5 albums that influenced your musical tastes....

[SinceDay1]

Tough to pin it down to just 5 but after giving it some thought, I submit the following:

Meet The Beatles
Dark Side of the Moon
Machine Head
Quadrophenia
Beginnings (re-release of the Allman Brothers first 2 albums)

[BlackEleven]

Tool - Aenima
I discovered the magic that is Tool through this album. I've loved Tool ever since.

Metallica - Load
Not their best, I admit, but its what lead me to explore Metallica, and got me into heavier music

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
I must have listened to this album 2000 times over when I was 14-15. I still enjoy music from this era.

Nirvana - Unplugged
First album I ever bought with my own money. It got me into the whole grunge scene, led to other great things like Pearl Jam, RHCP, Alice in Chains, etc

Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead was the first band I was really passionate about, and this is the album that did it. OK Computer really solidified it. Still love Radiohead, and was choked when I couldn't score any tickets to their show in June (here in Montreal).

[J pold]

Originally Posted by shane_c

I can only think of one.
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart

That is a extermly good album

[StoneCole]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

Van Halen - 1984, started me on the path of hard rock hair bands like GNR, Poison, Motley Crue, Def Leppard until...

if you like Punk Music (or even if you don't) check out the song Van Halen by Nerfherder.

It explains the band's love of Van Halen (up until the Haggar days) using actual Van Halen lyrics. It's actually a pretty clever song.

[Hakan]

Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers: One of the best Hip Hop albums of all time. It awoke me to hip hop when I had been previously listening to grunge/rock/pop. This album rocks.

Nirvana - Nevermind: Was the spark that eventually got me into punk, indie rock, hardcore and the rest. A mild beginning but it changed my tastes.

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land: One of the best albums ever. Completely turned me onto classic rock and mind blowing guitars.

Neil Young - Harvest: Instilled an appreciation of folk/rock into me. I had not heard much music outside of country music in this style. Now I'm a die hard Neil Young fan and I listen to lots of alt-country and folk-rock because of it.

Amon Tobin - Permutation: Amazing electronic album. It proved to me that electronic music can be deep, meaningful and talented. This album really broke down alot of barriers for me and electronic music. Now I can listen to alot of it and appreciate it.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by stuck_in_chuk

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I totally forgot about the Pixies. They played in Calgary the same night as game 7 of the Flames/Canucks series. My friend and I tried to get scalped tickets, unsuccessfully. So, we watched the game at the bar across the hallway from the venue. Halfway through the first period, we had forgotten about the concert.

I was at that show too; I bought the Live CD they sold after the show, and before one of the songs you can hear the Drummer (Lovering?) say "How About Those Flames"?

When the concert ended it was late in the third period. I saw VAN tie the game up at the Den, and I was so mad at the blown calls, I did not stay to watch O/T.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by firebug

Is it just me, or are the memories the albums are associated with as important to you as the music is?

Absolutely. Sometimes I'll hear a song I haven't heard in years and it takes me back to wherever I was when that song was popular.

[Bobblehead]

Bryan Adams - Reckless
U2 - The Joshua Tree
REM - Document (sort of represents when I was introduced to a whole different set of music - Depeche Mode, New Order, Cure, etc)
The Tragically Hip - Up to Here
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple

Currently I'm playing Foo Fighters "In Your Honor" like crazy. One of those albums that gets better every time I hear it, but not what I would consider influential.

[DuffMan]

Alice Cooper - Schools Out
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
Kiss Alive - 2
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

[Kool Keef]

1. Faith No More - "The Real Thing". This was the first CD I ever bought.

2. Dr. Octagon - "Dr. Octagonecologyst". Restored my faith in hip-hop.

3. The Dandy Warhols - "The Dandy Warhols Come Down". Bought this and finally kicked my grunge habit.

4. Cannibal Corpse - "Live Cannibalism". My first taste of death metal... and I liked it.

5. High On Fire - "Art Of Self-Defense". My first exposure to stoner/doom metal. Not necessarily a standard of the genre, but it certainly aroused my curiosity.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by troutman

Anyone remember FM Moving Pictures with Mike Bezzeg and James Muretich? I remember them premiering videos from the likes of the Clash and Roxy Music.

I remember that show and those guys. That was a while ago.

[ernie]

only 5?

Well impossible to really narrow down those old favourites of mine but the first 5 off the top of my head.

King's X - Gretchen goes to nebraska
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Rush - Signals
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare

And of course there is Appetite for Destruction, The Real Thing (Faith No More) and a whole truckload of other albums that I absolutely love to this day.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I remember that show and those guys. That was a while ago.

Music-lovers owe a debt to Mr. Muretich

By MIKE BELL -- Calgary Sun


http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/04/30/1557468.html

The first time I remember being aware of Muretich was during his late-'70s, early '80s tenure on the community cable music video show FM Moving Pictures.

Thank you for everything you did for this city -- this city's musicians, its music-lovers and those who don't even know that what you did touched them.

And, most importantly, thank you from me -- thank you for XTC.

[JBR]

Kiss - Destroyer
U2 - War
INXS - Kick

and last but not least.. Ruben Studdard's Greatest Hit.

[socalwingfan]

Kiss - Destroyer - first album i ever owned
Pink Floyd -The Wall - first 'cd' purchased when they were first introduced
Metallica - Master of Puppets - first album i listened to non-stop for what seemed like forever
Alligator Records 20th anniversary collection - my intro to the blues
Violent Femmes - self titled - soundtrack to the best summer of my life

[Burninator]

Tool - Aenima
Great album, unreal band. Favourtie band that is still making music. So much some LP's are in the mail, can't wait.

Led Zeppelin - 4
Zoso, Untitled, whatever you want to call it. Timeless. Favourite band of all time.

Kyuss - Sky Valley
Pioneers of the genre 'stoner rock'. Josh Homme first band before becoming the lead singer of Queens of the Stone Age. Really enjoy these guys.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Basically the originators of heavy metal.

Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
Favourite punk group. Not really into punk as much as I was, but still rock out to these guys.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by troutman

Music-lovers owe a debt to Mr. Muretich

By MIKE BELL -- Calgary Sun


http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/04/30/1557468.html

The first time I remember being aware of Muretich was during his late-'70s, early '80s tenure on the community cable music video show FM Moving Pictures.

Thank you for everything you did for this city -- this city's musicians, its music-lovers and those who don't even know that what you did touched them.

And, most importantly, thank you from me -- thank you for XTC.

That was when CJSW was only on cable.
And radio-radio was good.
Also remember thinking Mike Bezzeg was actually Moe Berg from POH, cause they looked so much alike
Wonder whatever happened to those guys. I saw Bezzeg working in a record store a long time ago.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

That was when CJSW was only on cable.
And radio-radio was good.
Also remember thinking Mike Bezzeg was actually Moe Berg from POH, cause they looked so much alike
Wonder whatever happened to those guys. I saw Bezzeg working in a record store a long time ago.

FM Moving Pictures was a TV show. Weekly they showed videos and reviewed records. Mike Bezzeg used to work at Sam The Record Man down town. I remember seeing the Clash for the first time on that show, doing "Tommy Gun". This was when videos were just getting started.

Remember "Gerry Todd" on SCTV? Videos from the Plastics and Talking Heads. And "The Fishing Musician" where John Candy hosted the Plasmatics and The Tubes at Scuttlebut Lodge? Mel's Rock Pile? And the greatest Punk Rock band ever, The Queen Haters.

http://www.pistolwimp.com/media/43885/

http://radiocrmw.blogspot.com/2005/1...ktachrome.html

"I'd like to sink the Queen, off the coast of Argentine, and her bloody Falkland war machine, yeah... that would make me laugh!"

"I'd like to kill the Queen; She taxes me to death; I can't afford me dope; Yeah, that would make me laugh."

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by socalwingfan

Violent Femmes - self titled - soundtrack to the best summer of my life

I don't know if it was a soundtrack to any summer, but that record was pretty "influential" for me. It made me believe I was a little cooler than the other kids (I was 11) who would listen only to the top 6 at 6. I'd dare say that the record was so influential for me that more than 20 years later I still have the same belief. And I still have the record.

[shoestring]

Joni Mitchell - Blue My Mom loved it too!

Bob Dylan - New Morning It was melodic and my first Dylan record,my sis had all the others, I now have quite a few.

Van Morrison - Moondance A classic that shaped many singer/songwriters

Deep Purple in Rock, Ten Years After- Shhh - Heavy metal pioneers. Alternated in my 8 track.

Allman Brothers Band - Live at Fillmore and Eat a Peach. Basically the same concert.
8 sides,LP's, of great Blues and amazing instrumentals.

After listing those I realize how many others there are. Jimi,the Cream,beatles,the who and Free -especially All Right Now. Marvin Gaye, Al Green,Miles Davis,...