4 albums that shaped me...

[SpaceTraffic]

Or play(ed) a very important role in my life...

1. Marwin Gaye - What's going on

2. LPG - Earthworm

3. Portishead - Dummy

4.

[Michael L]

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Public Enemy - He Got Game
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Yosi Horikawa - Vapor

[Doug1978]

Hawk Nelson - Diamonds

Bobby McFerrin - CircleSongs

John Mayer - Room for Squares

Markus Popp - OvalDNA

[aMUSEd]

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Archie Shepp - Blase
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

[harryupbabble]

David Bowie - Changesonebowie
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Beatles - Revolver

[beauchamp]

beauchamp

[Hink]

jeez this is hard so I am going to go back to when being a musician first hit as over nearly 45 years a lot than 4 albums have shaped me as a guitarist.

1. Rolling Stones Get Yer Yah Yah's Out

2. Sweet Desolation Boulevard

3. Deep Purple Machine Head

4. ZZ Top Fandango

[Turello]

Really difficult...

1. King Crimson - Starless and the bible black

2. Gentle Giant - The power and the glory

3. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4. Tool/A Perfect Circle - All

PS: Porcupine Tree, David Sylvian and many others...

[chaosWyrM]

pink floyd - dark side of the moon

einsturzende neubauten - strategies against architecture ii

psykovsky - debut

leonard cohen - songs of love and hate

[bluedad]

The Beatles - White Album
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead

[elxsound]

I can't do it.

I like this idea, but I can't narrow it down to 4. Going through all the music over the years and it makes me feel like I have multiple personality disorder.

Part of it has to do with those holy grail albums you know are just amazing from beginning to end (and for different reasons), versus music that just changed you and possibly your view of the world when you heard it. Then there's music that is simply integral to a specific time or moment that was life defining, but was it the music, the moment or both?

Wow. Fun question.

I'll come back if I can actually make a choice.

[nineofkings]

I think this is a hard question because I don't know if we're ever fully shaped. At least I feel like I'm not, yet. So that being said some of these are surprisingly recent and this list is always in flux.

Pink Floyd - the Wall
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Postal Service - Give Up
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

[chaosWyrM]

I can't do it.

I like this idea, but I can't narrow it down to 4. Going through all the music over the years and it makes me feel like I have multiple personality disorder.

Part of it has to do with those holy grail albums you know are just amazing from beginning to end (and for different reasons), versus music that just changed you and possibly your view of the world when you heard it. Then there's music that is simply integral to a specific time or moment that was life defining, but was it the music, the moment or both?

Wow. Fun question.

I'll come back if I can actually make a choice.

just pick 4...any 4 that influenced you. no one said they had to be the "most" or anything. we all have waaaay more than 4 influential albums.

[Googly Smythe]

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn;
In Search Of The Lost Chord;
Hearing Sibelius's 7th Symphony for the first time;
In The Court Of The Crimson King.

Those were the days...

[thecontrolcentre]

Velvet Underground - Andy Warhol
Scientist - High Priest Of Dub
Joy Division - Closer
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing