ITT: Artists who completely changed the way that you see music

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James Brown
Minutemen
Juilliard String Quartet
Moving Star Hall Singers
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nikhil Banerjee
John Coltrane
Brian Eno, too

swans
dean blunt
ariel pink
john maus
anco
sun kil moon/rhp
shellac
bowie
aphex twin
Stravinsky
liturgy
frank zappa
the smiths
the police
Wire
this heat
arca

>The Police
BITCH WHAT???

changed the way I see music production

grimes. her instrumentals are bananas

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I don't even really like Aphex Twin, but he definitely changed how I see music

Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train

First time I decided to step away from top 40.

Gorguts - Obscura
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind

Got recced Obscura cuz metal, found out about TMR because of Obscura's AllMusic review, found SFTB on RYM when I browsed it for the first time; all three records really changed how I viewed music in terms of how to judge something that might initially sound totally alien to my tastes and what it is different forms of music offer over one another.

James Holden's Balance 005
Bach's Art Of Fugue
One of John Coltrane's records I can't remember honestly

The concept of paying attention to the more subtler things in music. From Bach it was melodic/harmonic progression, from Holden it was minimalist "sounds entering and building up", from Coltrane it was the expression involved from very organic styles of playing music.

Swans - Public Castration is A Good Idea
Giles Corey - s/t

Of course music can get a person through hard times, but I didn't particularly believe this until I went through some myself and have listened to each of these records about 500 times each during a more suicidal time where they kinda kept me away from it. It wasn't necessarily the more typically "musical" aspect of these records, I obviously wasn't in a state to enjoy that stuff, but like their kinds of intensity that they offered that appealed to me at the time whether its Swans visceral kind or Giles Corey's (un)emotional one.

Any particular works that the Juilliard String Quartet have done that made you pick them?