Thread: An album that made an impression on you when you were in you teens ...

^ Apart from The Pogues never heard of the rest mate.

What type of music and which decade?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

^ Apart from The Pogues never heard of the rest mate.

What type of music and which decade?

Bad Religion is punk band from Southern California. From what I can remember, they formed in the late 1970s/early 1980s in LA. Suffer came out in 1988. This song, "You are the Government", is the first song off the album and indicative of their sound on this album. Lead singer had a PhD in something or other, something to do with reptiles, I think. Neither here nor there. Worth a listen though.

The Misfits were a hardcore punk band from New Jersey. Fronted by Glenn Danzig, who was later in Samhain and Danzig. Simple songs, great melodies, and often about old horror movies and the like ("Return of the Fly", "I Turned into a Martian", etc). Incredible band. Songs are catchy as all hell, short and sweet. Metallica covered them on Garage Inc. Legacy of Brutality was the first album of theirs that I heard. The songs just got stuck in my head and there wasn't anything I could do about it. Particularly the chorus to this song... "I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch. You better think about it, baby."

Frank Black was/is Black Francis, former/current lead singer of the Pixies, American rock group from Massachusetts. After the Pixies went their separate ways, Frank Black began putting out solo albums. This was his second. Much more dynamic than the first, covering different genres and styles. The song "Headache" got a fair amount of radio play on the "modern rock" station where I grew up. I was a Pixies fan already and enjoyed the first solo album so I got this. Still in rotation.
He's still writing and touring. Writes about aliens a lot, and Thailand from time to time. Big influence on me when I was learning to play guitar. Uses C#m a lot. Big fan of The Kinks. This one's "Speedy Marie".

Return of the Boom Bap is the first solo album by KRS-One (of Boogie Down Productions), released in 1993. Probably the first hip-hop album I heard that I can honestly say appealed to me in the same sense that a rock album like Suffer did. KRS-One is a smart guy. He wasn't rapping about shoes.* He was rapping about things that mattered (and he was good at it, too). Haven't heard this album in a long time. *Who knows, he may have a song about shoes. I can't claim to be an expert.

Genius/GZA was/is in Wu Tang Clan. Liquid Swords is GZA's second solo album. I got into Wu Tang kind of by accident after seeing Method Man perform in Puerto Rico when I was 16 or so. Very random but very fun night. I probably should have listed MM's Tical as an influential album, too. Anyhow, heard this in a friend's car and was hooked. Loved the production. This song is "Investigative Reports". Has some guest vocals by Raekwon and Ghostface Killah.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

^ Apart from The Pogues never heard of the rest mate.

What type of music and which decade?

Did you ever hear 'Waltzing Matilda', done by the Pogues , written by Eric Bogle, what a f*cking song, stuck with me for many years.
Cannot link it to you, i am not computer savvy yet.
It is a sad song but boy, it hits the heart.