What would you say have been the five most influential albums in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries....

abbas greatest hits .......the wombles this is wimbledon for the commoners .................russ abbots groovy tunes ..........chas and dave cockney pissheads vol 1 .........and the clangers lost in space ........seriously erm good question .

oasis - definately maybe ..........pink floyd - the wall .........the verve -urban hymns ...........stone roses -complete..........echo and the bunnymen - crocodiles .............their are many many more :)

Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band - Beatles. fav. track (A Day in the Life)

Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. (Almost Cut My Hair)

Mona Bone Jakon - Cat Stevens. (Trouble)

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd. (Wish You Were Here)

Stone Roses - Stone Roses. (I Am A Resurrection)

Maybe not the most influential but some of the best music to be produced. But the list can go on and on....with regard to artists and their music.

I'd go for:


Beatles - Sgt Peppers

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

The Clash - London Calling

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Led Zeppelin

Tommy. One of the first pop/rock albums to be conceived as a unified work rather than a bunch of singles.

But since you didn't restrict the question to pop/rock albums, I'd add Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme and Liege and Lief. And the Dylan "Albert Hall" bootleg, which turned out on its legit release to have actually been recorded in Manchester of all places.

Probably the Byrds 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo' as well....

Umm..

Led Zeppelin- Err... all of them?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience.. all of them?
The Beatles... *points above*
The Who's earlier albums
Bob Dylan

(sorry- not too good with album names >_>)

Spiceworld

Spiceworld
I should ban you for trolling :tongue:

I should ban you for trolling :tongue:I say we burn the blasphemer!

Send him the way of Noel Edmunds. Straight down....

Noel Edmonds? Wouldn't let anyone endure that punishment.. that's too far =/

Aenima [Tool]
Dirt [Alice in Chains]
Bloody Kisses [Type O negative]
True Colours [High Contrast]
Dark side of the moon [Pink Floyd]

Difficult to keep it down to 5, but I'd probably say :-

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Sgt Peppers - The Beatles (I don't actually like The Beatles, but you can't ignore them...)
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
London Calling - The Clash

And while we're on the subject, one of the above obviously had an influence on one of the others too :-

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Although come to think of it, Never Mind The Bollocks was probably more influential than London Calling. Not as good, but possibly more influential...

Never Mind the Bollocks was fun for five minutes, but really it's just a bit of nihilistic noise. The Clash were far more politically developed and I'd say have had far more resonance for the multitude of politically infused punk, punk-rock and folk-punk bands that have sprung up in their wake. You only have to take a look at the lineup for any Beautiful Days festival to see the influence of The Clash....

Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Homework, - by Daft Punk
Never Mind The Bollocks - sex pistols
Sgt Pepper - Beatles
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
Quadrophenia - the who
Test Tube - Xray Spex

and about 100 others

Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Homework, - by Daft Punk
Never Mind The Bollocks - sex pistols
Sgt Pepper - Beatles
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
Quadrophenia - the who
Test Tube - Xray Spex

and about 100 othersYay someone who likes Xray Spex :D

Yay someone who likes Xray Spex :D
On the plus side, you've found someone who likes Xray Spex. On the downside, it's Ronald McDonald :tongue:

On the plus side, you've found someone who likes Xray Spex. On the downside, it's Ronald McDonald :tongue:Troll love <3

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (essentially opened the bebop floodgates)
Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols (brought punk into the public eye)
Future Shock - Herbie Hancock (From jazz, hip hop is born)
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown (the beggining of all things funky)
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (an album that really put a political message out there)

On the plus side, you've found someone who likes Xray Spex. On the downside, it's Ronald McDonald :tongue:Good point. :confused:

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis (essentially opened the bebop floodgates)It is pretty special.

john lennon-mind games........sham69-tell us the truth and thats life /

Nevermind - Nirvana
Lifeforms - FSOL (Future sounds of London)
Revolver - The Beatles
Axis bold as love - Jimmy Hendrix
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Beatles - Revolver
The Stones Roses - The Stone Roses
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

...That's maybe my calls! I'm gonna sneak an honourary mention in though :)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.

Aw, I don't know now looking back at it...Three, sixties, guitar based albums...I guess that could maybe be a rock n roll list. Ar, but no, no Ramones? No Elvis? I'm sad no dance acts made it either. But 'Revolver' has 'Tomorrow Never Knows', that's got some beats. Eee, I'm just talking to myself now.

Bill Haley & the Comets, Shake Rattle & roll................Rock & roll
Beatles, Sgt Pepper............................................ ...Psycadelia
David Bowie, Aladin Sane........................................Glam Rock
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells.....................................Synthesi zers
Queen, A Night at the Opera....................................Visuals

Pink Floyd, dark side of the?
Queen, Sheer heart attack
Abba Gold 1
Orb, Orblivion.
John Lennon, Working class hero.
Kasabian, Empire

Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells.....................................Synthesi zers
I don't think there are any synthesizers on TB are there? It was mostly performed on "real instruments" such as glockenspiel, piano, various guitars, flute and of course the eponymous bells.

I don't think there are any synthesizers on TB are there? It was mostly performed on "real instruments" such as glockenspiel, piano, various guitars, flute and of course the eponymous bells. :H I apologise but claim victory on moral grounds. On the original Tubular Bells 1, he used Farfisa, Lowrey and Hammond electric organs to create the album's synthetic keyboard textures as he didn't have access to the new fangled machine until later, but using the organs and a tape deck with speed adjustment, he basically had a syth in several pieces.:)

Kasabian, Empire
in what way was that important?

Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of The Moon
David Bowie ~ Ziggy Stardust
The Beatles ~ Sgt Pepper
The Who ~ (Too hard to choose!)
Radiohead ~ OK Computer