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what albums changed your life?

#41
Grateful Dead----Workingman's Dead-----for never playing the same thing twice
Cream-----------Disraeli Gears-----showed me that bass didn't have to be behind the mix...and could sound mighty good doing it
Frank Zappa-----Overnite Sensation---for making weird cool
Led Zeppelin-----the first album----for just rocking my face off
Rearview Mirror---Blown Out----that local boys CAN make it
Metallica---------Kill 'Em All--------for opening up the top end of the fretboard
Pink Floyd--------Dark Side of the Moon---experimentation
Sublime----------40oz to Freedom---------for the groove
Morphine---------Cure for Pain-------------for being new, when not much is
Joe Price---------Designated Driver---------because he's just so humble, and such a nice guy, but jesus mary and joseph can the guy play
and public radio for playing Incredible music by people I've never ever heard of.
 
#42
easy:

Dream Theater, Images and Words. I was completely floored by this album and DT has since been my absolute most favorite band.

also:

Fear Factory: Demanufacture (showed me its ok to pick)
Primus: Pork Soda
Dragonforce: Sonic Firestorm
Nightwish: Dreamchild
Stratovarius: Infinite
and everything by Spock's Beard.
 
#45
There's two albums, long after I stared on my evil metal road, that changed my musical goals drastically.

HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
This album got me into the power metal from other countries. I had NEVER heard of bands like Labyrinth, Symphorce, Angra, Manticora, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Symphony X... it was all the closed-minded, radio-friendly, watered down Yankee metal that everyone gets force-fed by the radio. My brother accidentally caught HammerFall on the Music Choice Metal channel, and we tracked the album down. Then it became an addiction to find more bands like this, faster, louder, more exotic, more impressive, difficult, more amazing.

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
I was sitting in a computer lab at college, doing whatever to kill time, and somebody calls for my attention. This really really tall, lanky black guy was sitting a few rows over, with a bright red bass guitar on his lap, and a STACK of cd's next to a Discman. He needed to go see his counselor for a meeting, and asked me to watch his stuff for him. "Okay, cool. What you listening to?" "Iron Maiden," he replied. I told him, "I've never really sat down to listen to them, I've heard Run to the Hills on the radio a while ago, but that's it." He perked up and said, "Well! Then here, start with this disc, and tell me what you think!"

Then he left. So I sat at his computer and started the disc. And that bass riff from Invaders SMACKED ME IN THE FACE. I was as concentrated on that album as a rocket scientist launching the Space Shuttle. Don't ask me why, but nobody I grew up with ever had any Maiden in their collection for me to discover! This was crazy to me! And then as I get further and further into the album, I also realised that BRUCE FREAKIN DICKINSON IS A METAL GOD!

As soon as the tall guy got back, I packed up my things and headed to a CD shop to snag Number of the Beast and I think Powerslave. And I played that riff to Invaders until my fingers cramped into a fist. Completely changed the way I play bass.

Oh, and I cannot escape a bar with karaoke, until my friends force me to sing either Run To The Hills or The Trooper. And once, ONLY ONCE, I found a karaoke bar that had Aces High, and I had 8 beers bought for me when I got done with that song! I still wanna join a Maiden tribute band around here...
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#46
Black Sabbath - (self titled)/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Vol 4./Sabotage
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Yes - Relayer/Fragile
Rush - Fly by Night/Caress of Steel/2112
Pink Floyd - The Wall/Animals/Dark side
Jaco - (self titled)
Weather Report - Black Market
Charles Mingus - Thirteen Pictures
STP - Purple
RATM - (self titled)
The Allman Bros - Eat a Peach
Tool - Aenima
Steve Miller Band's Greatest hits
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Immortal Beloved movie soundtrack
Chili peppers - Mother's Milk
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
The Eagles Greatest Hits
Ozzy - Blizzard of Oz
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Metallica - Master of Puppets/Ride the Lightning
Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy
The Goats - No Goats, No Glory
The Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister
Judas Priest - British Steel/Screaming for Vengeance
Living Colour - Vivid
Clapton - Time Pieces
Hendrix - Smash hits/Are You Experienced/Axis Bold as Love

These all shifted me one way or the other along the path of life.

"Soundtrack of your life", indeed. :bassist:
 
#47
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle, Disco Volante, California
Ween - well, all of their albums. they and Bungle both had a huge impact on me.
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (specifically the Montreal Symphony recording with Dutoit)
MELVINS - if i had to pick one, i'd say Houdini
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese (got me interested in bass)
Rush - ... can't name just one, really.

music truly is amazing.
 
#48
So many of them...

Supertramp - Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America
Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV
Dire Straits - On Every Street, Brothers In Arms
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's, Let It Be, Magical Mystery Tour, Rubber Soul, Help
Jimi Hendrix - Pretty much all he's done
Bob Dylan - All the classics and then some
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Police - Reggatta de blanc


Thats just a few of them off the top of my head, probably the most influencial ones
 
#49
I'm having some problems remembering the titles, but a quick scan of other posts here helped. In almost chronological order:

Several albums by the Ventures, including Walk Don't Run 64 and Ventures In Space
The Beach Boys (early albums)
Early Beatles (Meet The Beatles, Rubber Soul, etc.)
King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King
Led Zepellin 1 & 2
Yes - Fragile, Close To The Edge
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Tarkus
Santana - 1st 2 albums
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Weather Report - 1st 2-3 albums
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior (and others)
Miles Davis - Live/Evil (and a few others)

The remainder are mostly classical - any Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Dvorak but especially Rite Of Spring by Stravinsky.

If I look at this any more before I hit the submit key, it'll get much longer with all the ones I forgot.
 
#52
In chronological order:

AC/DC- Back in Black - My first "rock" album.

Nirvana- Everyone especially In Utero. My first Obsession. Actually All Grunge music for that Matter. All Pearl Jam/Alice In Chains/Soundgarden.

System of a Down- Toxicity. Got me into harder music.

Led Zeppelin- All. My second Obsession.

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Everything. My Third and biggest obsession.

John Frusciante- Inside of Emptiness. Favorite album of all time.

RATM- All. Just Great Music.

Beatles- White Album. Enough said.

Fugazi- Repeater + 3 songs. Got me into punk.
 
#53
KJung said:
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
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That's the 1st one that came to mind when I saw this thread...I still recall that Saturday morning, hearing "You Know What I Mean" for the first time-
You mean the bass doesn't have to play on every downbeat?!?! Whoa.

Anyway, the 'self-proclaimed Clapton down the street' was the guy who owned that record...he was the older brother of a friend; after a few minutes, he said, "Sorry...you guys gotta go, I need to hear this album alone".

LMAO.
 
#58
Warren Zevon - Exciteable Boy, from way back as a kid when I loved to hear the story of Roland; recently rediscovered it and am loving it.

Police - Every Breath You Take: The Singles; this is recent for me, and I'm finding that I love it.

Allman Brothers / Grateful Dead - anything; improvisation (to varying degress) is good and exciting.

Miles Davis - So What; great, great stuff.

Rush - A Farewell to Kings; first Rush I heard, loved it and started my foray into progressive music.

Yes - Close to the Edge; represented the far edge of what progressive rock could do in the 1970s.

Umphrey's McGee - any live show; combined progressive rock and improvisation like no one really had before. My current go-to band.

Peter Gabriel - So; some of the best songwriting of the 80s, with great musicianship and great textures.
 
#60
Dark Side and the Wall got me to appreciate some of the older stuff.

Jimi-First Rays of the New Rising Sun

I know these aren't "studio" albums but Bowie's, Jimi's, and Zep's BBC sessions are just incredible. This, to me, embodies how music SHOULD sound, raw and polished. If your favorite band has done BBC cuts, then I would DEFINITELY recommend them to you. Plus, Trevor Boulder, Noel Redding, and JPJ all have amazing tone on these cuts.
 

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