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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Rocky and the 13th Floor Elevators
Beach Boys
Steppen Wolf
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Too many others I no longer remember..!
James Taylor (Apple)
Jimi (Eddie Kramer) - Axis..
5th Dimension (Jimmy Webb) - The Magic Garden
Brian Protheroe - Pinball
Al Jarreau (Jay Graydon) - Jarreau
Wondermints - Mind If We Make Love...
Mahsvishnu - Adventures In Radioland
Kevin Gilbert -The Shaming Of The True
Scofield - AGoGo
Ray Chen live anywhere

Pink Floyd
Weather Report: Mysterious Traveler, Black Market, Heavy Weather
Chick Corea: Romantic Warrior
Brian Eno: Another Green World and his collaborations!!
Peter Gabriel: 1-6 or 7
Led Zeppelin 1-6
Frank Zappa
Talking Heads first 5 albums
Kraftwerk




Off the top of my head, here’s a few:

CCR - Chronicle
Chuck Berry - Greatest Hits
AC/DC - Back in BlackLed Zeppelin I
G N’ R - Appetite for Destruction
Neil Young - Harvest
Nuggets box set
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Steve Young - Seven Bridges Road
The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show
Music that opened my eyes to different directions (in order):
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends; The Who: Who’s Next; Yes: Close To The Edge; Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom; Peter Gabriel 3; Debussy’s Tonal Works- my introduction to classical; REM: Chronic Town - single-handedly saved the world from White Snake; Jane’s Addiction: Ritual de lo Habitual; Beethoven’s 9th - one of those epiphanal moments; Radiohead: OK Computer; The Shins: Oh, Inverted World; Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway; Sufjan Stevens: Illinois; Gorecki’s 3rd