15 Albums that changed YOUR world

The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Feel free to add your 15 to my comments section.

1-Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)-Eurythmics- This album affects my view of music to this day.

2-Purple Rain-Prince-Music changed and I knew it.

3-Born in the USA-Bruce Springsteen-Raw, powerful, driven and pure American.

4-Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana-Music changed again and I knew it.

5-Thriller-Michael Jackson-If someone needed one album to explain the 80's, this has to be it.

6-Mandika-Sinead O'Connor-One of the most stunning voices in the history of music.

7-I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got-Sinead O'Connor-Pain, rage and agony in music. Heartbreaking and angry. Wow.

8-Yes I Am-Melissa Etheridge-Music to come out to.

9-Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack-Various Artists-Wildly inventive, dead-on lyrical content and original beyond almost anything else.

10-Private Dancer-Tina Turner-This album brought on my love affair with The Queen of Rock and Roll.

11-On How Life Is-Macy Gray-I get every song on this album stuck in my head.

12-She's So Unusual-Cyndi Lauper-Part of the amazing rush of new talent from the early 80's that made my teenage soundtrack.

13-Greatest Hits-Creedence Clearwater Revival-The album explains a great deal of the 60's and 70's.

14-Hungry Again-Dolly Parton-Listening to an artist "re-find" herself is a wonderful moment.

15-Van Lear Rose-Loretta Lynn-Brilliant collaboration between Jack White and Loretta Lynn that makes Loretta Lynn relevant in music again.