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It has also had staying power - another album I still listen to. I had started listening to punk music before finding London Calling, but that album is the one that had the most dramatic impact, the one that pulled me headlong into the scene. That same thirst would eventually lead me into metal, but that came later. I got into it because it quenched a thirst for something more “extreme”, more revolutionary, than what most everyone else was listening to at the time. There was a time when I listened to almost nothing but punk (and later, post-punk) music. In addition to being a life-changing revelation for me, it has had staying power - I still listen to songs from this album decades later, and it has been fun to see new generations discovering the band’s music in much more recent years. I listened to a lot of other rock music before buying this album, but when I think about what really started me down the road to heavy music, this has to have been close to my own first steps on the path. Here’s my impulsive list of five, just to get things going: But try to focus, as Topon Das did and as I’ve done, on the albums that led you into heavy music (Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony may have also changed your life, but this is a more focused kind of list). That means they made a lasting impression, right? You, of course, may choose to be more deliberate in your thinking, but however long it takes, I hope you’ll feel like adding a comment to this post and sharing the five albums that changed your life. But there’s also something to be said for going with the albums that leap to mind immediately. If I’d thought longer and harder, I have no doubt I would have hit a wall, and there would have been no list. So this time I thought for all of about 10 minutes. When I think too long and too hard, my brain tends to lock up like an engine that’s been victimized by a gaping oil leak.
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I usually start thinking too hard about it, partly out of fear that I’ll embarrass myself if I just shoot from the hip and partly because I have difficulty making choices even under the best of circumstances, unless I go with my first impulses. I think I take list-making too seriously. In my case, making lists tends to confound me. And then I thought, wouldn’t this be a nice subject for an NCS post! Everyone who is serious about metal must have their own personal list of life-changing albums, so why not ask what they are?įive is an arbitrary number, of course, but it’s a manageable number. As I read through his list, I couldn’t help but start thinking about what albums had a similar impact on my own musical journey. His answers read like a sketch of a personal musical journey, one that began with Metallica’s …And Justice For All. Last week I came across an article on a site called Ryan’s Rock Show! in which the site asked Fuck the Facts founder Topon Das (above) to write about “five albums that changed his life”.