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I was horrible through my teen years. Before that I liked some unusual stuff, at least for my age. Classical, Ragtime, 50's rock, etc. No theme, unless you consider the fact that I didn't let anybody else decide for me what I liked. Then as I hit my early teens, insecurity set in. My cousin, along with people at school, started influencing me towards mainstream music. By 16 I was all about Master P, Juvenile, Usher, all of that crap. It wasn't until Ruda came along (otherwise known as RdTV on the board) that I was able to start breaking free from the brainwashing I had undergone. He helped me get back to my roots; maybe not musically, but towards how I originally viewed music, where it wasn't a determining factor of your social status, but rather just something that you should enjoy for your own satisfaction. In addition to his constant playing of Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Radiohead, etc., etc. - that I didn't like at the time - I also started getting into the guitarist Buckethead. In and of itself that maybe be the best stuff out there, but it led me to Bill Laswell and he led me to a plethora of other musicians, and the doors swung wide open.
I went through a strange trasistional period too. It could almost be likened to schizophrenia, except I wouldn't consider it in anyway dangerous. I would go through "phases," if you will. I would be ALL about rap, for instance, for 2 weeks and almost hate anything else. Then my mind would switch. I would be all into, say, punk, and hate everything else, including rap. This would go around and round (not just with rap and punk of course, but with many types of music) until finally Ruda had to face me about it and I realized what was going on. All is well now; I'm very settled and content with my music, and the insanity is over.
So that's my story, and to answer the question here, I would have to say the first album that really got me thinking outside the box was Buckethead's Colma. Not crazy-out-there by any means, but it was the start of things to come.
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