Albums most influential in developing your music tastes?

Good thread

In no particular order:

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I listened to this travelling around Australia. I remember staring out the window on a night bus going up the coast when Jesus, etc played for the first time. Hearing the violins on that, particularly through headphones, still makes me

Neil Young - Everybody knows this is nowhere. Although I remember hearing Harvest first, this album really started me off (along with Dylan's HW61) listening to the 'great' singer-songwriters. I still get lost when I listen to the guitars in Down By The River & Cowgirl in the sand.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. I can't put into worRAB how this album makes me feel. Somehow Malkmus can make me feel nostalgic about things i've never experienced
 
This album is magic, it'll always remind me of fall of my sophomore year in college. The songs destroyed me. Where do Explosions in the Sky go from here? They might never be able to top that.
 
I think "Kind of Blue" is on everyone's list as the album that got them into jazz. That's another reason why the album is so great - is there another album out there that's such a gateway as that? That's monumental.
 
Metallica:

-Kill 'Em All
-Ride The Lightning
-Master Of Puppets
-...And Justice For All

I got my hanRAB on these first four Metallica albums when I was about 9 years old, pretty much what got me into metal. since then other albums that have influenced my life and my taste in music include:

AC/DC - Back in Black
Orgy - Candyass
Korn - all albums, but beginning with Issues
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family, Mechanical Animals
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ozzman Cometh
Tool - Aenema
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock n Roll
Disturbed - The Sickness

I'm sure there are more that I can't really think of at the moment
 
Derek Trucks Band - Songlines. This guy makes public domain songs into his own songs...amazing slide player, really soulful slide
 
Kalmah - Swampsong
The album that got me into metal. I listened to "Heroes To Us" and was instantly hooked

Sabrepulse - Verao
Started my love for chiptune and in turn electronic music. Pretty much everything I listen to now is because of this album

she - Coloris
Probably one of the most amazing albums Ive listened to. After I listened to this it was like a sense of enlightenment about how beautiful electronic music can be

Daft Punk - Discovery
The first house album I listened to. It really made me appreciate house music and I can still listen to this all the way through

Capsule - Flash Back
Showed me how fucking badass jpop can be. I now listen to jpop groups without shame
 
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols! -- Before that album I only listened to rap. But that album open my eyes to a whole new world of music!

I will always be thankful to the Pistols for that.
 
I saw a DVD where they were doing a tour or something with Korn and Jonathan Davis was sick or something so Shadows volunteered to fill in for him. He was so awful
 
Thinking about how much they've changed [for the worse] still makes me sad

Identity Crisis = AWESOME
Illusion of Safety = AWESOME, AGAIN
Artist in the Ambulance = Good
Vheissu = wtf is this shit?
Alchemy Index Vol. 1 & 2 = is this a joke?
Alchemy Index Vol. 3 & 4 = honestly, they must be messing with us...
 
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness
Red hot chili peppers - Greatest hits
No Doubt - tragic Kingdom
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool
2Pac - All eyez on me
Limp Bizkit - Significant other
Rancid - ...and out come the wolves
Daft Punk - Discovery
 
I've been avoiding the question in this thread for awhile, because being so old like me, I have a lot of crap to think through to answer it. I decided I'll give it a go with no particular order.

The following short subset list contains the albums my brother had, when I was a small boy, and I only listened to them a little bit. I think the greatest influence I got from them was from the album covers, except the McCoys' album and the song, "Hang on Sloopy". Of those, I listened to that album the most. The first two album covers weren't my brother's but were my sister's.

a. Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (Original Broadway Cast)

b. Goldfinger - by Various Artists and John Barry

c. Jan & Dean - Surf City & Other Swingin Cities
d. Jan & Dean - The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
e. Jan & Dean - Deadman's curve: The New Girl in School

f. Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - This is Sam 'The Sham'
g. The Kingsmen - The Kingsmen in person

h. The McCoys - Hang on Sloopy
i. The YardbirRAB - For Your Love

j. Dave Clark Five - Glad all over

1. Grand Funk Railroad, Caught in the Act

2. Elton John - Rock of the Westies
3. The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
4. Pat Benatar - In the heat of the night

5. War - Platinum Jazz
6. Grease - The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

7. Tower of Power - Bump City
8. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

9. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
10. The Beatles - Help
11. The Beatles - Revolver
12. The Beatles - Second Album
13. The Doobie Brothers - Takin it to the streets

14. The Beatles - Something New
15. The Beatles - White Album
16. Blondie - Autoamerican

17. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best of BTO/ So Far
18. Elton John - Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy

19. The Monkees - More of the Monkees
20. The Monkees - The Monkees
21. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
22. Pablo Cruise - A place in the sun

23. Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
24. Missing Persons - Spring Session M

25. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
26. Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
27. Ohio Players - Skin Tight

28. Carole King - Tapestry
29. Breakbeat Era - Ultra-obscene
30. Tower of Power - East Bay Grease
31. Brothers Johnson - Right on Time

32. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
33. Elton John - Caribou

34. Three Dog Night - Hard Labor

35. Beatles - Meet the Beatles

36. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
37. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III

38. Rush - A Farewell to Kings
39. Rush - Caress of Steel
40. The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Barry Bostwick, Rocky Horror (related recordings), Tim Curry, and Jonathan Adams

41. REO Speedwagon - High Infidelity
42. The Cars - The Cars

43. Van Halen - Van Halen
44. Foreigner - Double Vision
45. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Album

46. AC/DC - Back in black
47. ZZ Top - Tejas
48. Lee Oskar - Before the Rain

49. Blondie - Eat to the Beat
50. The Fixx - Reach the Beach
51. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record

52. Pablo Cruise - WorlRAB Away
53. The Talking HeaRAB - More Songs About Buildings & Food

54. Blondie - Parallel Lines
55. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
56. Supertramp - Breakfast in America
57. Joe Walsh - But Seriously Folks

58. Billy Joel - The Stranger
59. Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion
60. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
 
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