Albums that defined your taste in music?

[zombie]

name the 10 (or so) that had the most impact?

[Jason]

Albums that shaped your music taste, or most impactful albums of your life?

[zombie]

i was looking for the 10 that had the most impact on shaping your music taste. but if you want to go with which affected your life most, that's cool too.

[Jason]

As far as shaping music taste, it's hard to narrow it down to albums. When I was a kid, I listened to a ton of classic rock that my Dad played. Once I hit my teens I was listening to the newest stuff that came out, but never really loved the music. I heard CCR's Who'll Stop The Rain on the radio when I was getting a ride to school and it took me back to the old days of listening to that music. I was like 15 or so when I heard it on the radio again, and that one song really opened up the floodgates. I went back and listened to everything I used to listen to, discovered "new" old songs that I never heard that I loved. I was all over the place, and never really stuck with one album. It was various songs from various artists on various albums.

Born In The U.S.A. is my favorite music album of all time. Possibly the most impactful. I feel like Bruce Springsteen has written the entire story of my life up to this point, and many songs were on that album.

[Jason]

Right now, this song is kind of the story of my life at the moment, and getting frequent plays. Years back when I learned about the meaning behind the song as Lennon wrote it, it really spoke to me. Might be my favorite Beatles song, and speaks volumes. Mind-boggling he was only about 24 when he wrote it. It also has an impact on me in that none of the band members realized he had truly written the song about himself at the time. He's not outright asking for help, but he needs it.

"I meant it - it's real. The lyric is as good now as it was then. It is no different, and it makes me feel secure to know that I was that aware of myself then. It was just me singing 'Help' and I meant it."

Paul McCartney helped Lennon write the song, but did not realize it was actually Lennon calling for help until years later.

[showa58taro]

1. Metallica - the Black Album
2. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
3. Deep Forest - Comparsa
4. Lufthansa free gift - Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber
5. Maximum The Hormone - ぶ生き返す (Buikkikaesu)
6. Kodo - 大太鼓 Oodaiko
7. Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
8. Jussi Björling - En Samling
9. Evert Taube - Sångerna från förr
10. Appleseed OST

[Slaughterhouserock]

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Before this album, music was just something that was in the background of movies, not something to be enjoyed for its own merits.

Metallica - Master of Puppets
The album that got me into metal.

Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide
I had heard death metal before, but this was what got me hooked.

Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall
This shit was like a mix of power metal and death metal and all about vikings. I was all over that.

Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Redefined power metal for me.

Ensiferum - Ensiferum
The first folk metal band that really grabbed me. Folk metal is 90% of what I listen to now.

Vehemence - God Was Created
The combination of melodic intros, an on-going plot from track to track, and just brutal death metal made this absolutely amazing.

Faith No More - Angeldust
Amazing band, amazing album.

Manowar - Kings of Metal
The ultimate in cheese metal.

Sykotik Sinfoney - Eargasm
Great music with bizarre musicians. The only band I discovered via a horror film.

[Jigsaw]

I have an extremely eclectic taste when it comes to music, but as for individual albums that mean a lot to me, they'd likely be stuff that most people here hate.

[Slaughterhouserock]

I have an extremely eclectic taste when it comes to music, but as for individual albums that mean a lot to me, they'd likely be stuff that most people here hate.

And everyone here is a fan of Cannibal Corpse and Vehemence...

I listened to everything from classical to punk to metal to video game ost's. I just picked the albums that had the biggest effect on music for me. Be it what got me into a genre or something I thought was revolutionary(to me, anyway). Just pick some shit and fuck what anyone else thinks.

[Dream]

This is pretty much how my taste in music evolved over my life, but I had to look up the names of the albums cause I barely know the names of songs I like

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force

Bon Jovi- Slippery When Wet

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony- E. 1999 Eternal

The Eagles

Queen-A Kind of Magic

The Cure-Disintegration

GNR- Appetite for Destruction

NIN-Pretty Hate Machine

The Dresden Dolls

Blue October- Foiled

[Dream]

I have an extremely eclectic taste when it comes to music, but as for individual albums that mean a lot to me, they'd likely be stuff that most people here hate.

honestly, chances are pretty good that I would like at least some of what you put up

[Tiggnutz]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. AC/DC - Back in Black
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6. Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
7. Journey - Greatest Hits (1988)
8. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1974)
9. Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
10. Metallica - Master of Puppets

[zombie]

I have an extremely eclectic taste when it comes to music, but as for individual albums that mean a lot to me, they'd likely be stuff that most people here hate.

i feel the same way about the music i like. fuck what other people think? you like what you like. now share it!

[zombie]

the rocky horror picture show soundtrack.
queen - news of the world
cyndi lauper - she's so unusual
talking heads - true stories
the cranberries - no need to argue
nirvana - nevermind
michael jackson - thriller
hole - live through this
sleater-kinney - dig me out
babes in toyland - fontanelle

[showa58taro]

Michael Jackson in a few lists. Exciting.

[Jason]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. AC/DC - Back in Black
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
6. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
7. Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
8. Journey - Greatest Hits (1988)
9. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1974)
10. Huey Lewis and the News - Sports

Greatest hits is cheating! :p

Also, where is #5?

[Jmac Attack]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. AC/DC - Back in Black
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
6. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
7. Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
8. Journey - Greatest Hits (1988)
9. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1974)
10. Huey Lewis and the News - Sports

Greatest hits is cheating! :p

Also, where is #5?

He's waiting for my bands new album, The Land of Hypocrisy, to come out.

[Jason]

HMF wants a copy.

[Tiggnutz]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. AC/DC - Back in Black
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
6. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
7. Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
8. Journey - Greatest Hits (1988)
9. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1974)
10. Huey Lewis and the News - Sports

Greatest hits is cheating! :p

Also, where is #5?

Flu is killing me lol. I do not believe it's cheating in this case.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. Metallica - Metallica
3. AC/DC - Maximum Overdrive soundtrack
4. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
5. Alice In Chains - Dirt
6. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
7. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
8. Metallica - And Justice For All
9. Tool - Aenima
10. Pantera - The Great Southern Tendkill

Unfortunately for Master Of Puppets, I wouldn't come across it until after my tastes were shaped. Same with Physical Graffiti, Pink Floyd Animals, Van Halen's Fair Warning, and Rust In Peace.