The Most Influential Albums

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  1. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    What would you say have been the five most influential albums in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries....
     
  2. paulfreespirit

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    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 .
     
  3. paulfreespirit

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    oasis - definately maybe ..........pink floyd - the wall .........the verve -urban hymns ...........stone roses -complete..........echo and the bunnymen - crocodiles .............their are many many more :)
     
  4. mellowthyme

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    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.
     
  5. Peace-Phoenix

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    I'd go for:


    Beatles - Sgt Peppers

    Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

    The Clash - London Calling

    Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

    Led Zeppelin
     
  6. Roffa

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    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.
     
  7. Peace-Phoenix

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    Probably the Byrds 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' as well....
     
  8. Ezzie

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    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 >_>)
     
  9. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    Spiceworld
     
  10. Peace-Phoenix

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    I should ban you for trolling :tongue:
     
  11. Ezzie

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    I say we burn the blasphemer!
     
  12. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    Send him the way of Noel Edmunds. Straight down....
     
  13. Ezzie

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    Noel Edmonds? Wouldn't let anyone endure that punishment.. that's too far =/
     
  14. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    Aenima [Tool]
    Dirt [Alice in Chains]
    Bloody Kisses [Type O negative]
    True Colours [High Contrast]
    Dark side of the moon [Pink Floyd]
     
  15. feral

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    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 :-

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    Although come to think of it, Never Mind The Bollocks was probably more influential than London Calling. Not as good, but possibly more influential...
     
  16. Peace-Phoenix

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    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....
     
  17. ronald Macdonald

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    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
     
  18. CrucifiedDreams

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    Yay someone who likes Xray Spex :D
     
  19. Peace-Phoenix

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    On the plus side, you've found someone who likes Xray Spex. On the downside, it's Ronald McDonald :tongue:
     
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    Troll love <3


     

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