Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes


How about a short list of albums that shaped your listening from early on in your life?

Not just albums that became favorites (though they could be now). Let's call them historical turning points for you that shaped you as a listener, now.

Me:
  • Quadrophenia or Who's Next
  • Sgt Peppers Beatles
  • Floyd, Wish you were here
  • Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
  • Metheny, Offramp
  • Glenn Gould, Goldberg variations
  • Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
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Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - Nightingales And Bombers 
Gregg Allman - Laid Back
The Replacements - All Shook Down 
Bread - The Best Of Bread
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Carole King - Tapestry 
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet
Steely Dan - Aja
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Radiohead - OK Computer 
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
UFO - No Heavy Petting 
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
in Grade school - I had a brother 4 years older
The Beatles (aka white album)
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation (Lather :) )
Mothers of Invention (Anyway the Wind Blows)

in JR High - Frank Zappa

in High School (very high)
Roxy Music
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Fog Hat
Alice Cooper

in U S Army
Pink Floyd
Kraftwerk
Boston
Queen
Bowie

then suddenly BAM right at the end of my service!
DEVO
Talking Heads
Elvis Costello
Police
Sex Pistols

now Returned to America
all of the above plus
Joy Division
Throbbing Gristle
Caberet Voltaire

Current new bands
Kaelan Mikla
I Ya Toyah
Actors

I remember the late night after getting off work at midnight . A friend told me to try Genesis new album Trick of the Tail, I had picked it up but never had a chance to play it. I came home and in a dark room fired that album up. Stunningly amazed at what I was listening to, I was thinking "What the hell did I just listen to" ! ? Their next one Wind and Weathering was just a "different". I think that was the beginning of my Allman Bros, Supertramp and such type albums. But nothing reached out and grabbed me on the first go round like Trick of the Tail