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What do you all think is the most important album ever? For me it would be Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

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Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
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i just bought that cd used for $ .95 today.....

O my god I remember them!!

For me personally, Lateralus by Tool.

-AC

thriller by mj....

come test that

well, the albums that really got me listening to music were pearl jam's ten. u2's achtung baby, and soundgarden's badmotorfinger. of those, i'd say mine would be "ten."

personally...i would say

Cunninlynguists- Will Rap For Food

just too much knowledge in one album

same with

Cannibal Ox- Cold Vein

these 2 albums really slapped me in the face...but in a good way

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
For me personally, Lateralus by Tool.

-AC
I'm interested to know why AC. It would seem to be deeper than "Its crazy good" with you.

I think that Pet Sounds is one of the most important album in music history.

i dont exactly think there is a important album.

there are so many.

For me :


The Beatles- Revolver
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Radiohead - The Bends/OK Computer
The Band - The Band
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Nirvana - Nevermind
Mogwai - Young Team
ATDI - Relationship Of Command
Bob Dylan - Hihghway 61 Revisited
The Postal Sevice - Give Up
Led Zeppellin - 3 & 4
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks
Pearl Jam - Vs
Jimi Hendrix - Every Album

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

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for my musical development.... Will Haven - El Diablo

Originally posted by Tptmanno1
I'm interested to know why AC. It would seem to be deeper than "Its crazy good" with you.

I mean personally, not to everyone.

It's just the main album that changed my life and made me realise that most of everything else in music was shit in comparison.

-AC

If this is personally, then it's easy.

Korn - Korn > changed the way I appreciate music, at a fairly young age

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein > realised that music sans guitars is good too

Opeth - Orchid > still the best thing I've ever heard

Wait..is that a "for me" thread? I don't think so....he said "ever"...so

atm haha...

Still Remains - Of Love and Lunacy

showing me mainstream metalcore can throw out something i really like.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Wait..is that a "for me" thread? I don't think so....he said "ever"...so

feel free to argue answerless questions...

I don't know if there could be just one. But, a few by the Beatles would have to be in the team photo/discussion.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I mean personally, not to everyone.

It's just the main album that changed my life and made me realise that most of everything else in music was shit in comparison.

-AC Well put, my friend, well put.



the most important album to me, would be The Wall by Pink Floyd.

Thats the first CD i remember owning/Listening too.

Also, Opiate. Of course i was 6 when it came out, my dad would listen to it when we would Drive around. Not knowing how much of an influence Tool would have on my life now, back then, i didn't really understand such songs as Jerk Off (live) or Opiate. Yet i did think it was really sweet.

But yeah, The Wall is the first Album my dad played, that i can remember, all the time on our old record player. Now i sit in my basement listening to that. And tool, of course.

I think that's all rather off topic as it's about in general.

I think I'd be inclined to go with something by Prince or as stated before, Michael Jackson's Thriller.

What's Going On? by Marvin Gaye also.

-AC

Amigos - Carlos Santana (1976)

Originally posted by Bardock42
Wait..is that a "for me" thread? I don't think so....he said "ever"...so
It can be a "for me" and "ever" thread. Doesn't bother me.

I think we need to be looking back a little further, back to the blues era. I'm not sure I could name one album, but without blues there would be no rock, no heavy metal, no hip-hop, no soul/R&B (or at least not as we know it)...hence no Marvin, no Floyd, no Beatles, no Jacko.

So, I'd say something by Elmore James or Leadbelly maybe.

I don't know.

It's easy to innovate when you're the first to do it. It's a lot harder to come along in the 90s and be innovative.

-AC

Of course that's true, but really my point was that everything has to start somewhere, and if blues hadn't sparked off the first forms of ''popular music'', there would be none. Depends I guess on what you see as being more important; the creation of the art or the perfecting of it.

I see the perfecting of it as better.

When drawing was first conceived, it probably looked really shit. Times passed and we then had the Mona Lisa.

To each their own I guess. I see where you're coming from though.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I don't know.

It's easy to innovate when you're the first to do it. It's a lot harder to come along in the 90s and be innovative.

-AC

Well, yeah, but that's not the point, it is about what is most important and frankly, an Album in the 90s just can't have the same impact...since everyone before the 90s won't have been influenced as much.

Then again you might judge importance differently.