Albums that changed your life

charles2825

i know this is probably the wrong thread to ask in but i cant seem to be able to set up a new thread... i have inherited alot of Beatles records from the 1960's, does anyone know how to spot if records are the originals 1st releases or 2nd or 3rd releases from that time?? any information is very much apprcieated :P

Phoenix Park

For anyone who isn't aware of it, the second CD of Kate Bush's Aerial is absolutely perfect.
Others for me would be the Soft Bulletin when it came out and more recently The Subarbs ( arcade fire) which is even better than Funeral imo

ricero

kasabian - kasabian

Bodhidharma

Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan. This helped me through a very heavy period in my life, and is something that I still listen to most days. An absolute work of genius, which shows the torment of relationships and the freedom in letting them go.

Exp

franklin25 wrote: »

i know this is probably the wrong thread to ask in but i cant seem to be able to set up a new thread... i have inherited alot of Beatles records from the 1960's, does anyone know how to spot if records are the originals 1st releases or 2nd or 3rd releases from that time?? any information is very much apprcieated :P

Hi Franklin, usually on the record sleeve there is a Copyright year in the small print near the EMI symbol (usually on the back left corner)
Either there or look for it on the physical record where the tracks are listed on each side. Research the year you find to the official release date of that particular album and see what u find..... I hope this helps

Technocentral

franklin25 wrote: »

i know this is probably the wrong thread to ask in but i cant seem to be able to set up a new thread... i have inherited alot of Beatles records from the 1960's, does anyone know how to spot if records are the originals 1st releases or 2nd or 3rd releases from that time?? any information is very much apprcieated :P

Discogs.com is by far the best for this and for buying and selling stuff, just put in the catalogue number and band/lp name

Here is a listing for Sgt Peppers for example, you can see it gives the year of release for each different version etc, click on the top entry for eg and it says "Released in a gatefold sleeve with a cut-out insert and a psychedelic inner sleeve. First pressings have a black and yellow Parlophone label with ''The Gramophone Co.'' in the perimeter and ''Sold in the UK'':

http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-Sgt-Peppers-Lonely-Hearts-Club-Band/master/23934

Nephilim Wolf

Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

Fields of The Nephilim - The Nephilim

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast

Megadeth - Youthanasia

Rush - Exit...Stage Left

Metallica - Black Album

Amorphis - Tuonela

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (not just the title song, but the rest of the album is class as well)

Scorpions - Lovedrive

The Sisters of Mercy - First And Last And Always

Cradle of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace

Joy Division - Heart And Soul Boxset

Latchy

As mentioned by previous poster ,most the Beatles albums and some Bob Dylan albums played a big part in my life and some others that have done same include ...

Pet Sounds -Beach Boys
Bod Seger -Night Moves
Doobie Brothers -G Hits
Specs Appeal -The Shadows
Aja -Steely Dan
20/20 -beach Boys
LA ( the light album ) Beach Boys
Surfs Up -Beach Boys
Status Quo- Blue For You
A-Ha - Scoundral Days
Wish You Were Here -Pink Floyd
Deep Purple In Rock - Deep Purple
Country Life -Roxy Music
Flesh and Blood -Roxy Music
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Ultravox -Vienna
Ultravox - Rage In Eden
Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel
Ultravox - Quartet .
Roy Orbison - G.Hits
LA woman - The Doors


Lou Reed - Transformer

Washington Irving

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Archimede - Trafalgar
The Doors - The Doors
Gorillaz - Demon Days
The La's - The La's
Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Jimmy Iovine

I 'borrowed' a copy of RHCP's "Greatest Hits" from my uncle when I was 14. Went straight out and bought and became completely obsessed by them over the next few years after buying all their albums.

I decided to buy "Sound of Revenge" by Chamillionaire on the back of Ridin' way back in 2006. The same thing happened again. I became obsessed by it and him. 5 years later and my whole collection of music consists of hip-hop and RHCP.

If it wasn't for that song and album I wouldn't be into hip hop at all. Before that I was completely against the idea of it, believing what I read in the papers and refusing to actually listen to the tunes.

100-120 albums later I'm clearly of the opposite opinion. Can't get enough of it, and it's all Chamillionaire's fault :pac:.

acidskiffle

Dirt- Alice In Chains
Ten - Pearl Jam
Core - Stone Temple Pilots

Luis21

Original Musiquarium - Stevie Wonder
Breakfast In America - Supertramp
The red album - The Beatles
20 golden greats - The Beach Boys
Purple Rain - Prince
Kick - INXS
Ritual De Lo Habitual - Janes Addiction
Nevermind - Nirvana
Ten - Pearl Jam
Wincing the Night Away - The Shins.

Odaise Gaelach

Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers

Can'tseeme

Can'tseeme wrote: »

Listening to all the Beatles records around the age of 14/15 definitely changed my life.

Other albums,

Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Nirvana - Nevermind
Christy Moore - Live at the Point
The Strokes - Is This It
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Madness - One Step Beyond

A compilation called 'Loaded', opened me up to lots of bands around the early 90's when I was around 14.

Just looked at the list I put up a couple of years ago and I can't believe I left off the The Beatles, Blue Album and The Stones, Rolled Gold. Two albums that totally introduced me to music in a big way, back in my early teens.

Da Shins Kelly

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Nas - Illmatic
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
The Strokes - Is This It?
Billie Holiday - Best Of (granted, not a proper album, but one of the first records I ever listened to)
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Beck - Odelay

Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants got me into music so will be forever in debt to that album

David Bowie - hunky dory
Rolling Stones - Sticky fingers
guns n roses - appetite for destruction

MusicJunkie86

In no particular order....

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Bruce Springsteen -Born in the USA

Arcade Fire - The Subarbs

Queen - Greatest Hits

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Florence + The Machine - Lungs

The Killers - Sams Town

RCHP - By the Way

The Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

There's loads more but that's all I can think if at the minute...

DerekDGoldfish

The album what had the most influence on my life (well the musical appreciation element to it anyway) was the Sterophonics Just Enough Education to Perform.

Before owning this album I had maybe 15 albums in my collection and music was a passing interest, but after listening to quite possibly the dullest, blandest album I had ever heard (and have heard to date) I thought there has to be more to music than this and it encouraged me to search out new weird and wonderful stuff I probably would not have done it was wasn’t for the complete and utter crapness of this album.
1,900 albums later and I am forever grateful to Sterophonics for the release of the album.

giggitygig

A Delicate Sound of Thunder by Pink Floyd. I know it's a live tour with a list of songs from different albums, but it's the first I actually listened to them, as in really tuned in. The Venice Concert was on Channel 4 one night and the music and light show blew me away. Have almost every album since and never looked back

Rothko

Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
In Utero - Nirvana
EVOL - Sonic Youth
Kid A - Radiohead

LordSutch

Technocentral

Made it worse, unfortunately.

alphanine

Dave Clarke - World Service

ilovelamp2000

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Bonobo - Black Sands

Public Enemy - it takes a nation of millions

dixiefly

Interesting thread. There are some albums that you cannot imagine life and not having listened to them.

Good Old Boys - Randy Newman
After The Goldrush - Neil Young
Born to Run - Bruce
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Peter Gabriel (3)
Moondance - Van Morrisson
For Everyman & Running On Empty - Jackson Browne
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

I would have also listened a huge amount to artists like Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Joe Jackson, Millie Jackson, Eagles, Pink Floyd, Planxty, Paul Brady and so on but no single album stands out above others.

silverwood

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

Can't believe no one has mentioned it up to now

ad92

Michael Jackson's album of course..

Temaz

Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan
Exile On Main Street-The Stones
The Stone Roses-s/t
Songs From A Room-Lenny Cohen
WTSMG-Oasis
Screamadelica-Primal Scream
Mule Varaitions-Tom Waits
The Robert Johnson Collection
Time out Of Mind-Dylan
The Marshall Mathers LP-Eminem
In Utero, Unplugged-Nirvana
Heartbreaker,Love is Hell-Ryan Adams
The Downward Spiral-NIN