I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.
'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.
One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.
I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP.
I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.
I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - that one removed all doubt!
'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'
When I got the 'Blue Album,' I was 11 years old, 10 years old, and then I convinced my parents to go and get my first drum kit, which was, like, 600 bucks.
One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time... around 1960 or so.
I was interested in music since I was 14 years old. What really got me started was the first Led Zeppelin album... absolutely.
One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
Other music that 'Ride The Lightning' led me to discover was to start really kind of sinking my teeth into some of the thrash of the era that I literally had no exposure to - whether it was Slayer, whether it was Testament, whether it was Megadeth. It was the opening of a doorway, for me, to a whole new palette of music.
There was just a moment when I fell in love with singing, probably when I started listening to Ben Howard and his album 'I Forget Where We Were.' I fell in love with that album, and that album really made me fall in love with singing.
