What are the top ten albums that shaped your overall musical preferences today?

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#2 Stone Temple Pilots – Core

Early days of the grunge movement, and I was completely submerged in it. As a sophomore in high school and a bit of an outcast, not just the music of STP, but also the flare and flamboyant feel of the band and Scott Weiland made me want to be them. Core was one of the tapes I always kept close at hand to throw in the car stereo and blast riding into the arcade parking lot.

I always had a funny feeling about Core though, because of the varying tone from song to song. “Dead & Bloated” and “Sex Type Thing” were so obviously hard and grunge, but “Wicked Garden” and “Plush” had very different feels. I didn’t think too hard about it at the time, but coming back to it later just reiterated that bands are more than just what they’re marketed as.

Anyone know why my tomato skins look like this? #gardening #grownostr

What are the top ten albums that shaped your overall musical preferences today?

#lists #music #metal #grunge #classicRock

#10 Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Soul For Rock’N’Roll

Starting the list off with a compilation/best of CD this album features the very best of Black Sabbath. By the time I came around to this one I had already been fully enmeshed in grunge and just having picked up a guitar for myself I began learning to play with a cover band (I was mostly a roadie helping set up and tear down sets) and learned many of the songs on this one thus realizing where all the metal bands got their influence. We Sold Our Soul For Rock’N’Roll blew me away with the combination of raw power and intricate playing along with the vocal power of Ozzy. Probably the biggest surprise for me was for all the raw metal power in many of the riffs, Sabbath also has a bluesy feel in many of the songs like “The Wizard”, “Fairies Wear Boots”, and “N.I.B.”.

We Sold Our Soul For Rock’N’Roll was my gateway into 60’s and 70’s rock, what had at the time recently become Classic Rock.

Any classic rock music fans out there? #grownostr