Posted on 09/29/2006 9:52:06 PM PDT by pissant
1 The Velvet Underground and Nico The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Though it sold poorly on its initial release, this has since become arguably the most influential rock album of all time. The first art-rock album, it merges dreamy, druggy balladry ('Sunday Morning') with raw and uncompromising sonic experimentation ('Venus in Furs'), and is famously clothed in that Andy Warhol-designed 'banana' sleeve. Lou Reed's lyrics depicted a Warholian New York demi-monde where hard drugs and sexual experimentation held sway. Shocking then, and still utterly transfixing.
Without this, there'd be no ... Bowie, Roxy Music, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among many others. SOH
2 The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
There are those who rate Revolver (1966) or 'the White Album' (1968) higher. But Sgt Pepper's made the watertight case for pop music as an art form in itself; until then, it was thought the silly, transient stuff of teenagers. At a time when all pop music was stringently manufactured, these Paul McCartney-driven melodies and George Martin-produced whorls of sound proved that untried ground was not only the most fertile stuff, but also the most viable commercially. It defined the Sixties and - for good and ill - gave white rock all its airs and graces.
Without this ... pop would be a very different beast. KE
3 Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express (1977)
Released at the height of punk, this sleek, urbane, synthesised, intellectual work shared little ground with its contemporaries. Not that it wanted to. Kraftwerk operated from within a bubble of equipment and ideas which owed more to science and philosophy than mere entertainment. Still, this paean to the beauty of mechanised movement and European civilisation was a moving and exquisite album in itself...
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
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Why is it so funny? I was a teenager in the mid-80s during the hair-band era and I liked it; why does that crack you up?
...because I don't prefer to listen to; The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Hendrix, The Moody Blues and Dylan...and think they are "Gods" of music.
Give me a break.
Taste in music is subjective. Give me "Master of Puppets" by Metallica over any Stones CD--anyday!
How old are you? Grunge made me cringe. LOL
nevertheless, you are right about the impact and Motherlovebone, etc. Still not sure where it will fit in the pantheon of pop music in another 25 years.
Is that the Anti-hippy or just a gay one?
Hey now. I said it cracks me up, not that its wrong. As I've gotten older I let alot of the music I listened to in college fall thru the cracks. I used to like Missing Persons, the Pretenders, U2, REM, HuskerDu, etc etc.
I can imagine the requests he got were few and far between. Zoinks.
In those days, definitely anti-Hippy. And old Bobby did influence something -- for about 5 years chokers were very "in."
He influenced Keith Partridge, far as I can tell.
He was in an episode of "The Partridge Family." Yeah, they used to take turns on the cover of "Tiger Beat."
Am I dating myself? ;)
He had a hit? Next best thing to Rick Springfield I guess.
He was cute.
I hope you are female.
You'll find out on FR that if you don't like those certain bands from the 60s and 70s your choices in music suck.
I still love old RUN D.M.C. and The Beastie Boys!
In fact, I posted something about RUN the other day.
No, but I had sisters who use to swoon over them.
Phwew!!
Sorry...(unintentional)
Nirvana
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