What record had the most influence on developing your musical tastes?

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  1. crazychile

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    What was the record that got you into a certain genre of music? The record that was outside your normal tastes but once you heard it, led you down a different path? Or this could be a record that as a teen/pre teen set the course for the future?

    Growing up in the Midwest farm country, all the radio stations sucked. Local radio in 1979 consisted of disco, top 40, Boston, The Eagles, etc. Free Bird still got played regularly. The FM highlights for me were hearing stuff like The Cars and The Police. That was all I knew of New Wave and that sort of thing.

    When I was 14, I bought "Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier" based on a Rolling Stone review. It blew my young mind and I knew that was the kind of stuff that would shape my tastes going forward. Not long after that I bought "The Clash - London Calling" and I think I played that non-stop for about 3 months. It made me want to learn about British Politics just to get some of the references. This was my first Punk experience which then led to Sex Pistols, Ramones, Wire, The Jam, So. Cal Punk, etc.

    Being into that stuff made me open to about anything and led me to exploring jazz, classical, and world music.

    Please share your stories!
     
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    There were several albums that caused my music taste to zig when it would have otherwise continued in a straight line:
    • "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" by Lucinda Williams: I hated it the first time I heard it. I distinctly remember saying to my friend who'd played it for me after the first track: "does the whole thing sound like this?!?!". He told me to give it a chance and it changed my music taste forever (and made me a Daniel Lanois superfan).
    • "Boxer" by The National: Really turned me on to the whole indy music scene in a new way. My wife at the time had been my source of new music, but when a friend turned me on to The National not long after my ex and I divorced, I started developing my own independent taste for indy music.
    • In college I heard *something* with a Hammond Organ in it and got 100% fascinated with that instrument for a while and sought out anything with the Hammond in it. I wish i could remember what exactly turned me on to the Hammond. I'm confident I was the only student at the college (maybe EVER) with more than one Jimmy Smith album in his collection.
     
  3. Tim Thomas

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    Pablo Casals - Bach's Cello Suites. I was mesmerized and forever changed! By far, my favorite piece of classical music.

    Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb -- Gilmour's Guitar Solo still gives me chills.
     
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    I think I'd have to pick this one:

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    Basically got me into the whole electronic music scene, made me go to a lot of rave parties, saw Tiesto, Sasha and Armin when they were just starting out... went to Ibiza.. lots of good memories.
     
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    This one is a simple choice for me - it's a record that I listened to over and over from my parents record collection probably starting in 1st grade or so -
    King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King. That crazy cover appealed to my visual tastes immediately and 21st Century Schizoid Man totally blew me away. It definitely sent me on a different musical path than many of my friends from a very early age!

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    Giggle, an ex of mine was around that whole thing when it was being made, in the studio and various venues. She spent a lot of time backstage having a lovely chat with what she thought was a chilled and friendly roadie- her John Digweed recognition skills, like her DJ Shadow recognition skills, weren't the best.
     
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    Dream Theater for me. I first heard the song "Pull Me Under" on the radio way back in 8th grade and the first time I heard it I thought to myself "Man this band is so different and I fell in love with them. 26 years later, they are still my favorite band and always will be.

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    Dexter Gordon : " Our man in Paris"

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    My second CD and the first Jazz one . bought in 1986 . I was 15 . I already was playing saxophone and loving Jazz Music but Dexter Gordon made me fall in Love with the Tenor Sax.

    Michel Portal "Turbulence".

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    Michel Portal Unit is the first Jazz Group I've seen in live condition in a club in Paris. it was a huuuuge shock for me and I was blown away by the music. I was so shocked and sucked into the music i was breathless and paralyzed in my chair during the whole concert. I was 17 and fell in love with Modern contemporary Jazz music.

    John Coltrane " Blue Train" and "Love Supreme"

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    In those years, I wasn't able to buy as much music as nowadays. Maybe 5/10 CD a year with my Student money. so when I was buying a new CD , I was listening to it during days and days. Those two album made me become a Huge Coltrane fan .

    I still listen to those album really frequently.
     
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    Picked up an unlabeled cassette after a party. It took a while to identify who was on it...James Taylor "Never die young" and Max Romeo "War in a Babylon". Both albums I continue to listen to to this day.
     
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    There have been lots of changes; lots of steps. How did I get to a point where music was the original seed behind emigating to a different continent and culture? Certainly the biggest change in my life, but there was no single record or performance I can credit for it.

    On the other hand, spending a couple of years of psychedelics is more easily placed. In my late teens, and having been a listener to old ballads (my parents' 78s) and classical, heck, even Gilbert and Sulivan, I heard some strange sounds coming from a record player someone had brought into the college common room...

     
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    Forgot it but when I heard this album for the first time :

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    it was a fuckin' shock for the 10 years old kid I was. My parents was listening mostly to Classical and I wasn't that much into rock and pop but an older cousin gave me the Tape and I think it followed me during years . it's still my fav AC/DC album for those personal historical reasons and I still prefer that kind of "hard rock" to everything more "pop" oriented. Even if i've always been a Jazz fan , I kept a foot in Hard Rock and derivatives ( Nirvana, Rage against the machine , NiN , Puscifer, Porcupine tree ... ) . not my fav' genre but still something I listen to sometimes.


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    Daft Punk Homework.

    When this album has been realised, i was spending half of my nights and most of my money in clubs. drinking a lot of alcohol amongst other more strong products. in one of those clubs , the DJ loved to mix very different music.. for exemple Jacques Brel, Rage against the machine and Daft Punk. Especially the track"Rollin and Scratchin"... RATM or Daft punk was my fav when I was loaded enough. I fell in love with the hypnotic nature of EDMs and a few years after that I realized i was able to be sucked into the music and "loaded" without any need of drug or alcohol.

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    As long as I remember , we had music at home with my parents . they almost listened exclusively to Classical Music. I learnt music so I learnt basics of music through classical music as well. In my young age , Jazz , Rock , EDM was my fav and I forgot Classical but I was still listening to one specific recording that always moved me. Pergolese's Stabat Mater . I'm still now more a fan of Baroque music and especially Bach , Vivaldi and sacred music.


    I think I covered all bases now.
     
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  12. Ray

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    Both from 1980 Rushs moving pictures & ac/dc's hells bells. I had a paper route and a boom box strapped on the handle bars of my bike. Blowing up the neighborhood. Very rarely listen to that anymore. Kind of a easy listener these days. Bonnie Raitt, Jack Johnson, etc
     
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    That reminded me of when I was in grade school, I could only scrape up enough money to buy an album maybe 3-4 times a year. (I bought a few 45s though). Anyway, what I remember is that since I bought music so infrequently, I learned to like pretty much everything I owned even if maybe there were really only a couple of strong tunes on an album. Through repetitive play I grew more fond of stuff, instead of more tired of it. As an adult that's rarely the case unless I find something that takes several plays to develop. Some of the early Sigur Ros stuff was like that. First listen was like WTF?, and then later it grew on me.
     
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    I find I'm more tolerant and have a wider range of tastes as I get older. I used to work in record stores in my youth and I'd take all the promos nobody wanted...I've found a few gems in that pile of obscurity over the years as I decide to sit down and listen to one of them. Today I'll give most anything a listen as time and reason allows just in case I run across something that works.
     
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    It was cassettes for me. Blink 182's Dude Ranch and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Let's Face it. Poppy radio punk that introduced me to the wider world of punk rock. I was in High School so I could easily identify with Blink 182's immature, angsty-teen themes. These albums directed my preference away from whatever was being played on the radio or Much Music (Canadian MTV), which was probably rap, or boy bands or terrible pop music. I made some good friends and enjoyed some really fun nights going to punk shows.
     
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    Growing up, my father had a Marantz 4270 and a pair of Pioneer CS-99A speakers that he bought in 1976. To this day, these are still his amp and speakers. Whenever I fly back home, I make it a point to listen to them. As a kid, this system started me down the audio path to where I am today. I even remember going out with him and buying a Teac CD player in 1993 to go with the system.

    Three albums stick out in my mind from this system: Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here,' Pink Floyd's 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason,' and the The Alan Parson's Project's 'I Robot.' While there are albums I like more than these, even from these artists, these albums certainly had an impression on me. When I sit down with a new pair of headphones, 'Dogs of War' is always one of the first tracks I want to play, but I don't think that even the best system could compete with the nostalgia.
     
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    Radiohead, OK Computer. It was like the red pill from the Matrix. Once I learned to like songs after the songs on the radio, it helped me open up and become the musical explorer I am today.
     
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    The Massive Attack 'Radio1 Essential Mix' from 1994 (which my cousin gave to me on a cassette tape).



    Also, DJ Shadow 'Endtroducing'.

     
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    This may be in my top 25 albums of all time for me. It's not always my go-to, but it always catches me. Such an important album.
     

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