5 albums that got me into music.
1. The Wedding Singer Soundtrack, Vol. 2: This is the first CD I ever owned. It got me into listening to music, and the entire thing was basically 80s pop. It definitely left a mark, I still default back to Kajagoogoo and The J. Geils Band when I feel like I need to.
2. Relationship of Command: I found this at the Sammamish public library and it totally changed my outlook on music. It blew my mind apart. I started listening to rock music, and stuff like Incubus and the like.
3. Drukqs: I heard Bucephalus Bouncing Ball from the Come To Daddy EP on Stepmania and I started searching for some Aphex Twin. I picked up 26 Mixes For Cash at a Tower Records in LA when we were there on vacation and was not satisfied. I ordered Drukqs from Amazon and was in awe. This is the sound I knew he had. Opened my mind to electronic music.
4. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country: I had to listen to Boards of Canada a few times before I started to like the sound, but they opened me up to downtempo music. My experiences with electronica before this had been IDM like Aphex Twin and then Venetian Snares and other breakcore artists like Doormouse and Drop The Lime. Boards of Canada stretched my mind again, this time to more of their style and Vector Lovers and other music of the downtempo electronica nature.
5. Bad Brains: This made me feel and gorge myself on the empowering, brutal hardcore sound. Few other artists have achieved the level of intensity of the Bad Brains, exemplified through songs like Banned in D.C., Sailin’ On, and Big Takeover. Unreal. I used to scream at the top of my lungs and bang on the steering wheel listening to this. Only other band that could give me that much adrenalin is The Nerve Agents.
