Spin Magazine's 15 Most Influential Albums Of All Time
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Found It Online and actually enjoyed their take on these albums. All notes come from the article at spin.com
- Chart updated: 12/17/2013 19:18
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- Chart size: 15 albums.
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These Hermosa Beach, California, bums helped birth the U.S. hardcore scene and launched the cottage industry that is HenryRollins, but that's almost beside the point. Damaged was a bona fide rock'n'roll masterstroke, funny and feral, self-mockingeven as it nodded to a burgeoning community. From the cover image--which many mistook as fascist--to the songs extolling thepleasures of watching TV and getting fucked up, Damaged begged to be misunderstood. As such, it became the benchmark for a newform of suburban alienation. Soon enough, bands filled with angry self-haters were popping up coast to coast. And skateboardingbecame a crime. INFLUENCED: Meat Puppets, Nirvana, Bad Religion, the Offspring, Blink-182, Pennywise, Queens of the Stone Age
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1981
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Long before they dusted off Aerosmith and made rap metal possible, Run-D.M.C. made rap hard, stripping it down to nothing butsteel wheels, gold chains, and brass balls. As the link between hip-hop's old and new schools, they took their genre out ofthe disco and into your living room, which means they're arguably the reason people in Malaysia and Holland know what "rap"means and inarguably the reason everyone from Korn to your little brother rocks shell-toe Adidas. As important to the developmentof the music as electricity or vinyl, they made everything possible. (R.I.P., Jay.) INFLUENCED: Beastie Boys, Public Enemy,Limp Bizkit, everyone else who picked up a microphone after them
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1984
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450
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Before intra-homie strife and the departure of key player Ice Cube sapped their strength, N.W.A were the world's mostdangerous band: a crew of magnetically hostile rappers breathing down white America's neck over producer Dr. Dre's raw-nervedfunk. Although Eazy-E bankrolled the group's initial releases with dope money, N.W.A weren't the street reporters they claimedto be, and Compton is more audio blaxploitation than ghetto CNN. But even if the blood on their hands was really ketchup, theirrage was real, and hip-hop provocateurs are still struggling to trump this murder-rap landmark. INFLUENCED: the L.A. riots,Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, Master P, Quentin Tarantino, Eminem, white people who use the term "beeatch"
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1988
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3,277
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You might not have heard of them, but for many of the bands you love, Operation Ivy meant as much as the Ramones. Thesehyper-political East Bay punks were as enamored of 2-Tone ska bands (the Specials, the Selecter) as the Clash were of reggae,and they used the music to similar ends--as thematic inspiration and sonic fuel. Op Ivy threw reverence to the wind and juicedthe music with the frenetic rhythms of American hardcore. Their debut, Energy, was released after the band broke up (guitaristTim "Lint" Armstrong and bassist Matt Freeman went on to form Rancid) and was the most important artifact of the scene aroundBerkeley's legendary Gilman Street all-ages club. INFLUENCED: Green Day, No Doubt, Sublime, 311, Rage Against the Machine,Blink-182
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1989
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Spin Magazine's 15 Most Influential Albums Of All Time composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 1 | 7% | |
| 1970s | 7 | 47% | |
| 1980s | 4 | 27% | |
| 1990s | 3 | 20% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| N.W.A | 1 | 7% | |
| The Velvet Underground & Nico | 1 | 7% | |
| Operation Ivy | 1 | 7% | |
| The Stooges | 1 | 7% | |
| Uncle Tupelo | 1 | 7% | |
| Black Sabbath | 1 | 7% | |
| Rage Against The Machine | 1 | 7% | |
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