Albums that changed your life the most?

[benpaco]

Music changes things. At least for me, music has always played a very strong role in my life. So I'm working on a chart like nothing I've seen before - the albums that changed me the most. How about y'all? What changed you?
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[Jasonconfused]

Refer to my chart.
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[Mercury]

Excellent question!

For me I would say the albums that really changed my life and the way I operate in life and my worldview etc were

when I was 13 and I first picked up a CD copy of "London Calling" from the library, that changed my life a lot. Made me feel a certain rebelliousness. Rather, I already was rebellious, but it gave me an outlet or a symbol of how I felt in a way.

Obviously when I heard Bob Dylan's "Ballad of Hollis Brown" off "The Times They Are A-Changin'" that was pretty revolutionary to me. I had never heard anything like that. It was almost like in that instance I found someone I could totally connect with and I also felt like I was finally looking past my own little idea of life in my own little box. Bob Dylan completely changed me. That was when I was 12. Also got that from the library.

Just earlier than that the first record I remember TOTALLY obsessing over and the first album that made me feel like I was really part of something and that I had something most people didn't have was "Ride The Lightning". That blew my mind! I was 12.

And besides that there have been lots but the last one i will mention is when I discovered The Tallest Man On Earth. I remember going out and finding a copy of "The Wild Hunt" and being completely transfixed by the austere beauty of it. I have been obsessed ever since. But even more than that, that album made me feel more assured and relaxed. It was sort of a spiritual record for me. I found a kindred spirit in that record and in that artist which I hadn't found since discovering Bob Dylan. There ya go...

London Calling by The Clash

The Times They Are A Changin' by Bob Dylan

Ride The Lightning by Metallica

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The Wild Hunt by The Tallest Man On Earth

Music is awesome!
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-Ryan

ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!

My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

[rayword45]

Homework - Daft Punk - Got me into music
Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Convinced me to pick up the guitar

Yeah... These are the most significant. Let's see what happens over the next few decades.

[SingingPeasant96]

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If you're feeling sinister, Go off and Listen to Indie Pop

[samjackson]

in chronological order

1987
metallica - puppets

bad brains - attitude roir sessions

sepultura - beneath the remains

jane's addiction - half of nothing's shocking and the second side of ritual

pantera - vulgar display of power

1995
pink floyd - wish you were here, ummagumma, and piper

remastered live dead shows

radiohead - ok computer

bob marley - best of bob marley and the wailers


2000
radiohead - kid a , amnesiac

sigur ros - ()

radiohead - in rainbows

mingus - thirteen pictures

2010

brian eno - thursday afternoon

radiohead - the king of limbs

natural snow buildings - daughter of darkness

robert rich - bestiary

autechre - exai

[nitro2k11]

Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Master of Reality
The Ocarina of Time Soundtrack/game also
The Stooges - 1970
Nirvana - Nevermind
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
The Germs - GI

and of course
Live - Throwing Copper
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[drakonium]

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I Am A Bird Now by Antony And The Johnsons

It didn't change my vision of the world, or my way of life, or my relations to other people. It just made me happy.

[SingingPeasant96]