Album That Changed Your Life

Majorscale

Got into Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood" at 13 and still listen to it a few too many decades later. 

thomasross20

cruxiform said:

thomasross20 said:

Genuinely? Appetite for Destruction. 

Still my favourite to this day.

Given you a wisdom for that Thomas. As long as I've known you on the forums you've always stuck to your guns with Slash and G 'N' R. That's very cool.

Thank you!

I've listened to so much, so many styles but in the end I keep coming back to rock and G N' R. 

I like instrumental stuff like Satch but I REALLY love bands like Van Halen, G N' R, Extreme - the hard-hitting ones with a good front man and showy guitarist. 

tone1

ACDC If you want Blood live album
Played it to death on my record player

ewal

I can't say that any one album actually changed my life. However this was the soundtrack to a summer which holds very fond memories.

PS: Yes - there was a girl involved...

ab2014

Def Leppard: Hysteria, larger than life songwriting, harmonies and tasty guitar playing and the end the record gives me that strange feeling like an ending to a movie

prh777

richardhomer said:

AuldReekie;936800" said:

"Hats" - The Blue Nile's second album released in 1989.  The first album that made me realise there was more to music than guitars.  Its beautifully crafted songs, a combination of the emotive vocals of Paul Buchanan and the inventive and the atmospheric soundscapes of Paul Joseph Moore combined with multi instrumentalist Robert Bell produced an album that even more than 25 years later, remains my favourite album off all time.If you haven't heard it, do yourself a favour and click on this link, preferably with your favourite drink and subliminal lighting



Music of rare beauty

It is indeed a stunning record.... And probably my favourite of all time too.

richardhomer said:

AuldReekie;936800" said:

"Hats" - The Blue Nile's second album released in 1989.  The first album that made me realise there was more to music than guitars.  Its beautifully crafted songs, a combination of the emotive vocals of Paul Buchanan and the inventive and the atmospheric soundscapes of Paul Joseph Moore combined with multi instrumentalist Robert Bell produced an album that even more than 25 years later, remains my favourite album off all time.If you haven't heard it, do yourself a favour and click on this link, preferably with your favourite drink and subliminal lighting



Music of rare beauty

It is indeed a stunning record.... And probably my favourite of all time too.

Opening track is great, it's wonderful to find new music.

richardhomer

prh777;937145" said:

Opening track is great, it's wonderful to find new music.

Saturday Night and Let's Go Out Tonight will floor you then.....

thomasross20

Yet another great thread, by the way - lots of stuff I haven't heard!

Travisthedog

Electro_Ham;936614" said:

The Cult: Electric started the musical ball rolling for me.

Yeah baby

Flink_Poyd

Quite a few have changed my life in different ways. This was the first



then this one

Nomad

24 Carat Purple...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ltV6r0LvI

Up to then, it had been pop music in general, but this was something of a revelation to me in 1975. Somebody brought it into a school music lesson where we could bring in albums to listen to. That led me to learn the Smoke On The Water riff on a mate's acoustic which had a whole two strings (first thing I ever played on guitar). No going back.

the_jaffa

The Stone Roses. Definitely. It's the reason I play guitar at all. It's the reason I wear the clothes I wear. It's the reason my hair is cut how it is.

Definitely can say it changed my life

GavRichList

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meltedbuzzbox

thinking about it I would probably go with 

Blur - Parklife

Nirvana - In utero

Beck - Odelay

Red hot chili peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Danny1969

The Wall - Pink Floyd

I've never heard music in the same way since and it changed the way the think about music

fnpt

Delicate sound of thunder Pink Floyd I was a teenager when it came out and it made me go back and discover Pink Floyd's back catalogue from the 70's, especially The Wall and then Dark Side of the Moon. But also Rio by Duran Duran. Only 8 years old and it was the first "grown up" music I listened too. What a huge impact it had on me!

lasermonkey

It would have to be Treasure by Cocteau Twins.

I bought it thinking it might have been an album of theirs I had heard previously which sounded a bit like Siouxsie and the Banshees (who I was really into at the time) and it wasn't. The first time I played it, I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. What I did know was that I had heard nothing like it before. I played it two or three more times and by then I was absolutely besotted. 

It's hard to talk about without coming across as a pretentious twat, but to me, the Cocteaus music does something to me that no others' does. It's way beyond music and I wish I could express it in words.

I'd love to think that this happens to other people too.

olafgarten

I'd say CSNY - Deja Vu, every single song on that album is a masterpiece in its own right, but as a collection it is something else. Hearing those great tones ranging from the White Falcon to Old Black is what got me into guitar playing. Overall this is one of my favourite albums of all time, and while I listen to lots of other music I know I can always come back to this and enjoy it as much as I did the first time.

Antique_Guitars

Deadman

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