The 10 Albums That Had The Biggest Impact...

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The ten records that had the biggest impact on your tastes, style, song writing and playing...I'll start (in no particular order)

Top Ten (on my mind today)

1. Metallica - ...And Justice For All (this & all of them really)

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel

4. Faith No More - Angel Dust

5. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

6. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

7. Fear Factory - Demanufacture

8. Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll

9. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

10. Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance

Honorable Mention:

1. Prong - Cleansing

2. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

3. Black Flag - Damaged

4. Tool - Lateralus

5. Black Label Society - Blessed Hellride
 
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1. Van Halen - Fair Warning
2. AC/DC - For those about to rock
3. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
4. Led Zeppelin - ITTOD
5. Pink Floyd - Animals
6. John Pizzarelli Jr. Live at Birdland
7. Paganini - 24 caprices
8. Howlin Wolf - Moaning in the moonlight
9. Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment
10. RUSH - Hold your fire.
 
1. Mudvayne - L.D. 50
2. Rage Against The Machine - self titled
3. Tool - Lateralus (but all of them)
4. Nothingface - Skeletons
5. System of a Down - Toxicity
6. Karnivool - Themata
7. Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion
8. King Crimson - Discipline
9. Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
10. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Honorable Mentions to Pink Floyd - dark side of the moon, and The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord.
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
1. Van Halen - Fair Warning
2. AC/DC - For those about to rock
3. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
4. Led Zeppelin - ITTOD
5. Pink Floyd - Animals
6. John Pizzarelli Jr. Live at Birdland
7. Paganini - 24 caprices
8. Howlin Wolf - Moaning in the moonlight
9. Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment
10. RUSH - Hold your fire.
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John and his dad both fire
 
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This is difficult, but a thorough, thoughtful reflection gives me this:

1. ELO - Out of the Blue
2. Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos
3. Cheap Trick - Dream Police
4. Steve Vai - Flexable
5. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
6. Michael Schenker Group - 1981 MSG
7. Gary Moore - Victims of the Future
8. Blizzard of Ozz
9. ACDC - Powerage
10. Rising Force - debut.

There are a few more honorable mentions:

Return to forever - Romantic Warrior
Al DiMeola - debut
Whitesnake - 1987
Blue Murder debut
Iron Maiden - Killers
Def Leppard - High and Dry
Journey - Escape

If you listen to my playing, you will hear all these influences, methinks...
 
TheBiggestJerk said:
1. Van Halen - Fair Warning
2. AC/DC - For those about to rock
3. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
4. Led Zeppelin - ITTOD
5. Pink Floyd - Animals
6. John Pizzarelli Jr. Live at Birdland
7. Paganini - 24 caprices
8. Howlin Wolf - Moaning in the moonlight
9. Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment
10. RUSH - Hold your fire.
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Many years ago, I went to a J. Pizzarelli Jr. Concert that was at a small senior center hall that was packed to the gills. He kicked arse! He is so underrated IMO..
 
  1. Peter Frampton - Frampton Cames Alive
  2. Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
  3. Alice In Chains - Facelift
  4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
  5. Caroline's Spine - Monson
  6. Big Wreck - The Pleasure and the Greed
  7. Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
  8. Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
  9. Lynch Mob - Lynch Mob
  10. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
 
AC/DC ….Let There Be Rock
AC/DC…..If You Want Blood You Got It
Queen…The Game
Quo Live
Black Flag…Slip it In
Thin Lizzy…Alive and Dangerous
Entombed…Hollow Man EP
The Cult…Love
Vulgar Display of Power
Tattooed Beat Messiah

Honorable..
Machinehead…Burn My Eyes
 
1) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2) Kiss - Alive; Lick it Up
3) Yes - Close to the Edge
4) Black Sabbath - Volume 4
5) The Cure - Wish; Pornography; Disintegration
6) The Smiths - The Smiths
7) Deep Purple - In Rock
8) Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain; Heavy Machinery
9) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
10) Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love


lots of others...Jethro Tull, - This Was; Benefit; Small Faces - Small Faces; Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake; Faces - A nod is as good...; Duran Duran - Duran Duran, Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger; Sex Pistols, The Clash - Sandanista,...
 
rsm said:
1) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2) Kiss - Alive; Lick it Up
3) Yes - Close to the Edge
4) Black Sabbath - Volume 4
5) The Cure - Wish; Pornography; Disintegration
6) The Smiths - The Smiths
7) Deep Purple - In Rock
8) Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men of Tain; Heavy Machinery
9) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
10) Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love


lots of others...Jethro Tull, - This Was; Benefit; Small Faces - Small Faces; Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake; Faces - A nod is as good...; Duran Duran - Duran Duran, Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger; Sex Pistols, The Clash - Sandanista,...
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I almost included RIO.
 
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NIN- Pretty Hate Machine
Marylin Manson- Antichrist Superstar
White Zombie- Le Sexorcisto
KMFDM- Symbols
L7- Bricks are Heavy
Prodigy- Fat of the Land
Lords of Acid- Our Little Secret
Rammstein- Sehnsucht
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Road Rash Soundtrack
 
Hmm. Personal list. Probably below. I’m missing a lot of shit that shaped me. Early rock albums but not to emulate : Crown of Creation, Court of the Krimson King, and Deja Vu as a non musician. Then: musicality I’d have to say David Bowie is in there with “let’s dance”.

The Wall
Led Zeppelin 2
Rio
The Doors greatest hits
Sgt Pepper
VH1
Ozzy’s Tribute
Scorpion’s World Wide Live
U2 War
Rebel Yell.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
NIN- Pretty Hate Machine
Marylin Manson- Antichrist Superstar
White Zombie- Le Sexorcisto
KMFDM- Symbols
L7- Bricks are Heavy
Prodigy- Fat of the Land
Lords of Acid- Our Little Secret
Rammstein- Sehnsucht
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Road Rash Soundtrack
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KMFDM👍 wow! Haven’t thought about them since high school.
 
Kiss - Double Platinum
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls .... I could list 3 or 4 ...... but this was my first
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Whitesnake - Whitesnake ( 1987 )
Metallica - Garage Days ( 5.98 )
Metallica - AJFA
Beastie Boys- Check your Head
Primus - Sailing the Sea of Cheese
Red Hot Chilli 's BSSM

I agree with others ..... 10 isn't enough to include everything that made an impact .... so I tried to spread it out

I mean shit .... I could have listed stuff from Coltrane that I'm madly in love with .... Miles also ...
 
griff10672 said:
Kiss - Double Platinum
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls .... I could list 3 or 4 ...... but this was my first
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Whitesnake - Whitesnake ( 1987 )
Metallica - Garage Days ( 5.98 )
Metallica - AJFA
Beastie Boys- Check your Head
Primus - Sailing the Sea of Cheese
Red Hot Chilli 's BSSM

I agree with others ..... 10 isn't enough to include everything that made an impact .... so I tried to spread it out

I mean shit .... I could have listed stuff from Coltrane that I'm madly in love with .... Miles also ...
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Jim Hall Lambert Hendrix and Ross. And Randy Newman Fuck. I swear I wear shitty jeans and don’t change my underwear. I don’t have tan pants. I just like good music. And I’m a salty troll.
 
skoora said:
Used to see a couple of the guys from that band around town at night in Seattle in the early 2000’s. We all floated in the same pool of ner’do wells 😂
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Sascha? Perhaps we've partied you and I...:unsure:
 
Nirvana - Bleach
Limp - Pop and Disorderly
Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
System of a Down - Toxicity
Rodrigo y Gabriella - Live in Manchester
The Bled - Pass the Flask
Fear Before the March of Flames - Odd How People Shake
At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

Honorable Mentions
Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight documentary, not really an album, but picking up any Monk is always a pleasure.
A flamenco performance that I saw in high school. I thought dude was playing drop D and it basically shaped what I'd write for the next 15 years.
 
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