Albums that have influenced my life from the early 70’s and onward

This is an ongoing list of the albums that influenced my life from when I got my first 2 albums Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Piano Man for my birthday. There is no particular order to them except for 1 and 2. As I remember more albums I will add them. Most of the albums listed here were heard on vinyl and now reside in the basement of my house in many crates and boxes and occasionally get brought up to the living room to be listened to.

  1. The Beatles – Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  2. Billy Joel – Piano Man
  3. The Blues Brothers – Briefcase Full of Blues
  4. The Kinks – Give the People What They Want
  5. The Allman Brothers – Eat a Peach
  6. The Nails – Mood Swing
  7. Steely Dan – Aja
  8. Wings – Wings Over America
  9. The Who – Who’s Next
  10. Web Wilder – Doo Dad
  11. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
  12. Joe Walsh – But Seriously, Folks
  13. Sam & Dave – The Best of Sam & Dave
  14. Huey Lewis & the News – Sports
  15. Supertramp – Breakfast in America
  16. The Boomtown Rats – A Tonic for the Troops
  17. The Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street
  18. Soundtrack – FM
  19. The Cars – Shake It Up
  20. Randy Newman – Trouble in Paradise
  21. AC/DC – Back in Black
  22. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Southern Accents
  23. Asia – Asia
  24. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
  25. Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
  26. The Allman Brothers – At The Fillmore
  27. Talking Heads – True Stores
  28. Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station
  29. The Tubes – The Completion Backward Principle
  30. Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
  31. Earth,Wind & Fire – That’s the Way of the World
  32. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
  33. Soundtrack – Saturday Night Fever
  34. Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
  35. Tears For Fears – Songs from the Big Chair
  36. Genesis – Genesis
  37. Billy Squier – Rock Me Tonight
  38. Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
  39. David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
  40. The Eagles – Hotel California
  41. Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  42. Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
  43. The Fix – The Fix
  44. Glen Frey – The Allnighter
  45. J. Geils Band – Best of the J. Geils Band
  46. Pink Floyd – The Wall
  47. Lou Reed – New York
  48. Men At Work – Business as Usual
  49. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1980) (Melt)
  50. Queen – Greatest Hits
  51. STYX – Paradise Theatre
  52. U2 – The Joshua Tree
  53. Wang Chung – Points on the Curve
  54. Timbuk 3 – Greetings from Timbuk 3
  55. Sting – The Dream of the Blue Turtles