Name one to three monumental, earth shattering album/CD releases

wizzy
wizzy Posts: 867
edited April 2009 in The Clubhouse
Goal is simple.

Name one or two releases which when they came out were monumental, historic, earth shakers. Not just "that's a good album" but something that hit the market and was not only a great recording, but threw a new flavor or interpretation out that rocked (as in shook, not rock-n-roll'd) the world (or at least the USA)

Something to maybe make some other person go back and re-play that thing they forgot about.

The reason to limit it to three is to make people think, and not regurgitate a litany of items.

I'm throw three out there, though the second one is probably so popular it's not going to make anyone go back and give it a listen.

1 - Paul Simon: Graceland
2 - Pink Floyd: Dark Side of The Moon
3 - Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
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  • bruss
    bruss Posts: 1,039
    edited April 2009
    GNR - appetite for destruction
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  • jgido759
    jgido759 Posts: 572
    edited April 2009
    Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited April 2009
    Kansas: Leftoverture

    So so recording, but OUTSTANDING album.
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  • jkacura39
    jkacura39 Posts: 68
    edited April 2009
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited April 2009
    TNRabbit wrote: »
    Kansas: Leftoverture

    So so recording, but OUTSTANDING album.

    Agree 100% I'm a BIG Kansas fan. They brought a totally different sound to rock.

    I'd add to that:

    RUSH 2112
    Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive!
    Zepplin 4

    KANSAS is really a "b" side band. Forget the stuff that got regular radio play, listen to the rest of their albums---that's where the real GEMS are.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited April 2009
    I'll just name artists whose early recordings seem to have lasting influence:

    Buddy Holly
    Billie Holiday
    Black Sabbath (would heavy metal rock have gone the same direction without their influence?)
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited April 2009
    Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonly Hearts Club Band.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited April 2009
    Zeppelin 1 (completely changed everything in Rock)
    Beatles Revolver (changed the Beatles' from pop to rock)
    Floyd DSOTM (Far ahead of their time)
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited April 2009
    Got to put Bob Marley in here...whatever the first breakthrough U.S. album was...maybe
    Rastaman Vibration!

    Does anyone remember the 1st big album by Bob that swept the nation and pretty much began the Reggae craze here?

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited April 2009
    Anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited April 2009
    Nirvana -- Nevermind
    Jimi Hendrix -- Are Your Experienced?
    Steely Dan -- Can't Buy A Thrill
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited April 2009
    It almost makes me throw up in my mouth a little, but.....Thriller by that MJ weirdo.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2009
    The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles (or Abbey Road or Sgt. Peppers or Revolver - take your pick)
    Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
    Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited April 2009
    cnh wrote: »
    Got to put Bob Marley in here...whatever the first breakthrough U.S. album was...maybe
    Rastaman Vibration!

    Does anyone remember the 1st big album by Bob that swept the nation and pretty much began the Reggae craze here?

    cnh

    Not Bobs album but when Eric C released I shot the Sheriff in 1974 that song had a very positive effect for generating interest in reggae in the US

    Had the pleasure of seeing him 3 times in concert........

    My guess for the Bob album though there were a few at that time would be "Natty Dread"
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  • Ender
    Ender Posts: 603
    edited April 2009
    Britney Spears - Oops!... I did it again
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,830
    edited April 2009
    I happened to think Bostons' debut album was pretty damn good back then... and still is.

    I still remember listening to Smokin' in the car, volume knob all the way to the right, at least for the intro (yes, they actually stopped when you maxed them out ;))
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,200
    edited April 2009
    Kiss alive.
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  • gwh
    gwh Posts: 1,451
    edited April 2009
    Vanhalen.....self titled
    AC/DC....B&B
    Nirvana... Never mind

    Shook my part of the world.....pissed off my step-dad.




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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,899
    edited April 2009
    Beatles - Meet the Beatles
    Hendrix - Are You Experienced
    Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited April 2009
    Steely Dan- Aja
    Beatles- Sgt. Pepper
    Carole King- Tapestry
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited April 2009
    Cheech & Chong's sister mary elephant !!!

    Seriously though
    not that I listen to him but Elvis certainly changed things when he came along
    Beatles -- Revolver
    Black Sabbath --Paranoid
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited April 2009
    I don't know about earth-shattering. But ONE of the albums of my generation had to be Jethro Tull's Aqualung!

    cnh
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  • swegyptian
    swegyptian Posts: 316
    edited April 2009
    Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,679
    edited April 2009
    -Black Sabbath : "Master of Reality".
    'Sweet Leaf', 'Solitude', 'Into the Void', 'Lord of this World' .... WHEW !

    Metal, from uber melancholy to ultra driving, kick arse, drive your amp to
    clipping and blow the fudge out of your drivers if need be, but krank it
    up the way God wants you to. Ozzy and Tony established the way it
    should be done.


    -Metallica : "Metallica"
    'Enter Sandman', 'Sad but True', 'Nothing Else Matters', 'TheUnforgiven' ..
    ....... 'nuff said.


    - Queen : "A Night at the Opera"
    'Bohemian Rhapsody".

    If there were no other tune on this album, this song would enough.
    Gargantuan song ..... surpasses even "Stairway to Heaven" IMO.
    Sal Palooza
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited April 2009
    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

    Digital recording released just in time to bolster the emerging CD format. Doesn't hurt that "Money For Nothing" was a #1 single accompanied by a then-groundbreaking computer generated video.
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited April 2009
    Michael Jackson - Thriller
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited April 2009
    Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
    All Tool Albums
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  • chef-nick
    chef-nick Posts: 40
    edited April 2009
    beach boys-pet sounds
    miles davis-kind of blue
    the clash-london calling
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited April 2009
    Clutch- Elephant Riders
    Dave Brubeck Quartet- Take Five
    Rush- Moving Pictures Neil Peart tears it up on this one
    Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
    Fu Manchu King of the Road stoner metal at its finest
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  • williamgauci
    williamgauci Posts: 88
    edited April 2009
    The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
    U2 - The Joshua Tree
    The Eagles - Hotel California
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