Friday, August 12, 2005
Random Meaningless Top 10 List: Volume VII: Advent Children
It's been way too long since I last posted one of these. Chalk it up to job training and an INTENSE work schedule over the past 2 weeks (Today was my third 12-hour workday this WEEK). Needless to say this, combined with the violently oppressive heat (24 90+ degree days so far this summer...disgusting); I haven't had the werewithal to muster up a quality meaningless Top 10 list.
UNTIL NOW.
After many hours of debate with....well...myself...I have come up with a Top 10 List that will jumpstart my ass back in gear. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of ALL ages...D-Generation X proudly...ahem...sorry; wrestling fan reflex. Anyways, presenting:
10. Beck - Odelay!: I bought it because I liked the song 'Loser' off his first album. Little did I know that it would captivate me with its overpowering weirdness. Bottles and cans, just clap your hands.
9. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder: This album showed me a world of chaos and destruction. I thought I knew metal; I was WRONG. The only other metal DJ at the campus radio station in college introduced me to black metal with this album. Black lead to thrash, thrash lead to melodic death, melodic death lead to death and hard industrial. My horizons had officially been broadened.
8. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom: The simultaneously most beautiful and most devastating relationship I have ever had with any other human being had this for the soundtrack.
7. Metallica - Metallica (the Black Album) This classic was the album that initially introduced me to heavy metal music, and for that I am forever in Metallica's debt. Guitar solos, riffs that could cut the head off a live chicken at the right volume, and absolutely insane drumwork (or at least, it was in 1991) Every single song is a classic. Just retire guys, and everything will be cool between us.
6. The Beatles - Revolver: The first Beatles album I ever listened to beginning to end, and still the best album The Beatles ever put out. Taxman blew me away (The Beatles get LOUD?) and the whole album kept me hanging on to every note.
5. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin': My introduction to Bob Dylan. I wrote a 20 page term paper on Rock Music in the 1960's and its effects on the youth population for an english class in my sophomore year of college. I borrowed a record player and the campus radiop station's copy of this album. After the title track, I was totally encompassed with Dylan's words and phrases. Just phenomenal.
4. Faith No More - Angel Dust: Introduced me to a whole world I never knew existed and taught me what rock music was truly capable of, and expanded my musical tastes to more of the strange and experimental.
3. Nirvana - In Utero: The first CD I ever purchased with money that I earned through my very first job; a paper route. The keystone in a collection that has grown to almost 1100. This was the first hit that drug addicts always say started them on thier downward spiral into addiction and debt. They speak the truth.
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness: This album opened my eyes to what rock music could be, what it should be. Grand, majestic, ass-kicking, soulful, poetic and very obtuse and original. This has been my favorite album since the day it came out.
1. Aerosmith - Get A Grip: The very first rock album I ever owned. It opened up a whole new world to me...guitars, bass and drums, and Steven Tyler screeching like a dying cat in a blender....and Alicia Silverstone videos too. God, what a fucking cool album. This introduced me to rock and roll, and forever changed my destiny, young Skywalker.
Rock, or rock not. There is no try.
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It's been way too long since I last posted one of these. Chalk it up to job training and an INTENSE work schedule over the past 2 weeks (Today was my third 12-hour workday this WEEK). Needless to say this, combined with the violently oppressive heat (24 90+ degree days so far this summer...disgusting); I haven't had the werewithal to muster up a quality meaningless Top 10 list.
UNTIL NOW.
After many hours of debate with....well...myself...I have come up with a Top 10 List that will jumpstart my ass back in gear. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of ALL ages...D-Generation X proudly...ahem...sorry; wrestling fan reflex. Anyways, presenting:
Top 10 Most Important Albums In My Life
10. Beck - Odelay!: I bought it because I liked the song 'Loser' off his first album. Little did I know that it would captivate me with its overpowering weirdness. Bottles and cans, just clap your hands.
9. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder: This album showed me a world of chaos and destruction. I thought I knew metal; I was WRONG. The only other metal DJ at the campus radio station in college introduced me to black metal with this album. Black lead to thrash, thrash lead to melodic death, melodic death lead to death and hard industrial. My horizons had officially been broadened.
8. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom: The simultaneously most beautiful and most devastating relationship I have ever had with any other human being had this for the soundtrack.
7. Metallica - Metallica (the Black Album) This classic was the album that initially introduced me to heavy metal music, and for that I am forever in Metallica's debt. Guitar solos, riffs that could cut the head off a live chicken at the right volume, and absolutely insane drumwork (or at least, it was in 1991) Every single song is a classic. Just retire guys, and everything will be cool between us.
6. The Beatles - Revolver: The first Beatles album I ever listened to beginning to end, and still the best album The Beatles ever put out. Taxman blew me away (The Beatles get LOUD?) and the whole album kept me hanging on to every note.
5. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin': My introduction to Bob Dylan. I wrote a 20 page term paper on Rock Music in the 1960's and its effects on the youth population for an english class in my sophomore year of college. I borrowed a record player and the campus radiop station's copy of this album. After the title track, I was totally encompassed with Dylan's words and phrases. Just phenomenal.
4. Faith No More - Angel Dust: Introduced me to a whole world I never knew existed and taught me what rock music was truly capable of, and expanded my musical tastes to more of the strange and experimental.
3. Nirvana - In Utero: The first CD I ever purchased with money that I earned through my very first job; a paper route. The keystone in a collection that has grown to almost 1100. This was the first hit that drug addicts always say started them on thier downward spiral into addiction and debt. They speak the truth.
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness: This album opened my eyes to what rock music could be, what it should be. Grand, majestic, ass-kicking, soulful, poetic and very obtuse and original. This has been my favorite album since the day it came out.
1. Aerosmith - Get A Grip: The very first rock album I ever owned. It opened up a whole new world to me...guitars, bass and drums, and Steven Tyler screeching like a dying cat in a blender....and Alicia Silverstone videos too. God, what a fucking cool album. This introduced me to rock and roll, and forever changed my destiny, young Skywalker.
Rock, or rock not. There is no try.
