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Top 10 Most Influential Rock Albums ?

Top 10 Most Influential Rock Albums ?

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There was some real good picks on there...but one that was forgotten was Peter Frampton Comes Alive.

That one showed every band that you could suck but could sell alot of copies if you made a double live album.

Tears For Fears: Songs From The Big Chair...the best album from the 80's

Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power...which actually beat out AC/DC's Back in B;ack as the best rock album of all time.

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"Dark Side of the Moon" surely must have influenced a few people.

Iggy Pop and the Stooges has already been noted. He's not called the Godfather of Punk for nothing.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
"Dark Side of the Moon" surely must have influenced a few people.
I'm not so sure - i mean, what album released since 1973 even sounds a bit like that? or has something like the same concept? i think people must have thought 'we can't touch that - let's do something else'

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Nearly all of the listed musos would take their influences back further..
You have to listen to Charlie Patton's Delta Blues about 1915-1925, then add a dash of swing and some 1954 Baby Let Me Bang your Box by and 1958 The Twist by Hank Ballard & the Midnighters.. so dirty and good Dick Clark stole it and turned reg evans in Chubby Chequer. While they formed the rock and the roll Bob Dillon came along and added life stories which live in the music today. If the music grinds you can thank Hank for adding the panky..
If you look at the hits over the most decades.. you have to credit The Boss too... bit of Dillon, bit of Delta and a bit of Hanks dirty grinding hip swaying rhythms.

Single artist albums came out fairly late for the real influences in modern music. Beatles White or Springsteen's Thunder Road.

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Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Nearly all of the listed musos would take their influences back further..
You have to listen to Charlie Patton's Delta Blues about 1915-1925, then add a dash of swing and some 1954 Baby Let Me Bang your Box by and 1958 The Twist by Hank Ballard & the Midnighters.. so dirty and good Dick Clark stole it and turned reg evans in Chubby Chequer. While they for ...[text shortened]... ly late for the real influences in modern music. Beatles White or Springsteen's Thunder Road.
I know what you're saying but the thread points to albums, not single recordings. Charlie Patton did not produce albums.

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Interesting nobody mentions YES or Rick Wakeman. YES in '71 and '72 with Fragile and Close to the Edge were the first rock (progressive) ban to combine orchestra in a big way with music of that era. They still do. They influenced all around them into introducing classical as a fill in area in rock songs. Wakeman was the first to stack keyboards and moogs etc and to synthesise the other surrounding instruments an distort them. There was massive influence by him and YES upon the bands around them like Genesis and Floyd to name but two, even into the nineties.......

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Originally posted by uzless
These are as stated by Edge 102.1 in Toronto. Anyone care to disagree?

1. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground (1st album)
2. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
3. The Ramones - The Ramones (1st album)
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. Beastie Boys - License to Ill
6. U2 - The Jo ...[text shortened]...
9. Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
10. Radiohead - Ok Computer
apart from bowie and lou reed, you have completely missed the classics like zeppelin/ beatles/ pink floyd etc etc 🙄

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Originally posted by eamon o
apart from bowie and lou reed, you have completely missed the classics like zeppelin/ beatles/ pink floyd etc etc 🙄
And ziggy was mainly written and played by Mr Wakeman!

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Originally posted by mikelom
Interesting nobody mentions YES or Rick Wakeman. YES in '71 and '72 with Fragile and Close to the Edge were the first rock (progressive) ban to combine orchestra in a big way with music of that era. They still do. They influenced all around them into introducing classical as a fill in area in rock songs. Wakeman was the first to stack keyboards and moogs etc ...[text shortened]... on the bands around them like Genesis and Floyd to name but two, even into the nineties.......
Umm, if I were to say YES were overrated, I'd be under-exaggerating.

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Originally posted by mikelom
And ziggy was mainly written and played by Mr Wakeman!
You are joking?

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Originally posted by Starrman
You are joking?
Rick Wakeman played on the Hunky Dory album. But not on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which is what I assume the list refers to.

So he may not be joking, but he's probably wrong 🙂

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Originally posted by Verv
[quote]1. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground (1st album)
2. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
3. The Ramones - The Ramones (1st album)
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. Beastie Boys - License to Ill
6. U2 - The Joshua Tree
7. Depeche Mode - Violator
8. The Stone Roses - Stone Roses (1st album)
9. Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
10. Radiohead - Ok Comp ...[text shortened]... l good, but take out Beastie Boys and Radiohead and replace them with anything Elvis or Beatles.
I'd classify the Beatles as more pop than rock. Same with the Beach Boys.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
I'd classify the Beatles as more pop than rock. Same with the Beach Boys.

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Amazing that some would classify Depeche Mode as rock. Biggest pop group of my teenage years.... cerainly not rock.

Velvet underground - rock? They were a pop movement tending to punk in our generation. The Clash were punks!

Whatever happened to rock? Bob Bailey, Elvis and the last movement of rock that brought pop(ular) - the Beatles......

The definitions in this thread are all time relative........ we need Einstein to sort out the rock bit! 😛

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Originally posted by GalaxyShield
I'm not sure about the rest of them (still building my collection), but just for future reference, the Nirvana album isn't SLTS, it's called Nevermind. SLTS is the most over-played Nirvana song out there, and isn't the best song on the album, imo.
ahyes!....was rushing to the hockey game when i typed that last night...

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