10 singles or LPs that truly changed your life...

Greetings & welcome SHF...

A overly simple thread about posting 7 singles or LPs that changed your life...

Your selections can be from any genre, style or era...

As the OP I will obviously begin...

1.Ray Charles / Born To Lose (1962)...I was 10 years old in 1962 & me & my Dad were at his favorite drinking establishment & this record came on the jukebox...

I spent $2 of my allowance playing that song over & over & have been hooked ever since

2.Kingsmen / Louie Louie (1963)...not only the perfect Frat rock song but also the definitive mono A.M. radio single

3.Meet The Beatles (1964)...the beggining of stateside Beatlemania & boy did it sound good on my Sears Silvertone

4.Beatles / Rubber Soul (US)...the beggining of the 60s for me & millions other teens

5.The Doors s/t (1967)...remains my favorite late 60s record & Light My Fire is the hippest groove in all of rock

7.Rod Stewart / Maggie Mae (1971)...perfectly reflected my life during 1971

8.Steely Dan / Do It Again (1972)...the 2nd hippest groove in rock

9.New York Dolls in Too Much Too Soon (1974)...I dug their debut but this record highlighted the Dolls strong points so well, marvelous rock archaelogy beside stunning originals & demented Jagger frontman David Johansen & chaos personified guitarist Johhny Thunders were never better along with Killer Kane learning how to actually play the bass...

A life changing moment indeed

10.The Clash s/t....the most politically charged band to come along since 1960s Country Joe & Fish & the shot in the arm 1970s rock was in bad need of for a long time...

If rocknroll is about youth & energy then the Clash debut could well be the greatest RocknRoll record ever released...

Every song sounds like it could literally jump through the speakers at any moment...

The 1970s generation finally had a voice of its own...

OK so these are my 10 life changing studio rocknroll moments...

Next?

 

Maybe not changed my life but "Beatles for Sale" was the first album I bought in 1976 and by the time I was 14 I had all their albums. "Scary Monsters" by David Bowie and "The River" by Bruce Springsteen. 1980. To discover these artists fueled my interest in music. In 1984, I had a job and could buy my own records, "Purple Rain", and I discovered underground music, "Violent Femmes" by Violent Femmes and "Fables of the Reconstruction" by R.E.M. It all refueled my interest in music. I heared "Blonde on Blonde", and "Are You Expereicned", "The Doors", "Pet Sounds"... all these fantastic albums that made me obsessive about music.

 

Totally and utterly changed the way I viewed music...

 

Op You said 7 then list 10 ?

 

Thanks for participating

 

Oops gort! Thanks!

Duly noted &now reported

 

U2-Boy
The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper
Iron Maiden-Number Of The Beast
Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance
Sinead O'Connor-The Lion And The Cobra
Peter Gabriel-1 (car)
Blondie-Plastic Letters

Honorable mention:
The Police-Zenyatta Mondatta
Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon
Natalie Merchant-Tigerlily
The Stranglers-The Raven

 

10 albums that rocked my world

1. AC/DC- Back In Black

2. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

3.John Lee Hooker - Live Cafe Au Go Go

4. Bob Dylan - Freewheelin

5. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

6.Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

7.Elton John - Greatest Hits

8. The Who- Whos Next

9. James Brown - Sex Machine

10. The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks

 

1. The Monkees - Greatest Hits 1978
2. The Beatles - Beatles '65 1979
3. The Doors - Greatest Hits 1981
4. The Association - Greatest Hits 1982
5. Spanky and Our Gang - "Like to Get to Know You" 1983
6. Bread - The Best of Bread 1983
7. Eagles - Their Greatest Hits (1971-75) 1986
8. Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Songbook 2000
9. Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection 2002
10. Harpers Bizarre - "The 59th Street Bridge Song" 2002

 

1. Sgt Pepper - the first rock album I ever played (at age 2 or 3) and set me on the course I am still on.

2. Day Tripper / We Can Work it Out - after #1 my dad found this 45 in my grandparents basement, "here, this is by them, too!" It's still my favorite single of theirs.

3. Rubber Soul (US version) - after getting pretty well immersed in the early stuff, I got this one. Or, should I say, my dad bought it for me! Looking at the weird stretched faces on the cover and hearing the acoustic intro with its sliding notes, followed by a sitar, fuzz bass - that whole first side was just had mind blowing (for a kid in elementary school) sounds.

4. The Dance - my gateway to Fleetwood Mac. Probably a good place to start. From there I delved into the individual albums and fortunately became a fan of Christine's who acted as a bridge to the Bob Welch era of the band. Tellingly, I don't listen to it hardly ever, but it served its purpose!

5. Royal Scam - sort of. Actually it was a two-fer with Katy Lied and my dad played it A LOT. It was very much not my style of music until then but it really opened my ears to bands with horns and jazzy arrangements.

6. Tapestry - not rock, not male, but hey wait a minute...this is good! I think this was the first album that I really sat down and LISTENED to...

7. Flaming Pie - what can I say? This disc was the right album at the right time and within one or two plays, etched its music into my brain. I don't know why but we all have those, right?

 

Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
The Jam- Snap!
The Cure- Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Green Day- 39/Smooth
Descendents- Milo Goes to College
The Wedding Present- Seamonsters
Guided by Voices- Bee Thousand
Pearl Jam- Ten
Crimpshrine- Duct Tape Soup
Pavement- Slanted & Enchanted

 

1. Joseph & The Technicolor Dream Coat - I admit it may not seem like a likely candidate but it was the first LP I purchased with my own money, and it was the first time I left home to go shopping without adult supervision. I still have the record and while it is not hi-fi it is listenable. Anyway on to:

2. The Beatles Revolver (My first rock album)
3. Don McLean American Pie, the 45 rpm disk (my first rock 45)
4. The Beach Boys Smiley Smile
5. The Beatles From Me to You, the 45 rpm disk
6. Alan Sherman The 12 Days of Christmas 45 (You mean these aren't only for music?)
7. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper
8. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream and Other Delights (What's that lady all about anyway?)
9. Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 45
10. The Beach Boys Wild Honey

 

My 10 -
1. Paper Lace - "The Night Chicago Died/Billy, Don't Be A Hero" I loved, loved, loved this song. I must have driven my parents crazy about it because they bought me the single which I wore out on my kid's record player.
2. The Monkees - Headquarters. I was about 6 or 7 and my grandma bought this for me at a thrift store. It was my first album I owned. I played it on my little record player incessantly for a while. Still my favorite Monkes' album.
3. Ramones - Ramones My uncle was about 10 years older than me and played this for me when I was 8. I was enthralled. I didn't actually get into punk for a few more years but when I did this was one of the first punk records I bought.
4. R.E.M. - Reckoning I got this before Murmur and completely fell into an R.E.M. phase that I'm still not over.
5. Otis Redding - The Very Best Of Otis Redding
I knew nothing of Otis Redding until I saw Pretty In Pink and there was a scene in the movie that used his music. It was love at first hearing. I own almost everything he did now and I'm still enjoying it.
6 & 7. These two are kind of intertwined. I had a subscription to Musician magazine in my teen years and one day there were two rave reviews about two different albums. The albums were The Replacements' Let It Be and Sam Cooke's Live At The Harlem Square Club. I'd heard of both of them and, of course, knew Cooke's big hits but I went to the record store about a week later and just happened to see them both so, on the strength of the reviews alone, I bought them. Completely amazing. To this day, two of my favorite albums.
I think that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Great thread idea, OP!

 

I tried to put together the top 10 list , but I realised it would be just my current top 10 all times albums or songs.

There's only one album that changed my life. I heard it first 12 years after it came out, and everything I liked to that point (and still like) didn't matter anymore.

 

Here's the Big Ten in the life of Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson (in order... some are important compilations):

1. The Beatles - Meet the Beatles
2. The Who - My Generation
3. The Jam - All Mod Cons
4. The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles
5. The Yardbirds - Having A Rave Up
6. The Small Faces - S/T (1966 Decca)
7. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
8. The Moody Blues - A Dream (German Double LP of pre-'Nights in White Satin' songs)
9. The Animals - The Most of the Animals (Music for Pleasure - UK 1971)
10. The Monkees - S/T (1966)

 

I went from being a kid to being a teenager when I first heard the Beatles in December 1963.

 

1. The Cyrkle - I Wish You Could Be Here
2. The Beatles - Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
3. The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains
4. Simon and Garfunkel - Fakin' It
5. The Hollies - King Midas In Reverse
6. The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
7. The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
8. The Kinks - Tired of Waiting For You
9. The Zombies - Tell Her No
10. The Lovin' Spoonful - Six O'Clock
11. The Turtles - She'd Rather Be With Me (sorry, couldn't resist breaking the rules)

In no particular order.

There were earlier songs by most of these artists that I liked, but I was 9 or 10 and these were the among first records I bought. Some were older songs that I sought out when I started getting spending cash. I lost track of some of these artists, but I still love these records. And of course I still have them 52+ years later.

 

Too many to mention. But my life changed in 1964 aged 10. Starting with the Stones it’s all over now and many great mainly British and American singles of that year. Never looked back.

 

The Pretty Things - s/t
The Who - My Generation
The Hollies - Bus Stop
The Who - Tommy
The James Gang - Rides Again
The Pretty Things - Parachute
The Who - Who's Next
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Deep Purple - Fireball
The Beatles - Meet the Beatles

 

Miles Davis — Kind Of Blue
The Beatles — Revolver
Bob Dylan — Highway 61 Revisited
Grateful Dead — American Beauty
The Stone Roses — The Stone Roses
Oasis — Definitely Maybe
Radiohead — OK Computer
Spiritualized — Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Neutral Milk Hotel — In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The National — Boxer

 

The Beatles White Album
The Clash - London Calling
The Police - Synchronicity
Sting- ...Nothing Like The Sun
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Steve Winwood - Arc Of A Diver
The Fixx - Reach The Beach
The Who - Live At Leeds
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Billy Joel - An Innovent Man

 

"Popcorn" - Hot Butter (first pop song I loved as a young child)
Glass Houses - Billy Joel (first rock album I bought - I was 12)
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix (changed my view of the guitar)
The Music of Cosmos - (soundtrack for the PBS Cosmos series and a rich tapestry of sounds)
Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne (first heavy metal album I got)
Reckoning - R.E.M. (made me reevaluate what 'guitar rock' could be)
New Day Rising - Hüsker Dü (my entry point into punk)
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (my entry into jazz)
Anodyne - Uncle Tupelo (my entry into alt-country)
The Buried Life - Medicine (entry into 'shoegaze')

 

Jesus Christ Superstar- OST
The Beatles- A Collection of Beatles Oldies
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Wings- Wings Over America
Yes- Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd- Animals
Genesis- Seconds Out
Eagles- Hotel California
Supertramp- Even in the Quitest Moments
Radiohead- OK Computer

 

The Alarm - Strength

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

The Beatles - The Early Beatles

Johnny Cash - American Recordings IV: The Man Comes Around

Bob Dylan - Shot of Love

KISS - Destroyer

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

Ramones - Ramones

Rush - A Farewell to Kings

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

 

Born To Run——Bruce
Songs in the Key of Life—-Stevie Wonder
American Pie (single)——Don McLean
PAC&J——Monkees
KISS—-Alive
Dialogue Pt 1 and 2—-Chicago
Beatles V1
U2—-War
Detroit Medley—-First Springsteen live concert 9/23/84
Meet! the Beatles