Most groundbreaking album of all time?
 

For me it will always be Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band. Released in 1967, it changed popular music.

Before it albums had been a collection of singles. After it albums could be very different.

Electric Ladyland of 1968 is also up there at the top.

Autechre's Confield.

It broke electronic music and allowed it to be reconstructed in ways most people haven't even begun to think of yet.

I won't tell...

prolly Black Sabbath Paranoid.... that and FreakOut by FZ

I have to think about mine...

Reminded me of some of the early Pink Floyd concerts. The ones I walked out of. :1orglaugh

LA Woman
The Doors
1971

Nirvana -- Nevermind

SLAYER - Reign In Blood
it set a blueprint that 1000s of bands would try to follow, yet couldn't
it combined the speed of punk with the ferocity of speed metal and an unbridled sense of evil all in a compact 28 minutes of mayhem.

Tool - Ænema

Maynard is a genius.

SOOO many albums... but yeah, this one for sure was ground breaking because it basically changed all the rules.

Now suddenly punk rock, indie rock and an entire new movement was created.

That honestly sounds like a piss-take from the samples i've just listened to :disgust

The Dark Side Of The Moon, by Pink Floyd.

Pet Sounds, which inspired Sgt Peppers

That's my pick as well :2 cents:

Can't argue with either post.

:thumbsup Thats what I was gonna say.


Tool - Ænema - my favorite band and definitely a great album but not ground breaking.

Just one? I can name hundreds.... here's a few:

Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Donovan Frankenreiter - (self-titled)
Velvet Revolver - Libertad
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Lonely Road
The Crash Motive - Consequences
Green Day - American Idiot


lots more. There's still plenty of good music. You just gotta turn off the radio to hear it.

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 was pretty damn awesome

Nothing wrong with The wall, and the Final Cut either... I still listen to the final cut weekly and have since it came out just never seem to get sick of it...

Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles: Sgt. Peppers
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced
VU: Velvet Underground & Nico
The Ramones: Ramones
Bad Brains: Bad Brains
Brian Eno: Another Green World

I just read an 800 page book about the Beatles. I was never really a fan and knew little about them, but I was stunned after reading their story. I had no idea.

Beatles -White Album

When did this come out?

Sounds like 1970s stuff.

Been listening to some of the suggestions here and seriously while being good they are not ground breaking.

I know you said "album" which generally is an "LP", but I'm going to list what is with out a doubt the most groundbreaking "record" ever made. THIS...changed it all.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OhYwutY2my...rds-single.jpg

Siamese Dream was a groundbreaking album.

Freak Out, the Mothers of Invention (FZ)

The days of spending what it costs to produce something truly great are gone. A band needs to be playing for a few years, have real talent and the genius to break the mold. To produce such a thing.

Dark Side of the Moon was first played live and refined before they got to the studio.

Sgt Peppers was recorded over a 129 recording session.

Don't see many bands being allowed the freedom to do that today.

You're right, I can't. Not because they all suck but because I don't really buy albums. Got loads of compilations of stuff though.

not an album but this guy influenced so many bands that made rock what it is.

http://thehelplessdancer.files.wordp...t_johnson2.jpg

Thriller :)

Mine too! :thumbsup

Queens of the Stone Age are the best band in the last ten years, all their albums rock.

Queens of the Stone Age · Rated R · Songs for the Deaf · Lullabies to Paralyze · Era Vulgaris

I do find this hard to believe, but I am afraid you are posting nonsense on the internet.

Sinatra had concept albums in the 50s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_album

Nothing in rock beats QOTSA in the last 10 years.

Maybe the ones signed to what's left of the major labels.

I'd say everyone else has MORE freedom to do whatever they want...with the advent of cheap computers and digital workstations and the internet.

There's a TON of great music out there today. It's just not pushed in your face via radio and MTV. You have to go looking for it...but with the free tools available, it's not all that hard.

I so have to agree with you on that one!

anything by Kevin Federline

Agree 100%. Then in the 1970's it was the Sex Pistols. Not many people bought the album...but it definitely changed everything again.

And then the 1990's and Nirvana came along and changed it all again.

I don't believe that either the Sex Pistols or Nirvana are in the same league as the Beatles...but I do believe that both bands completely changed rock music in their respective time periods as much as Sgt. Peppers did in the 60's (again, neither band even came close to the genius of Sgt. Pepper but they DID change the direction of music)