SMILE, Beach Boys
 

Frank Zappa's "Make A Jazz Noise Here" was pretty life changing for me musically. I'd always liked Zappa but to hear the sheer brilliance of the musicianship on that album and to know it was all live, just blew my mind. Between the ages of 18-20 I must have listened to the whole thing all the way through every single day. Even after all this time I reckon I could whistle the whole lot note for note along with the record, even all the crazy horn solos and Zappa's ridiculously complex melodies. I had it on double cassette and wore two copies out before finally buying it on CD. 

Moshkito
 
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Apply the soothing lotion twice daily and avoid the temptation to scratch.
 
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ampfixer
Ya, Ya, Ya, just answer the question. It seems nobody can read instructions anymore. What ALBUM..... just 1.

I'm not sure that I can actually finger pick the whole album.

Moshkito

dmbaer
Very difficult question to answer, but I'm pretty certain no matter how much deliberation, in the end the answer would inevitably be Switched On Bach.

I totally hated that album. I had already heard, by that time Tomita, and a few other things

Then you clearly did not hear it until six or more years after its initial release.  Switch On Bach came out in 1968, six years before Tomita's first album appeared.  By that time Switched On Bach had already altered the musical landscape in significant ways.

Today, I'm going to start off the day with Blow by Blow.......and no, not the white powder stuff.

struggled with naming just one but based of the life changing aspect;
Ummagumma in quadraphonic in a music room with no lights on and blacked out windows at High School, opened my ears to the possibilities of creating music outside of standard pop song construction.

kennywtelejazz
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If pressed for one album only my one album would be "Woodstock " that album had it all going on

Kenny

I have to agree, although there are some other concert films that are also really good (Stamping Ground is one of them) that also have the energy and the flash.
 
However, it's hard to not accept that some moments of Woodstock were filmed by some great film makers years later ... how about Martin Scorcese ... and he has never talked about it, although I think he was too stoned to care ... but the visuals, in some parts, look so much like many parts of his films.
 
Jimi's moment is sad for me, playing the anthem in front of trash, sort of like saying that the music is not important anymore ... and that hurts. And this is where the European scene takes off, and becomes better than the American scene in music. It all became too commercial after Woodstock and killed a lot of things that it should not have.
 
Some bits and pieces ... Janis Joplin was mostly cut off because she went nuts scream for love in one song, and the band and producers did not know how to handle it. Some of it is in the other album, but somehow, it just felt to me like another "Ball and Chain", and some folks just left her hanging there! End of the band! The other one, was the Incredible String Band, that got moved around so bad, that when they got on stage and did their folk/poetry theater thing, it got laughed off the stage and folks did not get it, and could not relate to it. I guess it was OK to be ripped on acid, but not to be serious about your work ... and this comes back to Jimi again ...
 
For a "live" album I would say it's probably the best one ever. However, the one thing that really got me listening, was "Chunga's Revenge" and then the following week seeing a band called "Babe Ruth" make Iggy look like an idiot on stage at the Whiskey a Go Go. The following week I got to see the film 200 Motels in a full screen ... and great sound ... and that still is one of my favorite films and music shows ... and the "Suites" done off it recently at UCLA only show what a great piece it was.

The best mixing engineer  imo:
Bob Bullock
Soundwise 1a,
the music is not my first choice:
 
Shania Twain - Up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88cIzNmnZvI
 
The first production managing different mixes and instrumentation for different markets. And as engineer Bob Bullock found, even the 'country' version left Nashville and its conventions pretty far behind...