Senior Rockers, What album from your youth changed the way you listen to music?

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Hi Marilyn yes Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd all broke my mould away from The Beatles and Stones.

I still have the old vinyls of those and more stashed away in my collection, I really must give them an airing on my old record player and bring the memories flooding back....Show more

Oh, that kind of changed everything. I kept thinking of all the different kinds of music I grew into.

So, my first "grown-up" album(s)? Two Beatles' albums:
--One recorded from their nights at a Hamburg Germany tavern (I think it was called The Cave), with five Beatles--John, Paul, George, Peter Best, and Stu Stuarade.
--Their first UK album with John, Paul, George and Peter.

I was eight, so I developed my eclectic and "off the beaten track" taste in music early (and still have no problems saying I liked the Monkees, and I liked disco. lol)

I still have those albums. I just don't happen to have a record player anymore, and those albums were listened to so often when I was young, even if I did have a record player, I wouldn't destroy the needle by playing those scratchy albums on it. lol...Show more

Procul Harum and Pink Floyd drew me away from the
Beatle era, I liked Jimi Hendrix and Gary Moore too
and still play them from time to time.

I am quite a fan of The Killers at present....Show more

For me it was Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends. It was the first album where I not only learned the words (and I think they were printed on the cover), but actually studied them. I was taking a poetry class at the time in high school. It was a remedial class and I was mistakenly enrolled, not that there's anything wrong with that. But I took some of Simon's "poetry" for contrast to some of the poems we were studying and it was a great success....Show more

Meet the Beatles which was the first Beatles LP released in the US. I was hooked on the British Invasion from then on....Show more