Universal Monster Army

The Albums that changed my life are....

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These albums had a huge impact on me, what are some albums that had a impact on you?

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Pink Floyds "The Wall"

Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast....everything else followed.

Queen's second album,  QUEEN II.  Queen II is perhaps the most overlooked album in the Queen catalogue, & it's a shame, for it is their masterpiece. I have eclectic tastes in music, & after 30 years, Queen II has never lost it's magic. If you've never heard Queen II, if you're only familiar with their hits & signature albums, then you haven't heard Queen.

According to Queenonline.com, Queen II is guitarist Brian May's favorite Queen album.

Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on July 06, 2010, 04:12:15 PM
Queen's second album,  QUEEN II.  Queen II is perhaps the most overlooked album in the Queen catalogue, & it's a shame, for it is their masterpiece. I have eclectic tastes in music, & after 30 years, Queen II has never lost it's magic. If you've never heard Queen II, if you're only familiar with their hits & signature albums, then you haven't heard Queen.

I concur...pretty much ALL Queen has retained it's magic for me.

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Also, I'd have to say all of Hank Williams changed my life, as thanks to Mom's playing them incessantly, I can't stand country, save your basic Shania or Faith.


OG

Well, there are several...


DRACULA'S GREATEST HITS, THE MUNSTERS (America's Newest Singing Group), and various Henry Mancini and Dean Martin albums were the favorites as a little kid.


The soundtrack to AMERICAN GRAFITTI was huge for me in pre-teen years. Also a K-tel record called GREATEST JUKEBOX HITS of the 50s, or something like that.

Robert Gordon's ROCK BILLY BOOGIE (1979) did me permanent major brain damage when it was first released that lingers with me to this day.

Quote from: Monster Bob on July 06, 2010, 06:03:13 PM

Robert Gordon's ROCK BILLY BOOGIE (1979) did me permanent major brain damage when it was first released that lingers with me to this day.

I've a feeling it was not the LP, but perhaps some sort of a accessory that might be the catalyst

I hear you Black Lagoon...

Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast

The first time I heard Hallowed Be Thy Name, that something clicked inside me...


RUN DMC Raising Hell

I killed this in Junior High, especially Raising Hell. "I cut the head off the devil and I throw it at you" What metalhead wouldn't love that line? From there my love of real Hip Hop took off.

"Aqualung" by Jethro Tull. And I have photographic evidence.... ;D


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Mike

Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on July 06, 2010, 04:12:15 PM
Queen's second album,  QUEEN II.  Queen II is perhaps the most overlooked album in the Queen catalogue, & it's a shame, for it is their masterpiece. I have eclectic tastes in music, & after 30 years, Queen II has never lost it's magic. If you've never heard Queen II, if you're only familiar with their hits & signature albums, then you haven't heard Queen.

According to Queenonline.com, Queen II is guitarist Brian May's favorite Queen album.

Also an early Queen fan. IMO, Sheer Heart Attack is one of the best albums from that era. It was so huge in sound that they put a disclaimer saying all the music was real and no synths were used.

I wore my LP out I played it every day sometimes twice.

Quote from: BaronLatos35 on July 06, 2010, 06:26:32 PM
I hear you Black Lagoon...

Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast

The first time I heard Hallowed Be Thy Name, that something clicked inside me...


RUN DMC Raising Hell

I killed this in Junior High, especially Raising Hell. "I cut the head off the devil and I throw it at you" What metalhead wouldn't love that line? From there my love of real Hip Hop took off.

I know what you mean on both counts... Maiden wasn't my 1st, I was already in love with KISS in make up, but when I heard that, and just stared at the cover for hrs...I was hooked.

Quote from: Opera Ghost on July 06, 2010, 04:14:46 PM
I concur...pretty much ALL Queen has retained it's magic for me.

I CONCUR WITH YOUR CONCURRING.

Let's see . . . Van Halen's first album, The Cult's second and third albums, The Eurythmics first album, The Motels third album, Kate Bush's fourth album and every album The Divinyls has released to date.

I started with...
50s-60s Oldies:Elvis,Beach Boys,Everly Brothers,Roy Orbinson,Dion,etc....
80s Rock/Pop:Lionel Ritchie,Wham,Michael Jackson,A-ha,Falco,El Dibarge,Pat Benatar,etc...
Metal:KISS,Sabbath,DIO,Twisted Sister,WASP,Iron Maiden,AC/DC,Crue,GnR,Poison,Ratt,etc....
Heavier Metal:Metallica,Slayer,Venom,White Zombie,Type-O-Negative,Prong,Selputura,etc....
RAP:Vanilla Ice,LLCool J,RUNDMC,JJFAd,Big Daddy Kane,Curtis Blow,Fat Boys,Beastie Boys,etc...
Gangsta Rap:Ice T, NWA,EPMD,Warren G,Bone Thugs N Harmony,Bloods,Crips,Coolio,etc....
Small dose of Punk: Dead Milk Men, Heretix.
And now it's a Variety of music, except Rap or Polka...
From Big Bands to Clutch Theory....

Quote from: Wicked Lester on July 06, 2010, 08:16:51 PM
Also an early Queen fan. IMO, Sheer Heart Attack is one of the best albums from that era.

Sheer Heart Attack was my first Queen album. I love their "classic years", up to & including the Flash Gordon soundtrack, but their 1st three (Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack) are invaluable.

I must also give a nod to J-Tull's Aqualung.  And not "life changing" per se, the American Graffiti soundtrack has always been a must have IMO.

in chronological order-
Electronics & Percussion : Five Realizations by Max Neuhaus (1968)
repeatedly checked out of my local library as a wee lad

Wonderwall Music by George Harrison (12/68)
blame one of my summer camp counselors

Hot Rats by Frank Zappa (10/69)
(but not heard until the early '70s) thank the gods for 'FM' college radio!

The Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit (1970)
Good sepparation is essential!

I Sing the Body Electric by Weather Report (1972)
(good) Fusion- music at it's most advanced mixed with the percussion of the earliest musics- becomes my favorite genre

Another Green World by Brian Eno (9/75)


are probably the biggies~

Eliminator by ZZ Top and Tango in the Night by Fleetwood Mac.

They both completely changed my perspective of music as a child, and every song on them is consistently brilliant.

I tried not to just make a list of favorites -- but choose records that really turned my head -- changed my musical taste -- opened me up to new possibilities.  There are live shows I've seen that did the same for me, too  -- Dale Watson,  The Cramps, Hot Club of Cowtown, Rev. Horton Heat, Deke Dickerson, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and more -- but here are the LPs.



Meet the Beatles: The Beatles

Goldfinger soundtrack: John Barry

My Aim is True: Elvis Costello

Look Sharp: Joe Jackson

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are DEVO: Devo

True Stories: Talking Heads

End of the Century: The Ramones

They Might Be Giants: TMBG

Cockadoodledon't: Th' Legendary Shack Shakers

Live at the Golden Nugget: Hank Thompson


I'm obviously on my own track here, and  don't share a lot of choices with many fellow UMA members -- but hey -- that's what makes horse races, right?

Quote from: Bogey;510935If I could only grab some from the shelf in a fire, and them flames were lapping me, I would grab four favorites from my favorite genre (classical) and two from each of my other favorite genres.  (I know some are box sets, but gotta have 'em.):

             

Along with The Beatles discography....UK release format. ;)  To leave out Coltrane is a crime, but I only have two hands.

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That is the only Elvis record I ever owned!! Bought it the day after he died.

Mike

Quote from: Illoman on July 08, 2010, 07:05:33 PM
That is the only Elvis record I ever owned!! Bought it the day after he died.

Mike

My dad had tickets for the 2 of us to the Elvis concert in Hartford Ct on Aug 21, 1977. He died 5 days before the concert. I ALMOST saw Elvis.

The girl who babysat for us when we were kids went to see him and it was during his latter karate days. She said he spent more time giving a karate demonstration than he did singing. She was quite disappointed.

I don't know if any particular albums really "changed my life" all that much, but here's another overlooked band.

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Key STRAWBS albums:

Grave New World (1972)
Bursting at the Seams (1973)
Hero and Heroine (1974 pictured)
Ghosts (1974

Quote from: Illoman on July 08, 2010, 07:15:38 PM
The girl who babysat for us when we were kids went to see him and it was during his latter karate days. She said he spent more time giving a karate demonstration than he did singing. She was quite disappointed.

Yeah, he was erratic at the end........but how often do you get to see a legend?

I don't have my albums with me to scan but albums that changed my life were:
Jeff Beck - Beckola
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Something Anything - Todd
Introducing The Beatles
Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits
Collection - The Young Rascals
Surf's Up - Beach Boys
Idlewild - Everything But The Girl
geez there's too many more....

Quote from: packy120353 on July 08, 2010, 08:59:00 PM
I don't have my albums with me to scan

Scan? Just use Google Images.

Now you know the names of the albums to google!

The Halloween/horror obsession started early on~
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Ramones classic American-punk rock~
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Metallica, introduction to real metal~
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Damn don't know why it took me so long to get into The Misfits?  New about them as early as '85' but didn't get this album 'til '88'~
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As with most an introduction to The Misfits leads into Samhain, a whole different animal~
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For me this is when Slayer nailed it~
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Remember getting this not knowing what the hell it was, just bought it based on album art~
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True American-punk rock lives~
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I have to say Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare" changed my life.  My mother got it when it first came out (I was four or five at the time) and played it all the time.  When his ABC special "The Nightmare" was on that same year she kept me up to watch it (today some parent groups would call that child abuse).  I always loved monsters and creepy things, and Alice gave that love a sound track.  Every February 4th (Alice's birthday) we have a big dinner and celebrate "The Feast of Alice Copper", so you could say it's a family thing.  

I remember a bad day of being beat up in junior high school (I was a geeky tall kid who liked to read science fiction/horror and didn't do the "Cool" things).  I ran home with my bruised face and played the vinyl (this was before CDs or IPoop) record.  The music calmed me down and made me forget about the beating.  The next day the same kid wanted to start on me again as I walked home.  Fed up, I grabbed him by his Member's Only jacket, pulled him nose to nose with me and screamed the lyrics to "Welcome to My Nightmare" into his face.  Not just a line or two, the WHOLE SONG.  At first he was surprised, then he got angry, THEN he got so scared because I wouldn't stop he started crying and begged to be let go.  One of the goon's gang years later told me I had a demonic look on my face, and they were all frighten of me after that.  When I finished the song I released my hold on his jacket and he fell to the ground sobbing.  

I was never bothered again.

That's a great story, Ormsby.  As someone who had his fill of bullies (Junior High was awful!), I love hearing about the tables turning.

Yes, Ormsby.....I wish I had thought of doing that when I was that age   :)   

zombiehorror-"Let's Go" is one of my favorites as well. I listen to it at least once a week in the car, since we have no radio stations for grown folk in the greater Atlanta area. "Life Won't Wait" is also an album that is at the top of my list. You just can't lose with Op. Ivy or Rancid, they're all fantastic!

Led Zeppelin 1
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Yes - Fragile and Close to the Edge
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor (not really an album but that music was very ear opening)
Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf and Moanin' in the Moonlight  Shows how to get low down, greasy and raw electric blues.

Quote from: Scary Terry on July 09, 2010, 09:01:20 AM
That's a great story, Ormsby.  As someone who had his fill of bullies (Junior High was awful!), I love hearing about the tables turning.

Ditto. Love stories like that as well. Wish I could have witnessed that one.They used to call me "stickman" because I was tall and very skinny. Then I started listening to the heaviest most evil music at that time and lifting weights and the bullying pretty much stopped because they just didn't know when I might snap.

BEATLES '65.  The music was so crappy that I jumped the fence to Tchaikovsky's SWAN LAKE.

"E"  ededed

Quote from: Wicked Lester on July 09, 2010, 04:59:36 PMThey used to call me "stickman" because I was tall and very skinny.... lifting weights and the bullying pretty much stopped because they just didn't know when I might snap.

We know your secret!
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Hot Rocks

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Also Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & The Magical Mystery Tour

....and Ghostly Sounds

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This album really changed my life, and influenced me to become a musician, at eight(8) yrs. of age.
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Killer LP........Yes, that was a pun.
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Actually, every KISS LP has changed my life. But, Rock n' Roll Over was the first.
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Plus...... Led Zeppelin 4, MISFITS collection 1, KISS ALIVE!

Hey Sean, I had that Ghastly Sounds record.  I wonder what ever happened to it...


I don't think any album changed my life, but the one that probably had the biggest impact as a teenager was Meat Loaf- Bat Out of Hell and Jim Steinman's part of the equation was just as important ass Meat's.

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Hey Sean, I had that Ghastly Sounds record.  I wonder what ever happened to it... <Monsterphile>

I bet my mom still has mine at her house! :D

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Dude,you must be PSYCHIC!
The first time I read your post the image did not load. THAT is what I spent a month of allowance in maybe 74-75". It actually sorta worked. I made it up to a 5'6" and "beefy" 120# in 3 mos. Beats being envious of a 98# weakling.  ;)

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