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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Records that turned my head around and opened new worlds.

Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
Meet the Beatles.
Peter, Paul & Mary, In the Wind.
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane.
Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bollocks.
Kind of Blue.
The Harder They Come soundtrack.
You all are stocking my next playlist "Audiogon Pantheon"

+1 Hendrix, Axis Bold as Love
Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Lou Reed, Transformer.

Solti's Mahler cycle with the Chicago symphony.

I think I nearly memorized those LPs.
As I look back at my list, I can’t believe I left off Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Jackson Browne, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Moody Blues, Van Morrison, CSNY...it never ends! I still feel like I’m forgetting someone.
Caravan- in the land of grey and pink
Robert Wyatt- Rock bottom
Magma- self titled
McDonald and Giles- self titled
Kevin Ayers- Whatevershebringswesing
Cream- Disraely gears
Edgar Broughton band- self titled
Pete Brown and Piblokto- Thousand on a raft
Lovecraft- Valley of the moon
NIN- Pretty hate machine
Pretty things- SF Sorrow
Procol Harum- Shine on brightly
Red hot chili peppers- blood sugar sex magik
Spirit- twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Tempest- self titled
Supertramp- Crime of the century
Zappa- Apostrophe
To name a few :)