The most influential albums, pop or rock, in the last 45 years.

[Paul Markham]

In your opinion what were the most influential album produced in the last 45 years, since 1961 for those who don't do Maths.

For me it was the following.

Sgt Peppers - The Beatles. First Album you had to listen to a few times to get into.

Tommy - The Who. Pop/rock music became something else.

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix. The electric guitar became something else.

Freewheelin - Bob Dylan. Pop music was more than just music.

You can throw in a few more like The Wall, Disreali Gears, Dark Side. But for me the top four were ground breaking.

What's yours?

[dunefield]

Any album done by Hanson...

[Jakke PNG]

The Winter Album by N'sync

[bobby666]

for me also Sgt Peppers: started pop at all

[DEA - banned for life]

60s any band that took acid
70s Led Zepplin: Zoso
80s Motley Crue :Shout at the devil
90s Nirvana :Nevermind
2000's Eminem :The Eminem Show

[Theo]

Sticky Fingers - 71

[Theo]

or better yet, paint it balck '66

that's where all started


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Inkubus Sukkubus, Judas Priest, Glenn Tipton, Gob, The Vines, Deadsy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Kalan Porter, Firewater, W.A.S.P., Deep Purple, Ottmar Liebert, The Agony Scene, The Avengers, Anti-Nowhere League, The Unseen, Rush, Led Zeppelin, 3 Steps Ahead, The Tea Party, Karel Gott (in German as Schwarz und Rot), Eric Burdon and War, U2, London Symphony Orchestra with Marc Almond, Skrewdriver, Earth Crisis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Hikaru Utada, Half Japanese, Vanessa Carlton, Three Sixes, Face to Face, Spanish band M-Clan, Bullet Train to Moscow, No Friends Of Harry, The Mighty Lemon Drops and others.

[MaDalton]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

[damonx]

Revolver, Thriller, Chronic 2001

[DEA - banned for life]

Revolver, Thriller, Chronic 2001

hahaha fugazi rocks

[SinisterStudios]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, without ozzy and crew we wouldnt have most of the rock or heavy metal music today. Please can say the beatles or led zep influnced todays music, but Ozzy is the godfather of Heavy Metal and more people say they were influenced by them then the beatles or Zep.

First time i heard Black Sabbath it was all over for me, their music still sound fresh today and thats a testiment to them.

[DaddyHalbucks]

Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of The Moon (1973)

[damonx]

hahaha fugazi rocks

sorry by I thought Revolver from the Beatles

[SomeCreep]

the spice girls

[Twisted Dave]

Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction is my all time favorite album and has influenced me and probably MILLIONS of other guitar players especially, in the last few years.


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[Klen]

Ugh there can be million choices.I mean there was a LOT of music produced during last 45 years.Btw beatles was start to exits before 46 years if a im not wrong.Now is 2006 and they ended 1960.Which means 46 years.

[free4porn]

britney spears - hit me one more time

Well helped me through my teen years

[Gillespie]

I don't have a list or anything, but Pearl Jam's "Ten" has to be in there somewhere.

[Paul Markham]

for me also Sgt Peppers: started pop at all

Pop was going long before Sgt. Peppers.

Sgt. Peppers took it to a totally new level. Listen to "Day in the Life"

It was the first pop album that you had to LISTEN to, to really enjoy.

I know I was there in 1967.

It was strange. Up until then we used to like, enjoy and hear pop music. It was always on in the back ground. Even the White Album and Revolver. But Sgt. Peppers you LISTENED to. And in that it was the first POP ALBUM to achieve that. Jazz and blues had been doing it but not POP.

Go look at pop charts pre Sgt. Peppers and then after.

[crockett]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Was a good Album but I don't think you could say it was as influential as say Nirvana's Nevermind. The early Pumpkins were one of a favorite bands but I'm not so sure that they were really influential on a top level like the Beatles or Nirvana.

Both of those bands changed a generation and started a movement.

[MaDalton]

Was a good Album but I don't think you could say it was as influential as say Nirvana's Nevermind. The early Pumpkins were one of a favorite bands but I'm not so sure that they were really influential on a top level like the Beatles or Nirvana.

Both of those bands changed a generation and started a movement.

Nirvana - Nevermind is certainly also in that league - i experienced it first hand as a DJ at that time - and how the people changed

[Paul Markham]

Ugh there can be million choices.I mean there was a LOT of music produced during last 45 years.Btw beatles was start to exits before 46 years if a im not wrong.Now is 2006 and they ended 1960.Which means 46 years.

They broke up in 1969.

Will have to listen to Nirvana and see what I'm missing.

[Grapesoda]

pet sounds . . the beach boys
black sabith - paraniod
led zeplin

[SweetArmo]

Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction is my all time favorite album and has influenced me and probably MILLIONS of other guitar players especially, in the last few years.


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I Agree

[Alphonso]

[crockett]

They broke up in 1969.

Will have to listen to Nirvana and see what I'm missing.

The problem with listening to Nirvana now is they won't seem as progressive now as they were then. They basically changed the whole rock music scene when they came out almost over night.

Also a key note that after Kurt Cobain killed himself the remaining members went on to form the Foo Fighters which has turned into another great group that is still together today.

[tenderobject]

pet sounds . . the beach boys

this one i have to agree..
one of my favourite under rated band from the 60's better than the beatles imho.

[ThumbLord]

well ........... the first double LP ever? - just check Google, hint: MOI
or maybe the Beach Boys - Holland?

[ThumbLord]

we're only in it for the money?

[jonesy]

im no particular order

john mayall and the blues breakers featuring eric clapton - the beano album

jimi hendrix - electric ladyland, are you experinced, band of gypsy's

guns n roses appetite for destruction

james brown

van halen I

nivana never mind

led zeppelin I II and IV

beatles - sgt pepper, white album, revolver

The Clash london calling

The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols,

alice in chains face lift

ac/dc back in black

ozzy osbourne diary of a madman - blizzard of ozz

new york dolls - new york dolls

prince 1999 purple rain

michael jackson - thriller

korn - korn

areatha franklin -

the who - tommy - whos next

rolling stones - some girls, exile on main st., sticky fingers, beggars banquet, let it bleed

Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

run dmc - raising hell

ramones - rocket to russia

greenday - dookie

panters - vulgar dislpay of power

The Stooges - Raw Power,

bowie - low, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - The Man Who Sold the World

queen, - news of the world, a night at the oprea

parliment - p funk

[Lee]

Dark Side of The Moon, Hatful of Hollow & Rage Against The Machine.

[Sly]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, without ozzy and crew we wouldnt have most of the rock or heavy metal music today. Please can say the beatles or led zep influnced todays music, but Ozzy is the godfather of Heavy Metal and more people say they were influenced by them then the beatles or Zep.

First time i heard Black Sabbath it was all over for me, their music still sound fresh today and thats a testiment to them.

When influence is mentioned, Black Sabbath is always my first thought. Black Sabbath started "hard rock" and "metal". Every rock and metal musician marks Sabbath as a huge influence.

As far as rock goes, I have yet to find a band that has more "wow" songs than Sabbath. Sabbath is still a major part of today's everyday listening music, after 30 years, they were way ahead of their time.

[longboardjim]

influential for whom? , to you? , or the world?

albums most influential (or ones i can remember) to me.

60's - diana ross & the supremes (it was a 60's thing)

70's - crystal gayle (i love long hair and country was big at the time)

80's - pet shop boys (i love green/blue/etc. hair color)

90's - randy travis (back to country for me while the world went "trans")

20's - i stopped buying new music because there is a lack of original material and what's out there sounds like sh*t (interpreted: i'm old and i just don't get it!) so at this time i am transfering all old media on vinyl/tape to digital and spending the remainder of my time left on this planet listening to what i want to hear ..."cause it's still all about me baby!"...

sincerely ~ ..."if i could put time on a disc..err..in a bottle!"...

[homegrownSpike]

Pop was going long before Sgt. Peppers.

Sgt. Peppers took it to a totally new level. Listen to "Day in the Life"

It was the first pop album that you had to LISTEN to, to really enjoy.

I know I was there in 1967.

It was strange. Up until then we used to like, enjoy and hear pop music. It was always on in the back ground. Even the White Album and Revolver. But Sgt. Peppers you LISTENED to. And in that it was the first POP ALBUM to achieve that. Jazz and blues had been doing it but not POP.

Go look at pop charts pre Sgt. Peppers and then after.

Lennon said that "Pet Sounds" was his influence for Sgt. Peppers...

[jonesy]

im no particular order

john mayall and the blues breakers featuring eric clapton - the beano album

jimi hendrix - electric ladyland, are you experinced, band of gypsy's

guns n roses appetite for destruction

james brown

van halen I

nivana never mind

led zeppelin I II and IV

beatles - sgt pepper, white album, revolver

The Clash london calling

The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols,

alice in chains face lift

ac/dc back in black

ozzy osbourne diary of a madman - blizzard of ozz

new york dolls - new york dolls

prince 1999 purple rain

michael jackson - thriller

korn - korn

areatha franklin -

the who - tommy - whos next

rolling stones - some girls, exile on main st., sticky fingers, beggars banquet, let it bleed

Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

run dmc - raising hell

ramones - rocket to russia

greenday - dookie

panters - vulgar dislpay of power

The Stooges - Raw Power,

bowie - low, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - The Man Who Sold the World

queen, - news of the world, a night at the oprea

parliment - p funk

fuck i forgot

sabbath - black sabbath, paranoid, heaven and hell with dio

metallica - master of pupets, ride the lightning, justice for all, the black album

nwa staright oughta compton

biggie smalls - ready to die

[wizhard]

What's yours?

For me the Talking Heads - Remain In Light still remains as the archytypal album for changing the direction of modern music.

[tranza]

Eminem - E

[Paul Markham]

When influence is mentioned, Black Sabbath is always my first thought. Black Sabbath started "hard rock" and "metal". Every rock and metal musician marks Sabbath as a huge influence.

As far as rock goes, I have yet to find a band that has more "wow" songs than Sabbath. Sabbath is still a major part of today's everyday listening music, after 30 years, they were way ahead of their time.

I first saw Black Sabbath play in a pub called The Wakes Arms, it was an old coaching inn. They were loading their own gear in and out of the van.

They were good.

[jonesy]

fuck i forgot

sabbath - black sabbath, paranoid, heaven and hell with dio

metallica - master of pupets, ride the lightning, justice for all, the black album

nwa staright oughta compton

biggie smalls - ready to die

shit i forgot pt 3

beastie boys - license to ill, pauls boutique, check your head

US war

[rodney25]

Beatles' Sgt. Pepper

Michael Jackson's Thriller

[Jakke PNG]

They broke up in 1969.

Will have to listen to Nirvana and see what I'm missing.

You should start with 'Nirvana Unplugged', probably one of the best acoustic albums I've ever heard. You being the old fart that you are, that might be a little easier to your ears ;)

[madawgz]

for the rap scene, dre and eminem...

[Skunkie]

Woody Guthrie: Library of Congress Recordings
Sex Pistols : Never Mind the Bollocks

[donross]

any album from Rage Against the Machine

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of The Moon, The Doors: The Doors, Green Day: Dookie, Beastie Boys: License to Ill, The Beatles Please Please Me, Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland, Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, U2: Achtung Baby, Nirvana: Nevermind