What would you say have been the five most influential albums in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries....
abbas greatest hits .......the wombles this is wimbledon for the commoners .................russ abbots groovy tunes ..........chas and dave cockney pissheads vol 1 .........and the clangers lost in space ........seriously erm good question .
oasis - definately maybe ..........pink floyd - the wall .........the verve -urban hymns ...........stone roses -complete..........echo and the bunnymen - crocodiles .............their are many many more
Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band - Beatles. fav. track (A Day in the Life) Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. (Almost Cut My Hair) Mona Bone Jakon - Cat Stevens. (Trouble) Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd. (Wish You Were Here) Stone Roses - Stone Roses. (I Am A Resurrection) Maybe not the most influential but some of the best music to be produced. But the list can go on and on....with regard to artists and their music.
I'd go for: Beatles - Sgt Peppers Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon The Clash - London Calling Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Led Zeppelin
Tommy. One of the first pop/rock albums to be conceived as a unified work rather than a bunch of singles. But since you didn't restrict the question to pop/rock albums, I'd add Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme and Liege and Lief. And the Dylan "Albert Hall" bootleg, which turned out on its legit release to have actually been recorded in Manchester of all places.
Umm.. Led Zeppelin- Err... all of them? The Jimi Hendrix Experience.. all of them? The Beatles... *points above* The Who's earlier albums Bob Dylan (sorry- not too good with album names >_>)
Aenima [Tool] Dirt [Alice in Chains] Bloody Kisses [Type O negative] True Colours [High Contrast] Dark side of the moon [Pink Floyd]
Difficult to keep it down to 5, but I'd probably say :- Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley Sgt Peppers - The Beatles (I don't actually like The Beatles, but you can't ignore them...) Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie London Calling - The Clash And while we're on the subject, one of the above obviously had an influence on one of the others too :- Although come to think of it, Never Mind The Bollocks was probably more influential than London Calling. Not as good, but possibly more influential...
Never Mind the Bollocks was fun for five minutes, but really it's just a bit of nihilistic noise. The Clash were far more politically developed and I'd say have had far more resonance for the multitude of politically infused punk, punk-rock and folk-punk bands that have sprung up in their wake. You only have to take a look at the lineup for any Beautiful Days festival to see the influence of The Clash....
Autobahn - Kraftwerk Homework, - by Daft Punk Never Mind The Bollocks - sex pistols Sgt Pepper - Beatles Big Science - Laurie Anderson Quadrophenia - the who Test Tube - Xray Spex and about 100 others
On the plus side, you've found someone who likes Xray Spex. On the downside, it's Ronald McDonald :tongue: