Top 20 Albums that changes your life

[Whitestrat]

I got this idea from another forum... What are the top 20 albums that has affected you as a guitarist?

Here's mine: (and I think it shows my age considering I was around and old enough during the album launches)

1. Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
2. Ayreon - The Dream Sequencer
3. Joe Satriani - The Extremist
4. Dream Theater - Images and Words - THE album responsible for getting me into Prog.
5. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
6. Liquid Tension Experiment 1
7. Metallica - Black Album
8. Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion 1&2
9. Eric Clapton - 24 Nights
10. Eric Clapton - From The Cradle
11. Guns And Roses - Appetite For Destruction
12. Extreme - Pornograffitti
13. Def Leppard - Pyromania
14. Bon Jovi - New Jersey
15. Steve Stevens - Flemenco A Go Go
16. Rodrigo - Concerto De Aranjuez (performed by Gerald Garcia) - The ultimate in Classical Shredding...
17. Jeff Healey - See The Light
18. Aerosmith - Get A Grip
19. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
20. Steve Vai - Fire Garden

 

[cruxgod]

HI..NICE CHOICE..for me it was

1)queen-st
2)queen-day at the races
3)deep purple-in rock
4)confessor-condemmned
5)cocteau twins-hollywood or las vegas
6)david sylvian-pulling punches
7)mahavishnu orchestra-birds of fire
8)craig armstrong-spaces
9)black sabbath-sabotage
10)death-human
11)jeff beck-blow by blow
12)heathen-victims of deception
13)bud powell-any
14)skid row-slave to the grind
15)david torn-lonely universe



tats all for nwwwww

 

[alshit]

In no particular order:

Bjork - Medulla
Aspidistrafly - I Hold a Wish for You
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Helios - Eingya
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Takk...
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
Mono - You are There
Haruka Nakamura - Grace
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Fourtet - Rounds
Bjork - Homogenic

Not many guitar album...but still has influence as in general

 

[zamir666]

1)Trivium - Ascendancy
2)BFMV - The Poison
3)Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4)Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
5)Trivium - Ember to Inferno
6)3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
7)King Diamond - The Best Of
8)Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
9)Trivium - The Crusade
10)Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
11)3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
12)Megadeth - Rust In Peace
13)All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
14)Rufio - Perhaps, I Suppose
15)BFMV - Scream Aim Fire
16)Machine Head - The Blackening
17)Trivium - Shogun
18)Bleeding Through - Declaration
19)Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
20)Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony

 

[ItAcHi]

mine will be a pretty drastic change...haha...

1)Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
2)Linkin Park - Meteora
3)Slipknot - Slipknot
4)System of A Down - Toxicity
5)System of A Down - Steal This Album
6)Luna Sea - Shine
7)Luna Sea - Lunacy
8)X Japan - Perfect Best
9)L`arc~En~Ciel - KISS
10)L`arc~En~Ciel - SMILE
11)Tokyo Jihen - Education
12)Tokyo Jihen - Adult
13)Tokyo Jihen - Variety
14)John Mayer - Continuum
15)John Mayer - Where The Light Is
16)Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton
17)SRV - Texas Flood
18)Scott Henderson - Tore Down House
19)Guns & Roses - Appetite For Destruction
20)Guns & Roses - Greatest Hits

 

[Stillborn]

Gary Moore - Victims of the Future
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Marty Friedman - Scenes
Bill Frisell - Unspeakable
Jeff Beck - Jeff
Machinehead - The Burning Red (This album made me pickup playing guitar)
Black sabbath - Paranoid
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Extreme - Pornograffitti
Racer X - Technical Difficulties
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Therion - Secret of the Runes
Angra - Rebirth
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Carcass - Heartwork
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Raspatul - Devils In Renewed Birth
B'z - Brotherhood
Opeth - BlackWater Park

 

[EngelFaeuste]

In this order for the first 10:

1. Painkiller - Judas Priest
2. Rust in Peace - Megadeth
3. The System Has Failed - Megadeth
4. Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar - Yngwie Malmsteen
5. No Boundaries - Michael Angelo Batio
7. Paradise Lost - Symphony X
8. Train of Thought - Dream Theater
9. Ram it down - Judas Priest
10. Reign in Blood - Slayer
11. The Gathering - Testament
12. Demigod - Behemoth
13. The Apostasy - Behemoth
14. Gallery of Suicide - Cannibal Corpse
15. Waking The Fury - Annihilator (I didn't know annihilator till very recently, so this one is still climbing up the list)
16. Ecliptica - Sonata Arctica
17. StormWarrior - StormWarrior
18. Hau Ruck - KMFDM
19. Sehnsucht - Rammstein
20. Riders on The Storm - Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

 

[FluxUs]

wah best this kinda thread......music that changes life, open ears open mind, somehow made you who u r......in no particular order:

Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Coctaeu Twins - Victorialand
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of a Dying Sun
The House Of Love - second album
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Supersilent - 7 dvd
Zoviet France - Look Into Me
Nurse With Wound - Merzbild Schweit
Joy Division - Closer
New Order - Substance
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Peter Gabriel - So
Can - Future Days
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

hmmmm still not enuff plus some artists can throw in another, but stick to this!!!

 

[FluxUs]

oooops i'm no guitarist hahaha got too eager........but no no guitarists shld anyways take note!!!

 

[EugeneSmasher]

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2
- Taught me to use effects. However, I've stopped using effects recently. :mrgreen: But the Edge is still an influence on my playing, especially clean and overdriven arpeggios. This album also swerved me away from being exclusively into hard and heavy music. It taught me to open my mind.

Unbreakable - Fireflight
- Taught me that you don't need to have fast shredding or what to make a heavy album good. This album lacked fast solos but it was a great album.

The Silver lining - Soul Asylum
One by one - Foo Fighters
- These albums taught me how to find great overdrive tones.

 

[Danelectrico]

Superchunk - Foolish
The Replacements - Let It Be
Seam - The Problem With Me
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
American Music Club - Mercury
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Sugar - Copper Blue
The Pixies - Doolittle
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Catherine Wheel - Adam & Eve
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Ride - Nowhere
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Opeth - Blackwater Park
U2 - The Joshua Tree

Is that 25 already?? Whoops.

EDIT: I cannot believe I missed out these awesome albums that definitely did their part in changing my life: Radiohead's The Bends and OK Computer, The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen, Spiritualized's Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, Mogwai's Young Team, Rollins Band's The End Of Silence, The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Joy Division's Substance (well technically a collection vs album per se), The Clash's London Calling, Jeff Buckley's Grace, Fugazi's Repeater, Nirvana's Nevermind, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Pearl Jam's Ten, The Who's Who's Next, Husker Du's New Day Rising, The Ramones' Rocket To Russia, REM's Automatic For The People, Led Zeppelin's IV, Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks, The Cure's Disintegration, Morrissey's Your Arsenal, Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, Mineral's The Power Of Failing, Failure's Fantastic Planet, Silverchair's Diorama, Weezer's Blue Album, Power Of Dreams' 2 Hell With Common Sense.

Must be tons of others that are buried in my subconscious. There's no shortage of awesome music for sure.

 

[Nitsuj]

Dicked Lee - The Mad Chinaman

 

[teleplayer]

Can we post songs that changes our life? because albums like very difficult... LOL

 

[zax]

Can we post songs that changes our life? because albums like very difficult... LOL

you find songs in albums , albums make bands like GnR legends . What they did then they can never recreate and it's the same for a lot of other bands .

back to topic

Take off your pants and Jacket - Blink 182
cause i grew up listening to them and that particular one was my favourite

 

[teleplayer]

you find songs in albums , albums make bands like GnR legends . What they did then they can never recreate and it's the same for a lot of other bands .

Oh, okay, i somehow agree with you after you replied to my post... like appetite for destruction and the present chinese democracy... Lol.

 

[kjartan_v]

oh good! i was just cataloging my cd collection at home (not much tho) so listing these albums down is a trip down memory lane for me. heh. i don't really listen to a wide variety of styles but when i really do like an album, i can listen to it 3-4 times a day, everyday, for weeks, without getting bored of it.

here's mine:

Art Fazil - Nur
Björk - Homogenic
B-quartet- Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blur - Blur
Copeland - Beneath Medicine Tree
Ecrus Garage - Sound
Eraserheads - Aloha Milky Way
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Flush After Use CD Compilation (Local Bands)
Kula shaker - K
Koffkoff - All Our Flourescent Lights Are Dying!
Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People
Mew - Frengers
Muse - Showbiz
Mansun - Attack of The Grey Lantern
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Silverchair - Diorama
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Weezer - The Blue Album

... and many more. heh.

 

[vickomaniac]

Well i have quite a few..

Hell Freezes Over - Eagles
Weight of the World - Harem Scarem
Razorblade Romance - HIM
Call me Irresponsible - Michael Buble
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Meteora - Linkin Park
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

But the one that takes the cake would be..
Dragged - Rosli Mansor

Homegrown, soulful, and an auditory pleasure.

I've never been a huge fan of instrumental music.. Hell i like paul gilbert, satch, and some maksim but lyrics were always an important bit for me.

Dragged has totally changed my perception of instrumental and local music.
It's an album that you have to listen to a few times, back to back, then can you start to unravel the intricacies of the each track, and the album as a whole.
It speaks, if you listen not just with your ears, but also with your Heart.

It speaks to your Heart because it has been written with so much love and care put into it, that you can literally feel what Rosli's feeling.

And no, I haven't been bribed, coerced, or blackmailed to write what I wrote.
Dragged truly has changed my life

 

[RicFreak]

...and here's my list:
Greg Howe, Greg Howe
Blues Saraceno, Never look back
Richie Kotzen, Electric Joy
Michael Lee Firkins, Michael Lee Firkins
Marty Friedman, Dragon's Kiss
Tony Macalpine, Max. security
Vinnie moore, mind's eye
Malmsteen, Rising Force
The Beatles, Hard Day's Night
White Lion, Pride
Van Halen , Women children first
White snake, best of
Extreme, Pornograffitti
satch, surfing
Vai, Flex
David lee roth (vai) , Eat em& smile
Ozzy, bark at the moon
Mr Big, Mr big
Craig Chaquico, Acoustic planet
Dimeola, Mclaughlin and DeLucia live
Scorpions, best ballads
Living colour, pride

These guys rock me too sleep during my NS days ...especially in our noisy bunks. Those days we only had walkman , no MP3 players yet.

 

[RicFreak]

I totally agree with Vickomanic.
Dragged is indeed a great album we can all be proud of.

 

[boyl]

1. The Beatles - Revolver
2. The Beatles - White Album
(actually, all the beatles album, but these 2 are the most life-changing.. hell, been listening to them since primary 1!)
3. George Benson - Breezin'
4. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
6. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
7. Incognito - Positivity
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers -Stadium Arcadium
9. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
10. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
11. Velvet Revolver - Libertad
12. Deep Purple - Machine Head
13. The Racounteurs - Broken Boy Soldier (amazing stuff)
14. Van Halen -Van Halen
15. The White Stripes - Elephant
16. AC/DC - Back in Black
17. Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
18. Cream - Fresh Cream
19. Cream - Disraeli Gears
20. Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and The Harlot