Top 10 albums that most impacted you

MetalGuy71 wrote:

stormspell wrote:

manny wrote:

I bought that Mentors album on tape, without ever hearing a note because Tipper Gore and her gaggle of bored Washington housewives, reading their lyrics during the Senate PMRC hearings 'Bend Over and smell my vapors/Your face is my toilet paper' nothing funnier then hearing stuffy housewives reading the Mentors lovely poetry.

I always thought it is the ultimate irony that a person with the name GORE would lead the crusade against use of graphic language in lyrics... it must have been a psychological issue for her...

Her maiden name was Chokesoncock, so Gore was a step up.

These are in no particular order:

KISS - Love Gun
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Kyuss - Sky Valley
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Van Halen - S/T
Def Leppard - Pyromania

My Top 10 Not necessary in order

Pink Floyd- The Wall
Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic
Judas Priest-Denfenders Of The Faith
Iron Maiden-Piece Of Mind
Ac/Dc- Highway to hell
Rolling Stones Goat Head Soup
The Doors LA Women
Megadeth-Peace Sells
Dokken- Breaking the chains
Metallica-Ride The Lighting

AC/DC - Back In Black

Rush - Moving Pictures

Petra - Not of This World

Stryper - The Yellow and Black Attack

Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice

Metallica - Kill 'em All

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force

Believer - Extraction from Mortality


pretty sure that does it....


Guns N Roses - Appettite for Destruction (honorable mention)

manny wrote:

I find these list interesting, especially when someone lists 'Unmasked' an album I like but did not love, where Kmorg half way on the other side of the world, heard something in the album's grooves that made dig deeper into not only KISS but the entire genre of metal.

"Unmasked" was released in 1980, when I was 6 years old. The band also visited Norway for the very first time that year, so the whole country was KISS-crazy. While it were the songs from Destroyer and the Alive albums that were the most popular and best known, "Unmasked" was brand new.

Megadeth-Rust In Peace
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Iced Earth-Night Of Stormrider
Death-Human
Exodus-Bonded By Blood
Blind Guardian-Imaginations From The Side
Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance
Kreator-Enemy Of God
Crimson Glory-Transcendence
Queensryche-Rage For Order

KISS - Psycho Circus
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Townes van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Kiss - Destroyer
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - News of The World
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits (1980)
Savatage - A Handful of Rain
AC/DC - Who Made Who?
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Yes - The Yes Album
Rush - Different Stages

Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
Montrose - Montrose
Moxy - Ridin High
UFO - No Heavy Petting
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Randy Hansen - Randy Hansen
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
The Groundhogs - Crosscut Saw
Budgie - If I We're Brittania I'd Waive The Rules
Scorpions - Blackout

Wargod

In no particular order:

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Humble Pie - Rockin' The Fillmore
Yes - Close To The Edge
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Raven - Live At The Inferno
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Rush - Moving Pictures
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
Dream Theater - Awake
Al Di Meola - Electric Rendezvous

That was hard. There were so many albums that got me into different genres......

Honorable mentions:
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
Miles Davis - Pangaea

Impacted? That's a tough one, hard not to just fall into your favorites. Haha.

IRON MAIDEN-Somewhere In Time
METALLICA-...And Justice For All
DREAM THEATER-Awake
BLACK SABBATH-Vol. 4
BLIND GUARDIAN-Imaginations from the Other Side
DIAMOND HEAD-Lightning to the Nations
PEARL JAM-Ten
FAITH NO MORE-The Real Thing
LIZZY BORDEN-Love You To Pieces
THE MISSION UK-God's Own Medicine

I tried to to pick from various phases/periods in my life. I went through many different ones and picked the album that I listened to most during that time.

You can see it all there, Heavy Metal, Thrash, Prog, Doom/Stoner, Power, NWOBHM, Grunge, Alt. Metal, Hair/Glam, Goth.

HeavyMetal wrote:

LIZZY BORDEN-Love You To Pieces

My personal "best debut album ever"

HeavyMetal wrote:

Impacted? That's a tough one, hard not to just fall into your favorites. Haha.

I tried to to pick from various phases/periods in my life. I went through many different ones and picked the album that I listened to most during that time.

That is why I love this thread. So many good lists here too.

BearOnUnicycle wrote:

HeavyMetal wrote:

LIZZY BORDEN-Love You To Pieces

My personal "best debut album ever"

It's a phenomenal album!

kmorg wrote:

HeavyMetal wrote:

Impacted? That's a tough one, hard not to just fall into your favorites. Haha.

I tried to to pick from various phases/periods in my life. I went through many different ones and picked the album that I listened to most during that time.

That is why I love this thread. So many good lists here too.

Indeed there are. There were some choices on mine that were no brainers, but after those were on, I had to really think and even post some albums that I definitely don't listen to anymore, but they still impacted me one way or another.

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Iron Maiden - Live After Death and the first five records
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Death - Symbolic
Satan's Host - Metal from Hell
Kiss - Creatures of the Night
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
Hexenhaus - At the Edge of Eternity
Iced Earth - Something Wicked

1986 Omega Tribe / Navigator (1986)
All Star United / All Star United (1997)
Arcade / Arcade (1992)
Boo Hwal / Rock Will Never Die (1986)
Boowy / Boowy (1985)
Cho Yong Pil / The Woman Outside the Window (1980)
Dead End / Shambara (1987)
Dreams Come True / The Swinging Star (1992)
Fanatic Crisis / Mask (1996)
Glay / Hai to Diamond (1994)
Hootie and the Blowfish / Cracked Rear View (1994)
INXS / INXS (1980)
INXS / Kick (1987)
Janne da Arc / Chaos Mode (1999)
John Reuben / Are We There Yet? (2001)
Kuroyume / Mayoeru Yuritachi ~Romance of Scarlet~ (1994)
L'arc-en-Ciel / Dune (1993)
La'cryma Christi / Dwellers of a Sandcastle (1996)
La'cryma Christi / Sculptures of Time (1997)
Loudness / Thunder in the East (1985)
Luna Sea / Mother (1994)
Muhangwedo / Muhangwedo (1989)
N.EX.T / Home (1993)
N.EX.T / The Return of N.EX.T, Part 2: World (1995)
Ratt / Out of the Cellar (1984)
Relient K / The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek (2001)
Replacements, The / Pleased to Meet Me (1987)
Seotaiji and Boys / Seotaiji and Boys (1992)
Shin Hae Chul / Myself (1991)
Shin Seung Hun / Vol. 3 (1993)
Star Star / The Love Drag Years (1992)
Tang Dynasty / A Dream Return to Tang Dynasty (1992)
Tinashe / Saved (2010)
Was (Not Was) / What Up, Dog? (1988)
X Japan / Blue Blood (1989)
X Japan / Dahlia (1996)

Judas Priest - British Steel
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
AC/DC - Let there be Rock
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
808 State - Ex El