You know what... reply with album covers that changed your life

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@danfairs But man the budgets for those first three records were just so tiny

[danfairs@metalhead.club]

@samvarma yeah I think I heard an interview with Satch ages ago saying he spent basically all his money recording and releasing the first album!

[nigeltufnel@musician.social]

@samvarma Just before middle school started for me, this release from Pink Floyd arrived

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@samvarma holy shit. i musta downloaded like a decade ago. the tremelo ep came out either right before or after loveless and they have some if the songs retooled.

feed me with your kiss and you made me realise eps are
post-isnt anything. theyre still pretty noisy but not as ethereal as loveless

[nigeltufnel@musician.social]

@samvarma And a year later - Oingo Boingo’s Only A Lad

[kinsale42@mstdn.games]

@samvarma @rowan_johnson one is for Teenage Green Day and the other is for Grown Up Green Day

[kinsale42@mstdn.games]

@Exposedpig @samvarma this was also a huge one for me

[ryanhyde@techhub.social]

@samvarma @NigelTufnel Born in 82, so I’m an elder millennial. Still, album covers were big in my formative years as well.

I’m sad this band doesn’t get as much nostalgia generally as I think they deserved. Ed E Rolland will always be one of my songwriting heroes.

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
It varied, but yeah: the shadow of the Roland Jazz Chorus was getting very long. That album also has pitch-shifted/processed drums. So, you know, Phil Collins' shadow.

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@NigelTufnel Fuck this was a heavyweight wasn't it

[rowan_johnson@mastodon.social]

@samvarma Dookie was hugely successful, but it didnt get adapted into a broadway musical.

Without checking any numbers, I feel like American Idiot was way more successful and had a bigger, longer-lasting impact on our culture.

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@rowan_johnson Yeah man it's definitely one of the only really protest albums of this century, and has several stone cold classics on it

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@danfairs Blue dream is awesome... listening now

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@RyanHyde @NigelTufnel Never gave them a chance beyond what was on the radio... going to fix that

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@bellforin My favourite is Somewhere In Time, I have found all the others to be kind of hit or miss… Although there are absolute monster classics on every single album

[woolie@mastodon.social]

@samvarma

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
I'll follow up with another oddball pick. I was that one kid in school who didn't much care for Yes's "breakthrough" 90125—Yesssongs or go home, right?—although a few bits have grown on me. But for some reason I really liked this Yes lineup that was half Yes, all of the Buggles (really!), and sparked off Asia (think Yes sounding like Journey), Rabin-era Yes (think Yes sounding like Journey and Art of Noise), GTR (think Marillion sounding like Journey) and cemented Steve Howe in my mind. I mean, he was already cemented there but this added more superglue.