Ten Records that Changed My Life!
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There are two albums that changed my life: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, by David Bowie, and Remain in Light, by Talking Heads. I heard both of them in the same evening in October, 1980. At that time i was already a huge Bowie fan, and I was familiar with Talking Heads. But for the most part I was into Prog and what we now call Classic Rock. In 1980 it was just rock. Anyway, that evening I was catching up with some friends I had not seen since the previous spring. Someone asked me if I had heard the new Talking Heads album and I said no. It went on, and my mind was instantly blown. That was followed by the Bowie album, which I somehow did not know even existed. Mind explosion complete. Those two albums were so different from anything I had heard up until that point in my life. They opened a new world of sound, rhythm, layering, and vocal experimentation. To this day those are still two of my all time top five albums. There are many other albums I love, but none that changed my approach to music like those two.
1971..I was 11 and heard Black Sabbath's first album. Changed everything.
This. It's the first music I remember. And still my favorite.
When I was seven my mum bought me 'I'm A Believer' by The Monkees, which was No.1 in the charts. I still have that record. In the early 1970s I fell in love with the wonderfully exotic Roxy Music - 'Pyjamarama' followed by For Your Pleasure and Stranded. Mid-1970s and Van der Graaf Generator were the next major discovery - in at the very deep end with Pawn Hearts. Closely followed by In Praise Of Learning (1975) and Concerts (1976) both by the extraordinary Henry Cow. After Henry Cow my feverish teenage brain was ready for all manner of experimental delights in the realms of rock, jazz and classical. The journey continues...
In the sixties and seventies, my grandmother owned a luncheonette. Each table had a jukebox filled with 45's, and when it was time to change them I got to take the old ones home. So many great tunes.....love your channel, by the way!
1. Revolver
2.Brain Salad Surgery
3.Foxtrot
4.Aqualung
5.Close to the Edge
6.octopus
7.So
8.Deep Purple in Rock
9.In The Court of the Crimson King
10 Look At Yourself
That's an impressive spread my man!
I am 73 and I have just come to your video and I am hooked. I bought Elvis in 1963 Jailhouse Rock .
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Oh yeah, Elvis was on fire back then. It was well before my time but regardless I can still dig the hell out of the pre-vegas King!
@@usaturnuranus Yeah!! 👍👍
Life is most upfront and alive during our coming of age years, and the music that feeds us and becomes the soundtrack of our changes is naturally current to those times. Even great music that comes later rarely can touch us the same because it misses the intensity of our most formative period.
And weren't we truly fortunate to have come of age in that particularly magical era? What a gift.
Kings of the wild frontier changed my life .
The albums which changed my life are:
1) Revolver by the Beatles. This is when I discovered how to record backwards music.
2) Pictures at an Exhibition by ELP. It's when I knew I had to have a synth.
3) Hawkwind by Hawkwind. Saw them live in 1970. It was mind-blowing and changed music for me.
4) Stormcock by Roy Harper. Beautiful album.
5) Benefit by Jethro Tull
6) In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson. The mellotron. the most beautiful instrument ever.
7) Mëkanïk Dëstruktïw Kömmandöh by Magma. Went to a concert to see Hawkwind and Man and discovered Magma. The ultimate life-changing album. Never looked back since.
8) The Planets by Holst. The basis of all sci-fi film music.
great video...love the insight...i won't mention ten, but i will mention one..'hound dog' by elvis presley...i was sitting in the front seat of my dad's car...i was about 5 years old, maybe less...the radio was on and basically playing wallpaper until hound dog came on...that was it...i cranked up the volume and exclaimed..'now this is music'...i was never the same...my first album was 'elvis' golden records'...a classic to this day...it made me become a singer my entire life...that was my changing moment...
I was raised on my father's music collection: Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Zep, Hendrix, Cream, Clapton, Beach Boys, Doors, Floyd, and CSNY albums, and my mother's 45s- Motown, Monkees, "Nuggets"-style psychedelia, Rod Stewart and Zombies.
I knew when I was a child that I wanted to play rock music.
The Black Crowes Shake Your Moneymaker changed my life because I learned it by ear, and found that I could play rock music.
I bought King Crimson's debut, IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING, about two years ago courtesy of your ravings. Thank you kindly! I can only imagine what it would have sounded like in 1969 when it first appeared. Nothing, or not much, to compare it to. An out-of-the-box pioneering gem!
My list:
1. Pink Floyd- Wish you were here
2. Megadeth- Peace sells
3. The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's
4. ELP- Trilogy
5. Genesis- Foxtrot
6. Frank Zappa- Hot rats
7. Jimi Hendrix- Are you experienced
8. David Bowie- The man who sold the world
9. Return to forever- The romantic warrior
10. Dire Straits- Brothers in arms
10 albums that changed my life in no particular order:
Moving Waves - Focus
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Inform,Educate,Entertain - Public Service Broadcasting
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Beatles 67-70
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
American III - Johnny Cash
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink floyd
plus lots of Abba singles!
Graham Nash - David Crosby circa 1970. What a great record.
Only one changed my life, my Brother and Sister were into Hawkwind, when I was 11 in 1974 I put "Space Ritual" on to listen to, one of the greatest live albums ever made
My thoughts exactly 💯
Yes.
One of the few albums that I listened to many years ago and still listen to now.
Just found this post. It's old, but you mentioning Hawkwind was real. Space Ritual one of the best live albums.
the way you spoke of buddy holly and 'rave on' was the way i feel about elvis presley and 'hound dog'...being a bit older than you are, i heard this on the radio when i was a wee lad...and it changed me forever...thanks for the memory...peace always...rocky
In no particular order:
Abby Road--my first-ever album. Spoiled me for every other Beatles albums that never lived up to that.
You Don't Mess Around With Jim--Croce's songwriting overwhelmed a teenaged me.
Elton John (eponymous)--I fell in love with who would eventually become my wife thinking about "I Need You to Turn To."
Songs in the Key of Life--I disappeared into it over and over again.
New York--Okay, someone (Lou Reed) more cynical than me!
Nilsson Schmilsson--began a lifelong addiction to creative songwriting
Little Criminals (Randy Newman)--Ditto
Small Change (Tom Waits)--Ditto
How Will the Wolf Survive?--Los Lobos returning me to my SoCal roots. Pride!
Strong Persuader--Robert Cray dragging me head-first into the blues in a way even BB King hadn't
In 1971, I was a 13 year old paperboy. Bought my first stereo, and it had AM and FM and... FM Stereo ?
I put on my AM channel that I loved, and then put on FM Stereo. (same spot on radio dial)
I heard "Knife Edge" by ELP. Changed my life.
And then "Karn Evil 9". YES is my fave, but holy crap.
Three albums stand out for me. First is the Boston debut. I was 9 years old and it was my first non Beatles rock record. Second is Yes Fragile, which I discovered in 1985 after buying my first Yes album, 90125. Then I found Tull. In 87 I got Crest of a Knave-Shortly after the 20 years box came out. The short edits of the Minstrel material made that my next Tull album and that was that. Within a month I had every Tull album.
I was 10 years old when I heard Please Please Me by The Beatles. Nothing I had heard on the radio or in my mom and dad's records sounded anything like this so I became a Beatles fan. But then in 1965 I heard Bob Dylan's Positively 4th Street and I never bothered with The Beatles again. The next two songs that blew me away were A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum and Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd. I still listen to Dylan, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd but never listen to The Beatles.
Great video, here are my 10 albums:
1. Status Quo - Hello! (My introduction to rock music)
2. ABBA - Arrival (My introduction to melody)
3. Eric Clapton - Just One Night (The album that made me want to pick up a guitar)
4. Ultravox - Rage In Eden (One of the best albums of my teenage years)
5. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (When I was a teenager everyone I knew liked Ozzy Osbourne or Duran Duran. I was different)
6. Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl (The first time I bought an album having only heard the singles years before, and found I'd bought a classic)
7. Jeff Beck - Guitar Shop (Went to see one of Jeff's concerts on this tour. Walking in I never thought I was about to see the greatest guitar player ever to have lived. Utter genius)
8. Rainbow - Down To Earth (The album that changed my views on, and helped me understand, rock music from a playing perspective)
9. Big Country - The Crossing (To me, this album was a complete game changer, as it was for many others. Suddenly a lack of denim & leather was cool)
10. B.B.King - King Of The Blues 1989 - (Like with the Jeff Beck concert, I went to a BB gig on this tour. It was something completely new to me, I'd never seen a traditional blues man like BB before. A true entertainer, leaving the show that night I remember seeing nothing but smiling faces, including my own reflection.
Well, as I was born in post-war Germany in 1952, I was mostly influenced by (late) 50's, and, of course, 60's music.Though, within the years & decades to come, there have always been further "acoustic epiphanies", but, as Cat Stevens once sang "The first Cut is the deepest", the early ones have left the most significant marks on me. In 1959, I was given a couple of 7"es by my parents for my 7th birthday (mostly stuff they weren't that keen on anymore), and one of them was Harry Belafonte's "Coconut Woman", backed by "Island in the Sun", which many years later would be used as the signature tune for Germany's most popular coffee brand "Tchibo". This true gem (I love it to bits to this very day) changed my overall perception of music as such, and also paved the way for my lifelong passion/obsession for what is commonly known as "Third World" music. I played both tracks over & over again (very much to my parents chagrin), learned the lyrics by heart (without really understanding a single word), and, led by the spellbinding rhythm, experienced a kind of premature "acoustic puberty".
It was 3 years later, when, again given by my parents, I heard the German version of Pete Seeger's "Where have all the flowers gone". sung by Marlene Dietrich, and backed by her German version of "And the World was young", a tune written by Philippe-Gérard & orchestrated by Burt Bacharach. Stunning, haunting & groundbreaking, sad & touching - all in one. My country had just lost the biggest war in the history of mankind, and that had cast a dark shadow over the country for many years to come. And, the Coconut & The Flower, the first of unbridled exuberance, the other replete with melancholy & wistfulness have become my personal Janus Face in terms of music, and fine arts in general, for all of my life. Considering the latter, it led me to become a huge fan of Bob Dylan, and everything/one that came with it, as straight as the crow flies.
The third major influence came from a completely different direction in the form of a classical masterpiece. Sergei Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, played by Sviatoslav Richter, a Russian pianist. Only as a trivia, this piece was used in "The Seven-Year Itch" , which I believe is Marilyn Monroe's finest flick.
Only shortly after, the next "Giant Step" was taken with the rise (and shine) of The Beatles. By then, it weren't merely singles, but whole albums I began to wish for as birthday & Christmas presents, and after a few 45's (I want to hold your Hand/She loves you) I was given the German version of "Please, please me". Wallop!
Not long after, my first Rolling Stones record, a first dive into Blues & Folk Blues, and, as musical genres & names called each other by their names, the rest is history.
However, like John Mayall used to sing, "There's nothing like the first Time". No deeper cut. Sela!
Thank you for this
Lad, no Southern Rock, or Blues, or Country, there's a whole world out there, there's still more to discover.
Ribbon of Darkness - Gordon Lightfoot
I was maybe 5 or 6. My parents had Gordon's first album and there's a picture of me listening to this song. I was obsessed with this song. Love Gordon.
Broken Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughn
My mom had a copy on 45 as she was a fan. Probably the first time I feel in love with a female voice. Love Sarah, even when she sings pop.
Elvis Gold Records Vol I - The first album I ever received as a gift as a request. I was 8. Wore it out.
Ray Charles - Movin On.
My parents were older and so I had only access to their music at a certain age. I listened to this on their copy of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. Love Ray.
The Beatles - I Should Have Known Better.
Bought this on 45 when I was 11. A Hard Day's Night was on television one night in 1978 and my sister and I were allowed to stay up and watch. Bought the 45 that weekend. It was the B side to A Hard Day's Night.
Ant Music - Adam and the Ants.
They were interviewed on a show broadcast in Canada called The New Music. Like Barry, loved that first album and went out and bought the single and later the album. Marco's guitar playing was stellar.
Babooska - Kate Bush.
Discovered Kate whilst at a friend's house. His father had just bought the album. Heard her sing and could not get enough. There's just something about Kate. Fell in love with her as well.😉
Look into The Sun - Jethro Tull.
Again, my friend's father had Tull's second album ( Stand Up) and once I heard this song, I was hooked.
James Brown - Please Please Please.
Saw James perform this in the movie The Tami Show when I was 16. Was already a Prince fan and discovered James by accident. If you haven't seen The Tami Show, see it.
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
Extended EP/45. Saw the movie and fell in love with this man's music. Bought everything he made.
I’ll always remember my father’s records. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Guy Mitchell, Jim Reeves , etc…. all on 78s. It’s coloured my music tastes, even today.
Stones - Exile (especially, but a dozen more of theirs,) It drew me in without fully understanding the words, or much else, through the feelings: weariness, exhaustion they fought heroically, love and empathy, alienation. The embrace of failures and freaks. Finally Let it Loose made me weep.
Patti Smith - Horses
Creedence - Willy and the Poor Boys
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Johnny Thunders' - Hurt Me
Being of the same generation and having older brothers as well (with a bit of a large age gap) I was introduced to all possible kinds of music from very early childhood. By the time I was seven/eight I was aware of Bowie's Diamond Dogs, Aladdin Sane, etc, Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies, Welcome to my Nightmare, Kiss' Destroyer and Alive I, Dark Side of the Moon, Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, Zep's Physical Grafitti and many, many more. At the same time the radio was playing more middle of the road, top 40 stuff and then there were my parents' teenage end forties/fifties years with people like Glenn Miller, Nat King Cole, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley, Fats Domino etc. By the time I was fourteen I had filled in lots of gaps that were still unexplored like Hendrix' back catalogue while adhering to the times with Adam and The Ants, Ultravox, Bauhaus, Fad Gadget, Echo and the Bunnymen,...you name it. A few years later my best friend turned me on to Zappa and for me that was like reaching a zenith...and that was just my pop/rock stuff. I had a complete alternative musical quest going on at the same time with classical and modern classical music, jazz, folk and ethnic music and experimental electronics the likes of Delia Derbyshire, Klaus Schulze and so on. Once you're on a muscial journey, it goes on forever. Albums that actually 'changed' my life...too many to sum up...Here's a few: Welcome to My Nightmare, Aladdin Sane, Electric Ladyland, Whoman Four Says (Lisa Dalbello), Purple Rain, The Hissing of Summer Lawns (Joni Mitchell), Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine (The Doors compilation album), Scott IV (Scott Walker), Tommy (The Who), Them or Us/Joe's Garage/One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa),...
I’d say the bands that changed my life. Grand Funk RR all
Of thier LPs, Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced, Led Zeppelin II Guess Who American Women, Allman Bros Brothers & Sisters, Easy Rider Sound track. Steppenwolf 16 greatest hits , Beatles Abby Road, Woodstock Sound track , The Doors Morrison Hotel, The Band The Last Waltz, Almost all of the LPs, have hippie, change the world, f the man themes
Paradise Theater is one of the two classic Styx albums that had a CD release in Europe. The other is Cornerstones. Some of their best albums like Grand Illusions and Pieces Of Eight are US import only, but I have them anyway.
Although I am almost one generation older than you (born 1950), surprisingly I can identify with almost all of these. (Of course in my case I did not need to borrow them from my father!!! ) One which was most interesting is that you were influenced by a reissue of The Shadows Greatest Hits. The original album with that title was the first LP I ever bought in 1963.
It happened to us all. That is why we are so much into Rock and Roll music. We find parts of our self there. The record that has strike me the most and really changed my life is Hejira by Joni Mitchell. Its like it was written for me. The guitar the bass the piano the sax the amazing lyrics all are parts of me. It Is like Joni Mitchell knew me. No need to say that she is the best artist in rock and roll history. thanks for the video.
Martin Scorsese has a documentary where Michell plays a song from "Hejira" at Gordon Lightfoot's house with Dylan and Roger McGuinn on guitar. That would have been an interesting supergroup with no shortage of songwriters.
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla & other assorted love songs.
The Who - Who’s Next
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
Neil Young - Zuma
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin 1
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
The Allman Brothers- Live at Fillmore East
👍🎸 Greetings from Berlin.
Great List: As a musician and fan, the following albums absolutely shaped me
"Controversy", "1999" "Purple Rain" "Parade" & "Sign O' The Times"-Prince
"Computer Games" "R&B Skeletons In The Closet"-George Clinton
"The Wall" "Dark Side Of The Moon" "Meddle" "Works"-Pink Floyd
" By All Means Necessary"-KRS-ONE "Into Battle with The Art Of Noise"-Art Of Noise
" Never Forever" "The Dreaming" "Hounds of Love"-Kate Bush
"Let there Be Rock" "High Voltage" "Black In Black" "For Those About To Rock"-AC/DC
"Paid In Full" -Eric B. & Rakim
"Top Billin' " -Audio 2
"In Through The Out Door" Led Zeppelin
"In The Court Of The Crimson King" is very Moody Bluesish which is a great thing.
An interesting point of view 😂
Buddy Holly played the Hammersmith Gaumont - now the Apollo - on 25/3/1958
So she was right....
Indeed, dear!
I was born in '64, the youngest of a family of audiophiles. From the early '70s through the end of the decade is when the development of my musical tastes formed.
The earliest music that I can distinctly remember were a handful of Beatles songs as well as "Light My Fire" from The Doors. The first album I became aware of as a complete work (as opposed to a stream of singles on AM radio) was DSOTM, procured by my eldest brother when it was released. Important albums that came after that in the '70s were (in no particular order)....
Zeppelin's debut
Kiss Alive
Boston's debut
Fly Like an Eagle
Rust Never Sleeps
Endless Summer
A Glen Campbell greatest hits collection (not exactly sure which one)
The Wall
Paranoid
I’m going to go with the Moody blues Days of Future Passed as a significant influence on my music appreciation. Even 57 years later… that album is truly amazing. Plus, of course for them. It was a significant change over what they had been playing for the prior three or four years.
Kings of the Wild Frontier has always been a favourite of mine. As for In the Court of the Crimson King, one of the all time greats
I have a couple of thousand vinyl records in my collection. Many of them affected me deeply throughout the course of my lifetime. But the one that stands out the most ironically you were wearing the T-shirt of the man and the band. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Hypnotic eye. This man and his band we’re not only rocking out but we’re completely telling the truth and exposing things. It really helped wake me up as to what the hell is going on in this world. I would let all of my rock ‘n’ roll albums country albums blues albums all of them go forever except this one final masterpiece. I encourage all of you to Give it a listen. Thanks for a good video mate.🎸
When I was a young child in the early 70s we had a record player that looked like a coffin on legs (an Alba I think) and I still have great memories of playing the early Beatles singles such as 'She Love You' and 'It's Not Unusual' by Tom Jones etc. My favourite memories however, are playing Sweet, Slade and Suzi Quatro singles ... those were really happy times .
In 1972 my second grade teacher brought in Elvis's "hound dog" on 45 and it blew my mind
Mum was not too fancy on music but dad loved 1930s-1940s big band,being born in 1920,it was his era.
Don't know if I could come up with 10 but-
The Beatles when I was young. We had an 8 track player that had many of their classic albums. The first experience of liking the concept of music,
Queen- the first band I got into (excluding The Beatles) to make me appreciate the power and expression of electric guitar.
Black Sabbath- I had a somewhat dismissive attitude to them, mainly due to Ozzys' somewhat clownish 80s' image and the catchy but stupid Paranoid single for a while but when I was 19 I bought a cheap box set of their early albums and I was blown away. Life changing in that it taught me to be open minded and experience things before passing judgement.
Terry Reid- I taped Glastonbury 1971 many years ago and Terry was by far the standout. Made me realise how powerful a voice can really be, when before I was really a guitar guy.
Rush- taught me that you be both proggy and ballsy at the same time.
In order of my timeline:
The Makem & Clancy Collection (My Mum's. These songs are wonderful)
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (My very first tape)
Queen - The Works (My very first LP)
Prince - Parade (my big sister was a huge influence on my back then...)
Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses (Again my sister had tonnes of tapes)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters & Super Creeps (No comment needed)
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (Back in those days (91 isch), I did not own many albums, but I had this on tape and I played it over and over and over. Never got bored and I am still discovering this amazing album)
Orbital - Snivilisation (beginning of a long adventure into Electronica)
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide (with this artist, I would never have dicovered Krautrock)
Neu! - Neu! (.....oh my God,,, Hallogallo!!)
I have to say your music journey closely mirrors my own. The Wall was very important. I had never heard a record that didn’t have a few seconds of silence between tracks. It was mysterious and captivating. Kiss Alive, the first record my parents bought me, was hugely influential. My introduction to King Crimson was Discipline, which blew me away. Jeff Beck’s Wired got me hooked on instrumental music. My older brother introduced me to ELO, which I love to this day. My friend’s older brother turned me on to Gentle Giant’s Power and the Glory. A bit of the devil’s lettuce at 16 yrs old and listening to Aspirations was dreamy. Perhaps my favorite prog band. Always enjoy your offerings. I know this is an older video, but just found it. Hope all is well!
My pics are only albums I owned and the ones I played the most.
1. American Beauty-greatful dead
2. Meet The Beatles
3. Beach Boys in Concert
4. Leon Russel and the Shelter People
5. Disreli Gear-Cream
6. Crosby Stills Nash and Young
7. Rock Opera Tommy-The Who
8. Brave New World-Steve Miller Band
9. Exile On Main Street-Rolling Stones
10. Blood on the Tracks-Bob Dylan
11. Stand Up-Jethro Tull
12. Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys-Arlo Guthrie
13. Boston
14. Blue-Joni Mitchell
15. Santana
Great list
Oh, that’s incredible that your mom saw Buddy Holly…. I just read the new book about Eddie Cochran… The very last gig he played was at the hippodrome in Birmingham, England.
My Mam died when I was nearly 5 years old and she had a very small record collection which was dominated by John Lennon. I was around 8 when I discovered it. The first real song I experienced, played by me on an old Dansette was Mother. I remember being so scared by the bells but then wanting to scream along with John as the record kicked in.
I've loved Lennon ever since simply because he said what I was feeling.
My introduction to In the Court of the Crimson King was back in 1999 from a bootleg cassette on loan from my Russian friend Svi. It totally blew my mind and transported me to some secret ethereal realm. Brilliant album from a legendary band! ❤
1. Velvet underground and nico
2.bob Dylan- bring it all back home
3.van morrison- astral week's
4.Kris kristofferson- spooky lady sideshow
5.nirvana-in utero
Great list!!!
I had to think about this for a while... growing up I was so influenced by several records my parents had - Magical Mystery Tour was my only Beatles album. Jesus Christ Superstar had me not only with rock and roll but the beginnings of interest in musical and musical theater. A version of Strauss: Thus Spake Zarathustra had my interest in classical and in particularly dramatic classical. I would listen all the time to On the Threshold of a Dream, and I had even created an almost movie storyline that went along with it!
The movie Star Wars at the age of 10 changed my life and the original John Williams score is by far one of the biggest influences on me ever, igniting my interest in movie scores that is still my primary musical interest after all these decades. My best friend reignited my interest in rock music that had in many ways gone away for several years through Kiss: Double Platinum which I then found my first musical favorite group that was my own with Queen: Live Killers (and the album design spoiled me for rock concert stage design forever).
I liked what was then the new album by The Who - Face Dances, but a friend I knew was like, you need to know the REAL Who and lent me The Kids Are Alright (which soon led me to see the movie in a midnight showing) where I discovered Keith Moon. I'm a drummer. Nothing more needs to be said about that influence as you can guess!
In high school I listened a lot to the Risky Business soundtrack which had the influence of getting me interested in Tangerine Dream and a love of instrumental and atmospheric sounds. I also started listening to Pink Floyd's: The Wall, when I discovered the idea of how much you can wrap your mind and mentality into music it might not always be healthy.
My last one is Barenaked Ladies: Born on a Pirate Ship. This band was the favorite of the woman who would become my wife and this is the one I listened to and got hooked on the single 'The Old Apartment' which gave us one of our first shared connections.
Sorry for the essay, but I like to be complete and it would have been hard (and a bit unfair) to not go into some detail.
I wore out three copies of Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack album on cassette in 1974
You should of cleaned your cassette player heads more often...wearing out cassettes is pretty hard
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid, 2. Deep Purple - Made In Japan, 3. Derek And The Dominos - Layla (And Other Assorted Love Songs), The Allman Brothers Band - Live At Fillmore East, 5. J. Geils Band - Blow Your Face Out, 6. The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks, 7. KISS - Destroyer, 8. Led Zeppelin II, 9. Bob Seger - Night Moves, 10. Santana - Santana.
Really loving this channel and as a new listener/viewer I don’t know if it’s been mentioned before but your voice reminds me of Robert Calvert’s, particularly on the Brock/Calvert Project album, eg the track First Landing On Medusa. This is no bad thing, by the way.
For me, Kiss would fall into the category of “guilty pleasure”. Their music makes me chuckle, especially when a song of theirs come on and my wife goes, “Oh my God, is that Kiss ? It’s awful.”
I am so happy to see Adam and the Ants getting some love. I saw them play, and they were wild. The audience was a real mixed bag of oddballs and punks, there was nothing mainstream about them when Kings of the Wild Frontier came out. And those double drummers gave the sound a real heft. A great album that I still play regularly. I quite liked Prince Charming, but it was a snappy pop record wholly unlike KOTWF.
Hawkwinds self titled debut , Iron Butterfly' s " ln a gadda da vida " , "Thank christ for the bomb " by the Groundhogs ," A step further " by Savoy Brown and my all time favourite " The land of grey and pink by " Caravan . Got all these in 1970 when l was 16 and love 'em to this day .
A few that have stuck with me throughout my life are Bob Dylan - Desire. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. JJ Cale - Naturally. Bert Jansch - Birthday Blues. The Cure - Disintegration. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon. Bowie - Diamond Dogs. Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue. Talking Heads - Remain In Light. Honourable mention to Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage.
Like corn exchanges, theatres, town halls and other larger venues, cinemas often also served as live gig venues, so that Buddy Holly gig very possibly happened at a cinema. When the Beatles played Edinburgh it was at the ABC Cinema (now the Odeon) on Lothian Road.
Face The Music, Eldorado, A New World Record and Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are outstanding. I will add Pink Floyd Dark Side of The Moon, Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Genesis A Trick Of The Tail , Supertramp Crime of the Century and Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Hi Barry,
Wow.... are we brothers from another life from another mother. Incredible. We must have about the same age and must have had the same childhood experiences. Yep, Dark Side of the Moon and the Wall have had a profound effect on my life and will remain on my top albums to bring to a desert island and to bring to the next world. Dark Side was an experience.... listening.... being transfixed and checking out all the goodies that came with it. The Wall was primal from the single Another Brick in the Wall.. instantaneous. Got to see Pink Floyd twice without Waters and Waters with Clapton in tow for the Pros and Cons tour as well as the Radio Waves tour. Rush.... that triumvirate from my home country. I have had a love affair with them since my high school days.
I mean even my notebook or Duo-Tang.... binder had a picture of Rush in rehearsal. Exit Stage Left has left an indelible mark on me and all of their catalog and still to this day. Asia and their debut album... still special. King Crimson debut as well. Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard as well as Derek and the Dominos Layla. Marillion and Misplaced Childhood hold a special place. Jethro Tull Aqualung.... was like... when I heard it was... "What is this..and hence began my love affair with them. Enjoying all of their reissues and discovering that my favorites are now Minstrel and WarChild.. heck I love them all. The Who's Who's Next. Yep, funny Styx hold some part of real estate on my heart as well. Paradise Theatre. Yes, I would love to see them with Dennis. Equinox is a high point for me.
I remember buying their live album Caught in the Act.... and having to keep changing it for another copy because it kept skipping. Ah... the joys of coming home with damaged goods. Supertamp and Live in Paris... as well as Queen The Game hold a special place as well. I think I named more than 10. Sorry.
Thank you for this great piece and for tugging on the heart string and making us visit our childhood and teen years.
God bless and keep well,
Tino
My pleasure... Stay safe and keep listening to some great music
Great video! These are my favorite kind of lists, because I get to learn more about the presenter too, not just the music. I LOL’ed at the story of Adam and Ants being responsible for you quitting smoking.
Just like you, I can thank/blame older siblings and parents for introducing me to a lot of my most important records, though in my case the parents were reversed. It was my Dad who loved rock and roll and my Mom who liked the crooners. There was also a History of Popular Music class I took in college that was massively important for getting me interested in a lot of other musical styles like blues that I hadn’t really listened to before. Anyway, I’ve never really thought about this topic, but these are some albums I know would have to be on my own list:
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Stratosfear - Tangerine Dream
OU812 - Van Halen
Disintegration - The Cure
BloodSugarSexMagik - The Red Hot Chili Peppers (I traded one of my friends a pair of Lita Ford cassettes for this CD in 1992. Best trade I ever made)
Oceanborn - Nightwish (first introduced me to European symphonic and gothic metal, which became my rock and roll lifeline over the last 15 years as the American rock scene went in the tank)
Why I Sing the Blues - BB King
Under the Big Black Sun - X
Thank you for sharing this
2 of mine in 1970 as a 10year old was George Harrison All things must pass" and Simon & garfunkel 'greatest hits' albums!
I was So hoping one of them would have been "Ernie the fastest milkman in the west" 😜
Burl Ives 🤣. My parents had one of his albums.
I fortunately caught Styx live on their PARADISE THEATER tour in Toronto. Great show and album, indeed! Yes, "come back Dennis DeYoung."
Great video! Got me thinking. I still have 6 of those albums that you feature, some on vinyl, tape and cd, but I'm not sure I could whittle it down to 10 most influential....
Music that changed my life...
1963-ish She Loves You by The Beatles
1970 Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - just so different
1973 - Dark Side of the Moon - it got over-played but it is still special
1977 - Get a Grip by the Stranglers - a journey into punk and New Wave
1979 - Unknown Pleasures By Joy Division
1983 - Age of Consent by New Order- I never knew that New Order were a pop band not a continuation of Joy Division leads to a whole new appreciation
1986 - Psychocandy by Jesus and Mary Chain - Beach Boys tunes played by the Velvet Underground and produced by Phil Spector - what is there no to like
Greetings from Australia and thanks for a great video, here's my list in no particular order but I can't limit it to 10
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth; Rick Wakeman. Turned me on to Prog Rock and I'm still there.
- Face to Face; The Angels. Oz Pub Rock at it's very very finest; from Take A Long Line to Be With You, every track is gold. Find it and play it loud; you're welcome.
- The Koln Concert; Keith Jarrett. A transformative experience even if he is just making it up as he goes along. Saw him live in '78. Magic.
- Yessongs; Yes. Prog Rock at it's very finest.
- Crime of the Century - Supertramp. Brilliantly structured album.
- On the Threshold of A Dream; The Moody Blues. First heard in 1976, loved it from end to end. Bookended in quality by Long Distance Voyager way later.
- Rumors; Fleetwood Mac. A magic album, played it daily on release.
- Frampton Comes Alive; Peter Frampton. Still a classic album with some of the best melodic guitar solos ever recorded.
- Meddle; Pink Floyd. This was the album that connected me to them, also "I was in the kitchen, Seamus (that's the dog) was outside" has to be one of the greatest opening lines to a blues song ever.
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; Elton John. Probably the greatest collection of songs on one release.
- Hot August Night; Neil Diamond. Another classic album, also a primer for learning acoustic guitar.
- Bat Out of Hell; Meat Loaf. Overblown & bloated but every song is an anthem.
- Tubular Bells; Mike Oldfield. Find the version that has the alternate Hornpipe where Vivian Stanshall does a tour of the Manor House where they recorded the album.
- Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; Small Faces. A wonderful bizarre record featuring the extraordinarily weird "Happiness Stan"
- Seconds Out; Genesis. I realise the list has a lot of live albums; but this deserves it's place as a brilliant concert performance.
- Turnstiles; Billy Joel. I'd been following Billy Joel since Streetlife Serenade but Turnstiles is where it all came together. A flawless album.
Without older siblings there would be no music.
Kings of the Wild Frontier was the album that changed my life. "Antmusic" was the only moment where I said this was the best song I'd ever heard. No other song before or after had that effect. The film clip added to that experience.
When I was working on a bakery delivery van at the grand old age of 13, I heard Unit 4+2’s Concrete And The Clay. Music became pretty much the most important thing in my life! Although my Mum told me that at the even grander age of 2, I was taken to see Bill Haley And The Comets live in Romford and was dancing in the aisle, so maybe that was the start of my lifelong love of music. Rocking around the clock? Sorry……….
Albums that made me say WOW as a teenager (now 72)
Sgt Pepper / Disraeli Gears - Cream / Are You Experienced - Hendrix / The White album
Great video! Makes me feel like I should make one like this.
And so you should, you have a great channel and it would be an interesting video
Classic Album Review Thanks! You have a great channel as well.
Blows Against The Empire - Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship 1970 (basically Airplane and guests). A hippie, Sci Fi , counter-cultural rave. We wd sit around turntable and learn all the lyrics off by heart.
Gunfighter Ballads - Marty Robbins. My dad sang all these songs to us as kids, we didn't know it then but later I came to realise that this is considered one of the most famous country albums ever made. We acted out Big Iron and sat transfixed at His Masters Call. The iconic red and black album cover sat on top of the record player. This album and Johnny Cash as well were always being played and sung in the house when we were kids. I still have a love of outlaw country and Americana style music.
My older sister was a huge Elvis Presley fan 'n I remember as a child listenin' to the 45's Any Way You Want Me 'n I Want You, I Need You, I Love You on repeat for hours. It totally took over my being 'n was a major musical influence. Later my most influential albums were Pink Floyd-A Saucerful Of Secrets, Captain Beefheart-Lick My Decals Off, Baby, 10cc-Sheet Music, Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies-The American Metaphysical Circus, 'n Joni Mitchell-Ladies Of The Canyon, to name but a few. A great concept-thanks!
There are many albums that may have changed my perception of music - there are fewer that have really changed my life.
1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks >>> this is not an album for me but a companion. I have this one over 50 years now and I surely did not understand much of it when I first heard it maybe I do not even understand it today. It takes me on a different journey every time I listen and the lyrics inspire associations and memories that may have nothing to do with what he actually sings about. "Timeless" is often misused but true in this case. The funny fact is that I originally bought it by error because all I knew about the artist back then were the singles he had recorded with Them and I had heard on the radio.
2. Allman Brothers Band - First >>> this is when you find something you did not even knew you were searching. Up to that point, most music I knew was 60s music and some elements that were in it but only randomly. When I heard this one I knew how all the things should work together. Again this was a chance meeting because I went to buy Idlewild South after I heard Revival on the radio. The shop owner offered me a bargain if I took the debut album as well for a few coins more since he had nor sold a single copy of it before. When I took both albums home I started by listening to the earlier one first.
3. Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention - We're Only in it for the Money >>> This made me forget for all times the idea of singles and hits and introduced me to "meaning". This was funny and ugly and bizarre and still memorable tunes. Zappa opened many doors for me and probably is a main reason why I have a really broad taste in music that keeps me interested in many genres until today.
4. Who - Who's Next >>> This is for me the definition of "Classic Album", the one that all others are measured against (in the abstract way that we can measure music, but I have no better words to express it). It is a reference point and at the same time a masterpiece in its own right.
5. Pink Floyd - Meddle >>> It is not the best or most important Pink Floyd album (I am one of those who were there when Dark Side of the Moon was released...) but it is the one that changed the most for me, especially the side-long Echoes.
6. Rory Gallagher - Blueprint >>> This is a placeholder, I could have chosen any of his albums but since this came in 1973 it is best suited for this list. He was the one in all the 70s superstardom that was starting to evolve to stay at his roots. His battered guitar and flannel shirts symbolized authenticity. When everybody tried to get louder, faster and more bombastic he stayed the man next door who shared a joke and drink with everyone and made no fuss about the fact that he played guitar better than anybody else. He and Richard Thompson are my guitar heroes.
7. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks >>> Although I had known Dylan's songs before I even knew his name I was too young to really have memories of his early career. When I started to buy his albums he was already legend and in a kind of hiatus that made him a relic of the past. This came out when I was just 16 and it all of a sudden made him "contemporary" for me. And all the songs spoke directly to me.
8. Patti Smith - Horses >>> "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine." Who would open a debut album like that? Could she even sing? Did she look like a rock star? For me she is until this day the most important female rock star. There is no nihilism in her punk nor is there feminism or other ism in her music, just power. The power to claim the right to be who you are.
9. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue >>> this appears late on my list but I tried to stay in the timeline of how the records came into my life. Of course I was a big fan of the 70s Miles after Bitches Brew. My father was a jazz fan and of course I knew the older Miles records from him. This was a very special record for him and it also became special to me. Fathers were not allowed to the hospital to witness the birth of their children at the time I was born. All he could do was sit at home and wait for the telephone call about my arrival. He bought the new record of his favourite artist that had just come out around that time and listened to it again and again. When he was finally allowed to visit mother and daughter he bought a second copy of the record like other father's would buy a newspaper of the birthday or similar. He gave me the sealed copy for my 16th birthday. Another of those coincidences that just this record is by many regarded as the greatest jazz record ever.
10. Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around >>> We grew up with many wild ideas, did we not? "Hope I die before I get old", "Rock and roll can never die", "May you stay forever young"...There are now many artists that have been dear to me for almost my whole conscious live and the 50+ years since I bought my first 45 single. Last records have become something to face now for those that become older ourselves. This one made me become aware of the fact - and besides it is a great record even if country music is not your preferred genre.
Cheers i agree that the Adam n the Ants King of the wild frontier Lp was a game changer back when it came out... Ants Invasion , to me was their heaviest song on that lp , killer Diller
Growing up with older brothers into rock was a great musical awakening for me. The albums of bands like Nazareth, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Deep Purple, Hendrix, ELO, and Toto (among others) were in always heavy rotation and it was all quite exciting.
Soooooo tough to do these type of lists but here goes, in no particular order. Maybe rough chronological...
1)The Partridge Family Album - The Partridge Family. 11 years old, gotta start somewhere. I still have a crush on Jan...
2) Greatest Hits (1975) - Elton John. Helped me graduate from throwaway pop to appreciating musicianship and songwriting. I was the correct caller to WPGC in DC on Elton's birthday!
3) Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin. Made me a bona fide music freak, though I discovered this years after it's release.
4.5) Welcome Back... - ELP. Enlightened me to the wonders of prog rock. LOVED the packaging and the idea of a TRIPLE RECORD!
4.5) Going For The One - Yes. Ditto. Another radio giveaway!
6) Abbey Road - The Beatles. Perfection in all aspects - songwriting, musicianship, producing, creativity, versatility, packaging.
7) Crack The Sky - local guys (Weirton, WV & Baltimore, MD prove they can hang, and sometimes surpass, the world-famous bands. Best live band EVER!
8) Aja - Steely Dan. Loved all of their earlier stuff, but this one is the creme de la creme masterpiece.
9) A Night At The Opera - Queen. My head is still spinning after that day in 1975...
10) Live Alive - Stevie Ray Vaughan. Until this, I thought "blues" was only acoustic, I-IV-V, chunka-chunka shuffle stuff (zzzzzz)... WRONG!
I am so happy that my son is carrying on the tradition! Anybody else out there have a 21 year old that sends random texts such as "Wow, Dad - Gates Of Delerium is awesome!"
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Beatles - Revolver
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin'...
King Crimson - In The Court Of...
Yes - The Yes Album
Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Il Balletto Di Bronzo - YS
The ten records that changed my life :
1. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Trout Mask Replica.
2. The Incredible String Band. Wee Tam and the Big Huge.
3. Amon Duul 2. Yeti.
4. Hawkwind. In Search of Space.
5. King Crimson. Lizard.
6. Can. Tago Mago.
7. Van Der Graaf Generator. Pawn Hearts.
8. Gentle Giant. Octopus.
9. Neu! first
10. Wire. Pink Flag.
In answer to your question about The Shadows 😂
Tha last i heard was that Hank Marvin was living in Western Australia , my home state .
He played some gigs at the Fremantle Navy Club , a watering hole south of Perth . I took guitar lessons from a gentleman who played with Hank and helped work on some recordings with the man .
Greetings from Western Australia 😂
Some excellent keystones!
The songs that thrilled me the first time I heard them (and still do): Angel ARETHA FRANKLIN
Astral Weeks VAN MORRISON
Babies PULP
Crime In The City (Weld) NEIL YOUNG
Epitaph KING CRIMSON
Fly NICK DRAKE (feat. JOHN CALE)
Girls In Their Summer Clothes BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Gloria In Excelsis Deo PATTI SMITH God Save The Queen THE SEX PISTOLS Hallelujah JEFF BUCKLEY
Hear My Train A Comin' (Valleys Of Neptune) JIMI HENDRIX
Higher Than The Stars THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART. I Love You (Mirrorball) SARAH McLACHLAN
I Miss You RANDY NEWMAN
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right/The Rap MILLIE JACKSON
Jealous Guy JOHN LENNON
Like A Hurricane NEIL YOUNG
Like A Rolling Stone BOB DYLAN
Marquee Moon TELEVISION
Midnight Train To Georgia GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS
Mr. Tambourine Man The BYRDS
One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) BOB DYLAN
Positively 4th Street BOB DYLAN
The Real Me THE WHO
Tangled Up In Blue BOB DYLAN
That I Would Be Good ALANIS MORISSETTE
Love Zanzibar from Joel and the almost anonymous Styx's State Street Sadie. As for The Shadows, always The Savage.
My life changed a few times : Genesis - Mama; Marillion - Misplaced Childhood; Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown; Police - Synchronicity; Phil Collins - Face Value; Peter Gabriel - III; David And David - Welcome to the Boontown; Blue Nile - Hats; Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms; Genesis - The Lamb
Ten songs that shaped my ears...
The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft
John Miles - Music
The Carpenters - This Masquerade (from Now & Then)
Deep Purple - Speed King (from In Rock)
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (from Led Zeppelin 2)
Yes - Roundabout (Fragile)
Genesis - Return of the Giant Hogweed (Nursery Cryme)
Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands (Voyage of the Acolyte)
Heart - Crazy on You (Dreamboat Annie)
As a kid in the 60's I remember hearing little red rooster by the Stones I've been a huge fan ever since, and I saw them in about 1981 at Wembley most amazing gig ever.
Yeah I had a cheap record player. My mother used to buy me all the singles. Buddy Holly listen to me. Roy Orbison pretty woman. I want to hold your hand Beatles. The albums that influenced me Will definitely meet the Beatles, Beatles second album/US albums. Jimi Hendrix experience are you experienced. So many more. But those are a few of the records that influenced me☮️
Four for me:
Kansas: Song For America
Supertramp: Crime of the Century
Steely Dan: Aja
Dire Straits: Debut
Still my four favorite artists, still not tired of them. And these bands led me to prog rock, jazz-rock,( Dire Straits has a bit of prog in a few of their songs), and more importantly, led me away from " bubble gum rock " and ballads, and to artists with intelligent and thought-provoking lyrics.
Don’t know the Kansas album but the other 3 are absolutely spot on for me…..hope you are well and happy 😊
Barry I understand what this list is about but I still expected to hear Dark Side of the Moon mentioned.
Great stuff. Thank you.
LOL... I know what you mean. But I just wanted to do ten records in kind of chronological order.
so my parents had a record player with the jukebox stacker too, my dad was into Buddy Holly, Johnny and the Hurricanes, and Sinatra, My mum Adam Faith, Cliff, the Shadows and the Beatles, I played the 7 inch single of Apache to death on this
1. Apache - Shadows
2. Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & the Ants - (My first ever album i bought)
3. Alchemy Live - Dire Straits (I had Romeo & Juliet on a compilation album and this had a live version of it)
4. War - U2
5. Power Windows - Rush (borrowed this from a mate having heard Time Stand Still on the radio before HYF was released and immediately bought HYF when it came out)
6. 1987 Substance - New Order
7. A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd (my brother played this to death and he then got DSOTM & WYWH)
8. Hysteria - Def Leppard (My brother played this to death which then lead to Iron Maiden and Metallica when he then bought Seventh Son and And Justice)
9. Flying In A Blue Dream - Joe Satriani (saw Big Bad Moon on The Power Hour)
10 . Emergency On Planet Earth - Jamiroquai
1 The Fabulous Johnny Cash
2. Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
3. More Than A New Discovery Laura Nyro
4. Astral Weeks Van Morrison
5. Rolling Stones debut
6. Beatles Twist and Shout Canadian lp
7. Old No. 1 Guy Clark
8. Dream Cafe Greg Brown
9. Paradise and Lunch Ry Cooder
10. Velvet Underground
I’ve always been a rocker and huge prog fan but I’ll give credit where credit is due. I saw Adam Ant live in 1982 and it was a damn good show. Two drummers, Marco and the rest of the band. Yeah, great showman Adam was.
This is a great review and a good one to discuss. I would say my top ten would be 1. Presto by Rush 2. Pieces of Eight by Styx 3.Private Eyes by Hall and Oates 4. Freedom Of Choice by Devo 5. Welcome To My Nightmare by Alice Cooper 6. Jazz by Queen 7. Out of The Blue by ELO 8. Talk by Yes 9. Ace Frehley Solo Album from 1978 by Kiss 10. Magica by Dio
live rust is on another level😊
I really enjoyed this. It’s strange how different paths can lead to similar ends. For me defining moments, as I remember them would be…
DP Made in Rock, JH Electric.. Exceptions 5, Ludwig v. Ravel. Satie. Peter Gabriel I. And of cause My all time favorite Yes Relayer and not to forget Never Mind The Bullocks by SP. No specific order.