When we moved from Madison, WI to Santa Barbara, there were 10/12 albums I took with me, that I would not allow to go on the family truck along with 45k books of literature and whatever else that truck handled!
I can not even remember all the albums, now! But here is a partial/short list.
 
Cheap Thrills -- Big Brother and the Holding Company
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 1st
Chicago 2
The Crow - (The Album that had Evil Woman)
Ides of March - (The Album that has Vehicle - fabulous album!)
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Steve Miller Band - 1st
 
All in all, they were the albums that were most important to me, where the music was not just a song, and things were eimportant to the folks doing it. I think there were a couple of other things I can not remember, like Marc Almond's 1st and like "Bookends" by Simon and Garfunkel.
 
The first album, I ever heard, when I arrived in America in October 1965, was "Blonde on Blonde" by Bob Dylan, where the gentleman at whose house we stayed for a month was an upper class hipster in real estate that owned a couple of those really big houses in the Langdon/Mifflin area close to the UW campus. He also had the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Al Kooper that I can remember.
 
I fell out of the Beatles at the end of Abbey Road, though I was never that big on the Beatles, even though I had a lot of respect for their last 3 or 4 albums, specially the White Album, that still is one of my favorite albums of all time! It got to the point where it was obvious that the media were distorting everything they said and it was making them look half stupid, half the time, and I got annoyed with it.
 
In Santa Barbara, I got into Led Zeppelin, and the following year, heavy duty into the European and Imports scene, and the rest is history! Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 and 3 were in my collection big time, as well as about 15 different bootlegs, because if there ever was a band that was fabulous in concert, this one was it. The energy alone could suck you in so fast! 

If you count 45's it would be Ray Stevens "The Streak".

So, I guess I could K-tel you, but then I would want to make you listen to it.

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If you count 45's it would be Ray Stevens "The Streak".

 
Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky    Ooof....

I've been thinking about this and other than Meet the BEATLES. Some of the first albums I had were Paul Revere and the Raiders, one of the first I remember was Ramblin' Gamblin' Man by Bob Seger. When I was in HS, or Jr high (8th and 9th grade) I had and listened a lot to Were Only in it for the Money, by the MOTHERS and King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King. I wish I couldremember what I had first but the albums I remember best are the MOTHERS, I can still sing most every word on the WOIIFTM album, most early BEATLES albums, and some Raiders.
Those were good days. Pop culture was... well, pop culture and it was strong... remember Carnaby Street. OF course living in the southern USA, I had never been there but it's influence was huge. I still have my Nehru jacket and salmon colored shirt that ges under it. It is in NEW condition too! Big blousy sleeved shirts with paisley prints, with white collars and cuffs. BEATLE boots. Pin striped pants... stylin'...
We visited Yellowstone Park in 1967. I was decked out in the latest MOD fasihion. A couple of girls a bit younger than me came up and asked if I was British... I just smiled, I wasn't about to answer with a GA accent... LOL, being cool was very important, I guess it still is when you are 15yo...
 
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A couple of the other album's I bought were Black Sabbath and Jeff Beck's Beckola. I wore those two out along with my old Beatle records.

My first album was Hybrid Theory. I wasn't really obsessed with music back those days but Linking Park was so different as compared to other types of music that I used to listen to!

 
I was 11. At the time, I knew nothing about it whatsoever, except that Ozzy Osbourne was supposedly the most shocking, the craziest and, by consequence I was hoping, the heaviest.
 
I spent quite a bit of time trying to pick which looked the most shocking - Diary of a Madman or the picture disc of Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind. The plate with the brain and sliced veggies made a lasting impression on me, but in the end, I decided that Ozzy was the most shocking because it also had the reversed cross. Pretty spooky.
 
I didn't like it all that much at first - except for Over the Mountain and the title track. But it grew on me. I ended up picking up the electric guitar because of Randy Rhoads' solo in Over the Mountain and eventually started studying classical guitar because of him. 
 
My bedroom was looked like a Randy Rhoads shrine. It is still one of my favorite albums ever - and the album I've bought the most copies of. :)