Three Albums that Changed the Direction of Music

sgt pepper - rock and roll grew up

dark side - drugs could enhance the listening experience

something by elvis - it's out turn now.

 

Still waiting for a response. Why is this funny? Are you actually denying that it didn't change the direction of music or do you just not like the album?

 

If so, I think a lot of people were ahead of the curve on that one.

Elvis was a curler ? Did not know that....

Video: Curling tip No. 1 How to throw a turn on a curling rock

D.D.

 

Allman Brothers Band....
Sgt Peppers
Freewheelin

 

The Man Machine ~ Kraftwerk
Sticky Fingers ~ Rolling Stones
Revolver ~ The Beatles

 

Can't agree at all.........."It is considered one of the greatest and most influential blues releases ever." ...... this album pretty much launched the folk blues scene. Chicago blues were well established, but the delta folk blues had been pretty much forgotten. Until this release.

 

In the world of rock:

Elvis Presley (eponymous )

Velvet Underground and Nico

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Also many others but the limit is three choices

 

Three? Okay...

The Moody Blues - "Days of Future Passed"
Donna Summer - "I Remember Yesterday" (home to "I Feel Love")
Nirvana - "Nevermind"

Now, you didn't say you had to agree with me...

 

Both.

 

Love this thread; makes people consider more closely the albums that not only had an effect on the audience but on the people who made, produced and managed the music.

Walter Carlos - Switched-on Bach. The only artist whose sex change managed to totally distract the subject of such a breakthrough in electronic sound. Also, the album was such a breakthrough in electronic sound!

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds. Not only the ante that upped he stakes in post-British-Invasion music, but gave us two different bands: he guys on tour, and the band that would record stuff you couldn't do onstage...and THIS version of the band had Brian in it!

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising. Such a dense, tangled take on hip-hop and deejay culture; but its' real significance lay in the legal frenzy caused by practically every other beat. Sure, there were sample clearance battles before (James Brown's legal team: the hardest-working men in show business!), but here's the slice of vinyl you had to pick apart with tweezers. It made EVERY label and sampling artist sit up and pay attention.

OH - and one more. Phil Collins - Face Value. The gated drum sound of a decade.

OH, and also...George Winston - Autumn. The most genre-defining album ever made by a pianist who actually auditioned...as a guitarist. David Ackerman asked him to audition because he didn't think his guitar playing was strong enough for his label's debut...oh, and while you're here, can you plink-plunk a little on that piano over there...? And Windham Hill was born.

 

Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Kraftwerk-Trans-Europe Express
NWA--Straight Outta Compton

*a single song but Donna Summer -I Feel Love

 

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)

Honorable mentions:
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)