Albums that made a lasting impression on you

[X]

Rules of the Game:

LIST 12 ALBUMS THAT MADE A LASTING IMPRESSION ON YOU AND NOT JUST WHATS COOL AND CURRENT!!

Only 1 per band/artist. Don't take too long and don't think too hard. Feel free to tag others, to do the same.

No compilations.

(No Particular Order)

Mine are...

1. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. NWA - Straight out of Compton
4. Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
5. Prince - Purple Rain
6. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
7. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
8. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
9. Transvision Vamp - Velveteen
10. The Cult - Love
11. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
12. Janis Joplin - Pearl

I'm pretty confident that none of them are either cool or current!

[Batman]

Stone roses - Stone roses
The Beatles - rubber soul
Led Zeppelin - Zeppelin 3
Queen - Queen 2
Oasis - definitely maybe
Ocean colour scene - mosely schoals
Bob Dylan - The Freewheeling
Drive by truckers - the dirty south
Guy Clark - Dublin Blues
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
David Bowie - Ziggy startdust
Blind Faith - Blind Faith

[p4pking]

George Gershwin-Porgy and Bess
Frank Sinatra- In the wee small hours
Skip James- 1931 paramount recordings, don't think it was a compilation and has no other title.
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Mississippi John Hurt- Today!
Duke Ellington- Blues in Orbit
Charles Mingus- Oh Yeah
Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
John Fahey- Death chants, breakdowns and military Waltzes.
Glen Gould- The Goldberg variations

How are you supposed to list 12 without thinking to hard? Tooooo many.

[SlimTrae]

No compilations.. Only 1 per band...Damn. ..

1.Stretchin Out. Bootsy's Rubberband
2.Funkentelechy vs.Placebo Syndrom. Parliament
3.Controversy. Prince
4. Cameosis. Cameo
5. Are you Experienced. Jimi Hendrix
6. Fire. Ohio Players
7. That's the way of the world. Earth Wind & Fire
8. Rising Force. Yngwie Malmsteen
9. 1984 Van Halen
10. What time is it. The Time.
11 Big Science Laurie Anderson
12. Vivid. Living Colour

[brocktonblockbust]

Blind Faith by Blind Faith. Electric ladyland by Jimi Hendrix. Those two are enough for me to last forever. I also like the extrapolation album by Jon McLaughlin. Finally the sleep dirt album by Frank Zappa really made an impression

[p4pking]

All garbage except for my list, damnit! I'll fight you all over it.

[walrus]

Blonde on blonde
Sgt Pepper
I am the Blues
Blood on the tracks
Together through life
From the cradle
All things must pass
Old and in the way
Any village people album when I'm with Miles
All albums by John Lee Hooked
Cash San Quentin
The pizza tapes

[p4pking]

John Lee Hooked is also one of my favs :P dont know that he ever really made a solid album though? Again, fuck you all.

[Andre]

Original Soundtrack to a Fiddler on the roof.

Beatles Abbey Road.

Johann Strauss Vienna waltzes.

Atom heart Mother Pink Floyd;

... The Wall. later on.

Hawkwind In search of space.

Budgie: Never turn your back on a friend.

Black Sabbath/Black Sabbath

Later on Sabbath, Sabbatoge

Muddy Waters King Bee

The Pirates. Outta their skulls.

Beefheart /Zappa. A bongo Fury.

[p4pking]

Finally, a decent selection! :P @Andre

[Andre]

Finally, a decent selection! :P @Andre

"Ahh Fank you, Fank you vary march".

[Gandalf]

It's a tough one. Changes a bit, but not that much.

1. Joy Division - Closer
2. The Divine Comedy - Promenade
3. David Bowie - Station to Station
4. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
5. Scott Walker - Scott
6. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
7. Martin Rossitter - The Defenstration of
8. Pulp - Different Class
9. Lou Reed - Lulu
10. The Smiths - Louder than Bombs

[Memphis]

The Wonderstuff - Never Loved Elvis
Black Crowes - southern harmony and musical companion
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Donovan - What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
Sultans of Ping FC - Casual Sex in the Cineplex
Sting - Ten Summoners Tales
The Stylistics - The Stylistics
Coolio - Gangstas Paradise
Chase and Status - No More Idols

[El Kabong]

Let's see....

1. Sports - Huey Lewis & The News
2. Innocent Man - Billy Joel
3. Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
4. (I know it's a compilation/greatest hits album but) Endless Summer - The Beach Boys

Those were all a large part of childhood memories driving to the mountains or the beach, just reminds me of growing up.

Then we have my teen years and when I was finding out what I liked on my own so it's all very standard fare....

5. (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
7. Weezer Blue - Weezer
8. Live at Wembley '86 - Queen
9. Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
10. Permission to Land - The Darkness
11. Hot! - Squirrel Nut Zippers
12. Sublime - Sublime


Well that's 12 for you, kinda all over the place really.

[Master]

1. Faith - George Michael
2. In your eyes - George Benson
3. Diary of a Mad band - Jodeci
4. Off the wall - Michael Jackson
5. Diamonds and Pearls - Prince
6. All that I am - Joe
7. Jonathan Butler - Jonathan Butler
8. Don't let love slip away - Freddie Jackson
9. Night I fell in love - Luther Vandros
10. Make Time for Love - Keith Washington
11. Don't be Cruel - Bobby Brown
12. Keep on movin - Soul to Soul