The Albums that Changed Your Life....

[packy120353]

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....

[Mike Scott]

I don't have my albums with me to scan

Scan? Just use Google Images.

[packy120353]

Now you know the names of the albums to google!

[zombiehorror]

The Halloween/horror obsession started early on~


Ramones classic American-punk rock~


Metallica, introduction to real metal~


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'~


As with most an introduction to The Misfits leads into Samhain, a whole different animal~


For me this is when Slayer nailed it~


Remember getting this not knowing what the hell it was, just bought it based on album art~


True American-punk rock lives~

[Ormsby]

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.

[Scary Terry]

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.

[charp13]

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

[charp13]

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!

[spideydroogy]

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.

[Wicked Lester]

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.

[Elisabeth]

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

"E" 

[monsterphile]

They 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!

[Sean]

Hot Rocks



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

....and Ghostly Sounds

[marsattacks666]

This album really changed my life, and influenced me to become a musician, at eight( yrs. of age.

Killer LP........Yes, that was a pun.

Actually, every KISS LP has changed my life. But, Rock n' Roll Over was the first.





Plus...... Led Zeppelin 4, MISFITS collection 1, KISS ALIVE!

[monsterphile]

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.