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certain albums affect you greatly for a point in time. in that point you simply live and breathe them.

for example when i used to study in college, queen's greatest hits had swamped my consciousness. i used to breathe 'bohemian rhapsody', 'you are my best friend', 'killer queen', 'good old fashioned lover boy' in those days.

likewise at different points in time albums like dylan's 'freewheelin', u2's 'achtung baby', grateful dead's 'american beauty', csny's 'deja vu', eagle's 'greatest hits' have all dominated my consciousness.

the reason this came to my mind is that in the last few days jackson browne's 'late for the sky' is exerting a similar influence on me.

so what works for you guys likewise?
 
Hmmm... let's see.

In junior high, I started getting into rock music, and I was listening to GNR's Use your Illusion albums a lot, along with Aerosmith's Pump.  In high school I was all about Metallica's Master of Puppets, and Megadeth's Rust in Peace.  Just after high school, it was The Offspring's Ixnay on the Hombre and Tool's Undertow.  By the time I got into college, I had gotten into more extreme forms of metal, like Strapping Young Lad's City album and In Flames' Reroute to Remain.

Now, my tastes are alllllll over the place.  I can listen to something mellow like Thee Silver Mt Zion's Horses in the Sky, or The Moon and the Nightspirit's albums (neither of which I can pronounce or spell properly) to electronica like Total Transformation's In Thru Out, or even classic rock like Blue Oyster Cult's Fire of Unknown Origin.

So many albums, so little time.
 
There are so many albums like that.
Pearl Jam - Ten greatly influenced me in starting to play bass.
Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, Boys for Pele) will always be associated with my early twenties/college years.
More recently: Last year I had a job for 7 months that was a 60 miles commute from home and during those rides I've discovered basically the full Steely Dan repertoire. I'll probably always link their music to the years '08-'09.
 
The year was 1995. I was in fifth grade and Green Day's "Dookie" chaanged my life. I listened to it so much that I completely wore out the tape (yes, tape). That album is the reason I play guitar (though that's a different thread altogether).
 
REM's Reckoning and Fables of the Reconstruction in about '85 completely rocked my world. Didn't listen to Murmur right away. Those first few chords of "Harborcoat" made all that brit synth garbage Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, whatever I was listening to seem instantly stale. Those albums were the soundtrack to my teenage life. That's when I took up guitar.

Recently I've become completely addicted to Gillian Welch's "Revelator" and "Revival" albums. Can't even really explain it, there's something about the way Dave Rawlings plays guitar plus her voice. And I think he is a brilliant guitar player.
 
Exit ... Stage Left by Rush was an album I couldn't get enough of in my high school years.  Rush was indirectly responsible for me playing guitar, as I wanted to play drums as a kid, but there wa NO WAY my parents wanted to deal with a drum kit at the house, so guitar was the obvious 2nd choice.  Not long after I "discovered" Iron Maiden, and Number of the Beast remains one of my favorites to this day.
 
whether you love them or hate them, linkin park's "hybrid theory" was the first rock album to really get me into decent music. if not for that i'd still be listening to whatever MTV had on. maybe not still but it's possible haha

and Journey's "Frontier" is one of my all time favorite albums. definitely an important one to me.
 
In '81, when I was 11, I got a tape with U2's 'boy' on one side and 'October' on the other. i didn't listen to anything else for almost 2 years!
So, every time I hear any of those songs, they remind me of entering puberty, girls and everything that goes along with that :)
 
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Rush - Exit Stage Left
Pink Floyd - The Wall
AIC - Facelift
Ozzy - Blizzard of Oz

All of these are memorable in my life that I can directly relate to where I was as a person at that time.
 
Too many to mention cause I'm an old geezer. But I totally get you - that's also what music is. Memories - sometimes you can almost taste and smell times long ago when hearing music from that time.
 
Some of the most memorable albums in my past are:
MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Jimi Hendrix - A Band of Gypsys
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
The Crystal Method - Vegas
 
>you can almost taste and smell times long ago when hearing music from that time.

oh yea - whenever i hear beatles revolver/rubber soul, marvin gaye's 'what's goin on' - i can almost see the church spire which i could see through my apartment window in london's south east - norwood.

yea i guess the music is inextricably linked to your life's experiences at that point in time.
 
Beach Boys - Endless Summer, I think it was permanently on the changer in my Mother's console stereo. Remember those?
Walter (later Wendy) Carlos - Switched-On Bach, My dad got it to show off the quadrophonic system he had, very cool stuff for the time.
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper, I listened to this one a lot. Would read and sing along with the lyrics on the liner. It always irritated me when albums didn't provide the lyrics. Mostly because I don't hear them very well.
Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle, The blues rock with guitar and synth grabbed me. Still does.
Eagles - Hotel California, Just awesome guitar interplay. I recorded the album onto cassette and Hotel California had a skip. To this day I still expect to hear the skip there.
 
Bob Marley - Legend... I can still remember what the girl's hair that I was with smelled like.
The Clash - London Calling... I remember this album being my one comfort on my walkman while couch surfing and squatting as a young teenager.
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary... Seeing this band and buying that album changed my whole understanding of music.
Tom Waits- Swordfishtrombone... Being stranded in Laramie, WY right when Matthew Shepherd was being killed was accompanied by the soundtrack of this amazing album.  I randomly met both him and his killer in the weeks leading up to this.
G'n'R - Appetite for Destruction; Use Your Illusion 1&2... Lots of great memories
Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend... I feel deeply in love and deeply out of it to this album, haha.

-Mark
 
For me, it has to be "Meet The Beatles", the very first album I remember hearing!

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The album that made me pick up the guitar was Don McLean's American Pie. 

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I remember getting the single - "American Pie" was so long it went from the "A" side to "B" side on the 45. I had to flip it over to hear the whole song.  I don't know why I just didn't buy two singles.  It was 1971, I was nine.  Yeah, I'm a geezer and my first guitar was a nylon stringed spruce acoustic with a bridge that "collapsed".
 
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