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    10 albums that changed your life?

    OK, we know Rob Halford's but now list yours .These aren't my 'favourite' top 10 albums but they played a signicant part in my life one way or another!

    1. Ziggy Stardust
    2. Demons & Wizards
    3. Sad Wings of Destiny
    4. Squawk-Budgie
    5.Lights Out-UFO
    6.Scorpions-Tokyo Tapes
    7.Close to the Edge
    8.Billion $ Babies
    9.Dare-Human League
    10.On thru' the Night-Def Leppard
    11. Pieces of Eight-Styx
    12.Slade Alive

    I can count to 10 but just couldn't condense it.
    OK, so just list the albums that changed your life, no natter how nany!!!!
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    The yes album
    Tales from topographic oceans
    Bridge of sighs
    Aqualung
    Black sabbath
    Chicago transit authority
    Santana III
    Allman bros. live at the Fillmore
    Foxtrot
    Allman bros. brothers and sisters

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    A Saucerful of Secrets, my first LP purchase -- set the stage for many more to follow
    Faust - s/t -- opened up whole new vistas
    Trout Mask Replica -- taught me how to listen
    Animals -- changed my life by making me stop following PF

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    Led Zeppelin II - hard rock
    ELP - Trilogy - Prog in general
    Yes - Yessongs - an amazing intro to YesWorld
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - the definition of concept album
    Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star - my first Todd
    Phil Keaggy - Love Broke Thru -first of about 35 albums I have by him
    Windham Hill Sampler 1981 - introduced me to George Winstn, Will Ackerman, and a great label
    Larry Carlton S/T - Jazz fusion guitar
    Porcupine Tree - In Absentia -21st century Prog
    Suzanne Ciani - The Velocity of Love - melodic electronic ambient

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    In order of when I first heard them...

    1) Meet the Beatles
    2) Sgt Peppers - Beatles
    3) Beggars Banquet - Stones
    4) Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    5) Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
    6) Relayer - Yes
    7) A Passion Play - Tull
    8) Starless and Bible Black - Crimso
    9) The Thieving Magpie - Marillion
    10) Halloween - Pulsar
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    Chronologicakl order in my life.


    Jethro Tull - Stand Up >> mu dad's album (bught on the strenght of Bourée)... I was 6 and amazed at the artwork and pop-up
    Hair Musical soundtrack >> the other rock album in my dad's collection... Obviously, I had no idea what Sodomy (3rd track title)was back then
    Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing >> another one of my dad's albums >> we used to listen to that at really loud levels with him.
    Crime Of The Century >> first album bought with my own money >> It seemed every song was written for/about me. I immediately searched for other music of the same kind >> fell onto DSOTM, SEBTP (didn't like it for three years), TAAB, ITLOTGP, ITCOTCK (THAT one was weird) , etc...
    Ten Years After >> Space in Time and Wishbone Ash - Argus
    Genesis - Trick Of The Tail
    Judas Priest - Sad Wings and Rainbow - Rising >> going slightly metal at 13 yo
    Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell >> another album that was specifically written for/About me
    Santana - Caravanserai >> my first foray towards jazz I'm about 18 and pop-rock starts to suck shit
    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew >> jazzier
    John Coltrane - A Love Supreme >> no comment because I was speechless at 23
    Red Hot Chilly Pepper - Sex Blood Suger Magik >> a return of rock in my life
    Anglagard - Hybris >> >> Wow... I'd almost forgotten what mellotrons were... a return of prog in my life
    Univers Zero - Uzed >> Rock In Opposition?? WTF is that??


    Just take the ones in bold if you only want 10 (the 11th is courtesy of the house)
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Bob Dylan - debut s/t
    Love - debut s/t
    Love - Forever Changes
    Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
    The Who Sell Out
    Nazz - debut s/t
    The Yes Album
    Foxtrot - G Spot
    Day For Night - Spock's Beard
    Felona & Sarona - Le Orme

    Not necessarily my 10 favorites, but each had a definite impact on my musical perception.
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    In chronological order:

    Pet Sounds
    Paranoid (sabbath-meant a lot to me when I was 13)
    Meddle
    Court of the Crimson King
    Islands
    Selling England
    Lord of the Rings (Bo Hansson)
    Tales
    Rotters Club
    Power & The Glory

    Then there's the modern stuff.

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    In chronological order from early childhood (late 60's/early 70s)until the 80s:

    (Warning: I didn't come from an overly musical or hip family so it took a while to get the real stuff ;-)


    Walt Disney's TREASURE ISLAND I used to listen to this all the time as a young child. The eccentric characters like Billy Bones, Ben Gunn, etc were fascinating to my young mind.

    The Vienna Boy's Choir I used to fall asleep to this every night when was around 6 or 7. Haven't heard it since but I remember it fondly.

    The Osmonds (debut) Ok, I know it's bubblegum, etc but I didn't come from a hip family and this was the first "band" I got into at age 8. Very well produced and performed.

    The Jackson 5's "Greatest Hits" You know the one with the pseudo painting of them on the cover. Classic songs and performances.

    ELTON JOHN's GREATEST HITS VOL. 1 The first "serious" artist that I got into. A gateway to all the real stuff.

    PINK FLOYD "Meddle" My cousin turned me on to this when I was 12 and then...

    Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" This is the first album to really blow my mind. A lightbulb went off and my course was decided :-)

    Led Zeppelin IV Simply awesome at the time.

    YES "Yessongs" This was the first YES I heard and it was on a killer stereo. A whole new world...

    David Sylvian "Gone To Earth" This is a brilliant atmospheric album. It again changed the way I perceive music and sound.

    There are many others but these are the early highlights of my musical journey.

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    In chronological order
    Rainbow - Rising
    Pink Floyd - WYWH
    Yes - CTTE
    Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony
    King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic
    Roy Harper -HQ
    Hawkwind - Space Ritual
    Hatfield & The North - Rotters Club
    Univers Zero - Ceux Du Dehors
    Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
    Vezhlivy Otkaz - Geese and Swans
    Cardiacs - Little Man
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    Beatles '65
    Herb Albert & TJ Brass
    Zappa & Mothers Freak Out
    Crosby Stills Nash
    Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon
    King Crimson In the Court of
    Beatles Sgt. Peppers
    Miles Davis Bitches Brew
    anything classical
    something ethnic - Sunny Ade & the African Beats etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Vezhlivy Otkaz - Geese and Swans
    Gusi-Lebedi rules! I wish more people knew about this great album.

    Mine:

    1. Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien (The first album I ever bought and still one of my favorites.)
    2. Metallica ...And Justice for All (Complexity and suffocating heaviness all in one.)
    3. Rush A Farewell to Kings ("Xanadu" opened my eyes to a whole other world.)
    4. Yes Relayer ("Gates of Delirium" blew my mind.)
    5. Miles Davis Bitches Brew (My adolescent brain felt like it was being pulled in a million places at once.)
    6. Aimee Mann Whatever (Made me appreciate great singing and traditional songwriting. An absolute catharsis of an album.)
    7. Richard Thompson You? Me? Us? (My introduction to RT. Nothing would be the same for me musically after this.)
    8. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (Pure melodic loveliness.)
    9. Radiohead OK Computer (Nothing I had heard from Radiohead prepared me for this.)
    10. Opeth Blackwater Park (Came along at a time in my life when I thought I had heard it all. I was wrong.)

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    Introducing The Beatles
    Rite Of Spring
    Absolutely Free
    RUX
    ICoTKC
    Coltrane - Live at Birdland
    Terry Riley - In C
    Pawn Hearts
    Henry Cow - s/t (Legend)
    Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy Sessions
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    Quote Originally Posted by mogrooves View Post
    Introducing The Beatles
    Rite Of Spring
    Absolutely Free
    RUX
    ICoTKC
    Coltrane - Live at Birdland
    Terry Riley - In C
    Pawn Hearts
    Henry Cow - s/t (Legend)
    Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy Sessions
    Very nice list
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    Fragile
    CTTE
    Tales
    Selling England by the Pound
    The Lamb
    Crosby Stills and Nash
    New York Tenderberry--Laura Nyro
    Blue-- Joni Mitchell
    Relayer
    Trick of the Tail

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    Rock and Roll Over-Kiss
    Some Girls-Rolling Stones
    Who Are You-Who
    IV-Led Zeppelin
    Tormato-Yes
    Infidels-Bob Dylan
    In Through the Out Door-Led Zeppelin
    Quadrophenia-Who
    Tinseltown Rebellion-Frank Zappa
    Magical Mystery Tour-The Beatles
    Tales From Topographic Oceans-Yes

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    No particular order:

    KC - Discipline
    FZ - One Size Fits All
    Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun
    Henry Cow - Unrest (Or Leg End...whichever I heard first)
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Smashmouth - Astro-Lounge
    Magma - MDK
    Sun Ra - Space Is The Place
    John Cage - Indeterminacy
    Please don't ask questions, just use google.

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    The Beatles - Revolver
    Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
    Joni Mitchell - Blue
    King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
    Yes - Close To The Edge
    Deep Purple - Fireball
    Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
    Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
    Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
    Spock's Beard - The Kindness Of Strangers

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    It was the era I didn't have that many records...

    Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
    King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
    Love - Forever Changes
    Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
    Amon Duul 2 - Wolf City
    Velvet Underground - Feat. Lou Reed & Nico
    Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
    Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
    Black Sabbath - Volume 4
    Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
    Motorhead - Motorhead
    Cream - Disraeli Gears
    Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
    Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
    Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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    Pink Floyd - Ummagumma. First album I bought with my own money. Didn't know a thing about Pink Floyd. I just liked the cover, titles, and song lengths. I was a weird kid. This album no doubt primed me for a lifetime of seeking out prog rock and all types of "unusual" music, and it taught me how to actively listen to music.

    Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra - Beethoven's 9th. I couldn't really tell you why a kid was attracted to classical music, but I played this album over and over and soaked in all the details.

    Styx - Kilroy Was Here. I make no apologies for loving this album. I was 12 when it came out, and I loved the cool synthesizer effects on "Mr. Roboto" and the whole storyline. It was probably my first exposure to concept albums. Styx became my first favorite band as a result of this album.

    Styx - Paradise Theater. I can't remember if I heard this album or "Kilroy" first, though I think it came shortly afterward. It was another album I played to death as a kid. I still remember the neat laser etching on side 2 of the vinyl.

    Yes - 90125. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" captured my attention on the radio, and I had to have the album. I must have had every note memorized within a few weeks.

    Yes - Classic Yes. Opened up my world to Yes' back catalog and started me down the path as a hardcore prog fan.

    Yes - Close to the Edge. No comment necessary.

    The Compact King Crimson - First taste of pre-'80s KC. Gave me an appreciation of what Bruford did outside Yes.

    Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese. Ended my aversion to alternative and other mainstream pop/rock artists. I realized I'd been missing out on some pretty cool music in the '90s. I flipped out when my friend played me "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver." The guitar solo sounded like Fripp and Belew had morphed into a single person.

    VDGG - Pawn Hearts. I hated this album for years. Just couldn't get into it, and didn't understand what people saw in the band. I put it away for a long time and then one day decided to give it a fresh spin ... and it instantly all just clicked. Don't know why to this day. I felt like I'd cracked a Zen koan. Now it's one of my favorite albums. It taught me to appreciate the fact that some albums take a long time to reveal their brilliance, and not to write something off just because I don't instantly "get" it.

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    It would've been nice to read how some of these albums changed the lives of the list-makers.
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Various Composers-Renaissance Music For Brass(Nonesuch-first lp i ever owned)
    Benefit
    The Turning Point
    In The Court of the Crimson King
    Live at Leeds
    Miles-Jack Johnson
    Ornette-Crisis
    Uncle Meat
    Messiaen-Quartet For The End of Time
    Nikhil Banerjee-Raga Hemant
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    I do not think that music actually changes your life. It just changes the way you look at music. Anyway here are 10 important records on my list (somewhat in chronological order but probably not accurately).

    1 Queen ~ greatest hits. Simply because it was the first album i ever bought
    2 Marillion ~ Script for a jesters tear. Introduction to prog
    3 VDGG ~ Pawn hearts. Introduction to the darker and more complex side of prog.
    4 Cardiacs ~ A little man. My introduction to the greatest band on earth and it also made me appreciate and discover other genres.
    5 Talk Talk ~ The spirit of Eden. Opened new musical horizons
    6 Janacek ~ Symfonietta. Not really an album but this was the first Classical Piece I got really hooked on.
    7 Philip Glass ~ KoYaanisquasti. I remember I first saw the movie before i got the album. A complete hypnotic experience.
    8 Emerson Quartet ~ Bartok string quarters. Amazing! Classical music isn't supposed to sound like that but why does it attract me so much?
    9 Miles Davis - A kind of Blue. So I CAN like a jazz album.
    10 Rational Diet ~ At Work. Chamber rock with the impact of a heavy metal band. Who would have thought prog could still be this relevant. My first altrock album. many more were to follow.

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    In The Wake Of Poseidon
    Tarkus
    Still Life
    Thick As A Brick
    DP In Rock
    Band Of Gypsys
    Relics
    Days Of Future Passed
    Sgt Pepper
    Heartbreaker

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    Coulda sworn we had a list like this a few months ago. Anyway, I'll give it a shot. I'm not necessarilly listing my top ten favorite albums of all time just the ones that I remember making a huge impact on me.
    Am sure that was a 'favourite' top 10 list?

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