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What are the top ten albums that shaped your overall musical preferences today?

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#2 Stone Temple Pilots – Core

Early days of the grunge movement, and I was completely submerged in it. As a sophomore in high school and a bit of an outcast, not just the music of STP, but also the flare and flamboyant feel of the band and Scott Weiland made me want to be them. Core was one of the tapes I always kept close at hand to throw in the car stereo and blast riding into the arcade parking lot.

I always had a funny feeling about Core though, because of the varying tone from song to song. “Dead & Bloated” and “Sex Type Thing” were so obviously hard and grunge, but “Wicked Garden” and “Plush” had very different feels. I didn’t think too hard about it at the time, but coming back to it later just reiterated that bands are more than just what they’re marketed as.

John Joseph 2y ago

I have never been very good at top 10 records or songs, etc but in no particular order here are a few records that had an impact.

Almost every Led Zeppelin album

Early Rush, through Signals. Particularly Farewell To Kings

Lynyrd Skynyrd. Nuthin' Fancy

ZZ Top, Deguello

Marshall Tucker Band, Together Forever

Jim Croce: All of it

Pink Floyd, The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon

Beatles, Abbey Road

MSG, first album

Hot Tuna, Hopkorv

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Vacant 2y ago

Solid list. I always live Skynyrd, Jim Croce, and Pink Floyd.

For about twenty years I only ever knew Pink Floyd for The Wall. Then one day I put Dark Side of the Moon in a massive play list (2000+ songs) on shuffle and every time a Dark Side track came on it grabbed my attention. After a week or so I finally just put Dark Side on and listened start-to-finish. I can’t believe how good it is. I’m kind of pissed I never listened to it earlier.

MSG and Hot Tuna I’m only familiar with in passing. I need to carve out some time for them.

John Joseph 2y ago

I have an uncle who is 10 years older than I. So growing up I was exposed to what he was listening to at the time. A lot of Beatles, Stones, Frampton, Doobie Brothers, Grand Funk, etc. I also had a friend who had older brothers with a massive album collection. We spent years doing deep dives into the entire catalogues of bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, Hot Tuna, Frank Zappa and bands we never heard of like Nectar, etc.