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@samvarma Just before middle school started for me, this release from Pink Floyd arrived
@samvarma And a year later - Oingo Boingo’s Only A Lad
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@rowan_johnson Interesting because I always think of Dookie as their classic, but for many it's probably this
@samvarma @rowan_johnson one is for Teenage Green Day and the other is for Grown Up Green Day
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@samvarma Sting 'Soul Cages' circa 1991
@Exposedpig @samvarma this was also a huge one for me
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@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.
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@geoffduncan I do remember that story. Also crazy how much chorus they had in their guitar sound!
@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.
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@samvarma Just before middle school started for me, this release from Pink Floyd arrived
@NigelTufnel Fuck this was a heavyweight wasn't it
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@rowan_johnson Interesting because I always think of Dookie as their classic, but for many it's probably this
@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.
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@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.
@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
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@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!
@danfairs Blue dream is awesome... listening now
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@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.
@RyanHyde @NigelTufnel Never gave them a chance beyond what was on the radio... going to fix that
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@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
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@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.
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