Off Topic 20 albums that affected your life

[dwells]

Not sure if its been done here but here we go
20 ALBUMS THAT EFFECTED MY LIFE (in no order)

1. Vulgar display of power-PANTERA
2. Never Neverland- ANNIHILATOR
3. Appetite for Destruction- GUNS N ROSES
4. Awake-DREAM THEATER
5. Rust in Peace- MEGADETH
6. And justice for All- METALLICA
7. Psycho Surgery- TOURNIQUET
8. Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance -TOURNIQUET
9. Promise land- QUEENSRYCHE
10. Symbolic- DEATH
11. Countdown to Extinction- MEGADETH
12. Heartwork- Carcass
13. War of worlds- FIGHT
14. Slave to the grind-SKID ROW
15. Low- TESTAMENT
16. Dirt-ALICE IN CHAINS
17. Sound of white noise- ANTHRAX
18. Systematic Chaos - DREAM THEATER
19. Cowboys from hell-PANTERA
20. Tears to Dust - TERAMAZE

 

[D.K.]

20? Oh boy, that is quite some...

Just a couple of mine (no particular order)

- Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here", "Animals", "The Wall", "The Division Bell"
- Deep Purple "Live at the Olympia", "Made in Japan", "Made in Europe"
- Dream Theater "Images and Words", "Train Of Thought"
- Rainbow "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow", "On Stage", "Stranger in Us All"
- Depeche Mode "Songs Of Faith and Devotion Live", "Playing the Angel"
- Porcupine Tree "Deadwing", "Collection"
- Steve Vai "Passion and Warfare", "Alive in an Ultra World"
- Steve Morse "High Tension Wires", "Coast To Coast"
- Dixie Dregs "Bring 'Em Back Alive"
- Frank Zappa "Strictly commercial"
- Roger Waters "Amused to Death"
- Eric Clapton "Crossroads 2 - Live in the 1970s (4 cd)"
- Jamiroquai "Emergency on Planet Earth", "Funk Odyssey"
- Eric Johnson "Venus Isle", "Ah via Musicom"
- Andres Segovia "All Bach Program", "BBC Recordings 1930-1950"
- Django Reinhardt everything

So, that's just the smallest slice of the cake.

 

[the24thfret]

Affected?

 

[guertzi]

Well, let's see if I can come up with 20:

1. Revolver (The Beatles)
2. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Corridors of Power (Gary Moore)
4. IV (Toto)
5. Wheels of Steel (Saxon)
6. British Steel (Judas Priest)
7. Strong Arm of the Law (Saxon)
8. Killers (Iron Maiden)
9. Number of the beast (Iron Maiden)
10. Live at Budokan (Michael Schenker Group)
11. Long live Rock'n'Roll (Rainbow)
12. Rising (Rainbow)
13. The Wall (Pink Floyd)
14. High Crime (Al Jarreau)
15. Van Halen (Van Halen)
16. Russ Ballard (Russ Ballard)
17. Pyromania (Def Leppard)
18. Hysteria (Def Leppard)
19. 19 (Chicago)
20. The Seventh One (Toto)

Hey, that was easier than I thought - I could have listed another 20 I guess...

Rock on!

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Affected?

AHHHH. The English language. The use of affect versus effect. Almost as confusing as the i before e - except afer c thing.

 

[bbake1]

- VanHalen 1, Live:RHRN, Balance
- AC/DC Back in Black
- UFO - Strangers in the Night
- KISS - Alive 1
- REO - You Get What You Play For
- Frampton Comes Alive
- GnR - Appetite For Destruction
- Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
- MSG - MSG
- Scorpions - Lovedrive
- Scorpions - Blackout
- SRV - Texas Flood
- Rush - All the Worlds A Stage
- Led Zep - I, II, IV, HotH, Presence

 

[fbecir]

Affected?

He is Australian, so English is not is mother tongue

For me, my 20 top albums are :

• The Knack : Get The Knack
• The Beatles : Red and Blue albums
• Motörhead : Overkill, No Sleep Till Hammersmith
• Iron Maiden : Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere in Time and Live After Death
• Steve Morse : High Tension Wires, The Introduction, Southern Steel
• Dixie Dregs : Free Fall, Bring Them back Alive
• Dream Theater : Systematic Chaos, Train of Thought
• Hedningarna : Kaksi
• Thin Lizzy : Life
• Rush : Anthology

 

[JMB27]

20 albums that effected/affected .... in no particular order:

Kind of Blue - Davis
Blow by Blow - Beck
Electric Ladyland - Hendrix
Abraxas - Santana
So Far - CSN&Y
Music from Big Pink - The Band
Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
Aja - Steely Dan
Rubber Soul - Beatles
Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
Relentless - Joey De Francesco and Danny Gatton
Live at the Filmore - Allman Bros
Morrison Hotel - The Doors
Cook County - BB King
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
Imagine - John Lennon
Synchronicity - Police
Texas Flood - SRV
Sometime Tuesday Morning - Johnny A
Nothing Like the Sun - Sting

 

[fogman]

I'm drawing heavy attention to the word "affected" and not necessarily favourites. Here's my list weather it affected me personally, or just musically varies.

Albums:
1. 5150 (Van Halen)
2. 24 Karat Purple (Deep Purple)
3. Slide it in (Whitesnake)
4. Appetite for Destruction (Guns N Roses)
5. Live Bullet (Bob Seger)
6. Burn (Deep Purple)
7. Pyromania (Def Leppard)
8. Diary of a Madman (Ozzy Osbourne)
9. Holy Diver (Dio)
10. Under the Pink (Tori Amos)
11. Boys for Pele (Tori Amos)
12. Led Zeppelin I, II, III, IV, House of the Holy (Led Zeppelin)
13. Nevermind (Nirvana)
14. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
15. Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
16. The Wall (Pink Floyd)
17. Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy (The Who)
18. 1984 (Van Halen)
19. Boston (Boston)
20. Long Cold Winter (Cinderella)
21. In Rock (Deep Purple)
22. Aerosmith’s (Aerosmith)
23. Screaming for Vengeance (Judas Priest)
24. Synchronicity (The Police)
25. Total Abandon (Deep Purple)
26. Couldn’t Stand the Weather (SRV)

DVDs:
1. Cross Roads I & II (Eric Clapton)
2. Farewell Tour 1 (The Eagles)
3. Where the Light Is (John Mayer)
4. Rock In Rio (Iron Maiden)
5. Live from Austin Texas (SRV)

Internet:
1. This forum!!!!!!

 

[edrod]

I still need 4 more

Master of Puppets – Metallica
And Justice For All – Metallica
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Far Beyond Driven – Pantera
Rust In Pieces - Megadeth
Images and Words – Dream Theater
Systematic Chaos – Dream Theater
Train of Though – Dream Theater
Fortress – Protest The Hero
Nocturne – The Human Abstract
City of Evil – Avenged Sevenfold
The Fall of Ideals – All that Remains
Rising Force – Yngwie Malmsteen
Suspended Animation – John Petrucci
Temple – Walter Giardino
Colors – Between The Buried and Me

 

[wolfbone07]

In no particular order. Only 20 is hard. I could go on all day. These were probably the most influential on my guitar playing.

1-3. Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs, Go My Way, 20th Century Blues
4. Satriani: Surfing With the Alien
5. Vai: Alien Love Secrets
6. Andy Timmons: Ear X-Tacy
7. Jon Finn: Wicked
8. Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
9. Cream: Disraeli Gears
10. Bugs Henderson: Four Tens Strike Again
11. Paul Gilbert: Alligator Farm
12. Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms
13. Stevie Ray Vaughan: In Step
14. Chris Poland: Return to Metalopolis
15. Mike Stern: Between the Lines
16-17. Jeff Beck: Guitar Shop, Blow By Blow
18. The Beatles: Abbey Road
19. Pink Floyd: Delicate Sound of Thunder
20. Greg Howe: Introspection

 

[whitestrat]

1. Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
2. Ayreon - The Dream Sequencer
3. Joe Satriani - The Extremist
4. Dream Theater - Images and Words - THE album responsible for getting me into Prog.
5. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
6. Liquid Tension Experiment 1
7. Metallica - Black Album
8. Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion 1&2
9. Eric Clapton - 24 Nights
10. Eric Clapton - From The Cradle
11. Guns And Roses - Appetite For Destruction
12. Extreme - Pornograffitti
13. Def Leppard - Pyromania
14. Bon Jovi - New Jersey
15. Steve Stevens - Flemenco A Go Go
16. Rodrigo - Concerto De Aranjuez (performed by Gerald Garcia)
17. Jeff Healey - See The Light
18. Aerosmith - Get A Grip
19. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
20. Steve Vai - Fire Garden

 

[Jason2112]

I don't think I like any 20 albums enough to say they affected my life, so here's 9:

- Rush - 2112
- Led Zep - IV
- Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
- King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
- The Sundays - Blind
- Radiohead - OK Computer
- Seal - Seal (1991)
- Will Ackerman - Passage

Each one represents either a style of playing, a high-level of production, or effective simplicity that has influenced my perception of playing and recording music.

 

[DrKev]

In no particular order...

Toto IV (toto)
In Step (SRV)
See the Light (Jeff Healey)
The Seventh One (Toto)
Small World (Huey Lewis & the News)
Texas Flood (SRV)
Some Rainy Morning (Robert Cray)
Night Life (Thin Lizzy)
Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop (Jeff Beck)
Passion and Warfare (Steve Vai)
Empire (Queensryche)
Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Wild Frontier (Gary Moore)
Time's Up (Living Colour)
Melissa Etheridge (Melissa Etheridge)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice)
Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (Billy Joel)

and there was a Wings double cassette live album that was definitely not 'Wings Over America'. I never thought it was a bootleg but for the life of me, I can't find anything about it anywhere online.

 

[deadtotheworld]

These are the albums that changed my views on what I liked when I was a kid and steered me in different directions as I have grown up...

Bad - Michael Jackson - First music I was really into
Slippery when wet - Bon Jovi - Met a girl when I was 13 who got me into rock guitars
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses - Naturally progressed to this album from Bon Jovi
Nevermind - Nirvana - First time I liked a noiseyer album
Metallica - Metallica - Who didnt own this record?
Megadeth - So Far So Good So What - A mate got me into faster thrashyer stuff
Draconian Times - Paradise Lost - Got into more atmospheric goth sounds
Ultra - Depeche Mode - This got me in to darker electronic stuff
Metropolis Part 2 - Dream Theater - Loved the musicianship, the storytelling, metal and clean guitars with often orchestral sounds.
Some of those albums I dont even listen to anymore but they kinda steered me to liking different stuff, and they arent even my favourite albums... couldnt name 20 which have affected me.

 

[leftyguitarblue]

Great thread idea. this is a fantrastic way to see what everyone is into and how music influenced them.

my 20 from childhood till now;

Huey Lewis and the News - Sports (first casette I owned, introduced me to rock)
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Motley Crue - Theater of Pain
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Metallica - Master of Puppets (Album made the biggest change in me. Never heard anything so heavy and fast before, bye-bye hair metal)
Slayer - Reign in Blood (ok, so this was faster)
Metallica - And Justice for All
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell (groove metal from hell)
Pantera -Vulgar Display of Power (best metal album of 90's?)
Dream Theater - Images and Words (got me into prog)
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Dream Theater - Awake
Korn - Korn
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other (Don't laugh, you know you liked a bunch of songs off that album. Guilty pleasure type stuff)
Taproot - Gift (great album. HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT)
Sevendust - Home
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (Slayer of the new millenium)
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (as good as anything they've ever done)

 

[kbaim]

1. WIRED Jeff Beck
2. AJA Steely Dan
3. LARRY CARLTON
4. 1984 Van Halen
5. ELEKTRIK BAND Chick Corea
6. SURFING WITH THE ALIEN Joe Satriani
7. LJ PLAYS THE BEATLES Laurence Juber
8. UFO TOFU Bela Fleck
9. ROYAL SCAM Steely Dan
10. ZEP IV
11. HEMISPHERES Rush
12.UNSUNG HEROES Dixie Dregs
13.DREGS OF THE EARTH Dixie dregs
14.BLIZZARD OF OZZ Ozzy and Randy Rhoads
15.BLOW BY BLOW Jeff Beck

 

[Spudmurphy]

1. Who live at Leeds
2. Free - Tons of Sobs
3. Free - Free
4. Free Fire and Water
5 Jeff Beck - Truth
6 Jeff Beck - Wired
7. Sonny Landreth - Outward Bound (the one with Native Stepson?)
8. Little Feat - Little Feat
9. Little Feat Sailin' Shoes
10 Who - Tommy
11 Camel - The Snowgoose
12. Wishbone Ash - Argus
13. Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
14. SRV - Texas Flood
15. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
16. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
17. Cream - Disraeli Gears
18.- 20 Led Zeppelin 1, 2 & 3

 

[robelinda2]

Weird mix of stuff! I'm a bit of a nerd.

Cold Chisel - Circus Animals
Ian Moss - Matchbook
Guns N Roses - Appetite
Brent Mason - Hot Wired
Eric Clapton - 24 Nights
Boston - Boston
SRV - Texas Flood
Robben Ford - Talk To Your Daughter
Journey - Greatest Hits
Roxette - Look Sharp
Daryl Braithwaite - Rise
Toto - IV
Joe Satriani - Time Machine
Tommy Emmanuel - Only
Tommy Emmanuel - The Journey
Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbors
James Reyne - Electric Digger dandy
Baby Animals - Baby Animals
Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith
Trisha Yearwood - Everybody Knows
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
The Angels - Beyond Salvation

 

[brasco68]

I could easily go over 20...but the 20 I've listed below have left a huge impact on me:

1) Van Halen - Fair Warning
2) Queen - News of the World
3) Jeff Beck - Who Else?
4) The Eagles - Hotel California
5) Rush - Permanent Waves
6) Rush - Moving Pictures
7) Steely Dan - Aja
8) Pink Floyd - The Wall
9) Led Zeppelin - LZ II
10) Ozzy & Randy Rhoads - Tribute
11) The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
12) Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop
13) Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
14) Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
15) ZZ Top - Dequello
16) Paul Gilbert - Best Of
17) Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
18) Metallica - The Black Album
19) Def Leppard - Hysteria
20) Pearl Jam - Ten, VS, Vitalogy (I couldn't pic just one )