Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes

Too many to list! However here's my entry into the world of Jazz: June 1970 I bought Bitches Brew at Woolworths! At the age of 18 I perceived it to be on a higher artistic plane than the average rock alblum! And tried to get some of my peers to listen to it!

Had to be The Chipmunks Song Book back as a wee lad.

Peter and the Wolf (Bernstein version on Columbia  Masterworks) probably influenced me as well as in scaring the bejeebers out of me along with the cool music. Yes, we are talking childhood nightmares there! The wolf was after me!

"Quadrophenia" and "Who's Next"
"Frampton Comes Alive"
"Got to Get You Into My Life" (45)
"Dark Side of the Moon"
"War" and "Live at Red Rocks"; but especially "The Unforgettable Fire

Mozart, Clarinet and Oboe Concertos, L'Oiseau-Lyre
Mozart, Serenades (I Musici)

"A Love Supreme"
"Kind of Blue"
Tord Gustavsen, "The Other Side"
Bill Evans, "Live at the Village Vanguard" set

...then as a young man in high school DSOTM WYWH and Animals by Pink Floyd. Also “The Yes Album” and “Genesis Live” and “This is the Moody Blues”. Not to mention “The White Album”. Also DSMIOTPP by Elton John.
In college lots of new influences. “The Outlaws”, “Brothers and Sisters” by Allman Bros. “The Cars”, Sex Pistols “NMTBHTSP”, and Talking Heads 77. Country rock and emerging new wave was big.

Also had a lot of exposure to “The Kingston Trio” as a kid.   Lots of good stuff!

Lots of great choices so far. Here's a few others worth considering:

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Love - Forever Changes
The Doors - The Doors 
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards
Roxy Music - Siren
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
XTC - English Settlement