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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It was CSN&Y, I had the Monkees too and I laugh when I think of how I used to listen to them over and over...:D

the thing about the 60's and 70's for that matter was music was different, gone were the ballads, crooners and love songs, in was rock, jazz etc. So for me it was all of them

black sabbath, war pigs album, it twisted my mind and it stayed that way for 40 years.

My youth was over before that crap came on the scene.

The Moody Blues were my favorite group, and still are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUxMlud0Xg