Choose 10 vinyl era albums that greatly influenced your taste in music

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  1. John Peachy

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    Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
    Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
    Culture - Two Sevens Clash
    The Harder the come OST (Largely Jimmy Cliff)
    The Jam - Setting Suns
    The Clash - London Calling
    The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
    Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
    Beatles - Revolver
    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
     
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    Erroll Garner - Concert by the sea.
    The Peddlers - Birthday.
     
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    And many of the albums mentioned in this thread were influenced by those two albums - Bowie, Smiths and even bands such as U2.
    For that era the Ferry / Eno collaboration was brilliant.
     
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    U2- War
    U2- Joshua tree
    Dire straights- Brothers in arms
    Abba- The Album
    Carpenters- The collection
    Beach boys - Greatest hits
    Hollies- Greatest hits
    Deep purple- Purple gold
    Glen Miller- Hits
    Alice Cooper.- Billion dollar babies.
     
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    Is it albums from the vinyl era,or any albums you first heard on vinyl ?
     
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    Islands. King Crimson
    The Who. Live at Leeds
    Humble Pie. Rockin the Filmore
    Frank Zappa. Hot Rats
    Led Zep 2
    Woodstock
    Santana. First album
    Can. Tago Mago
    Hawkwind. In search of space.
    Steely Dan. Can't buy a thrill
    Cream. Greatest hits

    Honourable mention to Focus. Hocus Pocus
     
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    Dad?
     
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    I hit my teens in the early 90s so I was more cassettes and CDs but I'm sure most of these were on vinyl too. Music that influenced me:

    Terrorvision- How to make friends and influence people
    Nirvana - Incesticide
    Therapy? - Infernal Love
    Ash - 1977
    Foo Fighters - s/t
    The Prodigy - Music for the jilted generation
    Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    Deftones - Around The Fur
    Reef - Glow
    Soundgarden - Superunknown
     
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    Neil Young - After the Goldrush
    Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
    The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
    Oasis - What's the Story..
    Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
    Radiohead - Kid A
    The Libertines - Up The Bracket
    Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
    Kanye West - Late Registration
    Deerhunter - Microcastle

    [Special mentions: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black; The Streets - Original Pirate Material; White Stripes - White Blood Cells; Dylan pre-'67; Nirvana - Nevermind; Pixies - Doolittle)
     
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    Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
    Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
    The Clash - London Calling
    Queen - Greatest Hits (I Know, I know, we shouldn't include a compilation album in this. But just fc*king listen to it. It's almost perfect. It is the best collection of pop singles there will probably ever be. It's jaw dropping amazing in its diversity, innovation and hooks. Young people who haven't been exposed to it cry when they hear it for the first time. I was on coach in New Zealand, returning from a Lesbian Wedding on a mountainside, as far away from home as it is possible to be, a two hour drive with 30 drunk people from all over the world, and we sung it, word for word, from beginning to end, without the CD, the stereo had broken, and we all knew the words, and we'll all talk about that for the rest of our lives.)
    Wedding Present - Seamonsters (released in the same year as Nevermind by Nirvana which is a very good album, but if there were any justice in the world, this would have gone stratospheric not Nevermind. This is Steve Albini's raison d'etre. It is simply amazing)
    Slow Down Tallahassee - The Beautiful Light
    Paul Simon - Graceland
    Gold-Bears - Are you Falling in Love?
    The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
    Tyrannosaurus Dead - Flying Ant Day
     
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    Yes you can. Morrissey is a cn$t. Doesn't mean he didn't produce beautiful music and it doesn't mean you agree with the disgusting bile he has latterly espoused. You are allowed to like great art without being judged on the views of the person who created that art. Anyone who does is a wn*ker. You are you, and you are judged on being you, and you can like whatever you want to like.
     
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    That should have been on my list. As i'm out of work I'm thinking of selling my rare UK pressing. Different sleeve to the other releases.

    https://www.discogs.com/Can-Tago-Mago/release/14652759

    PS Happy Mondays fans take note where their ideas came from.
     
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    For once just shurrup. Your choices are absolutely valid, but stop trying to claim they're better than others. Can't you just stop being such a narcissist for a second. Good god.
     
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    Aarrgh! Can't believe I missed Steely Dan off my list. The Royal Scam would be my choice, with Countdown To Ecstasy as a close second.
     
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    Aargh! Again!
    I'm starting to think the OP is a sadist, coming up with a thread like this.
    Harvest would have been my choice though. Never tire of hearing that one.
     
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    Harvest is the obvious choice but when I think about the 'influence' and the diversity of Goldrush I plumped for that. I have more Neil Young records than any other artist. Was lucky enough to see him in 2014(?) in Birmingham. If you haven't heard it I would recommend Live at Massey Hall, phenomenal, just Neil and his guitar. I also love the heavy Crazy Horse stuff etc. I find it staggering how he has maintained his voice all these years, his vocals are still flawless for me
     
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    And don't get me wrong, I never tire of hearing Harvest either, incredible album. I love how he was a massive influence on Thom Yorke/Radiohead too
     
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    In no particular order...

    Prince - Sign O' The Times
    Kinks - Something Else
    John Coltrane - Giant Steps
    Bowie - Hunky Dory
    Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
    Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
    Beatles - White Album
    Elliott Smith - Figure 8
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right
     
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    Tonight's the Night
     
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    This challenge is too hard, because Elliott Smith would deffo make my top ten now you mentioned him. Figure 8 is unbelievable. Been listening to a lot of Elliott lately.
     
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