The album Automatic for the People by R.E.M.

Honestly, when I was fifteen I saw the songs on this album as symbolizing the end of innocence (Nightswimming, anyone?). The entire album fit my adolecsent pondering/brooding like nothing else. In fact, it's hard to listen to now, just because it takes me back to that place in a second. I remember wanting to write to Michael Stipe and thank him for helping me out...

CrackRockColin

Atlanta, GA

March 2004

SEP 25, 2004 03:02 PM

balsac the jaws of death's solo album.

AvaFalls

I'm lost

July 2004

SEP 25, 2004 03:07 PM

Revolver. Need I say more?

ClicheGuevara

Toronto, ON

September 2003

SEP 25, 2004 03:52 PM

Fuzzles

United Kingdom

December 2003

SEP 25, 2004 03:58 PM

Nitro by The Offspring. Before a friend of mine thrust a mix tape of Smash and Ixnay into my hands, pretty much all I had was a Dire Straits greatest hits and 6 or 7 CDs. That track kickstarted my love of music - now I'm counting something like 250+ albums. It's been a good ride since then.

leira

Denmark

September 2004

SEP 25, 2004 04:32 PM

Cruelty said:
The album Automatic for the People by R.E.M.

this album changed my life in a way also. but i'm not really a fan of R.E.M.

Lyingstones

Albuquerque, NM

September 2003

SEP 25, 2004 04:49 PM

Sunday Munich's Vinculum

quietlythere

USA

June 2004

SEP 25, 2004 04:54 PM

The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. i was 10 years old.

Thriftx2Horatio

USA

March 2004

SEP 25, 2004 05:01 PM

Wow... NIN's "Something I can never have" and "Hurt" almost ended my life, while Strung Out's "Match Book" and Living Sacrifice's "No Longer" saved it.

It was more petty than profound but, historically, such was the effect they had.

MachineGunPauly

I'm lost

September 2004

SEP 25, 2004 05:10 PM

Even as a little kid I was always into music and I went to my friends house around 1986 and his older brother was listening to the Sex Pistols song God Save The Queen. I was floored! I've been a fan of punk ever since.

ms_n_thrope

Columbia, MO

August 2004

SEP 25, 2004 05:17 PM

the first album that i ever really fell in love with was green by REM. REM is the band that really got me into listening to music.
more recently, the velvet underground and nico was a pretty religious experience. i remember hearing sunday morning for the first time and just being in total aw at how beautiful and sad it was. my favorite album is the self title VU album because i can really relate to it in a lot of ways. it expresses how i feel about so many things better than i ever could.

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA

March 2004

SEP 26, 2004 02:50 AM

ms_n_thrope said:
more recently, the velvet underground and nico was a pretty religious experience. i remember hearing sunday morning for the first time and just being in total aw at how beautiful and sad it was. my favorite album is the self title VU album because i can really relate to it in a lot of ways. it expresses how i feel about so many things better than i ever could.

It's funny, because I really love that album now in a totally sexual way, but when I first heard it it didn't do much for me. The thing that changed that was "Heroin," which was one of those rare things that people talk about blowing their minds. I remember really realizing I was listening to a song that was going to really change the way I thought of music the FIRST time I heard it. That never happens to me, I usually take a little while to warm up to songs. The songs I like immediately usually bore me after a couple weeks. Not so with that one.

Anyway, cliche though it may be for my generation, I credit OK Computer as sort of being a turning point for me between listening to silly pop music and listening to something with a bit more substance. It was just the right time in my life more than anything, but it really is a great album. I still listened to silly pop music, and frankly still do to some extent, but that album changed a lot of what I looked for in the music I listen to.

[Edited on Sep 26, 2004 by TedKoppel]