Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired
I'm sure everyone has the thing whereby you stumble across an album, and just listen to it day after day until it becomes some kind of milestone in your life; and every time you listen to it you can't help but remember what it was all like back then.
A list of albums that I'll never forget - Part 1 (yes I’m doing it in parts :P)
Appetite For Destruction - I got given a tape of this when I was 11 in junior school. Basically my friend had found it in his older brothers' collection and we used to sit and listen to it at lunch-time because it "had swearing", after that I think it just kept growing on me till it was found and confiscated by my parents. I picked it up again in HMV when I was 14 and have loved it ever since. It's a powerful lesson in the art of Cock-Rock!
Bleach - Probably my first foray into the world of grunge. I asked for it one Christmas, I think I was 15 or there about. I'll admit that the first time I listened to it (Christmas day, while I was failing to construct an office chair I'd also got as a present) I didn't really 'get' it. I just heard screaming and loud noises, my senses partially offended I slipped some Michael Jackson back on when no-one was looking. It probably took the best part of 3 months for me to really appreciate it for what it was, and now it's easily my favourite Nirvana album. I'll always have fond memories of Negative Creep being the first song I ever learnt on guitar.
Americana - Slightly embarrassed to be putting this on here. This definitely reminds me of going through my "I'm a grunger and everyone's gonna know about it" phase. I listened to it religiously throughout my GCSE's and the following summer. It brings back memories of going over the park at about 9 every night and getting wasted on cheap cider with my friends when I was supposed to be revising. That was probably the first 'group' of friends I ever had, united by all things grunge. I can't really listen to this album anymore, it's like nostalgia overload.
Neon Ballroom - Probably a little clichéd but this album just reminds me of my first 'proper' girlfriend and the first time I was ever in love. I listened to this album *every day* for about 7 months. I think summer, happiness, contentment whenever I hear it. If anything horrible ever happens in life the first thing I do is put this on and it's never failed to make me feel better.
Mechanical Animals - I was in the middle of a massive Marilyn Manson trip when I started college. Even though I liked Antichrist Superstar this was definitely the album that got to me, I bought it the day it came out and loved it instantly. This pretty much marks the point where I started going to Coma at Hollywoods every single week, dressing in ridiculous clothes, wearing make-up and building the world's largest collection of MM t-shirts. This was my number one hangover album for about a year, sitting in the common room, not going to lessons, dying a little inside. Still one of my favourite albums ever and definitely the period in my life that I think I had the most fun :)
Aenima - I think Martyn loaned this to me in the first year of college, it took me aaages to get into. At first I hated it but I'm glad I stuck with it because the whole thing is total genius. For some reason this really makes me remember the early years of White Rain or 'Subliminal Landscape'. Practises, arguments, more practises, drunken gigs, stage fright, too much ambition, frustration (mainly surrounding a pill-head drummer) and the unmistakeable feeling that we were starting something truly amazing :)
I think that about does it for about now, if you actually read all that I applaud you!
Stay tuned for an equally lengthy part 2 :/
A list of albums that I'll never forget - Part 1 (yes I’m doing it in parts :P)
Appetite For Destruction - I got given a tape of this when I was 11 in junior school. Basically my friend had found it in his older brothers' collection and we used to sit and listen to it at lunch-time because it "had swearing", after that I think it just kept growing on me till it was found and confiscated by my parents. I picked it up again in HMV when I was 14 and have loved it ever since. It's a powerful lesson in the art of Cock-Rock!
Bleach - Probably my first foray into the world of grunge. I asked for it one Christmas, I think I was 15 or there about. I'll admit that the first time I listened to it (Christmas day, while I was failing to construct an office chair I'd also got as a present) I didn't really 'get' it. I just heard screaming and loud noises, my senses partially offended I slipped some Michael Jackson back on when no-one was looking. It probably took the best part of 3 months for me to really appreciate it for what it was, and now it's easily my favourite Nirvana album. I'll always have fond memories of Negative Creep being the first song I ever learnt on guitar.
Americana - Slightly embarrassed to be putting this on here. This definitely reminds me of going through my "I'm a grunger and everyone's gonna know about it" phase. I listened to it religiously throughout my GCSE's and the following summer. It brings back memories of going over the park at about 9 every night and getting wasted on cheap cider with my friends when I was supposed to be revising. That was probably the first 'group' of friends I ever had, united by all things grunge. I can't really listen to this album anymore, it's like nostalgia overload.
Neon Ballroom - Probably a little clichéd but this album just reminds me of my first 'proper' girlfriend and the first time I was ever in love. I listened to this album *every day* for about 7 months. I think summer, happiness, contentment whenever I hear it. If anything horrible ever happens in life the first thing I do is put this on and it's never failed to make me feel better.
Mechanical Animals - I was in the middle of a massive Marilyn Manson trip when I started college. Even though I liked Antichrist Superstar this was definitely the album that got to me, I bought it the day it came out and loved it instantly. This pretty much marks the point where I started going to Coma at Hollywoods every single week, dressing in ridiculous clothes, wearing make-up and building the world's largest collection of MM t-shirts. This was my number one hangover album for about a year, sitting in the common room, not going to lessons, dying a little inside. Still one of my favourite albums ever and definitely the period in my life that I think I had the most fun :)
Aenima - I think Martyn loaned this to me in the first year of college, it took me aaages to get into. At first I hated it but I'm glad I stuck with it because the whole thing is total genius. For some reason this really makes me remember the early years of White Rain or 'Subliminal Landscape'. Practises, arguments, more practises, drunken gigs, stage fright, too much ambition, frustration (mainly surrounding a pill-head drummer) and the unmistakeable feeling that we were starting something truly amazing :)
I think that about does it for about now, if you actually read all that I applaud you!
Stay tuned for an equally lengthy part 2 :/