2100 Pilots
Hey wow I just reached 2100 ratings, a totally arbitrary number! Here's 21 albums that mean a lot to me and stuff. You guys mean a lot to me, even Potsy. Much love Sputnik |
| 1 |  | Minor Threat
Complete Discography
Holy crap. I bought this album when I was 11 or 12. At the time I bought a lot of albums without having heard a single song. I was an angry young fella looking for a place to fit in and to channel my aggression, so I got into punk music. Minor Threat wasn't my first punk record, but it was my favorite for a long time. I was obsessed with Ian MacKaye and straight edge for a long time. In my late teens/early 20s I got into the drugs, but I'll touch on that later. If I'm being completely honest, I don't love this album today as much as I did back then, but I still think it's gr8. |
| 2 |  | Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West
Whoa so like a lot of people I got into indie kinda trash in college. My first semester at college I did very poorly, didn't talk to anyone, and was kinda on the verge of a panic attack all the time. I used to just walk around campus listening to this album and it's the only thing that kept me sane. Modest Mouse is still my favorite band, although this album is not my favorite by them but hey. |
| 3 |  | Eminem
The Marshall Mathers LP
Holy shit I have to write 21 one of these? This was the first album I ever bought. In retrospect my parents were kind of irresponsible. I was 8 or 9 and was obsessed with this record. I don't think I actually understood anything he was rapping about. |
| 4 |  | Blink-182
Enema of the State
Second album I ever bought. Blink was my favorite band through all of elementary school. Good shit. |
| 5 |  | Blink-182
Blink-182
This album really broadened my horizons in 6th grade. It was also the first album that made me care about drums. I distinctly remember listening to the intro to Violence and it clicked with me like "Holy shit drums dude" |
| 6 |  | Anti-Flag
Die For the Government
Goddamn this band, along with many other punk bands, really shaped my political views. In retrospect, Anti-Flag's lyrics are pretty lol, like intro to political science lol |
| 7 |  | Crass
The Feeding of the 5000
Building on the previous one, I was briefly a pre-teen anarchist, which is a less catchy song title than I was a teenage anarchist but oh well. |
| 8 |  | As I Lay Dying
Shadows Are Security
This is the album that made me really care about guitar. I had played in a punk band previously and was mostly a power chord warrior, but I feel in love with this album and learned it front to back on guitar and became a open zero warrior for a while. |
| 9 |  | American Football
American Football
I got into this album (and sputnik in general) when I got hit by a car and couldn't walk for a month. All I did was go on sputnik and listen to like 10 new albums a day. The first time I heard Never Meant it kind of blew my mind. |
| 10 |  | Owen
At Home With Owen
Speaking of Mike Kinsella, he went on to become the guitarist that has influenced me the most, got me into open tunings, finger picking, and helped me become a much better guitarist. |
| 11 |  | Tiny Moving Parts
This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship
After learning a ton of Kinsella shit, I got into this band and learned a bunch of their songs and started getting really good at tapping. Thanks Tiny Moving Parts! |
| 12 |  | Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique
Outside of Eminem I didn't listen to much hip hop until this record. |
| 13 |  | Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
But this album really set me on the hip hop path. |
| 14 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb
Got super into Streetlight in high school. I think I listened to them every day for like 2 years. |
| 15 |  | Burial
Untrue
It was either this or Swarms that got me really into electronic music. |
| 16 |  | Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
What It Takes to Move Forward
Yep, my favorite album. I don't think I have anything else to say about it. |
| 17 |  | Death
Symbolic
I've listened to less and less metal over the years, but for whatever reason this one has always been a constant. I probably listen to one metal album a month at this point, and it's usually this. |
| 18 |  | Friendzone
DX
I think this is my most listened to album. It's been there for me through a lot the last few years. |
| 19 |  | The Menzingers
On the Impossible Past
My life started to resemble a Menzingers/Captain, We're Sinking song for a while which was not so good. I listened to this over and over when driving to my ex girlfriend's place. I couldn't listen to it for a while after we broke up, but now I listen to it and am sad for different reasons. |
| 20 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
I remember not digging this album the first few listens. Then one day I was at the library at school at like 8 in the morning and it just super clicked and it was a transcendent experience. |
| 21 |  | Pixies
Doolittle
I used to spam Pixies - Doolittle on a lot of threads, goddamn I was obnoxious. Still am probably. |
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