For as much guff as Pitchfork gets for this and that, they come up with some really cool ideas for articles. This is probably my favorite series they run, which is described thusly:
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5-10-15-20 is where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year intervals throughout their lives.
Basically, you snap yourself at ages 5, 10, 15, etc. and pick a record that defined that era of your life. Here's a link to today's article on Lee Ranaldo to give an idea of how it works: http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-2 ... e=features
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5-MC Hammer-Please Hammer don't hurt em 10-Pearl Jam-ten...or maybe vs depending on when vs. came out 15-DMB-Before these crowded streets 20-is this it/elephant/songs for the deaf-i can't chose 25-DMB-Big Whiskey and the Groo Grux King
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As a kid, I had a strange fascination with MTV that is legendary in my family to this day. Where other kids would watch He-Man and Thunder Cats, I'd get mad at my parents if they wouldn't let me watch all three airings of the MTV Top 20 Video Countdown on the weekends, each time the exact same program. My aunts and uncles, who were in high school at the time, all played this tape incessantly. Part of me thinks I was just attracted to all the colors on the cover, but I probably played the copy of it I got for my fifth birthday as much as I've played any album during my adulthood. Those florescent arena rock videos for "Armageddon It" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me" are among the most powerful memories from my childhood.
Age 10: Jurassic Park: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Between the ages of about 8 and 11, I went through a phase where I actively resented any kind of modern music. In retrospect that feels like a strange emotion for an 8 year-old to be feeling, but I'll always remember being in fourth grade, sitting in English class while a bunch of kids were rapping along to Snow's "Informer," and feeling something resembling seething rage. But occasionally, odd little things seeped through. And for ten year-old kids in 1993, "Jurassic Park" was a monumental event--I saw this movie probably five times in the theater. There were a few pieces on the soundtrack--particularly the triumphant piece that plays as the helicopter is descending onto the island where all the dinosaurs are--that made me feel larger than life. I pictured them playing in the background as I scored a winning three-pointer for the Bulls on "NBA on NBC."
Age 15: Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps
This was such a huge album for me. So much of the music I'd been conditioned to love in my later grade school years was so built around virtuosity--how sweet the guitar solos were, how heavy the drumming, etc. Then I heard "Thrasher," which completely changed how I understood music. One acoustic guitar, a few basic chords, a pretty but not especially inventive melody--it totally reduced the art to its barest essentials, which were obscured in so much of the grunge and metal I grew up listening to. I spent most of the next eight years trying to write a song on my acoustic as good as "Thrasher," and never came close. But this album is still one of my favorites.
Age 20: The Decemberists, Her Majesty, The Decemberists
I'd been getting into the "indie" thing for a couple years by 2003, but the Decemberists were the first band I really felt like belonged to me. I discovered them before any of my friends, and subsequently turned a ton of them onto this record, and in the following year we'd go see them whenever they'd come nearby, this still during an era when they were playing extremely small venues where it was relatively easy to meet and converse with them before and after the shows. I don't think I've ever had the same experience with a band that I've had during those first few years with the Decemberists, and I still think that this is their most perfect, most eclectic record.
Age 25: John Coltrane, Stellar Regions
I read Ben Ratliff's "Coltrane: Story of a Sound" around this time and emerged really eager to explore the deeper recesses of the man's discography, and this one really hit me. As far as I know, it's one of Coltrane's last--if not his last--studio sessions, and it has a kind of bottled explosiveness to it, probably the product of some of Trane's physical limitations at the time, but intense and powerful as a result. So much of my philosophy on great music is embodied in the works of Miles and Coltrane--experimentation as far out on the fringes of conventionality as possible while still not abandoning the traditions and fundamentals that allow the music to remain what it is.
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5 - 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul 10 - Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio 15 - Brighten the Corners - Pavement 20 - A Ghost is Born - Wilco 25 - Stone Rollin' - Raphael Saadiq
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10- Weird Al's Greatest Hits. I lip synched to Like a Surgeon for our 4th grade talent show. 15- Pink Floyd Shine On box set. The foundation of my love of music. Still the best and most influential gift I have ever received. 20- Pearl Jam- Yield. Just got to college and hadn't yet had my music tastes expanded much beyond "popular" music. I'd only really gotten into Pearl Jam in 95-96, so the Yield release and seeing my first PJ show was a real exciting time. 25- Sigur Ros- (). College and the internets transformed how and what I listened to in music. 30- Bonnaroo. It's not an album, but Roo and other similar fests are pretty much heaven on earth for me.
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Very cool idea.
For ages 5 and 10, I will pick specific pieces, not albums. I don't think I owned an album 'til I was 13 or so.
5- Frank Sinatra's rendition of "They Can't Take That Away From Me". My grandfather, who was a jazz singer, used to play this for me all the time. I used to really love it as a kid. 10- Pachelbel's Canon in D. At this point I was about a year, maybe a year and change into the cello and I loved playing this piece because it was easy. But I also really loved the piece itself. I had a solo piano version that I used to fall asleep to. 15- Probably The Cure's "Disintegration". I was very whiny. 20- Tom Waits- "Rain Dogs". I think I got heavily into Tom Waits around my 18th birthday, and by 20 I was a mega fan. I'm 24, but turning 25 in 11 days, so I'll say Elvis Costello's "North" for that age.
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5 - An Evening With John Denver 10 - Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger 15 - Metallica - ...And Justice For All 20 - Vs - Pearl Jam (This was particularly difficult - AIC/Nirvana/SG - any PJ album really fits here - ahhh, mid-college) 25 - Live At Red Rocks - Dave Matthews Band 30 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2 35 - Big Whiskey - DMB
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Age 5: The Blues Brothers Soundtrack Age 10: Paul Simon - Graceland Age 15: Pearl Jam - No Code Age 20: Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Age 25: The National - Boxer
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5: Dr. Dre-The Chronic 10: Notorious B.I.G.-Life After Death 15: Pearl Jam-No Code 20: Charles Mingus-The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady 25: Battles-Gloss Drop
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