In the Prog Seat: Albums That Define Our Tastes in Music 

Misplaced Childhood. An album that got me through a tough breakup. After that my music tastes changed entirely Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

The Beatles - Revolver Rush - Moving Pictures Yes - Close to the Edge The Who - Live at Leeds John Coltrane - Afro Blue Impressions (live)

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Grand Funk - The Red Album Deep Purple - Machine Head Led Zeppelin - 4 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon ELP - Brain Salad Surgery The Who - Quadrophenia Wishbone Ash - There's the Rub Golden Earring - Moontan (US) Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

1. Kiss Alive 2. Started my journey into hard rock and heavy metal 2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast - Starting to peak my interest into more complex music. 3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - The Heavy riffs were intoxicating. I was on a quest for the heaviest music I could find. 4. Metallica - Kill Em' All. Change everything, I found my music that I fit into. I became a true metal head. 5. Dream Theater - Game changer. Took into a genre I never knew existed. At 57 yo I am all about the Prog Rock. Even starting to get into Jazz and Fusion thanks to SOT.

The albums that had a major influence on my tastes in my formative years: Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Hawkwind - In The Hall Of The Mountain Grill Honourable mentions: King Crimson - ITCOTCK, Renaissance - Scheherazade And Other Stories, Vangelis - Heaven And Hell

The Police - Reggata de Blanc The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Springsteen - The River SRV - Texas Flood Simon & Garfunkel - The concert in Central Park

1. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 2. Journey - Escape 3. AC/DC - Back In Black 4. Rush - Moving Pictures 5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

When I saw Jimi Hendrix on UK TV for the first time - my life changed forever FULL STOP !! In my teens in the UK mid 60's onwards - WOW, the music was amazing. Beatles, Stones, Jethro Tull, Led Zep and many many others.

Fantastic episode as always. It is very difficult to choose five albums, but these five somehow determine the type of music that I really enjoy. VDGG- H to He, Who Am the Only One Henry Cow - Western Culture Univers Zero - Uzed Miles Davis - Bitches Brew King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic.

Great episode guys . It's very interesting to hear your stories and musical background.

These five form and define my current tastes Queen-A Night at the Opera (classic rock and prog) Metallica-Master of Puppets (the move to harsh vocals) Dream Theater-Images and Words (prog Metal and chug) Death-Sound of Perseverance (first foray into extreme) At the Gates-Slaughter of the Soul ( first exposure into melodic death metal)

Queensryche-Rage For Order Fates Warning-Perfect Symmetry Rush-Power Windows

For the 2nd evening in a row a SoT video made me think of what I was thinking of earlier. I won’t go into 5 albums, just 1. I 1st started really listening to music around ’68. I was very impressed with Folk Rock, so that’s the deep musical roots for me. In the late 80s I was very into Roots Rock which largely can be seen as really rocking Folk Rock. One album really stood out, The Brandos, Honor Among Thieves. I loved that album. I waited for the group to follow it up. To my disappointment they didn’t. I later learnt they finally put out another album 5 years later, & had a few albums after that. Nothing that compares their 1st album. This morning I listened to Honor Among Thieves, & experienced the love again. These days I mostly listen to Space Rock & Metal. If I could find a Space Rock or Metal band that plays in a Hard Folk Rock manner like what’s on Honor Among Thieves, I’d be in heaven. That’s music that defines where I want to go with music. PS. unlike Ken, Sun Ra is my Jazz go-to man.

Prince - 1999 Manassas - Manassas Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality Megadeth - Rust in Peace Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous Tangerine Dream - Thief OST Kate Bush - The kick inside High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis Slift - Ummon Rush - Farewell to kings or something like that. Didn't we already covered something like this? But always great to hear you guys chat. I'll be watching it tomorrow.

Yes - The Yes Album Rush - 2112 Rainbow - Rising The Steve Morse Band - The Introduction Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue

1- Iron Maiden : Somewhere in Time 2- Return to Forever : Romantic Warrior 3- Schonberg : Gurrelieder 4- Keith Jarrett : Survivors Suite 5- Banco : Di Terra

1. Moody Blues - In search of the lost chord. 2. Deep Purple - Made in Japan 3. ELP - Brain Salad Surgery. 4. Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon. 5. Who - Who's Next

5. Saga Silent Knight 4. Lynyrd Skynyrd : Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd 3: Uriah Heep: Demons and Wizards 2. Kansas: Song for America 1. Yes: Close to the Edge I listen to a lot of other music, in 1966 my uncle gave me Pet Sounds and the first album I bought myself was Procul Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale. I still love the early Bee Gees and Odessa is one of my favorite albums. I believe growing up with a mother that was an opera singer influenced my music taste.

1. David Bowie: Aladin Sane (first album I bought) 2. Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Mind Blowing) 3. Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All (been a Zappa fan from the moment I heard this) 4. Status Quo: Hello (My brother made me buy it, but I loved it) 5. Ted Nugent: Free For All (Again: mind blowing)

Loved this and, like so much on SoT, it took me back to the time in my life when I was first discovering the music I still love to this day. A pure nostalgia trip. I can smell the old albums (and associated herbal products) as I type. All of these albums were a gateway to a different genre for me and I can remember exactly where I was when I first heard them... Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd Led Zep II Hall of the Mountain Grill - Hawkwind Flat Baroque and Berserk - Roy Harper Blue Train - John Coltrane

In chronological order of when I listened for the first time: 1) Def Leppard - Pyromania I listened to pop as a kid until I heard this record in 1983. 2) Rush - Moving Pictures Listened to this at a teammate's house in 9th grade with two other teammates. Changed my life forever. Side note: I found out two decades later that teammate became a gay porn star as an adult. Yikes! 3) Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien Got this cassette from a black college teammate. Another listen that changed my life forever. This led to Eric Johnson, Gary Hoey, Tony McAlpine, Steve Vai, etc. 4) Dream Theater - Images and Words This masterpiece led me to my favorite band and to progressive metal. 5) Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance - heard these guys in 2015 on Pandora of all things. This led to the other PM albums and to explore European metal on RU-vid. Now I love Nightwish, Jorn Lande, Anubis Gate, Kamelot (not European but ..), Vanden Plas, Lacuna Coil, etc.

There are two ways to approach this question. Albums that defineD my musical tastes. That is the first albums that introduced me, for the first time, to a particular genre or band that is now important to me: Black Sabbath - Paranoid Helloween - The Keeper of the 7th keys (I or II, you choose) Rick Wakeman - King Arthur (the myths and legends and all that) Death - Individual Thought Patterns Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Then there is albums that define (now) my musical tastes. That is a selection of 5 albums that I would hand over to somebody to have a sample of what I like to listen to: Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell Dream Theater - Images & Words Death - Human King Crimson - The Night Watch Isis - Panopticon These cover my general directions in music: classic heavy metal & hard rock, prog rock, prog metal, extreme metal (possibly with a hint of prog), and post-metal/post-rock/sludge and whatnot

Rush - Moving Pictures Van Halen I Metallica - Kill Em All Yes - Yessongs Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

Alright, in order of exposure: Rush - 2112 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Klaatu - Hope Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Phil Keaggy - Crimson and Red

Rush Archives, Black Sabbath Master of Reality, Miles Davis Kinda Blue, Chicago Transit Authority, Opeth Blackwater Park. Enjoyed the discussion on live Kinks, I saw them during that era in 1981 in Toronto and to this day I've never seen anyone just hammering the crap out of the drum kit like Mick Avory, man that was awesome!

1- iron maiden - seventh son of the seven sun 2 - the tea party - the edges of twilight 3 -riverside - out of myself 4 - pink floyd- wish you were here 5 - dream theater - images and word

1. Chicago Transit Authority 2. Aqualung 3. Close to the Edge 4. Wish You Were Here 5. Romantic Warrior and Red- I'm cheating. There are many non prog albums, but I just stuck with the genre

I commented on the HVS video and I'm willing to bet some of these choices are different Opeth - Blackwater Park ELO - Discovery Ratt - Out of the Cellar Rush - Exit...Stage Left Pink Floyd - The Wall There are a lot that would easily define my tastes in music

Moving Pictures - Rush Rubber Soul - The Beatles Boston - Boston A Day at the Races - Queen Synchronicity - The Police HM: Hotel California - The Eagles Dynasty - Kiss Live at Budokan - Cheap Trick 1984 - Van Halen Escape - Journey Rio - Duran Duran Voices - Hall and Oates Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Yes- Close... Rush- Permanent... The Who- Quadrophenia AC/DC- If You Want Blood... Grateful Dead - Any and all live releases!('69, '74, especially)😊

Great topic Pete & co! This might be a bit random, but would you guys/Chad consider doing a video (or two) discussing how NEARfest came about, your favorite acts, etc? Apologies if something like that is already out there, I have not come across it.

1) Guns n' Roses - Use You Illusion 2 The most important album for me, since the song 'You Could Be Mine' was my musical awakening and opened my eyes for hard rock. 2) AC/DC - Highway to Hell 3) Metallica - Master of Puppets 4) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 5) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast There are tons of other albums, that was a part of forming my taste of music. Judas Priest - British Steel, King Diamond - Fatal Portrait, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4, Megadeth - Peace Sells... And many more. Deicide - Once Upon the Cross opened my ears for death metal Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger did the same for me with black metal Yes - Close to the Edge and Rush - 2112 was important for me, when it comes to prog. And I could keep going. Thanks for another great episode.

I listed my five on the HVS episode's comments section. They were: Low - David Bowie Megatron Man - Patrick Cowley Fantastic Planet OST - Alain Goraguer Space Museum - Solid Space A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck - Wire If I cannot list those five, I would list: Taking Tiger Mountain - Brian Eno Epic Garden Music - Sad Lovers & Giants Cybotron - Cybotron Neurovision - Telex Durch die Wüste - Hans-Joachim Roedelius

My top five 1) Deep Purple - Purple Passages (MKI comp)- Led me to the heavy bands Zeppelin, Black Sabbath ,Uriah Heep 2) Chicago-CTA - Led me to jazz 3) Lighthouse-One Fine Morning( first concert 1974) Led me to Jazz Rock Blood Sweat and Tears, Jeff Beck,JLP 4)Yes-Fragile - led me to prog Genesis, ELP and Tull 5)Rush- 2112 - Changed everything pretty much invented progressive metal and Neal fuking Peart.#2 and 3 are interchangeable .

The records that led me to my three big preferences in terms of genres in music. In chronological order: ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition Yes - Yessongs Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia The Clash - London Calling John Coltrane - Blue Train

I owned that Stanley Jordan album on vinyl as well. Totally forgot about him.

1.T he Beatles-Sgt Peppers 2.The Doors-Self Titled 3.Yes-CTTE 4.Uriah Heep-Look At Yourself 5,Led Zeppelin-Self Titled Honoable Mention-Jethro Tull-Aqualung,Cream-Disreali Gears,Hendrix-Are You Experienced,The Who-Tommy

I was living in my _Deep Purple/Led Zeppelin_ world when my neighbor showed me a cassette with _ELP Pictures_ on side A and _Wakeman Journey_ on B. And this was my way into prog. Later on I discovered _Yes, Genesis_ and after a while _Gentle Giant_ that became my favorite band. At some point I stumbled over _Van der Graaf H To He_ but I was not ready for this kind of music then. After some years I listened to _Pawn Hearts_ and it became my favorite VgG. _Mahavishnu_ led me into fusion territory: _Corea, Hancock, Weather Report,_ even _Metheny._ The playing of _Allan Holdsworth_ on_Soft Machine’s Bundles_ shocked me at the time. And even more when I saw Allan live two times during his solo career. Fusion led me into jazz. And I would like to mention the ECM branch with artists like: _Keith Jarrett, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Oregon, Gary Burton, Pierre Favre, Mike Mainieri, Steve Swallow._ The first Zappa albums I’ve heard were _Waka/Jawaka_ and _Grand Wazoo._ I had to recalibrate my ears for stuff like _Joe’s Garage_ and _One Size Fits All._ My favorite Zappa album is _Sleep Dirt_ and I like stuff with more “statistical density” like _Studio Tan._ An honourable mention to Vangelis. After a while I started to enjoy his soft side. I have two feel-good albums: _Steve Hacket Spectral Mornings_ and _Focus Hamburger Concerto._ @Ken - I have the _Air_ discography in digital format.

After watching both episodes featuring this topic I’m gonna state: 1. Pink Floyd the wall, this is an album from my dads music, also my prog gateway 2. Bad religion no album in particular, 3. Rage against the Machine no album in particular, they only have 3 4. GNR Illusions 2 this was my first heavy metal album (arguably) 5. I have to through a random one here, Presidents of the United States self-title. I listen to a lot of Rock talented music from blues to extreme metal, but I like my music to have melody

For me it’s Robert Johnson- king of the delta blues vol.1 Camel mirage Glen miller- the best of 1938-1942 Kiss- gold Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Areosmith - Draw The Line The Doors - The Doors Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord Pink Floyd - Animals Yes - Yessongs I could easily expand this list to 10 or 15...

Chick Corea Elektric Band: Beneath The Mask Pat Metheny Group - Letter From Home Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls Silhouette - Across The Rubicon Asia - Astra Antoine Fafard - Proto Mundi John Patitucci self titled Panic Room - Visionary Position Enya - Watermark Yellowjackets - Four Corners Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory Rush: Moving Pictures Mystery: One Among The Living Riverside - Out Of Myself

Genesis - Foxtrot The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Pink Floyd - The Wall Marrilion - Misplaced Childhood Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt)

Deep Purple-Machine Head Black Sabbath-Master of Reality Alice Cooper-Killer Aerosmith-Get Your Wings Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffitti

1 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 2 Rush 2112 3 Close to the Edge 4 Demons and Wizards 5 Awaken the Guardian

Totally agree with Chad and plenty others about Rush. I was absolutely completely blown out of water hearing (and seeing) Exit: Stage Left. The vibe that Lifeson creates is sublime.

Yay! Ken mentioned Earthless! HEAVY Psych!

David Axelrod - Songs of Experience Scott Walker - 4 Gary McFarland - America The Beautiful (An Account Of Its Disappearance) Marko Brecelj - Cocktail Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

Great Picks George!!!

Kansas: Song For America Supertramp: Crime Of The Century Dave Brubeck: Take Five Paul McCartney/Wings: Venus And Mars Billy Joel: The Stranger

Chronologically, starting circa 1973: CHICAGO - Chicago II.............................led me to jazz-rock DEEP PURPLE - Made in Japan..............led me down many paths of hard rock and onwards to various metal genres ISAAC HAYES - Shaft Motion Picture Soundtrack.................led me to funk-rock PINK FLOYD - Animals..................................................opened my ears to prog-rock AL DI MEOLA - Casino..............................led me deep into guitar-led fusion and onto other forms of jazz

After reading several of the comments, I have settled on two top-five album lists. THEN: (Teenage Years - early 20s) 1. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper / Bob Dylan - Highway 61 2. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland 3. Jethro Tull - Living in the Past 4. The Doors - Self-Titled, 1st LP 5. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash / Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere Honorable Mentions: Cream - LIVE Cream, Led Zeppelin - IV, Heart - Dog & Butterfly, Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality NOW: (Pre & Post Retirement) 1. Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin (I saw the BOC open for Deep Purple. I now own most of the available catalog) 2. U2 - The Joshua Tree / Bruce Springsteen - The River 3. Grateful Dead - Without A Net 4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 5. Iron Maiden - Best of 1980 - 1989 / Judas Priest - The Essential (These sparked my interest during the pandemic '20-'21. I now have 12 Maiden CDs, and 11 Judas Priest CDs. I also saw both at POWER TRIP, Oct. '23.👍 ) Honorable Mentions: Alice Cooper - Brutally Live, The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St., Kansas - Leftoverture, Yes - Close to the Edge, Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood, Deep Purple - Now What?, Tool - AENIMIA [ I continue to see these bands LIVE!]

Nick Drake: Pink Moon Alice In Chains: Dirt System of a Down: Toxicity Alan Parsons Project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe Opeth: Blackwater Park

Went to see Ray Davies doing a history of The Kinks Q&A back in the day, plus he played a interspersed acoustic set 2 hour show. Amazing

That Rick.Wakeman album is a bit of a comedy album itself, no ? 1. Bowie - Diamond Dogs. The cover drew me in at a young age. 2. Genesis - And Then There Were Three. I had seen Seconds Out before that but again, the cover was so imtriguing. 3. Kate Bush. Listened to The Kick Inside repeatedly and led me on to other female artists; Joan Armatrading, Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell. 4 Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox - the first album i bought. Still a firm favourite 5 Japan - Quiet Life (then on to David Sylvian solo). HMs the Stranglers, Televison, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed (some of it), and for a love of good pop music Kid Creole & The Coconuts. Tropical Gangsters is a fantastic album.... ooh and Fleetwood Mac, especially Tusk.

Great episode, love the Kinks pick, for the Record, Jimmy Page did not play the solo on All day and all of the night on the original single, definitely all Dave Davies. I whole heartedly agree with that pick. The Kinks were so important to not only rock but metal, Punk, New wave, etc. A great band

Magic Touch by Stanley Jordan. Oh yeahh!!

kiss alive started it for me but in 78 I discovered queens news of the world and styx pieces of eight both these caused me to branch out into prog with rush permanent waves and the the heaviness drove me to heaven and hell. but now atomic rooster drove me to an interest in psychodelic music and more quirky outlying prog from gentle giants acquiring the taste

Dude, Luis is such an enigma. If he wrote a biography I would read it.

Really hard to choose five….as someone who came up playing bass, I can focus on these albums to define my tastes: Zeppelin II, Sabbath Vol. IV, Disraeli Gears, Heavy Weather, Tutu. Then Mingus Ah Um, Dave Holland’s Conference of the Birds, Ornette’s Shape of Jazz to Come. From my childhood, I’d echo Kiss Alive as my Gateway, then Axis Bold as Love, Bless It’s Pointed Little Head, Live Dead, ….Chick Corea Elektric Band. What do I listen to these days, mainly? Five albums: Snarky Puppy Family Dinner, Ghost Rhythms, Live at Yoshiwara, Holdsworth live albums-esp. All Night Wrong, and Contemporary jazz from Thomas Fuijiwara, Ches Smith, Mark Dresser, anything with Tom Rainey on drums, Mary Halvorsen……

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath XTC - White Music Genesis - Foxtrot Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Alive II The Beatles Heaven and Hell Physical Graffiti (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Talking Heads - Remain in Light Bjork - Vespertine Gang Of Four - Entertainment! David Bowie - Low Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas King Crimson - Red

I was 14 in 1978 and my parents got me a rubbish record player for Christmas and an LP Tonic For The Troops by Boomtown Rats that was my gateway into rock, so from there I got into The Sex Pistols and then Queen Live Killers came out in 1979 and it blew me away. So my friend in 1979 got a cassette with In Rock on one side and Fireball on the other from Deep Purple and that was the game changer. So then we all got into Zeppelin etc, but I was the one who took a chance on Yes and ELP and loved them, whereas the others didn't like them, I really started to delve into prog from then on and to this day I love almost all prog except Genesis and Gentle Giant I could never get into them for some strange reason and still can't.

Led Zeppelin - LZII Nirvana - Nevermind Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Metallica: Master of Puppets Rush: A Show of Hands Dave Weckl: Master Plan John Zorn’s Masada: Live in Middleheim Alan Jackson: 16 Biggest Hits

Rainbow - Down To Earth Ultravox - Rage In Eden Iron Maiden - Powerslave Marillion - Fugazi Candy Dulfer - Saxuality

Tomita "Snowflakes Are Dancing" Dire Straits "Dire Straits" Jeff Wayne "The War Of The Worlds" Todd Rundgren "A Cappella" Steve Vai "Flex/Able"

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys part 2 Slayer - South of Heaven Voivod - Killing Technology Venom - Temples of Ice Emerson Lake and Palmer - Trilogy

Kens 2nd microphone sounded miles better

Bee Gees- Trafalgar Rolling Stones- Goats Head Soup Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon Led Zeppelin- 2 Rush- All The Worlds A Stage

Where’s Chuck :(

Prog: UK - s/t Genesis: Selling England By the Pound Rock: Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Extreme - 3 sides Metal: Death - Leprosy Black Sabbath - Mob Rules Jazz: Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy Greg Howe - Introspection Punk: Misfits: 12 Hits from Hell GBH: City Baby Attacked By Rats

Luis Nasser rules!

Ozzy-diary of a madman Black sabbath-sabbath bloody sabbath Pink Floyd- dark side of the moon Genesis- trick of the tail The who- who’s next Honorary mention- rush- moving pictures Led zeppelin- physical graphiti

Sabbath: Heaven and Hell Yes: Relayer Holdsworth: None Too Soon Jethro Tull: Songs From The Wood Joshua Redmond: Beyond Elton John: Capt Fantastic

Ken had an epiphany 🙂

Carole King "crap"? How dare you, Mr. Golden?! One of the greatest songwriters ever.

There are many to choose from here are my 5 The Beatles Meet The Beatles King Crimson In The Court of The Crimson Kong Yes Fragile M. Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame The Who Who's Next HM Miles Davis Kind of Blue HM Genesis Foxtrot HM Rolling Stones 12 X 5

I agree with Luis Kiss are utter tosh and I saw them live at Download Rammsteine blew them away that year .

Robin Trower is not a great guitar player and he's prerry forgotten for a reason. At least in Europe. He's never mentioned as one of the most important guitar players. He wasn't original. Typical blues rock guitarist. Nothing interesting in his playing.

The Beatles started me off with The White Album. Next phase started with Zeppelin 3. Next phase started with Kansas Song For America. Next phase started with David Sanborn Hideaway. Finally, Dream Theater.

I know it doesn't have to be exclusively prog but being a prog seat episode I will keep my list to just my taste in prog. Some but not all are necessarily my favourite albums by the bands but helped shape my taste in prog. 1. AVKRVST - The Approbation 2. Opeth - Still Life 3. Rush - 2112 4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 5. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel 6. Between The Buried and Me - Colors 7. Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase 8. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia 9. Devin Townsend - Ghost 10. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence Hon mentions to King Crimson In The Lake of Poseidon, ELP Tarkus, Enslaved Riitiir, Fragile Beyond. Albums overall that shaped my music taste. Not all are my favourite by the band. 1. AC/DC Flick of the Switch. In my top 5 DC albums but it was a massive influence on my taste. 2. The Angels - Dark Room 3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning 4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace. 5. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance 6. Opeth - Still Life and Orchid. 7. ZZ Top First Album 8. George Thorogood Debut Self titled. 9. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness 10. Trivium - Ascendancy 11. Nightwish - Once Hon mentions to Static X Cannibal, Alice in Chains Dirt, Deep Purple Machine Head, Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy, Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.