What album changed your life?

Ill second Appetite For Desruction!! I remember the day I bought it I was utterly blown away! My best pal was doing his paper round (lol) and I literally run around the streets looking for him to tell him about it!

Second favourite was 'Use Your illusions 2' by GnR, probably the most emotive record Ive ever heard.

"Battery" by Metallica, first metal song I heard...think I was about 8. Turned me towards metal rather than pop.... thank **** for that!

- J

Alice Cooper's Constrictor & Schools Out were the albums that changed music for me. I listened to Metallica, Motley Crue, AC DC...stuff like that but I saw Constrictor and Schools out at a garage sale and bought them for about $2. They were the only records I owned. To this day I can't listen to either album on CD. It's just not the same as the old scratchy records I had.

Jane's Addiction Kettle Whistle, I became a completely different person after it. Before it I was into rock/metal/seatle stuff. After I heard this album I opened myself to many other styles.

Creed - My Own Prison
This album changed my playing style.

Great replies guys.....you all have amazing taste. I'll throw a few more out there that influenced me. Although "Passion and Warfare" is my bible, close behind are:

Stone Temple Pilots "Core"
Led Zeppelin II and "Houses of the Holy"
Ozzy's "No Rest for the Wicked", and "Ozzmosis"
Manson's "Anti-Christ Superstar"
Clapton's "Slowhand"
Van Halen's "Balance," "1984" and "ou812"
Any album by The Clash, Misfits, or Queen


Just a little sample since people were giving more than a few.

Jeff Buckley - Grace

The first would be Queen - Night at the Opera, then I won an album off of a radio station here of a band I had never heard of, I was only like 8 or 10 years old. That album was ZZ Top Fandango. Really got me into the blues, "Balaneze" is bad ass. and of course, I had all of KISS's albums which satisfied my need for power cords and smoking lead. Pink Floyd - The Wall ( many joints smoked over this one) was by far the most influential. That is almost all I play now is old Pink Floyd. My kids got me into Nickleback later in life and they have shaped my play somewhat.

Tim

Pig Destroyer - 38 Counts Of Battery
It was because of this I'm now into metal.

Led Zeppelin - II
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
After listening to these two albums, I began to appreciate music.

I personally love fashion nugget by cake

Jimmysticks, is there a way you could shrink that signature or something?

I don't know what crack you guys are on, but I can't say that any album has ever changed my life. That's a bit drastic, don't you think? I suppose I could say certain guitarists have molded my musical trajectory, as far as guitar playing is concerned. But even then, there's probably not one particular album by any particular guitarist/musician that has specifically influenced me.



Maybe it's a different story for bible-thumpers who became religious as a result of Christian pop bands or people who became satanic/goths from death metal bands. In those instances, I guess you could say that a particular album changed your life. I don't buy into the whole 'image' thing...

well - the album that i mentioned brought me into guitar music and that made me pick up my guitar and become a musician - and that DEFINITELY changed my life, since it gave me a direction to where to go in my life. so i can say it CHANGED MY LIFE. no need to be on any sort of crack for me there.

i find guitar playing a life- altering experience. I mean for instance, it helped me discover a part of me that I dont know existed before. It also opened up a lot of doors for me and helped me find my identity and my true calling. I now actually have some better things to do with my spare time than hanging arounf and identifying myself with no good people at school back in highschool. And I dont think I'd learn how to play the guitar if it weren't for those albums that appealed to me. So I guess I owe it to those albums. They changed my life drastically that way.

Music actually had no influence on my deciding to play guitar. Before playing guitar music wasn't really a part of my life outside band at school, which I didn't like (the reason it was so hard and unrewarding for me, although I didn't know it at the time, was that my instrument was broken. it's a real pity I didn't know that sooner). It was in all seriousness completely random. I was bored, I saw a used guitar that looked nice for $125 when I was with my bro (who plays bass) in a music shop, I had money I wasn't spending on anything else, so I was like what the hell. I'll take that one. As soon as I started learning to play it (the only 'lesson' I've had was my sister showing me the open d chord) I fell in love with the art and I haven't looked back since.

I can't remember if I ever answered this thread's original question. Marilyn Manson, it's the reason I stopped hating myself and started admiting my life had problems I needed to deal with.

to tell you the truth, i hated band at school too. I wanted to play the guitar but the school put me on the school band and gave me the bass instead! At that time, I only know how to play very basic guitar- no notes, so I had no idea how to play the bass! My teacher tried teaching me the notes but they were just more boring than the songs we played at school. So as usual, I let my ear lead the way and just improvised my way through band concerts. I thought I was going to fail because I sucked at music theory exams, I didnt do homework, and I just improvised during practices and concerts but I managed to get a 70% which I'm pretty proud of LOL.

I played in jazz band in my school. That was fun, besides all the new stuff thrown in to the music. Like triangles. Seeing chords labeled with random geometric shapes for the first time is always an adventure.

did u play guitar in your school jazz band? see, the jazz band in my school is so old fashioned- they dont allow guitars- only bass guitars- and thats if you're lucky because sometimes, they just use a piano!!! Never made a difference anyways even if there was a second instrument in the room- somehow, the main instrument was always the piano. I have nothing against piano- I actually love the sound of it and wish I could play it as good as I play the guitar- but playing jazz songs with just piano is just boring- especially if the piano is old and barely functional to begin with. Its also a shame to always use a piano on a jazz song that uses a guitar as the main instrument- its just plain blasphemy. The good ol fashion warm guitar jazz chords and improv solos just dont sound the same in piano.

Yeah, I was able to play guitar in it. My twin bro covered the bass section, which was pretty cool.

Originally posted by Hammurabi
Seeing chords labeled with random geometric shapes for the first time is always an adventure.

LOL!!

yeah - i remember a time when i was still a musical virgin and when i didnt even think about becoming a musician mayelf. there was this band of a friend of mine which we were visiting during one of their rehersals. the two guitarrists sat there argueing about a chordname. it was like "its a Bflat7911133456" and "nooo - its a Cmajor7add9234782134" and i thought to myself "huh? so many numbers? what has this got to do with music?" *LOL* it sounded to me like the operation manual for a camcorder or something, but not like names for musical chords. aah yes.. those where the days.. :D