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GMC Forum _ PRACTICE ROOM _ Top Ten Albums That Made You Wanna Play Guitar!

Posted by: Alex Lewis Dec 11 2007, 10:12 PM

Hey guys I was sitting around the other day thinkin bout why I started playing guitar and basically came up with the fact that you look so freakin cool doin it AND that I wanted to be able to play like my favourite guitarists................


and I'm talkin bout the FIRST albums that made you wanna play cos if this list was my top ten all time albums now it would probably be totally different.


so what did you listen to that made you wanna play guitar?

My top ten is as follows:-

1) Rust in Peace- Megadeth
2) II - Led Zeppelin
3) Apetite for Destruction- Guns 'n' Roses
4) Nevermind- Nirvana
5) Bon Jovi- Keep the faith (before you laugh listen to the solo in Dry County AWESOME!)
6) Master of Puppets - Metallica
7) Best of Fleetwood Mac (with Peter Green) - Fleetwood Mac
8) Stoosh- Skunk Anansie
9) All right now- Free
10) Collection- Creedance Clearwater Revival

Posted by: David.C.Bond Dec 11 2007, 10:53 PM

What an awesome topic!

Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Sinergy - Suicide by my Side
Sinergy - Beware The Heavens
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Norther - Dreams of an Endless War
Yngwie Malsteen - Fire and Ice
Dragonforce - Valley Of the Damned
Anata - Under a Stone With No Inscription
Theodore Ziras - Trained To Play

Posted by: ActiveX Dec 11 2007, 11:02 PM

I'm dating myself a bit with these, a lot of you weren't even born when they came out laugh.gif but here they are:

ACDC Highway to Hell
ACDC Back in Black
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Oz
Def Leppard Pyromania
Kiss Lick It Up
Van Halen 1984
Scorpions Blackout
ZZ Top Eliminator
Motley Crue Shout at the Devil
Quiet Riot Metal Health

Posted by: JVM Dec 11 2007, 11:02 PM

In no particular order:

Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Thin Lizzy)
Siamese Dream (The Smashing Pumpkins)
The Bends (Radiohead)
In Through the Out Door (Zeppelin)
Eliminator (ZZ Top)
Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Cosmo's Factory (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Van Halen I (Van Halen)
Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits)
Axis: Bold As Love (Jimi Hendrix)

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Posted by: Smells Dec 11 2007, 11:07 PM

Good topic m8! smile.gif

not in any particular order

1. Dont get mad get even - Samson
2. Life-Live - Thin Lizzy
3. Crusader - Saxon
4. British Steel - Judas Priest
5. Bark at the moon - Ozzy Osbourne
6. Blizzard of Oz - Ozzy Osbourne
7. Holy Diver - Dio
8. Slippery when wet - Bon jovi
9. Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
10. Difficult to cure - Rainbow

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Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 11 2007, 11:22 PM

In no particular order: wink.gif

  1. Metallica - Metallica
  2. Nevermind - Nirvana
  3. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses
  4. Ride The Lightning - Metallica
  5. Master of Puppets - Metallica
  6. Contraband - Velvet Revolver
  7. Rust In Peace - Megadeth
  8. Inferno - Motorhead
  9. Rising Force - Yngwie Malmsteen
  10. Led Zepellin IV - Led Zepellin

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Posted by: USAMAN Dec 11 2007, 11:36 PM

Van Halen 1
Megadeth Rust In Piece
Metallica
Metallica
Metallica
Metallica
Sod (Storm Troopers of Death)
Iron Maden Number of the Beast
Iron Maden Powerslave
Muris Playing His Lessons

Posted by: JVM Dec 12 2007, 01:01 AM

QUOTE (USAMAN @ Dec 11 2007, 10:36 AM) *
Van Halen 1
Megadeth Rust In Piece
Metallica
Metallica
Metallica
Metallica
Sod (Storm Troopers of Death)
Iron Maden Number of the Beast
Iron Maden Powerslave
Muris Playing His Lessons


I love SOD tongue.gif

Posted by: Unleash-The-Shred Dec 12 2007, 01:14 AM

There is so many that influenced me to play the guitar, so I couldn't really list 10

I'll name a few bands that majorly influenced me if thats ok.

Dream Theater
Yngwie Malmsteen
Metallica
Megadeth

Pretty much any of their albums.

Posted by: fkalich Dec 12 2007, 01:16 AM

edit: misread question. answer is, none. nobody influenced me. last year in september I sold a night vision device for $2,000. I had reached the point in life where it was going to be either a Motorcycle, a Younger Woman, or an Amplifier. We all reach this stage eventually, no matter how hard we try to avoid it. As I could not get very much in the way of quality in either a Motorcycle or a Younger woman for $2,000, I opted for amplifier and guitar.

Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 12 2007, 04:05 AM

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Steve Vai - Alive In An Ultra World
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Death - Human
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Posted by: Paul Coutts Dec 12 2007, 06:22 AM

oooo, cool topic, I'd have to say, in no particular order:

1. The Offspring - Conspiracy of One
2. Strung Out - Exile In Oblivion
3. Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
4. Afi - Sing The Sorrow
5. Less Than Jake - Anthem
6. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb
7. Mad Caddies - Just One More
8. Lagwagon - Lagwagon
9. NoFX- Punk In Drublic
10. Blink 182 - Enema Of The State (come on! wink.gif)

Okay, the blink album ain't guitaristically AMAZING, but the songs are catchy! (mind, I was 11/12 years old when I started smile.gif) Made me want to write cool songs, which I still haven't got the hang of.... smile.gif

Posted by: swingline Dec 12 2007, 06:40 AM

Pantera- Cowboys from Hell
Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Metallica- ...And Justice for All
Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Cacophony- Speed Metal Symphony
Van Halen- 1984
Ozzy Osbourn- Bark at the Moon
Eric Clapton- Unplugged
Dire Straits- Sultans of Swing

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Dec 12 2007, 09:22 AM

Doors - Doors
Jethro Tull - Rock Island
Metallica - Garage Inc
Offspring - Smash
Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
Clapton&BBKing - Riding with the King
Hendrix - South Saturn Delta
Charlie Byrd - Bossa Nova Pellos Passaros

......

Posted by: Skewlbuzz Dec 12 2007, 10:01 AM

Hmm sadly I can't say any albums inspired me sad.gif
Listened to alot of NU Metal back then, not really a genre that gets you playing guitar hehe..

In my case I stopped swimming and had to find something else to spend my time on, that something else was guitar wink.gif

Posted by: mattacuk Dec 12 2007, 10:03 AM

Like fkalich, I was not influenced into Guitar by any bands etc. I just really wanted something technical to sink my teeth into, to acheive excellence a to have fun so the guitar fitted perfectly smile.gif

Posted by: Mackietao Dec 12 2007, 10:09 AM

Hard to name actual albums.. I don´t know what got me in to guitar except the fact that I found one at home. But I can name some bands/albums that I did listen to a lot! So in somewhat of an historical order...


Rage against the machine - bulls on parade
(my first metalsounding album ever, before that.. All eurodisco.
Remember buying it after listening to it in the store with those headphones already plugged in with the weeks 4 top records or something.. Sounded brutal.. )

Megadeth - Rust in peace
I remember buying this at "nice price" sale having no idea what it really was. But I liked the guitar riffs. Sounded just awsome.

Metallica - any album availible at the time
I was already warmed up with some metal but these guys made me "all into metal" for quite some time.

Nirvana - unplugged mtv record..
This were the riff I started playing. Mainly because it´s a good record, it was my sisters and I could actually play them. Simply and nice!

Millencolin - Life on a plate
Listened to this so many times... Borrowed from the library over and over again.. tongue.gif Emotional lyrics sort of. Energizing sound.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising force
This made me want to play fast =) Awsome record btw.

Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond (and all other records later on)
I remember having this record for a year or so. Never really got hooked. And then when putting it on in a very long time I just was blown away. Bought them all =) Think I apreciated it more when I had started playing guitar.

So much influence by other bands but I think this were the ones going over and over again when I was young..

Posted by: botoxfox Dec 12 2007, 10:45 AM

The only album that really inspired me to pick up the guitar was Judas Priest's British Steel. It really blew me away at the time.

Posted by: Goliath Dec 12 2007, 10:01 PM

Ooh, fun.

When I was a young lad, it was when the alternative movement was really getting mainstream, SO...

Frog Stomp - Silverchair
Dookie - Green Day
Smash - Offspring
Load - Metallica (I was young and it had jsut come out, I worked backwards through their catalog, I dont' touch it at all now tongue.gif)
Superunknown - Soundgarden

Then I grew up, went to college, needed a hobby that didn't involve bars and loose women to entertain myself during the week. Then there it was, sitting on the shelf at target on my lunch break. The name was so ridiculous I immediately knew I had to buy it. The font reminded me of the one other band I knew that played Power Metal (at the time, was Freedom Call), DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage. I immediately took the CD to the front and bought it and popped it in and was floored.

So for my triumphant return to the 6 string.

Inhuman Rampage - DragonForce
Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
The Odyssey - Symphony X
Kill Em All - Metallica
And, as cheesy as the CD is: City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold

Posted by: JVM Dec 12 2007, 10:57 PM

I really like load smile.gif

Posted by: RobM Dec 12 2007, 11:30 PM

My list is something like this, in no particular order:

Beatles: White Album
Johhny Cash: Ring of Fire
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Aerosmith: Aerosmith
Kiss: Kiss
Yes: Fragile
Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs
CCR: Credan Clearwater Revival
Lyndrd Skynrd: Pronounced Leh'-nerd Skin'-nerd


I loved and still love the late 60's early 70's music. The concerts were wild especially those that were at Boston Garden and the old Orphieum theatre

Posted by: tonymiro Dec 12 2007, 11:55 PM

QUOTE (RobM @ Dec 12 2007, 11:30 PM) *
Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs


Good list generally Rob but a very fine choice here - shame Trower doesn't get more recognition sad.gif .

Cheers,
Tony

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