i dunno about albums but 80s music had the greatest impact on me since it was the first i was really exposed to. 80s metal probably shaped my future interests ...
being from a somewhat small town selection was always limited, so, if you did find something new (i can recall getting ahold of reagan youth/sex pistos great rocknroll swindle/flogging a dead horse this way), it was usually handed down from someone who got it from someone they new in a nearby city (atlanta usually). as far as owning "tapes" i can remember having these when i first could afford to buy music, so they mustve had something to do with shaping my likes and dislikes:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - uplift mofo party plan
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=q5lduT ... wDAhdphyiH
The Cure - Staring at the Sea: The Singles
(quite a few other cure as well but this was the first)
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=E9k7q_ ... PNuPbWyR4K
The Misfits - The Misfits (i cant even begin to tell you how many times i listened to this one)
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=sdYdMG ... JJZ_Rby9vN
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=Oxpguh ... FoRn9plTDI
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=hCpa4f ... t9ktNTce4J
Agnostic Front - Victim in Pain
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=K4nmmZ ... AOq8uKXTLE
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=ZX5jRp ... xXOLEqPa4D
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=oZd6ji ... XW3hPepgXL
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=4ziKyk ... CD-RdLSUCG
The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard (still a great, i can listen to it over and over)
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=JVyWfX ... HBg9_7xGCB
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=apEtqw ... 7AJpbV-pIJ
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=btmR2c ... eD68guLM0C
Willie Dee - Controversy (i so wish i could find this album)
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=M4eXQb ... 28M91IxruJ
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=klF2q_ ... MqbwwOE3pv
Eazy-E - Eazy-Duz-It
http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=eg-AlF ... vkCiHbfpMD
the list could go on and on, but these are the first that come to mind.