Most Influential/Important albums of all Time?

[videopoo]

Rolling Stone says Sgt. Peppers is #1 with Pet Sounds a close second. I'd think Id put Pet Sounds at the #1 slot

Micheal jacksons had 3 albums in the top 50?!?

The Romone's first Album was like # 32. Definetly needs to be in the top ten

[yoda313]

Well let's see:

Saturday Night Live Soundtrack - what made the Bee Gees big.

Thriller would be another by Jackson.

Any of the Beach Boys earlier stuff would be up there.

Those are just a few though I'm biased towards the pop/rock stuff so I'm sure others have different ideas.

[Faustus]

All time? Thats kinda impossible considering different genres and different times.

I'd say Nirvanna's Nevermind was pretty influential obviously but not "off all time" I don't think such a thing exist.

[yoda313]

Yeah those "top whatever" lists always leave people arguing.

There's too many categories and too many different eras to exclude or include something.

[ZAPPER]

The Wall or any Pink Floyd for that matter.



The beatles

[JohnnyCNote]

Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix...

[SquirrelDip]

Reading the top few posts I was thinking this thread was a joke - gotta agree with Flaystus (and his disclaimer) and also agree with ZAPPER and JohnnyCNote...

I'd like to add The Who to the list...

[ZAPPER]

Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix...

Hendrix has a drive.

I always wonder how teens today, getting their first taste of the classics like Hendrix, the Who or Floyd and such, react to the music. I mean like does it have any of the same kind of impact on them? Is it being studied in school?

[thecoalman]

Well Zapper I can give you a perspective on a 30 something being a teenager during the mid 80's. Wasn't much worth listening too as most of the music being produced was aimed at the MTV crowd, "Classics" such as "Centerfold" and the like. Fun songs but not much substance.

In my later teen years I turned to the real classics like Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Floyd and others. Guess they weren't really classics at that time though.

I'd have to say Black Sabbath, they had/have a tremendous influence on the harder side of music. Keep in mind the original Black Sabbath album was released in 1970. I doubt there's any band that has influenced others such as Mettallica or others of the genre as much.

[JohnnyCNote]

As a guitar player, I was a real Hendrix fanatic when I was in high school in the early 70's. So I didn't listen to a lot of bands that I later discovered were quite influential, Black Sabbath being one of the most in this regard.

I saw Led Zepp live in '72 at the Jacksonville Colisseum. For me it was a disappointing show for a variety of reasons, although the vast majority of those who attended really enjoyed it. However, they did put out some great songs over the years. I always felt they were more of a studio band than a live one..

Needless to say, this is all just my opinion....

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

The Wall or any Pink Floyd for that matter.



The beatles

You read my mind!

[ZAPPER]

Kind of back at coalman

I am no developmental specialist or anything like that, but I would guess that it would be a persons mid to late teens before they started to "Find themselves" or start thinking on their own, that is I mean it would seem to be the time that we start to make our own choices more and more based on our own information.

I assume to realize that musical taste varies. I also realize that culture, attitude and exposure are most likely the main factors in developing a particular taste in music. I would say that most songs or tunes are "feel good" themed, and that making us "feel" something, is at the root of most entertainment. For some reason, it seems the human mind likes to take little escapes from reality in the form of entertainment.

I am not here to knock anyones taste in what they do to escape. I have apparently reached a point in my life where I would like to know that some of the music that I enjoy has merit other than what I put on it. I mean does it transcend the ages. Does it have the same drive to todays youth and will it to tomorrows youth? Was it a dated fad or an eternal motivator?

Whoa, too heavy.

Anyhow it would be cool to know that my kids could enjoy the same stuff that I did, without dad ramming it down their throats.


@ Cnote
Live shows very seldom meet the musical sound quality of a studio session, and the bigger the venue the worse the quality gets. The thing to enjoy at a show like this is the energy level of the act and the crowd. Now an up close small venue live can also blow away any recorded event. I mean up close enough to hear the click of a pick as it leaves the string or the thumping of the fingers on the frets, now that's up close!

[Guest]

Never heard of Petsounds.


I say Easy Does It.

[rhegedus]

Led Zeppelin IV

[videopoo]

Im finding myself listening to Pet Sounds alot lately. Check this album out some time.

[Garibaldi]

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

[DiablosuX102]

Led Zeppelin IV

That's right!! Anything from Led Zeppelin.

[Faustus]

Anything by Snoop Dog.

[smearbrick1]

Well let's see:

Saturday Night Live Soundtrack - what made the Bee Gees big.

Thriller would be another by Jackson.

Any of the Beach Boys earlier stuff would be up there.

Those are just a few though I'm biased towards the pop/rock stuff so I'm sure others have different ideas.

First of all... it's "Saturday Night Fever" not "Saturday Night Live".

What genre are we discussing here? If we're discussing Rock N Roll then we shouldn't leave out the obvious... Jazz which evolved into Blues, which evolved into R&B and (combined with a little country flare) became Rock N Roll. There are so many others to include that most lists fail to recognize. Think of the blues musicians like Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters (he invented electricity), and B.B. King. From those bluse musicians comes Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Eric Clapton, the list goes on and on.

I wonder who assembles these lists? To me it seems they might be assembled by some 21 year old kid who raided his fathers vinyl collection.

My List (my most influential albums)

Elvis Presley - Complete 50's Masters (Box Set)
Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience
Muddy Waters - Millenium Collection
Led Zeppelin - I
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings
Alice In Chains - Facelift (The original grunge album, regardless what anyone says about Nirvana's "Nevermind")
Skidrow - Slave To The Grind (This album introduce me to the concept of "raw, original, riffage".)
Wilson Pickett - The Best Of
Percy Sledge - Best Of
The Kinks
The Ramones - (To hell with the Sex Pistols... the original punk!)
The Rolling Stones
Miles Davis
Etta James

...and the list goes on and on.

[yoda313]

Sorry smearbrick - I was typing too fast I should have typed fever - sorry

[smearbrick1]

Sorry smearbrick - I was typing too fast I should have typed fever - sorry :D

No need for apologies. We all make mistakes. Especially something as trivial as this!

[SatStorm]

What changed music for ever is "Robots" (1970) by Kraftwerk

This is the most influential/important album of all time.

[AlecWest]

Rolling Stone says Sgt. Peppers is #1 with Pet Sounds a close second. I'd think Id put Pet Sounds at the #1 slot.

I concur with that ... it's a tough choice. But personally, I have another choice that probably didn't even make it to the list. And, this isn't just my opinion (I was a DJ when Sgt. Peppers was popular) but the opinion of other DJs I knew and worked with.

Side by side, when I listened to The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album and the Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request" album (they came out at roughly the same time), the Stones album seemed stylistically superior. The sad part is that Beatles music continued to evolve while the Stones went right back to their roots afterward (for the most part). No other Stones album sounds quite like the unique sound they came up with in "Their Satanic Majesties Request." If you've not listened to that album before, try to listen to two songs - "2000 Light Years From Home" and "In Another Land." If Jagger's voice wasn't so easy to recognize, it would be hard to say those songs were Stones songs on first-listen.

[kisrum]

Broadest influence across all pop music from the 50's to the 90's anyway? Probably wasn't an album. Almost every anglo pop band (and country band) in the world took something from Buddy Holly (and the Crickets), especially the guitar solo in "Peggy Sue" but there are dozens of other songs that still echo around, and he did them all before he was 22. in 18 months of relative fame. Guitarists from Jimmie Page on down still sing his praises. From The Beatles (including their name) on down, Holly's influence is everywhere. No I wasn't raised in Texas.