Slayer - Hell Awaits (1985)
I was probably 12


Not long after that I also heard Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind (1983)

and Powerslave (1984)


and I think that started the metalhead I am today

 

psychiatry has come quite a long way since then, try it! no offense

 

Yes, I should only post one, but the title says "...that defined your individual musical taste.", so I HAVE to make it two.

First album ever:
Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987, on cassette)

And:
St.Germain - Boulevard (1995)

(shitty audio quality on this video...)

I had to name the second one, because this one opened up my mind and ears to many kinds of different Genres and Styles. That's why it is even more important for my "individual musical taste" than my first album ever.

cheers

 

come on, be honest, you just discovered good drugs at that time!

 

Not sure if this album was the very first I bought, but after all those years - during which my tastes have diversified - he still remains in my collection like an absolute winner.

 

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This was probably my first contact with the PMG, and they have been my biggest influence ever since, especially in ways of thinking about song structure and harmony... Lyle Mays is such a master at creating beautiful voicings. There really is no equivalent in my world.

 

The Runaway self titled 1976, saw them open for cheap trick and that was it. Ironically many years later a woman i was dating who i knew had been in a relatively popular 80's band turned she was the original bass player in the runaways. but truth be told the album that kinda shaped my musical path was Ultravox-Vienna

 

Before I ever bought any of my own records in the late 70's I was listening to my mother's albums. I always gravitated to David Bowie's "Station to Station". The first album that I purchased was Pink Floyd's "The Wall" which was a huge influence. But I have to say that one of my next purchases was even more influential in a more subconscious was as the blending of guitars and synths have always been to my liking. Jeff Beck's "There and Back". I didn't realize it at the time but the keyboards/synths with by none other than Giorgio Moroder! That's has definitely shaped my sound for life! Rock, funk and dance!

 

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My first record was bought at a flea market-Buddy Rich Big Band.I was in for a shock because at that time I didn't know who Buddy Rich was.Man ,I was introduced to kick ass drumming first hand.Amazing Drummer!!I am really glad that I picked up that record 'cause I it was the one that paved the way for me to get interested in music and become a musician.

 

Down In The Tube Station At Midnight by The Jam.

 

Well every kid has to rebel a bit, but since my dad already listened to Iggy Pop and Black Sabbath something like Slayer wouldn't have fazed him in the least ... so I saved my allowance and bought this:

 

jean michel jarre - Oxygene

 

Wendy/Walter Carlos's excellent score for Clockwork Orange (Though I had heard Switched On Bach briefly before buying the OST for Clockwork)

 

This changed my life, lol.

At 14, I knew I wanted to make records, been doing it ever since.

 

Brain Salad Surgery... Emerson Lake and Palmer

 

This was my inspiration, just love it.

 

Wow, aren't you nice?

 

This compilation, in '92:

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Masters of Brutality vol.2

01.NAPALM DEATH : The World Keeps Turning (from "Utopia Banished", 1992)
02.CANNIBAL CORPSE : I Cum Blood (from "Tomb Of The Mutilated", 1992)
03.CRUSHER : Collective Hypnosis (from "Corporal Punishment", 1992)
04.BRUTAL TRUTH : Birth Of Ignorance (from "Extreme Conditions...",1992)
05.DEICIDE : Dead But Dreaming (from "Legions", 1992)
06.MONSTROSITY : Vicious Mental Thirst (from "Imperial Doom", 1992)
07.SARCOFAGO : Midnight Queen (from "The Laws Of Scourge", 1991)
08.TIAMAT : Clouds (from "Clouds", 1992)
09.GOREFEST : The Glorious Dead (from "False", 1992)
10.BOLT THROWER : Dying Creed (from "The Fourth Crusade", 1992)
11.DISMEMBER : Pieces (from "Pieces", 1992)
12.NOCTURNUS : Subterranean Infiltrator (from "Thresholds", 1992)
13.CATHEDRAL : Frozen Rapture (from "Soul Sacrifice", 1992)
14.SUFFOCATION : Effigy Of The Forgotten (from "Effigy Of The Forgotten", 1992)
15.PARADISE LOST : As I Die (from "Shades Of God", 1992)
16.ASPHYX : Streams Of An Ancient Wisdom (from "Last One On Earth", 1992)
17.MY DYING BRIDE : The Forever People (from "As The Flower Withers", 1992)
18.CADAVER : My Tumor's Misery (from "In Pains", 1992)

Some great names of metal in it. Classics now.

 

Suggest if you meant that as humor, try putting a smilie at the end so it don't look like you're just being a douche bag!

 

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The first album I bought was The Concert For Bangladesh that at that time ex Beatles member George Harrison had put together, that being what I believe is the first charity concert, at least in this scope, ever. My dear Grandmother gifted me 20 silver dollars, and since this was actually the first actual money that was mine and that I had held in my hand, burned through it and most of it landed in the cash register at the first Sam Ash music store in Green Acres Mall where I bought the album. The song that still stands out and continues to this day to inspire me and makes me smile is Leon Russel's so very cool rendition of the Stones Jumping Jack Flash combining it with his tune Young Blood. It sounded as if everyone was having a great time and inspired me to make some music and have some fun too! Leon goofed and came in one bar too early to a chorus but the band caught on right away. Here is that song from the live album...