My dad had a big objection with me listening to rock n metal. I remember asking him once for some money so i could buy a black sabbth compilation lp, sadly he could read english so he freaked out when read the album title "we sold our souls for rock n roll". I never got that lp. He used to shout at me angrily whenever he would hear metal playing from my room. Eventually he got tired of yielling at me, so he bought me a nice death t-shirt of leprocy as a gift.
Pete your channel changed my musical life. I was quite distant from Music for several years and during the pandemic I found your channel and I realized that music is one of the best things I have in my life. Since then I try to attend as many concerts as possible and I discovered more than 100 bands! Thanks a lot Pete !
Hi Smios. I can agree with that. Same here i discovered good bands that i had no idea who they were and got me through the pandemic without going crazy.
* My 20 list, in no order: Rush '2112', Boston (debut album), Steely Dan 'Aja', The Church 'Starfish', Marillion 'Misplaced Childhood', Yes 'Fragile', Iron Maiden 'Powerslave', KISS 'Destroyer', Black Sabbath 'Sabotage', Alcatrazz 'No Parole From Rock and Roll', Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon', The October Project 'Falling Farther In', U2 'War', Kraftwerk 'The Man Machine', Rory Gallagher 'Top Priority', Led Zeppelin 'Houses of the Holy', Midnight Oil 'Diesel and Dust', Judas Priest 'Stained Class', Eric B and Rakim 'Follow The Leader', Paul McCartney 'Ram', Loudness 'Thunder In The East'
Mine : Pink Floyd - Animals Pink Floyd - Division Bell Roger Waters - Amused to Death Radiohead - Kid A Radiohead - In Rainbows Thom Yorke - Anima Coldplay - Parachute Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay - X&Y David Bowie - Heathen David Bowie - Reality Man at Work - Cargo INXS - Switch Tame Impala - Lonerism The Smiths - The Queen is Dead U2 - Joshua Tree Castlebeat - VHS Laid Back - Keep Smiling Keane - Hopes and Fears Dire Strairs - Brothers in Arms
As an old Jazz Bassist, these are the 20 LPs that changed my life -- great topic Pete! 1. Another One by Oscar Pettiford (1955) 2. Plays Duke Ellington by Thelonious Monk (1955) 3. Freedom Suite by Sonny Rollins (1958) 4. Dizzy’s Big 4 by Dizzy Gillespie (1974) 5. Are You Experienced? by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967) 6. The Hawk Flies High by Coleman Hawkins (1957) 7. Black Sabbath (1970) 8. Something for Lester by Ray Brown (1977) 9. Piccolo by Ron Carter (1977) 10. Jaco Pastorius (1976) 11. Led Zeppelin (1969) 12. Live at Leeds by The Who (1970) 13. Love It To Death by Alice Cooper (1971) 14. Alive! by Kiss (1975) 15. School Days by Stanley Clarke (1976) 16. Bass On Top by Paul Chambers (1957) 17. The New Miles Davis Quintet (1955) 18. Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus (1959) 19. Groovy by Red Garland (1957) 20. Portfolio by Ahmad Jamal (1958)
tremendous list...i actually had never heard that particular oscar record but it most assuredly is great. piccolo and portfolio of are records i'd never heard despite knowing those artists well and love it to death is wonderful. thanks
You never get old if you refuse "to grow up". Or grow completely up. I think being a musician (drummer) and focusing my life on music instead of the tv which I avoid like the plague helps too!. I Exercise, don't eat out and listen to music avg. 4 hours a day I'm 50 but feel like I'm going on 30. That's why I fear getting ran over by a bus. lol! But kinda surprised you didn't mention any albums by Yes (Chris Squire. It is so hard to play drums to Yes songs because of Chris' bass lines. I always refer to him as a "Lead Bassist". The man off in left field playing in a different key and time signature than rest of the band. Or it always sounds that way to me. lol). and The Who (John Entwistle. It's hard to play to early The Who songs exactly written and as Keith Moon plays because Keith is just so damn unorthodox. But John's bass lines always fascinated me. Where The Beatles seem to capture most people, it was The Who that reached out and grabbed me of the great early British bands. And John had alot to do with it.) (Ear Candy: Bandmaid - Thrill. 5 piece all girl Japanese band that has a great bassist. The whole band is good, and will surprise you, but the bassist stands out the most to me. Besides, they are easy on the eyes. lol. and the song has a really cool bass groove as a break in the middle. Oh and I gotta mention "Dr. Funk and The Good Times"_ - Roadrunner. 1 drum. 1 bass. 1 microphone. And yes very Good Times! Hope ya enjoy!)Take care my friend. "Life Without Music Would Be a Mistake". Nietzsche
So I was not the ONLY person to buy a copy of "Piccolo" LOL! I was tempted to do a bass-centric version of the list as well. I have "Love it to Death" on my list as well. Dennis Dunaway had something to say on the bass! No NHØP love? I'd add either "Looking at Bird" (Duets with Archie Schepp) or Oscar Peterson's 1981 "Nigerian Market Place" . Both can be found on RUclips.
Im a fan of most of your selections. My Mingus and Miles choices would be different but great list and i just want to say really pleased to see Love it to Death, Kiss Alive and Black Sabbath there. Great, great records.
Thank you Pete so much for sharing the 20 albums that changed your life! Great topic and great stories! We have some of the same albums that changed our lives common - Boston 1, Genesis Seconds Out, Rush Moving Pictures, Jimi at Woodstock, The Who Kids Are Alright, Wings Over America, ELO Out of the Blue, and Black Sabbath Paranoid, great picks buddy! You mentioned Jimi and the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock! For the last 10 years I've spent a lot of time on campus at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA as the contractor lead developer of the Kuali Financial System they use to meet the needs of the school, all written in Java. Anyway, it is a military base, and every morning at 8am they play the lovely Star Spangled Banner (orchestral version, no vocal) loud across campus and into the city of Monterey for about 5 minutes. For years, I've been dreaming of somehow getting into the high perch in the hotel where they play it and 'substituting' the Jimi version. I think it IS quite patriotic! Oh well, I'm retired now, I could have got in trouble! LOL!
Deep Purple - In Rock Jethro Tull - Living in the past The Beatles - Sgt.Peppers Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Faith No More - Angel Dust Neil Young - Tonight's the night The Who - Who's next Pearl Jam - Ten Black Sabbath - Vol.4 Cardiacs - On land and in the sea The Damned - Phantasmagoria Husker Du - Zen Arcade Led Zeppelin - Remasters Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance Swans - The Seer Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic Lou Reed - Berlin Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Shout out Berlin by Sweet Lou! Such a gratuitous, baroque masterpiece of despair! It always makes me feel better no matter how bad I feel, which is kinda messed up!😂😂 Rock on y'all.🤘😎🤘
My game-changers list (no order): 2112, Are You Experienced, Rubber Soul, The Cars debut album, Ghosts Of The Great Highway, Purple Rain, Synchronicity, Physical Graffiti, Never Mind, Pleased To Meet Me, Nothing’s Shocking, Back In Black, So by Peter Gabriel, Blood On The Tracks, Under a Blood Red Sky, The Dreaming by Kate Bush, Boston debut album, Blues For The Red Sun, Trace by Son Volt, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
Hello Pete. I'm a Brit. Never sent a comment to you before, but... First thing that ever really obsessed me was We sold our Souls for R n R by the Sabs - with the lady in the coffin on the inside. Never heard music like that, I must have been 12 yrs old. At a mates house, and it belonged to his brother. Best wishes.
This was the first Sabbath album I heard. I was 13 years old and it was the one that changed my life in terms of music. It was the first one I thought of when I read the title of this show.
@@aovermont A wonderful band and one of the very first that I got into - hence being in my Top 20 as an Album That Changed My Life. With that said, I prefer Electric Warrior now having heard it since, but The Slider was the first and had a lot of the singles at the time on it as well.
Summer of 1976 July 5th first concert I ever saw. Slade when they were touring "In Flame". They talked about how neat it was flying in at night and seeing the fireworks displays. When Rock and Roll WAS FUN!!
@@williamgoodsene6048 I was at the legendary Reading Festival appearance in 1980 when they made their well-deserved come back and destroyed every other band that had been on that weekend - and it was a great line up too.
Amazing video Pete. And FYI; your story on buying Iron Maiden’s Killers based on the album cover is exactly my story. I was in a record store in downtown Toronto back in 1981 that specializes in imports. When I saw that album cover, I took a chance and was not disappointed. I went back to the store the next day and picked up their first album and never looked back. This is why I will always have a soft spot for the Paul Di’Anno era. Thanks for sharing your stories.
To me was Accept - Restless & Wild, Slayer - Show no Mercy, Metallica - Kill 'em All, Savatage - Hail of the Mountain King, Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, Iron Maiden - Killers, AC-DC - Highway to hell, Motorhead - Another Perfect Day, Raven - All for One, Mercyful Fate- Melissa, King Diamond - Abigail, Destruction - Sentence of Death, Suicidal Tendencies - Lights, Camera, Revolution, Faith no More - The Real Thing, Alice in Chains - Dirt, Satan - Court in The Act
Love it, Pete. Here’s mine: The Beatles - Meet the Beatles Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Greatest Hits soundtrack - The Sting Kiss - Alive II Wings - Wings Over America soundtrack - Star Wars The Charles Lloyd Quartet - Love In Jethro Tull - Live: Bursting Out Rush - Moving Pictures Yes - Close to the Edge King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King The Who - Who’s Next Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage Act 1 various - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 Love - Forever Changes Bob Dylan - Biograph Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear John Coltrane - Afro Blue Impressions Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Gear Blues David Gilmour - Live in Gdańsk
Nothing affected my life like Scenes from a Memory. I picked it up from Best Buy around 2000 on a whim, after hearing just a few DT songs. Since that day, not only has it remained my all time favorite, but it inspired me to try to take guitar playing to the next level
Great storytelling Pete. I started a decade before you but relate to much of your selection. Most of these have aged very well, off the top of my head: Beatles - Sgt Pepper, Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Pink Floyd - Meddle, Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards, The Who - Quadrophenia, Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill, Santana - Caravanserai, Yes - Yessongs, Genesis - Foxtrot, Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before, Pat Metheny Group - American Garage, Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Paul Simon - Anthology, Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy, Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority, Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Live Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Wishbone Ash - Argus Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Steely Dan - The Royal Scam Yes - Fragile Tommy Bolin - Teaser Aerosmith - Rocks Camel - Moonmadness Heart - Dog & Butterfly Glenn Hughes - Play Me Out Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise Tears For Fears - The Hurting Jeff Beck - There and Back Fairport Convention - The History of Fairport Convention Toto - IV U2 - War Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
@kevinmcgrath7183 yeah, I was mainly a rock fan at the time, but hearing that Fairport History album was my introduction to how interesting & varied folk & folk-rock music could be.
Fantastic list and great accompanying stories, Pete! I'm more of a New Wave/Synth-pop/College/Alternative/Punk/Indie/jazz music fan but my appreciation for metal, prog and other off-the-radar stuff has increased considerably over the years, and thanks to this channel, I own copies of King Crimson's Red, Gentle Giant's Octopus, The Tangent's Auto Reconnaissance, Fleetwood Mac's Then Play On, Genesis's Nursery Crime and City Boy's Young Men Gone West. Here's my personal list of 25 life-changing albums, in chronological order of purchase/discovery: 1. Business as Usual - Men at Work 2. Synchronicity - The Police 3. Reach the Beach - The Fixx 4. English Settlement - XTC 5. The Hurting - Tears For Fears 6. The Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting 7. Crush - OMD 8. Please - Pet Shop Boys 9. Crowded House - s/t 10. The Joshua Tree - U2 11. Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk 12. Rubber Soul - The Beatles 13. Reckoning - R.E.M. 14. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays 15. Greatest Hits - The Jam 16. Never Mind the Bollocks... - The Sex Pistols 17. London Calling - The Clash 18. Nevermind - Nirvana 19. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine 20. The Stone Roses - s/t 21. The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips 22. The Best of - The Velvet Underground 23. Candy Apple Grey - Husker Du 24. Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair 25. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
For me (not in a particular order): Van Halen II The Police: Synchronicity Scorpions: Lovedrive Rush: Signals Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengeance Queensryche: Rage for Order Stevie Ray Vaughan: Couldn't Stand the Weather Def Leppard: Pyromania Tesla: Mechanical Resonance
Abba - The Album Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King Hawkwind - In Search Of Space Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail ELP - Tarkus Renaissance - Prologue Yes - Close To The Edge Heart - Little Queen Led Zeppelin - IV Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Barclay James Harvest - Eyes Of The Universe Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children Camel - Rain Dances Vangelis - Heaven And Hell
Thank you Pete, you reminded me of so many albums that I have and don't give anywhere near enough time on the playlist. I need to go back a little myself and spend some quality time with these beauties. Great list, a few new to me too.
Fascinating stuff Pete, enjoyed all your "ins" to the various band and genres. Im not sur if I'll get to 20, but Ive been trying to think of albums that did the same for me. The first couple, though, are albums I heard at home before I'd really heard any rock music, but which i remember gave me a love for a tune, a chorus... so here goes... 1 ABBA Greatest Hits 2 Neal DIAMOND Hot August Night (Now the rock stuff, and Pete and I share some bands, albeit different albums...) 3. RAINBOW Down To Earth (All Night Long was the first hard rock riff i remember hearing leading me very quickly to Deep Purple and the other offshoot bands) 4. AC/DC If You Want Blood 5 BLACK SABBATH Master of Reality 6 IRON MAIDEN Iron Maiden 7 MARILLION Script For A Jester's Tear ( not really into prog at all until I heard this) 8 JOURNEY Escape 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Striktly For Konnoisseurs (a double album on Music For Nations that gave me an in to North American 70s/early 80s bands like ANGEL, LEGS DIAMOND, STARZ, MAX WEBSTER, MOXY, ZON, STARCASTLE etc 10 METALLICA Kill Em All 11 DREAM THEATER When Dream & Day Unite 12 RAMMSTEIN Mutter 13 NIGHTWISH Century Child 14 OPETH Ghost Reveries
Thanks Pete. An outstanding episode. Its been a long time since i enjoyed one of your shows as much as this one. Now it's time to start thinking about my own list.
I can only repeat what paulsimister944 wrote. I'm on vacation right now so I don't have as much time as I should have on commenting this wonderful show which was a highlight on SoT over the last three years, at least for me. It came unexpected so I have to think about my own list for the next few days and will comment again later. Thanks Pete for your recollections which were so personal and instructive at the same time as most of your shows - and what is very important for me, without any editing as on many youtube-shows.
Queen-A Night at the Opera Dream Theater-Images and Words Death-The Sound of Perserverence Opeth-Still Life Testament-The Gathering Arch Enemy-Burning Bridges
“Bohemian Rhapsody” was the first song I ever heard on a nice stereo. Ran out the next day and bought their entire catalogue used on cassette. Queen II is another one.
Love your list, Pete. I could only come up with 15 that have significant impact on my life. They are pretty much all in the same genre but these are the 15 albums I still listen to these days and have never stopped listening to them for the most part. 15. Foreigner - Double Vision 14. Def Leppard - Pyromania 13. Kiss - Rock and Roll Over 12. Boston - Self Titled 11. Scorpions - Blackout 10. The Cars - Self Titled 9. Dokken - Tooth and Nail 8. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance 7. Rush - Moving Pictures 6. Kiss - Alive II 5. Journey - Departure 4. Styx - Piece of Eight 3. Van Halen - I 2. Bryan Adams - Reckless 1. ELO - Out of the Blue
I like your choices. My list : Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon Supertramp - Crime of the century Steely Dan - Can´t buy a thrill The Smiths - The Queen is dead The Waterboys - This is the Sea Pavlov´s Dog - Pampered Menial Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood Television - Marquee Moon Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea Pixies - Doolittle Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Pink Floyd - The Wall Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Gang of Four - Entertainment!
The Beatles - The Beatles Second Album (American version) Elton John - Madman Across The Water Allman Brothers - Beginnings (First Two Albums) Eddie Harris &Les McCann - Swiss Movement Stevie Wonder - Talking Book Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On Dan Fogelberg - Souvenirs Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and The Englishmen The Who - Who’s Next Kansas - Leftoveture Robin Trower - Twice Removed From Yesterday Paul Simon - Kodachrome Loggins and Messina - Sittin’ In Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Tower of Power - Bump City George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
1.Loverboy-S/T (my introduction to music) 2.Joe Satriani-Strange Beautiful Music (my introduction to instrumental rock) 3.Steve Vai-Passion and Warfare 4.Yngwie Malmsteen-Rising Force 5.Michael Angelo Batio-No Boundaries 6.Whitesnake-S/T 7.Electric Sun-Fire Wind 8.Scorpions-Taken by Force 9.Dokken-Tooth and Nail 10.Kiss-S/T 11.UFO-Lights Out 12.Eloy-Power and the Passion (the moment prog really clicked with me and I realized how much I loved it) 13.Kansas-Point of Know Return 14.Asia-S/T 15.Robin Trower-Twice Removed From Yesterday 16.Return to Forever-Romantic Warrior (my introduction to jazz fusion) 17.Electric Light Orchestra-Face the Music (the first non-heavy pop album I really fell in love with, broadening my horizons to non-heavy music) 18.Jefferson Starship-Winds of Change (opened my eyes up to the magnificence of female vocalists in rock and metal) 19.Trouble-Psalm 9 (my introduction to doom) 20.Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Pete, great show! So different... My 10 picks: Triumvirat - Spartacus Tommy - Original soundtrack from the movie Nazareth - Greatest Hits Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy Kraftwerk - Autobahn Gary Glitter - Greatest Hits Grand Funk Railroad - We are an American Band Beatles - Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Fuckin' good old times!!!!
Hey Pete 👋 Love your show. Been watching for many years now. Loved your list. Your passion and love for the music shines through. Here’s my list: 20) can - tago mago 19) king crimson - lark’s tongue in aspic 18) ennio morricone - the good, the bad, the ugly movie soundtrack 17) Nino rota - Fellini movie soundtracks 16) king crimson - lizard 15) manic street preachers - know your enemy 14) the Beatles - magical mystery tour 13) thin Lizzy - Chinatown 12) led zeppelin - led zeppelin four 11) smashing pumpkins - Mellon collie and the infinite sadness 10) the Beatles - sergeant pepper’s lonely hearts club band 9) yes - close to the edge 8 van der grave generator - H to He who I am the only one 7) Beethoven - 3rd symphony 6) thin Lizzy - black rose 5) thin Lizzy - jailbreak 4) the Beatles - revolver 3) yes - fragile 2) flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots 1) king crimson - in the court of the crimson king
#1 The Who - Tommy #2 Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits #3 The Beatles - Sgt Pepper #4 Deep Purple - Machine Head #5 Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll #6 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On #7 The Kinks - Greatest Hits #8 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run #9 The Ramones - The Ramones #10 Rush - All The World's A Stage This is just a short list off the top of my head. There are so many more and I know that I left out some crucial ones.
Great subject, show, episode!!! Cheers Pete!!! for me: 1) Kiss - Rock'n Roll all Over 2) Metallica - Kill'em all 3) Black Sabbath - Paranoid 4) Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 5) Black Sabbath - Volume 4 6) Black Sabbath - Sabbotage 7) Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 8) Deep Purple - Machine Head 9) Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman 10) Queen - A Day at the Races 11) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust 12) David Bowie - The man who sold the World 13) Slayer - Hell Awaits 14) Slayer - Reign in Blood 15) Billy Squier - Don't Say No 16) Saxon Power and the Glory 17) AC/DC Highway To Hell 18) Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith 19) Motley Crue - Too Fast for love 20) Ozzy - Speak of the Devil
Led Zeppelin IV , Grand Funk Railroad Live , Queen News Of The World, KISS Alive, Metallica Ride The Lightning Jeff Beck Blow By Blow, Miles Davis Jack Johnson , Return To Forever Live 76 , Gary Moore Still Got the Blues, Bob Marley Legend , SRV Couldn't Stand the Weather , Van Halen 1 , Jimi Are You Experienced , David Bowie Diamond Dogs , In Flames Reroute to Remain , Beatles Meet The Beatles , Rolling Stones Let It Bleed , Queensryche Operation Mindcrime , Janes Addiction Nothings Shocking , Faith No More The Real Thing.
There's context. As an 11 year old, the live GF album inspired/allowed me to learn bass and I learned the whole album. That led to more bands and albums and switching to guitar and playing live and meeting my wife and 3 kids, 4 grandkids and 54 years later, I still play. I learned most of what I needed to get started from that album. So it definitely changed my life.
Hi Pete. Excellent show. Here is 6 of my albums that changed my life. 1. Black Sabbath - Debut 2. Accept - Restless and Wild - This album introduced me to NWOBHM and heavier music in the 80's even though this may not be a NWOBHM album. 3. Savatage - Edge Of Thorns 4. Megadeth - Rust In Peace 5. Captain Beyond - This album introduced me to all the other obscure rock and prog rock of the 70's. Specifically from my Brother In Laws at the time. 6 Led Zeppelin - Debut
The 20 albums that changed my life (in no particular order): Deep Purple: Machine Head Yes: Yessongs America: Homecoming The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Elton John: Madman Across the Water Black Sabbath: Paranoid Shawn Phillips: Rumplestiltskin's Resolve Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (') Santana: Abraxas Genesis: A Trick of the Tail CCR: Cosmo's Factory The Guess Who: Share the Land Kate Bush: The Kick Inside The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's The Sex Pistols Joan Armatrading: Joan Armatrading David Bowie: Station to Station Lana del Rey: Born to Die Strawbs: Hero and Heroine Depeche Mode: Violator Here's 20 more ... just for kicks: Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear Steppenwolf: Live Roy Buchanan: Roy Buchanan Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies Supertramp: Crime of the Century Gordon Lightfoot: Don Quixote Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick Linda Ronstadt: Canciones de mi Padre The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers and Sisters Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman Symphonic Slam: Symphonic Slam Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure Crowded House: Temple of Low Men Dead Can Dance: Aion Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth Bob Dylan: Desire Rush: 2112 Soundgarden: Superunknown Split Enz: Time and Tide Screaming Trees: Dust Also: Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom System of a Down: Toxicity The Police: Regatta de Blanc Joe Jackson: Night and Day Duran Duran: Notorious Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain The Fixx: Phantoms The Beatles: Rubber Soul The Perth County Conspiracy: Does Not Exist The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Carly Simon: Anticipation Mahogany Rush: IV Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy The The: Dusk Yes, a LOT of albums changed my life! 😁
AC-DC If you want blood Back in black Highway to hell they were the very first metal/rock albums I heard my older brother playing when I was only about 7 and I was instantly hooked. I then discovered iron maiden live after death, and the first album I owned myself was seventh son my favorite maiden. My late mother bought me it on tape and a Sony walkman for my tenth birthday it was just released and the guy in the record store recommended it to her. I played it out as I stared and read the mysterious inner lyrics and illustrations.
Paranoid changed everything for me. After that album I was hooked on heavy metal. Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Saxon, Rainbow, are just a few that I ended up grapping their material.
Pink Floyd Animals- This album got me into Pink Floyd. Made me realize I underestimated this band and there was much more to discover. I ended buying all their albums. Genesis Nursery Cryme- The Musical Box blew my mind away. This wasn't the same band I grew up with in the 80's. This was top notch Progressive Rock. This album made me a Genesis fan and I quickly discovered they were the cream of the crop in 70's Prog Rock. King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King- This really is the album that feels like the days of proto-Prog were over and this set the standard for the future. It's got dated keyboards but it doesn't matter because they sound timeless on this album. Queensryce Operation Mindcrime- Like Iron Maiden meets Pink Floyd meets Andrew Lloyd Webber. My cousin introduced me to this album and I couldn't believe what I was listening to. My intro to Prog Metal. Dream Theater The Astonishing- Dream Theater was the first Metal band that felt like authentic Prog Rock. The real deal. This album was something entirely different. A lot of people complain about it. I think it's one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. Listened to it again and again. Tears for Fears The Hurting- The best Progressive Pop band ever. While Yes, Genesis, and Pink Floyd disappointed me with their 80's albums Tears for Fears ruled the world. Some of the best albums of the 80's and their debut is just spectacular. Big Big Train English Electric Full Power- The ultimate retro Prog band. Reminds me of the best parts of the 70's. And it's extremely consistent from start to finish. Beautiful and wonderful songs I absolutely love. Like putting the old picture in a new frame. This was better than a classic Genesis reunion! Rush Hemispheres- Cygnus Book II is one epic of an epic. Very power driven, atmospheric, and adventurous. So is the rest of the album. I love A Farewell to Kings but this is the pinacle of their career. Steely Dan Aja- I love Jazz. I love what Donald Fagan and Walter Becker can do with it turning it into Pop and Rock songs. This album is brilliant. It never gets tiring and had me hooked from the first listen.
calvin'll become even angrier when he discovers people across YT that like pink floyd (they say) but dislike animals. it isn't my fave but you won't find me bashing a band who'd made 3 classics in a row between 71 and 75 and release that fine record. i'll have to look into big big train.@@glenfinston704
Thanks Pete for this great video. I very much enjoyed your Top 20 and your Stories. It was a pleasure to do the same exercise. Sorry for the length….. 1. Dinu Lipatti plays Bach. Probably my first music/LP experience being 0-2 years. Now I am 59 and I’m still discovering and enjoying Bach’s music. 2. Mud: Mud Rock. This was my first LP, so therefore highly influential. 3. Oscar Peterson: Night Train. My late father’s favourite jazz pianist. This album gave me a broad pallet of Jazz. From C Jam Blues via Georgia on my Mind to the beautiful Hymn to Freedom, the latter with Bach’s serenity. Glad I saw Oscar several times live at North Sea Jazz Festival. 4. Deep Purple Made in Japan and / or Made in Europe. I often thought if I can take one double LP to a Desert Island I’ll take the LP with Lazy & Strange kinda Woman from MiJ together with MiE and out them in the MiJ double-sleeve. Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord (Bach fan), the best musical couple in rock history. 5. The Rolling Stones: Get yer ya-ya’s out. Live versions of Honky Tonk Woman, Sympathy for the devil, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, …. everything. THE reason to pick up a guitar by myself. (Blackmore was too unreachable.) 6. David Bowie: Changesonebowie. A compilation so a little cheating here. For me it started with the single (less expensive) Space Oddity, re-released in 1975 in The Netherlands, that release was related to Changesonebowie. 7. Herman Brood’s Wild Romance: Cha Cha. Perfect energy for a 13 yr old kid. Fantastic Dutch band: great guitarplayer Dany Lademacher, & Herman Brood was a fine blues pianoplayer (bluesfans check out Cuby & the Blizzards 1967-1974) 8. Lou Reed: Live and / or Berlin. I loved the heavy double guitarsound of Live and also the darkside of Berlin; both new experiences for me. And ofcourse Lou’s voice. 9. Jan Akkerman: Jan Akkerman. Probably my first Jazz-fusion (& lute!, so eclectic is a better word) album. Opened my ears for new directions. Fantastic guitarist, also from Focus (best track Sylvia) 10. Steve Winwood Talking back to the Night. Highly overlooked album. Beautiful compositions in terms of chords (changes), nice synths sound (which is rare) and what a voice. Valerie, It was happiness, timeless pieces. 11. Donald Fagen: The Nightfly. Amazing musicality with the best possible musicians. Great songs, all of them. 12. Jeff Beck: There and back. Completely blown away by Jan Hammer’s and Tony Hymas compositions and the playing of Jeff, Jan and also drummer Simon Phillips. Dynamics of the album is superb. 13. Billy Cobham: Spectrum. Following Jan Hammer and also Deep Purple’s Mark IV guitarist Tommy Bolin. First track Quadrant 4 blew me away, thanks to Billy’s drums & the band. 14. Miles Davis: Bags’ Groove. My first Miles was Tallest Trees, a 2CD Prestige compilation. Bags’ Groove, with Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson (Bags) was part of it. This opened new Jazz horizons: Monk, Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones, and via the 2LP sleevetext Gil Evans, Bill Evans 15. Clare Fischer: Jazz Song. Solo piano by this great arranger and harmonizer. Later he also arranged for Prince (Parade!). Beautiful voicings of Here’s that rainy day. His Salsa Picante was also a new experience; big band latin with a capella voicings. Beautiful in rhythm and harmonies. 16. Lennie Tristano: Lennie Tristano. Totally new Jazz piano experience. I was flabbergasted. So original playing and beautiful melodies. 17. Miles Davis: The Man with the Horn. First ‘Nice price’ Electric Miles. Mike Stern’s Fat Time solo was rough. Marcus Miller’s Bass funky as ….. & Miles melting it together. Later on Star People became my favourite from this Stern & Scofield period. 18. John Scofield: Still Warm. Wow. That was a moment. What a guitarplayer, what great compositions, what a band with Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Don Grolnick. Sound on Gramavision Records was also stunning. 19. Massive Attack: Blue Lines. Start of electro dance. Great tunes and Billy Cobham’s Stratus revisited. For dance I should also mention Chic’s Risqué; Nile Rodgers’ subtile funk aka disco. In this timeline ca. number 10. 20. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. I postponed this Miles classic, probably my nr. 10+ Miles buy. Classic indeed, introduction to pianist Bill Evans, modal scales, and via Bill also Ravel, Rachmaninov, Debussy. Now I realize that Oliver Nelsons’ The Blues and the abstract Truth could, or should be this number 20. I bought ON before KoB. Also with Bill Evans, and beautiful Horn voicings, modal scales too. Last one I must mention: 21. UK: Night after night. Live album from this beyond everything progrock group. Eddie Jobson, John Wetton, Terry Bozio and also Allan Holdsworth and Bill Bruford (on the UK album) all geniuses on their instrument, including John’s voice. Catched me more than other earlier progs like Yes, Genesis, ELP. So -a little late- it opened new musical prog directions. All 20 I still listen to Today. Great albums by great artist, apparently timeless (for me). Thanks Pete to force me into this exercise. Now you know everything. All the best!
Deep Purple - Made in Japan. Actually it was a DP concert that I saw on the American leg of the Made in Japan tour - BEFORE the album was recorded in Japan. When I heard the album when it was released in 1973 I thought it could have been recorded at the concert I saw - same set list. That show - and album - ABSOLUTELY changed my life. . Never realized a band could be so good live. After that I became a total music junky.
Similar here, although it was Fireball for me. Fireball was my first Purple experience and Fools to this day is my favourite Purple song. But MIJ was a revelation. What an album. What a performance. After that, Focus At The Rainbow and Focus 3.
Kiss was definitely my gateway into heavier music. Kiss is the reason I enjoy bands like Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Motorhead and Deep Purple. Before Kiss I was really only listening to 80s new wave and The Eagles. But since I began listening to Kiss it has really opened the doors to a wider range of rock for me
Love your take on Woodstock. I was 13 years old in New Zealand at the time and only heard about it afterwards by the time I was about 16/17… by then it had become a legendary festival of music. To your question, which albums changed my life: Stand Up, Jethro Tull Benefit, Jethro Tull Aqualung, Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick, Jethro Tull A Passion Play, Jethro Tull Warchild, Jethro Tull Minstrel In The Gallery, Jethro Tull Stormwatch, Jethro Tull Disraeli Gears, Cream Wheels Of Fire, Cream The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic Nursery Cryme, Genesis Foxtrot, Genesis The Yes Album, Yes Fragile, Yes Salisbury, Uriah Heep Who’s Next, The Who So, pretty obvious that my favourite band of all time is Jethro Tull and I was lucky enough to catch Ian Anderson with his current iteration of JT this last December for one of his Christmas concerts at the magnificent York Minster… wonderful experience having travelled there from Australia and meeting up with fans with whom I had previously conversed with in Facebook fan groups… was fabulous! ❤️❤️❤️
Pink Floyd The Wall (not their best imho but I had it on repeat all thru high school) Michael Jackson Thriller, first album I bought Styx Paradise Theater, first rock album I bought, listened to it endlessly Willie Dixon I Am the Blues. Blew my mind listening to it in college Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind. Bought this when it came out, not really knowing anything about him. Perfect album and opened a door into an entire genre Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, first metal album I ever “got.” Warren Zevon My Ride’s Here. I honestly thought the guy was a comedic singer like Weird Al until I heard Genius Ruby the Hatchet Planetary Space Child. First time I got into a band that was in its prime. Opened my eyes to how much great music is still being made. Favorite band to this day. Beth Hart Leave the Light On. Great singing and music but also unbelievably raw personal lyrics illustrating the effects of childhood trauma. I was an attorney for mostly homeless clients at the time and the album was like therapy for me. Joe Bonamassa Dust Bowl his best album imho. Got me back into blues after decades Paul Simon Graceland felt totally out there at the time but I couldn’t stop listening to it Hayes Carll KMAG YOYO totally changed my mind about country music Joan Osborne Relish. I hate her only hit but the rest is great. First gf in high school, a woman older than me, was obsessed with it and the album became the soundtrack to the summer I…well, the summer she taught me a lot. :; That’s about it, without repeating bands or admitting my Spin Doctors phase.
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Eagles - Hotel California The Beatles - Abbey Road Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes Rush - Moving Pictures U2 - War David Bowie - ChangesOneBowie Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run Prince - Purple Rain Talking Heads - Remain In Light REM - Reckoning The Clash - London Calling The Replacements - Tim Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Husker Du - Flip Your Wig Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Radiohead - The Bends Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
I don't know if there were 20 albums that changed my (musical) life, but there were a handful. Here they are in order of when I discovered them..... 1. "Dark Side of the Moon". The first album I became aware of as a complete work and not just a collection of songs. I first heard this album around the time it came out via my older brother (I would have been 9 yrs old, he was 18). This was a no-skip album, meaning I wouldn't skip over any song in order to hear a hit. 2. "Alive" from Kiss. Also discovered around the time of its release, one of the kids in my class brought this in for music day where we could split up into groups and listen to records on those all-in-one recored players that any kid from the '70s would recognize. The whole atmosphere of the album hooked me pretty quickly. 3. Boston's debut. A massive album from the Summer/Fall of 1976. A phenomenal album that has never left my album rotation no matter what musical direction I was leaning towards. 4. Led Zeppelin's debut. I listened to this for the first time in its entirety in the Fall of '78 (I was 14). No album before or since had such an immediate impact on me. I was shocked when the last strains of "How Many More Times" were drifting away as the album came to a close. From this point on I would have hard rock on the top of my list of favored musical genres. Jimmy Page became my first guitar hero because of this album......and really the first guitar player I became aware of as an individual. If I had ever pursued music as a career in one form or another (I've been a bad guitar player for a long time now), I would have to list this album as my #1 influence for that decision. Honorable Mentions to "Band on the Run", "The Kids are Alright", "Live at Leeds", "Goodbye" from Cream, "Paranoid", "Machine Head", "Endless Summer" from the Beach Boys, "The Wall", and Glen Campbell's greatest hits. Thanks, Pete.
Great list, Pete. So many of these would be very high on my list as well. Love that you have Miles and Mahavishnu yet also have KISS and Sabbath. Genesis and Rush. Terrific stuff!
For me it was seeing Jethro Tull live in 1972 on the Thick as a Brick tour from that day forward. That album and that band has dominated my life. I mean, I love Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd. Everybody like that, but Tull just Swept me away it's been the soundtrack of my life now
Great stuff, Pete. My gamechanger album didn't happen until I was 15 years old in 1984, and that was Fugazi by Marillion. Heard "Assassing" pn Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show, and WOW. Life changed.
1. Genesis- TOTT. Introduced me to the band in 1976 and changed my music taste for prog forever. 2. Genesis- Foxtrot my fav album of all time 3. Yes - CTTE 4. ELP BSS 5. Kansas Debut 6. Beatles White 7. Wings Band on the Run 8. Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick 9. Rush Farewell to Kings 10. Pink Floyd DSOTM 11. Peter Gabriel Car 12. Steve Hackett Voyage 13. Blind Faith 14. Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 15. ELO Out if the Blue 16. Zappa Roxy and Elsewhere 17. Led Zep 4 18. Neal Morse Band Similitude of a Dream 19. Deep Purple Machine Head 20 Jeff Beck Wired Not in a particular order
Great list, Pete! Here are the first 20 that I could think of...trying to keep it to one by each artist AC/DC - High Voltage [U.S. version] The Beach Boys - Endless Summer The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper Boston - Boston The Cars - The Cars Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick [1977] Hawkwind - Levitation KISS - Destroyer Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Metallica - Ride the Lightning Pink Floyd - Animals Queen - A Night at the Opera Ramones - Rocket to Russia Rush - Hemispheres Slayer - Reign in Blood UFO - Obsession Van Halen - Van Halen Wall of Voodoo - Wall of Voodoo [EP] X - Los Angeles Yes - Drama
Yeah...how did I overlook them?? The first album that I got of theirs was "We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll" so that would be my choice for the most life-changing. It opened the door to all of their albums and album tracks. I love all of their stuff. I thought of 20 quick life-changers, but I honestly think that I could list ten times that.
My 20 Game Changers.... 20. Eat A Peach - ALLMAN BROTHERS 19. The Grand Illusion - STYX 18. One More From The Road - LYNYRD SKYNYRD 17. Changesonebowie - DAVID BOWIE 16. Close To The Edge - YES 15. Duke - GENESIS 14. We Sold Our Souls For Rock n Roll - BLACK SABBATH 13. Slowhand - ERIC CLAPTON 12. Machine Head - DEEP PURPLE 11. 2112 - RUSH 10. Toys In The Attic - AEROSMITH 09. I - VAN HALEN 08. Shakedown Street- GRATEFUL DEAD 07. 13 - The DOORS 06. Hotel California - EAGLES 05. The Wall - PINK FLOYD 04. 67-70 - BEATLES 03. Hot Rocks - ROLLING STONES 02. The Kids Are Alright - THE WHO 01. II - LED ZEPPELIN
Awesome video! This is why I like SoT... (too much pop and pop-metal lately I hate to say), but then again you're celebrating 1984... and it's your site... This is a more-or-less chronological order of my influences. Foreigner- Head Games.. as a 13 year old my first "rock" album... still dig it! Black Sabbath -Paranoid... after my AoR phase, metal ruled my teenaged world! And I do still like it as a musical texture Deep Purple- Made in Japan... intense heavy jams... still love this album! Iron Maiden- Killers.. Got me into TNWOBM in a big way at 15 Wishbone Ash- Argus.. proto Jam rock.. I also would put Uriah Heep in this category Budgie- In for the Kill... I bought as an import at SoundWarehouse... still love it Miles- We Want Miles... after I saw MD on SNL I learned heavy rock guitar could co-exist with jazz Mahavishnu Orchestra- Best of.. on Cassette introduced me to this amazing heavy rock/Jazz Rock sound! Coltrane- Village Vanguard Live.. Jazz could be mind-blowing and like metal but with horns Santana-Caravanserai... hands down my fav Album ever! Basement Tapes- the (Hated) Bob Dylan let me understand how rootsie rock could be combined with "beat" poetry fueled lyrics Miles- In a Silent Way.. ambient beauty on a long Summer night Pearl Jam- only really like 10 but it helped me realize rock could still be a serious artForm after cartoonish music ruled the 80s (to me) The Flaming Lips- Transmissions From the Satellite Heart... at the start alternative/indie could be so much fun and interesting Truly- Fast Stories From Kid Coma- The ultimate post-Soundgarden rock jam! Sublime! NO ONE KNOWS THIS GREAT ALBUM Material- Hallucination Engine- Miles via Bill Laswell in the 90s... Great textures and worldbeats, and William S. Burroughs too GodSpeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. Post-Rock kicks butt just like metal can to me Hawkwind- In Search of Space.. got a record for like around 3 dollars.. blew my mind Ozric Tentacles- Strangeitude... Still my Fav Ozrics Album! The Orb- The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld- Wow! I really don't hate all dance/trance music after all this coming from a "Disco Sucks" MetalHead youth!) Pink Floyd- not my fav Floyd album today but indispensable to 14 year old me! Amon Duul II- Dance of the Lemmings... gateway into so-called "Kraut" rock.. Heavy guitar rock, texture, and ambience! Superb!
Really great idea, Pete. Like you make clear, this is not about the favorite/best albums, but the ones that got you enthused in a special way, or took you down new paths. All of us here on SoT are passionate about music, and for us, music is something that we connect to on an emotional level, so talking about these albums in this way is very appropriate. Thank-you for triggering these types of thoughts in me, and I am sure, many others.
Excellent video Pete!!! For me, here we go in no specific order. Doris Day a 78 of I'll never stop loving you. I was two years old. The beauty of her voice and the music itself. Black Sabbath paranoid. I was in grade 7 when the album was released. The songs were so engrained in me that as a young teenager enlightened me.i was on the school bus coming home from school in 1972. I was looking at the LP on the bus and was stunned. Arvo part. This Estonian composer made me more aware of what beautiful arrangements with vocals could sound like. Philip glass not much to say about his recordings. They are mesmerizing. Twisted my brain musically. Miles Davis bitches brew. No doubt Miles most intriguing recording that sent me into another direction. Led Zeppelin first album. I can't even describe the feelings I felt after hearing it for the first time. Kl,aus Shultz I can't remember the name of the album. When I first got into radio, my co host was into his music. I could not believe the beautiful intracacies of his music. Maria callas la boheme. A beautiful version of this classic opera. What a voice and what an effect on my life. Kill switch engage. Not sure what the album was but I felt like electricity was running through my body.
My first album: Catch Bull at Four by Cat Stevens (purchased in Madrid) - My 5th Form at school album: Schools Out by Alice Cooper - My first gig album: Crime of the Century by Supertramp - my favourite university gig album: New Boots and Panties by Ian Dury and the Blockheads - my first job album: The Stranger by Billy Joel - my first Bruce Springsteen album: Born to Run - Will be ticking off a first bucket list wish by experiencing Bruce live at Wembley Stadium on 25 July 2024. We’re both getting on a bit!
Plenty of albums had an impact on me. Life being changed...JP Hell Bent for Leather led me to never take anyone's shit ever again. Son House Father of the Delta Blues just shook me to the core... I just was Reborn. Tom Waits Jersey Girl and I was born yet again.
No matter that I've heard Pete tell most of these stories many times before, I still enjoy listening to them, it's like part of Sea Of Tranquility folklore by now!
Can't wait for the next, and last, BOC album Ghost Stories. The whole project sounds like a fun and appropriate way for them to go out. My twenty would be: Wings - Greatest Hits Boz Scaggs - Middle Man Billy Joel - 52nd Street Eagles - Hotel California ELO - Time Bee Gees - Greatest Hits (Later in life I wished this album had also included their earlier hits, but that would have made it a 4 album set.) Led Zeppelin - IV The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin The Cars - S/T Foghat - Fool For the City Earth, Wind and Fire - Greatest Hits Yes - Fragile Jethro Tull - Aqualung Pink Floyd - The Wall Black Sabbath - Paranoid Van Halen - S/T K-Tel Pure Gold Collection (It had The Things We Do For Love, Year of the Cat and other pop/rock/disco hits.) Styx - Paradise Theater King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Hey Pete, great video. I went to New Paltz in the 80's too. Grew up in Cornwall, live in New Windsor and we have similar tastes. I love mostly Prog but by now, at 60, I'm open to many styles (not rap, country or opera) and recently I'm more into certain old Jazz, Blues and Gentle Giant (Giants of Prog that I somehow missed, growing up.) I read "The Memoirs of Billy Shears" last year. Quite an eye opener, since you mentioned McCartney. Thanks, man.
There are three albums that had a serious impact on my life. The White Album Blood on the Tracks Meddle Never mind the music, these albums changed the way I look at life.
I loved music since I can remember and I lived with my grandmother for the first 9 years of my life. My aunt was still living at home and she was a Beatles freak, so I got hooked on that band first. So here are 10 of my albums that influenced my musical tastes. I'll have to have The Beatles in my list, so in no particular order, here we go. By the way, I'm not picking any live albums and I'm a prog rock nut, so there will be a lot of prog rock albums. Abbey Road- The Beatles Days of Future Passed- Moody Blues Trilogy-ELP Close to the Edge-Yes Trespass-Genesis Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd Who's Next-The Who Houses of the Holy-Led Zeppelin Queen's first album My last album that influenced my taste was The Book Of Invasions by Horslips. I was always a fan of traditional Irish music being of that background, but when I heard this album I was blown away. Horslips played the traditional music but they rocked it up. They had Barry Devlin on bass and vocals, Johnny Fean a brilliant guitarist and vocals, Charles O'Connor on the fiddle and mandolin, Jim Lockhart on keyboards and Eamon Carr on drums. They were amazing and I was lucky enough to see them back in the mid 70's.
Here are mine, in chronological order to me discovering them: • Sgt. Peppers - my dad had eclectic taste, this stood out • Dark Side Of The Moon • Rush - Permanent Waves • Van Halen I - Eddie! • Unleashed In The East • Iron Maiden - debut • Hawkwind - Levitation • Metallica - Kill 'Em All • Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien • Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair • Artrosis - In The Flower's Shade (Polish Gothic metal) • Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light (post-metal) • Alkaloid - Numen (recent progressive death metal that has re-awakened my love of heavy, imaginative music).
Excellent Pete! I turned 13 in 1970 so if I put a list together it would be different but I enjoyed yours. My sisters were much older than me but I remember them screaming at The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. When they got married they left me a plethora of 45s which I absorbed like a sponge. So when I did turn 13 I was well on my way as far as music went. And I’ve loved music ever since.
Yeah... Great topic.😃 1. AC/DC-Black Ice That album was what got me into rock and metal music. It was my first full album on CD I got way back on Christmas 2008, aged 10. AC/DC are still my favorite band and even though I did not listen to it recently, I really still like it very much. 2.Genesis-We Can't Dance My dad used to listen to this album when I was little and what should I say... Some day it just stuck with me and I got deeper into Genesis. That and a free Ray Wilson concert in 2017 made me a full-blown Genesis fan. 3.Metallica-Metallica Back in 2013 the "Black Album" was the first metal album I got into my CD collection, quickly followed by Black Sabbaths "13" and Iron Maidens "Flight 666 Soundtrack". 4.Stern Meißen-Reise Zum Mittelpunkt Des Menschen This east german prog masterpiece made me a huge fan of the band. I never really listened to keyboard oriented prog without guitars but damn that hit me hard. I couldn't get enough of those jazzy bass lines, awesome keyboard sounds and goosebump inducing vocals/lyrics. 5.Hans Lazer Alien Slam-Action Metal This album came out shortly after I got into synthwave. I never thought of mixing death metal and synthwave but this works great. The 80s action movie/wrestling/body building/neon/scifi image combined with synth and death metal music are awesome. This was also the first cassette tape I bought on bandcamp.
1- Iron Maiden : Piece of Mind 2- Dream Theater : Images and Words 3- The Mahavishnu Orchestra : Between Nothingness and Eternity 4- Return to Forever : Romantic Warrior 5- Debussy : Preludes/Images/Estampes (Arrau) 6- Wagner : Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti) 7- Frank Zappa : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 2 8- Schoenberg :Gurrelieder (Ozawa) 9- Steve Vai : Passion and Warfare 10- Miles Davis : Bitches Brew 11- Art Blakey : Moanin 12- Stravinsky : Rite of SPring/Petrouchka (Boulez) 13- Mahler : Symphony n°2 (Mehta) 14- Ravel : Piano Concerto in G/Piano Concerto for Lef Hand (François/Cluytens) 15- Steve Reich : Music For 18 Musicians 16- Keith Jarrett : Survivors Suite 17- Happy the Man : Happy the Man 18- National Health : Of Queues and Cures 19- Anthony Braxton : Dortmund Quartet 1976 20- Genesis : Nursery Cryme
1. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced? 2. ELP's First. 3. Led Zeppelin II. 4. Pink Floyd: Meddle. 5. Beatles White Album. 6. Yes: Close To The Edge. 7. Miles Davis Live At Fillmore. 8. Grateful Dead: Live Dead. 9. Traffic: John Barleycorn. 10. Woodstock. 11. Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orch. Pictures At An Exhibition. 12. Stravinsky Conducts The Rite Of Spring. 13. Schoenberg's Violin Concerto. 14. Weather Report: Heavy Weather. 15. Soundtrack 2001 A Space Odyssey feat. Ligeti's Atmospheres. 16. Bartok's Music For Strings, Percussion and Celest. 17. Genesis: A Trick Of The Tale. 18. John Cage: Williams Mix. 19. Gary Graffman Plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto #3. 20. Oh yeah, and Jethro Tull: Benefit. 🙂
6 important ones. 1975 - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman / Teaser And The Firecat 1977 - Kiss - Love Gun / Destroyer 1984 - Rush - Grace Under Pressure / Moving Pictures / Signals 1986 - Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love 1992 - Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes / Under The Pink 2001 - Opeth - Still Life / Blackwater Park Cat Stevens is my earliest music memory. Still remember my Oh Very Young 45. Tea For the Tillman and Teaser And The Firecat are still 2 of the finest albums ever. I discovered Kiss in 1977 when my mom of all people bought Love Gun. She didn't like it, but I loved it. Next was Destroyer and I was sold. Kiss freak for life. They and Rush are the two bands I still fanboy over the most. Although musically Rush has become my favourite, Kiss is the band I still seek the most information about and know the most about, podcast, collect, watch live, and still revisit old material. I discovered Rush in 84. My friend Jeff Saxinger was a Rush freak the whole time I was a Kiss freak and he was always trying to convert me, which is maybe why I resisted. But when Grace Under Pressure came out I could resist no more, and they have since become my all time favourite band musically. Then I discovered Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, and yes, a lot of 80s hard rock like Dokken, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Ratt, Whitesnake, White Lion, Tesla, and the almighty BADLANDS!!! RUSH also helped in my love of prog, making Queensryche, Fates Warning, Voivod, SavAtage, Dream Theater, The Tea Party, Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Marillion, and Kings X all favourites of mine. In 86 I saw the Running Up That Hill video and loved it. Up till that point I was basically just a hard rock fan. But Hounds of Love changed my life, and along with Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles, Hounds also opened my eyes to all types of music, not just hard rock, and it remains my favourite album of all time. It is a masterpiece. And ever since I have been obsessed with all things Kate. Discovering Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes was another life changing moment. I discovered it by accident while working as a manager in my Top Forty music store. I was addicted to that album for two years, and she has become one of my favourite artists, and had reopened my eyes to singer songwriters and eclectic artists like Bjork, PJ Harvey, Joseph Arthur, Richard Hawley, David Gray, Fiona Apple, Susanne Sundfør, Nick Drake, and also renewed my love of Cat Stevens. The first time I heard Opeth I could not accept them because of the harsh vocals. Up to that point I was not into music that heavy. The album I did not like was Still Life, even though now it is my favourite of theirs. But in 2001 Blackwater Park was released and their genius could no longer be denied. Already a Porcupine Tree and Anathema fan, they along with Opeth opened me up to so much other fantastic metal and rock that I prefer and love to this day, including bands like The Gathering, Katatonia, Agalloch, Daylight Dies, Green Carnation, Antimatter, Alcest, Enslaved, Ghost Brigade, Novembre, Solstafir, Amorphis, Paradise Lost, Swallow The Sun, and so many more. Music has meant everything to me over the years and will continue to as other things fall away.
I was a drummer (still) and when I was a boy in the '50s and early '60s, my mother made us listen to classical music. So uptight. When The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show, a light came on and I talked my parents into buying me a drum set. My rock came from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Cream, The Who, Jimi Hendrix plus a scattering of pop songs in the '60s. Then Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Blue Oyster Cult, Allman Bros., Robin Trower, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Yes, and many others in the '70s. Lately, I found in hindsight, Mother's Finest as well as Porcupine Tree. I love Rock music.
Your comment about Hemispheres and Permanent Waves always nipping at the heels of Moving Pictures is my exact sentiment! Those are my golden Rush albums and for me Permanent Waves is really my favourite (I think). Great video. Thanks for sharing your stories.
In the order that the albums came into my life: Elvis-King Creole (the first record I ever bought as a 6-year old!) Duran Duran-Rio Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind Metallica-Master of Puppets Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger Steely Dan-Countdown to Ecstasy Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain Neil Young-After the Gold Rush Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me Now Todd Rundgren-Something/Anything? An honorable mention goes to some albums from the Who, Dr. John, Little Richard, Howlin' Wolf, Jellyfish, Mastodon etc. The records I listed aren't always my favorites by those bands/artists, but they all served as kind of gateways...
. Good evening Pete. I have not visited your RUclips site before, but found that I was nodding along to many of your choices. As you started the preamble to your no.5 I was already thinking about RT! I too got this album when he did the promotional tour. I was lucky to get a ticket (Birmingham UK; and I still have the ticket) and was blown away by these three amazing musicians. I regularly go and see RT when he’s on tour .. he seems to get better and better. I am now going to do my own 20 albums that changed my life 😎
My farher shaped my love of Classic Rock when I was a kid. My top 5: Dark Side Of The Moon, Rumours, Back In Black, Zep 4, and 2112. RIP Dad
Great List.
My Dad made it to 91 before he passed. Except for The Beatles, he hated rock n roll😆!
RIP my Dad and your Dad, Justin! 🙏
RIP Sir
My dad had a big objection with me listening to rock n metal. I remember asking him once for some money so i could buy a black sabbth compilation lp, sadly he could read english so he freaked out when read the album title "we sold our souls for rock n roll". I never got that lp. He used to shout at me angrily whenever he would hear metal playing from my room.
Eventually he got tired of yielling at me, so he bought me a nice death t-shirt of leprocy as a gift.
Thank you guys ❤️ I'll add Who's Next and We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll to my list !!
Pete your channel changed my musical life. I was quite distant from
Music for several years and during the pandemic I found your channel and I realized that music is one of the best things I have in my life. Since then I try to attend as many concerts as possible and I discovered more than 100 bands! Thanks a lot Pete !
I came to the party late, but the shows from the pandemic years have really expanded my taste. Thanks, Pete!
Hi Smios. I can agree with that. Same here i discovered good bands that i had no idea who they were and got me through the pandemic without going crazy.
This also happened to me during the pandemic. Music and this channel got me through it. I will be eternally grateful to Mr Pardo for that.
great !
* My 20 list, in no order:
Rush '2112', Boston (debut album), Steely Dan 'Aja', The Church 'Starfish', Marillion 'Misplaced Childhood', Yes 'Fragile', Iron Maiden 'Powerslave', KISS 'Destroyer', Black Sabbath 'Sabotage', Alcatrazz 'No Parole From Rock and Roll', Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon', The October Project 'Falling Farther In', U2 'War', Kraftwerk 'The Man Machine', Rory Gallagher 'Top Priority', Led Zeppelin 'Houses of the Holy', Midnight Oil 'Diesel and Dust', Judas Priest 'Stained Class', Eric B and Rakim 'Follow The Leader', Paul McCartney 'Ram', Loudness 'Thunder In The East'
2112 for me as well
Stained Class is so good
For sure! Killer album! @@sonricsmeza8489
Kool list!!
ay i luv starfish
Mine :
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Thom Yorke - Anima
Coldplay - Parachute
Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - X&Y
David Bowie - Heathen
David Bowie - Reality
Man at Work - Cargo
INXS - Switch
Tame Impala - Lonerism
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
U2 - Joshua Tree
Castlebeat - VHS
Laid Back - Keep Smiling
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Dire Strairs - Brothers in Arms
As an old Jazz Bassist, these are the 20 LPs that changed my life -- great topic Pete!
1. Another One by Oscar Pettiford (1955)
2. Plays Duke Ellington by Thelonious Monk (1955)
3. Freedom Suite by Sonny Rollins (1958)
4. Dizzy’s Big 4 by Dizzy Gillespie (1974)
5. Are You Experienced? by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
6. The Hawk Flies High by Coleman Hawkins (1957)
7. Black Sabbath (1970)
8. Something for Lester by Ray Brown (1977)
9. Piccolo by Ron Carter (1977)
10. Jaco Pastorius (1976)
11. Led Zeppelin (1969)
12. Live at Leeds by The Who (1970)
13. Love It To Death by Alice Cooper (1971)
14. Alive! by Kiss (1975)
15. School Days by Stanley Clarke (1976)
16. Bass On Top by Paul Chambers (1957)
17. The New Miles Davis Quintet (1955)
18. Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus (1959)
19. Groovy by Red Garland (1957)
20. Portfolio by Ahmad Jamal (1958)
tremendous list...i actually had never heard that particular oscar record but it most assuredly is great. piccolo and portfolio of are records i'd never heard despite knowing those artists well and love it to death is wonderful. thanks
You never get old if you refuse "to grow up". Or grow completely up. I think being a musician (drummer) and focusing my life on music instead of the tv which I avoid like the plague helps too!. I Exercise, don't eat out and listen to music avg. 4 hours a day I'm 50 but feel like I'm going on 30. That's why I fear getting ran over by a bus. lol! But kinda surprised you didn't mention any albums by Yes (Chris Squire. It is so hard to play drums to Yes songs because of Chris' bass lines. I always refer to him as a "Lead Bassist". The man off in left field playing in a different key and time signature than rest of the band. Or it always sounds that way to me. lol). and The Who (John Entwistle. It's hard to play to early The Who songs exactly written and as Keith Moon plays because Keith is just so damn unorthodox. But John's bass lines always fascinated me. Where The Beatles seem to capture most people, it was The Who that reached out and grabbed me of the great early British bands. And John had alot to do with it.) (Ear Candy: Bandmaid - Thrill. 5 piece all girl Japanese band that has a great bassist. The whole band is good, and will surprise you, but the bassist stands out the most to me. Besides, they are easy on the eyes. lol. and the song has a really cool bass groove as a break in the middle. Oh and I gotta mention "Dr. Funk and The Good Times"_ - Roadrunner. 1 drum. 1 bass. 1 microphone. And yes very Good Times! Hope ya enjoy!)Take care my friend. "Life Without Music Would Be a Mistake". Nietzsche
Thanks for list. A lot of productions here I have never heard of.
So I was not the ONLY person to buy a copy of "Piccolo" LOL! I was tempted to do a bass-centric version of the list as well.
I have "Love it to Death" on my list as well. Dennis Dunaway had something to say on the bass!
No NHØP love? I'd add either "Looking at Bird" (Duets with Archie Schepp) or Oscar Peterson's 1981 "Nigerian Market Place" . Both can be found on RUclips.
Im a fan of most of your selections. My Mingus and Miles choices would be different but great list and i just want to say really pleased to see Love it to Death, Kiss Alive and Black Sabbath there. Great, great records.
thank you for taking us on your musical journey.
Thank you Pete so much for sharing the 20 albums that changed your life! Great topic and great stories! We have some of the same albums that changed our lives common - Boston 1, Genesis Seconds Out, Rush Moving Pictures, Jimi at Woodstock, The Who Kids Are Alright, Wings Over America, ELO Out of the Blue, and Black Sabbath Paranoid, great picks buddy!
You mentioned Jimi and the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock! For the last 10 years I've spent a lot of time on campus at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA as the contractor lead developer of the Kuali Financial System they use to meet the needs of the school, all written in Java. Anyway, it is a military base, and every morning at 8am they play the lovely Star Spangled Banner (orchestral version, no vocal) loud across campus and into the city of Monterey for about 5 minutes. For years, I've been dreaming of somehow getting into the high perch in the hotel where they play it and 'substituting' the Jimi version. I think it IS quite patriotic! Oh well, I'm retired now, I could have got in trouble! LOL!
Deep Purple - In Rock
Jethro Tull - Living in the past
The Beatles - Sgt.Peppers
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Neil Young - Tonight's the night
The Who - Who's next
Pearl Jam - Ten
Black Sabbath - Vol.4
Cardiacs - On land and in the sea
The Damned - Phantasmagoria
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Led Zeppelin - Remasters
Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Swans - The Seer
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Lou Reed - Berlin
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Shout out Berlin by Sweet Lou!
Such a gratuitous, baroque masterpiece of despair!
It always makes me feel better no matter how bad I feel, which is kinda messed up!😂😂
Rock on y'all.🤘😎🤘
Angel Dust \m/
kate bush, cardiacs, pere ubu, swans and no pink floyd? you're fired
Love Phantasmagoria - nice choice.
@@meerkat7406 Thanks!!
My game-changers list (no order): 2112, Are You Experienced, Rubber Soul, The Cars debut album, Ghosts Of The Great Highway, Purple Rain, Synchronicity, Physical Graffiti, Never Mind, Pleased To Meet Me, Nothing’s Shocking, Back In Black, So by Peter Gabriel, Blood On The Tracks, Under a Blood Red Sky, The Dreaming by Kate Bush, Boston debut album, Blues For The Red Sun, Trace by Son Volt, Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
Hello Pete. I'm a Brit.
Never sent a comment to you before, but...
First thing that ever really obsessed me was We sold our Souls for R n R by the Sabs - with the lady in the coffin on the inside. Never heard music like that, I must have been 12 yrs old. At a mates house, and it belonged to his brother.
Best wishes.
Nice Andrew was a formidable album in my life too - a greatest hits but covered the needed bases!
This is the first Sabbath album I bought after hearing about them. Wow it was dark, and awesome!
This was the first Sabbath album I heard. I was 13 years old and it was the one that changed my life in terms of music. It was the first one I thought of when I read the title of this show.
UFO - Obsession
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
Eloy - Planets
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Sparks - Indiscreet
Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean
Frank Zappa - Sheikh Yerbouti
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Montrose - Montrose
Jane - Age Of Madness
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
T.Rex - The Slider
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Blues Brothers - Movie Soundtrack
Birth Control - Hoodoo Man
Slade - In Flame
Riot - Narita
T.Rex. YESSSS!!!!!
@@aovermont A wonderful band and one of the very first that I got into - hence being in my Top 20 as an Album That Changed My Life.
With that said, I prefer Electric Warrior now having heard it since, but The Slider was the first and had a lot of the singles at the time on it as well.
Summer of 1976 July 5th first concert I ever saw. Slade when they were touring "In Flame". They talked about how neat it was flying in at night and seeing the fireworks displays. When Rock and Roll WAS FUN!!
@@williamgoodsene6048 I was at the legendary Reading Festival appearance in 1980 when they made their well-deserved come back and destroyed every other band that had been on that weekend - and it was a great line up too.
Birth Control 😤🍻
Amazing video Pete. And FYI; your story on buying Iron Maiden’s Killers based on the album cover is exactly my story. I was in a record store in downtown Toronto back in 1981 that specializes in imports. When I saw that album cover, I took a chance and was not disappointed. I went back to the store the next day and picked up their first album and never looked back. This is why I will always have a soft spot for the Paul Di’Anno era. Thanks for sharing your stories.
To me was Accept - Restless & Wild, Slayer - Show no Mercy, Metallica - Kill 'em All, Savatage - Hail of the Mountain King, Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, Iron Maiden - Killers, AC-DC - Highway to hell, Motorhead - Another Perfect Day, Raven - All for One, Mercyful Fate- Melissa, King Diamond - Abigail, Destruction - Sentence of Death, Suicidal Tendencies - Lights, Camera, Revolution, Faith no More - The Real Thing, Alice in Chains - Dirt, Satan - Court in The Act
So many classics on your list. Got the anniversary edition of Show No Mercy waiting on me at the post office. Can't wait to pick it up Monday.
@@Protometal66 Amazing man, i just saw on insta the art cover of this Show no mercy anniversary edition, i will take as well for sure!!!!
@@duilioalba4395So you're saying you, and your life, hasn't changed.
@@keisi1574 ????
amazing albums🤘
Love it, Pete. Here’s mine:
The Beatles - Meet the Beatles
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Greatest Hits
soundtrack - The Sting
Kiss - Alive II
Wings - Wings Over America
soundtrack - Star Wars
The Charles Lloyd Quartet - Love In
Jethro Tull - Live: Bursting Out
Rush - Moving Pictures
Yes - Close to the Edge
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
The Who - Who’s Next
Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage Act 1
various - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
Love - Forever Changes
Bob Dylan - Biograph
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
John Coltrane - Afro Blue Impressions
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Gear Blues
David Gilmour - Live in Gdańsk
Nothing affected my life like Scenes from a Memory. I picked it up from Best Buy around 2000 on a whim, after hearing just a few DT songs. Since that day, not only has it remained my all time favorite, but it inspired me to try to take guitar playing to the next level
Wow, just realsed I am super old now.
So now you can play Nirvana?
That’s so cool to find DT in 2000, they were already a wonderful band by then!
@@glenfinston704 whats DT?
Dream Theater.@@Whit-mh9nt
I loved this, great video as always Pete 👏 much love from Cambridge England mate
Great storytelling Pete. I started a decade before you but relate to much of your selection.
Most of these have aged very well, off the top of my head:
Beatles - Sgt Pepper, Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Pink Floyd - Meddle, Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards, The Who - Quadrophenia, Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill, Santana - Caravanserai, Yes - Yessongs, Genesis - Foxtrot, Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before, Pat Metheny Group - American Garage, Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Paul Simon - Anthology, Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy, Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority, Weather Report - Heavy Weather, Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Live
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Yes - Fragile
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
Aerosmith - Rocks
Camel - Moonmadness
Heart - Dog & Butterfly
Glenn Hughes - Play Me Out
Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Jeff Beck - There and Back
Fairport Convention - The History of Fairport Convention
Toto - IV
U2 - War
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
I like the eclectic mix. Fairport!
Camel. Moonmadness. Probably my number one.
@kevinmcgrath7183 yeah, I was mainly a rock fan at the time, but hearing that Fairport History album was my introduction to how interesting & varied folk & folk-rock music could be.
@@rubicon-oh9km Moonmadness.This is one of my game changer together with Camel band itself.
Wishbone Ash. I love it.
Hey Pete very eclectic music taste.. I am going to check some of these albums out...Cheers!
Fantastic list and great accompanying stories, Pete! I'm more of a New Wave/Synth-pop/College/Alternative/Punk/Indie/jazz music fan but my appreciation for metal, prog and other off-the-radar stuff has increased considerably over the years, and thanks to this channel, I own copies of King Crimson's Red, Gentle Giant's Octopus, The Tangent's Auto Reconnaissance, Fleetwood Mac's Then Play On, Genesis's Nursery Crime and City Boy's Young Men Gone West. Here's my personal list of 25 life-changing albums, in chronological order of purchase/discovery:
1. Business as Usual - Men at Work
2. Synchronicity - The Police
3. Reach the Beach - The Fixx
4. English Settlement - XTC
5. The Hurting - Tears For Fears
6. The Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
7. Crush - OMD
8. Please - Pet Shop Boys
9. Crowded House - s/t
10. The Joshua Tree - U2
11. Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk
12. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
13. Reckoning - R.E.M.
14. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - The Sundays
15. Greatest Hits - The Jam
16. Never Mind the Bollocks... - The Sex Pistols
17. London Calling - The Clash
18. Nevermind - Nirvana
19. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
20. The Stone Roses - s/t
21. The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips
22. The Best of - The Velvet Underground
23. Candy Apple Grey - Husker Du
24. Exile in Guyville - Liz Phair
25. Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
For me (not in a particular order):
Van Halen II
The Police: Synchronicity
Scorpions: Lovedrive
Rush: Signals
Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengeance
Queensryche: Rage for Order
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Couldn't Stand the Weather
Def Leppard: Pyromania
Tesla: Mechanical Resonance
awesome albums🤘
I like Van Halen 2 as well! Not necessarily as much as 1 but I’m curious what makes it better then 1 for you?
@@rjbeats5653 Both are great.....
Abba - The Album
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
ELP - Tarkus
Renaissance - Prologue
Yes - Close To The Edge
Heart - Little Queen
Led Zeppelin - IV
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Barclay James Harvest - Eyes Of The Universe
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children
Camel - Rain Dances
Vangelis - Heaven And Hell
Music can take you back to a place, a time, or a person like no other keepsake.
It truly is better than a photograph ,video or even a gravestone . I can go from 2024 to 1974 instantly in my mind when i listen to it
Great list-my ears perked up when you started talking about New Paltz. I was there around a little earlier(graduated December 83)
Love the Mahavishnu story. Great episode!
Thank you Pete, you reminded me of so many albums that I have and don't give anywhere near enough time on the playlist. I need to go back a little myself and spend some quality time with these beauties. Great list, a few new to me too.
Fascinating stuff Pete, enjoyed all your "ins" to the various band and genres. Im not sur if I'll get to 20, but Ive been trying to think of albums that did the same for me. The first couple, though, are albums I heard at home before I'd really heard any rock music, but which i remember gave me a love for a tune, a chorus... so here goes...
1 ABBA Greatest Hits
2 Neal DIAMOND Hot August Night
(Now the rock stuff, and Pete and I share some bands, albeit different albums...)
3. RAINBOW Down To Earth (All Night Long was the first hard rock riff i remember hearing leading me very quickly to Deep Purple and the other offshoot bands)
4. AC/DC If You Want Blood
5 BLACK SABBATH Master of Reality
6 IRON MAIDEN Iron Maiden
7 MARILLION Script For A Jester's Tear ( not really into prog at all until I heard this)
8 JOURNEY Escape
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Striktly For Konnoisseurs (a double album on Music For Nations that gave me an in to North American 70s/early 80s bands like ANGEL, LEGS DIAMOND, STARZ, MAX WEBSTER, MOXY, ZON, STARCASTLE etc
10 METALLICA Kill Em All
11 DREAM THEATER When Dream & Day Unite
12 RAMMSTEIN Mutter
13 NIGHTWISH Century Child
14 OPETH Ghost Reveries
Sir iain, I got to find number 9, sounds like a great intro since I have not heard a few
@@ziggyzagzi8017 As far as I know it was only ever released on vinyl, but it's available on Discogs... Happy hunting!
Nice list Iain. I have a few of the same artists but different albums on mine. And I have some of those dreaded horns too. LOL!!
@@garyh.238 Hi Gary, long time no "see"! Hope alls' well with you. Not long woken up so will seek out your list once I've got some coffee in me!
Thanks Pete. An outstanding episode. Its been a long time since i enjoyed one of your shows as much as this one.
Now it's time to start thinking about my own list.
I can only repeat what paulsimister944 wrote. I'm on vacation right now so I don't have as much time as I should have on commenting this wonderful show which was a highlight on SoT over the last three years, at least for me. It came unexpected so I have to think about my own list for the next few days and will comment again later. Thanks Pete for your recollections which were so personal and instructive at the same time as most of your shows - and what is very important for me, without any editing as on many youtube-shows.
What a hell of a great episode this is and will be!😊
Thank You very kindly, Pete❤
One of my favorite episodes - the pacing, the stories, the albums. Well done!
Queen-A Night at the Opera
Dream Theater-Images and Words
Death-The Sound of Perserverence
Opeth-Still Life
Testament-The Gathering
Arch Enemy-Burning Bridges
“Bohemian Rhapsody” was the first song I ever heard on a nice stereo. Ran out the next day and bought their entire catalogue used on cassette. Queen II is another one.
Testament touring later in the year. I got a ticket yesterday.
5: Bob Dylan Blood on the tracks
4: led Zeppelin 4
3: Jethro Tull Benefit
2: Beatles Revolver
1: Miles Davis kind of Blue.
Daydream on Trower live is such a beautiful track ,vocally and musically,and that feedback control,the absolute business,man.
LOOOOVE that track 🎸
Love your list, Pete. I could only come up with 15 that have significant impact on my life. They are pretty much all in the same genre but these are the 15 albums I still listen to these days and have never stopped listening to them for the most part.
15. Foreigner - Double Vision
14. Def Leppard - Pyromania
13. Kiss - Rock and Roll Over
12. Boston - Self Titled
11. Scorpions - Blackout
10. The Cars - Self Titled
9. Dokken - Tooth and Nail
8. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
7. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Kiss - Alive II
5. Journey - Departure
4. Styx - Piece of Eight
3. Van Halen - I
2. Bryan Adams - Reckless
1. ELO - Out of the Blue
I like your choices. My list :
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Supertramp - Crime of the century
Steely Dan - Can´t buy a thrill
The Smiths - The Queen is dead
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
Pavlov´s Dog - Pampered Menial
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
Television - Marquee Moon
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea
Pixies - Doolittle
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Suicidal Tendencies 1st Album on Frontier Records 1983, and My 1st Grateful Dead Show April 1988, ohh and Paul's Boutique!
The Beatles - The Beatles Second Album (American version)
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
Allman Brothers - Beginnings (First Two Albums)
Eddie Harris &Les McCann - Swiss Movement
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Dan Fogelberg - Souvenirs
Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and The Englishmen
The Who - Who’s Next
Kansas - Leftoveture
Robin Trower - Twice Removed From Yesterday
Paul Simon - Kodachrome
Loggins and Messina - Sittin’ In
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Tower of Power - Bump City
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
1.Loverboy-S/T (my introduction to music)
2.Joe Satriani-Strange Beautiful Music (my introduction to instrumental rock)
3.Steve Vai-Passion and Warfare
4.Yngwie Malmsteen-Rising Force
5.Michael Angelo Batio-No Boundaries
6.Whitesnake-S/T
7.Electric Sun-Fire Wind
8.Scorpions-Taken by Force
9.Dokken-Tooth and Nail
10.Kiss-S/T
11.UFO-Lights Out
12.Eloy-Power and the Passion (the moment prog really clicked with me and I realized how much I loved it)
13.Kansas-Point of Know Return
14.Asia-S/T
15.Robin Trower-Twice Removed From Yesterday
16.Return to Forever-Romantic Warrior (my introduction to jazz fusion)
17.Electric Light Orchestra-Face the Music (the first non-heavy pop album I really fell in love with, broadening my horizons to non-heavy music)
18.Jefferson Starship-Winds of Change (opened my eyes up to the magnificence of female vocalists in rock and metal)
19.Trouble-Psalm 9 (my introduction to doom)
20.Fleetwood Mac-Rumors
Pete, great show! So different...
My 10 picks:
Triumvirat - Spartacus
Tommy - Original soundtrack from the movie
Nazareth - Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Gary Glitter - Greatest Hits
Grand Funk Railroad - We are an American Band
Beatles - Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Fuckin' good old times!!!!
Hey Pete 👋 Love your show. Been watching for many years now. Loved your list. Your passion and love for the music shines through. Here’s my list:
20) can - tago mago
19) king crimson - lark’s tongue in aspic
18) ennio morricone - the good, the bad, the ugly movie soundtrack
17) Nino rota - Fellini movie soundtracks
16) king crimson - lizard
15) manic street preachers - know your enemy
14) the Beatles - magical mystery tour
13) thin Lizzy - Chinatown
12) led zeppelin - led zeppelin four
11) smashing pumpkins - Mellon collie and the infinite sadness
10) the Beatles - sergeant pepper’s lonely hearts club band
9) yes - close to the edge
8 van der grave generator - H to He who I am the only one
7) Beethoven - 3rd symphony
6) thin Lizzy - black rose
5) thin Lizzy - jailbreak
4) the Beatles - revolver
3) yes - fragile
2) flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
1) king crimson - in the court of the crimson king
#1 The Who - Tommy
#2 Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
#3 The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
#4 Deep Purple - Machine Head
#5 Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll
#6 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
#7 The Kinks - Greatest Hits
#8 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
#9 The Ramones - The Ramones
#10 Rush - All The World's A Stage
This is just a short list off the top of my head. There are so many more and I know that I left out some crucial ones.
Nice list Chris !
@@richardbooth6063 Thank you Richard.
Very nice list Chris!
@@glenfinston704 Thanks Glen.
Nice list Chris, Some of these would be on my list but never really considered a full list
Great subject, show, episode!!! Cheers Pete!!!
for me:
1) Kiss - Rock'n Roll all Over
2) Metallica - Kill'em all
3) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4) Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
5) Black Sabbath - Volume 4
6) Black Sabbath - Sabbotage
7) Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
8) Deep Purple - Machine Head
9) Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
10) Queen - A Day at the Races
11) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
12) David Bowie - The man who sold the World
13) Slayer - Hell Awaits
14) Slayer - Reign in Blood
15) Billy Squier - Don't Say No
16) Saxon Power and the Glory
17) AC/DC Highway To Hell
18) Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
19) Motley Crue - Too Fast for love
20) Ozzy - Speak of the Devil
Led Zeppelin IV , Grand Funk Railroad Live , Queen News Of The World, KISS Alive, Metallica Ride The Lightning
Jeff Beck Blow By Blow, Miles Davis Jack Johnson , Return To Forever Live 76 , Gary Moore Still Got the Blues, Bob Marley Legend , SRV Couldn't Stand the Weather , Van Halen 1 , Jimi Are You Experienced , David Bowie Diamond Dogs , In Flames Reroute to Remain , Beatles Meet The Beatles , Rolling Stones Let It Bleed , Queensryche Operation Mindcrime , Janes Addiction Nothings Shocking , Faith No More The Real Thing.
Grand funk and kiss changed your life? For real?
There's context. As an 11 year old, the live GF album inspired/allowed me to learn bass and I learned the whole album. That led to more bands and albums and switching to guitar and playing live and meeting my wife and 3 kids, 4 grandkids and 54 years later, I still play. I learned most of what I needed to get started from that album. So it definitely changed my life.
@@joeblow2069mine, yes, for sure, was the seed at age 8
Hi Pete. Excellent show. Here is 6 of my albums that changed my life.
1. Black Sabbath - Debut
2. Accept - Restless and Wild - This album introduced me to NWOBHM and heavier music in the 80's even though this may not be a NWOBHM album.
3. Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
4. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
5. Captain Beyond - This album introduced me to all the other obscure rock and prog rock of the 70's. Specifically from my Brother In Laws at the time.
6 Led Zeppelin - Debut
The 20 albums that changed my life (in no particular order):
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Yes: Yessongs
America: Homecoming
The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Elton John: Madman Across the Water
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Shawn Phillips: Rumplestiltskin's Resolve
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (')
Santana: Abraxas
Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
CCR: Cosmo's Factory
The Guess Who: Share the Land
Kate Bush: The Kick Inside
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's The Sex Pistols
Joan Armatrading: Joan Armatrading
David Bowie: Station to Station
Lana del Rey: Born to Die
Strawbs: Hero and Heroine
Depeche Mode: Violator
Here's 20 more ... just for kicks:
Tangerine Dream: Stratosfear
Steppenwolf: Live
Roy Buchanan: Roy Buchanan
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
Gordon Lightfoot: Don Quixote
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick
Linda Ronstadt: Canciones de mi Padre
The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers and Sisters
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman
Symphonic Slam: Symphonic Slam
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure
Crowded House: Temple of Low Men
Dead Can Dance: Aion
Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth
Bob Dylan: Desire
Rush: 2112
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Split Enz: Time and Tide
Screaming Trees: Dust
Also:
Elvis Costello: Imperial Bedroom
System of a Down: Toxicity
The Police: Regatta de Blanc
Joe Jackson: Night and Day
Duran Duran: Notorious
Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow
Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain
The Fixx: Phantoms
The Beatles: Rubber Soul
The Perth County Conspiracy: Does Not Exist
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
Carly Simon: Anticipation
Mahogany Rush: IV
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
The The: Dusk
Yes, a LOT of albums changed my life! 😁
B . O. C
Thank you for sharing your top 20. I wrote down the whole list and definitely checking out the last half.
AC-DC
If you want blood
Back in black
Highway to hell they were the very first metal/rock albums I heard my older brother playing when I was only about 7 and I was instantly hooked.
I then discovered iron maiden live after death, and the first album I owned myself was seventh son my favorite maiden. My late mother bought me it on tape and a Sony walkman for my tenth birthday it was just released and the guy in the record store recommended it to her. I played it out as I stared and read the mysterious inner lyrics and illustrations.
Powerage too 🙂
@@philippeadriaensen449 powerage is just as good as the ones I listed but I didn't mention it because I didn't have that one until a while later.
Paranoid changed everything for me. After that album I was hooked on heavy metal. Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Saxon, Rainbow, are just a few that I ended up grapping their material.
Great episode and a fantastic #1 choice Pete! My personal top game changer is Faith No More- Angel Dust.
Always loved these kind of videos, thanks for sharing Pete.
Just found your channel, so happy for that!! I do wonder, where did you get that BÖC-hoodie? It's so cool!
Pink Floyd Animals-
This album got me into Pink Floyd. Made me realize I underestimated this band and there was much more to discover. I ended buying all their albums.
Genesis Nursery Cryme-
The Musical Box blew my mind away. This wasn't the same band I grew up with in the 80's. This was top notch Progressive Rock. This album made me a Genesis fan and I quickly discovered they were the cream of the crop in 70's Prog Rock.
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King-
This really is the album that feels like the days of proto-Prog were over and this set the standard for the future. It's got dated keyboards but it doesn't matter because they sound timeless on this album.
Queensryce Operation Mindcrime-
Like Iron Maiden meets Pink Floyd meets Andrew Lloyd Webber. My cousin introduced me to this album and I couldn't believe what I was listening to. My intro to Prog Metal.
Dream Theater The Astonishing-
Dream Theater was the first Metal band that felt like authentic Prog Rock. The real deal. This album was something entirely different. A lot of people complain about it. I think it's one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. Listened to it again and again.
Tears for Fears The Hurting-
The best Progressive Pop band ever. While Yes, Genesis, and Pink Floyd disappointed me with their 80's albums Tears for Fears ruled the world. Some of the best albums of the 80's and their debut is just spectacular.
Big Big Train English Electric Full Power-
The ultimate retro Prog band. Reminds me of the best parts of the 70's. And it's extremely consistent from start to finish. Beautiful and wonderful songs I absolutely love. Like putting the old picture in a new frame. This was better than a classic Genesis reunion!
Rush Hemispheres-
Cygnus Book II is one epic of an epic. Very power driven, atmospheric, and adventurous. So is the rest of the album. I love A Farewell to Kings but this is the pinacle of their career.
Steely Dan Aja-
I love Jazz. I love what Donald Fagan and Walter Becker can do with it turning it into Pop and Rock songs. This album is brilliant. It never gets tiring and had me hooked from the first listen.
Great picks Calvin!
calvin'll become even angrier when he discovers people across YT that like pink floyd (they say) but dislike animals. it isn't my fave but you won't find me bashing a band who'd made 3 classics in a row between 71 and 75 and release that fine record. i'll have to look into big big train.@@glenfinston704
Excellent collection of music, very diversified. Nice to see someone who appreciates bands from Deep Purple to Dream Theater....great video...;)
So happy to hear you mention Robin Trower Live!
Robin Trower is awesome!👍
Thanks Pete for this great video. I very much enjoyed your Top 20 and your Stories.
It was a pleasure to do the same exercise. Sorry for the length…..
1. Dinu Lipatti plays Bach. Probably my first music/LP experience being 0-2 years. Now I am 59 and I’m still discovering and enjoying Bach’s music.
2. Mud: Mud Rock. This was my first LP, so therefore highly influential.
3. Oscar Peterson: Night Train. My late father’s favourite jazz pianist. This album gave me a broad pallet of Jazz. From C Jam Blues via Georgia on my Mind to the beautiful Hymn to Freedom, the latter with Bach’s serenity. Glad I saw Oscar several times live at North Sea Jazz Festival.
4. Deep Purple Made in Japan and / or Made in Europe. I often thought if I can take one double LP to a Desert Island I’ll take the LP with Lazy & Strange kinda Woman from MiJ together with MiE and out them in the MiJ double-sleeve. Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord (Bach fan), the best musical couple in rock history.
5. The Rolling Stones: Get yer ya-ya’s out. Live versions of Honky Tonk Woman, Sympathy for the devil, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, …. everything. THE reason to pick up a guitar by myself. (Blackmore was too unreachable.)
6. David Bowie: Changesonebowie. A compilation so a little cheating here. For me it started with the single (less expensive) Space Oddity, re-released in 1975 in The Netherlands, that release was related to Changesonebowie.
7. Herman Brood’s Wild Romance: Cha Cha. Perfect energy for a 13 yr old kid. Fantastic Dutch band: great guitarplayer Dany Lademacher, & Herman Brood was a fine blues pianoplayer (bluesfans check out Cuby & the Blizzards 1967-1974)
8. Lou Reed: Live and / or Berlin. I loved the heavy double guitarsound of Live and also the darkside of Berlin; both new experiences for me. And ofcourse Lou’s voice.
9. Jan Akkerman: Jan Akkerman. Probably my first Jazz-fusion (& lute!, so eclectic is a better word) album. Opened my ears for new directions. Fantastic guitarist, also from Focus (best track Sylvia)
10. Steve Winwood Talking back to the Night. Highly overlooked album. Beautiful compositions in terms of chords (changes), nice synths sound (which is rare) and what a voice. Valerie, It was happiness, timeless pieces.
11. Donald Fagen: The Nightfly. Amazing musicality with the best possible musicians. Great songs, all of them.
12. Jeff Beck: There and back. Completely blown away by Jan Hammer’s and Tony Hymas compositions and the playing of Jeff, Jan and also drummer Simon Phillips. Dynamics of the album is superb.
13. Billy Cobham: Spectrum. Following Jan Hammer and also Deep Purple’s Mark IV guitarist Tommy Bolin. First track Quadrant 4 blew me away, thanks to Billy’s drums & the band.
14. Miles Davis: Bags’ Groove. My first Miles was Tallest Trees, a 2CD Prestige compilation. Bags’ Groove, with Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson (Bags) was part of it. This opened new Jazz horizons: Monk, Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones, and via the 2LP sleevetext Gil Evans, Bill Evans
15. Clare Fischer: Jazz Song. Solo piano by this great arranger and harmonizer. Later he also arranged for Prince (Parade!). Beautiful voicings of Here’s that rainy day. His Salsa Picante was also a new experience; big band latin with a capella voicings. Beautiful in rhythm and harmonies.
16. Lennie Tristano: Lennie Tristano. Totally new Jazz piano experience. I was flabbergasted. So original playing and beautiful melodies.
17. Miles Davis: The Man with the Horn. First ‘Nice price’ Electric Miles. Mike Stern’s Fat Time solo was rough. Marcus Miller’s Bass funky as ….. & Miles melting it together. Later on Star People became my favourite from this Stern & Scofield period.
18. John Scofield: Still Warm. Wow. That was a moment. What a guitarplayer, what great compositions, what a band with Darryl Jones, Omar Hakim and Don Grolnick. Sound on Gramavision Records was also stunning.
19. Massive Attack: Blue Lines. Start of electro dance. Great tunes and Billy Cobham’s Stratus revisited. For dance I should also mention Chic’s Risqué; Nile Rodgers’ subtile funk aka disco. In this timeline ca. number 10.
20. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. I postponed this Miles classic, probably my nr. 10+ Miles buy. Classic indeed, introduction to pianist Bill Evans, modal scales, and via Bill also Ravel, Rachmaninov, Debussy. Now I realize that Oliver Nelsons’ The Blues and the abstract Truth could, or should be this number 20. I bought ON before KoB. Also with Bill Evans, and beautiful Horn voicings, modal scales too.
Last one I must mention:
21. UK: Night after night. Live album from this beyond everything progrock group. Eddie Jobson, John Wetton, Terry Bozio and also Allan Holdsworth and Bill Bruford (on the UK album) all geniuses on their instrument, including John’s voice. Catched me more than other earlier progs like Yes, Genesis, ELP. So -a little late- it opened new musical prog directions.
All 20 I still listen to Today. Great albums by great artist, apparently timeless (for me).
Thanks Pete to force me into this exercise. Now you know everything.
All the best!
Deep Purple - Made in Japan. Actually it was a DP concert that I saw on the American leg of the Made in Japan tour - BEFORE the album was recorded in Japan. When I heard the album when it was released in 1973 I thought it could have been recorded at the concert I saw - same set list. That show - and album - ABSOLUTELY changed my life. . Never realized a band could be so good live. After that I became a total music junky.
Similar here, although it was Fireball for me. Fireball was my first Purple experience and Fools to this day is my favourite Purple song. But MIJ was a revelation. What an album. What a performance. After that, Focus At The Rainbow and Focus 3.
Same for me, totally changed my music taste, the best live album. After this Rainbow On stage.
@@JeanAlainXavier-ze9jc Of course. Which contains Blackmore's finest moment (the solo on Catch The Rainbow).
@stevenjohnston2263 yes absolutely epic
This album greatly effected me. Still amazing.
Fantastic episode! Thanks for taking us along on your musical journey!
Kiss was definitely my gateway into heavier music. Kiss is the reason I enjoy bands like Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Motorhead and Deep Purple. Before Kiss I was really only listening to 80s new wave and The Eagles. But since I began listening to Kiss it has really opened the doors to a wider range of rock for me
Kiss are wonderful.
Excellent vid. This has made me assess my own 20. Great stuff
Love your take on Woodstock. I was 13 years old in New Zealand at the time and only heard about it afterwards by the time I was about 16/17… by then it had become a legendary festival of music.
To your question, which albums changed my life:
Stand Up, Jethro Tull
Benefit, Jethro Tull
Aqualung, Jethro Tull
Thick As A Brick, Jethro Tull
A Passion Play, Jethro Tull
Warchild, Jethro Tull
Minstrel In The Gallery, Jethro Tull
Stormwatch, Jethro Tull
Disraeli Gears, Cream
Wheels Of Fire, Cream
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic
Nursery Cryme, Genesis
Foxtrot, Genesis
The Yes Album, Yes
Fragile, Yes
Salisbury, Uriah Heep
Who’s Next, The Who
So, pretty obvious that my favourite band of all time is Jethro Tull and I was lucky enough to catch Ian Anderson with his current iteration of JT this last December for one of his Christmas concerts at the magnificent York Minster… wonderful experience having travelled there from Australia and meeting up with fans with whom I had previously conversed with in Facebook fan groups… was fabulous! ❤️❤️❤️
Good video, thanks Pete. Music is so powerful.
Pink Floyd The Wall (not their best imho but I had it on repeat all thru high school)
Michael Jackson Thriller, first album I bought
Styx Paradise Theater, first rock album I bought, listened to it endlessly
Willie Dixon I Am the Blues. Blew my mind listening to it in college
Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind. Bought this when it came out, not really knowing anything about him. Perfect album and opened a door into an entire genre
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, first metal album I ever “got.”
Warren Zevon My Ride’s Here. I honestly thought the guy was a comedic singer like Weird Al until I heard Genius
Ruby the Hatchet Planetary Space Child. First time I got into a band that was in its prime. Opened my eyes to how much great music is still being made. Favorite band to this day.
Beth Hart Leave the Light On. Great singing and music but also unbelievably raw personal lyrics illustrating the effects of childhood trauma. I was an attorney for mostly homeless clients at the time and the album was like therapy for me.
Joe Bonamassa Dust Bowl his best album imho. Got me back into blues after decades
Paul Simon Graceland felt totally out there at the time but I couldn’t stop listening to it
Hayes Carll KMAG YOYO totally changed my mind about country music
Joan Osborne Relish. I hate her only hit but the rest is great. First gf in high school, a woman older than me, was obsessed with it and the album became the soundtrack to the summer I…well, the summer she taught me a lot. :;
That’s about it, without repeating bands or admitting my Spin Doctors phase.
Great video Pete! Throughly enjoyed hearing all the stories. Cheers!
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Eagles - Hotel California
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Rush - Moving Pictures
U2 - War
David Bowie - ChangesOneBowie
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Prince - Purple Rain
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
REM - Reckoning
The Clash - London Calling
The Replacements - Tim
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Radiohead - The Bends
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
1)johnny winter & live fillmore 71...Captured Live 2) Refried Boogie 3)Derringer Live ....4)Live Gonzo....5)Rory Gallagher Stagetruck...6)Foghat Live....7)live Cream...8)Allman Bro. Fillmore live...9)live Dates1 Wishbone Ash...10)Hendrix live fillmore band of Gypsies. .....top masters
I don't know if there were 20 albums that changed my (musical) life, but there were a handful. Here they are in order of when I discovered them.....
1. "Dark Side of the Moon". The first album I became aware of as a complete work and not just a collection of songs. I first heard this album around the time it came out via my older brother (I would have been 9 yrs old, he was 18). This was a no-skip album, meaning I wouldn't skip over any song in order to hear a hit.
2. "Alive" from Kiss. Also discovered around the time of its release, one of the kids in my class brought this in for music day where we could split up into groups and listen to records on those all-in-one recored players that any kid from the '70s would recognize. The whole atmosphere of the album hooked me pretty quickly.
3. Boston's debut. A massive album from the Summer/Fall of 1976. A phenomenal album that has never left my album rotation no matter what musical direction I was leaning towards.
4. Led Zeppelin's debut. I listened to this for the first time in its entirety in the Fall of '78 (I was 14). No album before or since had such an immediate impact on me. I was shocked when the last strains of "How Many More Times" were drifting away as the album came to a close. From this point on I would have hard rock on the top of my list of favored musical genres. Jimmy Page became my first guitar hero because of this album......and really the first guitar player I became aware of as an individual. If I had ever pursued music as a career in one form or another (I've been a bad guitar player for a long time now), I would have to list this album as my #1 influence for that decision.
Honorable Mentions to "Band on the Run", "The Kids are Alright", "Live at Leeds", "Goodbye" from Cream, "Paranoid", "Machine Head", "Endless Summer" from the Beach Boys, "The Wall", and Glen Campbell's greatest hits. Thanks, Pete.
Great picks!
No one asked. This is HIS video. We don't care about your opinion
Great list, Pete. So many of these would be very high on my list as well. Love that you have Miles and Mahavishnu yet also have KISS and Sabbath. Genesis and Rush. Terrific stuff!
What a great show: a personal journey through the doors that opened up music to you. We have much to relate to here. Nice work Pete.
For me it was seeing Jethro Tull live in 1972 on the Thick as a Brick tour from that day forward. That album and that band has dominated my life. I mean, I love Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd. Everybody like that, but Tull just Swept me away it's been the soundtrack of my life now
This video randomly showed up in my recommendations, love your sharing of these. New sub!
Brian Salad Surgery changed me forever in my drumming
Amazing record. So underated.
That's an excellent record! Good taste👍
Brian was a drummer was he?
Great stuff, Pete.
My gamechanger album didn't happen until I was 15 years old in 1984, and that was Fugazi by Marillion. Heard "Assassing" pn Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show, and WOW. Life changed.
Thanks for sharing this with us, I could see the emotion in your eyes when reminiscing about some of these albums 🇬🇧
Man. This episode freaking rules. Thanks Pete for sharing! These are always my fave videos from you.
1. Genesis- TOTT. Introduced me to the band in 1976 and changed my music taste for prog forever.
2. Genesis- Foxtrot my fav album of all time
3. Yes - CTTE
4. ELP BSS
5. Kansas Debut
6. Beatles White
7. Wings Band on the Run
8. Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
9. Rush Farewell to Kings
10. Pink Floyd DSOTM
11. Peter Gabriel Car
12. Steve Hackett Voyage
13. Blind Faith
14. Steely Dan Pretzel Logic
15. ELO Out if the Blue
16. Zappa Roxy and Elsewhere
17. Led Zep 4
18. Neal Morse Band Similitude of a Dream
19. Deep Purple Machine Head
20 Jeff Beck Wired
Not in a particular order
@@jpip1382 no
Great list, Pete! Here are the first 20 that I could think of...trying to keep it to one by each artist
AC/DC - High Voltage [U.S. version]
The Beach Boys - Endless Summer
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Boston - Boston
The Cars - The Cars
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick [1977]
Hawkwind - Levitation
KISS - Destroyer
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Pink Floyd - Animals
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Rush - Hemispheres
Slayer - Reign in Blood
UFO - Obsession
Van Halen - Van Halen
Wall of Voodoo - Wall of Voodoo [EP]
X - Los Angeles
Yes - Drama
Yeah...how did I overlook them?? The first album that I got of theirs was "We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll" so that would be my choice for the most life-changing. It opened the door to all of their albums and album tracks. I love all of their stuff. I thought of 20 quick life-changers, but I honestly think that I could list ten times that.
My 20 Game Changers....
20. Eat A Peach - ALLMAN BROTHERS
19. The Grand Illusion - STYX
18. One More From The Road - LYNYRD SKYNYRD
17. Changesonebowie - DAVID BOWIE
16. Close To The Edge - YES
15. Duke - GENESIS
14. We Sold Our Souls For Rock n Roll - BLACK SABBATH
13. Slowhand - ERIC CLAPTON
12. Machine Head - DEEP PURPLE
11. 2112 - RUSH
10. Toys In The Attic - AEROSMITH
09. I - VAN HALEN
08. Shakedown Street- GRATEFUL DEAD
07. 13 - The DOORS
06. Hotel California - EAGLES
05. The Wall - PINK FLOYD
04. 67-70 - BEATLES
03. Hot Rocks - ROLLING STONES
02. The Kids Are Alright - THE WHO
01. II - LED ZEPPELIN
Awesome video! This is why I like SoT... (too much pop and pop-metal lately I hate to say), but then again you're celebrating 1984... and it's your site... This is a more-or-less chronological order of my influences.
Foreigner- Head Games.. as a 13 year old my first "rock" album... still dig it!
Black Sabbath -Paranoid... after my AoR phase, metal ruled my teenaged world! And I do still like it as a musical texture
Deep Purple- Made in Japan... intense heavy jams... still love this album!
Iron Maiden- Killers.. Got me into TNWOBM in a big way at 15
Wishbone Ash- Argus.. proto Jam rock.. I also would put Uriah Heep in this category
Budgie- In for the Kill... I bought as an import at SoundWarehouse... still love it
Miles- We Want Miles... after I saw MD on SNL I learned heavy rock guitar could co-exist with jazz
Mahavishnu Orchestra- Best of.. on Cassette introduced me to this amazing heavy rock/Jazz Rock sound!
Coltrane- Village Vanguard Live.. Jazz could be mind-blowing and like metal but with horns
Santana-Caravanserai... hands down my fav Album ever!
Basement Tapes- the (Hated) Bob Dylan let me understand how rootsie rock could be combined with "beat" poetry fueled lyrics
Miles- In a Silent Way.. ambient beauty on a long Summer night
Pearl Jam- only really like 10 but it helped me realize rock could still be a serious artForm after cartoonish music ruled the 80s (to me)
The Flaming Lips- Transmissions From the Satellite Heart... at the start alternative/indie could be so much fun and interesting
Truly- Fast Stories From Kid Coma- The ultimate post-Soundgarden rock jam! Sublime! NO ONE KNOWS THIS GREAT ALBUM
Material- Hallucination Engine- Miles via Bill Laswell in the 90s... Great textures and worldbeats, and William S. Burroughs too
GodSpeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. Post-Rock kicks butt just like metal can to me
Hawkwind- In Search of Space.. got a record for like around 3 dollars.. blew my mind
Ozric Tentacles- Strangeitude... Still my Fav Ozrics Album!
The Orb- The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld- Wow! I really don't hate all dance/trance music after all this coming from a "Disco Sucks" MetalHead youth!)
Pink Floyd- not my fav Floyd album today but indispensable to 14 year old me!
Amon Duul II- Dance of the Lemmings... gateway into so-called "Kraut" rock.. Heavy guitar rock, texture, and ambience! Superb!
Really great idea, Pete. Like you make clear, this is not about the favorite/best albums, but the ones that got you enthused in a special way, or took you down new paths. All of us here on SoT are passionate about music, and for us, music is something that we connect to on an emotional level, so talking about these albums in this way is very appropriate.
Thank-you for triggering these types of thoughts in me, and I am sure, many others.
Excellent video Pete!!!
For me, here we go in no specific order.
Doris Day a 78 of I'll never stop loving you. I was two years old. The beauty of her voice and the music itself.
Black Sabbath paranoid. I was in grade 7 when the album was released. The songs were so engrained in me that as a young teenager enlightened me.i was on the school bus coming home from school in 1972. I was looking at the LP on the bus and was stunned.
Arvo part. This Estonian composer made me more aware of what beautiful arrangements with vocals could sound like.
Philip glass not much to say about his recordings. They are mesmerizing. Twisted my brain musically.
Miles Davis bitches brew. No doubt Miles most intriguing recording that sent me into another direction.
Led Zeppelin first album. I can't even describe the feelings I felt after hearing it for the first time.
Kl,aus Shultz I can't remember the name of the album. When I first got into radio, my co host was into his music. I could not believe the beautiful intracacies of his music.
Maria callas la boheme. A beautiful version of this classic opera. What a voice and what an effect on my life.
Kill switch engage. Not sure what the album was but I felt like electricity was running through my body.
Pete can wax lyrical for 45 mins and it doesn't feel like 45 mins. All killer no filler.
My first album: Catch Bull at Four by Cat Stevens (purchased in Madrid) - My 5th Form at school album: Schools Out by Alice Cooper - My first gig album: Crime of the Century by Supertramp - my favourite university gig album: New Boots and Panties by Ian Dury and the Blockheads - my first job album: The Stranger by Billy Joel - my first Bruce Springsteen album: Born to Run - Will be ticking off a first bucket list wish by experiencing Bruce live at Wembley Stadium on 25 July 2024. We’re both getting on a bit!
Plenty of albums had an impact on me. Life being changed...JP Hell Bent for Leather led me to never take anyone's shit ever again. Son House Father of the Delta Blues just shook me to the core... I just was Reborn. Tom Waits Jersey Girl and I was born yet again.
Love all 3 of those!
No matter that I've heard Pete tell most of these stories many times before, I still enjoy listening to them, it's like part of Sea Of Tranquility folklore by now!
Can't wait for the next, and last, BOC album Ghost Stories. The whole project sounds like a fun and appropriate way for them to go out. My twenty would be:
Wings - Greatest Hits
Boz Scaggs - Middle Man
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Eagles - Hotel California
ELO - Time
Bee Gees - Greatest Hits (Later in life I wished this album had also included their earlier hits, but that would have made it a 4 album set.)
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
The Cars - S/T
Foghat - Fool For the City
Earth, Wind and Fire - Greatest Hits
Yes - Fragile
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Van Halen - S/T
K-Tel Pure Gold Collection (It had The Things We Do For Love, Year of the Cat and other pop/rock/disco hits.)
Styx - Paradise Theater
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Hey Pete, great video. I went to New Paltz in the 80's too. Grew up in Cornwall, live in New Windsor and we have similar tastes. I love mostly Prog but by now, at 60, I'm open to many styles (not rap, country or opera) and recently I'm more into certain old Jazz, Blues and Gentle Giant (Giants of Prog that I somehow missed, growing up.) I read "The Memoirs of Billy Shears" last year. Quite an eye opener, since you mentioned McCartney. Thanks, man.
There are three albums that had a serious impact on my life.
The White Album
Blood on the Tracks
Meddle
Never mind the music, these albums changed the way I
look at life.
Excellent
Were drugs involved in any day?
@@tdunph4250
On a lot of days.
I loved music since I can remember and I lived with my grandmother for the first 9 years of my life. My aunt was still living at home and she was a Beatles freak, so I got hooked on that band first. So here are 10 of my albums that influenced my musical tastes. I'll have to have The Beatles in my list, so in no particular order, here we go. By the way, I'm not picking any live albums and I'm a prog rock nut, so there will be a lot of prog rock albums.
Abbey Road- The Beatles
Days of Future Passed- Moody Blues
Trilogy-ELP
Close to the Edge-Yes
Trespass-Genesis
Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd
Who's Next-The Who
Houses of the Holy-Led Zeppelin
Queen's first album
My last album that influenced my taste was The Book Of Invasions by Horslips. I was always a fan of traditional Irish music being of that background, but when I heard this album I was blown away. Horslips played the traditional music but they rocked it up. They had Barry Devlin on bass and vocals, Johnny Fean a brilliant guitarist and vocals, Charles O'Connor on the fiddle and mandolin, Jim Lockhart on keyboards and Eamon Carr on drums. They were amazing and I was lucky enough to see them back in the mid 70's.
Here are mine, in chronological order to me discovering them:
• Sgt. Peppers - my dad had eclectic taste, this stood out
• Dark Side Of The Moon
• Rush - Permanent Waves
• Van Halen I - Eddie!
• Unleashed In The East
• Iron Maiden - debut
• Hawkwind - Levitation
• Metallica - Kill 'Em All
• Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
• Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair
• Artrosis - In The Flower's Shade (Polish Gothic metal)
• Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light (post-metal)
• Alkaloid - Numen (recent progressive death metal that has re-awakened my love of heavy, imaginative music).
Excellent Pete! I turned 13 in 1970 so if I put a list together it would be different but I enjoyed yours. My sisters were much older than me but I remember them screaming at The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. When they got married they left me a plethora of 45s which I absorbed like a sponge. So when I did turn 13 I was well on my way as far as music went. And I’ve loved music ever since.
Yeah... Great topic.😃
1. AC/DC-Black Ice
That album was what got me into rock and metal music. It was my first full album on CD I got way back on Christmas 2008, aged 10.
AC/DC are still my favorite band and even though I did not listen to it recently, I really still like it very much.
2.Genesis-We Can't Dance
My dad used to listen to this album when I was little and what should I say... Some day it just stuck with me and I got deeper into Genesis. That and a free Ray Wilson concert in 2017 made me a full-blown Genesis fan.
3.Metallica-Metallica
Back in 2013 the "Black Album" was the first metal album I got into my CD collection, quickly followed by Black Sabbaths "13" and Iron Maidens "Flight 666 Soundtrack".
4.Stern Meißen-Reise Zum Mittelpunkt Des Menschen
This east german prog masterpiece made me a huge fan of the band. I never really listened to keyboard oriented prog without guitars but damn that hit me hard. I couldn't get enough of those jazzy bass lines, awesome keyboard sounds and goosebump inducing vocals/lyrics.
5.Hans Lazer Alien Slam-Action Metal
This album came out shortly after I got into synthwave. I never thought of mixing death metal and synthwave but this works great. The 80s action movie/wrestling/body building/neon/scifi image combined with synth and death metal music are awesome. This was also the first cassette tape I bought on bandcamp.
First 5 big favorite bands in the order i discovered them: Sweet,Status Quo,AC/DC,Motörhead and Black Sabbath.
1- Iron Maiden : Piece of Mind
2- Dream Theater : Images and Words
3- The Mahavishnu Orchestra : Between Nothingness and Eternity
4- Return to Forever : Romantic Warrior
5- Debussy : Preludes/Images/Estampes (Arrau)
6- Wagner : Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti)
7- Frank Zappa : You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 2
8- Schoenberg :Gurrelieder (Ozawa)
9- Steve Vai : Passion and Warfare
10- Miles Davis : Bitches Brew
11- Art Blakey : Moanin
12- Stravinsky : Rite of SPring/Petrouchka (Boulez)
13- Mahler : Symphony n°2 (Mehta)
14- Ravel : Piano Concerto in G/Piano Concerto for Lef Hand (François/Cluytens)
15- Steve Reich : Music For 18 Musicians
16- Keith Jarrett : Survivors Suite
17- Happy the Man : Happy the Man
18- National Health : Of Queues and Cures
19- Anthony Braxton : Dortmund Quartet 1976
20- Genesis : Nursery Cryme
Thank you very very much for mentioning Boston. I checked this album after you mention here and I'm totally in love with it. Incredibly good
1. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced? 2. ELP's First. 3. Led Zeppelin II. 4. Pink Floyd: Meddle. 5. Beatles White Album. 6. Yes: Close To The Edge. 7. Miles Davis Live At Fillmore. 8. Grateful Dead: Live Dead. 9. Traffic: John Barleycorn. 10. Woodstock. 11. Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orch. Pictures At An Exhibition. 12. Stravinsky Conducts The Rite Of Spring. 13. Schoenberg's Violin Concerto. 14. Weather Report: Heavy Weather. 15. Soundtrack 2001 A Space Odyssey feat. Ligeti's Atmospheres. 16. Bartok's Music For Strings, Percussion and Celest. 17. Genesis: A Trick Of The Tale. 18. John Cage: Williams Mix. 19. Gary Graffman Plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto #3. 20. Oh yeah, and Jethro Tull: Benefit. 🙂
Great list
This is great, Pete. Love the thumbnail too. That's how we feel about albums like this.
6 important ones.
1975 - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman / Teaser And The Firecat
1977 - Kiss - Love Gun / Destroyer
1984 - Rush - Grace Under Pressure / Moving Pictures / Signals
1986 - Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
1992 - Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes / Under The Pink
2001 - Opeth - Still Life / Blackwater Park
Cat Stevens is my earliest music memory. Still remember my Oh Very Young 45. Tea For the Tillman and Teaser And The Firecat are still 2 of the finest albums ever.
I discovered Kiss in 1977 when my mom of all people bought Love Gun. She didn't like it, but I loved it. Next was Destroyer and I was sold. Kiss freak for life. They and Rush are the two bands I still fanboy over the most. Although musically Rush has become my favourite, Kiss is the band I still seek the most information about and know the most about, podcast, collect, watch live, and still revisit old material.
I discovered Rush in 84. My friend Jeff Saxinger was a Rush freak the whole time I was a Kiss freak and he was always trying to convert me, which is maybe why I resisted. But when Grace Under Pressure came out I could resist no more, and they have since become my all time favourite band musically. Then I discovered Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, and yes, a lot of 80s hard rock like Dokken, Cinderella, Def Leppard, Ratt, Whitesnake, White Lion, Tesla, and the almighty BADLANDS!!! RUSH also helped in my love of prog, making Queensryche, Fates Warning, Voivod, SavAtage, Dream Theater, The Tea Party, Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Marillion, and Kings X all favourites of mine.
In 86 I saw the Running Up That Hill video and loved it. Up till that point I was basically just a hard rock fan. But Hounds of Love changed my life, and along with Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles, Hounds also opened my eyes to all types of music, not just hard rock, and it remains my favourite album of all time. It is a masterpiece. And ever since I have been obsessed with all things Kate.
Discovering Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes was another life changing moment. I discovered it by accident while working as a manager in my Top Forty music store. I was addicted to that album for two years, and she has become one of my favourite artists, and had reopened my eyes to singer songwriters and eclectic artists like Bjork, PJ Harvey, Joseph Arthur, Richard Hawley, David Gray, Fiona Apple, Susanne Sundfør, Nick Drake, and also renewed my love of Cat Stevens.
The first time I heard Opeth I could not accept them because of the harsh vocals. Up to that point I was not into music that heavy. The album I did not like was Still Life, even though now it is my favourite of theirs. But in 2001 Blackwater Park was released and their genius could no longer be denied. Already a Porcupine Tree and Anathema fan, they along with Opeth opened me up to so much other fantastic metal and rock that I prefer and love to this day, including bands like The Gathering, Katatonia, Agalloch, Daylight Dies, Green Carnation, Antimatter, Alcest, Enslaved, Ghost Brigade, Novembre, Solstafir, Amorphis, Paradise Lost, Swallow The Sun, and so many more.
Music has meant everything to me over the years and will continue to as other things fall away.
OMG
Love the Rush albums
Lovely Pete, thanks you so much for sharing 🤘
I was a drummer (still) and when I was a boy in the '50s and early '60s, my mother made us listen to classical music. So uptight. When The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show, a light came on and I talked my parents into buying me a drum set. My rock came from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Cream, The Who, Jimi Hendrix plus a scattering of pop songs in the '60s. Then Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Blue Oyster Cult, Allman Bros., Robin Trower, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Yes, and many others in the '70s. Lately, I found in hindsight, Mother's Finest as well as Porcupine Tree. I love Rock music.
Your comment about Hemispheres and Permanent Waves always nipping at the heels of Moving Pictures is my exact sentiment! Those are my golden Rush albums and for me Permanent Waves is really my favourite (I think). Great video. Thanks for sharing your stories.
In the order that the albums came into my life:
Elvis-King Creole (the first record I ever bought as a 6-year old!)
Duran Duran-Rio
Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger
Steely Dan-Countdown to Ecstasy
Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain
Neil Young-After the Gold Rush
Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Todd Rundgren-Something/Anything?
An honorable mention goes to some albums from the Who, Dr. John, Little Richard, Howlin' Wolf, Jellyfish, Mastodon etc. The records I listed aren't always my favorites by those bands/artists, but they all served as kind of gateways...
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Good evening Pete. I have not visited your RUclips site before, but found that I was nodding along to many of your choices. As you started the preamble to your no.5 I was already thinking about RT! I too got this album when he did the promotional tour. I was lucky to get a ticket (Birmingham UK; and I still have the ticket) and was blown away by these three amazing musicians. I regularly go and see RT when he’s on tour .. he seems to get better and better. I am now going to do my own 20 albums that changed my life 😎