m chops Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 For me, there is often a time and place where albums became indelibly burned into my mind. e.g.: On my first trip to the South Jersey Shore with my buddy (age 17, I think - permissive parents) we went in my '64 Valiant. I installed an 8-track player into the glove box. We listened to a the Allman Brothers Idlewild South, Deodato's Also Sprach Zarathustra, some version of the Brandenburg Concertos, and Virgil Fox's Heavy Organ. Also seminal was hearing the first Emerson Lake & Palmer's first album, Springsteen's the Young, the Wild, and the E Street Shuffle, and King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King in basement of another buddy's house. Actually, it was his older brother's bedroom. His brother also had 45s of Valley of the Jolly Green Giant and Freddie King's Hideaway. (The first concert I ever went to was ELP at the convention center in Wildwood NJ. This is part of my affinity for the south Jersey Shore.) In 7th grade music, we had Mr. Freaky Freeman - a long hair hippy. We spent most of a semester analyzing the Moody Blues' On a Threshold of a Dream. What are the albums (or cassettes or CDs for you young punks 😀) burned into your mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Seminal...? Does metalica’s “load” count...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Molly Hatchet, Molly Hatchet, Molly Hatchet... That was high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudshark Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Bob Dylan -- The Freewheelin' Bod Dylan Muddy Waters -- Folk Singer Mothers of Invention -- Freak Out Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band -- Safe as Milk Merle Haggard and the Strangers -- Swinging Doors Booker T and the MGs -- Green Onions Lefty Frizzell -- Saginaw, Michigan Ry Cooder -- Into the Purple Valley Taj Mahal -- Giant Step / De Old Folks at Home Leon Russell -- Leon Russell John Prine -- John Prine Ramones - Ramones Charles Mingus -- Mingus Ah Um JJ Cale -- Naturally Link Wray -- Link Wray Doug Sahm -- Doug Sahm and Band Willie Nelson -- Shotgun Willie Tom Waits - The Bone Machine John Zorn -- The Big Gundown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Some Girls, Stranger in Town, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, Budokan, VH1 &2, Live Bootleg, Get Yer Ya Yas Out, Sticky Fingers, Night In The Ruts, FoGhat Live, MuddyWaters Hard Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princeofdarkness56 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Deep Purple Machine Head Alice Cooper Love it to Death Montrose first album Blue Oyster Cult first album Rush first album Johnny Winter Captured Live Silverhead 16 and Savaged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthes Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 KISS - Alive II Rolling Stones - Some Girls Cheap Trick - At Budokan The Cars - The Cars WIngs - Back to the Egg Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes The Pretenders - The Pretenders Crack The Sky - White Music Van Halen - Fair Warning Rush - Moving Pictures King Crimson - Discipline REM - Reckoning The Cure - Head on the Door Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City Dillon Fence - Daylight Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray Gigolo Aunts - Flippin' Out The Posies - Frosting on the Beater Catherine Wheel - Happy Days Ash - 1977 You Am I - Dress Me Slowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie G. Moseley Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Dark Side of the Moon. Had already listened to all previous PF albums, but I knew this was a masterwork that would endure...and it did. Disraeli Gears is another first-heard but not the first release by the band. Be Bop Deluxe's Sunburst Finish Secret Treaties Blue Oyster Cult) Argus (Wishbone Ash), etc. If by "seminal albums" you mean first albums for bands that were the first I heard (instead of the more personal first-album-I-heard-by-So-and-So-even-if-it-wasn't the first release), for me there would have been: The Allman Brothers Band In the Court of the Crimson King Mott the Hoople Black Sabbath Aerosmith Stacked Deck (Amazing Rhythm Aces) Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tubular Bells Vanilla Fudge Kick Out The Jams The Eagles Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Alan Parsons Project) Runt (Todd Rundgren) Creedence Clearwater Revival ZZ TOP's First Album The Grateful Dead Yer Album (James Gang) A good measure of to what extent certain albums "burned into your mind" is whether you purchased them later on more-modern audio formats. I originally heard all of the preceding albums on LP (and owned those LPs) and I now own most of them on CD. Will try to think of others later; right now I'm too sleepy. Good night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 At 58, there are dozens. No reason to waste anybody's time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disturber Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Rolling Stones Rolled Gold Rod Stewart Atlantic Crossing Kiss Alive The Ramones Sheena is a punk (vinyl single) Motörhead No Sleep till Hammersmith Earth Wind and Fire All N All Lips Inc Funky Town 12 inch Prince Sign o the Times Funk compilation casette compiled by Jespers brother Pretenders Pretenders 1st album ACDC For Those About Rock Burt Bacharach box set Dr Dre The Chronic And probably some others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialk Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 These three have probably influenced the rest of my life in music: St. Dominic's Preview by Van Morrison DSOTM by Pink Floyd At FIllmore East by Allman Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stike Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 15 hours ago, Travis said: Seminal...? Does metalica’s “load” count...? Damn, beat me to it. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommy p Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Here's a few off the top of my head. I'll be back to edit later with more and some comments. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock Cheap Trick - Budokan Molly Hatchet - s/t Blackfoot - Strikes Ted Nugent - s/t BTO - Not Fragile Mother's Finest - Another Mother Further Nazareth - Hair of the Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jack C Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 I just discovered Frosting on the Beater by the Posies. Fantastic power pop with depth. I had been aware of the song Solar Sister because it was covered on what may be my all time favorite album - Houston we Have a Drinking Problem by Bad Astronaut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshoowah Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Aerial Boundaries Texas Flood Disraeli Gears Amorica Axis Bold As Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velorush Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 "And now for something completely different:" [/Python] (no, not a man with three buttocks) The day before spring break, 1985, I found and bought this album, quickly recorded it to cassette and it became the spring break soundtrack. There were about twenty fraternity brothers in Daytona that week and the cassette was nearly worn out. Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 20 hours ago, Stike said: Damn, beat me to it. 😄 Dicks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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