The 50 Most Influential Albums of All-time
London's The Observer names the 50 most influential albums of all-time. Not the best mind you, nor the biggest selling, and not the album that made you rethink going to law school, but the most the most influential albums in (rock) music.
50 Most Influential Albums.
OK, here comes the spoiler, number one is "The Velvet Underground and Nico." Huh?
Number 50, absolutely. Number 37, sure. Number 19, why not, But number 1? According to the Observer, without this album, there'd be no Bowie, Roxy Music, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among many others. And where would popular music be without Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain?
Oh, number 2? Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
What is your vote for the most influential album of all-time?
50 Most Influential Albums.
OK, here comes the spoiler, number one is "The Velvet Underground and Nico." Huh?
Number 50, absolutely. Number 37, sure. Number 19, why not, But number 1? According to the Observer, without this album, there'd be no Bowie, Roxy Music, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among many others. And where would popular music be without Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain?
Oh, number 2? Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
What is your vote for the most influential album of all-time?
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Slag, it's obvious. There is a well known, nefarious, pro-ambisexual-bondage-dressed-up-like-a-coke-whore-who-wrote-songs-with-David-Bowie bias in The Observer's music writing staff.
My choice for #1 has got to be.....
The Beatle's "Revolver"
On #49...
How could PM Dawn have existed without the
enormous influence of De La Soul?
And how could I?
shocker, you picked a Beatles album, how bout the sun sessions that influenced the Beatles or a newer vain of influence, London Calling. There HAS TO BE MORE TO THIS CRAZY WORLD THAN THE BEATLES!!!! Please tell me it is so...
Raw62 I like your comment about the Sun recording sessions. These were the embryonic recordings that pretty muchrock spawned all rock n roll. Interestingly, The King does make an appearance at no. 9 with his first album, but this was his big label debut on RCA, and not the early Sun sessions.
No. 4 on the list, NWA's "Straight Out of Compton" gets similar credit for propagating gangsta rap, "the most successful musical genre of the last 20 years." Yet, I guarantee this album is absent from the CD collection of every contributor to this blog, because let's face it, there is nothing more cringe inducing than white people listening gangsta rap.
My vote is for the folkie inciting, genre blurring, "Highway 61 Revisited." Dylan goes electric and rock becomes
an art form.
It also happens to f***ing rock!
The Velvet Underground - I never "got it", and I tried. Usually like oddballs, but not these guys.
Influential? I don't know. That whole thing about, "if it wasn't for [them] there wouldn't be [them] is ridiculous.
Just another useless list.
The most influential album of all-time? That’s easy. Hands down. Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small.
Anyone who doubts the influence of Highay 61 Revisted need only listen to Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert.
Following the release of Highway 61, Dylan, accompanied by the Band, toured the UK where, his audiences were particularly disruptive.
Dylan's has a now-legendary confrontation with a heckler calling out "Judas" from the audience. Dylan responds to the man by saying "I don't believe you. You're a liar." And then he can be faintly heard telling the band, "Play fucking loud," as they start to play "Like a Rolling Stone."
Nearly every rock band has responded to nearly every heckler the same way ever since.
"Play fucking loud!"
Anthony, I agree somewhat about the Velvet Underground; I listen to them only rarely. They really only influenced Lou Reed and only tangentially the punk era as the VU musically thumbed their nose at the hokey hippie flower music of their contemporaries.
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