Ten albums that "changed your life"

[The Reverend Floater]

1. The Grateful Dead, American Beauty
2. Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms
3. Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
4. Metallica, And Justice for All...
5. Janes Addiction, Nothing's Shocking
6. Public Enemy, Fear of a Black Planet
7. Black Crowes, Southern Harmony...
8. Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers
9. Led Zeppelin, LZ4
10. Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine

[booner]

Beasties - License To Ill
Big Daddy Kane - It's A Big Daddy Thing
Rage - Rage
Radiohead - OK Computer
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
Snoop - Doggystyle
Dre - Chronic
TooL - Every album
2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be

[Stone-Free]

- Rush - "Moving Pictures" (the first album/tape I ever bought)
- Led Zeppelin IV
- The Pixies - "Doolittle"
- Big Head Todd & the Monsters - "Midnight Radio"
- Mother Love Bone - "Apple"
- The Church - "Gold Afternoon Fix"
- Widespread Panic - "Everyday"
- U2 - "Rattle & Hum"
- Blues Traveler - "Blues Traveler"
- 311 - "Music"

[ECbum]

Harvest-Neil Young
African Herbsman-Bob Marley
Ghost Repeater-Jeffrey Foucault
Reckoning-Dead
Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
Little Cottonwood-Garett Brennan
Heartbreaker-Ryan Adams
Aeroplane-John Hartford
One Night-Greg Brown
The Mysterious Production of Eggs-Andrew Bird

...in no order. In fact, taken from a longer list...thats tough!

[ljm]

i like the idea of albums that would be used in the wonder years show about me, rather than desert island discs. mostly i just like the wonder years.

in rough order of when i most listened to each:


jimi hendrix - the ultimate experience
offspring - smash
brendan benson - one mississippi
pink floyd - the wall
zeppelin - iv
the who - quadrophenia
weezer - weezer
radiohead - the bends
pixies - doolittle
white stripes - elephant

[crashnburn'd]

This is pretty much in chronological order of how I listened to the music too, some I still listen to, others I don't. When I was a small child, I had quite a love for Neil Diamond and Bob Seger, mainly because that was what my parents listened to. Guns n'Roses and Metallica because my brother liked them and I copied him all the time when I was little.

Age 0-11

Raffi - Baby Beluga
Neil Diamond - probably something like Hot August Night, but I really don't remember
Bob Seger - Stranger in Town
Lynyrd Skynyrd - 2nd Helping
Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - ...And Justice for All

Age 12 - present

Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Operation Ivy - Energy
Rancid - Let's Go
Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash

[adam]

I can't come up with ten, but here are two that really did change my life:

Metallica-And Justice For All
Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

[crashnburn'd]

I can't come up with ten, but here are two that really did change my life:

Metallica-And Justice For All
Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Somewhat similar to me, except you missed the grunge period in the middle. Plus, I went for the bad early 90's punk, where you went for the bad early 80's punk.

[valleygirl]

No way I can think of ten... but Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell was sure an influence back in ... er... formative years...

Made me an angry child, which I'm sure my mother would say changed my life.

OK Maybe just changed HERS.

[adam]

Somewhat similar to me, except you missed the grunge period in the middle. Plus, I went for the bad early 90's punk, where you went for the bad early 80's punk.

Dead Kennedy's is still my favorite band. Music is taste I guess.

[slippy]

Dead Kennedy's is still my favorite band. Music is taste I guess.

Don't worry about it. He listed Raffi as an influence.

[crashnburn'd]

Don't worry about it. He listed Raffi as an influence.

It's something that I can't deny. Sadly, I could still rattle off lyrics if I tried.

[The Reverend Floater]

Do you remember when
We couldn't put it away?
Do you remember when
We couldn't put it away?
Do you remember what the music meant?
(To you?) (To me?) (To you?) (To me?)
Do you remember what the music meant?
Life's complications and frustrations
They disappear when the music starts playing
I found a place where it feels alright
I heard a record and it opened my eyes
Do you remember when we couldn't put it away?
Do you remember what the music meant?
And nothing else matters
When I turn it up loud
There was the one definitive moment
Well, did it mean it to you?
There was that one definitive moment
When it was something new
Life's complications and frustrations
They disappear when the music starts playing
I found a place where it feels alright
I heard a record and it opened my eyes
Did it mean it to you?
Do you remember when
We couldn't put away?
Do you remember when
We couldn't put it away?
Do you remember what the music meant?
And nothing else matters
Yeah nothing else matters
When I turn it up loud
Yeah nothing else matters
When I turn it up loud

[Ripzalot]

off the top of my head...

Pink Floyd / Animals
Led Zeppelin / I
Grateful Dead / American Beauty
Mahavishnu Orchestra / Birds of Fire
Red Hot Chili Peppers / Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Joy Division / Unknown Pleasures
Nirvana / Nevermind
Metallica / Master of Puppets
Alice in Chains / Dirt
Ween / Pure Guava

and that could very well keep me happy on a desert island!

[dn4989]

Grateful Dead-Soundboard-Alpine Valley 1987?
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Jimmy Buffett-You had to be there.
Miles Davis-Kinda Blue
Jimi Hendrix-Axis Bold as Love
Led Zepplin- II
Calling Rastafari-Israel Vibrations
Bob Marley-Uprising
Peter Tosh-The Toughest
Willie Nelson-Willie and Family Live.

[nesta]

The Who- Who's Next
Led Zeppelin-IV
Bob Marley and the Wailers- Rastaman Vibration
Bob Marley and the Wailers- Exodus
The Clash- London Calling
Talking Heads- Fear of Music
The Beatles- Revolver
The Clash- Sandanista!
Neil Young- Rust Never Sleeps
The RollingStones- Let It Bleed
Makes you realize that you couldn't just take 10 to a desert island

[Egon]

tough one, my best guesses:

White blood cells, White Stripes
At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
Blazing Arrow, Blackalicious
Rubberneck, Toadies
Do you want more?!?, Roots
London Calling, Clash
The Teaches of Peaches, Peaches
Licensed to Ill, Beastie Boys
Pretty Hate Machine, Nine Inch Nails
Evil Empire, Rage against the machine

[nick > jesus]

no order:

Dead Kennedys: Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
Ghost Mice: Europe
Defiance Ohio: The great depression
This bike is a pipe bomb: Front seat solidarity
Gorilla Biscuts: Start Today
Bob Dylan: Desire
Sex Pistols: No future UK? (i hate it now but it was influential)
Led Zeppelin: I
B.B. King: Deuces Wild (has a killer duet with Tracy Chapman of the thrill is gone)
ACxDC: he had it comin'

[nick > jesus]

Dead Kennedy's is still my favorite band. Music is taste I guess.

I second both statements

[adam]

I forgot-
Damaged-Black Flag

I'm listening to it right now

[This End Up]

In more of a chronological order than importance;

- AC/DC Back in Black
- George Thoroughgood - Live
- ZZ TOP - Eliminator
- Van Halen - 1984
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- NWA - Straight Outta Compton
- AC/DC - Let There Be Rock & Highway to Hell
- Led Zep - II & IV & Physical Graffiti
- John Lee Hooker - various
- Crystal Method - Vegas
- Hank Williams III - Risin' Outlaw

[buckethead]

incomplete and in no particular order:

minutemen : my first boots (cassette of early EPs)
pink floyd : the wall
husker du : new day rising
meat puppets : up on the sun
the clash : sandinista
henry threadgill sextett : rag, bush and all
tim berne : fulton street maul
gang of four : entertainment!
xtc : english settlement
echo+the bunnymen : heaven up here

[mnflyfish]

My 10:

10: Meet the Beatles, The Beatles
9: Greatest Hits, Simon and Garfunkel
8: Under a Blood Red Sky, U2
7: The Reprise, Frank Sinatra
6: London 0 Hull 4, the Housemartins
5: Various(can't settle on one), The Replacements
4: In Combo, The Suburbs
3: Never Mind The Bollocks, The Sex Pistols
2: Billy's Live Bait, Gear Daddies
1: Boats, Bars, Beaches, Ballads, Jimmy Buffett- I know, Kinda a wierd choice but it was involved with my wife and I getting together

Good Luck,
Jay