Nobody's posted here in four months, but I figured I'd chime in if that's ok.
I could list 100 albums if I wanted, but I'll have some fun and pick some big ones that really helped shape me.
Albums I grew up with that were highly influential:
1) Iron Maiden- "Somewhere In Time" (could pick any IM album really)
2) Rush- "Hold Your Fire" (simply incredible)
3) Metallica- "Ride The Lightning" (or Master Of Puppets" or "Kill 'Em All")
4) Pink Floyd- "The Wall"
5) Poison- "Look What The Cat Dragged In" (I know, I know, hell I was young)
6) The Hellecasters- "Return Of The Hellecasters" (just great guitar stuff)
7) Tom Petty- "Full Moon Fever"
8) GnR- "Appetite For Destruction" (hard not to include this one)
9) Phish- "Rift" (or "Farmhouse" or "Picture Of Nectar")
10) Boston- "Boston"
11) Zeppelin 4 (or 2, or "Physical Graffiti")
12) Queensryche- "Operation Mindcrime" ("Empire" was killer, too)
13) Eric Johnson- "Ah Via Musicom"
14) Beatles- "Rubber Soul" (any Beatles album actually)
15) AC/DC- "Back In Black" (also "Blow Up Your Video" has a special place in my heart)
16) Michael Jackson- "Thriller" (What can I say?)
And so many more... Dokken, Judas Priest, and Motley Crue could be honorable mentions. (Hey, I was a teen in the 80s)
These days:
1) Green Day- "American Idiot" (possibly favorite album of all time, masterpiece)
2) Green Day- "Tre" (another one of my favorites of all time)
3) Green Day- "Dookie"
4) Green Day- "Warning"
5) Green Day- "Revolution Radio" (new, I know, but blowing me away)
6) Green Day- "21st Century Breakdown"
I'll just stop now before I end up listing every Green Day album.
(I know, I'm an idiot)
