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11 Albums That Were Important In My Musical Development

People evolve, and so do their musical tastes. From the time I got my first CD about 10 years ago to the current moment, things have changed pretty drastically. Here's some albums that got to me to where I am now.
1The Offspring
Americana

My first album that I ever received all those years ago. Sometimes I still sing the chorus to "Pretty
Fly
(For a White Guy) against my will and I still enjoy to listen to "Have You Ever" every once in a while.
Despite the fact that this record is sitting in my closet collecting a severe load of dust, this helped
reaffirm my initial discovery that I liked to listen to music.
2blink-182
Enema of the State

I remember being a young boy in 7th grade who was just beginning to learn that girls made a certain
part
of the body very excited. There were two girls in particular that I was drawn to, and they came into
school
one day wearing blink-182 shirts. Needless to say I had to listen to their music in order to gain
something
in which I could converse with them about. What I ended up gaining instead was a band that influenced
my ears so much that I had to pick up a guitar and start playing almost immediately.
3Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory

I also remember around 8th grade or so when kids were proclaiming around the lunch table that Hybrid
Theory would be remembered as our generation's The Wall by Pink Floyd. Though this statement has
quite
a few holes punched through it, Linkin Park (as well as Papa Roach) was a band that got me turned on
to
heavier music than my standard diet of pop-punk.
4Finch
What it is to Burn

So if my main influences at the time were pop-punk and nu-metal, there had to be something that
would
bridge the gap. Finch was a band that took my obsession with bands like blink-182 and Green Day and
slowly started to navigate it towards more 'emotional' music like Taking Back Sunday and The Used.
WIITB
is still a solid album that I pop in from time to time, even though I have grown to appreciate Say Hello
to
Sunshine even more.
5AFI
Sing the Sorrow

AFI was another huge influence of mine back in high school. No band was better at capturing the angst
of
a emotionally misconstrued teenager. I also learned to play many of their songs on guitar, and Jade
Pudget
would be a huge influence on my playing.
6Avenged Sevenfold
Waking the Fallen

Some kids get there introduction to metal music through Metallica and Pantera. I got mine through
Waking the Fallen by everyone's favorite/least favorite band A7X. If it wasn't for hearing this album, I
may
have never even cared much for metal music.
7Coheed and Cambria
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

This album did the same that that Waking the Fallen did, except in regards to more progressive music.
An
interest in Dream Theater would soon follow my hearing of these albums.
8Thrice
Vheissu

Thrice has always been one of my favorite bands, and I feel it is because of a simple reason: Thrice's
musical growth has seemed to mirror my own. When I started getting into Thrice, I was listening to
their
at the time contemporaries (Finch, The Used, etc.), and found them to be a step above the rest with The
Artist in the Ambulance. By the time Vheissu was released, I was expanding my tastes to include new
kinds of music. Vheissu was an album that pushed me to continue further down this route, and it still
ranks amongst my favorite albums today.
9Between the Buried and Me
Alaska

It took me quite a while to get into BTBAM just because of how different they were from ANYTHING that
I
was listening to at the time. As I was progressing as a musician, I was able to appreciate the intricacies
of
the technical music while emotionally connecting to the outstanding lyrics and impassioned vocals.
Alaska
was another album that really pushed me, and I am glad it did.
10Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon

Like some young people, I had this fear of any music before 1999. I thought older music was for old
people, and therefore stupid. Once I started getting into college and experimenting with different um...
things, I had the opportunity to begin to rewind the clock and discover that older music not only kicked
serious ass, but was the reasons why the music that I had enjoyed previously even existed. No one will
ever come close to making a record like this again.
11Radiohead
OK Computer

I keep listening to many more different types of albums from Jazz (Dave Brubeck Quartet) to Hip-Hop
(Aesop Rock) to Indie (mewithoutYou) to Stoner Metal (Sleep). My growth as a music listener and
performer has been extremely enjoyable, and I can't wait to hear what lies ahead. It is always important
to not forget the music that got you to where you are, because it all is equally important.
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