DonovanB
I want to know which albums had an impact on you more than just being cool to listen to.
Mine Are;
Friday Night in San Fransicso - Al Di Meola, Paco da Lucia and John Mcloughlin.
Boston - Boston (awesome Album!!)
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
S&M - Metallica (and an orchestra!!)
The Dude - Quincy Jones
Anything by Tuck and Patti will blow your mind
The DVD Any given Thursday by John Mayer changed my outlook on Stratocasters big time.
aubs1
1. Any album by Jimi Hendrix
2. Peter Gabriel......All
3. Youssou N'Dour.....All
There are too many brilliant albums to list.....
DonovanB wrote:
The DVD Any given Thursday by John Mayer changed my outlook on Stratocasters big time.
Sometimes it takes a while Don, but eventually we learn the magic, versatility and sheer awesomeness (hell, is there such a word!) of the Stratocaster...... (especially the MIA).....hahahahaha...
(Oh geez, I'm gonna get shot down!!!!!!). ? ?
dee
John Mayer - Where the Light is.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (I).
Jimi Hendrix - All of them to be honest.
Muse - H.A.A.R.P.
Pink Floyd - Pulse.
Alter Bridge - Blackbird.
90% of the time, one of these are either playing on my IPOD, or in my car's radio...
andrewjbryson
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
Steve Vai -
Iron Maiden - Brave new World
Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Tool - Lateralus
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
John Mayer - Continuum
U2 - Joshua Tree
andrewjbryson
left out Stevie's album :
Steve Vai - "Real Illusions: Reflections"
inflames
Metallica - Black
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
In Flames - all of them
Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
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The albums that influenced me to push ahead with playing the guitar were, I guess:
Led Zeppelin (all, but mostly II)
Jimi Hendrix (all, including crappy bootlegs aplenty)
Metallica - the black album (though I hang my head in shame to admit it)
Dire Straits - Alchemy (which, actually, got me started as a drummer, first) and to a lesser extent Brothers in Arms
Black Sabbath (random) (and some random Deep Purple)
The Pixies (Doolittle and Surfer Rosa, probably)
Nirvana - Nevermind and Bleach
The Stone Roses - eponymous
Adorable - Against Perfection and Fake
Suede - the first two albums
Tin Machine - a live video we had at home
Pink Floyd - all of the stuff with Waters
The Beatles - everything
I'm drawing an arbitrary line at that.
Bob-Dubery
This is one of the aspects of life where I'm optimistic - I always believe that there are more favourite albums to be discovered by me or that will be released at some point in the future.
But right now...
* Shoot Out The Lights - Richard & Linda Thompson
* Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
* Rumor And Sigh- Richard Thompson
(I'm trying to go light on the Richard Thompson, but he has made such a huge impact on my tastes and my appreciation of music that I have to slip in two or three - and SOTL is one album that gives me a thrill every time and after all these years)
* Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading (the eponymous 3rd album, with fab guitar work by Jerry Donahue)
* The Clash - London Calling
* Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
* Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck
* Smiling Men With Bad Reputations - Mike Heron
* Dire Straits - Dire Straits (their first album, and I still do not think that Knopfler has done a better solo than the one on "In The Gallery")
ed
Hillsong United - United We Stand (this changed my life), All of the Above, [a_CROSS//the_eARTH]Tear Down the Walls, just to name a few
and recently anything by Paul Baloche.
Danny-B
The album that made me play guitar was an old gallo record, which had Stairway to Heaven on it. I played that song everyday for weeks...
All Muse
Two Shoes and One - The Cat Empire
All Joe Satriani
All albums by Led Zeppelin, but mostly Physical Graffiti
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The early albums of The Off Spring
BMU
Cool topic. I'll stick to these personal monumental landmarks:
Slayer - Reign In Blood. Much whammy bar abuse ensued resulting in learning very little about actually playing the guitar. But it was fun.
Carcass - Heartwork. (1993 I think) Made death metal precise and technical, blew my mind and lifted my guitaring. I think I could play almost every riff on it.
Vai - Passion and Warfare. Blew my mind even more. I even bought the notation book for it... fat load of good that did to play like him.
Dream Theater - Awake. finally blew my mind into the unrecoverable mess it is today. ? The first time I heard it I was down with a fever, lay on my couch only surfacing to hit Play on my CD player, again and again and again...good times!
In Flames - Clayman. Wait...metal can be heavy AND melodic? Woah.
chris77
The ones that so far have meant the most to me at the different stages in my life, some really corny, others classics:
Appetite for destruction - Guns and Roses
Dr Feelgood - Motley Crue
The black album - Metallica
Grave dancers union - Soul Asylum (probably my favourite of all time)
Nevermind - Nirvana
Little earthquakes - Tori Amos
August and everything after - counting crows
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins
Smile - The Jayhawks
One - Sheryl Crowe
Yourself or someone like you - Matchbox20
Just enough education to perform - Stereophonics
From the cradle - Eric Clapton
Bringing down the horse - The Wallflowers
Elephant - The white stripes
Collection - Tracy chapman
there's just too many to list em all!!
grunjhed
Metallica - And Justice For All, Master of Puppets, pretty much anything pre-Black
Trivium - Shogun
Bullet for my Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Nirvana - Bleach & In Utero
Black Sabbath - Every album made
Queen - Every Album made
As sad as it is to admit, and I have to, 90% of the Opera out there. :-[
Tokai-SA
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Pulse (DVD)
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun - the song is an entire album, IMO.
The Beatles - all albums.
I need to buy some other albums besides Floyd. ?
DonovanB
Stratisfear wrote:
Metallica - the black album (though I hang my head in shame to admit it)
I'm not. That was an awesome album. I have the making of it on DVD.
X-rated Bob wrote:
This is one of the aspects of life where I'm optimistic - I always believe that there are more favourite albums to be discovered by me or that will be released at some point in the future.
+1 Bob. There are. And I even believe that one of those will be made by me ?
Tokai-SA
Saw Boston live in London in 1980, the "Boston" album is definitely one of my favourites...a genius album.
I remember the Supertramp 'live' album also being one of my favourites many years ago.
So many, so many memories.
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Haha, Don - it may have been, but it falls firmly into the same category as all the other albums I listed there: music that really laid a platform, but music I can't listen to any more. My tastes have moved on considerably, I guess.
Riaan
I need to buy some other albums besides Floyd.
LOL...seems our CD racks look pretty much the same! For me, it's really hard to choose a favourite Floyd album, though DSOTM and WYWH are the frontrunners.
As for the rest, it's really hard to choose all time favourites. That varies as time goes on, and I'm continuously rediscovering old albums.
Squonk
Very Difficult to choose
Beatles - Revolver (slightly edges Abbey Road, The White Album)
The Who - Tommy (Acoustic guitar bliss)
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti (still my favourite rock band of all time)
Genesis - Trick of the Tail (Peter Gabriel had left and the remaining members tried so hard)
Peter Gabriel - the 4th solo album (Masterpiece of an Album)
Styx - Grand Illusion (sounds silly now, but i knew it off by heart in 1978)
Yes - Going for the one (Rick Wakeman had rejoined and they were in top form)
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp (changed my life, simple brilliant songs)
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox (loved the dual guitar attack)
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (Glam rock had some good stuff)
Peter Frampton - Frampton comes alive (My mother got it for me for Christmas 1976, I was 13 and it blew me away)
Just a tip of the Iceberg ?
AlanRatcliffe
SO many! I have thousands, but these are the ones that made the most impression on me and, like Castle, have stood the test of time and are all still listened to regularly:
Pink Floyd - Wish You were Here, Animals, The Wall, The Final Cut
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses, Songs from the Wood, Stormwatch, Roots to Branches
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe, Over-nite Sensation, Roxy & Elsewhere, Them or Us, The Best Band you Never Heard in Your Life
King Crimson - Discipline, Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair, Thrak
Adrian Belew - Big Electric Cat, Twang Bar King
AC-DC - Highway to Hell, Back In Black, For those About To Rock
Steve Vai - Flex-Able, Passion and Warfare
Bumblefoot - Forgotten Anthology, 9-11
Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak, Strange Angels
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold, Brothers in Arms
Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock, Revolution Ballroom
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Dave Lee Roth - Eat 'Em and Smile, Skyscraper
Deep Purple - Machine Head, Deepest Purple
Uriah Heep - The very best of...
Dixie Dregs - Unsung Heroes, Dregs of the Earth, What If
Elvis Costello - Spike
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Queen - Night at the Opera
Led Zeppelin - IV, Physical Graffiti, Prescence
Juluka - Scatterlings
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Shakti - Handful of Beauty
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
Paul Simon - Graceland
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
Paco De Lucia - Castro Marin
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
REM - In Time (Best of)
Rush - 2112
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand the Weather
Audioslave - Audioslave
Talking Heads - Remain in Light, Fear of Music
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Piece of Mind
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta, Regatta de Blanc, Ghost in the Machine, Synchronicity
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
The Who - Live at Leeds, Quadrophenia
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedos, Wildflowers
Tommy Emmanuel - Live One
Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Black Market
Al di Meola - Cielo e Terra, Casino
