The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Status Quo - Piledriver
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
BB King - The Best Of BB King
Taj Mahal - The Natch'l Blues

A Hard Days Night - The Beatles
Hot Rocks - The Rolling Stones
Strange Days - The Doors
My Generation: The Best of The Who - The Who
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Is This It - The Strokes
Up The Bracket - The Libertines

This is one of those lists where I'll give you five albums, and an hour later think, "how could I have forgotten (fill in the blank)?

My best barometer of this would be: which albums just stopped me in my tracks, made me want to immediately listen to them again, have stood the test of time, and dramatically influenced my future appreciation of music.

(And, having said all of that, I'm still not 100% sure of the five I am about to name!)

However, I would have to say:

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced
The Who: Quadrophenia
Led Zeppelin I

Ask me again in an hour and I might change one, but I think that's the best I can do!

Cheers....

Beatles - Rubber Soul
Faces - A Nod's As Good As A Wink
J. Geils - Blow Your Face Out
Skynyrd - Second Helping
Rolling Stones - All of 'em

Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live
The Clash - London Calling
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions...

Sure I forgot a couple...

Influential in your life? What does that even mean?

You have to be kidding me

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stanlove
Influential in your life? What does that even mean?

You have to be kidding me

Well, A Hard Day's Night made me a music fan. Tattoo You (slowly) made me quit piano and start playing the guitar instead. I learned just about everything about boogie rhythms out of Piledriver. After listening to the BB King and Taj Mahal-albums a few hundred times, elevating and dropping the needle repeatedly to play along with the cool licks, I felt like I both could play and «feel» the blues.

So, for me, those albums were all very influential for how my musical life would turn out to be.



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Goats head soup
Get Yer Ya-Yas Out

Black Sabbath: Sabotage
Neil Young: Rust never sleeps
John Cale: Sabotage

these are the albums that have had a profound influence on my music taste & acted as a gateway to other music.
Although most of my music as a child was defined by the singles of Presley, Holly, The Beatles, Stones, Kinks and not albums, but here goes:-

Get Stoned - Rolling Stones (gatefold 'best of' package from mid-seventies)

Elite Hotel - Emmylou Harris

The Gilded Palace Of Sin - The Flying Burrito Bros

Yankee Hotel Foxtrott -Wilco

One Step Beyond - Madness

Leaving out the Stones or we'll be here all night:

Too Much,Too Soon
Radio City
Hunkydory
Shake Some Action
Let It Be (Replacements NOT Beatles)

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - instilled my earliest love of pop music

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - I realised music did not have to be just three minute pop songs

Sticky Fingers - Whoah, those Rolling Stones can play country and beautiful atmospheric songs like Moonlight Mile too!

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue - Jazz was suddenly pretty cool with this album hugely influential in creating sonic spaces

Bob Marley - Natty Dread - Until this album reggae had been the dance pop of its day. This incredible album changed everything.

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stanlove
Influential in your life? What does that even mean?

You have to be kidding me

Your first shag; the first time you got into country/reggae/blues/jazz etc; the album that made you pick up a guitar or got stoned to - all that kind of stuff.

Funny or sad how many people have zero Stones albums in their top five.

Michael Jackson - Bad
The Rolling Stones - Flashpoint
Stevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium
George Strait - 50 Number Ones
2Pac - All Eyez On Me

Sub: George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol I.



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The most influential records on me as a listener somehow were not five albums, but three albums and three songs, out of which two were singles and one an album track.

The first album was the German Decca compilation AROUND AND AROUND with its featuring of the first EP minus one song and the second EP, plus a couple of singles. The album track was "Tell Me". Still The Rolling Stones during an outdrawn time (in the beginning I had no recordplayer) was a little too harsh and strong for me to take, and I favoured the Beatles without being a fan of anyone.

Then there were two singles turning the case upside down for me. One single was negatively important. I could not stand the Beatles "Yesterday".I still don't like it, even if my dislike is not so passionate any more. At the same time I was hooked by "The Last Time" as the first of many singles.

Liking the Stones more and more, fanship without reservation first arrived with BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (UK tracklisting), showing me the diversity of the band, when I as a process in the meantime had learned to really love their early output almost entirely.

Apart from all this, one single and album opened up other horizons for me . The single "See Emily Play" by Pink Floyd and much later the album THE CLOSER by Joy Division.

(Even if I quite early came to immensely like King Crimson's IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING and the first album of Vanilla Fudge and regained my liking of the Beatles gradually over time, those were not quite as passionate. My fascination of Pink Floyd does not comprise everyting from them, I must add.)



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More hot rocks. my father's one. Started loving them with it.
Some girls, first CD I bought in my life!
A bigger bang: first album I was old enough to really live the going out and the amazing tour following.
Eliminator zztop: magic guitars
Earthling bowie: first album I bought. Started becoming a fan with this one.

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Funny or sad how many people have zero Stones albums in their top five.

Only four out of 45 or so have zero Stones in top 5.
And two of those left them out intentionally. So no, not funny or sad.

Wtf:

Rolling Stones: Get Your YY O.
Mahavishnu: Birds of Fire.
Camel: Mirage.
Jeff Beck: Wired.
DiMeola/DeLucia/McLaughlin: Friday night in SF. After this I stopped playing the guitar seriously. It drove me home.

Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Patti Smith - Horses
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

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stanlove
Influential in your life? What does that even mean?

You have to be kidding me

How can you NOT understand what is meant by the question? It's self-evident.

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Wtf:

Rolling Stones: Get Your YY O.
Mahavishnu: Birds of Fire.
Camel: Mirage.
Jeff Beck: Wired.
DiMeola/DeLucia/McLaughlin: Friday night in SF. After this I stopped playing the guitar seriously. It drove me home.

My older brother bought that album for me when I turned 18 in '81...my jaw dropped at the virtuosity - definitely a humbling experience.
The entire album is mind boggling, but Mediterranean Sundance will always be my favorite from it.

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

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Leaving out the Stones or we'll be here all night:

Too Much,Too Soon
Radio City
Hunkydory
Shake Some Action
Let It Be (Replacements NOT Beatles)

Great list. Makes me want to do that KFC commercial: "fingerlickin good, fingerlickin good, fingerlickin good..."

I can't get my own lit down to five. I tried but just can't.

Rolling Stones - Get Yer ya-Ya's Out
Patti Smith - Horses
Lou Reed - Rock And Roll Animal
Jackson Brown - Running On Empty
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

bubbling under:
Bob Dylan - Before The Flood
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
Living Colour - 1st

Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Neil Young - Decade
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East

Stones - Love You Live
GnR - Illusions 2
U2 - Achtung Baby
Elvis - NBC
Led Zep - Song remains

1. Beatles - White Album

2. Oasis - Don't Believe The Truth

3. AC/DC - Black Ice

4. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

5. The Rolling Stones - Exlie On Main St

The Who - Who's Next

The Beatles - White Album

The Stones - Let it Bleed

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

Jimi Hexdrix - Are You Experienced?

Edit: I forgot my fave, The Band - Brown Album



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Rolling Stones No2, Rolling Stones, I never loved a man I love you, Aretha F, Savage Rose, Are you experience - Jimi Hendrix Experience

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Yes - Yessongs
Stones - Hot Rocks/Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
Kiss - Kiss Alive 2
The Doors - I bought every album