Attack - Mezzanine. My British trip hop spirit animal. What can I say about this one that hasn't been said? A classic. Still holds up today, imo and like all the music I've listed, still makes it into the rotation. If there's ever an album for listening to sometime between midnight and dawn and you're super stoned, it might be this one.
13. Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonagynecologist. Huge Kool Keith fan, and this was his first solo joint. Teaming up with Dan the Automator, DJ Q-Bert and DJ Shadow put this firmly in the centre of my universe for a while. Such weirdness, such darkness, such inventiveness... it's easily in my all time faves list.
14. Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac. For me, these are basically one album and as y'all probably know, both were recorded during the same sessions in studio. Everyone I knew was head over heels for OK Computer, and, of course, Karma Police is a great song, but the rest of the album didn't really do it for me. (Now I appreciate it much more, but at the time I wasn't into it) These two albums though. Holy shit. They're the ones that made me a Radiohead fan.
15. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein. An amazing rap album. I don't even know what to tell you about it. You just have to listen to it. Sharp lyrics, sick beats. Just... if you like rap and hip hop and haven't heard this, you should. Go now.
Just a couple of honourable mentions: Nas - Illmatic, Aesop Rock - Pretty much anything, GZA - Liquid Swords (love me a good concept album), Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust, QOTSA - Rated R, Tool - Lateralus... so much more.
