What are your top 10 most influential albums?

Deftones, white pony
Pink Floyd, dark side of the moon,
Pink Floyd atom heart mother
Radio head, OK computer
Joni Mitchell.... Pretty much any best of
Team sleep, self titled
Candiria, the process of self development
Massive attack... Everything they've ever done
Garden state soundtrack
Gorguts, obscura
 
My top artist are:

Roger Walters
David Bowie
Jethro Toll
Peter Frampton
Jimi Hindrix
Santana

Bands

Pink Floyd
The Who
Stixs
Chicago

Favorite Album

Thriller by Michel Jackson. It was way ahead of its time and it was produced using a Shure SM57 mic for his vocals. Back then it was called a Shure S7.
 
My top artist are:

Roger Walters
David Bowie
Jethro Toll
Peter Frampton
Jimi Hindrix
Santana

Bands

Pink Floyd
The Who
Stixs
Chicago

Favorite Album

Thriller by Michel Jackson. It was way ahead of its time and it was produced using a Shure SM57 mic for his vocals. Back then it was called a Shure S7.
I'm not the biggest classic rick fan, although I do have my favorites (notice pink Floyd is on mine twice) but I admit, some of the best sounding albums came out of the 70's. Santana is SO warm and three dimentional, no matter what system u play it on. I also read somewhere that with rumors by Fleetwood Mac, not a whole lot of eq was used. A dip here and little boost there. It just came out sounding like that!
 
[MENTION=196849]4140[/MENTION], I would agree with your statement 100%. I forgot about Fleetwood Mack, they were a great group as well. There are many more that are not listed but I just can't remember them all! I never cared for disco so most of those bands/artist have no storage in the main frame. LOL.
 
My ten most influential albums are:

Pictures at an Exhibition: Emerson Lake & Palmer
Sergeant Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band: Beatles
Super Blues: Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley & Little Walter
The Kick Inside: Kate Bush
Donovan in Concert (1968): Donovan
Bringing it all Back Home: Bob Dylan
Transparent Music: B J Cole
On the Beach: Chris Rea
Reach the Beach: The Fixx
Love Over Gold: Dire Straits
 
For me:
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs III
Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs II
James Holden - The Idiots Are Winning
Jacob Collier - In My Room
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Pompeii concert (particularly Echoes)
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Arcade Fire - Her (OST)
Max Cooper - Emergence
Valentin Stip - Sigh

Absolutely mind blowing stuff!
 
Queen - Innuendo
Nirvana - In Utero
Placebo - Meds
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and see
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
 
1) - 5) Genesis / pic any of it, expect the silly try "Calling all stations"
For me everything is in Genesis music, from Chopin to Reggae. Enough material to influence me 1000 times for 1000 years.

6) Kate Bush - Hounds of love B-Side (The Ninth wave)
Maybe the most innovative album ever made (sorry Genesis). Masterpiece of music.

7) Neil Young - Live Rust
The craziest offbeat n dirty musicians I ever heard.

8) Frankie goes to hollywood - Welcome to the pleasuredome
I will never forget this bassline in Two Tribes.

9) Tears For Fears - Going To California
Year of the knife and the sadly much much too short Broken are so brilliant and Oleta Adams voice together with Orzabals voice... Mindblowing.

10) Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going
It's like Collins said after an actual award show these days: I heard much music today, but no songs. Collins did an perfect album here, with pefect songs. Absolute highlights are I don't care anymore and The West Side.

Listening to my music, you will always find a hidden or more obviously "hello" to one of this musicians taken out of there songs, caring enbedded quotations.
 
I don't even know 10 albums however .

sergeant pepper. hugely colourful and inventive.
Joni Mitchell blue. Hissing of summer lawns. Court and spark
She's a great lyricist .
nick drake(.any of his 3 ). He's a human metronome and very inventive with chord progressions and tunings .
Kate Bush .great imaginative songwriter( only know the whole story compilation)
A tramp shining - Richard Harris . Mums favorite .grew up with it from the age of about 4. Beautiful record in its own way
 
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mine change...off the top of my head today

Cars the first one a 4 track ish simple,
Beatles Revolver, Rubber Soul,
ACDC back in black,
Zepplin- which one? Houses of the Holy,
Nirvana-Nevermind,
Little Richard- ,
Chuck Berry School Days,
Weezer- greatest hits fantastic recording,
Offspring- the early one with Keep Em Seperated, Self Esteem...

I was more a singls 45, hit single though, albums could get boring,.
 
I think I'd have to go with:

Beatles - The White Album (They go from Helter Skelter to Long, Long, Long in one album...that's a huge range).
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? (I don't think I really need to say more)
Leftfield - Leftism (it's engineering is so good it's kind of amazing they made it in 1995)
Danger Mouse - The Grey Album (I had heard many mashups before, and I've heard a lot since - Girl Talk is a good example - but I've never found a better one. It's truly incredible).
Prince - Sign O' the Times (This is the best Prince album, bar far, and the production and range are better than 99.9% of anything made).
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (He just got a group of jazz musicians together without any idea of what they would play - just lyrics. The results are amazing).
M.A.R.R.S. - Pump Up the Volume (It's a single, but it was the first time I really got into beat driven dance music).
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (This really needs zero explanation, and if it does you need to stop what you're doing, get a copy and listen to it alone, asap).
Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (I know others think they have better albums but...this is where it all started for me).
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love (Without Jimi there'd be no Prince. But also, without Jimi there'd be no...Jimi. I think he, Prince, and Miles are all ties for the most influential person in modern music).
 
By influential, most influential on me:

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy - Bowie
Killer - Alice Cooper
Animals - Floyd
Overnight Sensation - Frank
Aqualung - Tull
The Wall - Floyd
Sgt. Pepper's - Beatles
Quadrophenia - Who

I think that sums me up. The 70's - what a decade.

I like your picks...

In no particular order...and not necessarily my "if I had to get stuck on an island pick 10 list" but...

King Crimson Court of the Crimson King
Pink Floyd Meddle and DSOTM
Beatles Sargent Peppers
Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Alice Cooper Love it to death
Frank Zappabitterman One Size fits all
Elton Goodbye Yellow Brick road
Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold as love

some that I'd still sneak in on the island cause I'm a non conformist freekin rule breaker...THE MASSES ARE ASSES!

Bowie's Ziggy Stardust
J Geils Full House
Alice's Killer and Billion Dollar Babies
Genesis Lamb lies down
ELP Brain Salad Surgery
The Who Tommy
VH's first album
Deep Purple Machine Head
Doobie brothers The Captain and Me
Santana Abraxas
Oingo Boingo Dead man's Party
Heart Dream Boat Annie
Steve Miller The Joker
Triumvirat Spartacus
Yes Tales of Topographic oceans
Bob Dylans Highway 61
Some Janis, Joe Cocker and Jim Morrison stuff too! :listeningmusic:

Clearly dating myself here cause I like A LOT of later music mentioned in the previous post like Nirvana, Depeche Mode, The Cars, MJ, Smash Mouth, 3rd eye blind and moving even newer...Fun, Amy Whinerhouse, Pink, Evanescence, Lorde, Adelle...Little ginger Eddy Sheran is a pretty bad ass songsmith...and speaking of smith's Sammy has had some hits here too! I guess I'm easily influenced...:laughings:
 
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Love a lot on the lists. Know FA about most but I could not live without the Bach Inventions, Goldberg vars and the Brandenbergs. Oh! and all of Ludwig's piano sonatas, got to have the late quartets. Then there is Chopin, Mozzy....OH! ***K! I ain't goin!

Dave.
 
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I keep going back to these albums, so I guess you could say they're my favorites

Queen II - Queen
Bone Machine - Tom Waits
The Mountain - Steve Earle and the Del McCoury band
Here's the Tender Coming - The Unthanks
Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Parade - Prince & the Revolution
Quadrophenia - The Who
Cast Iron Dentures - The Rev. JM's Panic Worship
Bring it on - Gomez
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
 
It would be hard to narrow down 10 particular albums that influence me, so I'm going to be a bit general with my list. Some of these artists mainly inspire my writing, others influence my arranging and engineering:

Pink Floyd, mainly in the 1970's.
Pet Sounds/Smile-era Beach Boys
1960's Moody Blues
Dukes of Stratosphear (an XTC spin-off for those who don't know)
The Smithereens (song writing and song style, mostly)
The Who
Wondermints (a surprisingly little-known Indie group from the 1990s that is currently in Brian Wilson's back up band)
Beatles (of course!)
Smash Mouth--particularly their Astro Lounge album
Joe Bonamassa (for the blues side of me)
 
This was surprisingly difficult - and certainly not a definitive list (I've also included an EP as it simply has to be there).

Not regarding production either as I'm not much of a producer, but top 10 albums that have had an influence on my psyche as a human and on my songwriting would be (in no particular order & avoiding repeating the same artist more than once):

1. Radiohead - Amnesiac
2. The Beatles - Abbey Road
3. The Strokes - Comedown Machine
4. Jeff Buckley - Grace
5. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
6. Zero 7 - Simple Things
7. The Naked & Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You
8. Kings Of Leon - Only By the Night
9. Alex Turner - Submarine soundtrack (EP)
10. Haim - Days Are Gone

It's fun to share :listeningmusic:
 
Care for Me- Saba
Mothership Connection- Parliament Funkadelic
Raise- Earth, Wind, & Fire
Around The World In A Day- Prince
Who Is Jill Scott?- Words and Sounds, Vol.1- Jill Scott
blkswn-Smino
Save Rock and Roll- Fall Out Boy
Straight Outta Compton- N.W.A
The Velvet Rope-Janet Jackson
H.E.R-H.E.R
 
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