Something to Write Home About by the Get Up Kids is one of my "life changing" records. I remember the first time I heard it - In a friend's car, and a third friend had just bought it and put it in the stereo. The life, emotion, FEELING of the album had me completely engrossed, enraptured. I couldn't stop listening. The very next day, I took off down to HMV (the only record store out here in the 'burbs). Of course, it's not there. I gotta make a trip to one of the "indie" record stores apparently, down in the city. So I do. And I listened to the record day and night for 2 months. To this day, listening to "I'm a Loner Dottie; a rebel brings up strong reminder of the feeling I got when I first heard the song.
Are we Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now?? By .moneen. is another. On a bus on the way to school, stopping at HMV (again) to pick up the record on a friend's recommendation. And it held my complete attention for the better part of an hour. Never before had I heard such a combination of powerful rock with these crazy melodies and harmonies, not to mention the SHOTS! Shots everywhere! Where had .moneen. been all my life?
So lets hear it - what are your life-changing records? What records give you that feeling that only music can do - make you sit up and take notice, give you goosebumps?
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oh man. the get up kids. one of my top bands of all time. they hold a place in my heart..i saw a video of hellogoodbye performing "action action" with james and matt pryor and i seriously flipped out [james-ie reggie and the full effect- were touring with hgb and they stopped in lawrence, so matt showed up..] i was like a 12 year old girl it just made me giddy..that's one band i'm really sad i'll never get to see live [unless they pull a Lifetime, which i dunno if i'd like]. i just really wanna meet matt pryor.
anyways. yeah.
life changing records...BT's "movement in still life" represents a chunk of high school for me and is one of the best records ever made, in my mind [it's in my top 10 of all time] and Incubus' "Make Yourself" was the first real rock record i bought....not that i really listen to it a lot lately, but it was the "gateway drug", you could say...then it was good charlotte. haha.
have a great one!
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Great album by the Get Up Kids... some of my life changing albums:
Brand New - Deja Entendu The Rocket Summer - Calendar Days Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantascism
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that is totally in my list of life changing albums as well. it's tied into when I saw them life (honest-to-goodness life changing event for me). some others:
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Jeff Buckley - Grace Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American The Libertines - s/t Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cold Roses
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To no surprise, I share your sentiments about both those records. Something to Write Home About and Are We Really Happy both epitomize different, but really important things to me, in ways that are really tough to describe. I know I'll never stop listening to either of them, and appreciating them in the fullest way music can be. These are the records that I love every second, every note, and every sound of. Also not to be forgotten is Saves the Day's Stay What You Are. I haven't stopped listening to this record since 2001, and am still finding moments that give me chills. These are the albums that remind me of why I listen to music at all.
Honorable mentions who have almost, but not quite, made the cut yet: Through Being Cool - Saves the Day The Red Tree - Moneen (are these bands allowed to be on my list twice?) Where You Want to Be- Taking Back Sunday Deja Entendu - Brand New Pinkerton - Weezer
....This could go on for days.