The most important album ever

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

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

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.