Albums That Influenced You The Most...

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DerAdlerIstGelandet said:
I thought you were adding things to the metal crowd? Deffinatly not metal...
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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!
 
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 said:
Master of Puppets is the most influential and best metal album ever produced.
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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)
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
AHHHH Brubeck's "Take Five" best of the best. You can just think about it and its there!!!

Frankenstein!!!

Gary Wright

Janice!!
 
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
 
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

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