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In no particular order:

-Jimi Hendrix-Axis:Bold as Love (completely transformed my ideas on guitar playing and song writing)

-Metallica-...and Justice for All (First proper metal album I bought)

-King Prawn-Fried in London (They were the first proper band I went to see live and I listened to this album day and night around that time)

-Jeff Buckley-Grace (Before this I wasn't aware that so much heart could go into songs)

-R.H.C.P.-Blood Sugar Sex Magik (introduced me to funk and Fruciante's guitar playing on this has influenced my own playing)

-Motorhead-Deaf Forever (Taught me to crank the amp that little bit further and play that little bit faster)

-Miles Davis-A Kind of Blue (Introduced me to Jazz)

-Various Artists-Hellcat Records Presents...Give 'Em the Boot Vol. II (introduced me to the Dropkick Murphys, Rancid and various others)

-Young Heart Attack-Mouthfull of Love (Got me back into swingin rock 'n' roll)

-Korn-Issues (Im not quite sure why but I always go back to it)

-R.A.T.M.- S/T (Morello's guitar playing on this influenced me a lot and the messages contained in the songs got me interested in politics)

-Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin II

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Albums I`ve loved and can still listen to entirely although i`ve probably heard to death:

1978 - 1995~

REM - Automatic For The People

Manic St Preachers - The Holy Bible

Therapy? - Troublegum

Sepultura - Chaos AD

RATM - Evil Empire

The Wildhearts - Earth VS

Prodigy - Experience

Carter USM - Post Historic Monsters

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

Pearl Jam - Vs

Oasis - Definately Maybe

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Eleven.... I know.... Sorry.... but I`m old..... and i heard the like of Dylan, Missippi John Hurt, Planxty, Fureys, Ralph McTell, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Sandy Denny, Mary Black, John Lee Hooker and almost everything that Dave Milne (Louie Louie) likes also from my father for years befoe I ended up getting into pop music.... Thus I know nothing about 80s hair metal....

I swear that if Dave Milne ever meets my father I shall be disowned and he shall be adopted on the spot. Love ya Dave. ;-)

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Jimmy Eat World- Clarity (parts of this album are just so beautiful and tender)

R.E.M- Automatic For The People (Ditto)

Alice In Chains- Dirt (I loved the guitar on this)

Sondgarden- Superunknown (Made me want to pick up a guitar in the first place)

Green Day- Kerplunk (Got me into a wider range of music)

Sunny Day Real Estate- Diary (Morrison-cheers for the nudge in the right direction)

Dillinger Escape Plan- Calculating Infinty (Made me realise brutality could spawn beauty)

Dashboard Confessional- The Places...(Just lush)

Further Seems Forever- How To Start A Fire? (Gleasons lyrics make me feel alive)

Killswitch Engage- The End Of Heartache (Made me want to do what i do now musically)

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Korn: Korn (got my into heavy music, I still think this is a great album despite some of the shit they have put out of late)

Metallica: Master of Puppets (my first REAL metal album and still one of the best)

In Flames: The Jesters Race (my first underground album and also my first taste of death metal)

Opeth: Blackwater Park (best band in the world today, opened up EVERYTHING including all the bands bellow)

Emperor: Prometheus (my first black metal album)

Jeff Buckley: Grace (great songs by a great man)

Sigur Ross: () (an album I play most days, Ambience at its best)

Ayreon: The Human Equation (realised how much I really enjoyed progressive music)

Symphony X are going the right way about changing my life as well with "the Odyssey"

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I know this might be a boring and obvious choice, but no record ever had the same effect on me (and i doubt if another record ever will) as nirvana's 'nevermind'. i probably couldn't listen to it all the way through now, and I've heard plenty of better records since, but that was the one that totally turned my head and made me re-evaluate what i thought about music, culture, life and everything else. It was just so damn exciting! This might sound like a cliche or as though i'm looking it at it with hindsight, but i remeber the opening track feeling like a bomb going off in my head. It honestly blew my mind, in a way i just can't imagine the Libertines album doing for people now. But then maybe i'm just getting old.

other important records in my own little life would be

Radiohead - OK Computer (haven't heard it for years!)

Meat Puppets - 2, or Too High to Die (the drug addled years)

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (ditto, and the only album that came to close to the Nevermind experience)

Neil Young - all of them, really

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Albums I`ve loved and can still listen to entirely although i`ve probably heard to death:

1978 - 1995~

REM - Automatic For The People

Manic St Preachers - The Holy Bible

Therapy? - Troublegum

Sepultura - Chaos AD

RATM - Evil Empire

The Wildhearts - Earth VS

Prodigy - Experience

Carter USM - Post Historic Monsters

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

Pearl Jam - Vs

Oasis - Definately Maybe

Edit:

Eleven.... I know.... Sorry.... but I`m old..... and i heard the like of Dylan' date=' Missippi John Hurt, Planxty, Fureys, Ralph McTell, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Sandy Denny, Mary Black, John Lee Hooker and almost everything that Dave Milne (Louie Louie) likes also from my father for years befoe I ended up getting into pop music.... Thus I know nothing about 80s hair metal....

I swear that if Dave Milne ever meets my father I shall be disowned and he shall be adopted on the spot. Love ya Dave. ;-)[/quote']

Other three that I forgot.

Counting crows - August & Everything After

Blind Melon - S/T & Soup

Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies / SAP

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Queen - Queen / Day at the Races / Jazz / Innuendo (and most of their other albums)

Green Day - Dookie

Offspring - Smash

Korn - Follow the Leader

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe

Slipknot - Slipknot

Less than Jake - Hello Rockview

Deftones - Around the Fur

Rammstein - Mutter

Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Thrice - Illusion of Safety

Boysetsfire - Tomorrow Come Today

i could probably go on all day.. but those are the main ones that i can think of...

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Chronologically...

War of The Worlds OST - Jeff Wayne/Justin Hayward

Greatest Hits - Dr Hook

America's Least Wanted - Ugly Kid Joe

Appetite for Destruction - Guns n'Roses

Nevermind - Nirvana

Earth Vs - The Wildhearts

PHUQ - The Wildhearts

Holy Bible - The Manics

Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails

London Calling - The Clash

Ziggy Stardust... - David Bowie

Let it Be - The Replacements

Repeater - Fugazi

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Black Leather Mojo - Silver Ginger 5

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hmm theres so many i cud say...il go with these in no particular order:

incubus - morning view, s.c.i.e.n.c.e, make yourself

coldplay - parachutes

my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge

jamie cullum - twentysomething

michael jackson - greatest hits vol 1

counting crows - hard candy, august and everything after, recoverring the satellites

red hot chili peppers - californication

metallica - s&m

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hmm theres so many i cud say...il go with these in no particular order:

incubus - morning view' date=' s.c.i.e.n.c.e, make yourself

coldplay - parachutes

my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge

jamie cullum - twentysomething

michael jackson - greatest hits vol 1

counting crows - hard candy, august and everything after, recoverring the satellites

red hot chili peppers - californication

metallica - s&m[/quote']

Harvest - Neil Young

Five leaves left - Nick Drake

the maple albulm

NOFX - so long and thanks for all the shoes

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Guest Nikola Tesla

Converge: Petitioning the Empty Sky

Motorhead: Ace of Spades

Amen: We have come for your parents

Orchid: Dance Tonight! Revolution Tommorow

Rites of Spring: End on End

Sick Of It all: Scratch the surface

Theres probibly others but those are ones that sprung to mind.

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i guess these ones changed my life:

oasis - definitely maybe(made me pick up a guitar)

nofx - white trash, two heebs and a bean(an escape from britpop)

black sabbath - paranoid(nothing need be said)

kyuss - blues for the red sun/welcome to sky valley(two of the greatest albums ever)

godspeed you black emperor - slow riot for a new zero kanada(the greatest piece of music ever made)

set fire to flames - telegraphs in negative/mouths trapped in static(woah.)

goatsnake - goatsnake(the heaviest thing ever with the most rockin singing ever!)

songs:ohia - the lioness(introduced me to a whole other world)

mogwai - come on die young(awesome)

rites of spring - end on end(more passion and fire than ANYTHING since)

mars volta - deloused in the comatorium(hey, prog's not as shit as i thought!)

shellac - at action park/terraform/1000 hurts(humour + anger + fucking shit up = greatest thing ever!)

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A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

Anaal Nathrakh - When Fire Rains Down From The Sky Mankind Will Reap As It Has Sown

Aphex Twin - Drukqs

Botch - We Are The Romans

Converge - Petitioning The Empty Sky

Cult Of Luna - The Beyond

Deftones - White Pony (Although, I prefer Around The Fur)

Deicide - Scars Of The Crucifix

The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Dillinger Escape Plan

Dwarves - Blood, Guts, & Pussy

Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition

Front Line Assembly - Epitaph

Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell

Icarus Line - Mono

Khanate - Things Viral

KMFDM - Xtort

Korn - Issues

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

Ministry - Filth Pig

Nasum - Inhale/Exhale

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Palehorse - Gee, That Ain't Swell

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard

Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer

PsyOpus - Ideas Of Reference

Skinny Puppy - Remission

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Today Is The Day - Sadness Will Prevail

Tool - Lateralus

VNV Nation - Praise The Fallen

Got a bit carried away, but thats about all of the albums that have turned my head the most that I currently have on my computer.

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