Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes

Your lists sound like the bulk of my record collection. I have scads of these albums listed here, but cannot fathom the mindset that led to the dearth of classical and jazz, especially jazz.  Are musicians mainly the jazz lovers?  Maynard Ferguson: Sextet, and Live at Jimmy's. Lots of Coltraine and Miles!  ELLA! for CHRIST SAKE, so to speak.  My first jazz album: Quincey Jones Quintessence, which I have not heard for over a half century.  Gotta dig that one out!  PLUS: Chase.  Chicago Transit Authority. JJ's Pearl.  Red Hot Chili Pepper's Stadium Arcadium, especially the Blue CD. Don Ellis:  Live in 11/3 time or was it 11/7?   DIZZY's All Star (non0North) Ameican Band, with Arturo Sandoval.  D to D albums; Harry James, Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Jazz Band.  ad infinitum

What I really wondered was how did this audiophile group all get influenced by rock music, and not jazz.  I do understand that tastes evolve, but my band mates and I were always into jazz and did not embrace rock for a long time.  Maybe, the big amps needed for electric instruments had an influencece on who became an audiophile.

To the person who asked, "Doesn't anyone like Creedence (Clearwater Revival)?I will repeat the valid criticism of my prior post:  They were just fine, but they certainly did not influence me in any way, which was the title question to this thread. 

To the person who claims that classical and jazz are not something one necessarily needs to "Shoe Off) an audiophile system.  BfS!  Nothing demonstrates our systems' superiority as much as the tightness of an acoustic bass, or the accurate reproduction of acoustic instruments, no matter how many (in the case of classical) how many instruments there are.  Still, for my rocker friend, I am obligate to rock out with The Chili Peppers, Audioslave, Body Count, but especially Santana's Supernatural album.  For extreme acoustic sound, it is hard to beat The Violent Femmes white CD of their double album.