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YOUR 10 most influencial albums??

glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
edited February 2008 in Other Music
ok, so which 10 albums influenced your love for music most profoundly

vitalogy
nick cave and the bad seeds - greatest hits
radiohead - ok computer [actually don't want this on here, but it must]
led zeppelin iv
bob dylan - bringing it all back home
beatles - abbey road
leviathan - mastodon
velvet underground (nico) [there just is no denying the impact of this music]
neil young - on the beach
vivaldi - le quattro stagioni
Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
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  • wcsmithwcsmith Posts: 165
    MY most influential albums:

    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Pink Floyd - The Wall
    Led Zeppelin I
    Led Zeppelin II
    Def Leppard - Hysteria (seems a touch out of place, but it was the first album I owned)
    Alice in Chains - Dirt
    Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
    The Eagles - Greatest Hits, Vol. I
    Elton John - Madman Across the Water
    Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me"
  • SchokiSchoki Posts: 5,072
    Nirvana ~ Nevermind
    Pearl Jam ~ Vs.
    Guns n´ Roses ~ Appetite Gor Destruction
    Depeche Mode ~ Ultra
    At The Drive-In ~ In Casino Out
    Beatles ~ Sgt. Pepper
    RHCP ~ Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    Portishead ~ Dummy
    Radiohead ~ Ok Computer
    RATM ~ RATM
  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    The doors - the doors
    Jimi hendrix experience - Electric ladyland
    Pearl jam - ten
    Metallica - and justice for all (first rock album I owned)
    the velvet underground - white light/white heat
    rage against the machine - ratm
    queens of the stone age - rated r
    noir desir - veuillez rendre l'ame (à qui elle appartient)
    buddy guy - sweet tea
    woodstock - 3 days of peace & music
  • SunorizonSunorizon Posts: 30
    Nirvana - Bleach
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Primus - Pork Soda
    Pink Floyd - The wall
    Radiohead - The Bend
    Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
    Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
    Ashley MacIsaac - Hi® How Are You Today?
    Stone Temple Pilots - Core
    Metallica - Black Album
  • dirtdirt Posts: 398
    Rush - Moving Pictures
    Big Black - Atomizer
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Pixies Surfer Rosa
    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    Sub Pop 200
    Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
    Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
    Pearl Jam - No Code
    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    drive less - RIDE MORE!
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
    U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
    Pearl Jam - Yield
    Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV (aka ZOSO)
    Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
    Deee-Lite - World Clique
    Bob Marley - Legend
    Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
    Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
    Van Morrison - Moondance

    ...and so much more! :D But you did say 10, and those were the first that came to mind. :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    PJ - Vitalogy
    PJ - no code
    Soundgarden - Superunknown
    Nirvana - unplugged
    Jeff Buckley - grace
    Weezer - self-titled
    radiohead - the bends
    smashing pumpkins - mellon collie...
    reef - glow
    deftones - around the fur
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
    The Beatles - Revolver
    John Martyn - Live at Leeds
    Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
    John Martyn - The Tumbler
    Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
    Nick Drake - Time of No Reply outtakes compilation
    Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
    Kevin Coyne - Marjory Razorblade
    Tim Buckley - Dream Letter Live in London 1968
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Led Zeppelin II
    Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
    Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
    BloodSugarSexMagik - RHCP
    Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
    Enter the 36 Chambers - Wu-Tang Clan
    The Low End Theory - Tribe Called Quest
    Ten - Pearl Jam
    Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
    a random John Lee Hooker best of that I can't remember the actual title of, but it's what really got me into old school blues
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Kann wrote:
    noir desir - veuillez rendre l'ame (à qui elle appartient)

    Interesting to see some one throw that one out there. Are you French? I'm not, but my wife is and she's a big fan of Noir Desir.
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    Sebadoh - Bakesale
    the Cure - Disintegration
    Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Rheostatics - Whale Music
    Godspeed You Black Emperor - F#A#(infinity)
    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    Eric's Trip - Love Tara
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    hendrix78 wrote:
    Interesting to see some one throw that one out there. Are you French? I'm not, but my wife is and she's a big fan of Noir Desir.
    they've done some great things. I'm not a fan of them but I've liked the last two albums. I saw them a few years ago and they were great.
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • drlovemonkeydrlovemonkey Posts: 394
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
    Live - Throwing Copper
    Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
    Metallica - ...and Justice for All
    RATM - RATM
    Van Halen - Fair Warning
    Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
    Tesla - 5 man Acoustical Jam
    Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Vs. - Pearl Jam
    Dookie - Green Day

    Master of Puppets - Metallica
    Blue - Weezer
    Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins


    The Bends - Radiohead
    Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus
    Meddle - Pink Floyd
    Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    1. Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA
    When i was 7 and 8 years old i listened to this non stop. My parents were bruce fans and i remember laying with my headphones listening to this album front to back more times then any child my age should have.

    2. Guns N Roses- Appetite for Destruction
    This album got me headed down the path of ROCK. I heard this album and loved it and really started reading magazines about bands and such and really got into a lot of other bands at the time.

    3. Pearl Jam- Ten
    The album that truely got the obssesion with music rolling. When i was 14 and 13 this album captivated summers and everything i did. A friend and i put this album on repeat on his stero and let it play like a week straight. We would go out to play or to dinner and come back to his place and talk about what song might be on when we arrive. I loved PJ then and i loved what they did with music. They opened up soooo many doors to me.

    4. Doors- the doors
    speaking of doors. At the same time i was obssesing over alice in chains, pearl jam, nirvanna, soundgarden, and others i also picked up this doors album and really opened my eye to some old good music. Plus the doors were a bit interesting and edgy for me as a early teen. They got me to explore a lot of older stuff like the who, pink floyd, led zep etc.

    5. Neil Young- Harvest/ Live Rust
    When i was in High School i took guitar lessons from a teacher. He played old man for me and i asked if that was his song. He laughed and basically said i wish. HE said that is a neil young song. This is around 95 so it was perfect timing. I liked what little of neil i had heard from his connection with pearl jam, but old man was such a great song i went out and purchased Harvest as well as live rust. Harvest was great and by the time i got to Cortez the Killer on Live Rust i new i had found another band to obsses over. These two neil albums have lead to me owning almost all of his stuff currrently.

    6. Modest Mouse- Moon & Antartica
    Not my favorite Modest Mouse album but around the time of 02/03ish or so i was sick and tired of radio rock n roll. I insisted there had to be better stuff out there. I started reading this message board a lot and on the advice of folks here i checked out Modest Mouse. So this is where the good music has been hiding. This began my obssesion with "indie music". Built to Spill, Pavement, Trail of the Dead, Belle and Sebastion, and MANY MANY more bands all came from me craving to find more bands like Modest Mouse.

    7. Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
    A few years ago i got Kind of Blue because i saw it on some VH1 list of top 100 rock albums of all time. I had heard about it but never checked it out so i figured why not try it. Well it is not a rock album but holy shit it is a great album. I have a small jazz collection now because of this album

    That is only 7 but they are the 7 albums that have lead to me obssesing over certain styles of music. Perhaps i coudl put Mastodon's Leviathan because that got me into metal as well that may be a worthy number 8.

    :)
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
  • pearljamgirl07pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    vs-pearl jam
    road to ruin-Ramones
    skid row-skid row
    grave dancers union-soul asylum
    nevermind -nirvana
    I'm not dead -Pink
    Core-stone temple pilots
    ten-pearl jam
    lost dogs-pear jam
    bach 2 basic-sebastian bach
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
    Pixies - Death To The Pixies
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - BSSM
    The Doors - Self Titled
    Queens of the Stone Age - Self Titled
    Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Relevations
    The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
    Weezer - Pinkerton
    Elliott Smith - Either/Or
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • PaukPauk Posts: 1,084
    Elliott Smith - Either/Or
    Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
    Pearl Jam - Vs
    Love - Forever Changes
    Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    Nuggets
    Sigur Ros - ()
    Carole King - Tapestry
    Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In The People

    So pretty much Rock, Folk and nice use of orchestras. :) That pretty much sums up what I'd like to have a band like if only I got round to it.
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    been trying to do this and there's no way. can't. like everyone's lists though.
    I love to turn you on
  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,026
    Hmmm...

    Pearl Jam - No Code

    R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

    Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

    Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

    Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

    Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been

    King's X - Faith Hope Love

    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

    Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary



    Some of these are interchangeable with others but I hate it when people list more than what is asked for :D
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,853
    The White Album
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Dark Side of the Moon
    Yield
    Houses of the Holy
    Licensed to Ill
    In Utero
    The Chronic/Doggystyle
    Are You Experienced?
    CCR greatest hits (wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape-deck....)
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

    Pearl Jam bootlegs:
    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    aspoonfulweighsaton wrote:
    Hmmm...

    Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been

    :D

    Damn, this should have been on my list. There was a phase in high school where this album was all I listened to.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    hendrix78 wrote:
    Damn, this should have been on my list. There was a phase in high school where this album was all I listened to.
    I almost listed this album too. I wore it out in the mid 90's!
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
    Led Zeppelin Physical Graffitti
    Rush 2112
    Blondie Parallel Lines
    Beck Midnight Vultures
    Pearl Jam Ten
    Soundgarden Superunknown
    Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced
    R.E.M. Out of Time
    U2 The Joshua Tree

    Was very hard to pick only ten.All my music collection is there because they have influenced my life.
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Primus - Suck on This
    Pearl Jam - Yield
    Rush - 2112
    Pink Floyd - Animal
    NOMEANSNO - WRONG
    Nirvana - Bleach
    RHCP - Up Lift MOFO Party Plan
    Bob Marley - Legond
    RATM - RATM
    Fugazi - Repeter

    All albums subject to change based on what direction the wind may blow.
    I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

    The Tie-Dye Lady is HOT!!!
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    Beautiful South - Blue is the colour
    Alan Morrisette - Jagged litlle pill
    Pearl Jam - Yield
    Metallica - Master of puppets
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Rammstein - Mutter
    Miles Davis - Kind of blue
    Beethoven - Moonloight Sonata
    Guns n Roses - Use your illusion 1
    Mudhoney - March to Fuzz
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • circles downcircles down Posts: 182
    Down of the Upside
    Vitalogy
    Soup
    Use Your Illusion II
    James Taylor Greatest Hits
    Queens of the Stone Age - 1st album
    Diamonds on the Inside
    Rage Against the Machine - first
    Siamese Dream
    Aenima
  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    hendrix78 wrote:
    Interesting to see some one throw that one out there. Are you French? I'm not, but my wife is and she's a big fan of Noir Desir.
    Yes, and most of the french people under 40 are big fans of that band. It's one of the 2 (or 3) good rock acts to come out of our country. This album has incredible lyrics.
    they've done some great things. I'm not a fan of them but I've liked the last two albums. I saw them a few years ago and they were great.
    You're lucky, I always missed them and I doubt I'll be ever seeing them now! Their live shows looked really great.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Pearl Jam - VS
    R.E.M - Automatic For The People
    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
    Led Zeppelin - IV
    Afghan Whigs - Black Love
    Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
    Jeff Buckley - Grace
    Live - Throwing Copper
    Radiohead - The Bends

    For me those are the records that have probably been most significant in my life, and have meant a lot to me at certain times. They might not even be my favourites, but they probably hold the most memories etc.
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Pearl Jam - Binaural
    Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
    Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
    Beatles - Yellow Submarine soundtrack
    White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000
    Led Zeppelin - 4
    Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave
    Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
    Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
    Pink Floyd - The Wall

    Godsdamnit this was hard to do....
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
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