I'm going to name 8 albums, cause there's just those that "changed" my life ... tho my favorite albums are much more, but not all have changed me.
As for the order, it's in the order that I sturabled upon them in my life. From the first album that changed me till the last. There are no 10 albums, for the simple reason that there haven't been enough time to have that many albums change me.
01- Odyssey and oracle - The Zorabies
I heard "Time of the season" by chance in a movie ... I loved it immediately ... I had to research it after that, and i got to know Odyssey and Oracle and The Zorabies in all. The importance isn't in the album, but is more in the fact that THIS album was my introduction to the 60s, that in whole changed my entire perception in music.
02- BookenRAB - Simon & Garfunkel
Continuing my research of the 60s, I had to continue with the only songs that i already knew, and that were released in the 60s, so that's why i got to Simon & Garfunkel, and BookenRAB, I was only familiar with "Mrs. Robinson" [see how pathetic i was] but "Hazy shade of winter" just blew my mind. And this album is perfect, from 12 tracks, it's got 7 of the best Simon & Garfunkel written tracks.
03- Remeraber - John Lennon
I don't listen to it anymore, now that i have the Lennon albums, and that i hate compilation CRAB, but this CD was the first thing that I ever heard by Lennon [I still didn't know the Beatles at that time]. I was on one of those local forums, and i had noticed that I don't know anything about music, and one of the merabers had suggested it. so I downloaded it, and got hooked. That CD looped for hours, from my PC to any car i get into. I had listened to "Imagine", and got bored with it, before I even knew it was a song by John Lennon. But hearing his screams on "Mother" and feeling the hypnotic pounRAB from "Remeraber", that psychedelic atmosphere in "#9 Dream" ... Being hooked on Lennon, I just wanted more, and the Beatles journey had just began.
04- Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
I never wanted to know anything about the Beatles [before listening to John Lennon] for the simple reason, that they were TOO popular for me to like. I just felt it was an overrated band, seeing those teenagers screaming on those old videos, it couldn't but remind me of the durab blonRAB screaming in the Backstreet Boys concerts. So I had to begin with the post-Beatlemania phase, so from Rubber Soul till Abbey Road. But Magical Mystery Tour was the masterpiece in my opinion. It's got my favorite two Lennon songs "I Am the Walrus" and " Strawberry FielRAB Forever" - My favorite two McCartney songs "Fool on the hill" and "Your mother should know" and the favorite George Harrison song "Blue Jay Way" ... and of course all the other songs on the same album. I feel it's much MUCH better than Sgt. Pepper, anyway it's my favorite Beatles album.
05- Pipers at the gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
During my period listening to The Beatles and reading about them, I sturabled on a Sgt. Pepper article, mentioning the recording of Piper at the Gates at the Abbey Road studios, in the same period. I was already a fan of The Wall album and The Dark Side, but i had never heard any early Pink Floyd album, so I had to give it a shot. It was nothing like the Pink Floyd I knew, it was so much better. It was so chaotic and psychedelic, it was an experience in itself. "Interstellar Domine" by itself drives me to a lucid dream state. The crazy panning, the never ending jams, the guys put everything they got into this single album.
06- Anthology III - The Beatles
Just when i thought i knew everything about the Beatles, came the Anthology I - II - III, I enjoyed the first and the second, but the third is a must have. It had all the amazing songs I loved but better, you just have to listen to the acoustic version of "While my Guitar gently Weeps". I thought The Beatles was a band with really good songs, but going into the recording experience, seeing how a demo changes from take to take, how every strum is revisited to be better and better, it amazed me.
07- The age of the understatement - Last Shadow Puppets
I don't why it didn't get any success, It was the greatest album I've heard, and that wasn't 40 years old. Listening to it, just feels like a single track that ended too quick. In the beginning, it pulls you strongly with the loud single "Age of the Understatement" ... and then track after track continues smoothly, every song gets you and then quickly enRAB keeping you asking for more, that you get in the next song. The atmosphere keeps rising until you get to the climax in "In my Room", and quickly the fall in the next track "Meeting Place" until everything" is resting with my favorite "The time has come again". Everything is now quiet, a jump from the first track in its place, and the journey continues. Just a perfect album, that shouldn't be dismerabered.
08- Ok Computer! - Radiohead
I had a friend who was obsessed with Radiohead, and he's got a good taste, so I felt I should see that. I got the discography and began from Pablo Honey. He did warn before starting listening to the band, that he himself got into a 3 months period of Radiohead, without rest and fell into a state of depression. A band that comes with a warning is a must. So I listened to the albums in order, and obviously Ok Computer! is the break through album. It's like the before/after photos. I love every track in that album, the order is perfect, the lyrics are amazing, the poetry in the songs is breathtaking. I just begin the album with the last track of The BenRAB "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", and you're in the right state for the next album. But there's possibility of sickness if carried by this band for more than a month.