Most Important Albums for Each Musical Genre

The Top Ten

1 Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols (Punk)

2 Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys (Experimental Rock)

Nah, it's art rock.

3 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (Psychedelic)

4 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Heavy Metal)

They started heavy metal

5 The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd (Art Rock)

6 The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground (Indie Rock)

7 Thriller - Michael Jackson (Pop)

8 Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Guitar Virtuoso)

I wanted to include jimi hendrix, problem?

9 Tommy - The Who (Conceptual Albums)

Not a Genre but I wanted to include tommy

10 In Rock - Deep Purple (Heavy Metal)

Actually this is the album that started metal in 1970. Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath started only doom metal.

The Contenders

11 In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson (Progressive Rock)

Yeah, I mean, yeah.

12 The Man Machine - Kraftwerk (Electronic Music)

13 Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (Rock-N-roll)

14 Freak Out! - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (Experimental Rock)

15 Loveless - My Bloody Valentine (Shoegaze)

16 Punk in Drublic - Nofx (Skatepunk)

17 (Gi) - Germs (Hardcore Punk)

18 Paid in Full - Eric B and Rakim (Hip-Hop)

19 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy (Conscious Hip-Hop)

20 Dummy - Portishead (Trip Hop)

21 The Feeding of the 5000 - Crass (Anarcho-Punk)

22 Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow (Instrumental Hip-Hop)

23 Kid A - Radiohead (Electronic Rock)

24 Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin (Idm)

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