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
GO!
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To the person who claims that classical and jazz are not something one necessarily needs to "Shoe Off) an audiophile system.  BfS!  Nothing demonstrates our systems' superiority as much as the tightness of an acoustic bass, or the accurate reproduction of acoustic instruments, no matter how many (in the case of classical) how many instruments there are.  Still, for my rocker friend, I am obligate to rock out with The Chili Peppers, Audioslave, Body Count, but especially Santana's Supernatural album.  For extreme acoustic sound, it is hard to beat The Violent Femmes white CD of their double album.
Queen - The Works (that's when I fell in love with them)
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled (I never heard anything like it)
Pearl Jam - Ten (My favorite grunge era album)
2 Live Crew - Me So Horny (single) (I didn't know one could sing those lyrics)
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (Perfection)
U2 - Achtung Baby (A complete 180 from Joshua Tree. Masterpiece.)
AC/DC - Back in Black (Perfection)

To name a few... 
Violent Femmes - Debut album
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
The Clash - Sandinista
Juana Molina - Son
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Califone - Roots & Crowns
Lhasa De Sela - The Living Road
@danvignau :" To the person who claims that classical and jazz are not something one necessarily needs to "Shoe Off) an audiophile system. BfS! Nothing demonstrates our systems' superiority as much as the tightness of an acoustic bass, or the accurate reproduction of acoustic instruments"

Not so. As someone who plays a Taylor 410, I've heard several systems that could fool me on acoustic guitar, even as far back as the early '90s (Magnepan III). But I've never heard one that could mimic my Marshall into a Celestion Vintage 30 cabinet. Not even close.
You all are stocking my next playlist "Audiogon Pantheon"

+1 Hendrix, Axis Bold as Love
Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Lou Reed, Transformer.