Big Wax Attack

[ornoth]

Forty albums that influenced me meme, huh? Okay, I’ll play along with this one.

Rather than try to order them by some subjective ranking of how big an influence each was, I think I’ll do my best to set them down in as close to a chronological order as I can. Hopefully that’ll give you an idea what my road has been like.

1. Abba: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
2. Elton John: Captain Fantastic
3. Sweet: Desolation Boulevard
4. Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic
5. Devo: Freedom of Choice
6. The Cars: The Cars
7. Various: Heavy Metal: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
8. Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Caberet
9. Aldo Nova: Aldo Nova
10. Loverboy: Get Lucky
11. Billy Squier: Emotions in Motion
12. Def Leppard: Pyromania
13. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
14. Nik Kershaw: The Riddle
15. Wall of Voodoo: Call of the West
16. Art of Noise: (Who’s Afraid of) the Art of Noise
17. Rush: Caress of Steel
18. They Might Be Giants: They Might Be Giants
19. Negativland: Escape From Noise
20. Moby: Moby
21. H.W.A.: Livin’ in a Hoe House
22. Laibach: Opus Dei
23. Ministry: The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
24. Kraftwerk: Electric Cafe
25. KMFDM: Nihil
26. KLF: The White Room
27. EMF: Schubert Dip
28. Bentmen: Magicroom
29. Emergency Broadcast Network: Behavior Modification / We Will Rock You
30. Concussion Ensemble: Stampede
31. Shriekback: Go Bang!
32. Robert Plant: Now and Zen
33. Stan Ridgway: Mosquitos
34. Various: Mashin’ Up the Nation Vols. 1 and 2
35. Madness: Complete Madness
36. Dance Hall Crashers: Lockjaw
37. Toasters: Dub 56
38. Beat Soup: Start From Scratch
39. Gangster Fun: Pure Amphetamines
40. Pressure Cooker: Pressure Cooker