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 ...
LOL
But I did wear chokers (as did other guys at the time).
Oh my. That was torture.
With the feathered hair too, I bet. Mark Foley may have a job for you. LOL
Hooga hooga oogo chakka ...
Stop. I'm trying a mental purge right now!
You bet!
The other day on one of the court TV shows I saw some lady who must have been 60 if a day and she had the feathered long hair look from that era. It was one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen in my life. Wrinkled little tiny head with this young girl long hair from the 70s.
*bbrrr*
One of these days, we should do a thread where people post their high school yearbook pics. We would all be embarrased to death. LOL
You will pay a HUGH Karma Debt for putting that song into the heads of everyone who sees your post.
I just want to be there to smile with grim satisfaction.
LOng hair, bandana, wide collars, Angel's Flight big bells, platforms, puffed sleeves.
Thank GOD I burned all those pics years ago! (lol)
Here's some of what U2's Bono had to say about Sinatra at the 1994 Grammy Awards:
Rock and roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank Sinatra has got what we want--swagger and attitude. He's big on attitude. Serious attitude. Bad attitude. Frank's the chairman of the bad. Rock and roll plays at being tough, but this guy, well, he's the boss. The boss of bosses. The man. The big bang of pop. I'm not going to mess with him. Are you?
Lovely!
Indeed. Mercifully, I stuck to levis and plaid shirts in HS. 8th grade though was a hideous period though.
Get that thread started and I'll post mine.
I agree with Bono to some degree, though it was his voice and phrasing, even more than the tude. But I can't think of a particular album of extra note. Rather is was his overall career.
Bad Karma? More like earning a stay in the hell. LOL
I'm taking about a 3 week FR break now, so when I get back, it would be a good thread to interrupt the stress here of the election season.
Only problem is few will have a digital picture to post! LOL
A great, great album. Also a definite signal, when it comes out, that I've had enough to drink and it's time to turn in for the night.
"When did Motley Crue become Classic Rock?"
--- "1985", Bowling for Soup
Not me. That was the best picture ever taken of me. It's hard, peaking at sixteen. :)
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