Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes

Leo Kottke--Peculiaroso

Nice.

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.

Another Green World - ENOMy life in the bush of ghosts - ENO / BYRNE
CHANGES ONE BOWIEMark Hollis - Mark HollisCloser - joy divisionBanana album - velvet undergroundPrayers on Fire - birthday partyCorrect use of soap - MagazinePerverted by Language - The FallDesire - Tuxedomoon