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Think of 25 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. When you finish, tag 25 others, including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good.

1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (1975)
2. Maybe You Should Drive - Barenaked Ladies (1994)
3. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal (2007)
4. Automatic for the People - REM (1992)
5. Pop - U2 (1997)
6. Nimrod - Green Day (1997)
7. The World Won't Listen - the Smiths (1987)
8. Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox Twenty (1996)
9. The Beatles (The White Album) - the Beatles (1968)
10. Hopes and Fears - Keane (2004)
11. Quadrophenia - the Who (1973)
12. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan (1964)
13. Bringing Down the Horse - the Wallflowers (1996)
14. Guero - Beck (2005)
15. Secret World Live - Peter Gabriel (1994)
16. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse (2000)
17. Used Songs 1973-1980 - Tom Waits (2001)
18. Bleed Like Me - Garbage (2005)
19. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (1975)
20. Rum Sodomy and the Lash - the Pogues (1985)
21. Greatest Hits - Boston (compiled in 1997)
22. Kettle Whistle - Jane's Addiction (1997)
23. Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (2004)
24. Villains - the Verve Pipe (1996)
25. The Wall - Pink Floyd (1979)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Who's Next - the Who
Tommy - the Who
The Sunlandic Twins - Of Montreal
Sea Change - Beck
Abbey Road - the Beatles
Ready to Die - the Notorious B.I.G.
In Search of the Lost Chord - the Moody Blues
Mellow Gold - Beck
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
Zooropa - U2
Give Up - the Postal Service
A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd
Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
King of Rock - Run D.M.C.
Who Are You - the Who
Achtung Baby - U2
Feeling Strangely Fine - Semisonic
the Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Veruca Salt - American Thighs
the Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Imogen Heap - i Megaphone
the Decemberists - Her Majesty
the Decemberists - the Tain
[And Plenty More]

NOTES:
1. The albums are not ranked, by any means.
2. Honorable mentions were mostly thought of after I'd filled out the 25. Those that leaped to mind first, I considered the most influential.
3. If more than one album by an artist came up in my musings, I tried to limit it to my favourite album of said artist's, at least on the top 25 list.
3.1 Pink Floyd, as they do, were excepted.
3.2 The Who tried hard, and it pains me greatly not to have "Who's Next" on my top 25.
4. I need to stop writing this notes section because more albums keep occurring to me.