Post an album that inspired your life everyday, and keep it going!

I was all over Roll Over Beethoven as a kid. Although The Monkees were (and remain) my favorite group, the songs on this made me an absolute Beatle-maniac. My second favorite group. I still have my grandmother's original mono vinyl of this and the others through Revolver. This album in particular introduced me to the concept of a "cover song" and different arrangements of the same tune. And also just good OG era rock 'n roll.

 

I start off with one of the first albums I remember buying:

 

Rolling Stones - Big Hits (Hight Tide And Green Grass) - 1966

 

This album and Leon's first appearances on SNL really changed the way I thought about older music and fingerstyle acoustic guitar. I still go back to it for a good time and inspiration.

 

Two albums today, since I didn't post anything yesterday....

 

It not that much the album per se, but the fact that it made me realize I wasn't alone, thatr there were like-minded people all around the globe, before the movement started in my own country. And the fact I listened to it while doing my mandatory military service fueled my hatred toward the system yet further.

 

ABC: The Lexicon of Love

 

Steal ten dollars and you're nothing but a thief. Steal a masterpiece and you're considered a mastermind. The latter applies to you.

 

One of my very favourites when it comes to something a bit... intense.

 

Oh, I didn't quite pick up on that! I shall rectify this is a moment..

 

The first of many albums that continue to inspire me each and every day.

 

Looks like I'm posting 5 then lol.

I won't bother with artwork because I'm only doing this on my phone but the artwork would surely be familiar to most who are interested in this sort of things anyway.

Let's say, these are albums that have stuck closely to me for decades and I don't think (hopefully) I'd ever tire of them. The first being my very fave of all... after that, they are not in any particular order and I'd not like rank them in any way but they all changed my musical mind in one way or the other...

Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Cream -- Disraeli Gears
Madness - One Step Beyond (obviously!)
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Genesis - Foxtrot

 

Has to be this:

 

These three have always stayed with me over the years:

 

The album that I found in a charity shop once upon a time and all of a sudden I wanted to hear a TON more like this (jazz, easy listening etc etc... never really be one one for genres but you get the general idea...) and of course have plenty of Sinatra in the collection!

 

There was once a time when I was incredibly inside this album. Nice pick.

 

Young and impressionable, then this hit my world:

 

Rolling Stones - Aftermath - 1966

 

Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde - 1966

 

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out - 1966

 

same.