From 9-5SuperSpy Sent Sat, Sep 19th 1998, 02:11
From 9-5SuperSpy Sent Sat, Sep 19th 1998, 02:11
Alright, here's my list:
This is not a favorite list, in most cases these served as gateway albums
to genres in which I found stuff I liked alot more.
1. Midnight Oil - Deisel and Dust
In Jr. High I listened to all sorts of crap, usually whatever was
on the radio. The few things I purchased were Def Leppard, Weird
Al and Guns n' Roses. I also had some old Thompson Twins tape my
cousin left in the car for 5 years or so and we discovered
cleaning it. The first time I turned on KROQ (just because a bunch
of othe kids kept saying how cool it was) I heard "The Dead Heart"
and was totally blown away. This is what got me into music.
2. Breakfast With Amy - Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt/Dad
Christian band, kind of a cross of the Pixies and Sonic Youth.
They used to wear dressed on stage with go-go dancers and shit, I
think they were all secretly stoners back then. I saw the Singer a
couple years ago, and he was totally tweaked out. For a few years
there, I was a Christian, but that's not why they're on this
list. The fucked up alternative christian band scene was one of
the smallest musical scene's I've ever been into, and taught me
that to find the kind of stuff you're looking for, you need to
seek it out. We also went to about a show a week back then. And
seeing as how I was 15 at the time, this was the only way my
parents would be cool with me going to shows. The other band would
have to be LSU, who were amazing but never played live that much.
After the lead singer, Michael Knott, briefly ran a Christian
Alternative label called Blonde Vinyl, he and a few of his former
bandmates signed to Warner under the name "Aunt Betty's". The
album included one of my favorite LSU tracks called "Double",
which is about him getting wickedly trashed and then coming home
in the morning (to his wife and daughter) and going to church.
3. The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland/Vision Thing
Chris made me a tape with Floodland on one side and Vision Thing
on the other. That's what really got me into goth, not the whiny
ass cure stuff or my friend tom's depressing poetry. Seeing them
live on the "Tour Thing" tour when I was 16 sealed the deal. This
led to being into Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Fields of The Nephlim
The Mission UK, Human Drama & The Cranes. This killed off the
whole Christian thing. Note: I am now waaaay more into the early
stuff off of "Some Girls Wander By Mistake", but this is what got
me into it.
4. Tones On Tail - Night Music
This is one of the albums that got me into psychedelic
insturmental music, a pre-cursor to all of the electronic and
space rock stuff I like now. Best listened to at night. Add Art Of
Noise and Oliver stone's movie "The Doors" to this category too.
5. Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 101 Damnations
Probably the first "dance" type record I ever really really liked.
Cater USM were huge in the UK, but only had one popular song out
here, "Sherrif Fatman." They came around the same time as Pop
Will Eat Itself began doing good stuff, and were a prototype for
ripoff bands like EMF, Jesus Jones and the short-lived and
especially shity - "Dink." I was also really into Commercial
Alternative bands like Inspiral Carpets, The Pixies, Sonic Youth,
The Wonderstuff, REM, Janes Addiction, Chapterhouse, etc.
6. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
This is my favorite album of all time. I got in through the
dreamy, orb-produced "Higher Than The Sun" and the KROQ classic
Andrew Wetherall-produced "Loaded." Before this album, the band
was a typical UK pop group (Although Bobby Gillespe had played
drums on The Jesus And Mary Chain's brilliand debut
"Psychocandy"). This led me to get into Andrew Wetherall's other
stuff, most notably "Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall"
(which I tend to think of as an electronic rendition of Tones On
Tail's "Night Music").
6. The Industrial Years: Einsturzinde Neubauten, Ministry, Nine Inch
Nails, Penal Colony, Babyland, Course Of Empire, Cradle Of Thorns,
and a plethora of local bands.
7. Tom Waits - Bone Machine / Low - I could Live in Hope
Music to slit your wrists to. I got into these at about the same
time, both through hanging around with Lucas, usually laying on
his carpet listening to music with my head under a desk. Human
Drama was another great band to listen to when feeling downright
suicidal. Low also served as a gateway into Flying Saucer Attack,
Windy & Carl, Roy Montgomery and other space-rock for me.
8. Woob - 1194
This got me into electronic music, bigtime. I had been into stuff
with the same moods with Tones On Tail, and found some of it in
stuff like Enigma, Deep Forest and Enya, but it all had this layer
of cheese involved. Woob was everything good about the latter, but
taken to the next step without the lame-ass crap. From here came
The Future Sound Of London, Aphex Twin, Spacetime Continuum, Terre
Thamelitz, Robert Rich, and other good 1994 ambient/electronic.
This also opened the door to breakbeat, trance and other forms of
electronic dance stuff, especiall the Southern California Rave
Scene and bands like Bassland, Skylab2000, Uberzone, Dimension 23,
Bleu, and a lot of other stuff that made up the staple of the live
bands on my show.
9. DJ Food - Recipe For Disaster
Got me into the whole Ninja Tune/Mo Wax trip-hop/downtempo thing.
This album also contained the first Jungle track I ever liked, all
I had heard befoe was whack moonshine shit (seeing goldie at
metropolis sealed the whole being into drum n' bass deal).
The Sabres of Paradise-Haunted Dancehall was just as influencial.
10. Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James Album
This album is what really got me into IDM, and seeing him perform
for 45 minutes was well worth the $35 or whatever it cost to go
to Organic '98. From here came my interest in Autechre,
Squarepusher, Animals On Wheels, Surface 10, Lexaunculpt and other
stuff on Warp, Schematic, Ninja Tune/Ntone, Skam, Isophlux, and
Plug Research. I had heard some of this stuff before and didn't
think much of it, but it took the RDJ album for me to get into it.
And what's going on right now? I'm really getting into some of the indie
rock meets electronica stuff like the Low Remixes, Sweet Trip, Junior
Varsity km, Takako Minekawa's Recubed EP and some of the stuff off of the
"Little Darla Has a Treat for You" comp. You can tell that alot of the
people on the Darla stuff have no clue how to use thier equipment, they're
using a bunch of preset sounds and most likely most of them are coming out
of a groove box, but there's something about the way they apporach the
stuff that I like.
-Daniel
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