Perhaps no album in my collection stands as important to me personally as Big Country's first album "The Crossing". I still remember when I purchased this album in early 1984, when I was still pretty young, and I somehow had managed to save up enough dollars (probably a quarter at a time) to buy this on cassette from a catalog company store along the lines of a Service Merchandise. Back in those days, coming up with $6 - $7 was serious business for a 12 or 13 year old with no allowance, and so it took days and weeks of thought and pondering before making a final decision to move forward with an album purchase, or what I considered an "investment" in a band. And then, there was the finagling of my parents to somehow get them to drive me to a location that would have the album in stock. I actually got fairly smart; I learned what each store had in stock beforehand, especially places that my parents would go to more often, and then act like I needed, say, som...
A list of albums in no specific order that influenced my life and musical creation