Inspired by an article Steve Vai has done The 10 records that changed my life .
What are the 10 records that changed you, made you want to play guitar or change/improve your playing style. They don't necessarily have to be your favorites, you may not even like them anymore!! Here's mine in no particular order
- Iron Maiden - Live after death
- Nirvana - Nevermind
- Kerbdog - On the turn Pearl Jam - Vs
- Metallica - Black album
- Guns N Roses - Appetite for destruction
- Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
- The Frames - Dance the Devil
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon
- Jackson C Frank - Blues run the game
- Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 1974
Iron maiden was one of the first albums that made me want to play guitar. I remember my first cousin playing it to me when I was a kid and thinking how much I loved the energy of it. I guess some on the list don't need much explanation. Nirvana were a revelation to a young teenager, I learned every solo on the black album and appetite for destruction. Jackson C Frank and Nick Drake albums are hauntingly beautiful and definitely drove me to improve my fingerpicking and acoustic guitar.
What are your top 10?
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2: T Rex- Electric Warrior
3: Steve Vai- Passion & Warefare
4: Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland
5: Led Zeppelin- II
6: Nirvana- Bleach
7: Genesis: Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
8: Gary Moore: After The War
9: Rush: Moving Pictures
10: Pantera: Far Beyond Driven
2) what's the story morning glory - oasis
3) Ten - pearl jam
4) Dookie - Green Day
5) Mosley shoals - ocean colour scene
6) Vs - Pearl Jam
7) Parachutes - Coldplay
8) White Ladder - David Gray
9) O - Damien Rice
10) World on fire - slash
1: Mott the Hoople - All the young dudes
2: The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
3: Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama
4: Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
5: Pink Floyd - Animals
6: Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
7: UFO - Force It
8: Sex Pistols - NMTB
9: Bowie - Ziggy
10: Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
2. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
3. The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk
4. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
5. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
6. So - Peter Gabriel
7. Moonflower - Santana
8. Solid Air - John Martyn
9. Daring Adventures - Richard Thompson
10. Hats - The Blue Nile
2. Pink Floyd Wish you were here
3. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
4. Genesis - Trick of the Tail
5. Beatles - White Album
6. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
7. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
8. Focus - Hamburger Concerto
9. Suede - Suede
10. Those Men - Sobgod
Fairly generic stuff, I guess. Mostly classic rock stuff that I learnt to play guitar listening to.
NMTB is the album that ignited my Punk passions - and I still think it's incredible. Although the first PiL album comes bloody close to making this list - amazing guitar on that...
The Smiths taught me that you can be powerful without distortion and MiM was the first album I bought by them.
The Suede album launched me into a totally different direction in the 90s, and started my decade long love affair with AC30s.
The final choice is highly left field - I doubt if any of you have a copy. It was a self release by the band and gave me the inspiration to start that process myself... although I never actually released the album I made! However, Sobgod still gets played *a lot* round these parts...
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2: journeyman - Eric Clapton
3: purple rain - prince
4: flying in a blue dream - joe satriani
5: harvest - Neil Young
6: blood sugar sex magic - RHCP
7: division bell - pink floyd
8: puzzle - dada
9: ten - pearl jam
10: victims of the future - gary moore
I said maybe.....
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James: convinced me that guitar playing wasn't just sweeping a plectrum across 6-string chords, and that there were other approaches to acoustic playing
Camel - most of them but Mirage & Snow Goose in particular, convinced me about melody, groove, and tone
Deep Purple - In Rock and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers' Beano album taught me about wild & wonderful pyrotechnic guitar playing
Focus's Moving Waves awakened a liking for mixing genres or "crossover", and Jacques Loussier's Play Bach albums confirmed it
Wishbone Ash's Argus got me into guitar harmonies
Bob Marley & The Wailers Live at the Lyceum told me I liked reggae
The tenth one would be either Moving On, or Jazz/Blues Fusion (both John Mayall, and with Freddy Robinson) but I can't decide which
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
2. Black Flag - Damaged
3. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
4. Jesus Lizard - Goat
5. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
6. GnR - Appetite for Destruction
7. Despise You - Westside Horizons
8. Slayer - Hell Awaits
9. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
10. Napalm Death - Peel Sessions
Nirvana - Nevermind
Radiohead - The Bends
Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Verve - Urban Hymns
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication
Some I don't particularly like now, this was all in my teens and very early 20s, but I liked them all for the music, not the guitar player per say. Solos are for show offs!
Fugazi - Repeater
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Shellac - At Action Park
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Sonic Youth - Sister
Nirvana - Nevermind
Tool - Lateralus
Slint - Spiderland
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
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This is off the hoof and in no particular order. Interesting excercise.