What album shaped your musical taste ?

[wonderwall]

what album had the biggest influence on the genre of music you like the most .Paul weller Stanley road was mine had it as a present for christmas in 1995 and from then on was hooked on indie rock music before that i was in to 90s dance music and never really listened or knew anything about guitar music .

[o]

Humm, tough one.
My parents had a wide varied collection of albums that I'd listen to, I remember liking Suzi Quatro, Abba - Arrival, Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water, Beatles - Sgt Pepper amongst others. New Order got me really into music, but it was more their 12"s than their albums.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Great question, I guess there are always going to be multiple influences growing up. my parents had a wide collection of vinyls so I grew up listening to The Beatles, Kinks, Mamas & The Pappas, Small Faces, Manfred Mann etc aswel as loads of 60's compilations but mostly was drawn to the beatles album help. this was before I was old enough to buy music.

Then i think the first 4 albums i bought were:

Kula Shaker - K
REM - Out of Time
Nirvana - Nevermind
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Loose

I was about 14 when i bought my first album, I remember it being Kula Shaker from a dodgy independent record store, took me a month to save up for it and then i found REM in woolworths for £4 so that was my second buy, i honestly can't remember what i bought next but i got into Nirvana and Foo Fighters in 1999 so bought their albums but there might have been something else inbetween that my memory has chosen to black out. But them 4 albums have shaped everything i love about music and everything i have liked since

[Deleted]

Ooh -difficult one to pin down, but I think it comes down to the following, which all appeared in my formative years (or borrowed from my parents collection):

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Crowded House - Woodface
Abba - Supertrooper
Sarah Mclachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
New Order - Blue Monday
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Divine Comedy - Short Album About Love

These don't explain my love of funk and Motown though (ABBA LOL?) so I'll have to a think about those....

[wonderwall]

^^ nice choice crowded house woodface very good album

[borneoman]

for me, when I was very young:
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (and in general all Tori Amos stuff from the 90s)
All About Eve - All About Eve

and then in the 00s, no doubt about it:
Damien Rice - O
that album drove me away from indie/pop/rock to more folkish music, which is what I listen to now 99% of the time

[TheThorne]

The Stone Roses

no more needs to be said

[evansabove]

Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams had a big influence on me being into electronic based music

[vastar iner]

[suedehead]

Probably the one which marked a distinct shift in my musical taste was Power In The Darkness by the Tom Robinson Band.

[Smurfie]

Mel and Kim - FLM
Sugar - Copper Blue
Ace Of Base - Happy Nation

Pop to Indie to Europop. My musical taste has roughly been a mix of all three ever since.

[TheThorne]

lol Smurfie thats a sandwich that Bob Mould would never expect to me in and unfortunately wouldnt enjoy either hehe love Copper Blue though one of my favourite 90s albums.

[Earl Purple]

The bands would be primarily new wave / post punk like Blondie and the Boomtown Rats and the mod-revival of the late 70s - early 80s, i.e. The Specials, Madness etc.

For a single album, perhaps Parallel Lines by Blondie?

[Roo.]

Mine were probably

Green Day - American Idiot
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
Therapy? - Troublegum
The Wildhearts - Earth Vs

Those four I found at the same time and totally changed the music I listened to. Although now I have about 50/50 really.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Jimmy Eat World are awsome, i got into Green Day just before Warning came out after my mate got me into Dookie. Seen them both live aswel, im still into the american pop/punk/emo/rock kinda acts so i guess they had a big impression on me aswel

[greendemon]

impossible to pick one for me. my dad was the most influential person in terms of my music taste - i still listen to a lot of the bands that i grew up with. the first song i can ever remember hearing is 'on every street' by dire straits, still listen to it now

in terms of albums, i'd narrow it down to these:

crowded house - "together alone"
dire straits - "brothers in arms"
the stone roses - "the stone roses"

there are lots of albums i remember vaguely but can't think of the names: tom petty & the heartbreakers, U2, the eagles, sting, the police, pink floyd, R.E.M... all pretty influential

then later:

stereophonics - "performance & cocktails" (one of the first CDs i ever bought with my own money)
elbow - "asleep in the back" (a present from my dad. neither of us had heard of them before but he heard the CD playing and thought i would like it. started my ongoing love for elbow!)
radiohead - "the bends" (pilfered this off my dad's CD collection when i was a teenager as i was curious about radiohead but had never heard them)

[Paddy]

This question would involve and answer of having a music taste...which I don't have.

Pete Tongue's compilation album got me massively into dance music. Otherwise I heard stuff from my parents, how I have become to like Madness, but for the indie stuff, no idea, I'd say Kaiser's first album but I liked stuff before that. Maybe Frats? It's all way too long ago now.

[madmurray]

Probably the first album I bought - Adam and the Ants - Dirk wears white sox.

Another influence would be - Gary Moore - still got the blues for you.

[Earl Purple]

I will also say that getting albums by the Smiths and Carter USM shaped my musical taste more into the indie direction. I was surprised how "pop" Carter USM albums were and the Smiths were perhaps also more catchy pop than it felt like they were at the time, especially songs like Frankly Mr Shankly and Vicar In A Tutu.