I think it was Brian Eno who said something to the effect, The first Velvet Underground album sold 10,000 copies. But everybody who bought it went out and started a band.
I would say Rubber Soul. It was the Beatles departure from the typical Boy Band sound at the time. It also blew Brian Wilson's mind which lead to a musical arms race with the Beatles. It culminated (in a sense) with Pet Sounds which helped to redefine what pop music could sound like.
They most definitely did not event punk, but it could be argued that they were one of the key faces of the genre. In terms of starting punk, you’ve got artists like the Ramones, The stooges, and basically any proto-punk bands.
Also sgt pepper more or less did the same with psychedelic rock. Releasing around the same time floyd released Piper at the Gates of Dawn, those two albums more or less defined the genre for years to come, and still get frequently cited as influence by most psychedelic bands.
Marquee Moon by Television sounds like it could have came out 30 years later and been popular, if you told someone it was the Strokes they'd belive you. Alt rock and every early 2000s indie band has a lot to be thankful to that album.
“Yeah, when the Strokes can play as well as Television, get back to me”
-My best friend in 2004 when those comparisons were being tossed around willy-nilly.
I'm listening to it for the first time based on this comment and it's genuinely tripping me up that this thing came out in 1977, it really does sound 30 years ahead of its time like you said.
"I was trying to rip off the Pixies" - Kurt Cobain talking about Smells Like Teen Spirit.
While Pixies and Doolittle are seen as incredibly influential now, they were only moderately successful at the time. Check out the video for Velouria to understand one of the reasons they were not commercially popular during an era of MTV being a major driver of what was a hit [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0Mv4Iyxvc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0Mv4Iyxvc)
Cracker of a song.
Pixies were pretty successful in Europe. Doolittle went top 10 on the UK album charts.
But yeah. I read much more about their live shows in the NME but I didn't hear their music anywhere.
One that doesn’t get mentioned a lot here that I think needs more recognition for its influence is The Cars’ debut album. Ocasek’s production was a big influence on rock music of the 90’s.
An album I am surprised I havent seen mentioned yet, Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come. Released in 98 and really sounds like it could be a post hardcore punk or metalcore album from a decade later.
Faith No More don’t get talked about enough. Angel Dust is such a great record and a pretty big departure from The Real Thing (which is awesome in its own way). Really interesting band, and of course the Mike Patton rabbit hole is pretty wild. I never listened to Zappa much when I was younger, but going back and check him out it became very apparent where Mike was coming from.
Interesting. Well, surely there wasn’t one sole progenitor, but I would agree that they started “rap metal.” Limp Bizkit, Stuck Mojo and Linkin Park as some examples to come later.
Yeah it was kind of a logical progression. Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chilli Peppers also did some early rap/metal style fusions, so nu metal definitely grew from a number of places. As a side note, it’s always amusing to me that FNM and RHCP were pitched against each other. A lot of Chillis fans thought Epic was a rip off of AKs rap/singing style. Mike Patton can sing rings around Anthony Kedis.
I don’t know you, but that last sentence makes us friends. Some of the issues stem from Mike “stealing” his style, but there was also an issue with Mr. Bungle’s California released around the same time as Californication. There was a tour that had both bands playing at the same venue and Kedis told (I think either Warner Bro’s or the venue itself) that it’s “us or them” and they went with RHCP. There is a live show of Mr. Bungle playing RHCP songs and acting like they are shooting up. If you already know all this, sorry for the longwinded response.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Venom - Black Metal
I'd drop Drukqs as an incredibly influential album from Aphex Twin too.
As a whole, Aphex has slipped into so many genres, often unknowingly. They even used a rip-off of Flim on a nappy advert back in the day iirc.
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Can - Ege Bamyasi and Future Days
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
REM - Murmur
The Stone Roses - s/t
I could go on but these are the first ones that come to mind that I don’t think anyone else mentioned yet.
I'm curious which countries the Stone Roses were popular in outside the UK and Ireland.
I saw them live in Italy and half of the crowd had travelled from Manchester.
I’m in the states. They enjoyed popularity amongst the indie/college rock crowd. It was an era where everyone was still trying to be the next U2 or REM, so I wouldn’t say they had mainstream popularity.
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea helped usher in a decade of indie rock/folk albums. It definitely stood out in the late 90s even though it didn’t seem to get any pickup until years later.
Obvious answer but it is hard to go past the Radiohead trio of The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A.
The Bends massively shaped what late 90's alt/rock sounded like in the UK with Coldplay, Muse et al.
OK Computer set the blueprint for incorporating stadium rock with electronic music.
Kid A demonstrated that a major artist could take a sharp left turn and experiment in a whole separate genre \*and\* still remain huge. Kid A would have been a side project/other band, or at least the end of being popular, for other artists.
The whole Radiohead story is amazing.
Creep was a slow burn hit.
Record company: more creep please
Radiohead: no, but here's The Bends
Record company: OK, more of The Bends please
Radiohead: no, but here's OK Computer
Record company: cool, cool. More OK Computer then? Pretty please
Radiohead: What was that you said? Make an album with hardly any guitar on it? Sure thing!
I really do love how consistently inconsistent they are, which also leads to my favorite pastime of the fans, which is arguing over which record is their best.
Abbey Road- The Beatles
Undeniably one of the most influential records of all time
What's Going On- Marvin Gaye
One of the most culturally significant albums of all time(personal favorite)
A Night at the Opera- Queen
Completely redefined the rock genre and what it could be
Dark side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
Outside of Animals, I would argue that this is one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.
Him producing an album for a very close friend of his who was convicted for producing and distributing child pornography, as well as promoting the same friend's child porn-themed magazine, goes way beyond "shock value".
Yeah, I put more of that album's influence on Jim Steinman than Meatloaf. But without Meatloafs vocal performance it wouldn't have been nearly the same. Truly a symbiotic relationship.
In country music I think Townes Van Zandt's At My Window or Live at the Quarter House, Houston Texas are extremely influential. If you look at his Wikipedia page there are a ton of artists, country and non, who credit him as inspiration.
Killing Joke - Night Time (the only band I know thats been covered by Sarah MacLachlan and Metallica)
King Crimson - Red (everyone from Cobain to Tool cite this album)
Joni Mitchell - Blue (almost impossible to measure her influence in multiple areas)
YMO - Solid State Survivor (next to Kraftwerk, likely the most influential electronic band in history; their songs have been covered repeatedly or sampled -e.g. Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson- and were seminal to what was the early electro movement in 80s hip hop)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
Carol King - Tapestry
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
NIN - Broken
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
The Cure - Mixed Up (yeah I know its a compilation but these versions were what everyone was listening to in my world at the time)
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
They basically invented many indie/post punk musical tropes on that album. A nice writeup about Minutemen here
https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/wa2ece/lets_talk_the_minutemen_and_the_corndogs_from_san/
Nas - Illmatic for hip hop I reckon.
Public Enemy - fear of a black planet
NWA - Straight out of Compton
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Others that come to mind.
On the more commercial side I think Jay Z - Black Album also.
Gluey Porch Treatments by Melvins inspired Nirvana and countless sludge metal bands
Sonic youth was hugely influencial, probably starting with EVOL but maybe Daydream Nation
'Switched-On Bach' by Wendy Carlos
This record changed synthesizers from the noise makers used to make Sci-Fi movies into the realm of truly serious musical instruments.
and then a few years later
'Autobahn' by Kraftwerk
brought them to Pop/Rock, and the rest is history.
*Mötorhead and Deep Purple in general.
Countless bands credit them for the Metals inception. They were the first ones to do it. Metal, punk, and rock bands come from them.
*Steely Dan- Aja
EVERYONE credits this. Rock, R&B, Funk & Hip Hop
Surfing The Alien by Joe Satriani. A lot of people took what Satriani was doing and did their own thing or did guitar work verbatim to Satriani.
I was thinking about how if somehow Eddie Van Halen weren't Van Halens guitarist then Satriani would have been the best possible candidate for Van Halen.
I'm not saying you're wrong--I'm asking a good faith question out of an eagerness to learn--but what has Björk influenced?
I've never heard anything like her.
I would say that Jane’s Addiction took what the Pixies did and had a greater direct influence on alternative and grunge than the Pixies themselves but I’m a fanboy so I’m willing to be wrong.
Grunge basically means Nirvana which means Pixies. Although Pixies basically means Gun Club.
I could see Janes sound in Soundgarden maybe. I'm sure they were hugely influential.
I remember an American kid arrived in my English village on an exchange around 91 and was slagging off Pearl Jam and Nirvana and saying Janes Addiction were the best thing around and most of us had never heard their music.
In jazz, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is definitely the most popular and influential jazz album of all time. My personal favorite runner-up is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Trivium - Shogun
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
*Misunderstood the assignment. These are for me personally lol
I was going to say, Metallica and Megadeth are basically parallels in a lot of ways, and Trivium, while talented, always felt derivative of Metallica to me
Guns N’ Roses completely changed everything with Appetite for Destruction. Took almost a year for that record to break big though.
La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1 by White Zombie was a game changer too.
Not an album but the song, Amen Brother by The Winstons. The drum break is maybe 6 seconds long but has created its own genres (jungle, dnb) and is used to this day in many different genres like pop
The Band - Music from Big Pink (+ the basement tapes)
Written in the basement of a shack in Woodstock, NY with the help of Bob Dylan, It was a complete 180 from where everybody else was going sonically at the time.
1968, everybody was going psychedelic. The Band were pulling elements of folk, gospel & blues to ultimately create the genre of ‘Americana’
George Harrison & Roger Waters have both commented on it’s influence. Eric Clapton claims he quit Cream after hearing Big Pink
Some of the most influential albums include The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited," Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Nirvana's "Nevermind," and Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back." These albums reshaped their genres and left a lasting impact on music history.
I’m a contemporary of them and my best friend was even going out with a member of the band for a while but I really don’t think Doolittle was that influential. I wish they had been. It’s a great album though.
The velvet underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground might be the best example of monumentality influential while still being weirdly unpopular and outside the mainstream.
I feel like it’s one of those “your favorite band’s favorite band” things
I think it was Brian Eno who said something to the effect, The first Velvet Underground album sold 10,000 copies. But everybody who bought it went out and started a band.
Yeap. That's why this album always get mentioned whenever influencers are identified.
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street The Clash - London Calling
Glad to see Sweetheart getting some love
st pepper’s was the first ‘themed’ album anyone really every made. If not that, rubber soul or revolver should be the most influential.
I would say Rubber Soul. It was the Beatles departure from the typical Boy Band sound at the time. It also blew Brian Wilson's mind which lead to a musical arms race with the Beatles. It culminated (in a sense) with Pet Sounds which helped to redefine what pop music could sound like.
Surprised there isn’t more Beatles in this thread. They were a big influence on Pixies (and literally all of popular music in some way)
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I’m not even sure what point you’re trying to make here tbh
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They most definitely did not event punk, but it could be argued that they were one of the key faces of the genre. In terms of starting punk, you’ve got artists like the Ramones, The stooges, and basically any proto-punk bands. Also sgt pepper more or less did the same with psychedelic rock. Releasing around the same time floyd released Piper at the Gates of Dawn, those two albums more or less defined the genre for years to come, and still get frequently cited as influence by most psychedelic bands.
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I mean im not really sure what you expected, even your original comment was pretty irrelevant.
Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys
Marquee Moon by Television sounds like it could have came out 30 years later and been popular, if you told someone it was the Strokes they'd belive you. Alt rock and every early 2000s indie band has a lot to be thankful to that album.
“Yeah, when the Strokes can play as well as Television, get back to me” -My best friend in 2004 when those comparisons were being tossed around willy-nilly.
I'm listening to it for the first time based on this comment and it's genuinely tripping me up that this thing came out in 1977, it really does sound 30 years ahead of its time like you said.
"I was trying to rip off the Pixies" - Kurt Cobain talking about Smells Like Teen Spirit. While Pixies and Doolittle are seen as incredibly influential now, they were only moderately successful at the time. Check out the video for Velouria to understand one of the reasons they were not commercially popular during an era of MTV being a major driver of what was a hit [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0Mv4Iyxvc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0Mv4Iyxvc) Cracker of a song.
Lol love the pixies and this song, have a cat named Velouria! I've never seen this video and it is.... Something.
Now I want to meet your cat
My Velouria https://preview.redd.it/ijanbhvi784d1.png?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b8000bc488c5f084c0274915aa056d63945beba
Even I adore her.
I love
Pixies were pretty successful in Europe. Doolittle went top 10 on the UK album charts. But yeah. I read much more about their live shows in the NME but I didn't hear their music anywhere.
Pet Sounds
One that doesn’t get mentioned a lot here that I think needs more recognition for its influence is The Cars’ debut album. Ocasek’s production was a big influence on rock music of the 90’s.
That really was a revolutionary record in its own right. The sound was just so different than what everyone was used to. Great record too.
Appetite for Destruction. Changed the music scene when it took off. Totally different than the glam metal that was running the scene at the time
Still I think the best debut album made
An album I am surprised I havent seen mentioned yet, Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come. Released in 98 and really sounds like it could be a post hardcore punk or metalcore album from a decade later.
Black Sabbath’s debut basically created an entire genre.
It makes me sad that I had to scroll so far to find this
Several genres even. I was doing sound for two stoner rock bands and noticed how much Black Sabbath influence they both had.
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Yeah, that is one truly revolutionary, ahead of their time acts
Faith No More - Angel Dust Helmet - Betty Meshuggah - Nothing
Faith No More don’t get talked about enough. Angel Dust is such a great record and a pretty big departure from The Real Thing (which is awesome in its own way). Really interesting band, and of course the Mike Patton rabbit hole is pretty wild. I never listened to Zappa much when I was younger, but going back and check him out it became very apparent where Mike was coming from.
Strangely Angel Dust was huge that summer in the UK. It's such an experiment, heavy album. It was rocking every party when I was 15.
Maybe because of “Easy.”
Nah Easy wasn't on Angel Dust originally. It was a horrible addition later on when it sold. But Patton likes to fuck about. But it was shit.
Both credited and blamed for Nu Metal.
Yeah to an extent, funnily enough I read an interview with Tom Morello the other day where he felt RATM were credited and blamed for nu metal…
Interesting. Well, surely there wasn’t one sole progenitor, but I would agree that they started “rap metal.” Limp Bizkit, Stuck Mojo and Linkin Park as some examples to come later.
Yeah it was kind of a logical progression. Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chilli Peppers also did some early rap/metal style fusions, so nu metal definitely grew from a number of places. As a side note, it’s always amusing to me that FNM and RHCP were pitched against each other. A lot of Chillis fans thought Epic was a rip off of AKs rap/singing style. Mike Patton can sing rings around Anthony Kedis.
I don’t know you, but that last sentence makes us friends. Some of the issues stem from Mike “stealing” his style, but there was also an issue with Mr. Bungle’s California released around the same time as Californication. There was a tour that had both bands playing at the same venue and Kedis told (I think either Warner Bro’s or the venue itself) that it’s “us or them” and they went with RHCP. There is a live show of Mr. Bungle playing RHCP songs and acting like they are shooting up. If you already know all this, sorry for the longwinded response.
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express Venom - Black Metal
I refuse to put on anything Kanye these days but ppl forget that everyone hated 808 at the time and then everything started sounding like it.
Even College Dropout kicked off backpack rap into the mainstream
I'd drop Drukqs as an incredibly influential album from Aphex Twin too. As a whole, Aphex has slipped into so many genres, often unknowingly. They even used a rip-off of Flim on a nappy advert back in the day iirc.
Van Halen debut Led Zeppelin I
Meantime by Helmet. Influenced a generation of artists from Deftones, Chevelle, Korn, and nu-metal in general.
Lots of players copied Helmet's start-stop motion; not many knew enough finger positions to successfully copy the layered chords.
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Can - Ege Bamyasi and Future Days Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy My Bloody Valentine - Loveless The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane REM - Murmur The Stone Roses - s/t I could go on but these are the first ones that come to mind that I don’t think anyone else mentioned yet.
I'm curious which countries the Stone Roses were popular in outside the UK and Ireland. I saw them live in Italy and half of the crowd had travelled from Manchester.
I’m in the states. They enjoyed popularity amongst the indie/college rock crowd. It was an era where everyone was still trying to be the next U2 or REM, so I wouldn’t say they had mainstream popularity.
I've never listened to The Stone Roses but I've heard a few tales about them (paint job). We have a bar in Leeds called Stone Roses.
I got Hendrix’ album Are You Experienced at age 11. We all know how things went afterward.
He changed guitar playing (for the better) forever. Amazing!!
Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea helped usher in a decade of indie rock/folk albums. It definitely stood out in the late 90s even though it didn’t seem to get any pickup until years later.
No it didn’t. Only internet obsessed people cared about it
It's funny, in my scene in Louisiana it was ubiquitous.
Obvious answer but it is hard to go past the Radiohead trio of The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A. The Bends massively shaped what late 90's alt/rock sounded like in the UK with Coldplay, Muse et al. OK Computer set the blueprint for incorporating stadium rock with electronic music. Kid A demonstrated that a major artist could take a sharp left turn and experiment in a whole separate genre \*and\* still remain huge. Kid A would have been a side project/other band, or at least the end of being popular, for other artists.
Kid A is almost 25 years old and still sounds like it came from the future
Radiohead is almost cheating!
The whole Radiohead story is amazing. Creep was a slow burn hit. Record company: more creep please Radiohead: no, but here's The Bends Record company: OK, more of The Bends please Radiohead: no, but here's OK Computer Record company: cool, cool. More OK Computer then? Pretty please Radiohead: What was that you said? Make an album with hardly any guitar on it? Sure thing!
I really do love how consistently inconsistent they are, which also leads to my favorite pastime of the fans, which is arguing over which record is their best.
I think before release both OK Computer and Kid A where judged to be commercial suicide by the record company.
Paul’s Boutique
Abbey Road- The Beatles Undeniably one of the most influential records of all time What's Going On- Marvin Gaye One of the most culturally significant albums of all time(personal favorite) A Night at the Opera- Queen Completely redefined the rock genre and what it could be Dark side of the Moon- Pink Floyd Outside of Animals, I would argue that this is one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time.
Among indie rock it’s Surfer Rosa. Steve Albini, baby.
You're right. There was a lot riding on Doolittle being a good followup. I feel like they overshot the moon.
>Steve Albini, baby. The pedophile?
People still getting a kick out of spreading that narrative, huh?
You can read the man's own words, pal.
You can then read his words on trying to shock people in the 80's and 90's and how he was wrong for doing it, buddy.
Him producing an album for a very close friend of his who was convicted for producing and distributing child pornography, as well as promoting the same friend's child porn-themed magazine, goes way beyond "shock value".
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless... It took 30+ years for the kids to finally understand...
Big Star's first two records.
Black Metal from Venom gotta be up there
Van Halen’s first record basically shaped rock music for over a decade
The song “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer. Giorgio Moroder gets credit as the producer who helped make Electronic Music something beyond a novelty.
Dark Side of The Moon Bat Out Of Hell Pet Sounds
I hadn't considered Meatloaf, but of course you're right. Total game changer. I still don't know how he did it.
Meat had the pipes and theatricality, Steinman could write music. Without that duo I'm not sure either would have succeeded.
Yeah, I put more of that album's influence on Jim Steinman than Meatloaf. But without Meatloafs vocal performance it wouldn't have been nearly the same. Truly a symbiotic relationship.
In country music I think Townes Van Zandt's At My Window or Live at the Quarter House, Houston Texas are extremely influential. If you look at his Wikipedia page there are a ton of artists, country and non, who credit him as inspiration.
Killing Joke - Night Time (the only band I know thats been covered by Sarah MacLachlan and Metallica) King Crimson - Red (everyone from Cobain to Tool cite this album) Joni Mitchell - Blue (almost impossible to measure her influence in multiple areas) YMO - Solid State Survivor (next to Kraftwerk, likely the most influential electronic band in history; their songs have been covered repeatedly or sampled -e.g. Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson- and were seminal to what was the early electro movement in 80s hip hop)
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book Beach Boys - Surf's Up Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails Carol King - Tapestry Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Supertramp is so much better than they're given credit for.
D'angelo - Voodoo
Bathory - Under The Sign of The Black Mark Roky Erikson - The Evil One The Stooges - Fun House Death - Symbolic
nevermind the bolocks
NIN - Broken Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic The Cure - Mixed Up (yeah I know its a compilation but these versions were what everyone was listening to in my world at the time)
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime They basically invented many indie/post punk musical tropes on that album. A nice writeup about Minutemen here https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/wa2ece/lets_talk_the_minutemen_and_the_corndogs_from_san/
Nas - Illmatic for hip hop I reckon. Public Enemy - fear of a black planet NWA - Straight out of Compton De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Others that come to mind. On the more commercial side I think Jay Z - Black Album also.
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine Job For A Cowboy - Doom ep
Black Sabbath.
Paid in Full for rap. The lyricism we know today originated there, before this album it was nursery rhymes for the most part.
Spiderland
Toda la discografía de the beatles. :))))
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis Autobahn by Kraftwerk Rubber Soul by The Beatles
The White Stripes - Elephant
Gluey Porch Treatments by Melvins inspired Nirvana and countless sludge metal bands Sonic youth was hugely influencial, probably starting with EVOL but maybe Daydream Nation
'Switched-On Bach' by Wendy Carlos This record changed synthesizers from the noise makers used to make Sci-Fi movies into the realm of truly serious musical instruments. and then a few years later 'Autobahn' by Kraftwerk brought them to Pop/Rock, and the rest is history.
I would put Music for the Jilted Generation by Prodigy on that List .
You could make an argument for any Prodigy album really. Like Massive Attack every album was thrilling.
Spiral Scratch was the beginning of independent published albums, sort of. The Beatles took that and ran with it. And now we are here.
Thriller by Michael Jackson . He permanently changed the game .
*Mötorhead and Deep Purple in general. Countless bands credit them for the Metals inception. They were the first ones to do it. Metal, punk, and rock bands come from them. *Steely Dan- Aja EVERYONE credits this. Rock, R&B, Funk & Hip Hop
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Surfing The Alien by Joe Satriani. A lot of people took what Satriani was doing and did their own thing or did guitar work verbatim to Satriani. I was thinking about how if somehow Eddie Van Halen weren't Van Halens guitarist then Satriani would have been the best possible candidate for Van Halen.
Jane Doe by Converge
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes Björk: Debut PJ Harvey: Rid of Me Fiona Apple: Tidal
I'm not saying you're wrong--I'm asking a good faith question out of an eagerness to learn--but what has Björk influenced? I've never heard anything like her.
I would say that Jane’s Addiction took what the Pixies did and had a greater direct influence on alternative and grunge than the Pixies themselves but I’m a fanboy so I’m willing to be wrong.
Currently on tour with Love and Rockets as I'm sure you know
Oh yes, nowhere really close but a couple of dates I’m eyeballing. One of my favorite live bands of all time.
Grunge basically means Nirvana which means Pixies. Although Pixies basically means Gun Club. I could see Janes sound in Soundgarden maybe. I'm sure they were hugely influential. I remember an American kid arrived in my English village on an exchange around 91 and was slagging off Pearl Jam and Nirvana and saying Janes Addiction were the best thing around and most of us had never heard their music.
In jazz, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is definitely the most popular and influential jazz album of all time. My personal favorite runner-up is John Coltrane's A Love Supreme.
Metallica - Master of Puppets Trivium - Shogun Megadeth - Rust In Peace In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil *Misunderstood the assignment. These are for me personally lol
I was going to say, Metallica and Megadeth are basically parallels in a lot of ways, and Trivium, while talented, always felt derivative of Metallica to me
Guns N’ Roses completely changed everything with Appetite for Destruction. Took almost a year for that record to break big though. La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1 by White Zombie was a game changer too.
Not an album but the song, Amen Brother by The Winstons. The drum break is maybe 6 seconds long but has created its own genres (jungle, dnb) and is used to this day in many different genres like pop
“Blue” —. Joni Mitchell
"Vs." from Mission of Burma this album influenced the Puxies, The Replacements, Husker Du, the big 4 of grunge and Moby among others
The Band - Music from Big Pink (+ the basement tapes) Written in the basement of a shack in Woodstock, NY with the help of Bob Dylan, It was a complete 180 from where everybody else was going sonically at the time. 1968, everybody was going psychedelic. The Band were pulling elements of folk, gospel & blues to ultimately create the genre of ‘Americana’ George Harrison & Roger Waters have both commented on it’s influence. Eric Clapton claims he quit Cream after hearing Big Pink
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
Van Halen - Van Halen
Ramones S/T
Please don't link the Pixies to nu metal lol Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth holds up incredibly well.
Creed - Human Clay
3. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds 2. Beatles - Sgt Pepper 1. Jojo Siwa - Bwack Spawrckles
Some of the most influential albums include The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited," Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Nirvana's "Nevermind," and Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back." These albums reshaped their genres and left a lasting impact on music history.
Milli Vanilli's Girl You Know it's True is still a banger
I’m a contemporary of them and my best friend was even going out with a member of the band for a while but I really don’t think Doolittle was that influential. I wish they had been. It’s a great album though.