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    Posted: June 18 2022 at 14:58
Mine (at least the most prominent one) was Bruce Dickinson's Balls to Picasso album. It was the year 1997 where I discovered that album. It is not my favourite BD solo album (3rd or 4th favourite) but it really shaped me in a way like no other.

This post will grant me my 1000th points with this account, so I wanted to share this song (see the video below). This is not one of my favourite songs off of Balls to Picasso either. But hey! Let us celebrate my unprecedentedly high (!) points! TongueLOL
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No album really changed my life, but some have had a major influence on my music listening experience. Starting, maybe, with the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack when I was still a kid.
Then, in some way, 90125 by Yes. Not so much for the album itself (although I still like it very much), but it made me dive into their back catalogue from which CTTE and Relayer had that famous "Whoah"-effect on me...
In other territories I should mention Éclat by Pierre Boulez, which let me to explore a lot of contemporary and later also electronic music.

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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

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Thank you! Big smile I'll not.

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"The Inner Mounting Flame" - Mahavishnu Orchestra (1971).  I've NEVER listened to any music the same way since I heard this album.
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Didn't "change my life" but Allan Holdsworth "I.O.U." was a mind bending album. The way he played chords, like a piano, and his style was unique. Still is to this day. No one has been more innovative on guitar than Allan.
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I like this idea.


I start from my childhood.

The first album that changed my life was.... 

GIUSEPPE VERDI: LA TRAVIATA

Every sunday morning my father listened to this opera. It entered my ears.

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Hi,

Only one album ...actually three at the time ... an opera.

Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Mario Del Monaco directed by Erick Leinsdorf -- TURANDOT ... still one of the best vocal things I have ever heard. The intensity is impeccable.

The other special thing is not a whole opera, but one aria done from TOSCA by Beniamino Gigli ... it is by far one of the best renditions of it all that makes you cry as it should!

Rock music since the mid 70's has become way too fake and plastic for my tastes. The "truth" of it all was lost in smoke, and stage crap to make the music more important to your experience ... and that is what teenagers remember ... how impressed they were.

Best example of this? A few years back, I saw RTF and ZPZ ... and the saddest thing was that RTF made ZPZ look and sound like just a cheap garage band ... and you know that FZ would not have been happy with that! Not to mention that Dweezil did not even know (or acknowledge properly!) that the violin player had been in several albums with Frank. It was sad ... and just showed the lack of class that Dweezil lacks compared to his late father!



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Symphony X: V - The New Mythology Suite - This is the album that got me into prog in the first place

Melvins: Lysol - The is the album that got me into doom metal and hardcore

Metallica: Eponymous and Avenged Sevenfold: Nightmare, while not life-changing, got me interested in metal and progressive metal as a highschooler :)
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This one (which by far isn't the most popular or even best Comsat Angels album) was the first one to demonstrate the power of music to lead me through a personal crisis. Not sure whether any music ever got me from so negative to so positive.
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Originally posted by bardberic bardberic wrote:

Symphony X: V - The New Mythology Suite - This is the album that got me into prog in the first place

A very important album for me too. It actually "killed" nearly all my other favourite metal albums. LOL

And over time, I became drastically pickier in listening to metal music.

Only a few could pass the test and were added as the metal albums that fascinate me.

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We used to swap albums at school and, having been obsessed with pop music like most 14 year-olds, I swapped my Lemon Pipers album for Captain Beefheart's - Safe as Milk. It opened my ears up to a whole new world!! 
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Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

I like this idea.

I start from my childhood.

The first album that changed my life was.... 

GIUSEPPE VERDI: LA TRAVIATA

Every sunday morning my father listened to this opera. It entered my ears.

Great story, Lorenzo. Did you actually show any interest in Opera to your father at the time, or passively absorb it? We're of similar ages but I'm afraid, I grew up in a household where the spoken word was king; my father listened to BBC Radio 4 and the World Service... I could have told you about Vietnamese boat people or Idi Armin, but very little music was played and opera has only been a discovery in the past 10-12 years.

I was just thinking, while La Trav is magical, if you'd shown some interest, what a great journey he could have given you with the story lines to Rigoletto, Tosca or I Pagliacci, which could have fired your imagination!


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certainly the albums Friede and I made as the band Bald Angels (with the help of some guest musicians), "The Goat and the Donkey" and "It's a Dog's Life". only 500 copies were made of each album; we sold them at our restaurant.

here the covers of the albums:


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^ what kind of music were you playing? Why not give us a listening link? 
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I remember doing an exercise like this once upon a time, and I had at least a third of the list reserved for albums that stoked my interest in music in general. Albums like Nirvana's Nevermind, Smashmouth's Astro Lounge, System Of A Down's debut, They Might Be Giants' Dial A Song, and various collections of film soundtracks, made me want to listen to music, beyond just background noise.

In terms of prog, the most important album for me was definitely King Crimson's Discipline. It was the first real prog album that I heard (I had a best of Yes collection that I don't count) and one that made me want to explore prog and 'serious' music in more detail. For important albums under the prog umbrella I would also list Gentle Giant's Interview, Henry Cow's Legend, Zappa's One Size Fits All, Spock's Beard's The Kindness Of Strangers, and National Health's Compete. 

After this, I did start explore more styles of music, but in terms of impact and 'life changing-ness" of albums, these ones would certainly be at the top of the list. 
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I can't think of an album that "changed my life". I have albums I've been listening to all my whole music life and for sure my whole adult life, so far.....
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I can't think of an album that "changed my life". I have albums I've been listening to all my whole music life and for sure my whole adult life, so far.....
I can only hope Lee Morgan "Sidewinder" and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Album of the Year" on vinyl, of course, are two of them.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by jamesbaldwin jamesbaldwin wrote:

I like this idea.

I start from my childhood.

The first album that changed my life was.... 

GIUSEPPE VERDI: LA TRAVIATA

Every sunday morning my father listened to this opera. It entered my ears.

Great story, Lorenzo. Did you actually show any interest in Opera to your father at the time, or passively absorb it? We're of similar ages but I'm afraid, I grew up in a household where the spoken word was king; my father listened to BBC Radio 4 and the World Service... I could have told you about Vietnamese boat people or Idi Armin, but very little music was played and opera has only been a discovery in the past 10-12 years.

I was just thinking, while La Trav is magical, if you'd shown some interest, what a great journey he could have given you with the story lines to Rigoletto, Tosca or I Pagliacci, which could have fired your imagination!

In the beginning, being a child, I absorbed La Traviata without any comprehension. I'm talking about the seventies and early eighties. At that time, Italy had lost the great female opera performers (Tebaldi and Callas). As a teenager I started listening to classical music disks that my father had at home (but he never played them). La Traviata became a kind of childhood memory, of which I knew certain musical "arias" by heart - listen to it became a strange pleasure. My father occasionally also played Rigoletto and I Trovatori, which together with Traviata make up Verdi's greatest trilogy. He had all of Verdi's operas and perhaps also Tosca and Turandot. Then came Pavarotti, who made famous certain arias by Verdi and Puccini and other musicians. He fascinated everyone with Rigoletto's Volta the Giubba and Turandot's Nessun dorma.

But Italian music critics, opera experts, often criticized Pavarotti, many did not consider him an excellent singer - and even more criticized Carreras and Domingo. Personally, I think Pavarotti had a more beautiful voice than the two colleagues.
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@Lorenzo: Somewhat off topic, I wonder whether young Italian people (and I mean also young people in the past when we were young) are/were much more open and/or better educated regarding classical music and opera than in other countries, particularly Germany and the UK, of which I know a good bit. My impression is that appreciation of classical music is far more widespread and even "standard" among young Italians (and now older ones, when they grew up). It may have to do with the highly nonrepresentative sample of people I know, but still... When I grew up, hardly any of my friends were into classical music. I know some in the generations in between and young people now in Germany and UK, but all these are clearly special "outliers" among the people surrounding them. Not so in Italy.
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“Changed my life” is perhaps a bit grand of a statement, but there are two that certainly had a big influence on shaping my taste in music.

Helloween - The Time of The Oath
This was my brothers record, but I got hold of it and played it over and over again, memorizing all the lyrics in the booklet. I’d listened to rock and metal before, but this was my first full record. I still play some Helloween now and then.

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Here is where my journey into progressive rock began. Up to that point it was a lot of metal and rock (Metallica, Iron Maiden etc.), but Deadwing introduced me to something different and I was immediately taken by it. That represented the start of a long period of listening to PT, seeing them live 3-4 times, and SW solo stuff live a few times. I bought or downloaded every single track I could find. I still regard them as one of my all-time favorites, but I have found so much more since discovering PA and other websites. Their albums don’t get as much playtime these days, mostly because I always have a need for something new and got a limited time for listening. I put on a record every now and then, and Deadwing has always been one of my favorites. I’m looking forward to their new album on Friday.
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