Red Mosquito

I have no idea which are my top 10 albums, I lack the expertise and wisdom for that.

But, I'm enjoying a lot what you're writing here and I'd like to thank everyone who's sharing stories here.

Berasa_clotas wrote:
But, I'm enjoying a lot what you're writing here and I'd like to thank everyone who's sharing stories here.

Yeah I'm really enjoying reading them too. Feeling simultaneously inspired to put some actual thought into my own list and intimidated by the quality of writing being shared.

Please don't be intimidated by Kevin Davis. Fucker can wield a pen, sure. Better than most. But this is about sharing stories and connecting. It's not a writing contest. I'm sure he wouldn't want his write-ups to inhibit yours. That's counter to the whole spirit of the thing (and counter to KD's nature as a person).

durdencommatyler wrote:Please don't be intimidated by Kevin Davis. Fucker can wield a pen, sure. Better than most. But this is about sharing stories and connecting. It's not a writing contest. I'm sure he wouldn't want his write-ups to inhibit yours. That's counter to the whole spirit of the thing (and counter to KD's nature as a person).

hey yours have been fantastic too.

guestT wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Please don't be intimidated by Kevin Davis. Fucker can wield a pen, sure. Better than most. But this is about sharing stories and connecting. It's not a writing contest. I'm sure he wouldn't want his write-ups to inhibit yours. That's counter to the whole spirit of the thing (and counter to KD's nature as a person).

hey yours have been fantastic too.

Oh, why thank you. Well, I definitely don't want anything I write to prohibit what others write. So, yeah, post away if/when you decide to. This is a fantastic thread. I'm so glad LV had this idea and started it. The more the merrier. I love reading how people discovered and responded to their favorite pieces of art.

durdencommatyler wrote:Please don't be intimidated by Kevin Davis. Fucker can wield a pen, sure. Better than most. But this is about sharing stories and connecting. It's not a writing contest. I'm sure he wouldn't want his write-ups to inhibit yours. That's counter to the whole spirit of the thing (and counter to KD's nature as a person).

I think you're the intimidating one, Joey -- your stories are salacious and full of narrative suspense, mine are basically tantamount to, "Was sad, took solace in album, blah blah three extra paragraphs blah." In any case, Joey is right -- I want to read these too, so please chime in!

Kevin Davis wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Please don't be intimidated by Kevin Davis. Fucker can wield a pen, sure. Better than most. But this is about sharing stories and connecting. It's not a writing contest. I'm sure he wouldn't want his write-ups to inhibit yours. That's counter to the whole spirit of the thing (and counter to KD's nature as a person).

I think you're the intimidating one, Joey -- your stories are salacious and full of narrative suspense, mine are basically tantamount to, "Was sad, took solace in album, blah blah three extra paragraphs blah." In any case, Joey is right -- I want to read these too, so please chime in!

You're overselling me and vastly underselling yourself, friend. But "was sad, took solace" made me laugh. Also, I think it make a great title for your follow-up memoir.

I'll consider it! It's actually (finally) sort of in progress, if still in the early stages.

This has suddenly turned into the RM gay 69ing thread

Sorry, I'll scale it back a bit for my next entry.

Nirvana - "Nevermind"
I BOUGHT IT AT THE STORE, GOOD ALBUM

AL

lol

Kevin Davis wrote:Nirvana - "Nevermind"
I BOUGHT IT AT THE STORE, GOOD ALBUM

Mine would be: red about it. Listen to it on youtube. Like it Search for album on Amazon hoping to find a cheap copy. Repeat.

No romanticism. F*ckin' millenials.

Borrowing the 'one at a time' approach of Kevin and Joseph:

Oceansize - Everyone into Position

I first discovered Oceansize thanks to a thread on the old version of the official Pearl Jam board in 2004 or 2005. It was titled "For fans of Radiohead and Tool," and since I liked some material from both of those bands, I looked into the thread to find it as an introduction to a British band called Oceansize. This was before the days of Youtube and the like, so there was no embedded video or audio. Instead, with a few song titles to look up, I headed to my usual P2P networks and dug up a handful of songs: "Breed Siamese," "Amputee," "Sizeofanocean," and "Catalyst," were, I believe the first few tracks I heard. From those songs, I learned that Oceansize ticked pretty much every box I had at the time for favorite band material, and I fell fast and hard.

At the time, the band had released a bunch of singles, a few EPs, and a debut album, and were about to gear up a promotional campaign for their second full-length. I was in college, and doing work-study as the monitor for the college's 3-D and sculpture studio, and one of the ways I would pass the time was to listen to music on the office computer, streaming stuff on Myspace, Pandora, Radioblog, etc. It was there that I began to get obsessed with the radio edit of "Heaven Alive" and the full version of "The Charm Offensive," the first two tracks released from Everyone into Position, both playable via RealPlayer on the band's website (I'm realizing, as I type this, just how mid-'00s all this really was, especially with all the bygone software and web services).

The album itself received mixed responses from fans, as many were not keen on the band adding more electronic and pop elements to the heavy alt/prog-rock core, but for me it was a marked improvement on Effloresce, with stronger songs and more interesting instrumental work in terms of texture and timbre. Additionally, as I was getting heavily into the album, I was also falling in love with the woman who eventually became my wife, so there's a lot of emotional resonance tied up in those songs, especially "Music for a Nurse" and "New Pin," as well as, and especially, the b-side "Superfluous to Requirements," probably my favorite Oceansize song. In fact, the feelings that come from this time period are also woven into many of my other favorite albums, so expect to see that mentioned again in future posts on this topic.

I can't think of a list even...I mean, they've changed so much. I sat down and thought of like 7 immediately, and then like 20 more came to mind and I got frustrated and tabled the thought.

How do you remember so many details of a purchase. I can remember stuff in my life tied to a record but the actual purchase, not a chance. I think the closest I come is Van Halen - Women and Children First. I got it for my birthday soon after it came out in 1980. A perfect record for a complete stoner kid just learning he loved to drink. What I really remember about the record is the concert I saw by Van Halen supporting the album two months later. At that point in time I loved Van Halen. I somehow had Van Halen II on an 8-track that I played the shit out of in my room.

Some of what I remember about the concert and day is getting downtown early, before the friend I was seeing the show with. I was a suburbs kid and this was one of my first trips downtown on my own that I recall, when poster/head shops were a thing. Before I met up with my friend I went into a washroom in the mall across from the venue and I had some guy hit in me when I was at the urinal and then take a step or two back and start jacking off. That completely freaked me out. So the already stoned kid immediately dropped the acid he had with him to deal with it.

By the time I met up with my friend I was tripping and feeling good. I remember we went to see The Blues Brothers movie before the concert and walking out of the movie and realizing that I still had the concert to go to. Man, I was so happy and I still had something like five joints left to smoke for the show. Van Halen and Eddie were unreal. Loud as fuck and raw as hell. They got really drunk as the show went on and my friend and I were seriously stoned and tripping. At one point Eddie was running across the stage (which he did a lot of), wiped out and just sat there for what seemed an eternity, laughing, before resuming his playing. DLR was just as bad and his take on Ice Cream Man was so bad it was unrecognizable but was quickly followed by You Really Got Me to close the show.

To this day I still love Women and Children First. It was the perfect record for who I was then, "Takin' whiskey to the party tonight" still resonates and makes me remember a pretty great and turbulent time in my life.

Loving this thread fellows - all contributions.

Nice to see an era that I can really relate to as well, s'n'd. Learning to drink and do drugs with my friends back in the mid-80s was one of the best times of my life. It's why I always tell my kids to make sure they have great friends and to look after each other. Someone has to have your back, just like you have to have someone's.