Shemson: Albums That Genuinely Excited You

Shemson 03.02.16	The Wildhearts were such a great first band to really get into
Artuma 03.02.16	"Technicality, heaviness and beauty all in one album." it's certainly possible but mop isn't that album
Shemson 03.02.16	I was around 13 years old and had been listening mostly to hard rock, not much metal. Battery alone has a very pretty intro, technical riffing and is a heavy song. Even now I still think the mellow section from the following title track is beautiful so that's what I mean.
zakalwe 03.02.16	phuq is classic.
Shemson 03.02.16	I still jam the first 4/5 Wildhearts albums all the time man. Gingers knack for choruses and riffs was brilliant.
UpwardSpiral 03.02.16	Off Minor - Heath Death of the Universe
zakalwe 03.02.16	Show me a hero of head and heart Rid of the stars and the blah, blah, blahs Would be a worthy way to start Rid of the clichés that go round and around I wanna be where the cunts like me are buried six feet underground Too right ginger.
AlexKzillion 03.02.16	The only Metallica song I can describe as beautiful is Fade to Black.
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	mop is great stop being hipsters
LotusFlower 03.02.16	"I always dismissed the more electronic bands because I was a guitarist and these guys clearly didn't have as much talent as me..." pffffffffffffffffffffffffft also listen to Three Cheers for Disappointment
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	i hated hip hop when i was a guitar nerd now its what i listen to most
Shemson 03.02.16	Does anyone really think MOP doesn't have at least one moment of genuine beauty? Especially when you're in your early teens and haven't heard much music? I'm not saying I get blown away by that album now, in fact I probably haven't listened to it in about five years, but it did blow me away at the time!
rufinthefury 03.02.16	The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger Kendrick Lamar - GKMC
Shemson 03.02.16	@zak my first introduction to The Wildhearts was them playing that track on Top Of The Pops back in the day! Dancing round my house trying to air guitar as a kid! It was great to grow up and appreciate the lyrical content too!
Shemson 03.02.16	@Cl0ver yeah man I was an elitist little dick!
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	dam ov so edgy
Shemson 03.02.16	@guitarded yeah I wouldn't touch hip hop back then either. It's definitely not my favourite genre now but there's plenty of stuff I enjoy. I also dissed all kind of great albums because they weren't 'heavy' enough such as Arctic Monkeys debut which I didn't listen to until about four years after it was released!
dcalderon 03.02.16	From the top of my head I remember Dj Shadow's "Transmission 2" fucking with my head. Also, Eminem's Kim.
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	yeh i dont really listen to any metallica that much anymore because i overplayed it when i was younger but whenever i randomly put on any of kill em all rtl or mop i still find they are excellent albums
Shemson 03.02.16	Yeah I can agree with that Ov, I don't think I've actually played a Metallica album out of choice for about five years for similar reasons, BUT the first time you heard MOP as a fan of RTL you really didn't dig it?
zakalwe 03.02.16	I remember that Top of the pops performance as well. I was listening to Bob Dylan back then though and trying to 'broaden my taste' and basically being a bit wanky. I fucking loved it, still do and Dylan is the best :D
Shemson 03.02.16	Well man, if talking to musicians over the years has proven anything to me it's that most people have stages of being a bit wanky!
zakalwe 03.02.16	When Metallica were at their height I thought they were fucking shite. Little known fact that I actually started to appreciate them as a result of St. Anger.
LotusFlower 03.02.16	wow what a fact!
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	brutally honest and in chronological order of discovery I'd think, these are the albums that got me most excited upon first listening/took over my life for a while... - Michael Jackson 'Bad' (under 10) - The The 'Infected' - The Stranglers 'Best Of' - Tom Petty 'Full Moon Fever' - Guns n' Roses 'Appetite' - Metallica 'Master of Puppets' (about 10-13) - Nirvana 'Nevermind' - FNM 'angel dust' - RATM 'rage against' - Sepultura 'chaos AD' (teen years begin here) - Pumpkins 'Siamese Dream' - The The 'dusk' - NIN 'downward spiral' - Therapy? 'troublegum' - Manics 'holy bible' - Korn 'korn' - Radiohead 'The Bends' - Radiohead 'Ok Computer' - Tool 'aenima' - David Bowie 'Low' (twenties begin here) - The The 'soul mining' - Talking Heads 'stop making sense' - Mercury Rev 'deserter's songs' - Sparklehorse 'it's a wonderful life' - Sigur Ros 'takk' - Animal Collective 'strawberry jam' - National 'Boxer' - National 'High Violet' (thirties begin here) - Destroyer 'kaputt' - National 'trouble will find me' - Lewis 'l'amour' (lol) - Rtj 'rtj2' - Oneohtrix Point Never 'Garden of Delete' - Sunhouse 'crazy on the weekend' Less and less excites you as you get older D:
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	"albums that got me most excited upon first listening/took over my life for a while..." its awesome when that happens isnt it most recent thing album i can think of that happening for me was unknown pleasures, i put off joy division for way too long and i was obsessed for awhile after that
zakalwe 03.02.16	I love ya doof. I'm more or less the same but Thriller by Whacko would be in there as a starting point for me prior to Bad. The one that totally started the gears shifting was KLF - The White Room Nevermind melted my mind. I also have to include Leftfield - Leftism Spiritualized - Ladies and Gents Sunhouse is Sunhouse though and nothing comes close.
claygurnz 03.02.16	Recently heard Illmatic for the first time and got very excited.
Shemson 03.02.16	I love that Korn was followed by Radiohead on your list! I was pretty pumped the first time I heard Appetite, Ok Computer and AEnima too tbf, they could've easily made my list too.
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	kid a was the only radiohead album that did it for me i think but i think that album is brilliant mezzanine did it for me too that bass and drum at the very start i was like holy fuck this is gonna be special
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Shem I hated 'Creep' and had tied my flag to 'heavier music' for the most part but Street Spirit destroyed my resistance to 'indie' and 'art rock', it was massive The 90's incredible albums and scenes came thick and fast, a year felt like a long time in music, you never felt like you were waiting for something interesting to happen...as can be the case now
claygurnz 03.02.16	Couple more: Smashing Pumpkins-Mellon Collie The Cure-Disintegration Snoop Dogg-Doggystyle R.E.M.-Murmur and obviously Nevermind.
Shemson 03.02.16	Yeah Doof me too! I was in this band playing terrible Decapitated and Cradle of Filth covers and then on a smoke break our 'vocalist' starts playing the Street Spirit tune on an acoustic. That was that.
AlexKzillion 03.02.16	I guess mine are/used to be. Metallica - ...And Justice for All (9) Beastie Boys - Solid Gold Hits Avenged Sevefold - S/T (12) Slipknot - S/T Trivium - Ascendancy Eminem - MMLP (13) Dream Theater - Mp2SFAM BTBAM - Colors Danny Brown - XXX (15/Current) GZA - Liquid Swords Death Grips - The Money Store
zakalwe 03.02.16	Chaos AD was fucking unbelievable back then. Our young teen mainstream 90s brains were not wired to comprehend that stuff it was a full on face fuck.
Shemson 03.02.16	Haha yeah those Trivium, BTBAM and Dream Theater albums were big deals for me too man!
Tunaboy45 03.02.16	Iowa by Slipknot blew my mind by how heavy I though it was
Tunaboy45 03.02.16	Crack The Skye was a big deal for me too.
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	M83 - Dead Cities Modest Mouse - Good News The Decemberists - Castaways Sleep - Holy Mountain Disintgeration yeah
Tunaboy45 03.02.16	My young body wasn't ready for Kid A
Shemson 03.02.16	Love Crack The Skye but Blood Mountain had already blown my mind, especially Capillarian Crest
zakalwe 03.02.16	Kid A was shit when it came out. Bleepy prattle. Bloody love Crack the Skye
guitarded_chuck 03.02.16	kid a blew my mind and if im being honest i dont think radiohead ever came close to equaling it although theyre a fantastic group obviously
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Shem it can just be one song that sends you down a totally different path of musical exploration. All paths are great...so long as they all eventually lead to Sunhouse
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Blood Mountain was close to making my list too
Shemson 03.02.16	Yeah I'm happy I opened my mind to all kinds of different stuff now! I don't know Sunhouse man, literally never heard of them! Will check!
barcafan21 03.02.16	sufjan stevens- the age of adz flying lotus- cosmogramma tv on the radio- dear science trophy scars- darkness, oh hell
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Zak I think Chaos AD was the first CD I ever bought - cool sleeve for my first one You forget what buying music was like before CDs, everyone had 'the incredible disintegrating music collection'. Cassettes were in and out of Walkmans and car stereos, forwarded a million times until they'd tangle up or just lose quality. A mix tape would take a few hours to perfect :D
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	'Ah shit Side B is dirt...' Forward all the way back to Side A. Four minutes later...
zakalwe 03.02.16	The first purchased CD thing sprung up elsewhere I honestly can't remember. Possibly Madness - Madstock but having looked at the release date of Nov '92 that can't be right???
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Yeah, Chaos AD was '93. You had to buy a flash CD player with cassette deck so you could still use your Walkman - prob took a year to save for that or you had to wait for Christmas. CDs were very specialist goods before '92 lol
zakalwe 03.02.16	There was so much stuff happening weren't there doof. One minute you're doing the Lambada next minute your getting your teeth knocked out in a Sepultura mosh. Hip-Hop, Acid House, Grunge, deaths, britpop/60s resurgence, big beat/dance. All in what seemed like 5 mins.
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Zak what are your top 5 all-time mosh pits? 1 - Amen 2 - Fear Factory 3 - The Prodigy 4 - Rancid 5 - Sepultura They're the ones that I feared for my survival in
DominionMM1 03.02.16	" 'Ah shit Side B is dirt...' Forward all the way back to Side A. Four minutes later..." THOSE WERE THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSS
hesperus 03.02.16	De-Loused in the Comatorium blew my mind when I was in middle school. Still does, tbh. Aside from that, I remember being really excited about Bloc Party's Silent Alarm and NIN's The Fragile when I first got them. Since I've gotten older nothing really excites me as much as those albums did, but most recently, I fangirled over Mimisiku's The Thrill of Living and still look for any opportunity to bring it up.
Deathconscious 03.02.16	Burzum's Hvis lyset tar oss. it really helped open my eyes to more experimental music. and more recently, Frightened Rabbit's Painting of a Panic Attack. im genuinely excited for this record to come out.
zakalwe 03.02.16	Doof. On paper other than rage these look relatively tame but they were mental. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (The Camden Crawl, bloodbath!) Rage Against the Machine Prodigy Sex Pistols The Pink Toothbrush club in Rayleigh Essex circa '95. (Anything went)
BeyondCosby 03.02.16	I love these lists. I made one for my second list on this site. "Kezia" is on mine as well. When I first heard it I was so blown away. Good stuff.
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Zak it doesn't always work out that the band with the heaviest reputation or even the band whose music you enjoy most are the ones who destroy you when you see them live I mean Amen were not my favourite band...but live they were terrifying. Again Rancid weren't really my boys, but when I saw them they got the whole circle pit thing going and were immense. More examples, Limp Bizkit, Foo Fighters and Pendulum tore it up live. On the other side I've seen Deftones, Korn, Marilyn Manson, System of a Down and Faith No More put in some miserable shifts
zakalwe 03.02.16	That BRMC performance was fucking unreal. Kate Nash, Billy Bragg (who rules) and some other nonsense beforehand and then BRMC bowled on to the stage looking the absolute business and cranked into 'Berlin' I think it was (don't even think it was released then) and the place erupted. Broken noses the lot.
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Plus you saw the Sex Pistols :D Which legendary bands are you pleased you caught live? For me: - Bowie - Elliott Smith - RATM - Smashing Pumpkins - Joe Strummer Most gutted at missing: - Nirvana - The The (had the chance, didn't want to go on my tod = young person bad logic) - Led Zeppelin - Kyuss (original, seen 'Kyuss Lives' twice lol) - Fugazi
zakalwe 03.02.16	The Who Pearl Jam Weezer ('94 during their peak. They were great) Stones Gutted at missing R.E.M Pink Floyd at Earls Court when Pulse was recorded. If I had the opportunity to see anyone at any period Hendrix The Clash 70s Who James Brown Dylan
DoofusWainwright 03.02.16	Still hoping I might just get the chance to catch Radiohead and Pearl Jam otherwise both bands at their peak would be on my list for anyone any time. R.E.M were good at Glastonbury when I saw them but I guess the early years would have been a better time to see them? Just realised I left off catching Sparklehorse too
Nazzadan 03.02.16	Rust in Peace - first full metal album I actually LISTENED to instead of just hearing my dad play the black album over and over everywhere we drove. Blew my young mind. Rise of the Northstar s/t EP and Welcame LP - slays in every sense of the word, gets me pumped every time I hear any song off of either record Ride the Lightening - like I said earlier my dad played Metallica's s/t on repeat for literally my entire childhood, so I grew to despise Metallica. Then I heard Ride the Lightening and it blew me away, Fight Fire with Fire knocked me on my ass compared to what I was used to from the band. Storm of the Light's Bane - My introduction to black metal, perfect album Hatebreeder by CoB - favorite melodic death album, embodies my teen years. Will always hold a special place in my heart Painkiller - Discovered this album way too recently, always considered Judas Priest to be for lack of a better term "meme metal." Painkiller is hands down the best album ever recorded regardless of genre and gets my blood pumping no matter what track.
Cryptkeeper 03.02.16	RIP, first album I listened completely, first album that got me searching for more metal, first album that got me into thrash. 6/5 best album ever made
insanedrexl1 03.02.16	Number of the Beast None So Vile City Reign In Blood Twilight of the Thundergod
MistaCrave 03.02.16	Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World Natural Snow Buildings - The Snowbringer Cult Autechre - LP5 Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain Eluvium - Copia Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Shemson 03.02.16	Oh man a few classics noted up there! Deloused in the Comatorium and City could have made my list and honestly Hatebreeder by Bodom should've been on my list, that album absolutely blew my mind when I was 16! Can't believe I forgot it! Ha nice one Cosby. This is my second ever list too!