the first albums that really meant ALOT to you?

[MatSM]

Y'all have put down some nice picks there...

It's also my case for
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head & Ill Communication
Pink Floyd -Dark Side Of The Moon
All Metallica albums (and by all I really mean the Black album and older, the subsequent ones don't qualify as heavy metal imo. Hetfield should never have sobered up)
Nirvana - Nevermind & In Utero

I'll add
Most of the King Crimson albums (for those who want to know where progressive rock came from >> there hardly were bands so ahead of their time)
All of Kraftwerk

But my favourite album of all time has got to be
Depeche Mode - Violator
^ still gives me chills every time

[dabbler]

Originally Posted by tiedye

If you're going to condemn the band, I think Load/Reload would have been the nail in the coffin. Although they're still better albums than 94.2% of the bullshit metal coming out these days.

i actually LOVED the single for reload.

[mekim]

high school was the same shit as everyone else:

gnr - appetite for destruction, use your illusions i & ii
nirvana - bleach & nevermind
rhcp - mother's milk, blood sugar sex magic
pennywise - pennywise/unknown road (heh, i've got one of the first pressings of this with the title misspelled "unkown road". good work guys)
bad religion - against the grain, recipe for hate
nofx - white trash, two heebs & a bean

electronic music:
va - total trip hop (sick breaks compilation)
va - torque (the album that got me into dark dnb courtesy of ed rush & nico)

[hardstylin]

metallica-kill em all
slayer-reign in blood
sepultura-arise
korn-korn
pantera-vulgar display of power
six feet under-warpath
cannibal corpse-Bleeding
smashing pumpkins-Mellon Collie And The Infinite
nirvana- in utero
deftones-Around the Fur
westside connection-bow down
dr dre-2001

[ebbomega]

childhood memories attached to:
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Herbie Hancock - Future Shock
The Beach Boys - Endless Summer

Early teens were defined by:
Hackers Soundtrack
Mortal Kombat Soundtrack
The Fugees - The Score
The Cranberries - No Need To Argue

Late teens thoroughly enhanced by:
The Crystal Method - Vegas
Ministry Of Sound - The Annual III
Trainspotting Soundtrack
Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack

Discovered way too late in life:
Tool - Undertow
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese, Frizzle Fry, Antipop, The Brown Album, Tales from the Punchbowl, and honestly I could go on.
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
The Doors - LA Woman, Morrisson Hotel