ROCK Music Albums that had a Significant Impact in your Youth | Including some that you know are ..

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.. Underestimated, Undervalued | REVISITING

We grew up, 97% of us here, buying LPs and unwrapping them and sliding them out of their sleeves and centering them on our turntables and dropping that needle @ the beginning of an adventurous journey, a fantastic music experience. I could write few books like all of us, but I won't.

I was on heavy vinyl rotation starting in the sixties, and more heavily so from 1966 to infinity and beyond.

This is a random sample of some of the albums that had an important impact in my musical journey.
Share some of yours too, the ones you remember quite vividly having an impact on your journey too and with fond memories of personal life growing up with your entourage, the people forgotten of long time gone.

Rock albums; Jazz, Classical, Blues, etc., are for another threads.
Album cover pictures and tunes you like on video are welcome.
Written words that express the impact felt a half century ago or so are the essence.
The music from the Rock bands we loved, always will love, specific albums, all that rock
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It's not their most popular, but for me it was impactful.
King Crimson had a big influence in my musical teens.
If today I want to listen to Crimson King, I probably would spin this one:



Or this one:



* If you have a feeling of Déjà Vu, me too. I did emphasize the word "REVISITING"

King Crimson's fans, other albums from them, other rock bands...Genesis, Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, ...some of the rock music albums that had an important impact on this fantastic musical journey, yours, ours.
 
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Great thread! There are three. I remember my older sister buying Rubber Soul and listening to it for the first time. I was hooked on the Fab Four for life. I remember my older sister buying Led Zep II and hearing it for the first time. As a young drummer I was shocked at hearing you know who. Finally, Santana. Again as a young drummer hearing the groove of the great Michael Shrieve, Mike Carabello on conga, and Chipito Areas on Timbales; well, I had never heard anything like it. All three were very impactful in my youth.
 

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Marvin Gaye's "Whats Going' On"
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This is not restricted to three selections, you can put as many albums as you like...the ones that had a good impact in your youth. I put three myself from King Crimson just for a start. There are other albums from other bands that made a big imprint on my psyche from half century ago, or close to it (from 55 to 45 years ago).

Mike mentioned LZ IV, it sure had for me too, and so is III

 
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Mike also mentioned Genesis; these three albums were big for me back then:







And then when this one came up it had many many many spins; everything was so beautiful from that album, perfect for when we were kids and in full love with life and everything in it...including our second/third girlfriend.

 
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1992 :cool: ...Some great hooks, dancing grooves from that album. I was very much into dancing and partying in the 80s and 90s.

* Goes without saying, that CD is on one of my shelves, not the LP though.
 

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Those albums from ELP were very impacting/powerful in my teens, among my favorite Rock bands for sure.







I saw them live too, in Montreal. Keith Emerson...excellent rock/classic organist showman...the best...with Rick Wakeman from Yes.

This thread is only starting because there are many impacting albums from my favorite Rock bands which are still very present today as they were fifty years ago or so. ...A quarter century ago (25 years...around 1993 is perfect too because some of us we were 14/19-years old then.

Some members here are 79-years old, so I expect to see impacting albums from the 50s...Chuck Berry, Elvis Presly, James Brown, etc.
And it's perfectly fine to also include Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.

* All my album selections are all from LPs, of course because there were no CDs in the sixties and seventies. But that one from Stereo MC'S -- Connected, I have on CD.

** And it's impossible to not put those four albums above from ELP, because each one of them made a tremendous impact on me growing up in the mid/late sixties to the early/mid seventies. From say 1966 to 1977, it was a determining period of my music life. For some it would be the 80s and 90s, for others the 40s and 50s.

And I don't mind @ all any deviation from Rock to Jazz, Blues, Fusion, Soul, Charleston, Big Band, Motown, ...not one bit. It is my thread.
In my threads everything is permissible, acceptable, ...all music genres and from all periods.
Rock is simply the emphasis because most of us we're from the same age bracket.
I know very well other friends from my age that were also very big on Jazz, and some on Classical music.
For my friends from my age, Jazz and Classical music are good here, those albums that made a big impact. This is all about the music growing up, so music exploration and discoveries from all of us is what truly unites us first and foremost. Then the room acoustics, the loudspeakers, the preamplifiers, the amplifiers and the turntables. ...Streaming and CDs is fine too, any deviation from analog to digital is acceptable, manageable, accommodating. Some members were born in the digital era.

Younger members are supremely welcome with Electronica, New Age, Alternative, Punk Rock, Heavy Metsl...because some of my girlfriends were younger, or from a totally different music background.
And people from my Daddy O and Mom era were into different music too...Dad loved Big Bands, Opera singers and Vangelis. Mom was into French singers, men and women...Charles Aznavour, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Regiani, Nana Mouskouri and Manitas de Plata (Gypsy Flamenco).

So when I started playing my own albums back in the later sixties and early seventies my Dad and Mom had to endure my different/expanded music taste...Rock, French too (Quebec), Classical music, Psychedelic, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, John Mayall, Yes, and all that stuff.
 
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Still spinning the CD occasionally too .. post alcohol consummation usually :)
Another significant for me point :
[Cant find the whole album]
 

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This thread is only starting because there are many impacting albums from my favorite Rock bands which are still very present today as they were fifty years ago or so. ...A quarter century ago (25 years...around 1993 is perfect too because some of us we were 14/19-years old then.

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Connected, I have on CD.

I'm old donkey - '73 :)

Grow up under socialism , western records wasn't available so almost all of the musical source was recorded compact cassettes. There was the spots in the city where "criminal" subjects, with decent audio recording electronics takes yours cassette and 5 levs[$2] . Day or two after, at secret meeting , the desired album is in your hands :D
 

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We all grew up with music, no matter the medium, the country, the time period, ...it's all Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne great. I too was into cassette tapes...I collected roughly one thousand. Someone broke into my home and took them all.

* That Alice Cooper album (1975) is in one of my LP piles.

1973 was a major turning point in my life. It was the beginning of a new direction. I made a decision towards a new orientation. It became revelationing. Music was @ the threshold of new inventions. Some albums were tremendously impacting...like from the band Yes for example.



 
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Oh I just started Mike. I already have roughly two dozen more albums downloaded in my pictures album.
When I started this thread I didn't want to put everything in one single extra long post; I wanted to have interaction with other members and slowly include the other albums and more.

It's normal; our youth took ten years to evolve...I just want the best realistic representation of those ten years. That is a lot of impacting music, lots of highly marking albums from that period.

I didn't get to Jethro Tull yet :b Thick as a Brick, impactful album...lots of rotations this one too, and Aqualung, and Benefit, ...







...And Pink Floyd +++

I'm from the same generation as most members here, I think...between 45 and 75-years old. We all can relate to each other by the music that had an important impact in our evolution.

It's not about my evolution, it's about ALL of our evolutions.
It is more important to me that other members share their music evolution than me sharing it all alone by myself. I'm here to interact, I get bored talking to myself.

Alice Cooper, that's a good one from 1975...an impacting album for many.
Stereo Mac's from 1992 ... great electronic beat music with various dancing grooves...funk and jazzy too.
I got those two...in my music library.

When you mentioned Genesis...that was already in my pictures albums to post later on...you interacted and bingo...music of impact for many of us is expanding. Led Zeppelin I and II, Marvin Gaye's - What's Going On, Woodstock - CSN&Y, Janis, Jimi and all the gang.

And yes we have threads from the past that contain some of those impact albums, but it's always nice to reborn anew and REVISITING. That's why I included that word with emphasis in my first post.
I am very aware from the last billion years. This is now, right here, and no place else. We are in control of our surrounding grounds, this planet we're walking on and with all the other people walking on it too.

 
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Bob, nice job starting this very interesting thread.

I think of all the albums that actually got my attention in those days, the Black Sabbath LP’s were most influential.
The first one that I acquired was 1V and it was an eye opener. Then I acquired Master and paranoid and sabbath bloody sabbath. It was after SBS that I went into a slightly different direction,...and discovered the band Budgie. Bandolier, in for the kill and if I were britannia...all great music. I still own all of these LP’s today, along with a lot more prog, like Yes and Uriah heep.

Last night I went to see the Eagles and the Doobie Bros live in concert. In a huge stadium with about 30k other fans...these groups still can pack them in. The eagles are still amazing, even though they are unfortunately without Glenn Frey. (His son, Deacon Frey is stepping in, along with the talented Vince Gill).Nonetheless, hearing this music again, really brought back memories...and why the music is so timeless. Unfortunately, so did my recollection of why I did not like huge stadium venues to go and see acts like this:(
 

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Great post Davey, a glimpse of an impactful music evolution in your personal journey.
Paranoid was the album that impacted me first from Black Sabbath. From there I went and purchased the others; self titled and Master of Reality ...
* 1V is Vol. 4?


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The first one above I remember well (Uriah Heep)
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You remember this?

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Frank Zappa is eventually coming up ...
 
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Mike also mentioned Genesis; these three albums were big for me back then:








And then when this one came up it had many many many spins; everything was so beautiful from that album, perfect for when we were kids and in full love with life and everything in it...including our second/third girlfriend.


I’m with you on all the Genesis + LLDOB. Other biggies were Houses of the Holy and Brain Salad Surgery.
 
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