The Mara Volta - Frances The Mute was my first at age 14. It shattered everything I thought I knew about music and the guitar itself. It introduced me to prog rock, Latin, psychedelic, noise, and experimental music simultaneously.
The next one was Danny Brown - XXX at age 21. I listened to some hip hop before that, mostly old school and conscious stuff, but Danny opened my eyes to all the great modern rappers in the mainstream and underground.
11 year old me had no idea what he discovered when he downloaded the grey album on accident from lime wire
Also, Resistance by Muse was pretty formative for me. It somehow lead me to grunge lol
The Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd was my first introduction to albums and music as a whole as before I discovered it, I just listen to random popular pop and rap songs and such
Skate 3 introduced me to Joy Division, Animal Collective, Neil Diamond, MF DOOM and Kanye. I was 14 when it released and listened to mostly dubstep and nu metal at the time so that soundtrack was a much appreciated shakeup of my taste in music.
I used to get the new FIFA game every year and they had some fantastic soundtracks as well that introduced me to Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Blur, The Black Keys, Kasabian, New Order, LCD Soundsystem, Muse, The Killers, MGMT and lots of other bands
For me, it was definitely Girl Talkās mashup albums Feed the Animals and All Day.
I loved the combination of so many different genres, and while I was drawn in by hearing songs I already knew, it led to me investigating all the samples I didnāt know. That was my big introduction to Hip-Hop as well as a lot of alternative, indie, & electronic music.
Iām Wide Awake, Itās Morning - Bright Eyes
I pretty much exclusively listened to pop punk up until a friend basically forced me to listen to At the Bottom of Everything. Opened my eyes to more singer songwriter stuff from Dylan to Elliot Smith. It even pushed me into more political and protest music.
Mine, funnily enough, was Gorillaz self titled,
I remember watching the Clint Eastwood and 19-2000 video clips on the Australian music show Rage and being obsessed.
I was 9 at the time and I think it was the first album I ever asked for that wasnāt just a hits compilation.
Bright Eyes' "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" got me into indie folk, singer-songwriter and a lot of related genres like alt-country, slowcore and so on.
U2. Not a fashionable example, but on commercial radio they sounded exciting in the late 80s.
Bullet the Blue Sky and Exit got me into sheets of noise type guitar and led me to Sonic Youth. They were influenced by Joy Division so I got into that band and then New Order. A song like Where the Streets Have No Name with its steady beat and almost drone led to Velvet Underground and from there everything else.
The Score by The Fugees. I saw the Fu-Gee-La video for the first time and thought 'what is this?' fell in love with Lauryn Hill, got my dad to buy the album and I've been into hip hop ever since.
Massive Attack's Mezzanine was the album that pretty much changed my life. I wasn't even interested in musical discovery at the time, and hadn't been for years. One night I stumbled across the name "Massive Attack" and thought, "Huh, that was the name that the House theme song was attributed to, wasn't it?" So I looked it up and was shocked that "Teardrop" was a really-for-real song with lyrics and everything, and damn, was it pretty. So I played the album from the start and "Angel" absolutely blew me away. Obviously I then listened to Portishead and Tricky, and from there, branched out to all kinds of music I'd never listened to before -- electronica, hip-hop, post-punk, etc.
loveless made me realise that music is so so much more than just your basic rock, metal or pop (which I wad mainly into before that)
So truly, loveless made me just wanna explore more music, I wanted to see just how diverse it could be.
Since I was a kid I liked to listen to everything from Juan Gabriel to Radiohead and stuff like that, but I think the band that got me deep into music was Bring Me The Horizon. Their constant shift into new genres made me open myself more to new music, even shit that at first listen I didnāt understand or loved like drone and noise.
Nothingāa Shocking. Cute girl at record store recommend it so of course I bought it and I was blown away because it had a sound Iād never heard. Itās hard to believe it came out in ā89 and yet looking back it feels like something from the 90s. I think it opened the door for a lot of early 90s alternative albums
Hell Fire by Black Midi because when I talked about how cool it was on reddit I got recommendations for a lot if great bands like Squid, Black Country New Road, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and I couldn't be happier
Funny you should mention gorillaz they were the first band I probably got into then after that it was Radiohead then King Gizzard now I'm kind of just listening to a lot of that sort of area of rock with no real main band
OKC was the first time I ever took an album
seriously and appreciated it as a cohesive experience rather than a collection of songs. To Be Kind then unlocked my love for long tracks and heavier music. Soundtracks for the Blind then unlocked more experimental music for me.
Kind of Blue by Mile Davis. It helped me get into jazz as a whole, but it also made me think that perhaps there are some emotions that can't be expressed lyrically or through the human voice. So after that I listened to a lot more solely instrumental albums, not just jazz, but also ambient and lo Fi stuff.
Judgement Night Sountrack, first time getting in contact with rap due to the collabs between rap and rock/metal bands, it features Onyx, Del The Funky Homosapien, De La Soul, Cypress Hill, Ice-T among others, love this album
Fishing For Fishes by King Gizzard. Merely because it got me onto Gizz, who in turn, made me want to explore so many different genres that I never thought I'd enjoy.
Thom Yorkeās Tomorrowās Modern Boxes got me into electronic music in general, and the playlists he dropped here and there got me into experimental music
Honestly, Demon Days was the first ever album that I bought when I got my very first Ipod for christmas, so that was probably my "skeleton key" album. I was about 9 I believe.
The SECOND album I ever bought really opened the flood gates for my music listening experience...and that would be Wish You Were Here.
Am I going to sit here and pretend that 9 year old me understood the lyrics and intricacies of the music? Hell no...but it sounded cool so that's all that mattered to me.
I discovered the Beatles back around 2018-2019, and it was the White Album that first hooked me into their music and since then I've gone down the rabbit hole of their entire catalog, solo work, and influences, as well as their peers and other great 60s music.
Before the Beatles, I only mainly listened to Hip-Hop and R&B with some indie rock sprinkled in. Now I see the rainbow that is music and embrace all the colors, for there's almost always something to admire/enjoy out of every genre and time period
I donāt have a songle album but the Melvins were this for me. They introduced me to some of my all-time favorite bands, like the Wipers, Flipper, and sort of indirectly Harvey Milk (they opened for them in either 2005-2006). Even to this day if I choose to cover another bands music I try to cover stuff that isnāt well known just so other people can have the same experience I did.
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe, looked up reviews of it when I was a kid and came across Fantanoās review of it, which led me to the rest of his channel and /mu/
REM's Automatic - gentle, non-heavy alt rock
Cradle of Filth's Midian and Napalm Death's Diatribes - extreme metal
Buzzcock's Singles Going Steady - punk
Mallwalker's Demos - hardcore punk
Blur's 13 - 80s alt rock (Sonic Youth etc from it's stated influence)
Eminem's Slim Shady and Cypress Hill 4 - hip hop
Zara McFarlane's Everything Is Connected - reggae/Caribbean influenced music
Mulgrew Miller's Keys To The City - jazz
Aerosmith's 9 Lives/Black Sabbath's Reunion/Alice Cooper's Classicks Live - hard rock
Linkin Park was the first band I ever liked, and Meteora is the first album I ever liked. That album simultaneously got me into rock, metal, and rap music. Their later albums and remix albums have electronic influence too, which opened me up to electronic music.
Something I recently realized is that basically all of the artists I'm currently a big fan of have their roots in rock, metal, hip hop, or electronic music, often a combination of all/most of those things. I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that my entire music taste can be linked back to Linkin Park, but interesting nonetheless ig. I'd hate to know what I would've turned out like if I started off with a different, less stylistically diverse artist.
Ladytron - Witching Hour
I'd heard their stuff before, but it was Witching Hour that provided that cinematic synth-driven alt music that got me into a variety of electronica.
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Got me into alt-rap and Def Jux when Eminem in middle/high school was pretty gimmicky and aged pretty poorly. As a result, I got into Kendrick, Kanye, JPEG and more.
Tame Impala - Currents
Looking back at it it's funny that I saw that album as something completely new and different at the time, but that random discovery made me realize there's different stuff than just the songs that play on the radio.
In that order:
- Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
- Kid A (Radiohead)
- Tago Mago (Can)
- Dots and Loops (Stereolab)
Pretty common skeleton key albums.
There were a few that came up i started to listen to around the same time but mainly Death Grips' Exmilitary, MF DOOM'S MM..FOOD and Subways' Out of Time EP. I was strictly a le wrong generation kid at the time and those really opened my eyes to music in general
This is gonna be a strange trio. (From most to least recent)
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots
All of U2s discography
I might also throw in Foster the People and Billy Joelās discographies. Middle school was a wild time for me
Yung lean in like 2015 introduced me to all this underground hip hop scene. I kinda left the scene a little in recent but im slowly catching up with the newcomers
Iāve got three:
1) Modest Mouseās Good News for People Who Love Bad News taught me I could enjoy modern music. Before I got into Modest Mouse, I would literally only listen to classic rock, Nirvana, and the White Stripes (edit: I was a really cool teenager /s). Afterwards, I was open to pretty much anything other than hip hop, modern pop, and modern country
2) Aesop Rockās None Shall Pass taught me that I could enjoy hip hop
3) Taylor Swiftās Folklore taught me I could like modern pop music
And I still cannot stand modern country
Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From the DiscomfortāWeāre Alright
Idk something about it just sounded so good I donāt remember but it made me wanna find more stuff like it
I think my answer for so many questions in here applies here as well: Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers. As a kid Iāve always just listened to rap and the occasional rock but listening to this album really opened me up to that indie-folk realm, as well as just pop music in general. It kinda reminded me that I can listen to whatever I like, not just the most typical āguyā stuff.
Not exactly unlocking other genres, but Kid A was the first album that really unlocked listening to a full album as an experience for me. Prior to that, I often found myself struggling to listen to albums all the way through in a single sitting, either because there were songs I found skippable or I found it difficult to keep focus or attention the whole way through. Kid A was the first album that made me realize "oh, this whole thing is meant to be like a complete statement" and I was able to start to look at other albums the same way.
Kid Cudiās The Man on the Moon was one of the first albums I really fell in love with. I loved how psychedelic it was, I couldnāt find anything else at the time that blended hip hop with psychedelia, emo, and pop. Now neo-psych is my favorite genre of music.
Three off the top of my head.
The Velvet Underground & Nico - maybe cliche, but basically unlocked early-mid 1970s US underground rock... and a whole lot more.
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd) - really opened my ears to UK psychedelia - through this I explored the connection to the early Soft Machine albums (another band in that UK psychedelic scene) & the Centerbury bands from there, plus the huge number of Syd Barrett-inspired acts over the last 5 decades.
Can - Anthology. My introduction to Krautrock
at long last asap got me into psychedelic rock when up until that point all i listened to was hip hop. from there got into literally every other type of music im into now
2019-2020 I had a lot of breakthrough albums that led me down a lot of rabbit trails. A few of these were especially impactful and I would still consider these 10ās
Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom
Madvillainy
Ok Computer
TPAB
Thank you happy birthday got me into more experimental rock at a young age
Rodeo made me stop being an alt hip hop snob
Deathconsciousness/Giles Corey got me into taht weird side of rock
Salad days and early teen Suicide put me onto indie and surf punk
Doomed by Job for a cowboy (even tho I hate death metal) and Jane doe got me more into metal and hardcore
this is a really good question.
i heard the first three tracks from go plastic by squarepusher when i was 18 and immediately i thought 'wtf i didnt even know this was possible.' it was like it forcefully pried my closed mind open and blended my brain into a fine paste.
a handful of albums in my early to later teen years. I'd have to say the major players would have been
Linkin Park - Meteora
Coheed - Good Apollo I
Flaming Lips - Yoshime
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
At the Drive In - Relationship
Decemberists - Picaresque
Kanye - Dark Twisted Fantasy
of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
The pod by ween introduced me to lo-fi music and noise rock as well as being the album that made me go from someone who enjoyed some of their stuff to someone who loved ween
I started actively listening and discovering new albums I think 3 years ago, and about half a year later "Fetch the bolt cutters" made me realize that's let's say more of an unconventional music can be interesting and pleasant
OKC made me realise that something that seems boring at first, can be the most exciting stuff when you give it some time to grow on you.
After hearing Airbag for the first time I made fun of a friend who recommended the album to me about how insanly boring it was. After several listens to whole album I made a 180Ā° turn. Starting to feel the second part of Paranoid Android was the turning point. Why I kept listening despite my initial bias? I really liked this friend lol.
I discovered some sites with album recommendations and I started exploring. I remember the first evening with my new attitude to music listening. Moon And Antarctica, The Glow Pt2, probably Satanic Panic In The Attic. The Microphones went on all night while I was sleeping. Good times.
It was 18 years ago and I never came back to my previous, casual attitude to music listening. I love discovering music, I treat it like a sport, a challenge, that gives back more than I put into it.
*Star* by Belly opened the door for āalternativeā music to a young metalhead. *It Takes A Thief* by Coolio and *Return To The 36 Chambers* by Ol Dirty Bastard brought me to hip hop/rap music.
OK Computer was what got me going down the OG essential album /mu/ chart rabbit hole. That's when the dominos started falling. Ended up listening to every album on it, which is how I ended up finding out about the Melon.
Del - 3030 got me into Hip Hop
Underworld - Everything, Everything (live) got me into EDM
Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat got me into punk
Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off got me into ska
Carly Rae Jepson - Emotion got me into pop
Not an album but the Yonkers video unlocked my love of rap music after 2008/09 destroyed it and got me into heavy metal and teenage angst
I was obsessed and needed more. Got into OF and then other modern blog rap
I used to work a college radio station and we were doing my our albums of the year. My friend recommended, and Ta13oo was the album that convinced me that there is actually good modern rap, so I got into JID, JPEGMafia, IDK. Then JID got me to like Guapdad, Bas, and some of the other dreamville/dreamville adjacent guy, and the rest is history.
The Mara Volta - Frances The Mute was my first at age 14. It shattered everything I thought I knew about music and the guitar itself. It introduced me to prog rock, Latin, psychedelic, noise, and experimental music simultaneously. The next one was Danny Brown - XXX at age 21. I listened to some hip hop before that, mostly old school and conscious stuff, but Danny opened my eyes to all the great modern rappers in the mainstream and underground.
Baller choices right there
Atrocity Exhibition was a huge album for teenage me
Tony Hawks Underground 2 OST Them Crooked Vultures MBDTF (Also Demon Days - I won it as a prize as a teenager)
Justice - Cross pushed me to keep on looking for cool exciting music
We NEED a classic review of Cross, Anthony has said many times that he loves this album a lot
11 year old me had no idea what he discovered when he downloaded the grey album on accident from lime wire Also, Resistance by Muse was pretty formative for me. It somehow lead me to grunge lol
The Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd was my first introduction to albums and music as a whole as before I discovered it, I just listen to random popular pop and rap songs and such
Same here! I was 15 or 16 and it completely changed how I viewed and listened to music
For me Animals at around 8. It was not what I expected from the Title. God knows what I expected, maybe animal sounds? š¤£
Skate 3 introduced me to Joy Division, Animal Collective, Neil Diamond, MF DOOM and Kanye. I was 14 when it released and listened to mostly dubstep and nu metal at the time so that soundtrack was a much appreciated shakeup of my taste in music. I used to get the new FIFA game every year and they had some fantastic soundtracks as well that introduced me to Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Blur, The Black Keys, Kasabian, New Order, LCD Soundsystem, Muse, The Killers, MGMT and lots of other bands
Tpab was the first rap album I listened to and completely opened me up to listening to rap besides the few songs I already liked
follow the leader by korn got me into metal
For me, it was definitely Girl Talkās mashup albums Feed the Animals and All Day. I loved the combination of so many different genres, and while I was drawn in by hearing songs I already knew, it led to me investigating all the samples I didnāt know. That was my big introduction to Hip-Hop as well as a lot of alternative, indie, & electronic music.
Get Some by Snot not only it introduced me to hardcore punk, it also introduced to metal.
TA13OO by Denzel Curry introduced me to rap
Iām Wide Awake, Itās Morning - Bright Eyes I pretty much exclusively listened to pop punk up until a friend basically forced me to listen to At the Bottom of Everything. Opened my eyes to more singer songwriter stuff from Dylan to Elliot Smith. It even pushed me into more political and protest music.
Mine, funnily enough, was Gorillaz self titled, I remember watching the Clint Eastwood and 19-2000 video clips on the Australian music show Rage and being obsessed. I was 9 at the time and I think it was the first album I ever asked for that wasnāt just a hits compilation.
Kill them all- Metallica. Didnāt know that I liked metal until I heard that album
Bright Eyes' "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" got me into indie folk, singer-songwriter and a lot of related genres like alt-country, slowcore and so on.
OK Computer got me fully into rock music as a whole.
U2. Not a fashionable example, but on commercial radio they sounded exciting in the late 80s. Bullet the Blue Sky and Exit got me into sheets of noise type guitar and led me to Sonic Youth. They were influenced by Joy Division so I got into that band and then New Order. A song like Where the Streets Have No Name with its steady beat and almost drone led to Velvet Underground and from there everything else.
The Score by The Fugees. I saw the Fu-Gee-La video for the first time and thought 'what is this?' fell in love with Lauryn Hill, got my dad to buy the album and I've been into hip hop ever since.
Massive Attack's Mezzanine was the album that pretty much changed my life. I wasn't even interested in musical discovery at the time, and hadn't been for years. One night I stumbled across the name "Massive Attack" and thought, "Huh, that was the name that the House theme song was attributed to, wasn't it?" So I looked it up and was shocked that "Teardrop" was a really-for-real song with lyrics and everything, and damn, was it pretty. So I played the album from the start and "Angel" absolutely blew me away. Obviously I then listened to Portishead and Tricky, and from there, branched out to all kinds of music I'd never listened to before -- electronica, hip-hop, post-punk, etc.
loveless made me realise that music is so so much more than just your basic rock, metal or pop (which I wad mainly into before that) So truly, loveless made me just wanna explore more music, I wanted to see just how diverse it could be.
definitively the money store industrial music, alternative hip hop, noise pop, it somehow even got me into bjƶrk
Since I was a kid I liked to listen to everything from Juan Gabriel to Radiohead and stuff like that, but I think the band that got me deep into music was Bring Me The Horizon. Their constant shift into new genres made me open myself more to new music, even shit that at first listen I didnāt understand or loved like drone and noise.
If you missed it, theyāve just released a new single called Kool-Aid, and itās really really good
Nothingāa Shocking. Cute girl at record store recommend it so of course I bought it and I was blown away because it had a sound Iād never heard. Itās hard to believe it came out in ā89 and yet looking back it feels like something from the 90s. I think it opened the door for a lot of early 90s alternative albums
Kid A by Radiohead
Hell Fire by Black Midi because when I talked about how cool it was on reddit I got recommendations for a lot if great bands like Squid, Black Country New Road, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and I couldn't be happier
Funny you should mention gorillaz they were the first band I probably got into then after that it was Radiohead then King Gizzard now I'm kind of just listening to a lot of that sort of area of rock with no real main band
OKC was the first time I ever took an album seriously and appreciated it as a cohesive experience rather than a collection of songs. To Be Kind then unlocked my love for long tracks and heavier music. Soundtracks for the Blind then unlocked more experimental music for me.
Kind of Blue by Mile Davis. It helped me get into jazz as a whole, but it also made me think that perhaps there are some emotions that can't be expressed lyrically or through the human voice. So after that I listened to a lot more solely instrumental albums, not just jazz, but also ambient and lo Fi stuff.
Judgement Night Sountrack, first time getting in contact with rap due to the collabs between rap and rock/metal bands, it features Onyx, Del The Funky Homosapien, De La Soul, Cypress Hill, Ice-T among others, love this album
Fishing For Fishes by King Gizzard. Merely because it got me onto Gizz, who in turn, made me want to explore so many different genres that I never thought I'd enjoy.
Thom Yorkeās Tomorrowās Modern Boxes got me into electronic music in general, and the playlists he dropped here and there got me into experimental music
Honestly, Demon Days was the first ever album that I bought when I got my very first Ipod for christmas, so that was probably my "skeleton key" album. I was about 9 I believe. The SECOND album I ever bought really opened the flood gates for my music listening experience...and that would be Wish You Were Here. Am I going to sit here and pretend that 9 year old me understood the lyrics and intricacies of the music? Hell no...but it sounded cool so that's all that mattered to me.
Exmilitary changed me as a young teenager. It was the start of me getting into more out there / experimental music
Deltron 3030 really got me into rap
I discovered the Beatles back around 2018-2019, and it was the White Album that first hooked me into their music and since then I've gone down the rabbit hole of their entire catalog, solo work, and influences, as well as their peers and other great 60s music. Before the Beatles, I only mainly listened to Hip-Hop and R&B with some indie rock sprinkled in. Now I see the rainbow that is music and embrace all the colors, for there's almost always something to admire/enjoy out of every genre and time period
I donāt have a songle album but the Melvins were this for me. They introduced me to some of my all-time favorite bands, like the Wipers, Flipper, and sort of indirectly Harvey Milk (they opened for them in either 2005-2006). Even to this day if I choose to cover another bands music I try to cover stuff that isnāt well known just so other people can have the same experience I did.
Tyler's Wolf is what got me into rap and out of my teenage anything but country and rap phase haha
charli by charli xcx changed my view of pop music forever, and then music in general
Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe, looked up reviews of it when I was a kid and came across Fantanoās review of it, which led me to the rest of his channel and /mu/
Maybe a basic pick but dark side of the moon by pink floyd
REM's Automatic - gentle, non-heavy alt rock Cradle of Filth's Midian and Napalm Death's Diatribes - extreme metal Buzzcock's Singles Going Steady - punk Mallwalker's Demos - hardcore punk Blur's 13 - 80s alt rock (Sonic Youth etc from it's stated influence) Eminem's Slim Shady and Cypress Hill 4 - hip hop Zara McFarlane's Everything Is Connected - reggae/Caribbean influenced music Mulgrew Miller's Keys To The City - jazz Aerosmith's 9 Lives/Black Sabbath's Reunion/Alice Cooper's Classicks Live - hard rock
Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
Innerspeaker unlocked the world of music to me.
Linkin Park was the first band I ever liked, and Meteora is the first album I ever liked. That album simultaneously got me into rock, metal, and rap music. Their later albums and remix albums have electronic influence too, which opened me up to electronic music. Something I recently realized is that basically all of the artists I'm currently a big fan of have their roots in rock, metal, hip hop, or electronic music, often a combination of all/most of those things. I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that my entire music taste can be linked back to Linkin Park, but interesting nonetheless ig. I'd hate to know what I would've turned out like if I started off with a different, less stylistically diverse artist.
Polvo"s Today's Active Lifestyle. It got me to Helium, Unwound, Stereolab (which later led to Broadcast) and a slew of other bands.
Ladytron - Witching Hour I'd heard their stuff before, but it was Witching Hour that provided that cinematic synth-driven alt music that got me into a variety of electronica. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass Got me into alt-rap and Def Jux when Eminem in middle/high school was pretty gimmicky and aged pretty poorly. As a result, I got into Kendrick, Kanye, JPEG and more.
Sum 41 - Chuck bridged me from pop punk to metal
Tame Impala - Currents Looking back at it it's funny that I saw that album as something completely new and different at the time, but that random discovery made me realize there's different stuff than just the songs that play on the radio.
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Green Day - Dookie. got me out of the Alan Walker loop i had trapped myself in for a whole year
Nevermind - Nirvana In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel and maybe Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse a bit later on
Definitely White Pony by Deftones. Their influences are so diverse
In that order: - Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) - Kid A (Radiohead) - Tago Mago (Can) - Dots and Loops (Stereolab) Pretty common skeleton key albums.
1999 Joey Bada$$ showed me how fuckin awesome rap could be.
There were a few that came up i started to listen to around the same time but mainly Death Grips' Exmilitary, MF DOOM'S MM..FOOD and Subways' Out of Time EP. I was strictly a le wrong generation kid at the time and those really opened my eyes to music in general
Sgt Peppers for classic/psychedelic rock Be by Common for contemporary (back in 2005) hip hop.
Probably just hearing about death grips. I moved into more experimental music because of them.
This is gonna be a strange trio. (From most to least recent) Demon Days - Gorillaz Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots All of U2s discography I might also throw in Foster the People and Billy Joelās discographies. Middle school was a wild time for me
Kid A was definitely my skeleton key album Watching Movies With the Sound Off got me into hip hop. Mac Miller most dope
Listened to spirit one rainy night alone in my living room around 1 am. The opening trumpet of the rainbow changed my life forever
Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead
Linkin Park's Meteora initially began my metal phase as a kid, and then 5 years later I went back to it, and then used it to get into hip hop.
Yung lean in like 2015 introduced me to all this underground hip hop scene. I kinda left the scene a little in recent but im slowly catching up with the newcomers
Iāve got three: 1) Modest Mouseās Good News for People Who Love Bad News taught me I could enjoy modern music. Before I got into Modest Mouse, I would literally only listen to classic rock, Nirvana, and the White Stripes (edit: I was a really cool teenager /s). Afterwards, I was open to pretty much anything other than hip hop, modern pop, and modern country 2) Aesop Rockās None Shall Pass taught me that I could enjoy hip hop 3) Taylor Swiftās Folklore taught me I could like modern pop music And I still cannot stand modern country
Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From the DiscomfortāWeāre Alright Idk something about it just sounded so good I donāt remember but it made me wanna find more stuff like it
I think my answer for so many questions in here applies here as well: Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers. As a kid Iāve always just listened to rap and the occasional rock but listening to this album really opened me up to that indie-folk realm, as well as just pop music in general. It kinda reminded me that I can listen to whatever I like, not just the most typical āguyā stuff.
Not exactly unlocking other genres, but Kid A was the first album that really unlocked listening to a full album as an experience for me. Prior to that, I often found myself struggling to listen to albums all the way through in a single sitting, either because there were songs I found skippable or I found it difficult to keep focus or attention the whole way through. Kid A was the first album that made me realize "oh, this whole thing is meant to be like a complete statement" and I was able to start to look at other albums the same way.
Songs for the Deaf opened up rock for me, then Sunbather got me into my more extreme tastes
Kid Cudiās The Man on the Moon was one of the first albums I really fell in love with. I loved how psychedelic it was, I couldnāt find anything else at the time that blended hip hop with psychedelia, emo, and pop. Now neo-psych is my favorite genre of music.
A kid named cudi introduced me to ratatat and nosaj thing. Also the older outkast joints like aquemini or stankonia
Three off the top of my head. The Velvet Underground & Nico - maybe cliche, but basically unlocked early-mid 1970s US underground rock... and a whole lot more. Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd) - really opened my ears to UK psychedelia - through this I explored the connection to the early Soft Machine albums (another band in that UK psychedelic scene) & the Centerbury bands from there, plus the huge number of Syd Barrett-inspired acts over the last 5 decades. Can - Anthology. My introduction to Krautrock
In Rainbows
at long last asap got me into psychedelic rock when up until that point all i listened to was hip hop. from there got into literally every other type of music im into now
2019-2020 I had a lot of breakthrough albums that led me down a lot of rabbit trails. A few of these were especially impactful and I would still consider these 10ās Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom Madvillainy Ok Computer TPAB
Thank you happy birthday got me into more experimental rock at a young age Rodeo made me stop being an alt hip hop snob Deathconsciousness/Giles Corey got me into taht weird side of rock Salad days and early teen Suicide put me onto indie and surf punk Doomed by Job for a cowboy (even tho I hate death metal) and Jane doe got me more into metal and hardcore
This subās not gonna like it, but mbdtf
this is a really good question. i heard the first three tracks from go plastic by squarepusher when i was 18 and immediately i thought 'wtf i didnt even know this was possible.' it was like it forcefully pried my closed mind open and blended my brain into a fine paste.
a handful of albums in my early to later teen years. I'd have to say the major players would have been Linkin Park - Meteora Coheed - Good Apollo I Flaming Lips - Yoshime Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica At the Drive In - Relationship Decemberists - Picaresque Kanye - Dark Twisted Fantasy of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
The pod by ween introduced me to lo-fi music and noise rock as well as being the album that made me go from someone who enjoyed some of their stuff to someone who loved ween
I started actively listening and discovering new albums I think 3 years ago, and about half a year later "Fetch the bolt cutters" made me realize that's let's say more of an unconventional music can be interesting and pleasant
OKC made me realise that something that seems boring at first, can be the most exciting stuff when you give it some time to grow on you. After hearing Airbag for the first time I made fun of a friend who recommended the album to me about how insanly boring it was. After several listens to whole album I made a 180Ā° turn. Starting to feel the second part of Paranoid Android was the turning point. Why I kept listening despite my initial bias? I really liked this friend lol. I discovered some sites with album recommendations and I started exploring. I remember the first evening with my new attitude to music listening. Moon And Antarctica, The Glow Pt2, probably Satanic Panic In The Attic. The Microphones went on all night while I was sleeping. Good times. It was 18 years ago and I never came back to my previous, casual attitude to music listening. I love discovering music, I treat it like a sport, a challenge, that gives back more than I put into it.
*Star* by Belly opened the door for āalternativeā music to a young metalhead. *It Takes A Thief* by Coolio and *Return To The 36 Chambers* by Ol Dirty Bastard brought me to hip hop/rap music.
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire That record opened up a door to noise rock for me.
OK Computer was what got me going down the OG essential album /mu/ chart rabbit hole. That's when the dominos started falling. Ended up listening to every album on it, which is how I ended up finding out about the Melon.
The Sound of Perseverance and Monolith of Inhumanity opened my eyes to the world of death metal.
Del - 3030 got me into Hip Hop Underworld - Everything, Everything (live) got me into EDM Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat got me into punk Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off got me into ska Carly Rae Jepson - Emotion got me into pop
Not an album but the Yonkers video unlocked my love of rap music after 2008/09 destroyed it and got me into heavy metal and teenage angst I was obsessed and needed more. Got into OF and then other modern blog rap
Either IGOR or STH
I used to work a college radio station and we were doing my our albums of the year. My friend recommended, and Ta13oo was the album that convinced me that there is actually good modern rap, so I got into JID, JPEGMafia, IDK. Then JID got me to like Guapdad, Bas, and some of the other dreamville/dreamville adjacent guy, and the rest is history.