Albums that created a new style of music

Mind Movie · My Charts

I'm just finished listening to Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues. I came to think that the album was hugely innovatve, and I don't believe something quite like it existed before - I can't find a former pop/rock album where everything feels so theatrical and overblown, filled with fantasy inspired poetry, backed up by a complete symphony orchestra and where the songs are rather suites divided into movements. I'll dare to call DoFP responsable for turning rock music into its 70s style: pompous and ambitious (or pretentious and self indulgent, as the skeptical would say). Though I'm not a fan of the album, I admire its attempt to create something unique.

Which albums do you consider to have created a new style of music?

purple · My Charts

always controversial, but here are some that came to mind...

The Shape of Jazz to Come-Ornette Coleman (free jazz)
Nevermind the Bollocks-Here's the Sex Pistols-Sex Pistols (punk)
Blue Lines-Massive Attack (trip-hop)
Talk Talk-Spirit of Eden/Slint-Spiderland(/Metal Box-PIL) (post-rock)

for some reason I think Birth of the Cool and one of Miles' fusion albums should be on here, but I'm not sure

Hermes_requite · #3 | Posted: 03/29/2012 00:45 | Post subject:

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Norman Bates · #4 | Posted: 03/29/2012 05:22 | Post subject:

Any of the first Ray Charles records (rhythm 'n' blues)
Sam Cooke, Night Beat (soul)
Sugarhill Gang, "Rappers Delight" (rap)
some James Brown LP circa 66 (funk)

Hermes_requite · #5 | Posted: 03/29/2012 05:29 | Post subject:

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The album is the earliest known LP release of the rock and roll genre.

BlueNote · Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 301 My Charts

We Care A Lot Faith No More

On the whole, I can't say their innovation was a good thing.

harkan · #7 | Posted: 03/29/2012 11:15 | Post subject:

purple · My Charts

I'll agree with you that Colour of Spring is a transition album, and that's it's great, but it's easily classified as pop. Spirit of Eden is a totally different kind of music

Error Finn · #9 | Posted: 03/29/2012 15:14 | Post subject:

Freak Out! - Zappa and Mothers (Concept Albums)
In a Silent Way - Davis and (New generation´s jazz ) Friends (Ambient)
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Charicature · #10 | Posted: 03/29/2012 15:43 | Post subject:

Don't know if they really were first or not, but Liquidiser by Jesus Jones was the first album I know of that fused guitar rock, dance, and electronic music and sampling into something awesome.
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