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
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Floyd-wish you were here
Black Sabbath- sabbath bloody sabbath
Queen-Night at the opera
AC/DC-Powerage 
Stevie Ray- Texas Flood
Tull-Thick as a brick
Vanhalen- first album
Doors-LA Women
Floyd-The wall

Emy Lou Harris “Wrecking Ball”
Steely Dan “Aja”
Frank Sinatra “September of my Years”
Doors “LA Woman”
George Winston “Autumn”
MN Orchestra “ Pines of Rome”
Too many to list! However here's my entry into the world of Jazz: June 1970 I bought Bitches Brew at Woolworths! At the age of 18 I perceived it to be on a higher artistic plane than the average rock alblum! And tried to get some of my peers to listen to it!
Had to be The Chipmunks Song Book back as a wee lad.

Peter and the Wolf (Bernstein version on Columbia  Masterworks) probably influenced me as well as in scaring the bejeebers out of me along with the cool music. Yes, we are talking childhood nightmares there! The wolf was after me!
"Quadrophenia" and "Who's Next"
"Frampton Comes Alive"
"Got to Get You Into My Life" (45)
"Dark Side of the Moon"
"War" and "Live at Red Rocks"; but especially "The Unforgettable Fire

Mozart, Clarinet and Oboe Concertos, L'Oiseau-Lyre
Mozart, Serenades (I Musici)

"A Love Supreme"
"Kind of Blue"
Tord Gustavsen, "The Other Side"
Bill Evans, "Live at the Village Vanguard" set