Top 12 Albums That Influenced My Taste In Music - DAY 1!

[struth]

Bruce and the E Streets.. Quality

[Pharos]

I discovered some of his less populist stuff, and it is quite good.

[enrae8]

Does this start again Monday?
Every day is the same for me at the moment

[HiFi Lounge]

Day 4 for the albums that influenced my taste in music!

Prince - Around the World in a Day

So I guess for many Prince fans this may be a strange choice, and although I love many of Prince's albums, he really is one of my top 3 solo artists of all time, it is Around the World in a Day that really cemented my love for Prince, I spent a lot of time in the 80's listening to Prince on vinyl and tape on my Walkman and I remember distinctly going to Tracks record shop in Hertford to buy this on tape and the guy in the record shop, known Bones to anyone who used to shop there, warned me that he had a few people bring it back as it was so different to the Purple Rain album that preceded it that a lot of people didn't like it, looking back now turning to different genres turned out to be Prince's trademark but for me I couldn't get enough of it, every song is pure gold, but one song really stands out, if you don't listen to the whole album just listen to 'Condition of the Heart' Music really doesn't get any better. It was an extremely sad day when he passed away but I have some awesome Prince memories, seeing him on the Lovesexy tour at Wembley was epic and going to a few of the many nights he did at the o2 but the real highlight was going to one of the aftershow concerts he performed at the Indigo after one of the o2 gig, seeing Prince in a tiny venue just chilling with his band after already wowing 20,000 people was one of the best gig highlights of my life, it was just like the a scene from Purple Rain the movie, I think I'll be having a Prince day today at work, he was a total genius and a true legend.



Cheers,
Paul.

[AJSki2fly]

Day 4 for the albums that influenced my taste in music!

Prince - Around the World in a Day

So I guess for many Prince fans this may be a strange choice, and although I love many of Prince's albums, he really is one of my top 3 solo artists of all time, it is Around the World in a Day that really cemented my love for Prince, I spent a lot of time in the 80's listening to Prince on vinyl and tape on my Walkman and I remember distinctly going to Tracks record shop in Hertford to buy this on tape and the guy in the record shop, known Bones to anyone who used to shop there, warned me that he had a few people bring it back as it was so different to the Purple Rain album that preceded it that a lot of people didn't like it, looking back now turning to different genres turned out to be Prince's trademark but for me I couldn't get enough of it, every song is pure gold, but one song really stands out, if you don't listen to the whole album just listen to 'Condition of the Heart' Music really doesn't get any better. It was an extremely sad day when he passed away but I have some awesome Prince memories, seeing him on the Lovesexy tour at Wembley was epic and going to a few of the many nights he did at the o2 but the real highlight was going to one of the aftershow concerts he performed at the Indigo after one of the o2 gig, seeing Prince in a tiny venue just chilling with his band after already wowing 20,000 people was one of the best gig highlights of my life, it was just like the a scene from Purple Rain the movie, I think I'll be having a Prince day today at work, he was a total genius and a true legend.

Cheers,
Paul.

A great album from Prince, along with Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times.

Back to Bruce Springsteen, I went through most of my life not liking him at all, if anything I found his style irritating, then last year I came across Born In the USA, and Born to Run in a 2nd hand shop in great condition and reasonably priced, so I I purchased and sat down and listened carefully, all of a sudden I got the Boss and, I particularly like Born in the USA.

[HiFi Lounge]

Day 5 for the albums that influenced my taste in music!

David Bowie - Scary Monsters

I'm sure that most people who are asked to list their most influential albums would always have some Bowie in there somewhere but I bet there would be such a varied variety of choices as pretty much every album he released was a classic, especially the earlier years, for me it always comes down to Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters, 2 of my all time favourites but I always lean to Scary Monsters, I just love every single track and it's slightly angst overtone, I got into Bowie in the late 80's really when his back catalogue was re-mastered and bought everything up to that point and I can remember clearly how I was blown away by how fresh it all still sounded, there is nothing like discovering a new artist who has a rich back catalogue to discover, My only regret is that I only saw Bowie live once on the Glass Spider tour at Wembley, it was such a spectacle and a brilliant gig but I always say that I would have loved to have been a teenager in the 70's as I would have been such a big Ziggy fan and would have got totally carried away with the clothes and makeup, such a great era, especially for music, but if I had to choose 1 last Bowie album to listen to it would always be Scary Monsters.



Cheers,
Paul.

[HiFi Lounge]

A great album from Prince, along with Purple Rain and Sign O' the Times.

Back to Bruce Springsteen, I went through most of my life not liking him at all, if anything I found his style irritating, then last year I came across Born In the USA, and Born to Run in a 2nd hand shop in great condition and reasonably priced, so I I purchased and sat down and listened carefully, all of a sudden I got the Boss and, I particularly like Born in the USA.

Better late than never

[Barry]

It is always interesting to read of the musical journey of others, and how tastes develop and change with time. Until now, none of your influential recordings have paralleled those that influenced me. But whilst I had Bowie's first LP (and also 'Pin Ups'; which I later ditched), it was Bowie's "Berlin" recordings (produced by Brian Eno) that rekindled my interest to the point that I bought some of his earlier stuff.

Was a latecomer to Bruce Springsteen, partly due to the fact that he is best seen performing live, which does not really come across on any of his LPs.

[HiFi Lounge]

Day 6 for the albums that influenced my taste in music!

Adam Ant - Strip

So this one will probably raise a few eyebrows as it certainly isn't considered one of Adam Ant's best or most liked albums and it was very different from anything he had done previously and I think it just shows that the albums you grow up with are the ones that stay with you as this was released in 1983 when I was 15 and was totally addicted to music and I remember distinctly buying this on tape and listening to it over and over again and if I'm honest it is probably one of my most listened to albums still today as I am always playing it nearly 40 years later. I went to see Adam Ant live last year and he was absolutely brilliant and considering he is now 65 he was dancing around like a teenager, gutted really as I now feel I have missed out on 40 years of brilliant Adam Ant gigs, out of all the 80's artists that I love it is Adam Ant I play the most and I did think long and hard about including this but not only is it one of my favourite albums of all time but most definitely one that helped influenced my taste in music so it had to be added.



Cheers,
Paul.

[HiFi Lounge]

Day 7 for the albums that influenced my taste in music!

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

I read an interesting article about this album the other day that said it was quite possibly the most returned album of the 90's as most people heard the song that was done of this album with Kylie Minogue which is a beautiful ballad, admittedly about death, but definitely out of step with the rest of the album which is very dark and all about murder but every song is a brilliant story and classic Nick Cave, if you don't know this album listen to 'Stagger Lee' or 'O'Malley's Bar' as both these songs are absolute classics and will give you a good taste of the album. This is not necessarily my favourite Nick Cave album, although it is up there, but it is the album that introduced me to the delights of Nick Cave, I used to travel around Europe in the 90's on a coach following Formula One and I met on a guy on the coach, hello Graham, who introduced me to this album and from that moment on I have been a big Nick Cave fan, live he is just superb, if I was going to choose one Nick Cave album to listen to though it would have to be his latest, Ghosteen, as for me this is one of the greatest albums of all time but Murder Ballads is so unique it definitely deserves a listen if you have delved into its darkness before, go on give it a try.



Cheers,
Paul.