The albums of our youth.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Before I take over nice Mr Noshers 'In bad taste thread'...
What were the top three albums of your youth, not just the 'trendy ones', but the discoveries that changed your musical tastes to this day?
Aged 14 (1988) I found my dad's album collectiod included Pink Floyd - Meddle, Piper at The Gates of Dawn and Dark Side of The Moon.
Still I'm my top ten to this day!

[Albie Bach]

Scientist - Meets the Space Invaders (Dub Reggae)
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Blondie - Parallel Lines

About half my (not huge) collection is dub reggae, most of the rest is other forms of reggae.
I do have Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits, probably because I thought I should have some rock. But that's enough.

Cheers, Colin

[Nosher]

I suppose Parallel Lines by Blondie has to be there as it was my first vinyl album, but I was more of a singles man 'cos my paper round money didn't goo too far

so:

Parallel Lines - Blondie
Purple Rain - Prince
Destination Zululand - King Kurt

[Malbork]

Around 1978 (age 16) -

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Led Zeppelin - IV

Stil listen to all regularly, although AC/DC is generally confined to the i-pod as my wife has an allergy to them.

[Techno]

Later youth
Fragile - Yes
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Split - Groundhogs

Still love all those, though they probably wouldn't quite make my top ten nowadays.

Earlier youth
Are you experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Mad Shadows - Mott The Hoople
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa

Not so keen on any of those now though.

Malbork.....Love your choices !!

Cheers Phil.

Just noticed your post in the other thread Lemmey......
LOTS I recognize....Not every single one 
You depressed me with your comment about the original Physical Graffiti.....
Threw virtually all of my vinyl away when we moved to Wales......I gave a lot to the local radio station though.
Mind you, although the albums themselves were in almost mint condition, one of our lovely cats used the spines of the covers to sharpen his claws, so they would have been virtually worthless.
Just got a handful left now....The rarest is probably one of the half speed mastered version of DSOTM....That one got kept in a plastic cover

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Scientist - Meets the Space Invaders (Dub Reggae)

Cool! Haven't heard that album in years! The student house where I lived while doing my post-grad had a strictly organised wall of white labelled Dub and Ska, FANTASTIC! Late night 'journeys into dub' after a shift at barwork, best way ever to chill out! The neighbours also came round to join in, and brought their own...

[FierceKitty]

Silvia Marlowe: The Goldberg Variations
Lorin Maazel: The Brandenburg Concerti
Gustav Leonhard: The Bach Harpsichord Concerti

Call me a monomaniac if you wish.

[Hertsblue]

Silvia Marlowe: The Goldberg Variations
Lorin Maazel: The Brandenburg Concerti
Gustav Leonhard: The Bach Harpsichord Concerti

Call me a monomaniac if you wish.

Couldn't you afford sterio?

[Serotonin]

Earliest important musical experience was hearing my mate's older teenage brother's copy of Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden. We must have listened to that album hundreds of times, back to back while pushing some old GW D&D minaitures around the floor. Good times. Changed a 10yr olds music taste from top 40 pop to metal, much to my parents horror! They tolerated it fairly well to be fair.

Pixies - Surfer Rosa. From the stark and slightly nuaghty album cover to the opening guitar and drums followed by Black Francis voice, the like of which I had never heard before, I  was hooked. Fantastic catchy pop songs subverted by bizarre guitar sounds and the freakiest lyrics I had ever heard.

Public Enemy- It Takes a Nation of Millions. Scared the life out of me and was hard work to listen to first time round, as it was so different from anything else I had ever heard. Up till that point hip hop had been White Lines or Run DMC with Aerosmith, not what sounded like a riot in a radio station with an angry man shouting deep political messages at me.  Now its one of my favourite records of all time and its hard now to remember the overwhelming impact it had on me aged 15 sat in my classroom on a wet lunch break.

[goat major]

All Mod Cons - The Jam
The Specials - The Specials

And probably joining the crowd and also nominating Parallel Lines as well

[Sandinista]

For me the three would be

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
The Clash - The Clash
The Stranglers -  Rattus Norvegicus

The Pistols album is still my all time favourite

[Genom]

I used to listen to all my mums old Rock  n Roll albums, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly etc. My own musical journey started with.

Somewhere in Time, Iron Maiden.
All the Best, Stiff Little Fingers.
Too much to Young, The Specials.

On the other side of things however the last two concerts I went to see where Idina Menzal and Andre Reau.

[Nosher]

Intersting that Parallel Lines has come up three times...

I'll lower the tone and go on to suggest that it has nothing whatsoever to do with teenage hormones and one Miss D Harry...

[sultanbev]

First albums I bought, on cassette, were:
Meat - Loaf Bat out of Hell
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Boston - Boston

Think I still have these tapes as well! Although they don't play very well

David Hamilton used to play Boston's More Than A Feeling on radio 1 when I got home from school, that was the game changer!

I had a copy of Parallel Lines in there somewhere.

[Shedman]

In Search of Space  - Hawkwind
Next - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Killer - Alice Cooper

Alan

[Luddite]

What were the top three albums of your youth, not just the 'trendy ones', but the discoveries that changed your musical tastes to this day?

Hmmm...that's tricky you know...let's see, albums that changed my 'youth'...

1.  Steeleye Span: Below the Salt
Always was a bit of a folky, but this album broke the camel's back on any resistence i might have had.  Still have the record although no player to play it on!

2.  Billy Bragg: Talking with the Taxman about Poetry
From this album came my change from a disaffected moaner to a political activist.  Cheers Bill.

3.  Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Because it led directly to the end of my 'youth'.

[barbarian]

-L'École du micro d'argent - IAM (1997) (french rap)
-No Way Out - Puff Daddy (1997)
-System of a down - System of a down (1998)

[Jim Ando]

Hi

Parallel lines for me too

but then ditched pop for bashing my eardrums with AC/DC

Back in black

Let there be rock (which is quite frankly the greatest album of all time)

Jim

[Matt J]

Metallica - The black one
Nirvana  - Nevermind
Rage against the machine

[sunjester]

Caress of Steel - Rush
Warrior at the Edge of Time - Hawkwind
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy