Albums That Influenced You The Most...

[Negative Creep]

I thought you were adding things to the metal crowd? Deffinatly not metal...
.

No they aren't (although Fat of the Land certainly has a punk / industiral influence. But i'm not always in the mood for something heavy, I will listen to most things and can pick songs or artists I like from pretty much any genre (except r n'b, which I hate). Variety is the spice of life!

 

[Matt308]

I would listen to R&B over rap or opera in a heartbeat.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I wont listen to R&B, Rap or Hip Hop (even though Hip Hop is the new term for Rap).

Rap is crap!

I will listen to any kind of rock music though.

 

[Jugulator]

Albums that got me where I am today:

Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master of Reality
Master of Puppets


All thanks to my step bro brandon, who's currently in college. He introduced me to metal and hard rock when I was 6, and it's stuck ever since

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Master of Puppets is the most influential and best metal album ever produced.

 

[SoD Stitch]

Master of Puppets is the most influential and best metal album ever produced.

I'll second that . . .

I didn't like speed metal/thrash metal/death metal, whatever you want to call it . . . until I heard Master, that is. After that, I was a convert. It really put Metallica on the map and was the true beginning of their popularity.

I'll only list five (5) albums:

1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2. Led Zeppelin - IV (Zoso)
3. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
4. Van Halen - Van Halen
5. Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)

 

[mosquitoman]

Mahavishnu- Birds Of Fire
Herbie Hancock- Headhunters
Madness- Absolutely
Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon
The Toasters- Don't Let The B*stards Grind You Down
John Coltrane- Blue Train
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
Miles Davis- Kind Of Blue
Some of the most influential for me

 

[tpikdave]

Little Richard (saw him live in 58
The Del Vikings
The Platters
Beach boys
Gene Vincent
Neil Diamond
Simon and Garfunkle 50 Ways
Randy Newman

So now you know.

 

[Ramirezzz]

Moanin - Jazz Messengers
Now he sings, now he sobs - Chick Corea
virtually ALL albums of Lee Morgan exept the very first one
Abbey Road - The Beatles
John Coltrane- Love Supreme
Oscar Peterson - The Sound Of The Trio, Reuion Blues, and many more
Eric Clapton with Jojn Mayall's Bluesbreakers (I think its compilation though)
Meddle Pink Floyd

 

[Clave]

Led Zeppelin 1
Led Zeppelin 2
Led Zeppelin 3
Led Zeppelin 4
Houses of the Holy
The Song Remains the Same
Physical Graffiti
Presence
In Through the Out Door

Rush - Permanent Waves
Sex Pistols - Never mind the Bollocks
U2 - Joshua Tree
ZZ Top - Eliminator
The Jesus Mary Chain - Darklands
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Blondie - Eat to the Beat
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

 

[lesofprimus]

Nice list Clave...

 

[AVRoe]

War of the worlds

 

[Elvis]

Hmmm, thought I replied to this one.

Ok, a little preface before I cast my list out there.

I'm a drummer, so my list are the albums that influenced my drumming, not neccessarily something that struck a poingant chord in me as a youngster (which would make a short list, as it would be a bunch of 60's surf music).

SO, bearing that in mind, here we go...

Rod Strewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley

Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment

The Faces - A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

Led Zeppelin - II

Led Zeppelin - I

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

The Who - Live at Leeds

Rush - Fly by Night

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

Vince Guraldi - A boy named Charlie Brown

Dreams - Dreams

Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit Authority

Soundtrack for the movie "American Grafitti"

The Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters

The Allman Brothers - Live at the Filmore East

The Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach

Miles Davis - Star People

Tommy Flanagan - Confirmation

Max Roach - featuring Hank Mobley

Lynrd Skynrd - Second Helping

Chet Baker - ...in New York

The Police - Reggatta de Blanc

20/20 - Portrait

(first song I ever learned to play was "Cheri").

...and a whole lot of time spent listening to these guys




...I think that about covers it. I didn't include the 78's I grew up with, because finding pics of particular record labels was kinda tough.
These days I'm more into Jazz and Blues, but I'm really just a glorified "Rock drummer" and I'm ok with that.





Elvis

 

[snafud1]

For me it was Iron Maiden's -Piece of Mind and Fates Warning's - The Spectre Within.

 

[tpikdave]

AHHHH Brubeck's "Take Five" best of the best. You can just think about it and its there!!!

Frankenstein!!!

Gary Wright

Janice!!

 

[hunter0f2]

Bit of a strange mix here---But!! I am 63.


Have a Marajuana---- David Peel the Lower East Side
Captain Beefheart---- Trout Mask Replica
Strange Days---------The Doors
The Great American Eagle Tragedy--- Earth Opera
Freakin at The Freakers Ball--- Shel Silverstein
New Boots Panties----Ian Dury the Blockheads

 

[Parmigiano]

omg, I could go for years... just the first that comes to mind in random order:

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61, Blood on the Tracks

Paul Kantner Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Stars Stripes forever, Will the Circle be Unbroken

Eagles - Desperado

Pink Floyd - The piper at the gates of dawn, Ummagumma

Tim Buckley - Starsailor

Miles davis - Bitches Brew

Leonard Cohen - Songs of LC, Songs of Love Hate, Recent songs

Pentangle - Reflection, Cruel Sister

Fairport Convention - Liege Lief, John 'Babbacombe' Lee

Steeleye Span - Below the Salt, Hark! the village wait

Wheather Report - Black Market

Fabrizio de Andrè - La Buona Novella (the only thing that could stop my disgust for religion), Creuza de Mà

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Neil Young - Harvest

Beatles - Revolver, White Album, Sgt Pepper

Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts, Still Life

Genesis - Trespass, A trick of the tail

Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced?

Pogues - Rum, Sodomy the Lash, Red Roses for Me

Joni Mitchell - Hejira, Ladies of the Canyon

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

......

 

[Freebird]

Hmmm, thought I replied to this one.

Ok, a little preface before I cast my list out there.

I'm a drummer, so my list are the albums that influenced my drumming,

Elvis

Have you heard Bill Bruford's work? {Drummer with Yes, King Crimson} I really like his work, lots of solo stuff too....

 

[Bearcat]

Anything Stevie Wonder did between 1970 1976
Anything Earth Wind Fire did between 1970 1976
Anything Funkadelic did from 1970-1975

 

[Elvis]

Have you heard Bill Bruford's work? {Drummer with Yes, King Crimson} I really like his work, lots of solo stuff too....

I have to say, not much. Some Yes and some Jazz stuff he's done over the years.
Talented individual, to say the least, but no, I haven't invetigated him much.
I do say, though, the album "Going for the one" always intrigued me, although I don't know why.
Was Bruford on that one?




Elvis