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Started a blog earlier on my myspace and thought why not on here. I know 20 is a lot, I really dont care what amount of albums yah post as long as they mean something.

Heres mine in order:

1. Cave In - Jupiter

2. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

3. Incubus - Make Yourself

4. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

5. Explosions In The Sky - The Rescue

6. Mute Math - S/T

7. Isis - Panopticon

8. Led Zeppelin - III

9. King Crimson - In The Court Of King Crimson

10. Saves the Day - Through Being Cool / In Reverie

11. Pelican - Thee Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

12. 311 - Transistor

13. The Format - Interventions & Lullabies

14. Mastodon - Leviathan

15. Cassino - Sounds of Salvation

15. The Doors - L.A. Woman

16. John Mayer - Room For Squares

17. Minus the Bear - Menos El Oso

18. New Found Glory - S/T

19. Converge - Jane Doe

20. Baroness - Red Album

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i dunno if i can do 20, but i'll do 10, and if i do end up doing 20, then disregard this:

1) energy - op ivy

2) rubber soul - the beatles

3) as the eternal cowboy - against me!

4) this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about - modest mouse

5) kid a - radiohead

6) AEnima - tool

7) meat is murder - the smiths

8) in/casino/out - at the drive in

9) surfer rosa - the pixies

10) hope and rage - protagonist (i wonder if anyone else other than sofla kids on here have heard this album, haha)

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1) Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers

2) blink-182 - Enema of the State

3) Green Day - Dookie

4) New Found Glory - New Found Glory

5) Weezer - Pinkerton

6) Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman

7) Elliott Smith - Either/Or

8) New Found Glory - Nothing Gold Can Stay

9) Weezer - Weezer (1994 - Blue)

10) The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told

11) Green Day - Insomniac

12) Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen

13) Jawbreaker - Dear You

14) Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

15) Against Me! - As The Eternal Cowboy

16) Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

17) The Lawrence Arms - Apathy and Exhaustion

18) Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose

19) Kid Dynamite - Kid Dynamite

20) Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

revised. totally forgot weezer.

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I did a "favourite" albums list a few months back. This is basically albums I love more than any others and albums which changed my tastes when I was younger...

1 between the buried and me-the silent circus (2003)

2 glassjaw-eyewtkas (2000)

3 linkin park-hybrid theory (2000)

4 slipknot-s/t (1999)

5 glassjaw-worship & tribute (2002)

6 mono-you are there (2006)

7 lostprophets-the fake sound of progress (2000)

8 the streets-original pirate material (2002)

9 muse-origin of symmetry (2001)

10 The dillinger escape plan-calculating infinity(1999)

11 system of a down-toxicity (2001)

12 set your goals-mutiny!(2006)

13 Between the buried and me-s/t (2002)

14 finch-say hello to sunshine (2005)

15 lydia-this december (2005)

16 mono & world's end girlfriend-palmless prayer/mass murder refrain (2005)

17 black star-talib kweli and mos def is black star (1998)

18 everytime i die-hot damn! (2003)

19 Architects-Nightmares (2006)

20 Gang Starr-Moment Of Truth (2003)

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neutral milk hotel's in the aeroplane over the sea, mewithoutYou's a -> b life, boysetsfire's after the eulogy, sting's ...all this time, the promise ring's nothing feels good, the mountain goats' the sunset tree, converge's jane doe, baroness' split with unpersons, baroness' the red album.

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1. Against Me!-reinventing axl rose

2. Jawbreaker- Dear You

3. Osker-Idle Will Kill

4. Kid Dynamite- Shorter Faster Louder

5. Minor Threat- Discography

6. American Steel- Jaggeded Thoughts

7.Piebald- These are the Only Friends That we Have

8. Hot Water Music- No Division

9. Refused- The Shape Of Punk To Come

10. Alkaline Trio- God Dammit

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In no particular order...

1 - Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape

2 - Rage Against The Machine - S/T

3 - Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute

4- Converge - Jane Doe

5 - Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground

6 - The Bronx - The Bronx (I)

7 - Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves

8 - Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

9 - Blink 182 - Enema Of The State

10 - Brand New - Your Favourite Weapon

11 - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

12 - Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!

13 - Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

14 - The Movielife - 40 Hour Train Back To Penn

15 - New Found Glory - S/T

16 - Thrice - The Illusion Of safety

17 - Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

18 - Finch - What It Is To Burn

19 - The Bled - Pass The Flask

20 - Mastodon - Leviathon

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I'm going to interpret this as "Most Influential Records to Your Present Personal Listening Habits".

In Time Discovery Order:

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire

Nirvana - Nevermind

Weezer - Pinkerton

Incubus - Make Yourself

Dave Matthews Band - Crash

Blink 182 - Enema Of The State

Sublime - Sublime

Hopesfall - The Satellite Years

Thursday - Full Collapse

Saosin - Translating The Name

The Bled - Pass The Flask

Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites

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Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise

Decemberists - Picaresque

Cartola - Cartola

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Weezer - Blue Album

Beirut - Gulag Orkester

Los Hermanos - Ventura

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot

Tim Maia - Racional

Caetano Veloso - Domingo

In no particular order. And a lot more....

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In no particular order:

At The Drive-In-Relationship of Command

Fugazi-Repeater

Hot Water Music-A Flight and a Crash

Wu Tang Clan-Enter the Wu-Tang

Jawbreaker-Dear You

Pearl Jam-No Code

Elliott Smith-XO

Bob Dylan-Blood on the Tracks

Radiohead-OK Computer

Rage Against the Machine-s/t

Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Alkaline Trio-From here to infirmary

Bad Relgion-Stranger than Fiction

Metroschifter-4

Outkast-ATLiens

Tom Waits-Closing Time

Modest Mouse-The Moon and Antarctica

Widespread Panic-Till the medicine takes

Death Cab For Cutie-Transatlanticism

Bright Eyes-I'm Wide Awake, It's morning

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I'm going to interpret this as "Most Influential Records to Your Present Personal Listening Habits".

Same here...so here's my list in no particular order:

the god machine - scenes from the second storey

the god machine - one last laugh in a place of dying

shai hulud - hearts once nourished with hope and compassion

nine inch nails - the downward spiral

heather nova - oyster

L7 - bricks are heavy

endpoint - if the spirits are willing

endpoint - catharsis

rage against the machine - s/t

pearl jam - ten

biohazard - urban discipline

strife - one truth

tool - undertow

sepultura - arise

the cure - kiss me, kiss me, kiss me

the cure - disintegration

rollins band - the end of silence

liz phair - exile in guyville

suicide machines - destruction by definition

split lip - for the love of the wounded

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Well my most influentilal records personally are: (in no particular order)

1. Infest - Slave

2. Descendents - ALL

3. Screeching Weasel - Boogadaboogadaboogada

4. Cro - Mags - Age of Quarrel

5. V/A - Worlds in Shreds Vol II compilation (just a awesome compilation)

6. Operation Ivy - Energy

7. Ramones - S/T

8. Minor Threat - Discography

9. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

10. Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

11. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

12. Refused - Shape of Punk to Come

13. Drop Dead - Discography

14. Judas Priest - Point of Entry

15. Neurosis - Pain of Mind

16. Naked City - Torture Garden

17. Calexico - The Black Light

18. Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of MIllions to Hold us Back

19. Slayer - Reign in Blood

20. Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line

this is just off the top of my head

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