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List 5 to 10 albums that have had a huge influence on your life and/or musical development

Papa Shango said:
Marillion - Clutching at Straws: The first ever album I bought, I must have been about 9 or so. Still gets a listen to this day.
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Reach the Beach was the first I ever bought (on cassette), hence my inclusion in the list. I returned to listening to it in the last few years and I still think the guitar-sound on "One thing leads to another" is really amazing.
 
verreauxi said:
Reach the Beach was the first I ever bought (on cassette), hence my inclusion in the list. I returned to listening to it in the last few years and I still think the guitar-sound on "One thing leads to another" is really amazing.
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I have never listened to it actually, shall have to give it a whirl. Cassettes seem to be trying to make a comeback! I bought a Poppy EP on cassette a year or two ago before remembering I have nothing to play it on.

I was going to include Beverley Copeland's self titled album but I couldn't find an image that was the same size as the rest and it would annoy me greatly as I am a bit odd like that!
 

New Gold Dream Simple Minds
An introduction to greatness.
Black Rose Thin Lizzy
Was really a mod but found this irresistible as with Queen Jazz and The Game.
Madness One Step Beyond and the empire 1st gig Proper lads band.
Duran Duran..Duran Duran ..coolness personified at the time,and Spandau were cockney.
Pet Shop Boys.1st Album,again bot neil and chris cool.
All perfect in so many ways.
Notable mentions for teardrop explodes kilamanjaro.
Kraftwork born in Germany, made in Liverpool.
The Jam Setting Sons,why not.
And New Muzak from A to B ..great pop.
 

I like music, and like talking about it.. so this is real interesting to me... looking to see what other people are interested in... Never understood the judgements that come from people about whether someone likes a band / artist or whatever... sometimes the 'noise' just moves you.... so without further adieu..

Heres what i've loved listening too over my listed 40 odd years... discuss at will... or not...!!

Meg Myers - Sorry .. blew me away... labelled as Alanis like, but i think she is strong enough in her own right...

Arab Strap - The Weekend Never Starts Round Here - someone brought this into the bar i DJ'd in... smitten straight away... drunken scottish bloke bitterly delivering...

Therapy ? Troublegum - mental how good this is (to me)

Daughter - if you leave

Nirvana - In Utero

Garbage - Garbage (The Pink One)

Interpol - Elpintor (everything is wrong blew me away!!)

Meg Myers - Make a shadow (EP)

Pearl Jam - Ten

Nine inch nails - Pretty Hate Machine

ask me again tomorrow, probs be a totally different list!!
 
verreauxi said:
Whether it was an album that introduced you to a whole new genre of music, an album you listened to over and over to get you through a rough time, an album that invokes a certain period in your life such as travel/roadtrip, etc. You don't need to explain the context if you don't want to, just list (or post a photo) of the album. Some might double as your favorite albums ever, but some might not. For me, I realized most of the albums were ones that introduced me to a whole new genre of music... Only two of these below would be in my "favorite album of all time" list.

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This one I always associate with a rough break-up:
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Great selection.
 
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My dad used to listen to reggae a fair bit, one of my earliest memories is dancing around the living room with a tambourine aged 4 with my mum, with this LP on. He used to listen to Bob Marley, LKJ, early UB40 and early dancehall too. I ended up DJing reggae and being involved with soundsystems and this probably had a bit to do with it.

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This was the first LP I bought myself with my own money, and was kind of my introduction to the "new", sample-based, electronic music that was coming out. It sent me on a journey of discovery of house music and other electronica, funk, and hip hop.

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I liked hip hop from pretty young, me and my friend Justin memorised all the words for "Step Off" by Melle Mel and the Furious Five aged 9, we used to try breakdancing in the playground and we gave ourselves "street names" (he was "Cap" and I was "Link" 😂). Fast forward a few years and this record blew my little mind, it was like no hip hop records I'd heard before. It was fun and psychedelic and came along just when I was getting into "proper" music, it was the first hip hop LP I got into, and I discovered the likes of Public Enemy, BDP, Slick Rick, LL Cool J and loads of others thanks to it.

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When I was 13, I broke my finger quite badly, and it got infected and was beyond painful. I hurt so much I was unable to sleep, and I stayed up watching telly and necking the strong painkillers the hospital had given me, and these guys came on a late night music show called "Tramsmission". I liked what I heard and the next day, after another trip to hospital to sort out the infection in my finger, I went to the library and borrowed this record, which I thought was one of the best things I'd ever heard. I owe so much musical discovery to these guys, they wore their influences on their sleeve and weren't shy of talking about them. MC5, Stooges, Velvet Underground, Suicide, shitloads of 60s garage and psyche, Texas and Delta blues, gospel and godnknows what else. I sought out the rest of their catalogue and they've been my favourite band forever.

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My other big love and which takes up about a quarter my record collection is techno/trance/acid. It is largely thanks to this LP, which I bought in 1993 and contains a bunch of classics before they were classics. I was particularly grabbed by the Juan Atkins and Plastikman tracks on here, but it's all good gear. I ended up playing techno for a couple of soundsystems, spending an awful lot of money on records, and if I'm honest, probably taking a lot of drugs because of this LP 🙂

These aren't my favourite LPs, but they're 5 which have had a big influence in shaping my musical tastes and experiences.
 

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