What's the top album that changed your world when you first listened to it?
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The Wall from my dad’s album collection when I was a kid. Runner ups In Through the Out Door and Breakfast in America.
Sgt Pepper even though I heard it for first time as teen in the 90s.
Ditto. My freshman year at college I played Let Me Go Rock and Roll before I went to bed every Friday night.
As much as I love music, I don't think anything ever listened to has ever "changed my life". Just wouldn't go that far.
Not earth shattering but I remember that this might have been my introduction to music outside the Top 40 that was on AM radio back in the day. Friend was spinning this album his older brother had.
Same for me…. Pink Floyd “The Wall”.
Album blew me away, and then I watched the movie, and that really floored me. Amazing.
Yeah Sgt Pepper was just the first one I really was exposed to as a full album because some friend had it. I loved it a billion times more than the grunge and gangster rap my friends were listening to. If I was in the UK I think I'd have liked "new" music more in that era, for whatever reason we got all of their 80s music but not all of their 90s music.
I quickly added Revolver and Rubber Soul and it was those three that I really listened to through high school. Then a couple years later I realized I liked Abbey Road just as much too. Revolver probably was my favorite as a teen and college kid, as an adult probably Abbey Road or back to Sgt Pepper mostly because of A Day in the Life.
Still holds up for me
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Black Sabbath- Paranoid was one for me. Bought it from a used CD store when I was in high school. I'd heard Iron Man and Paranoid, before, but I distinctly remember putting the cd in the player on my drive home and hearing War Pigs for the first time. And it just blew me away. I can listen to that album straight through and love every bit of it. That led to the eventual purchase of all of their records, and the realization that even with as good as paranoid was, that it got even better. Absolutely a gateway album for me
That was HEAVY in my rotation with a 311 album at the same time for me.
I was 12/13 and changed everything from there.
Still a phenomenal album and so glad Brad's kid is with them now.
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.
Well said there, same. I can still go the album and play the whole thing. (now I'm starting @ Dumpweed).
I'm having troubles determining which one was the KEY. Both came out at 2 influential points in my life. Both albums were fantastic. Yes they were greatest hits but for the sake of turning it on and leaving it on, 1st to last were tremendous. So I am going with:
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Bon Jovi - Crossroads
However with all that said, I was a grunge kid (Green Day, Offspring, Pearl Jam) in high school and then a friend played Tim McGraw's Not a Moment Too Soon CD and suddenly I realized there was more to music than fast paced lyrics and loud guitars.
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Bon Jovi - Crossroads
However with all that said, I was a grunge kid (Green Day, Offspring, Pearl Jam) in high school and then a friend played Tim McGraw's Not a Moment Too Soon CD and suddenly I realized there was more to music than fast paced lyrics and loud guitars.
The Beatles albums. I think I was most moved (at the time) by the White Album and Revolver when I first heard them (age 16 or so).
I was pretty young when I found Shout at the Devil in the cab of one or our tractors. My older brother had been listening to it and I was transfixed. To this day I still remember that feeling, and I still love this album (Too Fast for Love is also great, the others...meh (except for the Corabi album which is fantastic)).
I was in high school when I first heard this, and I couldn't believe how this guy could tell stories. I had never heard of Prine before. It is great but leaves a lot of good stuff out. RIP John.
My college buddy had this album, and I just fell in love with them instantly. Such a great album which led me to Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and the Jayhawks. I bought a few more Son Volt cds, but none were as good nor captured how I was feeling at the time like Trace. Amazing album that helped me through my late college anxiety/border line depression (Prine helped with that too).
