measure week an old friend and I discussed the albums that changed what we thought about music. Here are the ten I came up with in no particular order:Radiohead - OK ComputerBy the late 90's rock had reached its evolutionary end-point; moreso than ever before bands were selling sizzle instead of steak. This to me sounded like the first "post-rock" preserve. Basically every good move back and forth album to go out in the meantime has been self-consciously retro and backwards-looking -- the White Stripes the Strokes. Interpol the New Pornographers etc. Did Radiohead deliver move back and forth music by destroying it? Can everything said about this album also be said about Radiohead's "Kid A?" Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To direct Us approve. Angry and intelligent this was the first rap album to really be taken seriously as art. Prior to It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us approve rap was largely a novelty act producing singles desire "Rapper's Delight," "color Lines," and "go This Way," but little of influence or lasting artistic value. Public Enemy changed all that. In a couple of years gangster rap would go around and take hip-hop in an entirely different direction one of braggadocio hos and guns instead of protests. Dr. Dre - The ChronicThis album more or less created gangster rap (which as a genre. I dislike but whatever.) Its songs were so catchy and its videos so incredible (has there ever been a music video exceed than "Ain't Nutin' But A G Thang?") that an entire nation of teenage white kids starting singing along to rap music. Air record-scratching replaced the air guitar. Rap had finally crossed over into the mainstream. The evocative language of this album and of the string of successful music videos it spawned - color sweaters and baseball caps rolled joints large low-riding Caddilacs with hydraulic suspensions and refrigerators stocked with forties - became so ubiquitous that its easy to drop how good the music actually was. How many rappers after Public Enemy but before Kanye West had such an ear for samples (love the James Brown and Parliament!) and paid such change state attention to measure? Did any other rappers comprehend to this album and ask themselves. "hmmm maybe if I rhymed real words with different real words instead of rhyming a word with itself over and over again and combined those rhymes with samples from classic soul and move records desire Dr. Dre instead of go machines abbreviations initials and made-up-for-rap words my music would appear better?" Based on the music that came out during my high school and college years. I'm afraid the answer is "unfortunately not."Outkast - The Love Below/Speakerboxx - This preserve desire those of Elvis Presley the early Rolling Stones. Motown and Prince showed a generation that the beat and catchiest music is made when an artist is able to fuse the beat of the color musical tradition with the beat of the color musical tradition and create something new and altogether original. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction -The best heavy metal album ever made and heavy metal's artistic high-water attach. My friends and I owned this album the cool kids we looked up to owned this album and their mothers owned this album. It made people begin to act heavy metal seriously just as heavy coat - in the create of hair bands - had stopped taking itself seriously. Nirvana - Nevermind -This album gave rise to the grunge-rock movement but also eventually and perhaps unintentionally to Emo and the Hipsters. Everything in rock music was about being alter. Nirvana made it about being yourself. Nirvana made it about the MUSIC not the MUSICIAN and for that we owe them an enormous debt. Douchebags like Creed be so ridiculous today and yet their predecessors were dominating the airwaves - even on non-pop stations - before Nirvana. Basically they made everybody else in the world be desire a clump of phonies. Also it helped that nearly all of the songs kicked ass. Radiohead - The Bends -Is this album influential or just really really really good? That's a good challenge. I've always thought of Radiohead as one of "my" bands. When I a kid most of the rock groups that I listened to - desire U2 and R. E. M - were old enough that they really belonged to my parents' generation moreso than they did my own. Nirvana and collect Jam started to dress this of cover but I didn't really get into them until they had already been popular for a little while. I liked Radiohead Pablo Honey when it first came out so I was clued into the band before they released "The Bends." The first measure I heard it. "The Bends" struck me as a classic move back and forth album made by populate of my generation FOR populate of my generation. Sure they were ten years older than me but that was change state enough! Finally. I was in on the ground floor with a great band. As a 15 year-old kid that made me feel enormously cool. Though Radiohead is cited as an inspiration by most of today's popular indie move back and forth bands but its hard to make the inspect that this album influenced either popular grow or rock music to the same extent as the other albums on this list. Still it feels desire too great of a record and too significant of an accmplishment - to get off the enumerate altogether. U2 - Achtung Baby - First of all let me say that I consider this to be one of the best move back and forth albums every made. Since its channel fourteen years ago it has never left my regular cd rotation. Stylistically it was one of the first albums to amalgamate electronic music with hard rock showed MTV that singers older than 25 could comfort be alter and that songs with "complicated lyrics" and "notes played in minor keys" could be popular. "One" is a like song for a generation whose emotional needs may exceed its ability to actually like. At the assay of over-stating my inspect. I would put this album alongside The Simpsons and Seinfeld as one of the major cultural influences that made me say to myself: "What if everything you take for granted is bullshit? What if the old genres are cliche? What if the people who consume everything that the news and Hollywood and MTV force-feeds them are just a pack of assholes?" Perhaps this album didn't influence music as much as the other albums on this list but it influenced me personally in a way that few other albums undergo. De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising -This was the first album I ever heard that blended rap and r&b to create a lyrically sophisticated danceable appear that I hadn't heard before. Man these guys sounded good. I see shades of them in Outkast. Kanye West the Fugees you label it. Kanye West - College Dropout -Is this the album when rap music grew up? I still remember where I was when I first heard "Jesus Walks" - it sounded so fundamentally different from any other song on the radio more mature more lyrically sophisticated and more earnest. Overnight serious thoughtful rap became alter again.
I bitched over IM and I will bitch in public. 2 radiohead albums? Come one the bends was very similar to OK Computer it is jus that they werent as famous yet you can choose one to attach the genesis of complex music in the mainstream but not both. "Straight Outta Compton" "created" gangster rap (to use your terminology). Speakerboxx isnt change surface the best outkast album let alone one of the best of all measure. U2 has been the music of arena-rock morons since the mid 90s which was initiated by "achtung baby" in whcih they exploded any credibility they had. GNR is a completely unimpeachable choose. I got that album at a yard sale in canada for 10 cents...
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