Albums That Influenced You The Most...

[SoD Stitch]

Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet

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 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]

Originally Posted by 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,

Elvis

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