Name an album that changed your life

Well, this is pretty lame: Long Road to Mexico by Roger Creager, which I began listening to in 2005.

Made me re-discover my country roots and prompted me to attend live music at smaller venues, which led me to so much great music NOT on the radio.

hope this doesn't kill your thread ..

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Name an album that changed your life

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... and how it changed your life.

I think that could be interesting, although it may require actual thought.

Dan Fogelberg - Phoenix...before that I was playing Led Zep, Pink Floyd and shite on dates. Dan was a magic elixir with the ladies back in the day

Blind Melon - Soup

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If one had to point to a single initial salvo that launched the garage rock revival movement in the 1970s and ‘80s, it would have to be the release of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 in 1972. Elektra Records had approached rock critic Lenny Kaye (not yet the guitarist with the Patti Smith Group) with the notion of compiling an album of great, overlooked rock tunes, but what Kaye came up with was something significantly different -- an overview of the great, wild era when American bands, goaded by the British Invasion, began honing in on a tougher and more eclectic rock & roll sound, and kids were reawakened to the possibilities of two guitars, bass, and drums. Coming up with a simple definition of this period and its sound proved daunting -- the word "garage" appears nowhere in the liner notes to Nuggets, and his notion of "the first psychedelic era" quickly fell by the wayside -- but the frequent bursts of fuzztone, Farfisa organ, and vocal sneering in the 27 tunes Kaye selected codified a musical approach that flourished in the mid-'60s, and at a time when rock was becoming more self-consciously serious and arty, the primal power and sheer sense of fun audible in this music seemed like a minor revelation that became a clarion call to musicians, fans, and music scribes around the world. Nuggets proved to be of seismic importance in the years after its release, but just as importantly, it's a blast to listen to; Kaye's sequencing gives the album the joyous flow of a great afternoon of AM radio, and the album blends hits both big and small with high-quality obscurities

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And while many of the garage compilations that would follow would focus relentlessly on the obscure and the noisy, Kaye's set not only demonstrates that some of this stuff actually made the charts, but that there was as much great pop as snotty proto-punk pouring out of America's rec rooms back in the day. And Kaye's liner notes were nearly as important as the music in defining the importance of this music and its era. Very few "oldies" compilations have had an influence approaching that of Nuggets, and even fewer are as rewarding to listen to; if you care about rock music in the '60s, you need to own this album.

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Nuggets playlist

On any other board that would get you a time-out, but here in No Mod's Land nobody gives a shite

Crossroads Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Two live crew as nasty as they want to be

Those prescription DJ mixes

The Number of the Beast

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Name an album that changed your life

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Can't pinpoint only one, but . . .

Rubber Soul
Disraeli Gears/Wheels of Fire
Are You Experienced
Let It Bleed
Live at the Fillmore East