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Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden, the album which made me want to play guitar, specifically the song Hallowed be thy Name.
Megadeth - Rust in Peace - specifically Hanger 18, the album/song which got me into thrash metal.
Metallica - the black album - specifically Enter Sandman, one of the first songs I learned to play, same with Judas Priest's Painkiller and Nightcrawler - for showing me I can learn songs from beginning to end.
Pink Floyd - The Wall, the album which got me into PF, and is still epic all these years later.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
These ones were seldom off the stereo
For example Irish tour 74. Rory Gallagher. But then I can't ignore still got the blues by Garry Moore. Then there's Nick drake. Pearl jam. Sound garden. Guns n roses. Metallica. Tool. Kerbdog. Jeff Buckley. Aargh. Not a hope. There's no one album I could pick
The first time I saw The Blue Nile was at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in 1990 where they played their first two albums back to back. The set finished with "Saturday Night", played note for note as per the album. It was the ultimate goose pimple moment
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And Yngwie's first one, obviously.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here: the moment I realised that widdly diddly blues rock solos weren't the only thing to play on a guitar.
And the unusual one...
Talk Talk - Colour of Spring: it turned my world upside down when I heard it. I can't put it into words, as it just resonated and everything changed. I stopped wanting to play guitar that "sounded like" this person or that person. I stopped wanting to make music that was the next "this band" or "that band". It set me on a more melodic road - and then when I heard Spirit of Eden, the 'follow up' album... just wow.
"I'm sick of you playing pop music- think you'll like this. If your mother asks- you DIDNT get this from me!"
My music taste changed over night.
Honourable mention for Green Day- Dookie. First album I bought with my own money. Still good.
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I was 11-12 when I first heard it and it I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Plus all the swagger and attitude that went with it. Struck a chord with an already angry kid.
Fast forward 4 years when I then heard Vai's Passion and warfare. That was a defining moment for me and playing the guitar
I feel exactly the same way about those two Talk Talk albums as I do about the
Blue Nile album I posted about earlier in the thread. There's a lot more guitar on 'The Colour of Spring' than 'Hats' - but it's the way the music is layered and arranged which I love so much.
In fact I need to find 'I Don't Believe You' on my phone and listen to it now....
There are so many bands/albums that had huge influences over me (Living Colour, Racer X, Spin Doctors, Sting, RHCP, Satch, Vai, Extreme, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and recently Periphery, Big Wreck, and back in the 80's Bon Jovi, etc), but this band and album is what started me playing guitar.
Has to be Van Halen I
The Damned - Strawberries
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.