The 10 Albums That Had The Biggest Impact...

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The Brothers Johnson - Light Up the Night
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Lee Ritenour - Captain Fingers & The Captain’s Journey
Larry Carlton - Friends
AC/DC - Back in Black
Little River Band - Diamantina Cocktail
George Duke - Several of his '70s albums
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Toto - Toto, Toto IV and Hydra
Earth, Wind & Fire - The '70s stuff including the early hardcore-funk albums.
 
skoora said:
No, it was 2 smaller English dudes I think. Not quite sure if both were English. Was drinking a decent amount back then 😁
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British? Wait, are you talking about actual Depeche mode or Kill Mother Fucking Depeche mode? :ROFLMAO:
 
In no order;
Van Halen II-it’s the album that made me want to play guitar.
Allan Holdsworth-“IOU”
Jeff Beck-“There and Back”
Yngwie Malmsteen-“Rising Force”
Lynch Mob-“Wicked Sensation”
Steve Vai-“Passion & Warfare”
Racer X-“Second Heat”
Eric Johnson-“ACL ‘88”
Haji’s Kitchen-s/t: the album that made me want to play a 7-string
DiMeola/McLaughlin/DeLucia-“Friday Night In San Francisco”: the album that made me realize I wouldn’t ever play acoustic guitar.
 
skoora said:
If it was Depech Mode I might have been in with a chance but no, it was KMFDM. Maybe just touring players, I don’t know. They’ve had a decent amount of members .
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Oh okay, probably Andy and/or Ray from Pig.
 
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. High on Fire - Death is this Communion

3. Crowbar - Self Titled

4. Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets

5. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops

6. Acid Bath - Pagan Terrorism Tactics

7. Fear Factory - Demanufacture

8. Metallica - Master of Puppets

9. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

10. Forn - Departure of Consciousness

That was harder than I thought. I really had to think to differentiate between a list of my all time favorite albums, versus a list of albums that affected the way I still play to this day.
 
You can pretty much tell (minus a few here and there, that I came into my own musically in 1994 lol)

AFI - Sing The Sorrow
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Bush - 16 Stone
Deftones - Around The Fur
Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape
Gun's N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II
In Flames - Clayman
Incubus - SCIENCE
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Live - Throwing Copper
Metallica - The Black Album
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ozzy - Ozzmosis
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Pearl Jam - Ten
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slipknot - Slipknot
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
System of a Down - System of a Down
Tool - Undertow
Weezer - The Blue Album
White Zombie - Astrocreep: 2000
 
This is really hard (and not fair to include honorable mentions - although I have done that in the past). So keeping it to 10 I would have to say.

Beatles - Greatest Hits 1962-1966
KISS - Alive II
Led Zeppelin I
Boston 1
VH 1
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain
STP - Core
311 - Transistor
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone



FUUUUUUUU....no Megadeth :cry:
 
Monkey Man said:
Yup, hard to keep it to 10.

That said I'm pretty-sure if I put some time into it it'd still be less than 20. :dunno:

The OP laid down the thread rule 'though so 10 it is.
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The lists will slightly change for most in the next thread where this gets brought up again, imo.
Perhaps a few are mainstays for me, but the rest are whatever my mind goes to at that moment.
 
I'm just liking the posts that have albums in it that I love.
AFI - STS is so good. It never shaped what I write and it was never a listening staple, but it's such a good fucking album.
And a couple of you guys have mentioned Antichrist Superstar. This could have replaced any of the albums on my list. 'Twas on heavy repeat for a couple of years. I saw the band once back then, read all the articles, posted the pictures from the magazines on my walls like a fan girl, etc. Fuckin great album (Portait is also good, but Antichrist Superstar was fuckin solid).

Another oddball honorable mention for me is Steven Sondheim's Putting It Together, which is a Broadway musical. I used to write lyrics and Sondheim had such a wonderful way with words and was always super clever. Dude also wrote catchy tunes and broke the fourth wall a lot, so it was really fun to listen to.
 
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Omg, how the fuck could I forget about Illusion of Safety and The Artist in the Ambulance?!
Fuck. Love those two Thrice albums.
 
phillybhatesme said:
And a couple of you guys have mentioned Antichrist Superstar. This could have replaced any of the albums on my list. 'Twas on heavy repeat for a couple of years. I saw the band a few times back then, read all the articles, posted the pictures from the magazines on my walls like a fan girl, etc. Fuckin great album (Portait is also good, but Antichrist Superstar was fuckin solid).
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Will always be on my list. Have you ever heard the demo version? Completely different and not a lot of people seem familiar.

 
Van Halen 1
Metallica - master of puppets
Metallica- kill em all
Tool - undertow
Alice n chains - dirt
Kiss - double platinum
Death - scream bloody gore
Death - sound of perseverance
Necrophagist- Epitaph
The Faceless - planetary duality
 
  1. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak - Foundational guitar playing. In fact if someone ask me to define 70's rock guitar I would hand them this album. Gorham and Robertson were the perfect duo. From rhythms to lead, they could do it all.
  2. Thin Lizzy - Black Rose - The next step.
  3. Journey - Departure - Neal at his best and IMO the most underrated Perry/Schon Journey album. Outro solo of "Anyway you want It" is perfection and my single favorite solo ever.
  4. Ozzy - Blizzard - Changed me as a guitarist.
  5. Ozzy - Diary - It would be 25 years before I shared the stage with another guitarists because of this album.
  6. Gary Moore - Corridors of Power - With my foundation, GM influence really started to sneak into my playing
  7. Dio - Holy Diver - Always loved Viv because of his G Moore influence. His stuff made me feel I was taking a step forward in my own playing. Viv's playing was fiery on this record. Viv's playing made me want to go for it.
  8. Dokken - Tooth and Nail - This pretty much set the tone for me for the years that followed up until the grunge took over.
  9. AIC - Facelift / Dirt - Allowed me to shed the hair metal and move into a modern direction in terms of guitar in general.
  10. Kiss - Revenge - Really loved Bruce's back to the basic's approach. It sorta cemented where I was going solo wise for the foreseeable future. Still with chops but more guttural. Kulicks playing on this is highly underrated.
 
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I'd be lying if I didn't mention all the 90's rock and grunge that I grew up on that got me interested in playing. But as far as biggest guitar playing influences after I picked it up...

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Dissection - Storm of the Lights Bane
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Mgła - Exercises in Futility
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
 
Cool thread. And what's really neat is that my son is starting his guitar journey and going to the same starting points as me - Hendrix, Zeppelin, AC/DC - all on his own.

Many of these grabbed me as something special and completely new on first listen. Not ranked, but somewhat chronological and represents my own journey from Rock to variations of Metal:

  1. Led Zeppelin - IV - of course
  2. Black Sabbath - Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n Roll - compilation, so even better. I'd even include Heaven and Hell since it was a completely new sound that blew me away
  3. AC/DC - Highway to Hell - Sure it's more polished than earlier Scott material, but seminal. Primal, powerful chord progressions that work and have never been fully repeated to this day
  4. Van Halen - Van Halen - opening notes of Eruption altered the entire landscape and opened our eyes to new perspectives
  5. Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz - shocking that so soon after Eruption another young player would standout from the opening song. The intro of I Don't Know harkened from the start, and each song built up from there
  6. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast - again, a completely new take on music that expanded on intricate, dual guitars. I still think they're putting out solid material.
  7. Metallica - Master of Puppets - Rock / Metal was getting stale and simply had to go in a new direction by this time. 40+ years and Thrash and its offshoots remain highly relevant
  8. Tool - Aenima - another kick in the ass was needed after Grunge, and Tool was perfect for the times. Still are, but just wish they had put out more material :cautious:
  9. Opeth - Blackwater Park - really revived my interest in newer music and still does. Managed to bridge Death/Black metal with more contemporary elements without evolving to power metal versions of ABBA - which seems the path for all Swedish metal bands😉. Heck - I would say they're just as much Fusion and Jazz now. Really creative and somehow works
  10. Mastodon - Leviathan - my Atlanta boys kept the fire going and still do. Blood and Thunder could wake the dead from their slumber! Would be cool if Brett rejoins at some point, though I get it. They each bring a unique ingredient to the mix
 
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