24 hours ... 24 albums that shaped your life.

[Batty]

Ok, let's do this, within 24 hours of posting here you must post 24 albums that shaped your life.....

I know that many of us can rattle them off, but... think deep and choose the 24 LPs or CDs or whatever that really impacted deep in your soul/brain etc.

 

 

Go...............................................................

[Batty]

1. Led Zep II

2. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band.

3. Queen I

4. Eric Clapton - There's one in every crowd.

5. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath.

6. Deep Purple in Rock.

7. Genesis - The Lamb Lies down On Broadway

8. Genesis - Foxtrot.

9. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden.

10. Nils Lofgren - I came to Dance.

11. Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear.

12. Not an LP but a single... The Cure - Love Cats.

13. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book. Purely magical songs.

14. Supertramp - Crime of the Century.

15. ZZ Top - Deguello. (spelling).

16. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells. A 15 year old totally blown away.

17. T. Rex - Electric Warrior.

18. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

19. Marillion - Marbles.  Christine and I fell in love with each other listening to this album.

20. The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3.

21. Queen II.

22. Genesis - Genesis. First LP I bought after coming home from the Falklands.

23. ELO - El Dorado.

24. Montrose - Montrose.

 

Ok, I could go on and on, but these LPs are a great selection of those that shaped me and I put a few words in there too.

 

I am sure that if I was to write the list again it would change, but in this moment, these come to mind.

 

[needlerunner]

8 minutes ago, Batty said:

1. Led Zep II

2. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band.

3. Queen I

4. Eric Clapton - There's one in every crowd.

5. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath.

6. Deep Purple in Rock.

7. Genesis - The Lamb Lies down On Broadway

8. Genesis - Foxtrot.

9. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden.

10. Nils Lofgren - I came to Dance.

11. Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear.

12. Not an LP but a single... The Cure - Love Cats.

13. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book. Purely magical songs.

14. Supertramp - Crime of the Century.

15. ZZ Top - Deguello. (spelling).

16. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells. A 15 year old totally blown away.

17. T. Rex - Electric Warrior.

18. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

19. Marillion - Marbles.  Christine and I fell in love with each other listening to this album.

20. The Isley Brothers - 3 + 3.

21. Queen II.

22. Genesis - Genesis. First LP I bought after coming home from the Falklands.

23. ELO - El Dorado.

24. Montrose - Montrose.

 

Ok, I could go on and on, but these LPs are a great selection of those that shaped me and I put a few words in there too.

 

I am sure that if I was to write the list again it would change, but in this moment, these come to mind.

 

Gee Batty. Talk about making us all work. Oh, allright then. But will have to give it some thought.

[Batty]

No, don't think, just react.

[Batty]

Mine are in no order at all.

[Batty]

Even just 1 song that hit you hard.

[Wimbo]

No Album hit me hard. Only songs.

 

Romeo and Juliet.

To sir With Love.

Darling be home soon. Slade.

The Weight. Smith.

Born to be Wild.

Ballad of Easy rider.

Have you ever seen the Rain.

Proud Mary.

Rolling Stone.

Im a Tiger. Lulu.

Coz I luv you.

Look wot you done. Sharpie days.

Skating away on the Thin Ice of a new Day. Jethro Tull.

Shes so Fine.

Friday on my Mind.

In the Ghetto.

Sentimental Friend . 

Ragamuffin Man. Manfred Mann.

I will Return. Springwater.

Wish you were here. Hard **** that is.

4 albums to finish.

Woodstock.

Blood on the Tracks.

EasyRider Sound track.

Crime of the Century. Trippin all four, with 4 mates.

Edited January 18, 2020 by Wimbo

[ZEN MISTER]

Very nice to see some serious music love re-asserting it's lovely head on this forum. 
Well done @ Progladyte for giving an I.V. drip to the PROG. 101 thread, and @Batty for this beauty that even I could not resist.

First 6 are my desert island discs, with only AXIS and LOGOS alternating as number one.
Others are in no particular order, and do not include classical or weird ( of which I have much).

Tangerine Dream - LOGOS
Jimi Hendrix Experience - AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE
Simple Minds - SONS and FASCINATION
Black Sabbath - SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
Joni Mitchell - HEJIRA
The Beatles - SERGEANT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND  ( whatever happened to those losers??)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - ELECTRIC LADYLAND
Pink FLOYD - UMMA GUMMA
Pink FLOYD  - WISH YOU WERE HERE
Mackenzie Theory - OUT OF THE BLUE
Masters Apprentices - CHOICE CUTS
Marc Benno - MINNOWS
John Mayall - BARE WIRES
Keef Hartley Band - HALFBREED
Genesis - TRICK OF THE TAIL
KRAFTWERK - THE MAN MACHINE
Sandy Denny - The NORTH STAR GRASS AN AND THE RAVENS
The Doors - WAITING FOR THE SUN
FAIRPORT Convention - LIVE: FULL HOUSE
Mark Gillespie- NOTHING SPECIAL
Big Brother and The Holding Company - CHEAP THRILLS
Jefferson Airplane - AFTER BATHING AT BAXTERS
U.F.O. - STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT.
RUSH - GRACE UNDER PRESSURE.

....wow, that took me back, but I can remember why each of those were special, and continue to sooth/ charm/ excite/mystify me.
One to take with me into the emerald beyond - LOGOS.

Billy.

[Full Range]

24 Albums 

I am only including one per artist 

But it’s only half of what I can list 

Change the thread to 48 hours

 

King Crimson - In the Court Of The Crimson King 

801 - Live 

Genesis - Nursery Cryme 

Yes - Close To The Edge 

Black Sabbath - Paranoid 

Brian Eno - Before And After Science 

UK - UK 

Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here 

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery 

Frank Zappa - Just Another Band From LA 

Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat 

Deep Purple - Machine Head 

T Rex - Electric Warrior 

Joe Cocker - Cocker Happy 

Santana - Abraxas 

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced 

The Doors - LA Woman 

Eagles - Hotel California 

Neil Young - Harvest 

ELO - A New World Record 

Focus - Focus 3 

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare 

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

[rowbo]

Nice one @Batty 

 

Numbered but in no order

1. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (my dads go to driving album)

2. RUN DMC - Raising Hell (the first album I bought with my own money)

3. Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique

4. Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

5. Pearl Jam - Ten

6. Nirvana - In Utero 

7. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

8. Faith No More - Angel Dust

9. Prodigy - Jilted Generation

10. Urge Overkill - Exit the Dragon

11. Radiohead - OK Computer

12. U2/Eno - Passengers soundtrack album

13. The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over

14. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

15. Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town

16. Metallica - And Justice for All

17.  Clutch - (self titled) I only put in one Clutch album but could list 6

18. Rage Against the Machine - (self titled) 

19. Soundgarden - Superunknown

20. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

21. Tool - Lateralus

22. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

23. Massive Attack - Protection

24. Mastodon - Leviathan

 

I pumped out the first 20 pretty easily, then stressed out about the last 4. I put only 2 'classics' (Dire Straits & Beach Boys) as i was aware enough to know these albums made an impact on me. I discovered other classics later in life (Rumours, Stg Peppers, Abbey, Ziggy etc) and my above list led back to them. 

I see my choices as albums that were a major part of life at a certain time whilst also being great listenable albums. Anyway - that was fun

 

[Batty]

Fun is what this is all about.

Clutch, yes, great band, but did not have much influence on my life.

 

Glad you enjoyed the idea, I can see from your choices that you are younger than me.

 

Edited January 18, 2020 by Batty

[Batty]

46 minutes ago, Wimbo said:

No Album hit me hard. Only songs.

 

 

Im a Tiger. Lulu.

 

Hell yes.

[rantan]

 

The Beatles: White album.

The Beatles : Sgt Pepper.

Black Sabbath : self titled.

Blackfeather: At the Mountains of Madness.

Jimmy Hendrix ; Electric Ladyland.

Super Session : Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steve Stills.

Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick.

Cream: Disraeli Gears:

Cream : Wheels of Fire (live and studio )

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Self Titled.
Lou Reed : Transformer

Santana: Abraxas

Tully: Self Titled.

Al Stewart : Year of the Cat

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King.

Richard Clapton : Goodbye Tiger

Hawkwind: In Search of Space.

Gyan: Self Titled.

Jeff St John's Copperwine :Joint Effort

Country Radio: Live.

Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow.

Zoe Ravenwood: The Problem Might Be Me.

 

[Batty]

I could probably do 500, but this is about 24 instant thoughts.

 

[Batty]

@Rantan  nice, about my age I'd say a little older, maybe 5 years.

But that depends on how long music took to come from UK to Oz.

[rantan]

1 minute ago, Batty said:

I could probably do 500, but this is about 24 instant thoughts.

 

Ditto.

Once I started, I had to stop myself adding so many more.

[Wimbo]

1 minute ago, rantan said:

Ditto.

Once I started, I had to stop myself adding so many more.

Love your Aussie selections mate. Specially Good Bye Tiger

[awayward]

AC/DC - High Voltage

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

AC/DC - Back in Black

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Van Halen - 1 & 2

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

Metallica - Black album

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Def Leopard - On through the Night

Y&T - Black Tiger

W.A.S.P - The Last Command

Gillan and Glover - Accidentally on purpose

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Led Zeppelin - 4

New Frontier s/t

Queensryche - Empire

Riverside - Wasteland

Anette Askvik - Liberty

Joe Satriani - Surfing with an Alien, pissed and fell over and fractured my arm when this was playing

Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems

Sixx A.M - The Heroin Diaries

Tool - 10,000 Days

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Can’t Stand the Weather

Edited January 18, 2020 by awayward

[rantan]

2 minutes ago, Wimbo said:

Love your Aussie selections mate. Specially Good Bye Tiger

Actually, I have a very personal connection to Goodbye Tiger that is unique.

[Wimbo]

2 minutes ago, rantan said:

Actually, I have a very personal connection to Goodbye Tiger that is unique.

You learn't at Turramurra Music.

[Batty]

I like the little add ons that make some LPs special.

 

Keep them coming guys.

[rantan]

1 minute ago, Wimbo said:

You learn't at Turramurra Music.

Nope.

I have never been there.

When I say unique, I really mean unique..... in its literal meaning.

[Wimbo]

5 minutes ago, rantan said:

Nope.

I have never been there.

When I say unique, I really mean unique..... in its literal meaning.

You married his sister.

[rantan]

 

RC was an only child.

 

Anyway, I cannot say why in public. it is nothing bad at all ( in fact the polar opposite) just very private, but I can say that he was a friend of my then family.

[Wimbo]

12 minutes ago, rantan said:

 

RC was an only child.

 

Anyway, I cannot say why in public. it is nothing bad at all ( in fact the polar opposite) just very private, but I can say that he was a friend of my then family.

I've been to Amsterdam a couple of times in the winter mate