Top 3 Rock Albums that changed your life

[downtownrobbrown]

I come from a more rock background so I'm interested in what people here might say. Sorry about all the heavy hitters but that's how it all went down.


1. Led Zeppelin - "Physical Graffiti"

First Zeppelin album I ever got. Nuff said.

2. Pink Floyd - "The Wall"

Some burnout gave it to me on the grade school bus. Blew my mind.

3. Grateful Dead - "Live/Dead"

So cosmic.

 

[bassie]

First three that come to mind:





Black Sabbath - Paranoid





Led Zeppelin - s/t





Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

 

[Duderonomy]

The Doors - L.A. Woman.


When I was young and dirt poor, dubbed cassettes were considered a luxury. My mum used to get Univ students to babysit, and some of them would leave tapes behind. Along with an Otis Reading a-side/Run DMC b-side, L.A. Woman was a standout tape. I was too young to understand a lot of the now obvious meaning to the songs, but the music was unlike any pop music I might???ve heard on the radio in the mid ???80s, and completely changed my appreciation of music.





Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin


Friends of mine at school heard this and all wanted to become guitarists. I heard it and wanted to be a drummer (never happened though, cost + noise :whycry:, record collector = frustrated wannabee musician?).





Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland


Even Jimi didn???t make me want to learn guitar. He made me want to take drugs.

 

[SoundOutLoud]

Blink 182 - Enema of the State (I was11y/o and it was the first album I bought for myself... against the will of my parents)





Led Zeppelin - Zepellin III (Tangerine was one of the first songs I learned on guitar, also kicked me straight out of a short-lived pop punk phase)





Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (I'm a guitarist, this album simultaneously blew my mind and made me really push to get better... and what Duderonomy said re: Hendrix)

 

[DustedDon]

Black Sabbath - Paranoid


Led Zeppelin - II


Electric Wizard - Dopethrone


Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


The Smiths - Meat is Murder

 

[DocMcCoy]

 

[dukeofdelridge]

1. Metallica Kill The Master Of Lightning (one big chunk, those can probably be my top three, pepper in Garage Days)





2. Nirvana Nevermind (cleaner than Bleach, more accessible to my ears, went huge as I was a 16-year-old in Seattle)





3. Band Of Gypsies (I've looked at my informationTunes "plays" stats and the numbers don't lie)





I can listen to all of those at any time, except Nirvana. Sometimes Nirvana makes me sad and I'll cry. Forget about that MTV one I can't go near it, I'll curl up in a ball on the floor. Tenderberry Grunge Cobbler.

 

[motown67]

Pat Benatar - In The Heat of the Night had the single Heartbreaker. Because it was the first record I bought with my own money





AC/DC - Back In Black, originally got it in 1980 when it came out. Because the title song is probably my all time fav rock tune





Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast. Because Iron Maiden was my favorite band in high school, and would lead me into heavy metal, and joining my first band in 9th grade.

 

[LaserWolf]

I'm old. Was always into folk, blues more than rock.





Sgt Peppers - Got it for my 13th bday.


Barry Goldberg Blue Band Blowing My Mind - Pulled out of my brothers collection. First recording for Harvey Mandel and Charlie Musselwhite IIRC.


English Beat Whap'pen - At a time when I disdained all rock music my roommates were playing this and Specials, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Go Gos, Bruce Springsteen, Stray Cats... allowed me to reappreciate the genre.

 

[SoundOutLoud]

DustedDon said:Black Sabbath - Paranoid


Led Zeppelin - II


Electric Wizard - Dopethrone


Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Only 3. No cheating.

 

[mrmatthew]

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings (first tape i ever bought (it was a Super Saver!) with my lawnmowing money)


Ramones - Animal Boy (first punk rock tape. Know it front and back.)


Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing ( it never left my tape caese for about 5 years)

 

[batmon]

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland


The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead


Bad Brains - Rock For Light

 

[Jimster]

South of Heaven + Motorhead No sleep + ??

 

[cai]

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense


Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits


Metallica - Master Of Puppets

 

[knewjak]

Megadeth - So Far So Good So What


Not the best musically speaking, but it was my first 'adult' tape at age 8.





The Misfits - Walk Among Us


Best sk8 rock record of all time. Love live vert. ...and skulls.





Nirvana - In Utero


Nevermind was huge, but this one never left my walkman for a year straight.

 

[LoopDreams]

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin. Found a copy in my parents record collection when I was 15 and was smoking pot within the month





The Doors: Strange Days again, in my folks records. I pulled it out and was like "Who the fuck are these freaks?" before I knew it I was becoming an introspective pot head. Thank god they didn't have any Nick Drake.





Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dreams a record that was on Constant rotation in the last year of high school, we played that shit to death and then listened to it again.

 

[jlee]

I was a hardcore hip-hop head growing up as a kid, and in an attempt to be a defiant little punk, I almost made it a point to not like rock music. My older brother was way into college rock circa late 80's though (and then grunge), so I was well aware of what was going on (REM, Husker Du, B-52's, etc.). that said, these 3 albums are the first "rock albums" I recall that I really liked even though I "wasn't trying to".





1. fugazi - 13 songs


2. hemet - meantime


3. jane's addiction - ritual de lo habitual





Aside from fugazi, i don't really listen to the others that much, but these bands def got me open to realizing that a one genre lifestyle was not the way to go.

 

[Possum Slim]

Recently bumped into an old friend who got me into good guitar based music late 80s with





Doolittle - Pixies


The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths


Surfer Rosa - Pixies





Prior to that I was only buying hip hop.

 

[Gibbo]

This really had me scouring the memory banks... but as a kid I guess these three would have had the biggest influence on me or at least the ones I bought with my own money and played heavily before hip-hop took over.





Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son


Guns and Roses: Appetite For Destruction


Nirvana: Nevermind

 

[skel]

Blondie - Parallel Lines


The Jam - Setting Sons


Thin Lizzy - Black Rose





First album I loved all the way through


First one that opened my ears to varied soundscapes within a cohesive concept and captured the Local Experience to boot


First gateway into the GOAT band