re: Album that impacted you at young age...

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

This was the first album that listened to when I first started listening to music on my own and developing my own tastes. I listened to it nearly every day from beginning to end for about a year when I was 13.

Leo Kottke - Ice Water

I came across this album while going through my Dad's old vinyl collection. The song Pamela Brown just really touched me. I will never forget the moment that the needle touched the record.

Here are a few inspirational albums from my misspent youth that influenced me:

This hideous piece of so-called music was one of my favorite albums in 1968/1969. I'm so embarrassed.



I also had this compilation from Warner Brothers in 1970:



36-track triple vinyl LP promotional catalog sampler on the green WB label featuring Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Little Feat, The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, James Taylor & many more with two exclusive 60 second radio spot tracks, complete with 8-page discography/biography booklet, all housed in a classic picture box.

Track Listing:
A1 Radio Spot: It's the Plastic 1:00
A2 Faces - Had Me a Real Good Time 3:59
A3 Black Sabbath - Paranoid 2:50
A4 Little Feat - Strawberry Flats 2:21
A5 Hard Meat - Smile as You Go Under 3:04
A6 Fleetwood Mac - Tell Me All the Things You Do 4:10
A7 Jimi Hendrix - Stepping Stone 4:05
B1 John Simon - The Elves' Song 4:32
B2 Ry Cooder - Alimony 2:11
B3 Randy Newman - Let's Burn Down the Cornfield 3:03
B4 Gordon Lightfoot - Me and Bobby McGee 3:38
B5 Jimmy L. Webb - P. F. Sloan 4:00
B6 Performance - Harry Flowers 4:00
C1 Radio Spot: Chip Dip 1:00
C2 Little Richard - I Saw Her Standing There 2:37
C3 Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 3:15
C4 Van Morrison - Call Me Up in Dreamland 3:52
C5 The Kinks - Apeman 4:06
C6 Arlo Guthrie - Valley to Pray 2:47
C7 The Beach Boys - It's About Time 2:56
D1 The Youngbloods - It's a Lovely Day 2:35
D2 Jeffrey Cain - Houndog Turkey 2:56
D3 Lovecraft - Love Has Come to Me 3:11
D4 Sweetwater - Just for You 9:20
E1 Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby 2:38
E2 The Mothers of Invention - Directly From My Heart to You 5:17
E3 Alice Cooper - Return of the Spiders 4:25
E4 Frank Zappa - Would You Go All the Way? 2:30
E5 Beaver and Krause - Spaced 3:51
E6 Pearls Before Swine - The Jeweler 2:45
F1 Beaver and Krause - Sanctuary 1:43
F2 James Taylor - Lo and Behold 2:34
F3 Harpers Bizarre - If We Ever Needed the Lord Before 2:57
F4 Van Dyke Parks - On the Rolling Sea When Jesus Speak to Me 2:25
F5 The Persuasions - It's All Right 3:25
F6 Turley Richards - I Heard the Voice of Jesus 7:05


And of course, this album was instrumental in molding and shaping my rebellious teenage years:

This magnificent, evil album almost led me to the 'dark side' back in the day:

AC/DC Back In Black
Foreigner 4

This still impacts me.
Devo's first album...
Q: Are we not men?
A: Were are devo!
Listen to this album without stopping it. You will find yourself going back to it a few days later over and over again for years to come. Still cutting edge and beyond after all these years. Way ahead of their time.

i remember being on vacation t a really young age in Destin with my parents and we were having dinner on at a marina and a huge boat rolled up rocking "africa" by TOto , the boat had girls they were drinking beer, i knew then that is what i wanted to do, and that song has been my jam ever since.