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Audio: Show us five CDs or albums that changed your life.
Submitted by redhotmomma.
Right around the seventh- or eighth-grade, when we started getting high:
Probably around sophomore or junior in high school, I show up to Glom's and he had mail-ordered this:
FLIPSIDE VINYL FANZINE vol. 2 LP
Label: Gasatanka/Enigma
Released: 1985
1. MIA "Just a Dream
2. DECRY "Island Paradise"
3. OUTPATIENTS "Backwards Explosion"
4. NAKED RAYGUN "Metastasis"
5. ROACH MOTEL "Mad Dog"
6. JFA "Out of School"
7. MASSACRE GUYS "Let's Forget"
8. VAGINA DENTATA "Golden Boys"
9. PLAIN WRAP "Magnetic Shoes"
10. DI "Johnny's Got a Problem"
11. MISFITS "Attitude"
12. NECROS "Walking the Dog"
13. C2D "Aggressive System"
14. ICONOCLAST "Domination or Destruction"
15. CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS "No Wordz"
16. DISORDERLY CONDUCT "How Old Are You"
17. CATATONICS "Descending in E"
18. BRAILLE PARTY "Let It Burn"
19. GERMS "Forming"
20. GKH "Dickermann"
21. AGENT ORANGE "Shakin' All Over"
This was my introduction to punk rock music. We listened to it over and over, every day, for so long. Dirty Jase would later turn us on to so much good, quality, aggressive music.
We would later find metal, which was sort of a gateway to so many things. After getting into this epic collection, it was on to Slayer and, again, thanks to Jase, the likes of hardcore in the form of The Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Minor Threat, The Accused, et. al.
This came along at just the right time, at the ripe old age of 19. I still listen to it to this day. Matter of fact, I still have the warped and faded Maxell cassette tape Jeff Weller made for me in some box in the basement.
The fifth and final spot is tough. There has been some monumental offerings here--Pearl Jam's "Ten" and the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" immediately come to mind, as well as a lot of Scorpions, Judas Priest and other back-in-the-day metal. But, in the true sense of changing one's life, I would have to go with this:
This played in the CD player while Mrs. Chicken and I had our first power makeout session in our very, very early days of dating. THAT changed my life forever, in ways I can't even begin to explain here. The other four were great, undeniably important musical bookmarks in my life. In an instant I can go back to a time and place of true friends, TRUST and unrivaled comaraderie among peers, the likes of which I've yet to see as an adult. But the Social Club? I get shivers (the good kind) just thinking about it. This CD was the soundtrack behind the best thing to ever happen to me.
