What's the top album that changed your world when you first listened to it?

[zumbro clones]

I saw the list of overall best selling albums and I was thinking about which ones affected me the most when I first listed to them.

Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is probably the one that hit me the hardest when I listened to it the first time. I was babysitting for the neighbors across the street and they had the album sitting out. I put it on and was absolutely blown away by it.

What is the one album that absolutely hit you the hardest?

 

[CyCrazy]

Same as OP ^^^^

 

[Cy4Lifer]

Ditto!

 

[Turn2]

 

[Al_4_State]

It's not that it was some kind of revolutionary groundbeaking brilliant piece of work, but it was the first thing I found that felt like my own, and took me in another direction from what was big on the radio. Rock 108 played "What's My Age Again?" briefly in the summer of 1999 (I was going into freshman year of HS), and I remember where I was the first time I heard it. I immediately rushed out to get this and loved the entire thing. No one else I knew was into it at all. They were still hung up on rap metal and all that crap. Fast forward to the next summer and "All The Small Things" had become an inescapable hit and everyone liked blink 182, but that was the end of their foray into anything punk rock adjacent.

I went to down a rabbit hole into punk that lead me into reggae/jam band stuff, back heavily into classic rock, back to grunge (which I had loved in elementary), and into alt-country/classic country in time.

This was the album that got me to chase the music that fascinated me, whether that was getting fed to me by local radio or not.

 

[Sigmapolis]

The first album I ever listened to top-to-bottom and then understood what an album can be...

 

[CyCrazy]

That surprises me Allen

 

[AdRock4Cy]

 

[Frak]

Appetite.

 

[gbjames5]

Meet The Beatles - January 1964. Got it from my babysitter. Changed my life (the album, not the sitter)

 

[Drew0311]

I got super high in high school and heard "The Wall" by Floyd and it was amazing

Also, the first time my brother put Shout at the Devil when I was like 11 or 12 years old.

 

[Gunnerclone]

 

[cycloner29]

To come back with this album after the death of your lead singer, blew me away. It was like they never missed a beat. Brian Johnson stepped in and killed it!! I've been a rocker ever since. Just a monster album!

 

[cytor]

 

[Frak]

Going to see them tomorrow night in Minneapolis along with Smashing Pumpkins! Supposed to be playing Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety.

 

[Jer]

I was into grunge rock (Nirvana, Green Day, Everclear, etc) until Korn dropped their first album and quickly after their second album.

 

[cycloneG]

 

[Beernuts]

First 8 track I bought in 5th grade. Probably not that great of an album...but it was my welcome into listening to popular music on the radio.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Growing up in rural Iowa with no MTV, I heard mostly country and classic rock (60's and 70's). When I first heard these two albums, I was like "Ok, this is also acceptable."





Then, when this dropped into my life, I realized that the radio stations that I had access to had some 'splaining to do

 

[Cyfan1965]

One of these two got them around the same time. If it wasn't the Beatles single I'm Down