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The 10 Records that shaped you as a musician

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71959
    ABBA - Waterloo
    Deep Purple - Made In Japan
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    Eagles - Hotel California
    Tears For Fears - The Hurting
    Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
    The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
    Neil Young - Weld
    Crowded House - Together Alone
    Heather Nova - Oyster

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30273
    It wouldn't be fair to lay the blame at anyone's doorstep for my musical skill level but I first started to listen to the old blues guys,some of whom have already been mentioned, and people like Scotty Moore before moving on to the Stones, Hendrix, Beefheart, Zappa and a lot of Motown.
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  • OilCityPickupsOilCityPickups Frets: 9984
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    Roughly the order I discovered them in through my life

    1. Masters of Reality - Black Sabbath
    2. Rory Gallagher - Photo Finish 
    3. Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
    4. Dr Feelgood - Stupidity (live album).
    5. The Pirates - Out of Their Skulls
    6. The Clash - The Clash
    7. UFO -Strangers in the Night
    8. Saxon - Wheels of Steel
    9. Stevie Ray Vaughn -Texas Flood
    10. The Johnny Burnett Trio - Rock and Roll Trio
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  • StevepageStevepage Frets: 3038
    1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
    2. Led Zepplin - Zoso
    3. Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
    4. Metallica - Black album
    5. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
    6. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
    7. Shawn Lane - Powers of Ten
    8. Ozzy - Blizzard of Oz
    9. Srv - Texas Flood
    10. Children Of Bodom - HCDR

    Each one wanted me to improve my playing. Nowadays I listen to more film scores and ambient music.
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  • dogloaddogload Frets: 1495
    Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    Neil Young - Live Rust
    Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
    Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne
    Here & Now - All Over The Show
    Spacemen3 - Playing With Fire
    The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
    Steve Hillage - Green
    Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
    Television - Marquee Moon

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  • In no particular order...

    Husker Du - Zen Arcade
    Pixies - Surfer Rosa
    REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction
    The Wedding Present - Tommy
    Codeine - The White Birch
    Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
    Wire - Chairs Missing
    American Music Club - California
    Shipping News - Save Everything
    Bark Psychosis - Hex

    New fangled trading feedback link right here!
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  • Some great albums listed above and I could easily have gone way above 10, but

    Chris Rea   Dancing with Strangers

    Dire Straits    Making Movies

    Springsteen   Tunnel of Love

    Marillion - Clutching at Straws

    Marillion   Marbles

    Neil Young   On the Beach

    Wonder Stuff   8 legged Grove Machine 

    The Cure  Disintegration

    REM   Green

    Pink Floyd    Delicate Sound of Thunder


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  • impmannimpmann Frets: 12645
    Arrrrggghhhh - that thought when you realise you left off the one of the most important ones...

    Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

    This band and this album turned my world upside down for many reasons and I had the pleasure later of working alongside one of the recording engineers from it.

    Honourable mention for Crowded House - Temple of the Low Men. I've seen Crowded House, Split Enz and Neil Finn more than any other act - 27 times at the last count.
    Never Ever Bloody Anything Ever.

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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    edited December 2015
    Supertramp - Breakfast In America
    Barney Kessel - Swinging Easy!
    Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
    Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (hard to pick just one of hers, but if forced it's that one)
    Cocteau Twins - The Spangle Maker EP (the one with Pearly Dewdrops Drops on it, I used to have the 12" vinyl, wish I still had it)
    Lush - Split (although I have all their CD singles and EPs, which had at least as big an influence, but if I had to pick an album it's "Split")
    Wes Montgomery & The Wynton Kelly Trio - Smoking at the Half Note
    Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
    Pat Martino - Joyous Lake
    Emily Remler - Take Two

    Could pick quite a few more albums that have in some way influenced how I play, but the above ten are not a bad representation, and were the first ones that came into my head.
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  • impmann;902925" said:
    Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
    I picked The Colour of Spring in my list only because it came out before The Spirit of Eden.

    The final three Talk Talk albums are incredible (though I wouldn't recommend anyone starting their Talk Talk journey with 'Laughing Stock' - easily listening it is not).
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  • horsehorse Frets: 1563
    Suprised not to have seen Slippery When Wet listed yet

    Brothers in Arms
    Slippery When Wet
    Appetite for destruction
    Eat 'em and smile
    Gish
    Let Me Come Over
    Afghan Whigs - Congregation
    Palace Music - Hope
    Red House Painters Rollercoaster
    Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle - made me enjoy loud guitars again
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28280
    That sounds like way too much thinkin time. Not sure I can come up with 10. I'll tell you one significant one though - queen sheer heart attack, and in particular Brighton Rock. I was in love with the guitar on that. Back later if I can get a list together.
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  • bigjonbigjon Frets: 680
    In roughly chronological order:

    Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
    World Machine - Level 42
    The Circus - Erasure
    Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Mr Big - Mr Big
    High Havoc - Corduroy
    Transition - Walter Trout
    Venus Isle - Eric Johnson
    Talk To Your Daughter - Robben Ford
    Hard Hat Area - Allan Holdsworth
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 6021
    edited December 2015
    1. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Prophets Seers and Sages
    2. Al Stewart - Modern Times
    3. Bob Dylan - Freewheelin'
    4. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
    5. Genesis - Foxtrot
    6. Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And Empty Stage
    7. Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs
    8. Millie Jackson - Caught Up / Still Caught Up
    9. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
    10. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
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  • MegiiMegii Frets: 1670
    horse said:

    Red House Painters Rollercoaster

    That one might have been my choice number 11, great album.
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  • EvilmagsEvilmags Frets: 5158
    Rush Hemispheres
    Led Zeppelin 2
    ACDC let their be rock
    Vai Passion and Warfare
    John McLaughlin Trio live royal albert hall
    Zappa Apostrophe
    Miles Davis Filled de Killimanjaro
    World Symphonia
    Paco de Lucia Zyrab
    Vicente Amigo Vivencias Imaginadas
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  • Beck - Odelay
    RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    Ice Cube - War and Peace
    Notorious B.I.G - Ready to die
    Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
    Massive Attack - Mezzanine 
    The Stroke - First Impressions of Earth
    Gomez - In our Gun
    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness
    Stone Roses - Second Coming
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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  • normula1normula1 Frets: 639
    The Beatles - Rubber Soul
    Focus - Moving Waves
    Focus - Hamburger Concerto
    Bob Marley - Exodus
    Isaac Hayes - Live At The Sahara Tahoe
    Chris Rea - Shamrock Diaries
    ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
    Dire Straits - Making Movies
    Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
    Whitesnake - Ready And Willing
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  • thebreezethebreeze Frets: 2797
    Interestingly, no Rolling Stones or Elton John so far (only saying this 'cos I wish I could have included Madman Across The Water). Great to see the Cocteau Twins getting in there regularly.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71959
    The final three Talk Talk albums are incredible (though I wouldn't recommend anyone starting their Talk Talk journey with 'Laughing Stock' - easily listening it is not).
    Interestingly enough - apart from the singles - I did. It was the first album I saw of theirs, so I bought it. I very much like it too, although at one point early on I wasn't sure I liked it at all. I'm now not sure it's not their best album, in fact...

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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