records that changed your life

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  • AxlUlrich
    AxlUlrich Posts: 12,652
    Use Your Illusion I & II - GN'R
    Appetite for Destruction - GN'R
    Ride the Lightning - MetallicA
    Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
    Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
    Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    Garbage - Garbage
    Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
    (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
    The Great Escape - blur
    Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson
    Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
    Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
    Pinkerton - Weezer
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    YNWA
  • Hot Rats - Zappa
    Blood On The Tracks - Dylan
    Vitalogy
    Appetite For Destruction - GN'R
    Back In Black - AC/DC
    IV- Led Zeppelin
    Person To Person - Average White Band
    Piper At The Gates Of Dawn -Floyd
    13 - Blur
    Grace - Jeff Buckley
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    KISS - Dynasty
    Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengance
    Run DMC - Raising Hell
    Public Enemy - It takes a nation of millions . . .
    NWA - Straight outta Compton
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Elliott Smith - Either/Or
    The Roots - Game Theory
    NERDS!
  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    kdpjam wrote:
    hey, stoneg. i must first start off by telling you that you have inducted me into jeff tweedydom as well as robertpollarddom, so their records may be changing my life at this very moment!

    my non - chronological list would be something like this:

    abbey road. i remember when it came out and my oldest sister played it for me and i liked it as a kid.
    the who - who's next
    the replacements - tim/let it be
    pj -vitalogy or no code
    bowie -ziggy stardust
    the stones - sticky fingers
    jane's addiction - nothing's shocking
    nirvana - nevermind
    pavement - i dunno which record
    prince - 1999
    red house painters - roller coaster record
    the church - starfish
    modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west

    and many many more lol

    heh great list....I forgot about pavement on mine! oh well. i would have put Crooked Rain though.

    i'm glad to hear you're getting into Tweedy and Pollard. Those two are two of my biggest influences....if not the biggest.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • 20 000 watts - midnight oil and pearl jam - pearl jam
  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    This is always a tough question for me. I think that every new record I hear changes my life in some way. The ones I point to as definitive for me are:

    Beatles - Revolver
    Led Zeppelin 4
    Pink Floyd - Meddle
    Soundgarden - Louder Than Love and again with Superinknown
    Melvins - Houdini
    Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    Take 6 - S/T
    EPMD - Strictly Business
    Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother
    Eleven - Avatgardedog
    Radiohead - The Bends
    Oceansize - Effloresce
    Candiria - 300% Density
    John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
    Massive Attack - Mezzanine
  • in some kind of order

    GnR - Appetite for Destruction
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Nofx - Punk in Drublic
    Beatles - Revolver/Rubber Soul
    Choke - Foreward
    Radiohead - Kid A
    Elliott Smith - XO
    Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    * Nirvana - Nevermind.....introduced me to grunge (I wore so much flannel in highschool - ouch)

    ...after my GRUNGE phase I moved on and these next 2 "sets" of albums are what lead me to where I am now musically....

    * Sonic Youth - Dirty + Sebadoh - Bakesale + Eric's Trip - Love Tara.....got into all of them around the same time, my introduction to lo-fi/indie/noise rock

    * Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space + Slowdive - Souvlaki + My Bloody Valentine - Loveless....my introduction to shoegazer/space rock
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Tommy
    Darkness on the Edge of Town
    Easter (Patti Smith)
    Marquee Moon (Television)
    Ten
    Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    The Doors

    pivotal albums in my life....
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • niall
    niall Posts: 244
    Guns N' Roses- Appetite for Destruction
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Ben Harper - Live at Wars
    Tool - aenima
    Neil Young - Rust never sleeps
    Faith No more - Angel dust
    Bjork - Vespertine
    Cold - cold
    Korn - korn
    Led zeppelin - 4
    The Cure- Wish
  • Nirvana- In Utero
    Refused- The Shape Of Punk To Come
    Radiohead- OK Computer
    Radiohead- Kid A
    John Frusciante- Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt
    John Frusciante- To Record Only Water For Ten Days
    Husker Du- Zen Arcade
    Michael Jackson- Thriller
    Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols
    Sleater-Kinney- The Woods
    Slowdive- Souvlaki
    Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
    Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground and Nico

    and since I can't decide which Pearl Jam album I'd say changed my life the most ill just say

    Pearl Jam- Discography
    "I sometimes wonder why there isn't a Tee-Pees R Us."

    -Ed
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Let's see ...

    A Collection of Beatles Oldies But Goldies
    The Who Live at Leeds
    Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
    Most of my Hendrix collection
    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
    The Madcap Laughs - my much-missed, mad bastard neighbour
    Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 - Tim Buckley
    The Tumbler - John Martyn (it showed me what an acoustic guitar could sound like!)
  • Rubber Soul- The Beatles
    Pearl Jam- Binaural
    Radiohead- Kid A
    Sigur Ros- ( )
    Better Than Ezra- How Does Your Garden Grow? (VERY underrated album)
    Lifehouse- No Name Face (made me appreciate pop rock)
    George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
    Wilco- Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    Bob Mould - Workbook
    Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    Bob Dylan - I can't pick just one album, and I can't conceive of a world without Dylan's music in it

    Pearl Jam - Vs. and No Code

    but most of all, Patti Smith - Horses
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • Wow... lots of trendy picks so I guess I'll add two more:

    Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

    The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Not in any order.....

    Jimi Hendrix - The JH Experience
    Neil Young - After the Gold Rush, Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
    Bruce Sprinsteen - Born to Run
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Chris Whitley - Living with the Law, Dirt Floor
    Peter Gabriel - So
    U2 - The Joshua Tree
    Talking Heads - Remain in Light
    Bob Marley - Legend
    James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
    Beatles - White Album
    Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert

    Probably many more I can't list......these were very influential.
  • SiD
    SiD Posts: 76
    Queensryche - "Empire"
    Queensryche - "Operation:Mindcrime"
    Pearl Jam - "No Code"
    Rage Against the Machine - "Battle of Los Angeles"
    Live - "Throwing Copper"
    TooL - "Aenima"
    Sublime - "Sublime"
    Radiohead - "Ok Computer"
    Guns 'N Roses - "Appetite for Destruction"
    Pink Floyd
  • Albums that had a positive influenced my life were
    Pearl Jam-Ten
    No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
    U2-All That You Can't Leave Behind
    RHCP-By The Way
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  • seagoat2
    seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Hey Mickey1794 - is that you?

    It's Sunshine! (seagoat2)........

    Nevermind, I thought you were someone else....I have the wrong person.