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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Yes, Fragile
Genesis, Foxtrot
King Crimson, Court of the Crimson King
Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
Dave Brubeck, Time Out
The Allman Brothers, Live At the Filmore
The Doors, First album
Led Zeppelin, II
Blood, Sweat and Tears, First album
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon,
Aaron Copeland, Appalachian Spring
Dmitry Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
and all the countless stuff my dad exposed me to. He listened to everything (except Country).
Pink Floyd DSOTM, Animals, The Wall 
Elton John Madman Across the Water
Steely Dan Aja
John Denver Poems Prayers and Promises.
This post is a joy because it is so packed with great listening ideas. I have several in different eras of my life but most have been listed above. When I was a child, six or seven years old, my parents took me to the movie theater to see Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was so enthralled by the images and music even if it didn't exactly have a narrative aimed at kids. That Christmas, in the early '70's, I received my own copy of the MGM soundtrack. I played it on our Sylvania phonograph hundreds of times; I was allowed to use the stereo from a young age. I've loved stereos and music since.


Floyd-wish you were here
Black Sabbath- sabbath bloody sabbath
Queen-Night at the opera
AC/DC-Powerage 
Stevie Ray- Texas Flood
Tull-Thick as a brick
Vanhalen- first album
Doors-LA Women
Floyd-The wall

Emy Lou Harris “Wrecking Ball”
Steely Dan “Aja”
Frank Sinatra “September of my Years”
Doors “LA Woman”
George Winston “Autumn”
MN Orchestra “ Pines of Rome”