Music Meme.

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The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

Some of these have explanations, some of them just have the line that I used to write on my jeans during high school.

1. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation (1988) - Sonic Youth is to this day one of my favorite bands, ever, and this album is the one that I have listened to hundreds, possibly thousands of times. For me, it's the exact perfect midpoint between their earlier noise-oriented stuff and their newer, more polished work.
2. Skinny Puppy - Vivisect VI (1988) - Crystal marble powder shot glass overflow.
3. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (1994) - This was probably the first black metal album I ever loved. Not the first I'd heard, but the first I'd truly loved. And yes, I did hear it LONG after its initial release. I was doing... other things... in the early 90s.
4. Cranes - Loved (1994) - My first foray into dreampop, and probably the only artist from that genre I have or will ever like.
5. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out (1982) - I make the air fall apart around you.
6. Crass - Stations of the Crass (1979) - Probably not their best album, but it's the one I heard first, and it blew my fucking mind. This was what I thought punk rock was supposed to be about. Instead, at least during the early/mid 90s in Wisconsin, it was all about Green Day and NOFX and other super bubblegum, largely apolitical bands. You can imagine my disappointment.
7. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984) - I fell in love with Iron Maiden when this album was new. I was born in 1978. 'Nuff said.
8. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance (1982) - I believe I discovered this and Dio's Holy Diver at age 11. I put both aside eventually because I had decided to be a Goth, but they never really left my heart.
9. Dio - Holy Diver (1983) - Jump, jump?
10. Frontline Assembly - Caustic Grip (1990) - This was actually the first industrial album I ever heard, before Skinny Puppy.
11. Underworld- Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) - I picked up this album for the club hit, "Cowgirl," but ended up spinning the whole album pretty constantly for a lot of years. 16 years later, I still am not sick of Dirty Epic. Here comes Christ on crutches...
12. Dissection- Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) - In the Nightside Eclipse might have been the first black metal album I ever loved, but this is the one that I listened to the most, and directly led to me discovering Watain, and from there getting into well... everything I've been into for the last couple of years.
13. Joy Division - Warsaw (1994 reissue) - I discovered Joy Division the year this album was re-released with bonus tracks, and it pretty much changed my musical taste forever. This was my gateway to all things Goth and then Industrial.
14. Sisters of Mercy - First, Last and Always (1985) - Staple hand to forehead and spin.
15. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980) - I don't know what to say about this other than: Classic.


Okay, so there was more metal on there than I expected, but zero death metal. Which is weird, because up until a few years ago, early-to-mid-90s death metal was the only extreme metal I'd ever really listened to. I spent a lot of the 90s chasing around longhairs in deicide and cannibal corpse t-shirts, and never getting the time of day from them. I guess, sadly, at that time I was just one of those girls who was into a scene for the dudes. I had thought I really liked the music, however none of it really made my list.