Life-changing albums - as chosen by Radio 1 DJs and our favourite artists

The first ever National Album Day takes place this weekend (Saturday 13 October), and Annie Mac has been speaking to some of Radio 1's favourite stars about the records that changed their lives.

Christine and the Queens' Chris talked about her love of Kanye West, while Sampha looked back at a Stevie Wonder classic. We also spoke to Radio 1's presenters and DJs about the records that have shaped them - albums from the likes of N*E*R*D, The Prodigy and more.

Here are the albums that we've long loved - and can't see ourselves not loving any time soon.

• Highlights of National Album Day on Radio 1

"The album that changed my life was Massive Attack's Blue Lines, which I first heard in my mid-teens. Growing up in Ireland, I was raised on folk and Irish traditional music, as well as some rock and punk, so this was my first introduction to contemporary black music. It really blew my mind."

"It's a classic UK album and covered so many different genres: dub, rap, reggae, breakbeat, hardcore. I loved the way they merged all their influences together. It was epic at one moment, dark the next. For me, it was an amazing musical journey that opened loads of doors and made me curious about lots of different types of music. It was a constant journey of discovery and that’s my favourite thing about music, the way you can spend your whole life discovering infinite new things."

"I then started collecting disco records, soul records, Motown, hip hop and more. I got really into trip hop too, buying Portishead's Dummy, Tricky's Maxinquaye and more. Bristol - where Massive Attack are from - is such a rich musical city, a direct result of immigration and different cultures living side by side. There’s that uniqueness of multiculturalism manifesting in the music."

"Unfinished Sympathy is a song I keep going back to - it’s a bonafide dance classic and one of those tracks that has touched so many people. The album as a whole doesn’t feel dated whatsoever, it’s still as fresh and exciting as when it was released in 1991."

"There are so many albums to choose from - I could have gone with Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, but I have to say In Search Of... by N*E*R*D. It absolutely changed my life. I used to steal it from my older brother. I would literally go and listen to it in his bedroom while he was out with his mates."

"It really cemented the fact that you can like all different types of music. They showed that one band can celebrate all kinds of genres and sounds. It was the definition of an eclectic record. It was an amazing amalgamation of rock, RnB, hip hop, pop - it just had all these different sounds that completely made sense to who I was at that time. In fact, it still does. Those songs are classics, and they showed people how differently you could do things."

"When I first heard it, I felt like I belonged. I would listen to it and think, 'Where have you been all my life?'. I saw myself in Pharrell and I felt an affinity with everything the band did - visual or sonically."

"Collectively as a group, and especially The Neptunes' production, they went on to shape pop music and wider culture. It was so exciting to be as fan from the very beginning. Their influence as a band has been huge. If you look at the Radio 1 playlist at any given time, Pharrell is bound to have been involved in one of the tunes in some way. That’s a testament to his talent and the band’s legacy."

"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West changed my life in different ways. Firstly, I was blown away by how brilliant, intricate, raw, dirty, sad and extremely uncompromising the record was. The record lives up to Kanye’s ambition… his delirious ambition. It’s wounded and very Kanye West in a way. It’s like someone who dreamt about being a god, but came back intensely wounded, and it’s a record that’s a result of that."

"The whole record is impressive from beginning to end, every song is fantastically shaped. I remember Nicki Minaj’s verse on Monster as one of the best things that has ever happened. Everyone on the record shines really bright, but then it also all boils down to what Kanye West is. There’s a perfect energy on the record, and it’s a dramatic one."

"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy addresses every beautiful dark twisted fantasy there is. It has the intricacy of the human mind. I've realised that it has shaped me in a way because I always come back to the record. I need to come back to it, it’s like seeing an old friend. It’s a record that could grow old with me."

"My brother gave me this album as a present for my 13th birthday. I remember initially thinking that he just found it in his car and gave it to me. But my complaints were over as soon as I put it on. I remember listening to it very loudly for the very first time and just thinking, 'WHAT IS THIS?!'"

"It was limitless, and I played it over and over and over again. The way it sounded so free and angry was just what I needed at that age. It was a life-changing album and the first time me and my parents disagreed on music - they HATED it. At the time, I just couldn’t understand why they didn’t like it. I thought it was brilliant - and I still do."

"It's one of my favourite albums of all time. I remember specific moments of my life in high school where it provided something I needed and I can't begin to describe what it’s done for me. It was one of the first albums that I bought out of my own money, so I guess there’s an attachment from that, you were going to make it worth it."

"Your favourite songs from the album didn’t strike you so quickly on the first few listens, but as you lived with them, you began to realise how they burrowed further and further in your head. I think there’s something about a certain melody that if you take a long enough time to carve it out, it's directly related to how long it can stay fresh to a listener. Whatever melody you come up with off the top of your head in five seconds is probably going to be extremely catchy but will die pretty quickly. What Death Cab For Cutie do a great job of is not finding that immediate payoff with a melody, but coming up with the melody that you know took time to find."

"Melody is so important to them, but lyrically, the album was so refreshing too. You'd be like, 'I’ve heard that being said before but not in that way.' They'd be talking about love, or another emotion, but in a way that made sense to me. I had never heard it said in that way. You'd get the feeling everything has been done before, then you hear a Death Cab record and you realise there’s so much more to be talked about. That’s something that definitely influenced my songwriting."

"I wanted to choose something that's moved me quite recently. This is the last album that I remember listening to that I really loved in all of its entirety. A sign of a good album is when your favourite song is always changing. If you have a short attention span, this is such a good album because there's so many different dynamics to it, different moods. It jumps really quickly from a really upbeat, disco-y kind of tune to something that's almost an Americana or country song. That [diversity] is important to me in an album."

"I first heard it live, which I things changes things in a way. It was at a festival called Splendour in the Grass in Australia, which is where the band are from. They played this song called Sitting Up On Our Crane, which features on the album. What I always love about Pond is that they're always switching up their singers, and their drummer was singing this song. It constantly blows my mind when I watch singing drummers."

"The music, the drama, the infighting, the lifestyle: everything that surrounded The Libertines' second album felt like a decadent story lifted from a 70s rock biography. It would be easy to get caught up in the narrative surrounding that record, but if you leave those stories in the papers and listen to the record, you get a remarkably off-kilter portrait of bohemian Britain painted through the whimsy and wide-eyed romance of the two finest songwriters of their generation."

"It's an album that changed my life significantly, as well as millions of others. My dad owned The Best of Stevie Wonder, that’s what I first came across, but then it led me to Songs in the Key of Life. From the first song to the last, it's one of the few albums that I can listen to all the way through and constantly be amazed. It makes you ask questions and it just felt like magic. It’s one of the few things from my childhood and teenage years where I can say that the magic hasn't diluted or faded. It’s just an epic piece of work."

"I think I was 11 when I really started getting into it. I didn’t know why I was in love with it, but now I’m a bit older and realise that it was because the production was amazing and the songwriting too. It was one of the first times that I was completely immersed in music. And it was my thing, I didn't really share it with many people. Not many of my friends were into Stevie Wonder. He’s someone who has inspired me so deeply, he’s in my DNA. His music is just a part of me somehow."

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