Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes

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

Supertramp- crime of the century 
Little Fear- Waitting for Columbus
Steely Dan-Aja
Beatles-White Album
              -Rubber Soul
Al Stewart- Year of the Cat
Doors-LA Woman
Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection

@danvignau : " What I really wondered was how did this audiophile group all get influenced by rock music, and not jazz."

I started with rock and as I became more enmeshed in the audiophile world started listening to classical and a little jazz, but I quickly realized I was just doing it to fit in and sound sophisticated and didn't really like most of it. It's not that I don't respect it. It just bores me. As I matured I stopped worrying about fitting in or what people thought. You've got to listen to what you like or why bother wasting time listening at all.

There's a mistaken idea that classical or jazz show a system's capabilities. But there are a few problems with that idea. The main and overarching one is, if you don't listen to classical or jazz then what do you care about what it sounds like with them? Regardless, if I want to show off my system I'd play electronic music for the low end, Metallica's Sad But True for drums, extreme metal for its ability to handle congestion, James Taylor or Doobie Brothers Steamer Lane Breakdown for strings, and a variety of rock vocalists for vocals. Classical or jazz isn't necessary to enjoy the "audiophile" quality of your system.