40 MOST GROUNDBREAKING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME-Rolling Stone

Steve Williams · Oct 6, 2015

Do you agree with the choices??

http://www.rollingstone.com/most-groundbreaking-albums-of-all-time#808s-and-heartbreak

es347 · Oct 6, 2015

..ha ha...(face palm)

Mike Lavigne · Oct 6, 2015

Steve Williams said:
Do you agree with the choices??

http://www.rollingstone.com/most-groundbreaking-albums-of-all-time#808s-and-heartbreak

missing a few I think.....

LZII for sure....

likely DSOTM too....

Are You Experienced? gotta be....

Steve Williams · Oct 6, 2015

where did they get the album from the Ramones as a top 40

jazdoc · Oct 6, 2015

Steve Williams said:
where did they get the album from the Ramones as a top 40

Actually the Ramone's album is one of the few that actually belong on the list. Their influence far outweighs their limited popularity.

They were some of the most pivotal gigs in music history. It’s that only-200-people-bought-the-first-Velvet -Underground-album-but-they-all-formed-a-band thing. Anyone who was to become anyone in Punk was there: the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, the Stranglers, the Damned, Chrissie Hynde, Adam & the Ants’ and Sid Vicious, who if you think about it was basically a mini Dee Dee Ramone. They’d all bought the debut album, most were learning the guitar or the bass by listening to it and pretty much everyone there formed a band or started a fanzine.

London raved about the Ramones, but after three days they were gone. Their success here did nothing for the band’s reputation back home however. When they returned to the USA, they went straight back to playing to 50 people at CBGBs. In fact, as the Pistols gained in notoriety over the next few months, being associated with English punk acts meant commercial death for the Ramones. No radio station would touch them and no one bought their albums. Their debut album finally went gold for 500,000 sold – in April 2014.

http://rocknrollroutemaster.com/2014/09/11/hey-ho-lets-go-the-ramones-in-london/

Steve Williams · Oct 6, 2015

jazdoc said:
Actually the Ramone's album is one of the few that actually belong on the list. Their influence far outweighs their limited popularity.

I posed that question as my son is working on a documentary for the big screen called Dennis and Lois which chronicles the lives of this elderly couple who have followed the Ramones as well as other groups at their concerts around the world

http://www.npr.org/programs/theride/jlangford/004.html

Johnny Vinyl · Oct 6, 2015

jazdoc said:
Actually the Ramone's album is one of the few that actually belong on the list. Their influence far outweighs their limited popularity.

+1.

Now, I'm not a fan of The Ramones, nor the Sex Pistols, but Never Mind The Bullocks should definitely have been on that list.

BlueFox · Oct 6, 2015

Its hard to say whether they are good choices or not. Their choices are all over the music genre map, which means for me I haven't listened to most. Nor do I care to listen to many of them.

KeithR · Oct 6, 2015

the Ramones saved everybody from progressive rock, so groundbreaking indeed

I think In Rainbows is a cop out.

biggest miss is Buddy Holly- is there anyone more groundbreaking or influential in the history of rock n roll?

Johnny Vinyl · Oct 6, 2015

KeithR said:
the Ramones saved everybody from progressive rock, so groundbreaking indeed I think In Rainbows is a cop out.

biggest miss is Buddy Holly- is there anyone more groundbreaking or influential in the history of rock n roll?

What wrong with Progressive rock?

KeithR · Oct 6, 2015

Johnny Vinyl said:
What wrong with Progressive rock?

i was joking, hence the emoticon.

Johnny Vinyl · Oct 6, 2015

KeithR said:
i was joking, hence the emoticon.

Missed the emoticon...(I'll go hide now).

Ron Resnick · Oct 10, 2015

I refuse, on musical grounds, to applaud or honor rap.

Steve Williams · Oct 10, 2015

RonR said:
I refuse, on musical grounds, to applaud or honor rap.

Or even acknowledge would say it for me

DaveyF · Oct 10, 2015

Seems like there could be many more added...including the glaring omission of Miles Davis KOB, among others.

spiritofmusic · Oct 10, 2015

Johnny Vinyl said:
What wrong with Progressive rock?

Absolutely nothing.
"In The Court Of The Crimson King" is in there, although I feel "Red" is the the most appropriate prog rock album to have on this list - the true bridge between the prog/metal/fusion of the 70s, and the modern day.

spiritofmusic · Oct 10, 2015

RonR said:
I refuse, on musical grounds, to applaud or honor rap.

Ron, be ready to flame me, but i LOVE rap - heading down the freeway listening to NWA is some experience. Rap is a totally underappreciated art form by the cogniscenti.
For me, modern R&B is my red line. Autotuned vocals warbling away to backing "music" that is neither rhythmic, nor anything to do w/the blues - has anything ever been so mislabelled?

Mosin · Oct 10, 2015

Steve Williams said:
Or even acknowledge would say it for me

Me, too. Is Rap even music?

Anyway, I own seven of the forty. Are they groundbreaking? Some of them are...maybe. Define groundbreaking.

Steve Williams · Oct 10, 2015

I am impressed spirit. It just does nothing for me. Wish it were other but I have to say that one of my favorite films this year was Straight Outta Compton

zztop7 · Oct 10, 2015

1 in a thousand

Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B, Rap, ETC.
In each genre, I look for the 1 in a thousand cuts that is great = listening bliss.
zztop7

40 MOST GROUNDBREAKING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME-Rolling Stone

Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator

VIP/Donor & WBF Founding Member

Member Sponsor & WBF Founding Member

Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator

Member Sponsor

Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator

Member Sponsor & WBF Founding Member

Member Sponsor

VIP/Donor

Member Sponsor & WBF Founding Member

VIP/Donor

Member Sponsor & WBF Founding Member

Site Co-Owner, Administrator

Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

[Industry Expert]

Site Founder, Site Owner, Administrator

Member Sponsor

Similar threads