Post by stringypoo on May 10, 2019 22:06:31 GMT -5
Just the other day I realized I came full-circle with my music tastes when I began listening to the first album I ever bought and enjoyed I quite thoroughly. That first purchase was incredibly impactful on my tastes in music and the journey I would partake in regarding how I chose to spend my money and how I chose to spend my free time (listening to music). How about a thread where we just share for a moment our first album we bought and anything else we’d like to share about it?
My first album? Fear Factory- Obsolete.
It was a very weird choice for a first album. Industrial Metal is hardly a style that I care about today. And if I had to choose a favorite industrial metal band, it would be the now disbanded Strapping Young Lad. But Fear Factory were a nice alternative.
The first minute I first popped this album in, I was greeted by unexpected intensity in the track, “Shock.” Back then, as I would also say now, there wasn’t a lot of musical technique to blow my mind in this track, nor with any track in particular. It was rather a dry, abrasive, and almost repulsive matter. But after I played it two or three times (you know, back in those days, you’d hear something and hit the rewind button because you hadn’t heard something like that before), I really got into it!
The middle of the album had a bunch of tracks that I struggled to really grasp, as mediocre clean singing lines filled the choruses while ugly unclean occupied the verses. It was this bizarre thing that I didn’t fully understand. The highlight on the record for me, which received probably over a 100 plays from me already, is the wonderful, cosmic, powerful, and truly unique number, “Resurrection.” If I could recommend one track for anyone to listen to, it would be this one!
Thankfully, I bought the popular digipack version of the album, which had five bonus tracks on it. Three of them I don’t think I ever cared for very much, but funny enough, the other two tracks were awesome. One was a badass cover of Gary Numan’s Classic song, “Cars.” That one turned out better than the original, in my opinion. The other was another cover song, forgot who they covered, but that song was labeled as “0-0 (Where Evil Dwells).” That song was genuinely atmospheric and interesting, and is my favorite track, if I ignore the coolness of “Resurrection.” This song is about the topic of the Ricky Kasso murder story. I didn’t know that was the topic when I was a kid, but I looked it up later in life, and knowing more about it and finally grasping the lyrics to this song made the song truly creepy, and therefore enhanced the song sevenfold. Musically, there isn’t much happening on this cover song, but it does build in intensity, and with the lyrics in front of you, it is an intense number.
I bought this CD at a pawn shop randomly for $2. I also picked out Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory not long after, which also turned out to be a winner. But this definitely set me on a path of blind purchases within metal, which all had a big part in shaping my tastes today. This album by Fear Factory isn’t perfect, and it still doesn’t blow my mind, but the fact that I can still put it in and listen to it and enjoy it is a great feeling. The band have lost my interest over time, but they were and probably still are a solid band for anyone who wants their industrial metal fix.
My first album? Fear Factory- Obsolete.
It was a very weird choice for a first album. Industrial Metal is hardly a style that I care about today. And if I had to choose a favorite industrial metal band, it would be the now disbanded Strapping Young Lad. But Fear Factory were a nice alternative.
The first minute I first popped this album in, I was greeted by unexpected intensity in the track, “Shock.” Back then, as I would also say now, there wasn’t a lot of musical technique to blow my mind in this track, nor with any track in particular. It was rather a dry, abrasive, and almost repulsive matter. But after I played it two or three times (you know, back in those days, you’d hear something and hit the rewind button because you hadn’t heard something like that before), I really got into it!
The middle of the album had a bunch of tracks that I struggled to really grasp, as mediocre clean singing lines filled the choruses while ugly unclean occupied the verses. It was this bizarre thing that I didn’t fully understand. The highlight on the record for me, which received probably over a 100 plays from me already, is the wonderful, cosmic, powerful, and truly unique number, “Resurrection.” If I could recommend one track for anyone to listen to, it would be this one!
Thankfully, I bought the popular digipack version of the album, which had five bonus tracks on it. Three of them I don’t think I ever cared for very much, but funny enough, the other two tracks were awesome. One was a badass cover of Gary Numan’s Classic song, “Cars.” That one turned out better than the original, in my opinion. The other was another cover song, forgot who they covered, but that song was labeled as “0-0 (Where Evil Dwells).” That song was genuinely atmospheric and interesting, and is my favorite track, if I ignore the coolness of “Resurrection.” This song is about the topic of the Ricky Kasso murder story. I didn’t know that was the topic when I was a kid, but I looked it up later in life, and knowing more about it and finally grasping the lyrics to this song made the song truly creepy, and therefore enhanced the song sevenfold. Musically, there isn’t much happening on this cover song, but it does build in intensity, and with the lyrics in front of you, it is an intense number.
I bought this CD at a pawn shop randomly for $2. I also picked out Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory not long after, which also turned out to be a winner. But this definitely set me on a path of blind purchases within metal, which all had a big part in shaping my tastes today. This album by Fear Factory isn’t perfect, and it still doesn’t blow my mind, but the fact that I can still put it in and listen to it and enjoy it is a great feeling. The band have lost my interest over time, but they were and probably still are a solid band for anyone who wants their industrial metal fix.