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Great list, but 2 Toto's? Are these the guys the did "Rosanna" and a couple other dorky Boston/Foreigner/Kansas/Styx clone songs?

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I think Toto were responsible for "Africa" which was most definitely cheese set to music... but Iv kinda like it in all honesty...

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10. White Stripes - Elephant - This was the first album I purchased after I completed basic training. Soon after I heard the first chords play on the first song I knew it would be one I remembered.

9. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York - Best live album of the 90's. Shows how great Nirvana was by stripping down their arrangements. I've burned a hole in the CD listening to it so much (figuratively).

8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - This is the album when I actually started to understand my father's opinion in music and I started to embrace more and more of the music he listened to growing up (he was born in 1949).

7. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell - album that showed me what great songwriting, vocals, and production can bring. This is another album that was introduced to me by my father and was played through out my childhood.

6. The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse - This is an album that came out soon a year before I started high school. It soon became the my most listened album during that time.

5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - This album helped remind that music can still be melodic. It really breaks me away from my reality.

4./3./2. Franz Ferdinand/Kings of Leon/The Killers - Franz Ferdinand/Aha Shake Heartbreak/Hot Fuss - These were albums that were first released in the UK that I bought while living in England. These albums help me remember the good times I had over there with my wife.

1. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks - Bob broke me away from all the crappy music that people were listening to in my high school. He really opened up and broadened the horizons of my music tastes. Though this wasn't the first album I listened from him it certainly is best.

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My Top 10 Albums are probably outside compared to the past posts, but anyway i'll post them

#10 - Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long -. One of my favorite bands of all time. This album has one of my favorite songs to listen to "Wake Up Call". Plus, the album's sound is amazing.

#9 - John Mayer - Continuum -. His voice works perfectly with the music, and I love many of the songs. "Belief", "Gravity", "Waiting On the World to Change"

#8 - Pink - Funhouse- Pink is the bomb!! Her voice is amazing and she writes amazing lyrics. "So What", "I Don't Believe You", "Funhouse", "Please Don't Leave Me" are my favorite tracks.

#7 - Melanie C - This Time- This album is probably one of the best albums of 2007. The songs are so personal and the lyrics are amazing. "This Time", "Carolyna" and "Your Mistake" are my favorites.

#6 - David Cook - David Cook. The Season 7 Winner of American Idol starred off with a bang!! This is probably my favorite debut album from a AI winner (After Kelly Clarkson). "Come Back to Me", "Life on the Moon" are my favorites.

#5 - Brandy - Human- Brandy Is one of the best R&B singers of all time. And this album has all the aspects of a good album. Great lyrics, great music, and a great voice!! "Right Here (Departed)", "Long Distance", "A Capella (Something's Missing) and "The Definition" are my favorites

#4 - Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted. Kelly Clarkson is my favorite singer of all-time and if I could put all her albums on this list I would. This album proves that Kelly is here to stay and she can sing ANYTHING!!. She belts out the high notes in the slow songs and has fun in the fast songs.
"My Life Would Suck Without You"; "I Do Not Hook Up"; "Already Gone", "If I Can't Have You", and "All i Ever Wanted" are my favorite tracks

#3 - Taylor Swift - Fearless. Taylor Swift is probably the biggest country singer right now. And the songs she writes are amazing, because she uses characters in her lyrics and they tell a really great story that makes you want to hear it again and again. "Love Story", "You Belong With Me", "Fearless", "You're Not Sorry" are my favorites

#2 - Michael Jackson - Dangerous. The KING OF POP WILL ALWAYS LIVE. And this album that was released in 1993 proves why he was an entertainer. The songs all had different themes, love, hope, pain, confidence, etc.
"Black or White", "Remember the Time", "In the Closet" and "Heal the World" are my favorites

#1 - Kelly Clarkson - My December. The 2007 album of Kelly Clarkson, that created so much controversy. All I can say is.....Clive Davis....you're wrong!!. This album is the best album I've heard!! It's so personal and it tells a great story, and all the songs in there are great. Maybe it's not one of those #1 hit-makers, but it's great proof that taking risks, like Kelly did, works, because she came out with a great album!!
"Never Again", "One Minute", "Sober", "Don't Waste Your Time", "Be Still", "Maybe" and "How I Feel" are my favorites

TheCunningStunt

What's The Story? by Oasis
The first album I ever got into.

Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin
My favourite Led Zeppelin album, when I first heard Rock N Roll and Black Dog, it just changed my experience of rock music forever.

In An Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Beautiful, I never realised it had much hype surrounding it for a while after I listened to it, I thought it was a hidden gem and I just loved it, I found it by chance and it really made it better. If I heard it with a load of hype surrounding it, it wouldn't have been as good.

Nevermind by Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit was one of the first songs I learnt on a guitar, first solo too. I have so many memories with this album, to me every lyric is just brilliant. I still listen to this album a lot.

The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
I couldn't believe the sound of the guitar, and I couldn't believe how brilliant the lyrics were, so full of wit and intelligence.

Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcoholllllll.

Unknown Pleasures or Closer by Joy Division
I prefer the greatest hits in some ways, but either of these were just brilliant. So depressive yet melodic as well, they just appealed to me.

Electric Warrior by T.Rex
I never really 'got' glam rock, then I started to listen to track 1. Underneath the mambo sun, I've got to be the one with youuuu.
I just loved this album, couldn't get enough of it when I heard it.

Either/Or by Elliott Smith
Beautiful.

Help! by The Beatles
Not my favourite Beatles album, but it's the one that got me into the band.

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How could I forgot Siamese Dream?!

Duga's post reminded me, I feel ashamed for forgetting it. that deserves to be in my list, I may have to re-do it sometime.

duga

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Undoubtedly the album that started an obsessive hunger for music. This album inspired a continuing obsession with all things guitar, and got me through some rough times.

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Another album that got me through some tough times. It also sparked an obsession with grunge.

The Mars Volta - De-loused In the Comatorium
Showed me how progressive and experimental music could be close to transcendental.

Led Zeppelin - Box Set
To this day I have yet to hear a proper Zeppelin album...the box set covered most of their material and the way the songs are ordered mean more to me than trying to get used to an album. Opened the door to classic rock.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
After heading into a classic rock phase, I figured it was time to give Pink Floyd a try. I was amazed.

Deftones - White Pony
There was a time when I was saturated with Nu Metal and these guys helped pull me out of it for the simple fact that they were lumped in with them, but were obviously much more talented.

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
This is the album that opened my eyes to "growers". I had listened to Radiohead before this album, but thought it was total crap. One day I sat down and forced myself to give them another try (hell, I bought their albums) and soon realized how wrong I was. This opened a whole new door of music to me.

Rush - Moving Pictures
The album that sparked my interest in early progressive rock.

Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
This album got me through a truly terrible time in my life. Not only was the music beautiful, but it ended a music dry spell that was going through for a while.

Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Words can't describe this album. Kicked in an obsession with acoustic music.

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It's good to see this thread resurrected> I should actually contribute to it this time around.

Let me get on that.

Rickenbacker

Interesting to see how my taste has developed since last June. I'd say I still love all of these records, but many of them would not appear in my list if I made one today.

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10. Type O Negative - October Rust: Until I heard this I never thought metal could be so melodic, groove filled and sensuous... with even a dawsh or two of humour... This album played a big role in the darkening of my tastes

9. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy: I didn't jump aboard the whole grunge boat till way later into the nineties, and it was the musical diversity, the heartbreaking lyrics and the sense of adventurous songwriting on this album that won me over.

8. Cold Feeling - The Underground Lovers: This album is by an Aussie alt rock band that gradually added more and more electronic elements enter its sound... this album definitely whetted my appetite for more electronic sounds.

7. Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil: The Oils were the first band I ever really seriously got into. There's so much about this album that I still identify with, especially since I have moved away from home country which this album's lyrics describe quite vividly in places...

6. Sunset Studies - Augie March: This album fed my thirst for enigmatic storytelling in lyrics, teamed with beautiful ambience and melody. Even today when I listen to it, it still feels like something very special.

5. Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness - The Smashing Pumpkins: This album has and continues o have everything for me... angst, loathing, rage and finally some sense of peace. It was also the soundtrack to some of the most tumultuous years of my younger life. People complain about it, it's length etc, but in my humble opinion it is just perfect.

4. Us - Peter Gabriel: Though this is possibly not the greatest Gabriel solo album, it is still so full of incredibly strong songs, emotional singing and sublime rhythm / melody combinations. I list it here because it totally got the ball rolling in terms of my Peter Gabriel love.

3. THE lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis: As a concept it can be something of a tangled mess, but there are so many wonderful musical / lyrical ideas bursting to get out of the seams here... still my favorite early Genesis album.

2. Automatic for The People - R.E.M: What can I say, this album taught me that music can be luke a good therapy... you can cry with it, feel those all important emotions and somehow leave reinvigorated...

and as for my nummber one.... well thats an even split...

Act of Free Choice - David Bridie: taught me that there was great atmosphere and anticipation in beautiful poetry and beautifully subtle atmospherics...

After Everything Now Thhis - The Church: My first album purchase from my now favorite band... and it's an amazing reflection on love, loss, unfufilled desires and some of the other ills of modernity.... and every damn track is a standout...

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10. - Throwing Copper : Live
The first album I bought on CD was about 12-13 played it over and over will always have a special place in my heart.

9. - Vs : Pearl Jam
Again another early purchase. I think Daughter is the first song I learnt all the words to, this album is where I learnt I was a rocker.

8. - Nevermind : Nirvana
Blew me the **** away.

7. - And Justice For All : Metallica
The catylast for my teenage metal years... enter tight black jeans black metal shirt, flannel and desert boots. Ah the halcyon years fond memories.

6. - Vulgar Display Of Power : Pantera
See above. + louder and angrier.

5. - Thriller : Micheal Jackson
can't omit this from any list of musical influence, loved mj as a kid. So many great tracks.

4. - Led Zepplin III : Led Zepplin
late teens was were I discovered "classic rock" which in turn led me to the stones, beatles, Hendrix... etc etc...

3. - Is This It : The Strokes
indie rock explosion at the turn of the century.

2. - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot : Wilco
found a softer side to my musical taste, really opened the door for alot of other bands that I probably wouldn't otherwise have got into.

1. - Ænima : Tool
no great suprise here. From the very first time I heard a note of this music my life changed, just unlike anything I had ever heard but at the same time it felt like everything I had been listening to up until this culminated in a sonic orgasm. Have been hooked ever since. This music actually makes my blood run faster and hotter every ****ing time I hear it.

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