Most Influential Albums and My Favorite Song of All Time
My friend Bryan made a post about The Best Complete Albums. These are albums where all of the songs are great, not just some of them. This would be a huge list for me so I decided to make a list of all of the albums that not only had great songs in them but were also instrumental in shaping my musical preferences. Below are some albums that have heavily influenced my music tastes over the years, in rough chronological order:
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged In NY
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
Weezer – The Blue Album
The Crystal Method – Vegas
Primus – Tales from the Punchbowl
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
Interpol – Antics
mewithoutYou – Catch for Us the Foxes
Daft Punk – Alive 2007
…and finally the most influential from this year:
Skrillex – Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP
Bryan also had a post about Favorite 3 Songs, where I mentioned Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. I forgot to mention my favorite song of all time because I couldn’t think of it when I originally commented. It’s pure perfection, and in my mind music doesn’t get much purer than this:
Thom Yorke – The Clock
I’d put the Blue Album at the top of my list of influences. Not a bad song on there.
Hah. I’ve listened to that album so much that I can hardly stand it now, but it was definitely influential. Hope you are doing well.
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