Not (necessarily) favorite, but the 5 most influential albums in your life.

Mine..

Full House- J Geils Band
Black & Blue- Rolling Stones
Night Moves- Bob Seger
Hot Rocks- Rolling Stones
Car Wheels- Lucinda Williams

Dance Craze - Various ska bands (my first album)
Chicken Shack - Luther Johnson with the Muddy Waters Band (my first blues album)
The Rolling Stones (first album, UK version) - The Rolling Stones (my first Stones album)
Raindogs - Tom Waits (not my first Waits album but the one that hit me fastest)
Strictly Personal - Captain Beefheart (what the hell is this? oh, wow, so that's possible too)

Tough one...not necessarily favorite...but most influential...hmmm...off the top of my head...

Beatles - White album
Hendrix - Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge (both were eventually combined into one)
Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
The Clash - London Calling
Stones - Made in the Shade

*Bonus: Bob Marley - Live

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Ahhh crap - forgot to mention Dylan's Time Out of Mind!!!

This is an impossible task!!!

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......



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In no particular order, except for the first album:

Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Exile on Main St.

Astral Weeks

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Beastie Boys - Licenced to Ill
Metallica - Master of Puppets
NWA - Straight Outta Compton

Here's 6, because I can't figure out which one to leave out.

Chuck Berry- The Great 28
Rod Stewart- Gasoline Alley
Robert Johnson- The Complete Recordings
Bob Dylan- Desire
Ronnie Wood- 1234
The Rolling Stones- Emotional Rescue

The Beatles - Red and Blue double albums
Rolling Stones - Rewind
Led Zeppelin - 4th untitled album
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Stones / Hot Rocks
GNR / Appetite for Destruction
Paul Simon / Graceland
The Essential Leonard Cohen
Talking Heads / Stop Making Sense

STONES:Get year ya ya out
STONESticky fingers
THE WHO: Who's next
TELEPHONE: téléphone
Shake Shake Go: All in time

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
Bob Marley - Live!
Townes van Zandt - Live At The Old Quarter

AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Fee - Notaufnahme
The Rolling Stones - Still Life
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind

Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits (childhood)
Nirvana - Unplugged (high school)
Belle and Sebastian - Boy with the Arab Strap (early 20s)
Rolling Stones - Through the Past Darkly (late 20s)
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel (30s)

"Nice bit of silk, Em."

Meet the Beatles
Sgt Pepper
The White Album
Let It Bleed
****Tie**** Born to Run / The Harder They Come Soundtrack

this years model=elvis costello
hissing of the summer lawns=joni mitchell
bring it on=gomez
sticky fingers=rolling stones
planet waves=bob dylan

These are albums that had major and lasting effects on my listening habits over the decades. Certainly not my favorite or best albums, but they influenced my musical journey in profound ways:

ZZ Top - ZZ Top's Greatest Hits (1992)
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
Metallica - Load
AC/DC - Live
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time



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Exile on Main Street, Stones. This is Americana music -- blues, folk, country, hillbilly, jazz, soul -- filtered through the sensibility of art school British kids.
Never Mind the Bollocks, Sex Pistols. Thought then and still do that it was the end of 'rock and roll' and punk music, too. Bands still play rock music but it's an established form.
Katy Lied, Steely Dan. My first Dan album. Pop music could be a grown-up, sophisticated thing.
Steve Earle's first album. An old school country album when country music had given up on itself.
Hot Rocks ... Turned me on to the Stones.

Stones - Discography, but OK: Love you live
Metallica - Master of puppets
AC DC - Back in black
Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes
Gorgoroth - Antichrist

The Rolling Stones-Tattoo You
Everclear-Sparkel and Fade
Roachford-permanant shade of blue
AC/DC-Dirty Deeds
Big Youth-Dreadlocks Dread


I have more albums

Feel The Fear
And Do It Anyway

Are you kidding?? :-)

Here goes

Stones: LIB, SF, EXILE!!!!!!!!
Hendrix: Axis, Ladyland
Cream
Zepplin
Black Sabbath
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
CSNY!!!
Deep Puple!!
Santana
Allman Brothers
Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick
Genesis: Lamb...
Lots of R. Gallagher
Lots of ZAPPA
Lots of Jean Luc Ponty
John Mc Laughlin (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Que Alegria)
John Scofield (Hand Jive)
Prem Joshua (Desert Visions)
Black Crowes
Oregon
Billy Cobham
Return To Forever
Weather Report
FRUMPY !
Kraan !
CAN
Caravan
Missus Beastly
Real Ax Band
Guru Guru
Shakti
Embryo
Steely Dan
Van Halen
ZZ Top
Pink Floyd
Stevie Ray Vaugahn
Rammstein

That's certain albums, not just all of 'em ...



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Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion (both)

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (hard to pic one zep album)

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Them Crooked Vultures

Massive Attack - Mezzanine


These have been pretty influential to me.

Velvet Underground and Nico
Bob Dylan "Live at Royal Albert Hall"
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Exile
The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East



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I found it difficult to follow the original posters guideline of 5 albums, as I went through the 520 albums in my collection. Therefore I am listing my 10 most influential albums, followed by my 5 most influential Rolling Stones albums:

10 Most Influential Albums (not including The Rolling Stones):
• Beatles: "Abbey Road"
• Bob Dylan: "Blonde On Blonde"
• Bruce Springsteen: "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"
• Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Green River"
• David Bowie: "Ziggy Stardust"
• Doors: "Morrison Hotel"
• Grateful Dead: "American Beauty"
• Neil Young: "Harvest"
• Rod Stewart: "Every Picture Tells A Story"
• Santana: "Abraxas"

5 Most Influential Rolling Stones Albums:
• "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out"
• "Sticky Fingers"
• "Exile On Main Street"
• "Emotional Rescue"
• "Tatoo You"

HOWEVER, IF I HAD TO PICK ONLY ONE ALBUM AS MY MOST INFLUENTIAL ALBUM OF ALL TIME, IT WOULD BE:

• "GET YER YA YA'S OUT"



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Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies - older sister had it and gave it to me in late 73 when she was off to University
KISS Alive 2 - got it for Christmas 77. Would stare at the cover and inside gatefold pic while listening to the album and picturing I was there. Detroit Rock City, Ladies Room, Shout It Out Loud, etc.!
Van Halen 1 - first heard Eruption/You Really Got Me early 79 wondering who is this!?
AC/DC Back In Black - bought it Summer of 80. Shortly after discovered their back catalog like almost everyone else.
Tattoo You - 1981 first year of high school and EVERYONE was into the Stones.

Cream - Disraeli Gears
Traffic - Welcome to the canteen
Led Zeppelin II
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for destruction
Little Feat - Waiting for columbus

The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Metallica - The Black Album
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

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Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies - older sister had it and gave it to me in late 73 when she was off to University
KISS Alive 2 - got it for Christmas 77. Would stare at the cover and inside gatefold pic while listening to the album and picturing I was there. Detroit Rock City, Ladies Room, Shout It Out Loud, etc.!
Van Halen 1 - first heard Eruption/You Really Got Me early 79 wondering who is this!?
AC/DC Back In Black - bought it Summer of 80. Shortly after discovered their back catalog like almost everyone else.
Tattoo You - 1981 first year of high school and EVERYONE was into the Stones.

Got it much later but yes. Exactly. Stare at the cover and the gatefold and picturing being there between Detroit and King. God of thunder. wow.

And Kiss is an honest answer. I could have said Exile, Nick Drake, Charlie Christian or Cohen but c'mon.



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Exile
Beggar's Banquet
White Album
Live at Leeds
Bluetrane

While Im at it:



Heavens on fire was H U G E. The album cover sucked and the rest of the album sucked.

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Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies - older sister had it and gave it to me in late 73 when she was off to University
KISS Alive 2 - got it for Christmas 77. Would stare at the cover and inside gatefold pic while listening to the album and picturing I was there. Detroit Rock City, Ladies Room, Shout It Out Loud, etc.!
Van Halen 1 - first heard Eruption/You Really Got Me early 79 wondering who is this!?
AC/DC Back In Black - bought it Summer of 80. Shortly after discovered their back catalog like almost everyone else.
Tattoo You - 1981 first year of high school and EVERYONE was into the Stones.

Got it much later but yes. Exactly. Stare at the cover and the gatefold and picturing being there between Detroit and King. God of thunder. wow.

And Kiss is an honest answer. I could have said Exile, Nick Drake, Charlie Christian or Cohen but c'mon.

Of course..whats wrong with KISS?
Kiss Alive was huge...and influential..how many 100 notes per second guitarists came after Ace strutt his stuff??

Ya yas for me.
Many others after that...