Albums That Changed My Life - 82 Rock Stars vs Me
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- I finished Martin Popoff's book "Satisfaction - 10 Albums That Changed My Life" which shows the selections of 82 Rock Stars. Instead of simply reviewing the book, I thought it would be more fun to tabulate the results and compare them to my results. And you can also compare them to your personal results. Enjoy this fine Martin Popoff book and my tabulated results.
Thanks for your time on this Alan...have fun tonight.. be safe... brother.... Hopefully some Out Of Time...I'll take some Exile Goats Sticky. Yes please.
Thanks Glen - I'm rooting for Heartbreaker in the fan vote.
Deep Purple In Rock got me into them. Top 5 band for me.
Hendrix started me too but the three albums that changed me the most when I was 12/13 in 1970 were Led Zeppelin II, Black Sabbath Paranoid and The Who Live at Leeds
I'm not sure how Deep Purple In Rock passed me by. I'm not a huge Purple fan but I have a bunch - don't listen to them too much though. Funny in that Uriah Heep was always considered a poor man's Purple, but I listed to Heep way more. I am a big Ritchie Blackmore fan though.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I also got into Uriah Heep at the beginning. Mick Box is still kicking ass…..
Lot of data Alan lol.Great list I also am missing two.I've never had the Sex Pistols for whatever reason
That is very interesting and kudos for the hard work!
Thanks so much Mark- always appreciate your support.
Surprisingly Rolling Stones #1, in stead of any album of Big Four. However The Stones took general third position with 25 votes. No wonder that The Stones have long history and so many albums that covered several generations each of which has its own favourite Stones album.
I was shocked that the most chosen Stones album by far was their debut. It is a great debut for its time of course, but I would've suspected the usual ones - Exile, Sticky Fingers etc. They did make a small appearance but not too many. But I guess it was albums that changed their life / influenced. Even so, was surprising to me too.
I like your list better, Alan. No Beach Boys, no Beatles, and the Pretenders' debut! You have three of my top four albums on your list, the aforementioned Pretenders, Physical Graffiit and Quadrophenia. The only one missing is Station to Station, but you have another Bowie album on there, so all is forgiven.
Thanks so much Chris - and I also love Station To Station, but Diamond Dogs and David Live were my first Bowie albums - so super special for me. Thanks again.
Thanks again Alan, for another great video. I've always thought that "Are You Experienced" is one of the greatest albums in rock history. I have several Hendrix CDs and "Experienced" is the first one I bought about 25 years ago. Love the album and it certainly deserves the number one position. Hope you enjoyed the Stones concert.
Thanks so much - I love the album as well and is by far my favorite Hendrix album. With that said, I don't listen to Hendrix that much compared to the other "legacy" artists, but when I do, yea, its fantastic.
OK, statistically-speaking, there actually wasn't much agreement at the album level. You didn't mention how many chose Jimi Hendrix's 'Are you experienced?' but No. 2 came in at a 20% agreement. The bottom five or so only had a 6% agreement.
When you rolled it up to the group level, the picture became much clearer, especially when you take Martin Popoff's primary musical preference into account - Metal.
That The Beatles featured so strongly is interesting; and indeed The Stones - these are not heavy metal bands. That Black Sabbath did not feature at all (from memory) is extraordinary, given that they endlessly feature on Martin Popoff's and Pete Pardo's lists for Sea of Tranquility.
I couldn't see the list of the 80 in the survey, but given that Martin Popoff's preferences skew Metal, where were Uriah Heep, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest et al? And given Martin Popoff's over skew - Prog - where were any Prog bands?
If you do a statistical expectations vs. actuality analysis, i.e. Chi Squared, all these people who skew, I assume, Metal and Prog, actually picked Rock N Roll and Blues as their primary influences.
Now, that is somewhat unexpected, except in the case of Led Zeppelin, being a hard core Metal Blues band.
It was interesting - Hendrix Are You Experienced got 27 votes at #1, Sgt. Peppers at #2 got 16 votes. Sabbath was lower on the list - Paranoid got a few. Priest got a few - Unleashed most of those. There's was about 800 albums chosen so I sorted and deleted, sorted and deleted to make sense of it. Took a lot of work actually. Stones was odd - most were for the debut album. But it was favorite albums that changed your life / influential so I guess that's why. Overall was a fun thing to do.
I have all those albums. Sometimes multiple versions of some of those albums. I can't fault any of them. You love your data.....am I in your database?? Biggest Jackass, perhaps 😂 Anyway, I am over here praying the Rosary (and I'm not Catholic) that Heart breaker gets played tonight. Have a great time at White Castle and the Show. I will be following the set list. When you do your review, your thoughts on the staging would be appreciated. The Jazz Fest show didn't have there staging with them.
Will do David - thanks - Top 10 viewers for sure and craziest comments you win.
no bananarama? shocking. i guess people dont like cruel summer as much as i thought they did. have fun tonight. hope they play lets work.
Thanks - hope they play Heartbreaker..
You da man. Nice work. Asking musicians for most influential is a certain category. Depends on their age.
Top 10 albums that influenced me as a musician...I can't list the stuff I couldn't play. I'd love to be able to list Miles Davis and YES and Mahavishnu etc. 🤣
Are You Experienced - Hendrix
Axis Bold as Love - Hendrix
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Decade - Neil Young
Rush - RUSH
Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
Kill 'Em All - Metallica
Facelift - Alice In Chains
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP
Sparkle and Fade - Everclear
Thanks - interesting diverse list. The first Rush album - wow - that's gutsy. Decade by Neil Young was an amazing compilation when that come out. Me and my friends were all blown away by it.
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow it's kind of like the albums you've listened to the most. This list is the albums that most effected my guitar playing and song arrangement (I'm not going to say songwriter - I'm not going to call myself a songwriter). Hendrix more for arrangement. I consider the greatest loss with Hendrix to be his song creation with the guitar. The rest are straight up the albums that I played the guitar to the most. Working Man off of RUSH's first album was basically a continuation of the lead work of Iommi and I loved the groove and guitar work on RUSH.
Have a great time tonight!!
Quadrophinia! Quadrophinia! Quadrophinia!
Yes Tarr Yes Tarr Yes Tarr - typo by the way.. Quadrophenia. Best Alan
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow That is correct. Good call!
I have to watch later. I’m about to go to a show…….
Maybe see you later - my ride is running late - I was supposed to leave an hour ago....uhhh
@@TheAlanRosenbergShow I drove to the Secaucus train station. Traffic better than expected! I’ll be at the stadium way too early but better than late!
A nice surprise to get Hendrix at no1. Know you don't like Queen but I would have to them in top 20 as well as Diree Straits and others. Too many Beatles albums gor me.
Thanks so much - Yea Hendrix was a surprise for me too. Dire Straits way at the top for me as well.
Seems to be an age difference influencing the choices. Rock stars chose older bands. You are younger so I can see the conflict. I’m going to go through my collection now and will follow up with my top 20 influential albums. Will be very difficult since I’m 68 years old. 😂
Loved your video!
Thanks so much - looking forward to your list.
Dear Alan, hope you enjoyed tha STONES concert and that it was good and hope you'll not be disappointet! Tell us! Kindly regards from Aaron, tha BURDON maniac
thanks Aaron, The Burdon maniac..lol. I got home last night around 1:30 - video to come - I'm feeling like hung over...lol, but from age and travel and singing and dancing....not from drinking.
Cool. Sleepwalker is my favorite Kinks album. It didn't change my life but I love it. Son House Father of the Delta Blues truly changed my outlook on the universe.
thanks so much. Son House - wow going really deep. Nice to see Sleepwalker as your favorite Kinks album. Such a great and oft forgotten album.
Leave it to Alan Rosenberg to create such a unique video! Whereas the prolific Martin Popoff chose not to end his “Satisfaction…” book with any kind of tabulated roundup to put the rock star votes in perspective, you, Alan, rolled up your sleeves and dove deep into arranging all the data for a solid basis of comparison. In picking up and running with the ball that Mr. Popoff dropped, you embarked on a journey of hard, time-consuming and meticulous work that I, for one, greatly appreciate. I am very surprised that not a single one of the 82 rock stars featured in the book voted for a Bob Dylan album. Though my votes don’t match all of theirs, I understand how the albums they selected can change lives, if you will. “Are You Experienced?” has almost always been ranked as, or close to, number 1 in album polls ever since it was released in 1967. The first time I heard that album I wasn’t even an adolescent yet. It blew me away. I was motionless and silent after the album ended. I still play it on Sundays, when the music I play at home falls under the category of what I call my “Sunday Sixties Sessions.” The album still leaves me almost breathless.
It really was a lot of work, so thanks for your compliments. Are You Experienced is certainly my favorite Hendrix album. I was only four when it came out, so of course, I can't totally appreciate it's impact. But even today, as you said, it sounds incredible and ground breaking. With that said, I don't listen to Hendrix all that much, so for me I was surprised it landed at #1. I love your "personal radio" - Sunday Sixties Sessions - that's a great title and idea. Thanks as always.
Thanks Alan for the review, and the stunning annotation! I certainly would never invest the time and energy to compile all of that info in index form--good grief! And yes, I don't know why an author of his 'heft' wouldn't have done that, just as a reference feature. As for the content, well, I guess it is interesting to read what other musicians of note have been inspired by...but like a reviewer below commented, the moniker of 'changed my life' seems to get bantered about with everything: "movies that have changed my life"; "albums that changed my life"; "tv shows that changed my life"; "restaurants that changed my life"; "pole dancers that changed my life"; ...and I certainly don't want to be contrarian with a subject that has been very special in my life, but yes, one wonders how did that album change how you are actually living your life? I mean, did your life actually take a different path thanks to that album? Perhaps it did--but did the path change, say, 13 times...or 12 or 10??? Yes, if your frame of mind changes and inspires you to think differently, inevitably your behavior and future choices could be effected...I guess. But I am not qualified to make that determination on human behavior, or the human psyche.
As for me, I am confident that there has been music that has changed my life--notably when I discovered the Hot Rocks album, and personally bought "Made in the Shade"--not only did that set off an obsession that continues to this day, but much of my activities--reading, writing, learning, practicing and taking guitar lessons--all started after that. Of course I became obsessed with music, and the Rolling Stones, in particular.
Later, in high school, after hearing Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, I became almost obsessed with writing, lyrics and poetry. I never heard anybody use language like that, and I think that took my life, work, studies, in another, almost literary direction.
Finally, while in college, I heard John Coltrane's My Favorite Things and Impressions, and that made me want to play and learn jazz. And I spent years, well into my adulthood, learning, playing and practicing jazz music.
Can't wait for your Stones review! And please tell me you didn't wear that Ringo/Pepper shirt to the Stones concert 🤮
Thanks - you nailed it - there you listed and described perfectly "albums that changed your life" and I loved it. By the way, I agree with you. Beyond really the Stones, Kinks, Who, I don't know if any really changed my life - my musical listening life - put me on massive pursuit to gobble up everything by the artist etc..and became part of my musical DNA - how's that? How I feel. by the way, I picked up Coltrane's My Favorite Things fairly recently - last year maybe? I loved it. I'm getting more and more into jazz and loving much of Coltrane. and no..lol Ringo at a Stones show...lol. I wore my vintage 1999 Stones No Security tour shirt and got a ton of comments. People had never seen it before. Was a lot of fun. Thanks so much.
Hi Alan - great list , gotta say I have most of those. I cant afford to be all in on every band so I have THE albums. Nice to see Jimi on the top, I think he was the one single person that change the electric guitar for ever. All of those albums are landmark albums. I use to have the Sex Pistols but sold it, likewise Pet Sounds - am not a huge Beach Boys fan, the "Best of's" are all I need from them. Cya on the next one. Doug
I'm not a big Beach Boys fan either - I have a couple of their comps and Pet Sounds - but haven't listened to Pet Sounds in decades probably.
Certain records were listened to at critical points in my life. Take free heartbreaker. Listened and bonded in 1973 a pivotal year for my fortunes. Heartbreaker more a Paul Rodgers solo and a low point in his life and fortunes prior badco. Well sir,things really lucked up for me, mid 73. Turning point and this lp was purchased and listened to as was framptons camel. Argud. Family's bandstand and most important. Heads hands and feet tracks .flawless masterpieces that lifted my spirits like a tide as I hung ten to better times
So true. Part of what makes music wonderful. It's a totally personal experience. Especially when we are going thru situations in life - that music bonds to us. I'll never forget when we put our first dog to sleep back in 1980. When we got back in the car the song Misunderstanding by Genesis came on the radio. To this day, I turn it off instantly. But of course the opposite is true as well. By the way Heartbreaker is near the top of my favorite Free albums. I know the band was in shambles but it's a wonderful album. Anyway Spence thanks for sharing. And by the way, that is why I listen to "new" albums at least four or five times. Because albums effect us by our mood and vice versa. There's been so many occasions, wnen I played an album and didn't really care for it. Only to later on fall in love with it, and in some cases become an all time favorite. If I heard it only once or twice, I would've missed out. Thanks again.
Great! Makes me think about which ones will be on my list. What I do find strange, however, is that with so many artists naming so many album titles, there is not one who mentioned Frank Zappa! When reading, watching or hearing interviews there are so many people who mention him in some way or another as an influence.
Thanks. IF I remember right I think Zappa was mentioned like 2 times. So so far down the list didn’t make my list. Out of like 800 responses his was insignificant. Beefheart had more. Best Alan
your COOL
lol....a little maybe....thanks.
Good video, interesting stuff, I got the Hendrix and Miles Davis, thats it.
Thanks Christopher - well a lot more to discover over time.