Five influential albums in your life

[Mondo Jay]

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

Love that one too. ETI Live was my first BOC experience. Love the live double album.

 

[KansasSooner]

Love that one too. ETI Live was my first BOC experience. Love the live double album.

I saw every BOC concert tour from '76 to '85. Amazing how they changed over the years.

 

[BoiseMike19]

Fav's anyway......

1. Def Leppard High n' Dry
2. Van Halen #1
3. Van Halen Fair Warning
4. AC/DC Back in Black
5. Scorpions

 

[TheDayMan]

Sandinista-The Clash
Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vitalogy-Pearl Jam
Nothing's Shocking-Jane's Addiction
Lullabies to Paralyze-Queens of the Stone Age

Each of these take me back to a specific time, and they'd all be in the mix of my favorites/desert island collection.

 

[TheDayMan]

God damnit... honorable mention:

Generator-Bad Religion
White Light, White Heat, White Trash-Social Distortion
The Last DJ-Tom Petty
Tomorrow Hit Today-Mudhoney
Streetcore-Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

 

[tabascojet]

Sandinista-The Clash
Californication-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vitalogy-Pearl Jam
Nothing's Shocking-Jane's Addiction
Lullabies to Paralyze-Queens of the Stone Age

Each of these take me back to a specific time, and they'd all be in the mix of my favorites/desert island collection.

God damnit... honorable mention:

Generator-Bad Religion
White Light, White Heat, White Trash-Social Distortion
The Last DJ-Tom Petty
Tomorrow Hit Today-Mudhoney
Streetcore-Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

Ah yes nothings shocking was a good one for.me.too....I remember on first listen I wasn't sure about it but upon relistening I was sold. Always liked the early punk of social.distortions mommy's little.monster the best but saw them play many a small club back when. And superfuzz bigmuff was my mudhoney record that I first associate with.

 

[tabascojet]

Upon further thought I'd put Lenny kravitz mama said, sonic youth goo, primus fizzle.fry on honorable.mention....

 

[Voltaire26]

Only 5 is tough ... these are life changing, not just favorites.

The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Harry Chapin - Dance Band on the Titanic
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Moody Blues - Days of Future Past

 

[GeekSportsFan]

The Beatles Second Album: Hooked me right away with great vocal harmonies
The Best of the Animals: Introduced me to a much rawer blues based sound of rock and roll
Creedence Clearwater Revival's first album: John Fogerty's vocals hooked me immediately
The Blue Ridge Rangers: Fogerty's excursion into country led me to discover the likes of Merle Haggard, George Jones, etc.
The Blasters "American Music" album: The pure, raw beauty of rockabilly and blues. Second greatest band in the world!

 

[blindbaby]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy (It literally changed my entire perception of music)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions Of The Emerald Beyond (I had now discovered jazz and jazz fusion)
King Crimson - Islands (wow!)
Weather Report - Heavy Weather (wow 2.0!)
Larry Young - Unity (made me want to play organ; as opposed to just playing with my organ)

 

[cezero]

Astral Weeks
Revolver
Pet Sounds
Jagged Little Pill
Grievous Angel

 

[HammerDown]

On my musical upbringing?

Easy...

1.) Metallica : ...And Justice for All
2.) Metallica : Ride the Lightning
3.) Metallica : Master of Puppets
4.) Metallica : Kill 'em All
5.) Megadeth : Peace Sells... But Who's Buying

"Guilty as charged, but dammit it ain't right! Someone else's controlling me..."

 

[Ricky Roma]

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
The Who - Who's Next

 

[whywork2]

Using vinyl covers for cleaning pot? - Old Stoners Crash Pad - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums

this is going to take some time and thought.

 

[ElTexan]

Never was a big album guy as I grew up poor and never had any, so I was more of a songs/radio guy... but I'll list a few here that I really like from when I was actually alive and old enough to understand music:
Guns & Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Mariah Carey - first one, self-titled
Eminem - The Eminem Show