Impossible... but the first that come to mind... these albums have influenced me a lot: Pink Floyd - Dark Side
New Order - Low Life
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Radiohead - All of them (I know that's cheating)
Good list steve. It is cheating, but I can see why. That's a damned hard decision. I put The Bends on my list because that album blew my mind when it first came out. Plus it's really their last full on "rock" album imo. Love it. Love all of them, but the Bends is as much about the album as it is about that time of my life, you know what I mean?
I know exactly what you mean. My radiohead experience is all jacked up and backwards. Aside from hearing Creep on the radio years before - The first song I heard... or I should say video I saw - was late one night at a friend's house on MTV (remember when they did that? like actually showed music videos?). Anyway - I remember it was just kind of on in the background. And the video sort of pulled me in. and the conversation just trailed off. who is this weird looking dude sitting in this car... and why is the camera panning around like this? I only caught the last part of the song/video, but I was completely hooked. I watched for a couple more hours hoping they would play it again. I went over the next night about the same time hoping it would be on again. ---Did you catch that all of you people born after 1995? We couldn't just pull up shazam or youtube and rewatch something... we had to sit up all night and hope that it would come on the radio or MTV again.--- anyhow - it did come on that night - and I was hooked big time. Bought OK Computer. a year or so later my friend was listening to the bends in his car. I had to have it. Next stop was Pablo Honey. BOOM. The guitar was so crunchy and delicious I could almost taste it. Over the next few years it was about buying every bootleg and live CD I could find. Then I realized sometimes their live shows are amazing and sometimes they had been drinking and the shows (and recordings) sucked. So I backed off for a while on the bootlegs and stuck to the studio releases. I buy them on vinyl now. Vinyl + Digital download might be the single greatest accomplishment of mankind in this century so far. I got a fever. and the only cure, is more radiohead. And at this point - honestly, I just don't have enough time to listen to it all. Thom and Johnny have both cranked out enough solo stuff to swim in for hours.the Bends is as much about the album as it is about that time of my life
Aside from the bootlegs, have you seen Radiohead live before? If so, did you get a good night or a drunk night? I remember when Pablo Honey came out, I was introduced to it by a guy named Corby and whenever I hear it I remember him. His claim to fame was that he could slam an entire 40 of Old English in less than a minute. -Pretty difficult and pretty stupid. So now, the song Creep reminds me of malt liquor.---Did you catch that all of you people born after 1995? We couldn't just pull up shazam or youtube and rewatch something... we had to sit up all night and hope that it would come on the radio or MTV again.---
HA HA HA, that's awesome steve. I remember waiting with my eyes glued to the television with our VCR ready to record so I could capture whatever video it was that I wanted to be able to re-watch. I would love to go through the boxes of VHS tapes in my parents basement to see what is on them. I bet there are some crazy ones.
twice. Both awesome. Once I bought tickets. The other - for my birthday I made my wife promise not to buy the $150 tickets for Red Rocks. She obliged. But we did drive up there and sit on the mountain above the venue and listen to the show for free. I think it was the Kid A tour. One of the best concerts I've been to.