As a result of a Facebook meme, I have assembled a highly personal list of 15 albums that marked decisive turning points in my taste of rock, my understanding of how I could reach it and it me, and who I was in its presence. This list goes from age 8 to roughly 40.
15 albums in order of occurrence
- beach boys endless summer
- beatles sgt. pepper
- billy joel glass houses
- duran duran rio
- joe jackson night and day
- rolling stones beggar’s banquet
- david bowie space oddity
- pink floyd the wall
- violent femmes
- soft boys the day they ate brick
- residents third reich and roll
- brian eno here come the warm jets
- captain beefheart clear spot
- they might be giants john henry
- phil ochs all the news that fits to sing
- negro problem welcome black
- dr. octagon dr. octogynocologist
