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I've been trying to stay chronological for all these, but at this point I'm running into some groups that had an influence on me over the course of decades and for whom I couldn't pick a favorite album to focus on, so I'm tossing that rule out the window for now.
White Zombie/Rob Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000, Hellbilly Deluxe, and the Sinister Urge
While my tastes in music back in high school were definitely varied, the grungiest stuff I'd ever listened to was Nirvana and Alice in Chains. Then I saw the music video for More Human Than Human and got my first taste of music my family didn't approve of. Partially because the content disgusted them, but mostly because there was only one way to play this stuff:
LOUD.
I think it may have also been an influence on my Chara-esque nightmare fetishism, but I digr...no, actually, one song in particular fits right in with this. It's one that I love to listen to, but that one of my worst nightmares ever is still associated with.
Any time I listen to this song, I recall that dream. Being chased up an old metal-grated stairwell by this giant blobous thing that flashed like 60s special effects, had a cheesy horror-style silhouette for a face, and slithered upward like a gelatinous snake...a chase that always ended in me getting devoured by it as it destroyed the entire stairwell.
The nightmare it gave me no longer bothers me...the trouble recurring dreams run into with me is that after a few nights I learn to control the outcome and kick their sorry asses (in this case basically Rider Kicking it into blubbery chunks)...but the song's haunting weirdness still resonates with me on an evisceral level.
At least this song makes sense to have a nightmare attached to it. Why Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet" got that treatment is beyond me. o_O;
White Zombie/Rob Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000, Hellbilly Deluxe, and the Sinister Urge
While my tastes in music back in high school were definitely varied, the grungiest stuff I'd ever listened to was Nirvana and Alice in Chains. Then I saw the music video for More Human Than Human and got my first taste of music my family didn't approve of. Partially because the content disgusted them, but mostly because there was only one way to play this stuff:
LOUD.
I think it may have also been an influence on my Chara-esque nightmare fetishism, but I digr...no, actually, one song in particular fits right in with this. It's one that I love to listen to, but that one of my worst nightmares ever is still associated with.
Any time I listen to this song, I recall that dream. Being chased up an old metal-grated stairwell by this giant blobous thing that flashed like 60s special effects, had a cheesy horror-style silhouette for a face, and slithered upward like a gelatinous snake...a chase that always ended in me getting devoured by it as it destroyed the entire stairwell.
The nightmare it gave me no longer bothers me...the trouble recurring dreams run into with me is that after a few nights I learn to control the outcome and kick their sorry asses (in this case basically Rider Kicking it into blubbery chunks)...but the song's haunting weirdness still resonates with me on an evisceral level.
At least this song makes sense to have a nightmare attached to it. Why Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet" got that treatment is beyond me. o_O;