Well, awreet, here's the five LP's that had (& still continue to have) the most influence on me, in no particular order:
"Trout Mask Replica" -- Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band -- I have three copies including one autographed! (Of course, with the usual Mercury label exceptions, all of the others are quite nearly as monumental!)
"Meet The Residents" -- The Residents -- actually, any of their earlier ones, e.g. prior to "Freak Show"
"We're Only In It For The Money" -- Mothers of Invention -- actually, any of the original Mothers ones up to & including "Uncle Meat," but especially the Verve issues; the first LP I ever bought, in fact, was "Freak Out," which I saved my allowance up to buy and bought when I was all of eight years old, and which record I still have! After the original Mothers left en masse, BTW, it all immediately went down the toilet and became Megalo-FZ and some technically-competent-but-utterly-lifeless-and-uninspired backup musicians playing predictable exercises in banality (the ones with Flo & Eddie are just barely of marginal value to me).
"Faust" -- Faust's first one, the one on clear vinyl with the clear cover on German Polydor.
"The Stooges" -- Iggy & the Stooges first one, bought it when I was twelve, still have it, etc.
No matter how many times I have played these over the years, they are still just as exciting for me as the first time I heard them, despite the (in some cases) intervening forty + years! And it is not as though I only have a few records, after all; I have literally thousands of records! Hell, I probably have over 5000 pre-1930 78 rpm records alone, over 2000 LP's, hundreds of cylinder records, etc. but the foregoing LP's still sound just as fresh as the first time I unwrapped the shrink wrap! IMHO, right there, that is the difference between something "good" and something "great!" In fact, I think I need to listen to "phase two of 'Lumpy Gravy' " right now! Jeeez.....
Osborne White, Engineer etc.
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