Albums that molded you into the musician you are today?

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So you don't need to list every single album that has influenced you, but the 5-10 that really stand out as records (CD's and digi downloads for you super youngins) that had a big enough impact, that it really started the molding process that brings you to where you are today musically. Here are mine in order, probably starting around the 4th or 5th grade.

Mamas and the Papas 20 Golden Hits
Eagles Live 4 record album
Journey Infinity/Next double album
Billy Squire Don't Say No
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts I Love R&R
Judas Priest Stained Class, and just about everything else they did with an honorable mention to Defender's of the Faith
Metallica Master of Puppets
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
White Zombie la sexorcista Devil Music volume 1
Prong Cleansing

Of course there are many, many more than that, but those are the 10 big ones that I can put my finger on.
 
I'm not sure I'm ready to call myself a musician yet, but I'll try to narrow it down to the 10 albums I feel inspired me to play guitar the most in no particular order.

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Kill em All
Metallica - Ride the Lightning (honourable mention Black Album)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace (honourable mention Peace Sells, Countdown to Extinction)
Slayer - Reign in Blood (honourable mentions Seasons in the Abyss, South of Heaven, Hell Awaits, Show no Mercy)
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider (honourable mentions Iced Earth, Dark Saga, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Burnt Offerings)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave (honourable mention Fear of the Dark)
SRV - Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand the Weather
ACDC - Highway to Hell (and others)
Ozzy - The Ultimate Sin (and others)
Judas Priest - Painkiller

Man I'm a huge cheater. I'll try to cut some of the honourable mentions. I gave Metallica 3 slots because these albums were a big deal to me, and it was basically all I learned when I was first starting out.
 
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Austin City Limits Live (not a CD, but that concert made me pick up a guitar and learn)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand the Weather
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Alice in Chains - Dirt
STP - Core / Purple
King's X - Dogman
Chris Duarte - Texas Sugar Strat Magic
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Sevendust - Animosity
Joe Bonamassa - Ballad of John Henry / Dust Bowl / Driving Towards the Daylight
 
For reference I was born 1970...here's a few releases off the top of my head that really impacted my playing/songwriting

  • ACDC Back in Black (my first 10 albums or so were all ACDC!)
    Van Halen (wow moment on eruption)
    Def Leppard Pyromania (first tape I bought)
    Loudness Thunder in the East- I still can't stop doing Akira's overhand harmonic technique (first concert with Motley Crue TOP tour)
    Black Task- local Philadelphia Thrash band at all ages Empire Rock club
    Anthrax Among the Living (Hello double Bass)
    Steve Vai Flexable (hello LSD)
    Vicious Rumors
    Phish
    Oysterhead (hello Bass guitar)
    BLS Stronger Than Death (live show in a small bar blew my mind, Zakk was on his game that night)
    Sevendust - Animosity
    Slipknot vol 3
    Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
 
Yngwie J. Malmsteen- Rising Force, Marching Out, and Trilogy
Racer X- Street Lethal, Second Heat, Live Extreme Volume 1-II
Queensryche- Rage For Order, Operation Mindcrime
Crimson Glory- Transcendence
David Lee Roth- Eat 'Em And Smile
Jason Becker- Perpetual Burn
Dream Theater -Images And Words, Awake
Dokken-Under Lock And Key, Back For The Attack
Tony MacAlpine- Maximum Security
Allan Holdsworth- Secrets
Garsed & Helmerich- Quid Pro Quo
Shawn Lane -Powers Of Ten
 
Metallica-Metallica
The Joshua Tree-U2
Cowboys From Hell-Pantera
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd
Surfing With the Alien-Joe Satriani
 
November5th":m2gvpp2y said:
Yngwie J. Malmsteen- Rising Force, Marching Out, and Trilogy
Racer X- Street Lethal, Second Heat, Live Extreme Volume 1-II
Queensryche- Rage For Order, Operation Mindcrime
Crimson Glory- Transcendence
David Lee Roth- Eat 'Em And Smile
Jason Becker- Perpetual Burn
Dream Theater -Images And Words, Awake
Dokken-Under Lock And Key, Back For The Attack
Tony MacAlpine- Maximum Security
Allan Holdsworth- Secrets
Garsed & Helmerich- Quid Pro Quo
Shawn Lane -Powers Of Ten
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its like i'm looking into a mirror :thumbsup:
 
AC/DC- TNT
Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak
Racer X- Street Lethal
Van Halen- 1984
Queen - Greatest hits
Extreme - Pornographiti
 
The Offspring - Americana
Nirvana - Nevermind
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II
Roxette - Roxettourism
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Garth Brooks - Double Live
Eric Church - Chief
Led Zeppelin - Grestest Hits (yeah, I know)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Alanis Morrisette - Unplugged
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Steve Vai - Sex & Religion
Warren Haynes - Live at Bonaroo
Black Crowes - By Your Side
Live - Throwing Copper
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
 
Starting from about age 4:
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Toto - Past to Present
Extreme - Pornograffiti
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Collective Soul - Dosage

Those the are the big players for me.
 
AC/DC Dirty Deeds
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Metallica Kill Em All
Megadeth Killing Is My Business
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
Van Halen I
KISS Alive II

AC/DC got me into rock as a kid, My Chem made me interested in being a musician, Metallica got me to pick up a guitar, Megadeth got me to play more intricate pieces, Pantera got me playing leads, Ace Frehley got me understanding how leads work and Ed's playing put me on a whole new level
 
aeroic":e39kgtj6 said:
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Austin City Limits Live (not a CD, but that concert made me pick up a guitar and learn)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand the Weather
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Alice in Chains - Dirt
STP - Core / Purple
King's X - Dogman
Chris Duarte - Texas Sugar Strat Magic
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Sevendust - Animosity
Joe Bonamassa - Ballad of John Henry / Dust Bowl / Driving Towards the Daylight
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This is scary close to mine but add Queensryche and GnR for my early years of playing and later would be Devin Townsend, Karnivool, A Perfect Circle,etc..
 
glassjaw7":bckkjn8v said:
aeroic":bckkjn8v said:
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Austin City Limits Live (not a CD, but that concert made me pick up a guitar and learn)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood / Couldn't Stand the Weather
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Alice in Chains - Dirt
STP - Core / Purple
King's X - Dogman
Chris Duarte - Texas Sugar Strat Magic
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Sevendust - Animosity
Joe Bonamassa - Ballad of John Henry / Dust Bowl / Driving Towards the Daylight
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This is scary close to mine but add Queensryche and GnR for my early years of playing and later would be Devin Townsend, Karnivool, A Perfect Circle,etc..
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You're my tone brother from another mother! :)
 
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Gary Moore - Blues Alive
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Saigon Kick - all of them
 
Metallica - Garage Days Re-Revisited (started the whole thing for me), and then pretty much every one of their albums through Justice
Dokken - Tooth and Nail (the one I really studied big early on), Under Lock and Key
Cream - Strange Brew/Best of
Ozzy - Tribute
G&R - Appetite
Zeppelin - Boxed Set/Best of
 
The albums that molded me aren't necessarily my all-time favourites, but many of them are. In no particular order:

Metallica- Master of Puppets
Metallica- And Justice for All
Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin
Green Day- Dookie
Nirvana-In Utero
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie
Foo Fighters- The Colour and the Shape
Joe Satriani- Crystal Planet
Creed- Human Clay (yeah yeah I know. Go ahead and laugh- Tremonti is an awesome guitarist, Stapp is a douche. Whatevs. First time I heard open tunings with high gain)
Big Wreck- In Loving Memory Of
Pink Floyd- The Division Bell
SRV- Texas Flood
Eric Clapton- Unplugged
Tool- Lateralus
Andy McKee- Art of Motion
Ozzy- Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy- No More Tears
Killswitch Engage- Alive or Just Breathing
The Tragically Hip- Fully Completely
Periphery
RHCP- Californication
Black Label Society- Sonic Brew
 
Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz
Kiss Alive
Ac/Dc Back in Black
Rush Hemispheres
Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare
King Diamond Abigail
Megadeath Rust in Piece
Deep Purple Machine Head
Scorpions Virgin Killer
Pat Travers Crash and Burn

Something like that anyway
 
Chet Atkins...don't know the title but my Dad had Chet Atkins blaring thru the house all the time when I was a kid.
Nazereth....Hair of the Dog
Van Halen II
Van Halen Fair Warning..(the greatest VH album ever)
Kiss Alive II
Rush 2112, Hemispheres, All the Worlds a Stage
AC/DC Highway to Hell (and many more)
Queensryche...The EP
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic, Live Bootleg
Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman and for some reason I really like Speak of the Devil
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind
SRV Couldn't Stand the Weather
Henrix.... Everything he did
 
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