15 Album Meme pt. 1

[tinhuvielartanis]

I'm doing this from computer class, so it may come in bits and bobs if I can't save a draft here.  Yes, I'm playing in class because I'm bored out of my thick skull.  This meme come from pamelonian .

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life. Dig into your soul. Music that brought you to life when you heard it. Then when you finish, tag 15 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill.

I'm not tagging anyone.  Do this only if you want to.  I would ask that, if you do do, drop me a link to your post, on account of I'm curious about what your albums are.  Anyways, here are my 15, in no particular order.

1. Xanadu Soundtrack:  It officially introduced me to ELO and was instrumental in my becoming a Witch because of the Goddess influence on the whole Xanadu project.
2. Eldorado by the Electric Light Orchestra:  The title track to this album is the song I want played at my funeral.  It's that important to me.  I still consider myself a dreamer, an unwoken fool.
3. The Dancing Years by Shriekback:  This is a compilation of Shriek songs and is usually reviled by most Shriekback fans, particularly the purists who didn't appreciate Barry's reinterpretations of original Shriek songs.  This album was influential for me because of one of those reinterpretations, "Deeply Lined Up."  It was this song that created Cadmus Pariah in my sick and twisted mind.  Within 8 minutes of that song, my best and most terrifying character was born.  I haven't been right since and that was in 1990.
4. Big Night Music by Shriekback:  Every song on this album (except for 'Pretty Little Things') sang to my soul and inspired much writing.  The liner notes in this album were also very important to me on a spiritual level.  I was still a Dedicant when I came to Big Night Music, so the written intro to the album (composed by Barry Andrews, of that I have no doubt), helped me to understand the path on which I wanted to tread.  I'm still treading that path, still 'celebrating the blessed dark, the place I was always most at home.'
5. The Wall by Pink Floyd:  When I realised I was going mad back in the 80s, this was my soundtrack.  After having discovered Syd Barrett and his story, I thoroughly related and looked into my on abyss.  The Wall became my soundtrack and My Friend Todd and I would listen to it religiously, singing every single word.  Dark and delightful times those were.

Okay, we're getting into Access hot and heavy here, so I guess I should pay attention.  I'll finish this later before I have to head for work.

Comments

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

For Pink Floyd, I started with DSoM and Meddle, and moved forward. Only later did I start working my way back through the earlier stuff.

The Wall has always been an odd one for me. I love it, but I seldom listen to it. I'm just never in the mood for it anymore. I usually just want music on. I'm never in the mood for a show. An acquaintance who wasn't into the Floyd once told me, "it's just fucking opera!" It was then that I realized there was nothing wrong with opera.

I posted this meme last night. I listed thirteen albums, and it took me over two hours to write.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

There's not a thing wrong with rock opera. Screaming high vibrato Italian opera pisses me right off, though, and makes me want to lay waste to small villages.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't say it has quite that effect on me, but yeah, that sums up the main problems with opera.

Re: The Dancing Years

[boba.livejournal.com]

Word.

Besides, that's the album with that live release of Faded Flowers. I mean, that one. Anyone who disses this album has no soul. QED.

For you, it was Deeply Lined Up. For me, it was the aforementioned and White Out. Near opposite ends of a spectrum, I know. *wink*

Re: The Dancing Years

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Opposites attract or is that everything that rises must converge? Hee!

[boba.livejournal.com]

ps. There is nothing "hot and heavy" regarding Access.

:-P

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

There is with Ms. Maher. She's a wild woman, that one.

15 album...

[oleander56.livejournal.com]

Hi!
So, you are into Acess now, I´m glad it´s over and done for me quite a while ago. Hope it works out for you.

I frankly cannot understand how you manage to do anything else after both job and school, it´s an ongoing mystery. Would you like to build a poem with me? I will start with a line, and you will provide the next.

If "yes" just say so and I will begin.

P.S. Really loved the wall.

All the Best!

Oleander 56

Re: 15 album...

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I think that'd be an interesting experiment. Let's go for it. Finnish/Swedish combined with Welsh/Jewish: a poetic marriage made in the Ninth Sith Hell! Bwaaahahahah!

Re: 15 album...

[oleander56.livejournal.com]

Hi!

You are quite right about that, it would be a marriage in hell, understandable only to very advanced linguistics and schizofrenics.

You speak welsh? that was a new one to me, must have missed something...

I had planned to do it in the kings english, but what the hell, youré ON, so here goes:

"Apokalypsen dricker kallt te i mitt kök"

Uncomprehensingly yours

Oleander 56

Re: 15 album...

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

LOL! Only a very little. I was actually speaking of our major heritage influences. So here's the next line in a mixture of Cymru and Yiddish.

Chi mi dychrynu a broch tzu dir!

15 album...

[oleander56.livejournal.com]

Hi!
Now we are truly getting complicated here!
So now its my turn, just to add to the confusion, I will make my entrance in finnish/german. Here goes:

" Der Adler lentää niin kauan kun die Sonne scheint."

All the Best!

Oleander 56

Re: 15 album...

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Die freierdik umderschrokn firer dim gwerth rhech dafad

15 album...

[oleander56.livejournal.com]

Hi!
So it is my move...

"Men vargen söker lampaa sittenkin metsässä"

Hmmmm... Sheep something..

All the Best!

Oleander 56

Re: 15 album...

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

We'll have to let it stop there, I'm afraid. I can't even think of anything I can say in We-Yiddish! It's a pretty poem, though. Short and weird. I can dig it.

Re: 15 album...

[oleander56.livejournal.com]

Hi!
As you wish, my dear, totally puzzling it is.
Looks allmoust like a spell...

All the Best!

Oleander 56

Re: 15 album...

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

With the mojo we have going on, it could very well be a spell.