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What are 10 albums that made an impact on you that you still listen to? (and no, they don't all have to be music)

Here are mine, in no particular order:

  • Ghost in the Machine, The Police
  • Rumors, Fleetwood Mac
  • Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads
  • Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen
  • Pippin, original Broadway cast recording, 1972
  • Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morrisette
  • Basia On Broadway, Basia
  • Class Clown, George Carlin
  • Best of the Doobies, The Doobie Brothers
  • Hair, original Broadway cast recording, 1968
bleurowz 8 Apr 22
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The Beatles:
SGT Pepper;
White;
Abbey Road.
J. S. Bach:
Brandenburg Concerti
Simon Preston:
G. F. Handel Five Organ Concertos;
Jethro Tull:
Thick as a Brick;
Mike Oldfield:
Omadawn;
Five Miles Out;
Rory Gallagher:
Calling Card;
Bob Dylan and The Band
The Basement Tapes

RichE Level 5 Apr 22, 2018
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(1) Abbey Road
(2) Mercury Rising
(3) Tea for The Tillerman
(4) Imagine
(5) All Things Must Pass
(6) Crosby, Stills and Nash
(7) Out of Time
(8) Sweet Baby James
(9) Nirvana: unplugged
(10) Quadraphenia

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Stones - sticky fingers
Velvet undergound - velvet underground
L Cohen - songs of L. Cohen
Robert Johnson - King of the delta blues
Pete Atkin - A king at nightfall
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Don McLean - American pie
Billie Holiday - lady in satin
Ry Cooder- paradise and lunch
Harry Chapin - Short Stories

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Abbey Road--Beatles
Live at Leeds--The Who
Are you Experienced--Jimmy Hendrix
Live at Buddha-con--Cheap Trick
Every Breath You Take--The Police
A Space in Time--Ten Years After
Pocket Full of Kryptonite--Spin Doctors
Document--R.E.M.
Dark Side of the Moon--Pink Floyd
Tommy--The Who

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1)R.E.M “Document”
2)Nirvana “MTV Unplugged In New York”
3)Suzanne Vega “99.9 F”
4)Neil Young “Mirrorball”
5)Moby And The Void Pacific Choir “The Systems Are failing”
6)R.E.M. “Automatic For The People”
7)R.E.M. “Green”
8) Patton Oswalt “Werewolves And Lollipops”
9) George Carlin “Classic Gold”
10) Talking Heads “Sand In The Vaseline”

REM fan by chance? Lol

Forgot all about Susan Vega, had to add her to my downloads.

@AdorkableMe if it was a different day it could be any different combinations. Yes, I do love R.E.M.

@SkepticMike I do the same. People ask favorite songs. Today it's this. Tomorrow it could be that. ?

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Rubber Soul-The Beatles
After the Goldrush-Neil Young
Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon-James Taylor
Truth-Jeff Beck
A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson-King Crimson
No Depression-Uncle Tupolo
Blue-Joni Mitchell
Exile on Mainstreet-The Rolling Stones
Give it up-Bonnie Raitt
Birds of Fire-Mahavishnu Orchestra

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  1. Bad Girls: Donna Summer
  2. AC/DC: Highway to Hell
  3. When Radio Was King: Our Mrs. Brooks
  4. Allan Sherman: My Son, the Greatest
  5. Beethoven’s 5th and 9th Symphonies
  6. Blondie: Parallel lines | Eat to the Beat
  7. The Clash: London Burning
  8. Heavy Metal: Soundtrack
  9. Second Chapter of Acts: With Footnotes
  10. Saturday Night Fever: Soundtrack
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This made me think how albums are becoming a thing of the past. I love when people put these up though reminds me of stuff to add to my list.

  1. Red Hot Chili Peppers: blood sugar sex magik
  2. Metallica: the black album
  3. Dido: life for rent
  4. Tomorrowland 2014
  5. Kendrick Lamar: damn
  6. Ugly Kid Joe: America's least wanted
  7. Pink Floyd: The Wall
  8. Led Zeppelin: Houses of the holy
  9. Bond: Classified
  10. Kenny G: haha not really Brain Regan: Live
  1. Crash Test Dummies: God Shuffled His Feet
    Better 10, hard to limit to 10
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  1. Misfits - Earth A.D.com/Wolfs Blood
  2. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
  3. Samhain - November Coming Fire
  4. Dead Cross - Dead Cross
  5. White Zombie - La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1
  6. Metallica - Master of Puppets
  7. Danzig - Danzig
  8. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
  9. Benediction - Subconscious Terror
  10. Morgoth - Cursed

There’s way more than this, these are not necessarily the top 10, while some listed would undoubtedly be in my top 10. And they are in no particular order.

Also, Meddle and Animals from Pink Floyd have to be in on this.

White Zombie ?

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Beatles: White Album
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding
Led Zepplin I
Tapestry: Carole King
Michael Jackson: Thriller
Guns & Roses: Days of Thunder
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black album
AC DC: Back in Black
The Weekend: My Dear Melancholy
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

cava Level 7 Apr 22, 2018
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▪️Television-Marquee Moon
▪️The Clash-Combat Rock
▪️The Revolting Cocks-You Goddamn Son of a Bitch
▪️Yaz-Upstairs at Eric’s
▪️Linda Ronstadt-Canciones de mi Padre
▪️Love and Rockets-Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
▪️The Beastie Boys-Licensed To Ill
▪️The Smiths-The Queen is Dead
▪️The Cure-Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
▪️Depeche Mode-Some Great Reward

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The Doors - Soft Parade
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Thick as Brick - Jethro Tull
Dark Side of the Moon - PinK Floyd
The Doobie Brothers - The Captian and Me
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Patti Smith - Horses
Tim Buckley - Greetings from LA
Eagles - Hotel California
Chain - Towards the Blues (West Australian band)

There are heaps more, but these will do .
RonB Level 5 Apr 23, 2018
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Freak Out - zappa/mothers
Are you experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Band of gypsies - Jimi Hendrix
Cheap trick - cheap trick
Restrictions - cactus
Discipline - king crimson
World of sleepers - carbon based life forms
Captain beyond - captain beyond
Trout head replica - captain beefheart
Todd - Todd Rundgren

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Beatles Carly Simon Frank Sinatra took Bill Cosby Fat Albert off the list because RAPISTS ARE NEVER FUNNY GEORGE CARLIN
replaced fat Albert collectors album watched him live on TV YouTube. ...movie soundtracks by the hundreds BROADWAY MUSICAL sheet music with dialogue cues in my orchestra pit....John Crump American Atheist label 45rpm I'M NOT FALLING ANYMORE&SHAKE LOOSE ballad&rock Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash Young. ....Woodstock, Mozart and Beethoven Bach Handel re-writing words to excellent music bad religious hymns jazzing up the arrangements

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No one lists Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis?

I like a lot of Joni Mitchell songs, just not entire albums.

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In no particular order
·The Big Bang, Busta Rhymes
·Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers
·Blade(Film Soundtrack), Various Artists
·Embodiment of Instrumentation, Scratch
·Below the Heavens, Blu & Exile(Kinda religious but I found him before I realized I didn't believe.)
·Legend, Bob Marley
·Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Outkast
·Queen of the Damned, Various Artists
·Sci-Fi Crimes, Chevelle
·Weapons of Mass Destruction, Xzibit

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Incredible string band first album
Van Morrison Astral Weeks
Leonard Cohen -various positions
Rolling stones- Let it Bleed
Everly Brothers- greatest hits
Emmylou Harris I have had enough
Patsy Cline - have you ever been lonely.
Carole King - Tapestry
Blondie - heart of Glass
June Tabor and the Oyster Band

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Pink Floyd The Wall, Eagles Hotel California, Bob Seger Night Moves, Van Morrison Moondance, AC/DC Back in Black, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, CCR Chronicles, Heart Dog & Butterfly, Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy and Carole King Tapestry

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Quadrophenia - The Who
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
IV - Led Zeppelin
Synchronicity - The Police
Karma - Delerium
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
Sons of Liberty - Amadan
Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
Johnathan Livingston Seagull - Neil Diamond

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10 that I’m pretty sure will be unique:
Ray LaMontagne — Trouble
Jeff Buckley — Grace
The Tragically Hip — Up to Here
Radiohead — Hail to the Thief
Childish Gambino — Awaken, My Love!
Josh Ritter — The Animal Years
Gov’t Mule — Dose
Anderson . Paak — Malibu
Run the Jewels — [Eponymous]
Har Mar Superstar — Bye Bye, 17

10 more that many people will probably mention:
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Beatles - Abbey Road
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Allman Brothers - Eat A Peach
Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin On
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

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Well...I guess I'm gonna take the low road. Here goes in no particular order:

  1. The Ramones "Leave Home"
  2. The Ramones "It's Alive"
  3. KISS "Alive"
  4. Judas Priest "Unleashed in The East"
  5. Motorhead "Ace of Spades"
  6. Black Sabbath "Sabotage"
  7. Rainbow "Rising"
  8. Social Distortion "Social Distortion"
  9. Big Country "The Crossing"
  10. Deep Purple "Made in Japan"
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I could not so easily limit it to 10, and what I listed today would not match what I might recall tomorrow.
I owned all of yours but Pippin, and still listen them when the mood strikes.

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Bookmarked for later. I gotta think about this one.

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Just did this one on Facebook:

  1. Judas Priest- Screaming For Vengeance
  2. The Church- Starfish
  3. Iron Maiden- Powerslave
  4. The Replacements- Pleased To Meet Me
  5. Johnny Cash- Live From Folsom Prison
  6. Pink Floyd- The Wall
  7. Marillion- Misplaced Childhood
    8 ) AC/DC- Back In Black
  8. Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
  9. Ayreon- The Univeral Migrator (Parts I & II)
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Oh if you like " Hair " bleurowz then check this one out

That's wild!

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