Name a few albums which helped determine your musical tastes


How about a short list of albums that shaped your listening from early on in your life?

Not just albums that became favorites (though they could be now). Let's call them historical turning points for you that shaped you as a listener, now.

Me:
  • Quadrophenia or Who's Next
  • Sgt Peppers Beatles
  • Floyd, Wish you were here
  • Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick
  • Metheny, Offramp
  • Glenn Gould, Goldberg variations
  • Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
GO!
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Records that turned my head around and opened new worlds.

Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
Meet the Beatles.
Peter, Paul & Mary, In the Wind.
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane.
Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bollocks.
Kind of Blue.
The Harder They Come soundtrack.
Shocking how many of my favorite albums show up in this thread. I guess that's why they call so many of them classics.
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