The Most Influential Rock Albums
1- The Beatles- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
2- The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds (1966)
3- Bob Dylan- Bringing it All Back Home
4- Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced
5- In The Court of Crimson King - King Crimson (prog rock)
6- Black Sabbath- Black Sabbth
7- Velvet Underground & Nico- Velvet Underground
8- Kraftwerk - Trans-Europa Express
9- The Beatles- Revolver
10- Led Zeppelin 1- by Led Zeppelin
11- The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators - 13th Floor Elevators (psychedelic rock
12- Elvis Presley- Elvis Presley
13- Bob Dylan- "Highway 61 Revisited
14- David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
15- The Clash, London Calling
16- The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
17- Nirvana- Nevermind
18- Master of Puppets - Metallica
19- Chuck Berry- Is on Top
20- Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers
21- The Ramones- The Ramones
22- Joni Mitchell- Blue
23- Brian Eno- Discreet Music
24- The Beatles- Meet The Beatles
25- The Who- My Generation
26- The Stooges - The Stooges
27- Patti Smith- Horses
28- REM- Murmur
29- Van Halen- Van Halen
30- OK Computer- Radiohead
I had to add the Ramones to the list. I would like some of your choices.
This list ranks what are, in my opinion some of the greatest rock albums ever made. The list is based on the albums' influence on music to come.
I'm confused as to why you included The Great Twenty-Eight by Chuck Berry? He's insanely influential, but that record is basically a greatest hits album released in the 80's. By the time that record came out his influence had long been digested and it's doubtful that 28 made much of an impact on music.
The first few that come to mind are
The Monks - Black Monk Time
The Stooges - The Stooges
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Those three albums set the blueprint for punk, along with The Velvet Underground. Other albums that come to mind are:
Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox
Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Can - Future Days
Suicide - Suicide
The Fugs - The Fugs First Album
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europa Express
Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegatables
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Number eight should be number one. Remove Radiohead and throw in Pink Floyd's debut in its place. I've never regarded Meet the Beatles as being particularly influential.
I'd also throw in Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, the Sex Pistol's Nevermind the Bollocks Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, and Patti Smith's Horses. Maybe Presley's debut as well... although I can't say I care for it at all. I feel like the Stones deserve a place but I think with them it boils down to their career being influential, opposed to any one album.
Meet the Beatles was the album that started the British Invasion and you know who came after the British Invasion bands like The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and the Yardbirds. It influenced basically every rock band in America at the time also.
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica influence on music on a whole is not really that great. Who did it really influence except a handful of musicians?
Sgt Pepper influenced not only rock especially Progressive/Art-Rock but also pop music on how music was recorded and how albums were perceived. Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo with a help from George Martin. Sgt. Pepper's influence on subsequent rock and soul concept albums. It's unfair to blame a record so based in the rigors of pop songcraft, and so full of jokes and mischief and fun, for the ponderous music that was unleashed on listeners in the decades following. But the fact remains that there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon, and no dragons-and-warlocks-themed prog-rock epics.
The Velvet Underground debut album while a big influence on rock music was not THAT INFLUENTIAL ON POP MUSIC.
I will add Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, the Sex Pistol's Nevermind the Bollocks to my list.
terrible list.. >.<
That is your opinion then again you are acting like a troll. You are Scaruffi fan boy. What WOULD you and Scaruffi possibly know about when it comes to music theory?
what does music theory have to do with anything ....I'm sure no one at Rolling Stones Blender Pitchfork or Allmusic know anything either
The Monks - Black Monk Time (65)
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (74)
Suicide - Suicide (77)
Brian Eno - Music For Airports (78)
The Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (94)
Please, ignore my suggestions, as anything constructive is just rejected by Jazz99 because I like The Familiar Ugly over the Fab Four.
you still haven't responded to my question, I guess you have no answer.
and just because you can Google facts about beatles songs does not mean you know anything about "music theory"
this list is quite good though..
Great list for the most part... I would suggest "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", because that really stuck him on the map, got the Beatles listening to him and everything... and when you influence the Beatles, you influence EVERYONE.