just caught this question on twitter and loved it:
“what are the 5 most “important” albums in your life. Not necessarily your favorites or the best. But personally important to you and who you’ve become?”
my answer:
ok computer - radiohead
unknown pleasures - joy division
the stone roses - the stone roses
lifes rich pageant - rem
13 songs - fugazi
(original tweet - worth a read thru the thread: https://twitter.com/sallismoney/status/1565365661500522497 )
Oooh, fun thread. Here are mine, in no particular order:
Love it. So fun.
Easy for me as some are just way up there for so many reasons.
KISS - Alive! (First album I ever bought)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (hated this until one day… bam! Gateway drug to everything alternative)
Tower of Power - Live in Living Color (the start of my love of horns)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme. (Mile’s Kind of Blue opened me up jazz, but A Love Supreme made me understand a whole hell of a lot more (transcendent, took me a while to get to it but when you get it you get it))
Beatles - White Album (originally said Abbey Road, which I like better but was not as important as this one to me).
with
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet originally on the list and real, real close.
Honorable mentions go to these 12" singles (on their own):
New Order - Blue Monday (the original '84 12")
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
This Mortal Coil - Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust
Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa
Electric - The Cult
Dub No Bass With My Head Man - Underworld
Poland - Tangerine Dream
Sooooo difficult!
Eloy - Live (1979)
King Crimson - Discipline
Bruford - Master Strokes
Andy Narell - Stickman
Steps - Smokin’ in the Pitt
Seriously considered replacing Fear of a Black Planet with this one. Cowgirl, Rez, Dirty Epic - such a good album at an important time in my life.
The Cure’s Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea comp too.
And Devo’s Freedom of Choice.
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Paul Simon - Graceland
Lawrence - Hotel TV
Portishead - Dummy
Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Eagles - Hotel California
Eagles - Desperado
Eagles - One of These Nights
Eagles - Eagles
Eagles - On the Border
In chronological order of me discovering them:
GNR - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - Metallica (the black album)
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
ABBA - ABBA (1975)
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls (1989)
Nirvana - “Bleach” (1989)
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)
Shit. Purple Rain - the might be more important to me than Abbey Road
Fuckin’ Eagles
Oh, nice thread
I think my five are, in no specific order:
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast
AC/DC - Back in black
Pink Floyd - The dark side of the moon
Nomadi - I Nomadi interpretano Guccini
883 - Gli anni
An honorable mention goes to any Led Zeppelin album. I could have included one in the list, but it was too difficult to choose exactly which one 
Disclaimer - I changed my mind four times whilst writing this list:
The Police - Regatta de Blanc
ELO - New World Record
Paul Young - No Parlez
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
Eurythmics - Touch
The albums that are most important to who I’ve become – not necessarily the best albums or favorite or most important in some objective sense, but that opened up the world for me – are these:
I promise, I actually do like lots and lots of music made after 1980 – including lots of music made in THIS century.
I thought this would be easy but I’ve some major album wrangling going on in my head !
Fun thread
Made in Japan - Deep Purple
Kansas - Leftoverture
Yessongs - Yes
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Alan Parsons Project
Babymetal - Babymetal
The first four albums are important because they informed my musical vocabulary. The last is because I was drifting away from music, and I heard and saw them, and they reignited my passion.
