Volume 4

[GoodSpeak]

There are certain albums that define us all...that cause us to remember where we've been and what we've become.

I choose VOLUME 4 by Black Sabbath simply because it was the definitive album that brought me through a childhood hell of verbal abuse [then later, physical beatings] and certain destruction of my yet developing soul.

There are MANY others I could name; not the least of which would be Steppenwolf's MONSTER or the EASY RIDER soundtrack or THE WHITE ALBUM by the Beatles or Emerson, Lake and Palmer's first album.

I remember WELL the lessons that those lyrics teach.

The bitter taste still lingers...BUT it teaches me what NOT to do with my own children. It teaches me not to make the same mistakes my Mother and my...father made.

I CAN do better than that.


Which albums/songs shaped your life?

Is there an album or song that completley SPOKE to you? Shaped you? Made you what you are? Made you understand?


Share it...here.


You're among friends.

TimMc


I am...what I am.

[Supernaut...Wheels of Confusion...Barbarian...Take a Pebble...Draft Resister...America...Monster....If Six Was Nine...Wasn't Born To Follow...Lucky Man]

[HenryMc]

Tim
Mate, I know where you were and hope I know where you are now.

My father, god rest his soul, was probably clinically insane, or at the least severely war neurotic. He flew over Europe during the war, having enlisted at 16.

He was a great bloke...to his friends...but a danger to his family. A physically and mentally cruel man who despised what weakness he percieved in others I now believe because of the weaknesses that were in him.

He drank to excess and gambled (angela's ashes moment -here) and if it wasn't for my sainted mother I would not be here at all. She was the rock to his storm.

Tim, having met you I will call you a mate and a friend. Always remember you are not alone. I fight your fight, not to repeat the past,

Music was my savior as well....but maybe not black sabbath.