Five influential albums in your life

[tabascojet]

They don't have to be good but just influential.on your musical upbringing....

1. At the hop.....getting into moms old 45s at 8 or 9 this one struck home
2. Pyromania.....one of the first cassettes I bought along with mental health. Bang your head!!
3.violent femmes.....music could be weird and a start for a love of many things underground
4. Modern lovers....still listen to this all the time. Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole, not like you.
5. Widespread.panic everyday....not sure there was a better live band at this time.

 

[navamind]

Beastie Boys - License to Ill (First album I ever bought, got me into hip-hop)
Green Day - Dookie (got me into punk)
Mr. Bungle - California
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

 

[KansasSooner]

My upbringing or my realization of what music really meant to me? Two different things as I was raised in a house where country (i.e. Hank) was king and Buddy Holly was the only rock'n'roll you could even mention without being looked down on. On the other hand I also came of age (if teen years are that) during the physcedelic era of rock. Soon after came jazz/blues rock etc. It's hard to say because there were so many different types of rock back then that had an influence.

 

[williewilliejuan]

AC/DC: Back in Black
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Guns and Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger

 

[Gooch1034]

Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Led Zeppelin: #2
Pantera: Cowboys from Hell
Rage Against the Machine: Their 1st album(self titled)
Deftones: Around the Fur

 

[tabascojet]

AC/DC: Back in Black
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Guns and Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger

 

[GNG]

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Fleetwood Mac: Rumors
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

 

[tabascojet]

Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Led Zeppelin: #2
Pantera: Cowboys from Hell
Rage Against the Machine: Their 1st album(self titled)
Deftones: Around the Fur

though zep4 was "discovered" before 2 for me...

 

[tabascojet]

Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Fleetwood Mac: Rumors
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

this one could have easily made my top 5 too.....

 

[outlaw okie]

Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle *Heard Cars on the radio and had to have this album
AC/DC - Highway to Hell *I think they termed it Acid Rock
AC/DC - Back in Black *Hells Bells
NWA - Straight outta Compton *Still listen to it
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto *epic sound when grunge was all there was

 

[KansasSooner]

Early: (grade school and mom and dad chose the music)
Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads (what can I say, I love the song Big Iron, reminds me of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns)
Buck Owens: I've Got a Tiger By The Tail

Mid: (high school)
BS&T 4, only rock album with a tub a solo (and I played in the jazz band and so wanted to play that solo)
CCR Cosmo's Factory, their best album by far but not really their best songs

Later: (like in the army now)
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Marshall Tucker Band: Searchin' For a Rainbow (what Lynyrd Skynyrd wished they could be, especially the live version of 'Can't You See')
Black Sabbath - Sabotage (what heavy metal would be defined by as far as I'm concerned)
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties...to me the band that most became the American version of Led Zeppelin

 

[GNG]

Another favorite of mine...

Collective Soul: Dosage

 

[H2S]

The Kinks - Everybody's In Show Biz (1972)
Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti (1979) tied with Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (1977)
Touch - Touch (1968)

honorable mention:
Firesign Theatre - Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers (1970)

 

[Sam Sportboy]

NO way I can just do 5.............so Imma cheat

Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll (see how I cheated there?)
The Ramones Pleasant Dreams (Not their best but turned me on to them)
Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (Ditto with the above Ramones comment)
Angry Samoans Right Side of My Mind
Black Flag Damaged
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss

 

[Sam Sportboy]

AC/DC: Back in Black
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Guns and Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger

I could honestly put those 3 on my list too.........Power Slave!!!!!!

 

[Sam Sportboy]

British Steel???

 

[Mondo Jay]

Kiss Alive 2 (older Brother's influence) Put me on my path to Rock
Zeppelin II (wow...all Zeppelin influenced me, but this was the first)
Blue Oyster Cult ETI LIve (first real rock concert)
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Alive (Holy Shit)
Soundgarden Superunknown (rough period in my life, helped me through it)

Honorable Mention: Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (saw them recently, and they blew my mind)

So many more, but I already took an extra choice!

 

[tabascojet]

Kiss Alive 2 (older Brother's influence) Put me on my path to Rock
Zeppelin II (wow...all Zeppelin influenced me, but this was the first)
Blue Oyster Cult ETI LIve (first real rock concert)
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Alive (Holy Shit)
Soundgarden Superunknown (rough period in my life, helped me through it)

Honorable Mention: Foo Fighters Greatest Hits (saw them recently, and they blew my mind)

So many more, but I already took an extra choice!

can you imagine the music if srv had lived.....damn shame. saw a ff show when they toured with weezer, i agree they put on a great show.

 

[KansasSooner]

Blue Oyster Cult ETI LIve (first real rock concert)

On Your Feet or On Your Knees was better...

 

[KansasSooner]

On Your Feet or On Your Knees was better...

And as far as live albums go I really think Ten Years After Recorded Live was one of the best...though the live side of Flowers of Evil from Mountain was the most killer of them all.