Gateway Drugs
The key to this list is not so much the album as the artist highlighted in the notes. The album was my 'gateway' into that artist. Key point - not my first exposure to that artist ... who could not have been aware of Bowie before Low, or Eno in Roxy Music long before Bush of Ghosts, or for heaven's sake Nick Cave before 2016!
So no, these albums aren't a record of their first album but rather the album that made me sit up and revisit the back catalogue and make sure that I kept track of that specific artist going forward.
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Release : 1969 | Robert Fripp
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Fairport Convention
Release : 1969 | Richard Thompson
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Led Zeppelin
Release : 1969 | Robert Plant
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Pentangle
Release : 1969 | John Renbourn and Bert Jansch
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Deep Purple, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Arnold
Release : 1969 | Jon Lord
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Traffic
Release : 1970 | Stevie Winwood
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Pink Floyd
Release : 1970 | Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour
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Neil Young
Release : 1970 | Neil Young
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Genesis
Release : 1970 | Peter Gabriel
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Strawbs
Release : 1971 | Rick Wakeman
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Steely Dan
Release : 1972 | Donald Fagen and Walter Becker
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Lou Reed
Release : 1972 | Lou Reed
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Santana
Release : 1972 | Carlos Santana
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Genesis
Release : 1976 | Steve Hackett
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Talking Heads
Release : 1977 | David Byrne
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David Bowie
Release : 1977 | David Bowie
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XTC
Release : 1980 | Andy Partridge
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Brian Eno, David Byrne
Release : 1981 | Brian Eno
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The Style Council
Release 1984 | Paul Weller
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Blur
Release : 1994 | Damon Albarn
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Pulp
Release : 1995 | Jarvis Cocker
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Porcupine Tree
Release : 2002 | Steven Wilson
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Richard Hawley
Release : 2005 | Richard Hawley
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Release : 2016 | Nick Cave
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