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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Beatles--Meet the, et al
Byrds--Mister Tamborine Man
Neil Young--Sleeps with Angels
Kinks--Muswell Hillbillies
Warren Zevon--Excitable Boy
Yes--Close to the Edge
Jethro Tull--Stand Up
Grateful Dead--American Beauty
Ventures--Ventures
Leo Kottke--Peculiaroso
Roches--Roches
Aimee Mann--Mental Health
Kate Wolf--Give Yourself to Love
Steeleye Span--Parcel of Rogues
Sharon Shannon--Diamond Mountain Sessions 



Circa 1968, The Byrds Greatest Hits was one of my first albums; it helped shape a life-long enjoyment of jangly folk-rock (and later indie pop).

More recently, Beth Orton's Trailer Park and Sugaring Season, along with Molly Burch's First Flower, helped introduce me in retirement to a newer generation of singer-songwriters.

The Celtic Music of Brittany by the Celtic Angels pushed a bit on my understanding of what Celtic music can be (beyond old school Irish styles).
Beatles: Revolver
Doors: Strange Days
Peter Gabriel: 1
Brian Eno: Before and after Science
King Crimson: Red
David Bowie: Station to Station
David Bowie: Heroes
John Cale: Guts
Talking Heads: Fear of Music
Clash: London Calling
XTC: Drums and Wires
Material: Memory Serves
Ry Cooder: Bop till you drop
Peter Hammill: Enter K
John Coltrane: Ballads
Neil Young: On the Beach
Steely Dan: Aja
Bob Mould: Black Sheets of Rain
Johnny Cash: American Recordings
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Shocking how many of my favorite albums show up in this thread. I guess that's why they call so many of them classics.