Most INFLUENTIAL Albums

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JohnnyRocketFingers




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  • Posted: 12/18/2008 00:40
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Make a list of the most influential albums of all time here, not your favorites. For example: London Calling the best album of all time but Velvet Underground and Nico influenced music more.
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JohnnyRocketFingers




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Also i designated a whole thread to this topic instead of just using my Best Songs/Albums/Artists Thread because it's a very big topic and i want to see lots of feed back
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banana brother




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Jazz:
Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives and Sevens
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Birth of Cool, In A Silent Way
Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come, Free Jazz
Charles Mingus - Pithcanthropus Erectus, Black Saint
Kieth Jarret - The Koln Concert
John Zorn - Naked City
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Ascension
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Lennie Tristano Descent Into Maelstrom
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JohnnyRocketFingers




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UPDATED

Here's my list:

1. Velvet Underground and Nico
2. Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads
3. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4. The Stooges - Funhouse
5. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
6. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Stop Us
7. The Doors - The Doors
8. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
9. Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry Is On Top
10. R.E.M. - Mumur
11. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
12. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues
13. Terry Riley - A Rainbow In A Curved
14. The Clash - London Calling
15. Suicide - Suicide
16. Louis Armstrong - Hot 5's & 7's
17. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
18. Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
19. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
20. The Smiths - The Smiths

...that took a long time.
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banana brother




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I had an idea we should put what genres or bands wouldn't exist without a certain album e.g.:
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Incalculable impact on modern music no krautrock (can, klaus) who both heavily used repetition techniques that were pioneered on this album

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
No link between psychedelic/blues/avant garde no post punk bands like b52s or blondie who both cited this album as where they got their style of guitar playing from
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banana brother




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Good call with Bringing it all Back Home, that album really is the first folk-rock hybrid you could even go as far as to call it the forefather of modern rock music
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nibbles




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The Chronic by Dr. Dre
It pioneered G-funk.

Straight Outta' Compton by NWA
It pioneered gangster rap
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telefunker



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A few others..

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (guitar playing)
Joni Mitchell - Blue (confessional songwriting)
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (socially conscious, rebellious rap)
The Who - Tommy (rock opera concept)
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AleJohnMari




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1. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
2. Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
4. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
6. The Beatles - Revolver
7. Love - Love
8. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are Changin'
9. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
10. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
11. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
12. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
13. Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
14. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
15. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

And of course I have to mention Hank Williams, but I think he was just a huge influence on almost every pop artist because of his airplay.
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Mr.Music




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Chuck Berry Is On Top - Chuck Berry
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico
Freak Out! - Frank Zappa
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Exile on Main Street - Rolling Stones
Ramones - Ramones
Kraftwerk
Pink Floyd
The Clash - The Clash
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
IV - Led Zeppelin
The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
Zen Arcade - Hüsker Dü
The Smiths
Doolittle - The Pixies
Nevermind - Nirvana
Entroducing - dj Shadow
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