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

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@geoffduncan Maybe I'm weirdly visual, but my pre-experience of the music was the imagery, so the album covers are totems of a sort

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

@samvarma

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@guyjantic god yes. Didn't appreciate it at the time, but could not be more in awe of the artistry now

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@guyjantic Wow yeah just a staggering 10 of an album

[_slotek_@mastodon.social]

@samvarma

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@_slotek_ Uncanny

This is on rn

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
I remember my friends going over every detail, talking about hem, speculating, etc. I just didn’t for whatever reason—and *I* was the visual arts kid!

But I remember making sure my parents never saw this one. Or heard it. (Ironic given what happened a few years s later.) About ten seconds of this still lives rent-free in my head whenever someone tells me “Play something terrifying.”

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@geoffduncan Listening now for the first time

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
Bits hold up, “Electric Eye” could be covered today. The end of the title track is still the platonic ideal of a divebomb+rage for me.

A few years later local parents would sue Judas Priest for the suicides of their sons, claiming subliminal messages egged them on. The band was acquitted.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@samvarma @geoffduncan

WHAT?

[rowan_johnson@mastodon.social]

@samvarma I’m not GenX, but it’s over 20 years old, so I think it deserves to be thrown in the ring…

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@samvarma just been a few times for conferences, etc. Last time for a wedding..

on that trip I went to KM both nights I was in town

And Joanna Connor was on the other stage 🤩

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@samvarma this was the first pink thing that i actually wanted

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@billyjoebowers @geoffduncan Yeah don't ask me why... I always liked the well-known songs, just never bit down on it

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@rowan_johnson Interesting because I always think of Dookie as their classic, but for many it's probably this

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@emily_rugburn Hell of a place to start!! Next on my list... I've never checked it out, even though I know it's legendary

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@samvarma it was the first cd i ever bought.

[danfairs@metalhead.club]

@samvarma I only just squeak into Gen X but this was the first CD I ever bought.

[danfairs@metalhead.club]

@samvarma … and this was probably my first intro to anything proggy…

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@geoffduncan I do remember that story. Also crazy how much chorus they had in their guitar sound!