A few of my friends on Facebook started a process of sharing the Top 10 Albums in their life that had the most fundamental impact, was most influential to them. I liked the idea, so I shared it with Jennie and one night we had a very enjoyable evening sharing with each other our lists.
The Facebook deal wants you to share the album without any explanation. That seems dumb to me, and so we shared with each other WHY the album was influential and what impact it actually had in our life. It was a really cool conversation and I love how much I learned about Jennie in this experience.
The list IS in Chronological ORDER, not order of most influential.
Finally, it was a top 10 list, but I have more than 10 truly influential albums in my life, so the list is what it is.
#1 Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
This was the FIRST album I ever bought. Paid $5.00 for the cassette from a friend (Clay Ryan). I was in middle school. This marked THE big shift in me. Up until that time, I had listened almost exclusively to Country Music with my mother. Kenny Rodgers. Willie Nelson. Etc. It was all I knew… EXCEPT…. somewhere in the back of my mind was the sound of SOME type of music from my childhood. My older brother Rick (15 years older than me) would listen to music loud in the garage while he worked on his Dodge Charger with his friends. The music was loud, and heavy, and I didn’t understand it at the ages of 2-3. But… it was IN MY HEART somewhere. Years later, at the age of 10 or 11, there were some people at my Mom’s house building a barn, and the construction crews had a radio on and I remember hearing a SOUND that triggered that ancient memory of my brother in the garage. It was the sound of a DISTORTED GUITAR. It felt like HOME. And while I can’t be sure since memory is a slippery thing, it is my guess that the song that awoke in me a love of Rock and Roll was Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust, or the guitar sound and solo from Queen’s We Will Rock You, but I’m pretty sure it’s Another One Bites the Dust. I just put the song on and felt that old memory from that day outside listening to the music coming out of the little radio the construction workers were using. —— All this is to say that somewhere deep in my psyche was the spirit of ROCK AND ROLL. My brother had unwittingly (or perhaps wittingly) placed that seed into me. And so… somewhere in middle school I got a radio, and started to listen to KBER 101 in Salt Lake City. I think that radio station is still going as I type this. And I discovered a whole new realm of music very different than the county I had grown up on. My Mom was very sad about this, as she liked that we shared the same musical tastes, and she never got to the place where heavy metal actually connected with her. But somewhere in all this, was Crazy Train, and this album. I bought it. Now… I want to say that this album led to my breakout away from country music, and that’s why it’s influential, but it never actually became an album that I connected to that deeply (especially compared to others on this list). It was the gatekeeper, but I’ve never been the biggest Ozzy fan. I like him a lot, but wouldn’t consider him a top 10 artist. (Hey that’s an idea for another Podcast Webpage).
#2 Business as Usual - Men at Work
KBER 101 was not the only radio station I tuned into using my new stereo. There were other stations, I don’t remember them, but they were top 40 stations, and had hits on them. This was my entry into Pop music, from the likes of Men at Work, to Stevie Nicks (One Wing Girl - Edge of Seventeen), Blondie (Tide is High) and later to Madonna (Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Holiday, etc). Weird hits like Bette Davis Eyes, Jessie’s Girl, Celebration, etc. This was 1981 and was the transition year from Country to Heavy Metal with a dash of pop thrown in was starting. Followed up in 1982 by songs like Eye of the Tiger, I Love Rock’n Roll, Centerfold, Don’t You Want Me (First new wave feel type song), Jack and Diane, Hurts So God, Tainted Love, Harden My Heart, I Can’t Go for That, etc. And this was the year a song by Men at Work hit me, called Who Can It Be Now? And then in 1983, I’m buying Ozzy above and I buy my second album… Men at Work, Business as Usual, (which I buy in an actual STORE!) and hit my first ever BLACK HOLE ALBUM. I listen to this non-stop for months. All traces of country music are gone, and not in a flash of metal… but a flash of pop hits like Down Under, Be Good Johnny. Down by The Sea, Helpless Automaton, and the Underground. I like both sides of the album, and for the first time I find obscure songs (Down by the Sea, Touching the Untouchables, Catch a Star) that no one else likes but I start to really love. I still have this vinyl, and pull it out once in a while and I just love it. It still resonates after all those years.
#3 Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
I definitely WAS listening to Heavy Metal at this time, and loving it… but was still caught up in pop, and this was still 1983. A song hit me, and it just consumed me. The Reflex. I remember going to the University Mall in Orem and buying the album with my friend David Smith (more on him later), who was far more into Heavy Metal than I was. He later helped introduce me to more Ozzy (Bark at the Moon), Blue Oyster Cult (Fire of an Unknown Origin), Ratt, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, and Rush (Farewell to Kings). I felt a bit guilty about The Reflex. It wasn’t metal. But damn it was good! And once again, black hole, and finding songs that were popular as well as songs that were obscure to me. New Moon on Monday. I Take the Dice. Union of the Snake, Tiger Tiger, and The Seventh Stranger. —- If I had to choose between most influential albums Business as Usual and Seven and the Ragged Tiger, I would choose the former. It was my first black hole album, it was the first album that I felt my own, most of my friends didn’t like it, and it was the first album where I liked the whole album, not just a few songs, and I liked obscure songs. Seven and the Ragged Tiger does the exact same thing as Business as Usual in my development, but… I listened to it so much, and it opened the door to Rio, which was actually Duran Duran’s previous album to this one, and I probably ended up listening to that one more than this one. But this album has the unique distinction of opening the door in my mind of more synth driven music. Duran Duran back here still had incredible drums, guitar and bass… but they ALSO had heavy synths, and that would be a hallmark of the 80s, and I was not much on that bandwagon: Computerized Clinic For superior Cynics Who Dance to a Synthetic Band. Right? But I DID have something in me that like really good rhythm, and this will show up much later in life and deeper along this list!
#4 - London Calling - The Clash
And this is where my rebellious teenager ‘fuck you’ years started. The Clash wasn’t metal, but they were angry, hateful, and I loved them. I dove into their entire catalog, from the first album, The Clash (1977), Give ‘Em Enough Rope (1978), London Calling (1979), Sandinista (1980), Combat Rock (1982). I dug into the angry pissed off vibe. I was a rebel. They were assholes, and I approved. My parents HATED THEM. Of course. That was delicious. They opened another door for me as well, which was they were the first band I started collecting paraphernalia. At the old Cosmic Aeroplane bookstore and record store I found tons of stickers, patches, pins, and junk. I also found OBSCURE albums, that I couldn’t find anywhere else, namely Black Market Clash which led to the songs Bankrobber and Armagideon Time which are still two of my overall favorite songs of all time.
I never got to see these guys in concert, but I loved their vibe so much for so long. I even made a T-Shirt with the picture of Paul Simonon breaking his bass. Drew it myself and wore it to school for years till it fell apart. This album influenced me greatly, and not necessarily in the best way. There was a lot of anger and rage and hate in this band for me. However, they ALSO did open a door to some weird sounds. Their later albums were less punk and had more Reggae and jazz and strange influences. This opened my mind, and for this reason as well as the anger, I include it here at #4.
#5 Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
It turns out 1983 was a banner year for me and music. Is it any different for most kids, when they turn 14? I was in English class, Miss Laneire (I’m sure I’m spelling that incorrectly), where we read The Pearl, and Lord of the Flies. One day I got a rap on the back of my head. I turned around angry, as it was my friend Dwight Purcell. He held out a cassette tape and said: “This is it. The new sound.” And the cover above is what I saw. I thought they looked like girls and was NOT impressed. This was my very first introduction to glam heavy metal (even though they weren’t really glam until Theater of Pain). And it took a while to sink in. I turned 16 in 1985, and that’s when this album took hold of me as my friend David Smith got into Motely Crue as well. My first vehical was this HUGE red Ford truck that couldn’t even do a U turn on Main Street and got 6 miles to the gallon. Yep. But it had a cassette player in it and this was the album I listened to the most. And man oh man did I BLACK HOLE on this album. There wasn’t MTV back then, or if there was, it was just getting started, and they didn’t play this kind of music. Motely Crue wouldn’t really break in until 1985’s Theater of Pain with the Home Sweet Home Video, which is when something else changed my life. That was my very first ever CONCERT. Theater of Pain, with Loudness opening. August 21st, 1985, at the Salt Palace.
And so while this is a list of Albums, the albums led to concerts, which were deeply foundational and influential to the rest of my life. And that all started with Shout at the Devil, an album I listened to more than perhaps any other album on par with Men at Work’s Business as Usual.
#6 Moving Pictures
The story goes like this. At some assembly at my High School, some band was practicing to play a song from this album. ’m heading down the hall and I recognize the song. I don’t know the name, but I have heard it on the radio or something. I have a memory of being at the Pizza Hut across the street from the High School, and hearing it there as well. I liked this song. A lot. Eventually, some band played it at school. It was a weird anti-drug band, with an African American singer. They ended with this song. I loved it. I had a friend, Parker Garlitz, and he tells me: “Oh yeah, that’s Tom Sawyer from Rush.” And then… he LENT ME THE TAPE. He said: Tom Sawyer great, and the other song that’s great is Limelight (last song on the first side). I went home and listened to Tom Sawyer about 10 times, skipped ahead to Limelight, listened once, and was disappointed. It was no Tom Sawyer! Then Parker lent me an album called Signals. I didn’t like that at all. But next time I was down to University Mall at the record store, I saw Moving Pictures, and bought the vinyl. I still have it! I listened to Tom Sawyer quite a few times until one night… it happened. I decided to turn the record over. First time. I lay down to go to sleep…and noticed something: the bass guitar. I tuned into the bass, and… WAS BLOWN AWAY. The bass was doing all sorts of crazy stuff. I listened to the rest of the side, Witch Hunt and Vital Signs, and the same thing. The bass was doing all sorts of crazy stuff. The next day I was in Art class and the radio was on: Tom Sawyer played. I got up and called to my friend Ken Critchfield. I said listen to this, listen to the bass! Shortly after I noticed the drums. And again, would listen to the whole album and just focus on the drums. I black holed on Moving Pictures unlike any other album up to that point. The two closest previously were Business as Usual and Shout at the Devil. But this wasn’t close. Moving Pictures consumed my LIFE. And then I said, screw it, they have other stuff let’s go look. And yes indeed, they had a lot of other ‘stuff’. This is the rough order that I remember getting into them: Caress of Steel (Yep, that was next, a hard one), Signals, Hemispheres, then 2112. 2112 was SO BIG FOR ME. Then Fly By Night. Farewell to Kings, Permanent Waves. Then the first album, then 1984s Grace Under Pressure, which might have been the second most listened to album of theirs until… Power Windows came, followed by Hold Your Fire. This is THE band for me. My favorite by far. Not just the music. But the songs, the lyrics, the feel, the energy. After Motely Crue’s Theater of Pain concert, I went to my second ever concert: May 12th, 1986, about 9 months after Motely Crue. This was the show that would CHANGE MY LIFE. I lost my mind, literally, and collapsed at one point. I had never seen anything like this in my entire life. It just consumed me. It was my RELIGION. And it all started with Tom Sawyer, which, honestly, I still love to this day. I have so many concerts, so many magical stories, (the T-Shirt Stories for both of my sons are miracles you have to hear about some day). And now, this year, as I write this in 2020, we heard Neil Peart died, and it was a sad sad sad day for me. It really rocked me, and I spent long hours listening to Rush songs remembering all the memories. All the other albums, and all the other bands, pale in comparison to what Rush meant to me then and means to me now. Deep bow of gratitude.
#7 Club Ninja - Blue Oyster Cult
Somewhere in 1987 my brother sent me a little tape of a band called Blue Oyster Cult. I recognized the band slightly, because my friend David Smith, who if you remember was into Shout at the Devil with me, was also into Rush, and another band… called Blue Oyster Cult. While he had the vinyl for Shout at the Devil, he had the 8-Tracks for Rush A Farewell to Kings, and a Blue Oyster Cult Fire of an Unknown Origin. So I had a vague knowledge of them, and remember liking Veteran of the Psychic Wars from Fire of an Unknown Origin. Anyway… so I get this tape, and I don’t want to listen to this. It’s NOT Rush. I was that fanatical. But… I ended up giving it a try, and after the years of Rush… it was the first time something different consumed me. I even at one point I started to feel guilty. I was listening to Club Ninja more than Rush! And my friend Parker Garlitz, another big Rush fan, joined in with me on the Blue Oyster Cult bandwagon, and we ended up going through all their albums as well. Interestingly enough, a year or two later, I went and visited my brother down in California. He asked if I ever liked that Club Ninja album. I told him I did, and showed him my tape case with ALL my Blue Oyster Cult albums. ALL OF THEM. He was blown away. It turned out, Blue Oyster Cult was HIS band, the one he grew up with from when he served in Viet Nam and back. It was Blue Oyster Cult he was playing very LOUD in the garage all those years ago, and here it was he had sent me an offhand tape, and then found out his little brother had become obsessed with his own favorite band. Pretty cool story. Rick never returned the favor, as he never liked Rush as much as I liked Blue Oyster Cult, but he did admit to me that Rush was the Best Band in the World. He just didn’t like them as much as BOC! And on top of all the Rush stories, I have a ton of other Blue Oyster Cult stories that are just nearly as amazing. I recently saw them again last year in 2018 at some small campground here in Utah. Pretty weird, and pretty cool. Finally, I should mention that this album, Club Ninja led me to another Black Hole Album of theirs: Imaginos.
#8 Killers - Iron Maiden
So far each of these albums with the exception of Seven and the Ragged Tiger were truly foundational to my DNA. (Seven is big because I listened to it so much, but it was Men at Work that opened the door to non metal music for me). This is another album that probably didn’t change my life that much, but DID introduce me to a band that has become one of my ultimate favorites. I’ve listened to so much Maiden in my life, and loved their concerts, that it’s hard not to put them on this list. And it all started with my friend Ben Larsen, who was an Iron Maiden fan ahead of a Rush. I didn’t like Bruce Dickenson’s voice much at first, so Ben tried me on Paul D’Iano, Maiden’s first singer. And one listen to Killers was all it took. I got consumed. Loved it. And eventually grew to love Bruce, especially from the song Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner from Powerslave, and the Peace of Mind album, the Somewhere in Time Album, and culminating in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Oh my. Damn good stuff.
#9 Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
This was the last of the high school transition into college days album. After this album, I honestly thought I was done and would not like music ever again like I had before. I would but aside childish things. But… not before Operation Mindcrime blew me away in college and then they released Empire. I black holed on this album SO STRONG. Ben Larsen got me into it, and I was consumed. One of the ALL TIME GREAT albums EVER. This marked the end of an era. This was the last of the big albums. After this it was time to graduate college, get married, have kids, and put all this music nonsense behind me. That is… until the next album on the list came along…
#10 Nightfall in Middle Earth - Blind Guardian
So, I’m married, I got kids, and I’m kind of at place in life where I think music is over. Operation Mindcrime was way back in college, and now I’ve moved on, and I don’t think music can move me again. In fact, at one point, I give all my albums away (or most of them) and think it’s time to grow up! Then two things happen. First, Napster happens, and I download like a crazy man and find so much new music. This coincides with my realization that music is still a big part of my life and that I was fooling myself to put it aside in favor of being some depressed husband and father who never enjoyed his life. And then… someone, I’m not sure who, maybe Parker Garlitz, maybe Ben Larsen, recommended this little album about The Silmarillion from JRR Tolkien. I wasn’t 100% sold on Hansi’s voice at first, and then it happened. The Black Hole of ALL BLACK HOLES. Holy shit. I couldn’t stop listening to this album. I didn’t know I could LIKE music again like I liked this album, and… in some ways, forgive me Geddy, Alex and Neil… this is my favorite album of ALL TIME! It really changed me, took me over, and just immersed me in a way I hadn’t had since the high school Rush days. And it opened the door to liking new music. Every other album on this list, owes it’s existence to Blind Guardian’s immersive masterpiece Nightfall in Middle Earth. NOTE: After many years I finally got a vinyl of this album, AND saw them in concert in Salt Lake City! Such a joy.
#11 Eminem - The Eminem Show
Ah… this is a strange album. It was this or: Kid Rock, Devil Without a Cause. Here’s the story: At the height of my music loving I was very arrogant and closed minded. A lot of music SUCKED. I looked down on it with a snooty fucking attitude. I was a dick. Really. I’m not exaggerating. I was a snooty Rush fan. And then I gave away all my albums, joined the church, and got married and had a family. I put all that behind me… until Nightfall in Middle Earth opened me up to music again. But… let’s be honest, Nightfall is still a snooty pretentious album and so is Blind Guardian as a band. And then… I found myself uncomfortable in the church. Things weren’t working for me. And I didn’t know what to do. I’d sold my soul, so to speak, to the church, and was scrambling to find out who I really was, and music seemed a big part of that. This is a long spiritual story, and definitely worth telling some day to those who would hear it, but this post is about albums so I’ll save the story till later. How is Eminem related to a spiritual awakening? It was this: as I took my first step away from the church, I went on a road trip to Lake Powel. We listened to two albums the whole time, two albums I would have HATED and SCREAMED AND KICKED like a baby if I had to listen to them before. It was this one, Eminem Show… “two trailer park girls go round the out side, round the outside,” and the Kid Rock album Devil Without a Cause, notably the song Cowboy: Rock that bitch Up and down the coast.” While much deeper and potent and profound awakenings in the spiritual realms would await me, the first step was a step AWAY from the norm, and though it may have looked like ridiculous b.s. teenage high school stuff… it was really a break with an orthodoxy that was holding me back from a much deeper and more profound life. That’s pretty heavy shit to put on Eminem, huh? But these two albums REALLY helped me unclench my sphincter and relax and start to open and enjoy life, even shitty rap music from redneck white guys. Really… in some ways this was the BIGGEST album of all of these, because it helped me FREE myself from oppression which led me to the deeper waters of authentic spiritual purpose. Really. Eminem. “Two trailer park girls go round the outside… round the outside, round the outside…”
#12 - Once - Nightwish
So if Eminem and Kid Rock freed me from a type musical and spiritual prison… shepherding me through that process, this album shepherded me through an equally different yet just as powerful process. My first wife, Samantha, was ill. She was an addict and we lived in the swirl of her relapse in the early 2000s. This culminated in her accidental overdose and death in February 2005. Before, during and after that time… me and my kids, discovered this Finnish band and the album Once. In this time, it’s hard to express how powerful this album became to us and how it united us, me and my three kids. We listed to it all the time together, and it was so powerful: We black holed on it, TOGETHER. It was amazing. I will always resonate with this album and it’s connection to the life death life sequence we all went through back then. The song that truly opened the door for us? Wish I Had an Angel.
#13 Beatles - Abbey Road
So now I’ve moved on in life and I like a LOT of music. Lots and lots of good music is flowing through my life, from my kids to my friends. Lots of concerts. Special concerts like Amon Amarth and Ghost and the above mentioned Blind Guardian. Musical life is good. But one thing is still the same. I don’t like the Beatles. I just don’t. Never did. And then one night over at my friend Tom Mecham’s house, his girlfriend (now wife) Chrystal puts this album on the old spin table. I’m a little resistant, but I’m like, okay, good vibes, I’ll give it a try. And so we sit and listen and discuss the album from front to back… and after all these freaking years… something clicks. And it really clicks. From there on out I was a Beatles FANATIC! I just love them, and one the funnest musical experiences of my life was discovering this old band that I always hated… in my late 40s. Suddenly I got it! And it was so fun to finally get it. Love these guys, and this album just opened up a whole new world of magic to my life and expanded my love of music and my heart in so many ways. So grateful I was able to tune into this magical band.
#14 - Unlimited - bassnectar
It all started with Excision though… before Bassnectar. Excision changed the later course of my life by introducing me to EDM. A little silly song called RoboKitty captured my imagination. I ended up going to see him in concert, my first ever EDM concernt, with my entire family, so I could tune into what my kids were enjoying…and… the rest as they say… is history. But it didn’t really hit till Christmas 2018, when Jordan Lindsay, AKA ANRKY, gave me Unlimited by Bassnectar on vinyl. I was polite, thank you, sure, this is going to suck. I can’t listen to EDM except at a concert. Whew…. WAS I WRONG. And this album just opened up all sorts of doors for me, in terms of musical style and depth. I was blown away by all his music, and it opened the doors to Rezz and many other artists and even more shows (though as of the time of this writing, I have not seen Bassnectar in concert yet). It’s hard to describe how influential this album has been, because it opened the door to rave concerts, different kinds of concerts with a totally different vibe, that has truly changed my life for the better. I’m truly not doing justice to magic of this album and it’s effect on my life and my tribe.
#15 - Melioria - Ghost
Ghost, along with Bassnectar/Excision, are the two new ones to the list. Who knew in your late 40s and early 50s you could find new music that rocked your world and became so influential? I’ve seen Ghost like 7 times in concert, and I’m just always impressed. The epic trip to Vegas with the whole tribe still stands as the highlight. Melioria was the album where it really busted open, with the ridiculous hit He Is. Later, they would add an EP to Melioria and the mega hit Square Hammer dropped on us, LIKE A HAMMER, and it was over. This album is SO GOOD. But then… ALL OF GHOST IS GOOD. Just so fun to me this deeply moved by an album and a band all these years later. Who knows what lurks in the future?
Honorable Mentions
The list is getting too big, but there are other albums that really DID influence me enough to create this separate list.
Pyromania and Hysteria - Def Leppard
I first heard this album from Chad Smith, who was David Smith’s little brother, and was a huge Def Leppard fan. I kind of liked it, but wasn’t sure about it. It felt dangerous to me back then. Between my Freshman and Sophomore year in High School, I went camping in the Uintah’s for a week. The hike in was brutal for me, and I was worried about the hike out. That’s when I put this album on and seemingly RAN the entire way home. I’ll never forget ROCK ROCK TILL YOU DROP blasting in my ears as I hiked. On and on. A few years later, I remember sitting in my car listening to this album with my new friend from Westminster College, Matt Friel. The album opened the door to Hysteria, which was a totally different animal. It could be on this list, as it started me really liking Def Leppard and pushed me to see them in concert often. However, Hysteria is still… poppy to me, and Pyromania remains more PURE, more ALIGNED to my deeper tastes is heavy metal and still feels far more authentic.
The Wall - Pink Floyd
In many ways, it’s odd that this is not on the main list. This album was deeply influential to me through out my years in high school and opened the door for albums like Animals, Wish You Were Here, and Dark Side of the Moon. It also opened the door to the movie, which I purchased on VHS, and watched way too many times. Later in college I got into A Momentary Lapse of Reason, though it wasn’t the same as previous Roger Water’s material. Division Bell caught up though, and became one of my favorites. Pink Floyd has some deep emotional connections to me, to some girls I dated, and the melancholy of my teenager years. And it all started with an album that is still, to this day, an absolute masterpiece. Having said all that… I never became what you would call a fanatic Pink Floyd fan, and so this isn’t on the list. If it were, it would between Killers and Operation Mindcrime. Damn, this is a hard one to leave off the list. Such a good album.
Weird Al Yankovic
This is obviously a cheat, because it’s not an album, but it’s hard to over emphasize the influence this man has had on me and my kids as a familyi. We love Weird Al, and his music, and his humor, and we’ve seen him in concert twice, and both times were just magical. I hope to see him again soon, and would love to share the love with all who want to be there. He’s just a great connector of love and humor in my family. Couldn’t have a list without mentioning him.
The Ladder - Yes
This album came out in 1999, and it ended up being an album I listened to with my kids for years. There is something so upbeat and positive about this album, and it was a shared experience we had as a family, especially during tough times when their mother was sick. In terms of actual influence, this album kept us together in hard times not unlike Once by Nightwish.
Crack the Skye - Mastodon
These guys have become one of my favorite bands in later years, and I’ve seen them in concert half a dozen times. They are just really good, and this is one of my favorite albums. Last year (2019) at the Salt Aire I saw them play the entire album live. Amazing.
Apex - Excision
I could have gone either way above with Bassnectar. I could have used Excision as well, but choose Bassnectar because his love started with and album, and this is about albums. So while Excision, his songs, and his concerts truly changed me and influence me going forward, it wasn’t until later that I listened to this album and black holed on it. I really can’t get enough of Excision, and he shows me new and more powerful things the more I listen to him. This album is a great example of that.
Conclusion
Wow. Music has been so influential in my life, particularly in album and concert form. Going through this list has been so nostalgica and I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share it with everyone and my family and lineage in the years to come.
Jennie’s List
Not to be outdone, my wife Jennie did her own list, and I offer it here for your perusal. (I’ll leave it to her at some other time to describe how each album affected her). Putting it together was one of the best evenings we have ever had together. Just a joy.
Madonna’s Greatest Hits (pre 1993)
Girls, Girls, Girls, Motely Crue
Holy Diver, Dio
Operation Mindcrime, Queensryche
Dr. Feelgood, Motely Crue - Jennie’s first concert
Techno / Edm - The whole genre
No Doubt - Gwen Stefanie
Beatles
Wardruna
Imaginarium - Nightwish
Intergalactice, Beastie Boys
Killers - The Band
Bassnectar, Porter Robinson, Whipped Cream, Malaa, Rezz - EDM
Lana Del Rey
Shiny Toy Guns
Ghost
Honorable Mentions
Bon Jovi, Ski Row, Guns N’ Roses, and Dr. Dimento