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1. How did you get into 29?
Ramones - uuuhm. There was a clip of em in some tv show document thingy and i though they sounded coool. So i bouht a "greatest hits" album of some kinda and so on

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Running Wild - i really dont remember. i think it was Rivalry or Privateer

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - iasfidsfjs i dont know. too tired to think

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Devin Townsend - right now its Ki

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Joe Satriani - uuuhm, 7

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Stray Cats - Rock This Town

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Elf - well... yyeeeah i could say so. Happy (dats dat good ol irony, mate)

8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Anthrax - I Am The Law, Madhouse, Indians

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Judas Priest - Blood Red Skies

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I took the opurtunity to make a list of my 101 favourite albums, all genres included. I choose not to include live albums and compilations. Bare in mind this list is not absolute and I may modyfy it later on. Here we go:

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1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1972, rock/blues)

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2. Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986, thrash metal)

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3. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995, alternative rock)

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4. Tool - 10,000 Days (2006, progressive metal)

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5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975, progressive rock)

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Spurred on by a post on reddit in which people were asked to name five albums to represent their taste in music (which I can't imagine finding easy unless you're the sort of weirdo who decides what he likes based on how well it fits a genre [I'm looking at you Blabbermouth posters (three nested parentheses!)]), I was thinking on my walk home from work about how not all that long ago, I hadn't even heard of any of the bands I listed, with the exception of King Crimson (I don't listen to them a ton so it seems weird to include them but I felt they best captured all of the aspects I like in prog, so better them than mentioning two or three bands). It also made me realize that I can pinpoint certain bands and albums over the last 10 or 15 years that mark huge growths in my taste, like a series of Cambrian explosions only without the extinctions or anybody actually giving a shit. But in defiance of everyone who doesn't give a shit I'm posting about it anyway because I figure that's a better…