50 albums that changed the world

BlueMDPicker
BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
edited August 2006 in Music & Movies
Interesting read. I think I have 80% of the list:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1821230,00.html
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited July 2006
    I own 12 of them....Which should tell you a little about what I think about their list and the importance of the albums it contains.
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited July 2006
    shack wrote:
    I own 12 of them....Which should tell you a little about what I think about their list and the importance of the albums it contains.

    Just scrolling through the list 12 is where I'm at and probably where I will stay unless a bump on the head or some late-life change in my audio listening.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited July 2006
    It wasn't an endorsement, just an interesting read that may deserve more than a scan if you're interested in connections and influences.

    I have 38, to be exact. I've enjoyed the range of musical interest I've navigated. And, I suspect my last bump on the head has yet to occur.
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    edited July 2006
    I can't believe Ry Cooder's 'Bop Till You Drop' is not on the list....

    Without it there would be no digital recordings
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited July 2006
    No list is complete without Weird Al Yankovic....what a crock of S.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited July 2006
    BlueMDPicker wrote:
    It wasn't an endorsement, just an interesting read that may deserve more than a scan if you're interested in connections and influences.

    It was an interesting read in that they went to great lengths to justify their "most influential" tag on the albums they chose. After the first few "Without this, there'd be no ..." I found myself going pfffft.... I'm not denying the influences....just the weight the autors have given them. That and the results of some of the supposed influences themselves were not of very much significance. How important can an album be if the result it spawned was insignificant?
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited July 2006
    'bout 80% here, too. I can think of a few that I'd have to swap out, too.

    38 here, too... almost all on vinyl.
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited July 2006
    It's been years since I visited the old vinyl collection, maybe just maybe I can find Niggaz With Attitude ...nah not in this life.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited July 2006
    I have 1 out of 50 (Miles Davis). The rest of 'em suck.:p
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited July 2006
    I have 6 of the 50, and aside from the Beatles, all of them on SACD :eek:
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited July 2006
    I've got one!

    4 NWA
    Straight Outta Compton (1989)
    Never Forget
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited July 2006
    shack wrote:
    It was an interesting read in that they went to great lengths to justify their "most influential" tag on the albums they chose. After the first few "Without this, there'd be no ..." I found myself going pfffft.... I'm not denying the influences....just the weight the autors have given them. That and the results of some of the supposed influences themselves were not of very much significance. How important can an album be if the result it spawned was insignificant?
    Damn! You must have the 12 I don't have. :D

    Peace out.
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited July 2006
    Without the Byrds we wouldn't have Willie Nelson?

    This UK publication better watch out if they see the Red Headed Stranger coming. He may have not had Red Eyes without them but he was going to be here with or without.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited July 2006
    here is one that should not be on the list..

    21 The Spice Girls
    Spice (1996)

    OMFG! who made this list and didn't put on Frampton Comes Alive and instead chose the Spice Girls?????? :mad:
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited July 2006
    yeah, or paul's boutique, for that matter.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited July 2006
    and nothing by Queen, The Who, or Rolling Stones? they all had influential albums...

    the Spice Girls? HELL NO!
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited July 2006
    on the other hand, everytime I hear britney, christina, et al, and ask myself "How did we come to this?..." the answer just might be:
    Spice Girls.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2006
    unc2701 wrote:
    on the other hand, everytime I hear britney, christina, et al, and ask myself "How did we come to this?..." the answer just might be:
    Spice Girls.

    Or "Satan has risen". Either one.
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  • Andrew2112
    Andrew2112 Posts: 59
    edited July 2006
    Got 3 Nirvana,Black Sabbath and ........ spice girls (I GOT A DAUGTHER OK!!!)
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2006
    I have 12 of them. I enjoy Straight outa Compton the most.
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited July 2006
    OK, I'd take:
    Johnny Cash in 1957 over the Byrds
    Stevie Wonder "Talking Book" over "Songs in the key of life"
    Portishead over Massive Attack- they didn't invent trip hop, but they defined it... Until Mezzanine, anyway.
    Tribe called quest over De La soul
    the Jam/Paul Weller over the Smiths
    T Rex over David Bowie


    and the notable missings:
    Metalica, U2, Stones, Queen, beastie boys, Nine inch nails, The Cure, Bauhaus, DJ Shadow, Weezer... while you can't have them all on there, quite a few of those shaped music a lot more than the f--king spice girls.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2006
    Ice Ice Baby. Now that had to change something in the world.
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  • MrBuhl
    MrBuhl Posts: 2,419
    edited July 2006
    I have 13 out of 50 - it is interesting who they link up with who though...
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited July 2006
    madmax wrote:
    Ice Ice Baby. Now that had to change something in the world.

    I was thinking the same thing, but I couldn't decide what. I guess it was the album that made it ok for white suburban kids to like rap? or was that "Please Hammer don't hurt them"? Or "License to Ill" four years earlier?
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited July 2006
    I own or have owned #2, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 20, 26, 27, 29, 33, 36.

    I'm going to reserve comment on the rest (cause they suck mostly, and so do a couple that I have) due to the title of the list. It doesn't say the "best" 50, or the "best selling" 50. It doesn't say whether they changed the world for better or for worse.
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited July 2006
    WOW

    1 The Velvet Underground and Nico

    Who would have thought back then it would rank 1 on anyones list.

    This album was a complete failure economically. I know may hate it and a few way back then liked it. I have 3 copies of it because I wore the first two albums out.

    Two things about the album that was very different from others was 1. the songs had widely different time lengths and 2. a large dynamic range. Back then most all songs had to fit in the DJ's time bracket, about 3 minutes and sound the same loudness. These were economic requirements for radio.

    It's also funny that two of the most famious songs from that album "I'm Wait'in for My Man" and "Heroin" have never been played on the radio to my knowledge.

    I think I went to about 10 concerts by the Velvets in the late 60's.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited July 2006
    Who would've thought PRESENTLY that would be #1 on anybody's list. I always thought Lou Reed had an awful lot of no talent.

    They can't possibly be ranking them in order of importance.
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited July 2006
    Number 1 is Number 1
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited July 2006
    By the way I thought Nico was the best part of the album but I was young then and full of hormones.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited July 2006
    Not in my world, and that's all that counts.
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