Albums that influenced you or had an impact!

Johnny Vinyl

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Everyone can probably pinpoint a few albums that played a huge part in their future appreciation of music.

Here are mine:

Dave Brubeck: Time Out - This was my Dad's fave album and he played it constantly. It is the album that made me appreciate music and got me to explore everything else.

Pink Floyd: Meddle - Never in my entire life had I heard a song (Echoes) that seemed to go on forever and ever. I have been a progressive rock fan ever since.

Marvin Gaye: What's Going On - This album was so far ahead of it time in terms of the message it sent and the honesty it portrayed that to this day I still get goosebumps with every play.

What are your choices?

John

 

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Santana Abraxis

Black Sabbath First

King Crimson First

ELP First

Jethro Tull Aqualung

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Genesis......................... Lamb Lies Down
Supertramp....................Crime of the Century
Jeanne Pierre Rampal......Toot Suite

 

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Nice! Another prog head!

 

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Genesis -Lamb lies down on broadway
MSR - Fresh Aire III
Jean Pierre Rampal - Jazz Flute
Bach - Bradenburg Concert
Giorgio Moroder (cant recall the album name after so many moons)

 

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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Yes - The Yes Album
King Crimson - ITCOTCK
Strawbs - Ghosts
Nektar - Recycled
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music
National Health - National Health
Steve Hillage - L
Soft Machine - Bundles

Some 12,000 albums later these still resonate.

 

Phelonious Ponk

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Kind of Blue
Revolver
Buffalo Springfield Again
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Grievous Angel
Close to the Edge
Larks Tongues in Aspic
Luxury Liner
The Revolution Starts Now

Many more...

Tim

 

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Great thread idea! Here are some of my early influences (in no particular order):

Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields.
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells.
Wendy Carlos: Switched-On Bach.
Jeff Wayne: The War of the Worlds.
Sky: Sky and Sky 2.

Plus a few classical pieces, like Beethoven's 5th, Holst's The Planets, Greig's Piano Concerto and Peer Gynt, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

More recently, other pieces have had a profound impact on me (e.g., Lt. Kije), but I'm assuming that this thread is about music that affected us early in our music-lover life.