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

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    That is a great list.
     
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    Saw Elliott a bit before he died in Manchester, One of the smaller Academy venues, Was brilliant.
     
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    Roxy influenced Bowie? Aye all reight...
     
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    The Clash
    Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
    Sex Pistols - Never Mind The ********
    Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
    Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
    The Smiths
    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
    REM - Murmur
    Massive Attack - Blue Lines
     
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    Lol.
    Yer not often right but yer wrong again.

    I mentioned this because there was a television program about the influence these albums had on the music business.
    Other artists were talking about the band and the albums.
    I knew they were great for their time - but I didn’t realise how widespread that influence had been.
     
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    Well - if you watch the Bowie interviews he will confirm it.
    Plus of course Bowie later worked with Brian Eno.
     
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    Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
    Argus - Wishbone Ash
    Camembert Electrique - Gong
    H to He - Van Der Graaf Generator
    Abbey Road - Beatles
    Meddle - Pink Floyd
    The freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
    Split - The Groundhogs
    Who's Next - The Who
    Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
     
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    I only have the one "Live at the Olympia Paris".
     
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    Beatles - Please, Please Me
    Beatles - Help
    Beatles - Abbey Road
    Beatles - White Album
    Led Zeppelin - II
    Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Shadows - Mustang
    Status Quo - Hello
    Beegees - The Beegees
     
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    As a septuagenarian :-

    Freewheelin' . . . . . . Bob Dylan
    Please Please Me . . . . The Beatles
    The Band . . . . . The Band
    Songs of Leonard Cohen
    Born to Run . . . . . Bruce Springsteen
    Ramblin' Boy . . . . . Tom Paxton
    Forever Changes . . . . . Love
    Beano Album . . . . . . John Mayall and the Blues Breakers
    Retrospective . . . . . . Buffalo Springfield
    Blonde on Blonde . . . . . Bob Dylan

    Sorry could only get Dylan down to two.
     
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    I'm going to take this as specific vinyl records that influenced me, rather than a 'Best of' list. It's been fun to think about.

    1) Neil Young: After the Gold Rush. I read ages ago an interview with Gaz Coombes of Supergrass saying this was the archetypal great record you find in your father's record collection. And so it was for me. There is something magical about this vinyl- the gatefold silvery negative picture and the inside with Neil sprawled out in the dressing room after a show across it. I can see the orangey yellow of the record's label itself, with the tugboat of reprise records. You put it on, and it's like sunshine beamed from 1865.

    2) The Moody Blues: On the Threshold of a Dream. I can't remember if this is one of my dad's, or one I bought after hearing other Moody Blues records, but this is a classic vinyl experience for me. The sleeve is stunningly weird- eyes and ears growing on a plant in an violet and ultramarine abstract painting. One of those records that evokes the mood of its cover and transports you. Some of the cod-surreal poetry of white eagles and stuff is hilarious, but its a fantastic piece of psychedelia.

    3) Bowie- Ziggy Stardust... I first put this on at my uncle's house after a student night out- he lived in Oakwell but let me stay over although he worked early. I got told off a bit in the morning, but it was worth it. I can still remember creeping about, quietly dropping the needle on to the record as hearing the drums for Five Years fade up... wow. Things were not the same again!

    4) Dylan- Dylan- This is nowhere near his best album- I think it was cobbled together from outtakes without his permission by his record company. But I love it as a record. It is bizarre, all tie dye acid washed sleeve, and songs that sound like they have come from the memory in a peyote hangover. I got this from the fantastic second hand record stall on Barnsley's Tuesday market in the late 90s. Anyone remember that? It was a couple of quid as noone bought records in that era.

    5) Loaded- The Velvet Underground. I also got this for a fiver from the record stall! It's not the best VU album (for me, with Nico) but has a fantastic sleeve of the Paris metro and is a proper cool record to pop on, 'who loves the sun' chiming out...

    6) Sebadoh- Sebadoh III. Utterly stoned, wonky record evocative of a certain time of rural passtimes before the internet... I borrowed this off a friend and never gave it back. Sorry!

    7) Pavement- Watery Domestic EP. I sought this out in one of the record shops- Casa Disco? And have since sadly lost it. A perfect EP for me: fast, visceral, literate

    8) Devo- Q-Are we not men? A- We are Devo. I started buying records again about five years ago. This was one of them that reminded me how great they are. You drop the needle and your blood rises... What a record.

    9) Sparks-Propaganda. I bought this at a record fair in Headingley, having no idea what to expect really and only knowing 'This Town Ain't Big Enough...'. Russel's vocal acrobatics filling the living room before that melodic frenzy is unforgettable. I went and bought about 6 records more of them in the next weeks.

    10) Violent Femmes- Hallowed Ground. Better known for their eponymous debut, but for me this is the better record. A great 'night' record, dropping to a hush one minute, then rising to howls and twisting, punching basslines the next. Man.
     
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    This is a great thread and I've loved the memories some of those titles listed have evoked
    Hard to limit it to just 10 but having a go but I am sure I've missed some

    David Bowie -The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - sheer class
    Queen - A Night at the Opera - First Queen Album I bought and got me hooked
    Rush - Hemispheres - not their best album thats 2112 but the first I heard and the one that got me into them
    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV - Along with everyone else - nothing to add
    Blondie - Parallel Lines - probably not a good fit but I loved this when it came out bit of a one off though I didnt get their later stuff
    Barclay James Harvest - Live Tapes -OK its a live compilation but its the album that got me into this group - strangely not popular in the UK but massive elsewhere.
    Heart - Dreamboat Annie - schoolmate of mine had a brother in Canada and he got me into this group
    Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -so many classics on this album
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    U2 - October - Joshua tree is a better album but this was my first U2 and its a great album too
     
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    With respect nudge. everyone to their own. Brian Ferry’s voice cut through me. I realise Rocky Music were popular. But a no from me. I’m cringing about that voice whilst writing. I would never say anyone’s crap. I may not like summat but doesn’t mean it’s crap.
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    Close to the edge - Yes
    After the gold rush - Neil Young
    Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
    Sandy Denny - Any of her material
    Clifford T Ward - Escalator
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
    Elton John - Madman Across the Water
    Bruce Hornsby - The Way it Is
    Dan Fogelberg - Souvenirs
    Wishbone Ash - Argus

    Not in any sort of order!
     
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    I always think of Steve Coogan when I hear a Bryan Ferry song.
     
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    That's a good one. I've got that. The other live one, Honeyman Live 1973 is good too.
     
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    Queen - Queen
    U2 - The Joshua Tree
    Deep Purple - Made In Japan
    Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    Manfred Manns Earthband - Watch
    Curved Air - Second Album
    Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall
    Stevie Winwood - Talking Back to the Night
    Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
     
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