My brother Chris and I had the pleasure of hearing this record together for the first time when we were kids. If you ever want to play rock n’ roll, just learn this album. This was the first Ramones album I bought and it had all their big songs. Secondly, “Hybrid Moments” was also on this album and has one of my favorite lyrical lines “If you’re gonna scream, scream with me.” I have always been a Misfits fan since I was a teenager. To this day I still get a bit of a chill when I hear the opening riff to “Pretty Vacant.”įirst of all, the name of the album is badass. This album made me a punk rocker in 10th grade. I never heard a song say “fuck” so many times.

The Sex Pistols, “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols”.I think I was about 17 years old when I saw the film “Rude Boy.” When The Clash performs “White Riot” in front of a sea of people, I was hooked. “Folsom Prison Blues” has always been my favorite Johnny Cash song. The funny thing is that when I was playing this album for my daughter she said the same thing. I still try and get that pop with my snare.Īs kid I never understood why he would be playing for a bunch of “bad people” and I thought they must have gotten the title wrong. The snare drum on “You Can’t Do That” was awesome. My parents had an original copy of it and that is what I used to play on my record player.

My parents grew up listening to The Beatles and this album was always playing in the house.

The Beatles, “The Beatles’ Second Album”.

I loved the drum breakdown in “Traveling Band.” I remember listening to this album with my brother.

Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits”.

Give us your own Lucky Seven albums with a comment at the bottom of this post! Chris’ Lucky Seven Don’t read anything into the order, they’re not ranked. And boy, it was hard narrowing our lists down to just seven each. So behold our Lucky Seven albums! These are the albums that shaped us, the ones we can’t imagine music without. And given a certain song of ours, it seemed appropriate for each of us to share seven of them. We want to take you backstage to get a look at those influences.

You already know what the four of us sound like as The Nickel Slots, but not as much about the music that brought us to this point.

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