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10 Albums that define you

You might see a ”live trend” here…. And no way can I limit it to 10!
  1. Jimi Hendrix - In the West
  2. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
  3. Van Halen - 1 & Fair Warning
  4. Free - Live
  5. Robin Trower - Live
  6. Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous
  7. Rainbow - Rising
  8. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
  9. Eric Johnson - Live from Austin, TX
  10. AC/DC - Back in Black
  11. Jeff Beck - Live From Ronnie Scott’s
  12. Bad Company - Hard Rock Live (DVD)
  13. Black Sabbath - Reunion & Heaven and Hell
  14. Gary Moore - Essential Montreaux Live
  15. Whitesnake - 1987
  16. Dio - Holy Diver
  17. Dixie Dregs - Live at the Montreaux Jazz festival
  18. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
  19. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at Carnegie Hall
  20. ZZ Top - Fandango!
  21. Boston - 1
  22. Def Leppard - Hysteria
  23. Extreme - Pornograffitti Live 25
  24. Mr Big - Back To Budokan
  25. Queen - Live In Budapest
  26. Grand Funk Railroad - Caught In The Act
  27. Mountain - Live At Woodstock
  28. Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Live
  29. Pat Travers - Live Go For What You Know
  30. Joe Satriani - Surfing With An Alien
  31. Philip Sayce - Scorched Earth, Vol 1
  32. The Aristocrats -i Boing, We’ll Do It Live!
  33. Andy Timmons - That was then, This is now
 
Power Tools - Strange Meeting
Tim Berne - Fulton Street Maul
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
John Luther Adams - In The White Silence
Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society - Eye On You
Yes - Relayer
Television - Marquee Moon
Boulez Conducts Stravinsky, on the Erato RCA Red Seal label
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
 
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Radiohead - Kid A
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
David Bowie - Station to Station
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Stevie Wonder - Music in My Mind
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Honorable mention: The White Stripes - Elephant

I‘m sure I’ll think of something else and slap my forehead, but those are the ones I can think of now.
 
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aarontunes said:
Here are ten biggies from my formative years:

VH1 - Van Halen
1984 - Van Halen
Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
Star Wars Soundtrack - John Williams
Holy Diver - Dio
Escape - Journey
Back in Black - AC/DC
Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest
An Evening with John Denver - John Denver
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
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I am slightly disappoint that this wasn't only going to be a list of Van Halen albums, just for the lulz, as I believe the young people used to say.
 
Normally I think lists are for shopping, not music, but I did one of those 'post 10 album covers that meant a lot to you through your life or influenced your music without comment' or similar two years ago, which means I can recycle that for here! It's a bit chronological, and I can't even remember the last time I listened to half of 'em, but there you go…

Queen - Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A. The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Slint - Tweeze
Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here
Sky Ferreria - Night Time, My Time
Hype Williams - Untitled
Луна – Остров свободы

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These 10 albums were highly influential for me in listening, guitar playing and guitar tone.

DIO - Holy Diver
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Extreme - III Sides
Journey - 3SC4P3
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Steve Morse Band - High Tension Wires
TNT - Knights of the New Thunder
Van Halen - 1984
Whitesnake - eponymous (1987)

Bonus: Boston - Boston
 
In no particular order:

Endtroducing….. - DJ Shadow
Richard D. James Album - Aphex Twin
Earth, Volume One - LTJ Bukem
Future - Soma Sonic
Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy - Mindless Self Indulgence
Korn - Korn
White Pony - Deftones
October Rust - Type O Negative
Love Songs: Best of the Verve Songbooks - Ella Fitzgerald
Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting

Bonus:
Money For Nothing (mtv generation)
Motown and R&B in general
 
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Tried not to overthink it too much.
  • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
  • Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
  • Hell Awaits - SLAYER
  • Don’t Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate
  • About Face - David Gilmour
  • Forever Blue - Chris Isaak
  • Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies
  • Spine of God - Monster Magnet
  • Art of Self Defense - High on Fire
  • Origin - Origin
Bonus: Transcendence into the Peripheral - diSEMBOWELMENT
 
To limit it to ten I had to leave out many, but what comes to mind at the moment:

Disraeli Gears - Cream

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower

Martinis and Bikinis - Sam Phillips

Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan

After Hours - Joe Pass, Ray Brown and Andre Previn

Serious Fun - the Knack

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

City To City - Gerry Rafferty

Dire Straits - Dire Straits
 
This list is based on what formed my appreciation for music up until probably high school range or a little bit after ... (I was born in 1975). It's impossible to narrow it down to ten, but I'll try ...

AC/DC - Back In Black

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Minor Threat - Discography

Anthrax - Among The Living

The Cure - Disintegration

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

John Lee Hooker - The Ultimate Collection

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach

Holy crap! I didn't realize it would be this difficult. So many I left off the list that could have been included ... I could probably make three or four more "top ten" lists!

Top honorable mentions for now are having to do with Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Hank Williams, Muddy Waters, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Quiet Riot, Black Sabbath, Dangerous Toys, Great White, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, Slayer, Dead Milkmen, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Sonic Youth, Scatterbrain, Fear Of God ... I could go on forever. Damn you, top ten! :geek:
 
So hard to boil it down to just 10, but I’m up to the challenge (btw, these are in no particular order):
•The Beatles-Revolver
•Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Muddy Waters-His Best 1947-1955
•Eric Clapton-From The Cradle
•Creedence Clearwater Revival-Chronicle
•Third Day-Offerings
•The Monkees-Headquarters
•The Byrds-Sweetheart of the Rodeo
•The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds
•Eagles-Eagles
•Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble-Blues at Sunrise
 
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Close to the Edge
Dixie Dregs - Free Fall
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

This makes me look older than I am, so I’m going to shout out a few albums I love that actually came out during my lifetime too:

Toadies - Rubberneck
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Radiohead - The Bends
Oasis - What’s the Story Morning Glory
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
 
hmmm.. food for thought

The Who - Quadrophenia
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstacy
Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix in the West
The Beatles - White Album
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Return To Forever - No Mystery
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Soundtrack)
Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Blank Generation

+ hundreds of others, of course :)
 
Hodgo said:
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Close to the Edge
Dixie Dregs - Free Fall
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

This makes me look older than I am, so I’m going to shout out a few albums I love that actually came out during my lifetime too:

Toadies - Rubberneck
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Radiohead - The Bends
Oasis - What’s the Story Morning Glory
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
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I liked you better, when ”you were older” :)
 
I’m going to take a shot at this but it will take a little thought. I’ll be back sometime in the future
 
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