1. Days of Open Hand - Suzanne Vega
2. Graceland / R of the Saints - Paul Simon
3. Let it Bleed
4. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
5. The Future - Leonard Cohen
6. Life'll Kill Ya - Warren Zevon

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Mink De Ville - (Cabretta)
The Who - Who's Next
John Hiatt - Bring The Family
Gov't Mule - Roseland Ballroom
Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation
Traffic - Live (European Tour '73)
Zero - Here Goes Nothing

Susanne Vega - 99.9 F
Kiss - Dressed to kill (c'mon and love me)

I like what Barn Owl said... My choices would match a lot of those, esp. Hunky Dory... And LA FORUM!... Suzanne V is playing where I live in Maine on Dec. 9th... been putting off getting tix, but maybe I'll get my butt in gear and go purchase!!

I'd include in my album list:

Cannonball Adderly 'Best Of: Capitol Years'
Grant Green 'Aint It Funky Now'
Elvis Costello 'Imperial Bedroom'
U2 'Unforgettable Fire'

among others...

really I can't remember any but two

The Police's Synchronicity....when it came out I was struck by how intelligent it was....also remember the times were greatly informed by the Orwellian concepts of 1984.

Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction....so raw, so rocking, so sleazy and slightly dangerous....a welcome back to blues bases balls out rock.

the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!

Get yer ya ya's out
Zuma - Neil Young
Alladin San - David Bowie
The Clash - 1st album
London Calling - The Clash
Mott - Mott the Hoople
Rock n' Roll Animal - Lou Reed
Physical Grafitti - Led Zep
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
The Winkies - The Winkies

I forgot about Live At Leeds, Tommy and Who's Next, all fit into that category of WOW albums for me!

I forgot

Abbey Road - Beatles
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Viva - Roxy Music
Blood on Tracks - Bob Dylan

Not sure I forgot

Back To Back - Amy Winhouse

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I took a look again two later at my list of ten albums that started this thread (mostly albums from the 60s/early 70s), and realized that it would have looked slightly different at various parts of my life later on.

From 1977-1980 I was working on my music degree from Berklee College of Music, and mentioned somewhere would have been at least two of the following:

Gino Vannelli - Storm at Sunup
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam or Aja
Miles Davis - Almost Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

But, once I finished Berklee and revisited my rock and roll roots, the list could have included:

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
The Police - Synchronicity
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp

For what it's worth, of albums of the past few years, I've been quite partial to:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Green Day - American Idiot
Anything by Los Lobos

1. Rolling Stones-Beggar's Banquet
2. Rod Stewart- The Rod Stewart Album
3. ZZ Top- First Album
4. Beatles-Rubber Soul
5. Led Zepplin II
6. North Mississippi Allstars-Shake Hands With Shorty
7. Allman Bros. - First Album
8. Leon Russell And The shelter People
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd- First Album
10.Freddie King-Texas Cannonball

Ah, yeah, mrgrowl, GOOD choice with Leon Russell and Shelter People...just a great album. I remember seeing Leon in concert in 1973, pretty much his prime, very good show.

1.Stones: Exile
2.Beatles: revolver (most of their albums for that matter, including some solo)
3.Stones: Let It Bleed
4.Jimmy Cliff, Ect : The Harder They Come
5.The Clash: 1st Album
6.The Who: Who's Next
7: The Waterboy's: Fisherman's Blues
8: The Velvet Underground: Whiet Light, White Heat
9: Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bullocks

Tie for #10
10: The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan
10: The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society
10: Bob Dylan: Freewheelin (and Desire)
10: Simon and Garfunkel: Parsley sage Rosemary and Thyme
10: Fergie: The Dutchess
10: 3rd Base: The Cactus Album
10: Steve Wonder: Innevisions
10: Tom Waits: Raindogs

King Crimson - Thrak
SBB - Memento z Banalnym Tryptykiem ( polish prog)
TransAtlantic - Bridges Across Forever
Bluesbreakers - John Mayall with Eric Clapton
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Fish - 13th Star
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Peter Gabriel - Up

Great topic Mongoose. Being 50, I all to well remember the days of vinyl & cool album art. Roxy Music Country Life was one of those I bought for the cover art and was blown away by the music. Many of the ones I would post have been posted on numerous occassion. One thing I would like to say is that I do still get blown away by some current releases. For example: Joss Stone The Soul Sessions was love at first Listen. Bowie's Reality was another recent release. Alice Cooper's Dirty Diamonds is yet another.

Ah but some more from the good old days of the 60s/70s.
1.Steppenwolf (1st Album)
2.12X5 Rolling Stones
3.Who's Next The Who
4.Carney Leon Russell
5.Blind Man's Zoo 10,000 Maniacs (Ok the 80s too)
6.Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd
7.Sweet Old World Lucinda Williams (and the 90s)
8.Aerosmith (1st Album, though Get Your Wings also)
9.Let It Be The Beatles
10.Blond & Blue Angela Strehli
11.The Slider T.Rex
12.After The Gold Rush Neil Young
13.Exile In Guyville Liz Phair
14.Schoolboy's In Disgrace The Kinks
15.Plastic Ono Band John Lennon
16.Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix
17.Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan (also Blood on the tracks)
18.Blow By Blow Jeff Beck
19. Eric Clapton (1st solo)
20.Layla Derek & The Dominos

In no particular order my choices are:

1. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
2. Sgt Pepper - The Beatles
3. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
4. The Doors - The Doors(first album)
5. Tommy - The Who
6. Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin(first album)
7. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
8. Wheels Of Fire - Cream
9. Blind Faith - Blind Faith(their only work)
10. Mountain Climbing - Mountain

Saturn, glad you mentioned Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow, what a marvelous record. I was also a big Tull fan from 1971-1978, so I guess I should put "Honorable Mention" nominations for Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, and Living in the Past.

Loved Alice Cooper in the early days, especially the Killer album.

Blind Faith is an album where I remember I was in the 9th grade in Virginia, and we had an unexpected snow day from school. Took a jar of change that I had somewhere in the house and walked over to the J.C. Penney's store in the winter weather to purchase that record for about five bucks, I guess. Took it home and just sat listening to it all day long. Funny how those memories stick with you, y'know?

Voodoo Lounge
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Monster - REM
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Who's Next - The Who (probably the one that most blew me away, as I only discovered it last year)
Between Us - Blondie Chaplin
Seeger Sessions - Bruce
Nevermind - Nirvana
Tripping the Live Fantastic - Paul McCartney
Metallica - Metallica

LIB or BB
Joe Cocker-Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Beatles-Sgt. Pepper
Talking Heads-Stop Making Sense
Cream-Wheels of Fire
Who-Tommy
Dylan-Blonde on Blonde
The Band-Big Pink
Led Zep 1
Janis Joplin-Big Brother and....

Mary Poppins soundtrack
Cheap Thrills - Big Brother
White Album - The Beatles
TNMC - Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
Zuma - Neil Young
American Stars n Bars - Neil Young
Flex - Lene Lovich
Juju - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Once Upon A Time - Siouxsie & the Banshees

1- The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
2- Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue
3- Arcade Fire - Funeral
4- Radiohead - OK Computer
5- The Shins - Oh Inverted World
6- AC/DC - High Voltage
7- The Who - The Who Sell Out
8- Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
9- The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
10- Led Zeppelin - IV

Oh, what the hell, there should be more solo beatles albums, Stones, and of course Black Sabbath.....:

1. George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
2. Keith Richards: Talk is Cheap
3. Keith Richards: Main Offender
4. Pete Townshend/Ronnie Lane: Rough Mix
5. Paul Mccartney: Memory Almost Full, Mccartney 1, Ram, Flaming Pie
6. John Lennon: Imagine
7. Black Sabbath: Paranoid
8. REM: Automatic For the People
9. Paul Simon: Graceland
10. Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs (if only Milky Way was included)

mrgrowl791 Wrote:
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> 1. Rolling Stones-Beggar's Banquet
> 2. Rod Stewart- The Rod Stewart Album
> 3. ZZ Top- First Album
> 4. Beatles-Rubber Soul
> 5. Led Zepplin II
> 6. North Mississippi Allstars-Shake Hands With
> Shorty
> 7. Allman Bros. - First Album
> 8. Leon Russell And The shelter People
> 9. Lynyrd Skynyrd- First Album
> 10.Freddie King-Texas Cannonball


All of the above are from the late 60's and early 70's. There was a time (when drugs, alcohol, and women) just about ruined a lot of the bands above. ( Me too)I allways liked Neil Young,B B King, Savoy Brown, Early Fleetwood Mac, etc.,) Around 74-75, I got into a lot of Country and Blues Music. (Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Sr and Jr, George Jones, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Winter,Albert King,Muddy Waters,(check out Electric Mud if you get a chance),Buddy Guy,Freddie King, etc.) I was also into a lot of George Dickel and other substances at this time. DISCO SUCKED, The Rolling Stones sucked ( untill Some Girls),The Eagles sucked, Fleetwood Mac sucked. Now I listen to John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Uncle Tupelo, Travis Twitt,etc, but I allways go back to the mid to late 60's- early 70's blues rock. Oh, by the way,Greg Allman-Searching For Simplicity is a great album.

1.John Lennon - Walls and Bridges
2.Bob Dylan - The freewheelin'
3.Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
4.Queen - A night at the opera
5.Toto - Toto IV
6.Rolling Stones - Their satanic majesties request
7.ELO - Discovery
8.Elvis - That's the way it is
9.George Harrison - Cloud Nine
10.Pink Floyd - The Wall

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whitem8 Wrote:
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> 1.The Beatles (White Album)
> 2.Quadrophenia
> 3.Exile on Main St.
> 4. Rain Dogs
> 5. Ok Computer
> 6. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
> 7. Let it Bleed
> 8. Live at Leeds
> 9. Ram
> 10. All Things Must Pass
> 11. The Man Who Sold the World- Bowie (blew my
> mind!)

I like to see RAM posted here. Yeah, great album and I played the hell out of that one when it came out... I love the guitar solo on Too Many People.

1. Out Of Our Heads - my introduction to the Stones - it popped my cherry
2. Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols - the first thing I ever listened to that made me want to break stuff. And play the guitar.
3. Elvis' Sun Sessions - I finally saw what all the fuss was about
4. Dookie - Green Day - I'd tried to get every band I'd ever been in to sound like what three guys my own age wound up nailing
5. Forever Changes - Love
6. Headquarters - The Monkees
7. Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M.
8. Let It Be - Replacements
9. Show World - Redd Kross
10. Definitely Maybe - Oasis

Here's from a 50 year old:

1) Each and Every Beatles album and 45

2) Each and every Stones album and 45

3) Who's Next

4) Nashville Skyline

5) Mccartney's 1st solo album

6) The Band (brown album)

7) All Summer Long (Beach Boys)

8) Leonard Cohens 1st album

9) Bob Marley live at the Lyceum

10) Born to Run

11) Wild Innocent and E Street Shuffle

12) Clash 1st album

13) Rum Sodomy and the Lash

14) Bryter Layter - Nick Drake

15) Shoot Out the Lights - Richard Thompson

Not necessarily my favorite albums, but the 10 that "took my breath away" when I first heard them, albums which were positively stunning on first listen. Some of them faded with repeated listenings, but just completely blew me away when I first put needle to vinyl (or, laser to polymer, as the case may be).

Astral weeks - Van Morrison
Live At The Harlem Square Club-Sam Cooke
Gris Gris-Dr John
Niandra Lades & usually Just A T-Shirt - John Frusciante
4 Track Demos - PJ Harvey
Lifehouse Demos - Pete Townshend
Kid A - Radiohead
Roast Fish Collie Weed & Cornbread - Lee Perry
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone

So many more albums one wanna add; almost all Thin Lizzy-album
up to Renegade for me. And a truckload more by other band & artists.

Most of my top ten have already been listed, but there's one particular bootleg that I got when I was 18: it opens up with a pseudo-announcer talking about modern recordings "...in today's brilliant stereo, with sound as clear as the stars in the eyes of the girl you're dancing with...so, let's just listen..." and then, there's the opening riffs from the Wembley 1973 "Gimme Shelter". The LP, of course, was "Bedspring Symphony". That was a true OMG! moment for me.

YA YAS
YA YAS
YA YAS
YA YAS
YA YAS
..THESE ARE MY TOP FIVE,,,

SAME FOR THE LAST FIVE....NOTHING LIKE IT...

JR