Influential Albums How many do you Own.

Just look at how much the list is influencing this thread !

Yes, and it has provided the template for every unlistenable record since.

Its really Amazing!!!

If there was no list. There would be no thread.

Ah, but there is thlatest, and member choose to take the time checking their list and seeing the score

Well at least Osprey's list was compiled by someone who was more than 12 years old.

steve

Have you just gone special needs?

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quite a few of the others i've never even heard of. 

I'm surprised at no Purple, Sabbath and unless i missed it no Fairport, Shirley, Collins, Sandy, Planxty, Airplane, Dead, Joplin, Alice and no mention of the best songwriter ever. 

Some good entries though ... 59 of them. It has given me any desire to explore the others though.  Can't see me very wanting to listen to Public Enemy still somebody must. 

+ 1,000,000. .. a glaring omission .. I don't think there is any folk music in the list .. Perhaps the author has not heard of the most influential genre ever from which all other music originates. 

Trout mask replica is a really nice sing a long album, but i don't think it is the Captain's best. 

I have to agree one of the worst records I have bought, simply dreadful. Not the only one on that list IMO.

TMR is a really nice album, nice and bulbous. I'm unconvinced it was highly influential, as there are not many records that follow in its footsteps: save the Captain's own quite superb Lick My Decals Off Baby. TMR is a grower and becomes one of those records you cannot help but hum as you walk down the street .. 

Out of curiosity, who or what are Mazzy Star ... Are they worth a spin? 

There are many entries i like, but i feel he/she has chosen the wrong album by the artist in question ... 

However no Caravan .. They influenced a whole scene

It's hard to think of more polar opposites than the Captain and Mazzy Star! What a collaboration that would have been! 

Hard to describe Mazzy Star - ethereal and melodic? And with an interesting vocalist...........

Mazzy Star got a bit of air time on radio when I first moved to Seattle 20 years ago.  I liked them.  They are alternative with a psychedelic bend.  Here's probably their most popular song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI

No:

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

No historical jazz - where's Louis?

Quincy Jones -The Dude?

Where's Aretha - YG&B?

a very thin skim.

Thanks joe, vlad.. Definitely my kind of music ...

You're welcome Guy.  Hope Sandoval definitely has a captivating voice, though I had not heard it in awhile.  I was looking on youtube and she now fronts an band called Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.  Here's a good link with 23 of the band's songs.  One is a cover of Syd Barrett's 'Golden Hair'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...SknoKDBK3fMnqNNaSDze   Mostly dreamy stuff.

Two very influential bands that don't get discussed much are Killing Joke and cardiacs, the list of bands that have quoted them as their inspiration goes on and on.

Smashing Pumkins I reckon fits the bill too.

Regards

Agree with you Jay.  Might I be so bold as to add Buddy Holly to your list?  I think the 100 list is pretty sh^tty, but it does stimulate conversation here.

Blind Lemon Pie and Laurence Walsh get my vote every time on these threads.

 There would be no Frank Sinatra, Everly Brothers and many more If It Were Not for Blind Lemon Pie.

The man was a true legend.

Stu.

The question that goes with declaring an album as influential is who exactly did they influence. 

With an artist like Shirley Collins it is obvious as there are whole list of folk rivalists that followed and we had Pentangle, Fairport, incredible String Band, Steeleye Span and the list goes on. 

With the Wilde Flowers who became Caravan and Soft Machine there is a huge list of bands including  Hatfield and the North, Gong, National Health, Camel, Centipede, Comus, Delivery, Egg, Gilgamesh, Henry Cow, In Cahoots, Isotope, Khan, Matching Mole, Mashu, Mirage, The Polite Force, Quiet Sun, Soft Heap, Short Wave

You could make similar lists for Delia Derbyshire, Kraftwerk, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. 

However, I find it hard to make a list for some artists including the good Captain. I really like Don Glen Vliet and I know AMG says TMR's "inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era". However, producing a set of original and outstanding records is not necessarily going to make an artist influential. 

However, in all these lists we have ignored the Rutles, surely the most influential of them all - I learned this from the All You Need Is Cash documentary. 

If Elvis (Presley, not Costello) et al. is taken into discussion then the true mother of rock and roll must be mentioned also i.e. Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973).

An American singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. A one-of-a-kind pioneer of 20th-century music, Tharpe attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings that were a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment. As the first recording artist to impact the music charts with her spiritual recordings, Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and also became known as "the original soul sister." She was a treasured early influence on iconic figures such as Elvis Presley,Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash.

Familiar Chuck Berry guitar riffs can also be recognized from this short clip (a recording made on her later days).

On the basis of "who did they influence" which I feel does deserve some thought.

The two main choices I have used are as follows.

Killing joke have influenced Nirvana, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree, Napalm Death, Slipknot,Opeth, Marilyn Manson, Tool, Prong, Metallica, Janes Addiction, Soundgarden Foo Fighters, Faith no more, Rammstein and Korn.

Cardiacs have influenced Mike Patton, Tool, Korn, Thom Yorke, Marillion, It bites?? And bands and artists who are said to be big fans are Steve Wilson, Scaramanga six, Wildhearts, Monsoon Bassoon, Blur, Radiohead, Supergrass, and Shane Embury.

Regards

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