- Green Day – Dookie: As a professional musician, my Dad always needs to be pretty up to
date. So back in the day he bought a cassette tape of this album. After giving it a few listens, he gave it to me having no further use for it. This album is essentially what saved me from the horrible pop path I was on at the moment, which I’m sorry to say included a Backstreet Boys album. This had a huge influence on steering me towards rock in general, and the pop rock genre specifically that you’ll see show up again quite a few times. Like all the albums on this list, the number of times I’ve listened to this is uncountable, especially since at the time I first got it, it was the only worthwhile thing I had.
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