I’ve seen and read a bunch of articles lately that give a forum to rock stars to talk about their Top 10 most influential albums, so I thought that sounded like a fun topic to think about. So here’s a two part post of reflections on my 10 most influential albums. Please don’t read this as an all-time top ten post, it’s not, though it does contain albums that make that list for me. Rather this first post is more of a chronological journey for me, and was a very cool reflection time for me to pull together.
My order may be off a bit too, but one thing I’m sure if this first album is truly my first recollection of music that totally engaged me… And so it will go from there…
Enjoy!
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I was going to tell ya about my influences these songs and/or artists had on me, but with that nasty remark about Tiffany, I will not do so.
Well, Kiss didn't have any influence on me either, except as the butt of many, many jokes. So many jokes, they still keep coming TO THIS VERY DAY! Wow. Maybe that IS an influence.
Two of these really bring back strong memories, that being the first song and the third album and fifth group. However, as stated above, I will not expound on that. That's right, I used the word "expound".
I will tell you that I get a warm fuzzy feeling listening to the Grease soundtrack, because I got it as a present and it was an 8-Track. You betcha.
That guy on the FM cover really isn't that short.
I'm bored with this SHT now.
Bored? BORED??? Thats one word that never ever ever never ever been used to describe my forum. NEVER EVER!
Tommy James and whatever - Never heard about this.
Fleetwood Mac - Well, I didn't hear this album until I got spotify. I did off course hear Rumours, or the wellknown songs from that album, on the radio in 1977. It had absolutely no influence on me. "My sisters music"!!
RUSH 2112 - I've said many times, that my first RUSH-album was "Hold Your fire", bought in 1987. 2112 I heard at a friends house in 1989, and I was blown away. I could hear where Iron Maiden and Queensryche had taken some of their sound from. I bought the album the next day, and since that day, it was always my favorite RUSH-album.
Destroyer - My first album - ever. I got it in april 1977, so it was a year or so "old". I didn't really know about KISS until January 1977, when I saw them in a "year-book" about pop-music from 1976. The pictures I saw where from a KISS-concert in Denmark in the spring of 1976. My sisters husbond attended that concert, lucky him.
AC/DC - I don't think I heard this album until around 1981 or so?! But I did hear High Voltage and Dirty Deeds in mid-1977. I was no fan back then, but I heard the albums many times, and later also Powerage. Then BIB was released and I became a fan. Weird to dis-like BS back then, since now it's the other way around. A fan of BS, not so much BJ.
I was "influenced" by Sweet's album "Fanny Adams" from 1974 and Queens "A Night At The Opera", which I heard the first time in 1976. But also BTO's "Not Fragile", all albums my two sisters played.
I like all of the music you've played here. Out of these five albums, only one would make my "most influential" list. Can you guess which one that is?
Okay, I'll tell you, it's Destroyer. But seriously, you knew that. I think it was my second album. But I'm wondering if my memory is just foggy. I thought I bought VH II first, then Destroyer, but if that's correct, it would have been at least 1979, which would make me 13 at the time. That may be correct. Anyway, I loved everything about it, the music, the image and the album cover.
I'll name 9 more albums (in no particular order) that I remember being influenced by:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive II (my sister's album)
Bad Company - Run With The Pack (my sister's album)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum (my sister's husband's album)
The Oak Ridge Boys - Have Arrived (no misprint, I truly love this album and I spent a lot of time listening to it)
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (simply amazing)
Van Halen - Van Halen, Van Halen II or Fair Warning (you choose)
Jefferson Starship - Modern Times
Andy Taylor - Thunder
Rick Springfield - Living In Oz or Tao (You choose)
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