Top 5 Albums That Most Impacted You The First Time You Heard Them

1-Beatles- Revolver
2-Hendrix- Smash Hits
3-Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden
4-Big Star-#1 Record
5-Allman Bros- Eat a Peach

 

Okay then, here's 15, and I'm leaving out Mission of Burma, Imperial Teen, Pylon, Human Switchboard, Denise La Salle, Aretha, Little Feat, Buzzcocks, Funkadelic, Black Uhuru, Steely Dan , Chris Smither, Eno, Charlie Rich, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Wire, The Kinks, Arthur Russell, The Dbs, Townes Van Zandt..........

Patti Smith - Horses
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Television - Marquee Moon
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
Ramones - Ramones
Big Star - #1 Record
Stooges - Fun House
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Roxy Music -For Your Pleasure
David Bowie - Ziggy stardust
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
Rory Gallagher - S/T
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
R.E.M. - Murmur

 

Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Byrds - Younger than Yesterday
Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body

 

1. Pet Sounds--The Beach Boys

2. Breakfast In America--Supertramp

3. Aja--Steely Dan

4. Bringing It All Back Home--Bob Dylan

5. What's Going On--Marvin Gaye

6. Absolutely Free--Frank Zappa, Mothers Of Invention

7. SPLHCB--The Beatles

8. Folsom Prison--Johnny Cash

9. Business As Usual--Men At Work

10. Arthur--The Kinks

11. Who's Next--The Who

12. Out Of The Cellar--Ratt

13. Beggars Banquet--The Rolling Stones

14. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack--Various Artists

15. ODESSA--The Bee Gees

16. The Beach Boys--Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

17. Frank Zappa, Mother's Of Invention--Freak Out!

18. Kind Of Blue--Miles Davis

19. CTA--Chicago--First album

20. The 20/20 Experience Pt. 1--Justin Timberlake

21. Revolver--The Beatles

22. Diary Of A Madman--Ozzy Osbourne

23. Escape--Journey

24. Partners In Crime--Rupert Holmes

25. Trout Mask Replica--Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

26. Can't Slow Down--Lionel Richie

27. Paul McCartney--McCartney--1st solo

28. Surrealistic Pillow--Jefferson Airplane

29. Piece Of Mind--Iron Maiden

 

Inner Mountng Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Having a Rave Up - Yardbirds
Are You Experienced - Hendrix
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

 

Beggars Banquet
Led Zeppelin IV
Velvet Underground VU & Nico
Big Star #1 record
Jimi Hendrix Experience AYE

 

1. ELO - On The Third Day
2. Queen II
3. Jason and the Scorchers- Lost and Found
4. Stray Cats- Built For Speed
5. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

 

Beatles - Help (6 years old, playing after john was murdered)

Once upon a time in the west - Ennio Morricone (7 years old playing out my own imagined western tale in the livingroom)

Beatles - Abbey Road (9 years old, staying over at my aunt and uncle after my parents just split up)

Pink Floyd - The Wall (15 years old, totally absorped by the concept, convinced to project it on my poor adolescent self)

Toto - Hydra (16 years old Jeff Porcaro was my hero!)

Dream Theater - Images and Words (19 years old, seeing Mike Portnoy live was unreal, animal in the flesh)

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (27 years old, and that the popgroup I knew made this too, opened the way to lots more)

Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase (40 years old, joy/tears/goosebumps/anger/sad/euphoric.....man......that album set me off on a steven wilson rampage )

Oops.....that was more than 5.......

 

Queen - Greatest Hits
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Beatles - The White Album
U2 - Achtung Baby

 

AWESOME list.!!

 

Forget Nevermind on my list. Awesome early 90's trip that Nevermind album is.

 

That sounded like nothing else when I first heard it (in my friend's mums far. I also remember thinking how easy going his mum was listening to that too, as it seemed a bit too heavy for parents back then!).

 

I would go clubbing me and my buddies early 90's and Smells Like Teen Spirit would be screaming out on the speakers. When that song was played that loud it was like unworldly. Incredible tune and an incredible album.

 

Tea For The Tillerman
Pet Sounds
Tonight's The Night
White Album
A Golden Hour Of The Kinks

 

Meet the Beatles
Roger the Engineer (as Over Under ... )
London Calling
1999
A Love Supreme

hon. mention to "Los Angeles" by X.

 

1. The Doors - The Doors
2. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
5. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico.

 

"Impacted" is relative on when you grew up. You said FIVE, so that what you get. These 5 I will listen to forever.

Grease Soundtrack - Because as a child it introduced me to the voice of Olivia!
Nevermind - Nirvana - I was a young teenager and got to grow up with a 90's soundtrack!
Madonna - Madonna - Another childhood favorite that always intrigued my imagination.
Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit - First listened to SoCo, then in my early 20's this really blew me away!
REM - Automatic For The People - Absolute beauty throughout from my favorite American band.

 

The Beatles Abbey Road
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Yes Yessongs
Pink Floyd Animals
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run

 

So which 5 of these, Psych? lol

 

All

 

Most of the albums that become my favorites are ones that take a few listens for me to get it, but there are a few that grabbed me right away

The Who - Who's Next This was one of the first albums I bought when I was first getting into music, and I remember immediately being happy with my purchase. I already knew the hits, but when I realized the album tracks were top-notch as well, it became a favorite of mine.
Rush - 2112 When I first heard this album, I was a big Led Zeppelin fan and was just getting into progressive rock, and I remember thinking that Rush was my idea of a perfect rock band.
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes It took me an oddly long time to give Tom Petty's music a try, but when I did I was a immediately impressed. I was rediscovering folk-rock at the time and I loved Tom Petty's blend of Byrds-inspired jangle and punchy rock.
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell I remember not expecting to be impressed by this album, but I decided to listen to it anyway and was floored.
The Kinks - Sleepwalker This is a fairly recent one for me. I never bothered with the Kinks after 1971, expecting it all to be mediocre, but I bought Sleepwalker on a whim and was surprised by how lively and memorable the songwriting and performances were.

 

The Beach Boys Endless Summer
Metallica Master of Puppets
Radiohead OK Computer
David Bowie Low
Genesis Foxtrot

 

Meet/Introducing The Beatles
Between The Buttons
Daydream
Bringing It All Back Home
The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle

 

Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Never mind the B*****s heres the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Foxtrot - Genesis