Willie Nelson-Red Headed Stranger....My Dad has always listened to country and no matter how much I tried to hate it all, this album was just so far beyond brilliant that I had to embrace it.
REM-Document/Murmur -These two told me that it didn't necessarily have to be loud to be great rock & roll.
Metallica-Master of Puppets- My first exposure to Metallica was this album. It hooked me. The thing that struck me most about it is how damn close the music is to being from an 18th century classical composition. I wish they'd get back to some of that.
Alice In Chains-Facelift-This one and everything they did subsequently haunts me.
Led Zeppelin II-The root of everything great about Rock and Roll IMO.
Now, there are a dozen others that I would list as great albums, maybe even greater than a couple of the above, but those are the 5 most important as far as shaping me into the music fan I am today.
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