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Pink Floyd - Relics
Basically kicked off my obsessive collection of music. Pink Floyd was the first band I felt compelled to acquire their whole catalogue (up to The Final Cut anyway). I think Pink Floyd got me through half of my teens from about 12-15.


Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Heard this on a radio program by the same name (Discreet Music on 3PBS radio here in Melbourne). Remember lying in bed about 11 at night listening to this on my headphones. Still love Eno.


Cosmic Psychos - Custom Credit
I think this was about my first introduction to local pub rock/punk bands. This was more of a live music phase when I turned 18 and got a license and a **** box car to get around in and go to dingy Melbourne pubs to check out some great Aussie bands of the era like Cosmic Psychos, Vicious Circle, Meanies, Hard Ons.


Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
First of the US punk stuff I got into. Probably a bit of a neglected category in my collection. As much as I loved it there wasn't much info at the time to find other bands. It was pretty hit and miss getting compilations and liking maybe one or two artists from an album.


Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
This kind of marked the beginning of a goth phase which was more night club based than live venue. Cure, Joy Division, Smiths. Liked it at the time but hasn't really kept a place in my core rotation apart from Joy Division.


Bob Marley - Survival
Never really went beyond Bob Marley in the reggae front but I got most of his albums starting with this one.


Funkadelic - Music For Your Mother
This double Funkadelic compilation kicked off my love of funk. Who could blame me. Great stuff.


Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
This album moved me on to explore more of the soul side of funk. Got most of Marvin Gaye's albums and checked out many other soul artists when I exhausted his catalogue.


Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
Heard the title track on Johnny Cash's American III - Solitary Man and the lyrics resonated with me so I found out who wrote them and got on to Bonnie Prince Billy. Got many of his albums but this is still my favourite. Started me off on a acoustic/folky tangent that I am still following.


Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Following on from the Bonnie Prince Billy I went back to chase down some earlier folk artists that may have passed me by starting with this album from Nick Drake. Nice stuff but I may have played it to death. I tend to gorge on my music until I never want to hear it again.



There are plenty more in between but seeing it is 10 most important I will stop there. These are probably the milestones that marked a change in direction for me musically.

Oh and honorable mentions to John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Radiohead - OK Computer, Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal, Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power, Lamb - Lamb, Neil Young - Harvest, Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror (compilation), Sonic Youth - Goo, Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, Wes Montgomery Trio - Guitar On the Go.

Stacey.

1. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift
2. Taylor Swift - Fearless
3. Taylor Swift - Speak Now

That's all tbh

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Hmmm...
Here they are in no particular order because I'm too lazy to sort them.

Buckethead - Electric Tears
My favorite album by the guy. Almost every song is worth listening to millions of times to me. Padmasana, Witches On The Heath, Angel Monster, All In The Waiting, Sketches of Spain, The Way To Heaven, Spell Of The Gypsies...etc. It's a masterpiece imo. Gotta love distortion.

Jaïa - Blue Energy/Blue Synergy
If I reallllly had to pick, this would probably be tied with Electric Tears as my 2 favorite albums. Maï Maï is my favorite non-Buckethead song of all time, and I love everything I've listened to on this album. Meditation, Spiritual Drops and Eternal Ices, Brainstorm, Breathing Ocean, Nasty Angel, and of course, After The Rain. Beautiful album. Can't wait for his new one.

Eminem - The Slim Shady LP
Eminem was one of my first rappers, and I still play this album a ton. While he's not very good anymore in my opinion, this album is perfect. My Fault, Brain Damage, *** On Everybody, Guilty Conscience, As The World Turns...it's great through and through.

Buckethead - Shadows Between The Sky
The album that really got me into Bucket. I love all the directions it goes in; from melancholy to bursting with joy to very deep. I listened to it all the way through last summer, and I still feel an overwhelming sense of happiness whenever I hear the title track.

Cake - Motorcade of Generosity
This album is just plain fun. I'm usually listening to Goa or Bucket, but whenever any song off this album comes on, I can't help but sing along. I'm seriously considering putting Mr. Mastodon Farm as my alarm clock song.

Blink 182 - The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show
Hey, don't make fun of me! :p It's a hilarious album and it features some of their best playing. I have some good memories attached to them. They sure know how to tell a joke.

Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
My second favorite guitarist after Buckethead. I'm putting this on this list mainly for Cliffs Of Dover and Trademark. I haven't heard a bunch off the album because I'm too busy playing those songs over and over again. Sort of cheating, but whatever. Gotta say though, Desert Rose is a very good song...

Hallucinogen - Twisted
When I was someone new to Goa, I downloaded this. While I never have the patience to actually listen to the whole thing, there are quite a few tracks such as L.S.D that are just soooo good.

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Mainly for the memories I have attached to this album. Has a few good replayable songs though, pretty angsty but come on. It's newer!Blink. Not their greatest album but still fun.

Buckethead - Colma
I honestly don't like this album as much as some of his others. But man; Whitewash, Wishing Well, For Mom, Watching The Boats With My Dad, Big Sur Moon, Lone Sal Bug...there are so many nice chill songs on here. I prefer Electric Tears, but it's still mighty beautiful.

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1. Pink Floyd-Dark side
2. Beatles-Sgt.Pepper
3. Beatles-Revolver
4. Air-Moon safari
5. Bowie-Hunk dory
6. R.E.M-Murmur*
7. The orb-Adventures beyond...
8. Jimi Hendrix experience-Are you experienced
9. Kate Bush-Lionheart
10- Pixies-Doolittle

*Slightly amended from earlier when 6 was Queen is dead by The Smiths. Surprised I've not got any great inclination to change more. I must be really set in my ways now i've hit 40 +

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10 - By The Way - RHCP

9 - Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP

8 - Greatest Hits - The Cure

7 - Portrait Of An American Family - Marilyn Manson

6 - Astronaut - Duran Duran

5 - Battle For The Sun - Placebo

4 - The Japan album - John Taylor

3 - Neurotic Outsiders - Neurotic Outsiders

2 - The Power station 1985 Album - The Power Station

1 - All You Need Is Now - Duran Duran

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

...troll?

Here's significantly more than 10 that greatly impacted me:

Viva Koenji - Koenji Hyakkei
Torture Garden - Naked City
HHai - Magma
Wurdah Itah - Magma
In This Life - Thinking Plague
Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy - Gong(I'll count it as one album since I like listening to all three as one)
The Magic City - Sun Ra
Heliocentric Worlds - Sun Ra
Not Available - Residents
First Utterance - Comus
Hydrogroingem- Ruins
Chrono Cross Soundtrack - Yasunori Mitsuda
La Masquerade Infernal - Arcturus
Absolutely Free - Frank Zappa
Of Natural History - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
III - Bondage Fruit
Radio - Naked City
Kohntarksoz - Magma
Disco 3000 - Sun Ra
Duckstab/Buster Glenn - Residents
MDK - Magma
II - Bondage Fruit
Concerto for Orchestra - Bela Bartok
Burning Stone - Ruins
Disco Volante - Mr.Bungle
Third Reich N' Roll - Residents
Fancy - Idiot Flesh
Capriccio Espagnol - Rimsky-Korsokov
La Ville - Art Zoyd
Camembert Electrique - Gong
FFIV soundtrack - Uematsu
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Frank Zappa
Lick my Decals off, Baby - Captain Beefheart
In A Flesh Aquarium - Unexpect
Mr.Bungle - Mr.Bungle
We're Only in it for the money - Frank Zappa
Nothing Show - Idiot Flesh
Strange Strings - Sun Ra
Spectrum of Death - Morbid Saint
Phase IV - Art Zoyd
Buck Fever - Estradasphere
Palace of Mirrors - Estradasphere
200 Motels - Frank Zappa
Hell Awaits - Slayer
Les Noches - Igor Stravinsky
200 Motels - Frank Zappa
Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky
Safe as Milk - Captain Beefheart
The Grand Opening and Closing - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
666 International - Dodheimsgard
Bad Blood and Blasphemy - Tiger Lillies
Rust in Peace - Megadeth
Seven Churches - Possessed
Made in Japan - Deep Purple
Concerto For Group and Orchestra - Deep Purple(albeit... ug, stupid name)
Sonata For Two Pianos and Percussion - Bela Bartok
Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
The Mollusk - Ween
Grindstone - Shining
Melt Banana - Scratch or Stitch
Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
Fu****susha - Pathetique
Soft Machine II - Soft Machine
Soft Machine III - Soft Machine
Swandive - Korekyojin
Tasco - Happy Family
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
Country of Blinds/Learn to Speak - Skeleton Crew
Deceit - This Heat
This Heat - This Heat
Speak English or Die - Stormtroopers Of Death
Hypermagic Mountain - Lightning Bolt
Inversed World - Dirty Granny Tales
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Maggot Brain - Funkadellic
Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Escape From Noise - Negativland
Triskaidekaphobie & Le Poison Qui Rend Fou - Present
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Red - King Crimson
California - Mr.Bungle
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
Machine Gun - Brotzman
AMMMusic - AMM
Process of Assimilation - Screaming Monkey Boner
Xenogears Soundtrack - Yasunori Mitsuda

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Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind(not my fav, but it was the first one I heard)
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Faith no More - Album of the Year
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
Joy Division - Closer
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Death - Leprosy
Integrity - the Final Taste of Every Sin
The Cult - Best of Rare Cult

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10. Alligator - The National
The first album that really got me into this band, my dad got it on one of his every 4 year album spree binges he used to do, and it was a huge standout for me, it was greatly instrumental in the change in my music taste going into high school.

9. The Sunset Tree - The Mountain Goats
It was a really tough call between this one and Tallahassee, but I've had The Sunset Tree for a longer time and it did help me through more rough times. Not to mention it is an incredibly fantastic album.

8. The Creek Drank The Cradle - Iron & Wine
It's the album that got me hugely into modern folk, which was and still is a huge part of my music taste right now. An absolutely beautiful album.

7. X/O - Elliott Smith
Another one of my dad's pickups that I learned to love, I played this album to death in 9th and 10th grade, he was such a brilliant singer-songwriter who left us too soon, plus he was an influence on a lot of bands I love now.

6. Rubies - Destroyer
This is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, but it actually has greatly impacted my life. It was the album that I used as a comparison on my college essay, it got me accepted into all the colleges I wanted and my love/listening/analysis of it brought me up to the next level.

5. Greetings From Michigan! - Sufjan Stevens
It wasn't the first album I heard from him but it certainly became my favorite over time, the songs remind me of so many good and bad times.

4. Grand Ledge - Paul Baribeau
Listening to this album to me was like listening to every thought I ever had and wanted to make into a song but couldn't...made into a song.

3. Tonight - Jason Anderson
Mostly for two songs on it, but I love the whole album. July 4, 2004 and So Long hold so much personal significance now though. It always was a great album to listen to when I needed cheering up, or I needed to let loose frustrations. It was perfect.

2. Boys and Girls In America - The Hold Steady
My username is Charlemagne...I can't not have a Hold Steady album really high on this list. They've been my favorite band for such a long time, I discovered so many of my favorite bands through them and Finn's lyrics are just fantastic.

1. Red Demo/Yellow Demo - Tegan and Sara
While The Hold Steady are the most important band to me in terms of my musical tastes, Tegan and Sara are by far the most important band to me in terms of personal and emotional development. These demos were my go to albums to listen to whenever I was feeling depressed, hopeless, hurt etc. They never failed to make me feel better.

I could have included so many more, but I'll stick to that.

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Awesome list Charlemagne. Good to see Iron & Wine on there. Thanks for saying how each one was important too. Makes it much more interesting.

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