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10. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
My first introduction to "chill" music by a Brazilian exchange student. Go figure.
9. Motion City Soundtrack - I Am the Movie
I will always appreciate this album and the connection it gave me with a certain someone.
8. Sherwood - Sing, But Keep Going
First band who I discovered live at an Amber Pacific show...sounded horrible but I absolutely fell in love with their recordings.
7. Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
There's just not much better than early Andrew McMahon.
6. Waking Ashland - Composure
This CD just makes me feel a sense of completion.
5. Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
After my hardest breakup, I couldn't sleep without this on for about a year.
4. A Change of Pace - An Offer You Can't Refuse
This CD reminds me that bands change a lot when they sell out, and to appreciate the indie days. I miss old ACOP.
3. Relient K - Mmhmm
A cute Christian boy introduced me to this band in high school, before they were on the radio. I constantly find myself entranced by their lyrics.
2. Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
This entire album changed my life. Especially 'Jesus Christ'.
1. Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
I love you. Seeing you live was the best day of my life so far.

Rickenbacker

I laughed, and then died inside after reading this.

And I really like this one a lot. Top, top albums buddy. Extra points for Pavement, De La, 10k Maniacs and Talking Heads.

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Antonio

yeah, here's my list

10. Beastie Boys-Paul's Boutique
This was the first time where a hip hop album actually blew me away. the Beasties really push the envelope on this one, where it shows some the guys creativity as well as providing a buttload of samples. each song flows freely with each other and is just a great listen.

9. Death-For the Whole World to See
No this isn't the brainchild of Chuck Schindler(although they're good as well), this is the short lived 1970's band. the first time i heard these guys, i immediately went and got this cd. This was punk before punk was......punk. what also surprises me is how ahead of it's time it sounded, almost sounding like a band of today. definately one to get if you haven't already.

8. Mastodon-Blood Mountain
words can't describe how much i love this cd. it starts off in the bands usual brand of heaviness and branches out into something much more experimental and beautiful. what i love best is the album's closer "Pendulous Skin", which tops off the overarching story. just a stellar cd.

7. Green Day-American Idiot
First thing i want to say is f*ck the haters. while Green Day isn't at the top of the musical food chain, this is still an album that deserves a fair listen. i love the entire story, which silly as it may be, holds some weight in this world about the desire for personal freedom and individuality.

6. Frank Zappa-Apostrophe
I feel that this album encompasses both Zappa's musical sophistication and quirky, almost idiosyncratic lyrical content and style. many of the songs here are both catchy and filled with little bits of musicality that'll make your head spin.

5. The Beatles-Revolver
oh, why didn't you pick something like the White Album or Sgt Peppers, you may ask? well, while those are great, it's Revolver that really speaks to me as being.....how can i say this......more...honest. it really shows the Beatles at somewhat of a crossroads of safe pop and musical exploration.

4. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band-Trout Mask Replica
now i warn you, this may be abrasive and almost an assault on your ears when you hear this........or it could be like me where you loved every minute of it!

3. Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick
one song, streching almost 45 minutes, and it has enough hooks and melodies as well as musical prowess and compostion from Ian Anderson to keep you interested the whole way through. that's why it's here.

2. Comus-First Utterance
right now, a few reactions i've gotten from people i've sent this to:
yea, in a style that can be only described as "progressive folk mindf*ck", this is cd that'll give you the chills and then some.

1. Jimi Hendrix Experience-Axis:Bold as Love
the greatest musical feat of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
the greatest musical feat of Jimi Hendrix.
the greatest musical feat.
the greatest.

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My top 10 aren’t really my favorites, or what I think the best of any artist or genre have, but for the most part the albums that pushed my musical tastes further than they were before.


10) Funeral - Arcade Fire
Until this album I never listened to much indie rock/pop music, I considered the genre either boring or for less than talented musicians. This cd made me change that idea in a hurry. The atmosphere the music creates is just magical, this is one album I can just sit back and listen to with nothing else going on.

9) The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash
This is the first Johnny Cash Album I had, and really my introduction to any country music. But that’s not what got me to listen to it. Any song on its own is good, but as a whole it was the most depressing thing I had ever heard. Listening to this and not being sad in some way is a sure sign you're dead inside. From this album I got Cash's other American Recordings, and then his classics through compilations.

8) Who's Next - The Who
Music until this album was just noise to me. My dad is a HUGE Who fanatic (all the vinyl’s, collections, live albums, DVD). I remember listening to this with him once when I was young, maybe 8, while we were doing things around the house and from Baba O'riley I was just entranced. From here I actually started to pay attention to music.

7) Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Ok, I hated jazz for a long time. I blame my mom and some of the god awful stuff she had me listen to that she claimed was jazz. While still not something I listen to regularly or with much enthusiasm, this album got me to give the whole jazz thing a second chance.

6) London Calling - The Clash
I first heard this when I was like 16, and was the first album that I liked every song on, "like, alot dude". This may be the one album that didn’t spark much interest in anything else, but still stands as something to measure other albums against.

5) Orange Blossoms - JJ Grey & Mofro
This blues, funk, soul, gospel mash-up just put me on my ass the first time I heard it earlier this year. I had never heard of him before and that makes me sad because this is just some of the best music I've ever heard. I grew up loving Motown, soul, and blues, and JJ Grey has his finger on the pulse of those genres. I heard this once, and went out and got the bands other 3 albums, and I can’t recommend them enough. I also started searching out other southern soul acts that are out there, plus the current crop of folk-blues acts like Eric Lindell.

4) Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
This was the first album that really created the whole atmosphere thing for me. It was also how I learned to love Floyd, because I was not a fan when I was very young, but it was also the first time I got a cd for the purpose of figuring out what the fuss was about. For an added bonus I have the wonderful memory of the my brother and I putting it on to fall asleep to and having the clocks in time wake us up every time we did it.

3) Tattoo's and Scars - Montgomery Gentry
Wasn’t a country fan growing up. At all. But when I first heard this, the perfect mix of rock, country, and attitude to lure in a young rock lover, the walls started to crumble. The title track always reminds me of my grandfather, and that helps a lot. After this album, I moved onto Charlie Daniels, then Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, and then I was just sold on country-rock and rockabilly. My new found appreciation for country rock teamed with my then love for Cash's American Recording albums got me into Cash's early recordings, and then Willie Nelson came from his duets with Waylon. This album was just huge for me and where it took my musical tastes.

2) Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Greatest Hits - SRV
For the most part I’m not a greatest hits guy, but I got this when I was like 12 from an uncle for Christmas, and it changed my world. This little compilation started a love affair with the blues that’s still going strong 15 years later and doesn’t seem to be letting up. I was just learning to love classic rock and when I got it and I pretty much played this album till everyone else was sick of it. I had never heard emotion come out of a guitar so clearly, and I honestly still haven’t. I have to be honest in that SRV makes up a comparatively large part of my album collection, with live albums and bootlegs.

1) Ride the Lightning - Metallica
This wasn’t my first Metallica album, it was my third actually. First was Garage Inc., then Load. When I got this Metallica instantly and permanently became my favorite band. It was the first album I got that my dad didn’t like, and that my mom thought was evil. How much better does that make music? Oddly enough my dad is a fan of the might Met now, and my mom called not long ago to tell me how she was head banging on her way to work to some Metallica. But the contrast from fast and slow, the anger in the vocals, the amazing speed of the leads just grabbed me and has never let go.

BTown

1.Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana was a gateway for me to get into music, I owe them a lot. As a child i was always afraid of growing up and being a teenager, because I always thought teenagers were looked down upon and I certainly did not want that. After hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit I put all that behind me and I was hooked.
For a while Nirvana was the only thing I would listen to and after getting more and more interested in them they really showed me what other kind of music was out there, mainly getting me into punk and I then became more open to a lot of music, like before I would dismiss anything labeled Pop.

2.
Operation Ivy - Energy
These guys were truly punks with a purpose. This didn't really change me musically to much (besides me getting more into some ska) but socially. Listening to there lyrics it really hit me that fighting (physically) is stupid. I really genuinely thought about how in the world we live in we have to make consequences to some actions physical pain. Not saying fighting should be stop entirely but in my eyes it's stupid how a consequence for example talking behind someones back is "Getting your ass kicked". I just think that is wrong.
3.
Blink - 182 - Dude Ranch
Yes, I know i put a blink 182 album on this, big deal. When i first listened to this album I really liked it but was embarrassed to say I liked Blink 182. So for a while i kept it under wraps and then I really came to realize who gives a **** what other people think about my musical taste.
4.
Sublime - Self Titled
Brings me back to last summer staying up late outside with my friends just listening to some carefree Sublime. It really is just good times music and lots of great memories happened while listening to this album. also helped me get more into ska and reggae.
5.
Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Towards a World Without Dishwashers
An amazing human being, Pat The Bunny goes around the world preaching anarchism. He's homeless and lives in a van fueled by the donations he receives from shows only playing acoustic. This guy really showed me you can do whatever you put your mind to.

6.
Weezer - Pinkerton
To me Pinkerton was the In Utero to the Blue album. I think a lot of people are just afraid to say they listen to Weezer and I mean, I don't blame them, they are a nerdy Power Pop band. Pinkerton was much darker than the Blue Album and definitely deserves and unbiased listen.
7.
Flipper - Generic
How can such a ****ty band be so appealing? I don't know wha it is but I love these guys. I love how they carry themselves around, with the I don't give a **** attitude. The great thing is they don't do it to try to be looked at as rebels, they just do what they want, not to be cool, but to have fun or pursue there beliefs.
8.
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
The first time I was exposed to Punk Rock.I remember wanting to check these guys out for a while but was to lazy to tackle my first punk rock band. I owe them for getting me into even more punk bands.

And that's all I can think of right now, an odd number to end on but whatever.

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I'm going to name 8 albums, cause there's just those that "changed" my life ... tho my favorite albums are much more, but not all have changed me.

As for the order, it's in the order that I stumbled upon them in my life. From the first album that changed me till the last. There are no 10 albums, for the simple reason that there haven't been enough time to have that many albums change me.

01- Odyssey and oracle - The Zombies
I heard "Time of the season" by chance in a movie ... I loved it immediately ... I had to research it after that, and i got to know Odyssey and Oracle and The Zombies in all. The importance isn't in the album, but is more in the fact that THIS album was my introduction to the 60s, that in whole changed my entire perception in music.

02- Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel
Continuing my research of the 60s, I had to continue with the only songs that i already knew, and that were released in the 60s, so that's why i got to Simon & Garfunkel, and Bookends, I was only familiar with "Mrs. Robinson" [see how pathetic i was] but "Hazy shade of winter" just blew my mind. And this album is perfect, from 12 tracks, it's got 7 of the best Simon & Garfunkel written tracks.

03- Remember - John Lennon
I don't listen to it anymore, now that i have the Lennon albums, and that i hate compilation CDs, but this CD was the first thing that I ever heard by Lennon [I still didn't know the Beatles at that time]. I was on one of those local forums, and i had noticed that I don't know anything about music, and one of the members had suggested it. so I downloaded it, and got hooked. That CD looped for hours, from my PC to any car i get into. I had listened to "Imagine", and got bored with it, before I even knew it was a song by John Lennon. But hearing his screams on "Mother" and feeling the hypnotic pounds from "Remember", that psychedelic atmosphere in "#9 Dream" ... Being hooked on Lennon, I just wanted more, and the Beatles journey had just began.

04- Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
I never wanted to know anything about the Beatles [before listening to John Lennon] for the simple reason, that they were TOO popular for me to like. I just felt it was an overrated band, seeing those teenagers screaming on those old videos, it couldn't but remind me of the dumb blonds screaming in the Backstreet Boys concerts. So I had to begin with the post-Beatlemania phase, so from Rubber Soul till Abbey Road. But Magical Mystery Tour was the masterpiece in my opinion. It's got my favorite two Lennon songs "I Am the Walrus" and " Strawberry Fields Forever" - My favorite two McCartney songs "Fool on the hill" and "Your mother should know" and the favorite George Harrison song "Blue Jay Way" ... and of course all the other songs on the same album. I feel it's much MUCH better than Sgt. Pepper, anyway it's my favorite Beatles album.

05- Pipers at the gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
During my period listening to The Beatles and reading about them, I stumbled on a Sgt. Pepper article, mentioning the recording of Piper at the Gates at the Abbey Road studios, in the same period. I was already a fan of The Wall album and The Dark Side, but i had never heard any early Pink Floyd album, so I had to give it a shot. It was nothing like the Pink Floyd I knew, it was so much better. It was so chaotic and psychedelic, it was an experience in itself. "Interstellar Domine" by itself drives me to a lucid dream state. The crazy panning, the never ending jams, the guys put everything they got into this single album.

06- Anthology III - The Beatles
Just when i thought i knew everything about the Beatles, came the Anthology I - II - III, I enjoyed the first and the second, but the third is a must have. It had all the amazing songs I loved but better, you just have to listen to the acoustic version of "While my Guitar gently Weeps". I thought The Beatles was a band with really good songs, but going into the recording experience, seeing how a demo changes from take to take, how every strum is revisited to be better and better, it amazed me.

07- The age of the understatement - Last Shadow Puppets
I don't why it didn't get any success, It was the greatest album I've heard, and that wasn't 40 years old. Listening to it, just feels like a single track that ended too quick. In the beginning, it pulls you strongly with the loud single "Age of the Understatement" ... and then track after track continues smoothly, every song gets you and then quickly ends keeping you asking for more, that you get in the next song. The atmosphere keeps rising until you get to the climax in "In my Room", and quickly the fall in the next track "Meeting Place" until everything" is resting with my favorite "The time has come again". Everything is now quiet, a jump from the first track in its place, and the journey continues. Just a perfect album, that shouldn't be dismembered.

08- Ok Computer! - Radiohead
I had a friend who was obsessed with Radiohead, and he's got a good taste, so I felt I should see that. I got the discography and began from Pablo Honey. He did warn before starting listening to the band, that he himself got into a 3 months period of Radiohead, without rest and fell into a state of depression. A band that comes with a warning is a must. So I listened to the albums in order, and obviously Ok Computer! is the break through album. It's like the before/after photos. I love every track in that album, the order is perfect, the lyrics are amazing, the poetry in the songs is breathtaking. I just begin the album with the last track of The Bends "Street Spirit (Fade Out)", and you're in the right state for the next album. But there's possibility of sickness if carried by this band for more than a month.

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10) Minus The Bear: Highly Refined Pirates
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Minus the Bear is fantastic. This album's nostalgia just warms my heart every time I listen to it.

9) Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me
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I love this album for it's mood, simply put. It's puts me in a somber state of being everytime.

8) Nirvana: Nevermind
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I almost never listen to anything from this anymore, but hell it made me who I was back in middle school. This album will undeniably change any pre-teen's life.

7) Velvet Revolver: Contraband
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I HATE THIS BAND BUT I USED TO LIKE SLASH AND LOVE THIS BAND SO SUE ME. VELVET REVOLVER IS HORRIBLE.

6) Tool: Lateralus
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This album taught me the meaning of good music. Maynard James Keenan is my favorite singer ever (tied with Cedric Bixler-Zavala) and Danny Carey is probably my favorite drummer.

5) Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II
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I hate Guns N' Roses. However, they used to be my favorite band back in middle school, and while I'm glad I got into music a little more intelligent, I can't deny the impact this and the next two albums had on me.

4) Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I
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This album in my eyes was great because it had November Rain on it. My former favorite song of all time. Back when I knew too little music to not have a favorite song.

3) Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction
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YES. I USED TO LOVE GUNS N' ROSES. So naturally, I loved this album as a child.

2) The Mars Volta: De-Loused In The Comatorium
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Holy Crap this is the greatest album ever made. Not really, but in my mind it might as well be. In the couple of years this has been out ive listened to it more than any other album except...

1) At The Drive-In: Relationship Of Command
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If it wasn't for this album, I would still be stuck listening to Guns N' Roses. I loved this album so much I searched for anything related to it and anything related to THAT which resulted in my current music taste,which I'm quite proud of. It's not the best album ever made. Not even close. But it's important to me as hell. This album makes me want to be in At The Drive-In. This album makes me want to know Omar and Cedric personally. I must have listened to this album every day for two months back when I discovered it. Thank god for At The Drive-In, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Cedric Bixler-Zavala.

siamesedream

All good albums, except Velvet Revolver. There's no shame in liking Guns N Roses, especially Appetite - one of the most solid debut albums ever.

I also agree with Relationship and Deloused being ATDI and The Mars Volta's best albums, respectively

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1-Pink Floyd-Dark side of the moon
I used to think I was supposed to hate Pink Floyd when i first started getting into music in the late 80's and even once threw a guys copy of Animals out of a window but then i was at work one day and a guy came in and put this on and as soon as i heard it it felt like the most inspired and original and exquisite music i'd ever heard.

2-The Beatles-Sgt. Pepper
I got a book from the library called 100 greatest albums by Paul Gambachini and this was #1. I'd never heard of it before and as it happened i was staying at a flat with someone who had a copy and when i put it on I loved it. It was so full of lucid vibrant creativity with every song being different and inspired with marvellous instrumentaion and production effects. The harmony vocals are what i remember loving the most.

3-Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are you experienced
The Mozart and Picasso of guitar. The songs might not all be classics but the playing and recording of them is. The most inspired and creative guitar player ever. Nice poetry too.

4-The Beatles-Revolver
I remember coming home on the bus once with this and rubber soul and the white album that i'd bought second hand for about £10.
Everything the Beatles tried to do on these various styles of music on this album came off perfectly. The pure pop of Taxman and And your bird can sing. The poetic drama and beautiful sadness of Eleanor Rigby and For no one, Love you to is an exquisite compact epic of Indian raga's, Here, there and everywhere is a perfect love song with peerless harmony vocals, Yellow submarine is a timeless catchy fun song, Good day sunshine is the perfect feel good song and the finale of Tomorrow never knows still sounds like something from 3000 yrs. in the future. Nobody has taken pop music so far forward in so many ways or with anything like the panache of the Beatles on this album.

5-David Bowie-Hunky Dory
A weird sounding set of songs. Changes is an irrisistable toe-tapper with a lovely moving segment. Life on Mars is equally silly and profound sounding. As is everything else on here. A surreal masterpiece.

6-The Orb-Adventures beyond the ultraworld
A brilliant double album of sonic adventuring.

7-Kate Bush-Lionheart
Not her most applauded work but for me it's the album where Kates unique and unfettered vocal stylings are given the freest reign. The songs most very good too.

8-Air-Moon safari
. Every song is inspired and different and moving and as sweet as candy that you can eat as much as you like of without getting sick.

9-Lambchop-Nixon
a beautiful elegiac album of timeless songs

10-Pixies-Doolittle
A brilliant onslaught of finely crafted tuneful guitar thrash-metal pop with shimmering lead guitar work.

IHuman

honourable mentions
the white album
alan parsons project-I robot
miles davis-kind of blue