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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Doors any album,Led Zepplin II,Sound track from GiGi,Bruce Springsteen Born to Run,Cream Fresh Cream,Marvin Gaye Solitaire Man,Four Season 2ndGolden Vault. Beatles White Album,Stones let it bleed.
Doors
zeppelin
judas priest
def Leppard (early albums)
humble pie
clarence brown
bb king
buddy guy
koko taylor
venom
raven
motorhead
y&t
rainbow
UFO
Samson!!!
much,more blues,
the rest is history.

 Been metal since,...

still love the good stuff!
wishbone ash
uriah heep
thin lizzy

 when I heard sin after sin and sad wings of destiny, my life changed!

   Rock on!
The first was probably Grand Funk Railroad Inna Goda Divida.
I probably wore that side all the way thru
 Queen Day at the Races
Talking Heads Fear of Music
Steely Dan Gaucho
Joe Jackson Look Sharp

My current obsession is 
Maria Bethania Que Falta Voce Me Faz
Buika Mi Nina Lola

I get stuck in a loop and tend to to play the same albums over and over.  The best part of digital is you can't wear them out

Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan and The Band
Duane and Gregg - The Allman Brothers (lesser-known album from '68)

Nice idea for a thread!

I will list bands, not just albums.

Very early on:

Sgt Pepper’s - informed me that rock could be a bit more than 3 minute, 3 chord, songs.

Next:

Deep Purple - In Rock, Black Sabbath- 1st, Uriah Heep - Very Humble, and others - informed me that rock could be even heavier, and be bit more focused on musicianship

Next:

T2 - It’ll All Work Out in Boomland, YES - The YES Album, King Crimson - ItCotCK, ELP, Gentle Giant, - informed me that rock could totally break free of it’s blues roots, and that there is an entirely new level of musicianship and complexity from the previous bands I listened to.

Very soon after:

Bands - PFM, Banco, Le Ormer, Triana, Grobschnitt, Museo Rosenbach, many more - informed me that world class prog, as good as what was coming out of England, was being made all over the world, and that those countries put their own cultural spin on it.

Around the same time:

Discovery of fusion, like - Mahavhishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Brand X, Iceberg - While not exactly the same as prog, the creativity and musicianship was there.

Next:
Henry Cow - Unrest, Univers Zero - Heresie, Art Zoyd - Generation sans Futur - informed me that atonality and dissonance had it’s place in music. Soon to be followed up with most of the rest of avant-prog.

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring, Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion Celeste - Informed me that classical could be more than all the famous warhorses that I found boring. This lead directly to the even more avant-garde composers - Scheoenberg, Elliott Carter, Berg, Joan Tower, Charles Wuorinen, etc.