Most Important Albums in Rock History
Exactly how is this album much more important than "Abbey Road", "Led Zeppelin IV", "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Ramones" and other albums on this list?
About time this album got the recognition it deserves, now the band should get the recognition it deserves.
Biggest release on independent label: extermely important for the independent rock community...and a bad-ass album in my opinion
Along with Dookie this album started the rise of popularity for the pop punk genre.
Supposedly, this was just about the beginning of the end of The Beatles. "Abbey Road" marked the last time all four members had recorded together in the studio (the next album "Let It Be" was released a year later, but includes mostly songs predating the recording sessions and existence of "Abbey Road").
The Beatles are the most influential artists of all time. So why the hell is/was this #2 under The Offspring? Green Day relaunched punk more than The Offspring...
Voted this album to overtake the offspring's smash as the number one on this list
As much as I hate the Beatles they deserve to be higher than the Offspring...
I am a metalhead who likes fast metal subgenres and for this reason it's the most important album to me.
First album to create the pure punk rock riffs.
One of the first punk albums to exist.
One of the best-selling albums of all time!
Why is the offspring higher?
This album needs to be higher. Jimi combined guitar skill with aggressive, distorted tone in a way that hadn't really been seen in the mainstream before. Rock guitarists to this day still cite it as an important influence on their playing.
Includes one of his famous songs "Purple Haze"!
Important because it was influential to a number of metal-associated genres such as death metal, black metal and thrash metal.
Obviously "2112" is an important album, not only because of the 20-minute epic title track, but it remains a big influence and inspiration on multiple genres, such as hard rock, metal, prog, alternative, just to name a few.
This was the beginning of Rush's rise to infamy.
Why isn't this album up any higher yet?
Timeless prog rock classic!
Musician and producer Brian Eno famously stated that while the album (released in 1967) initially only sold 30,000 copies, "everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band." Genres that were significantly informed by the album include art rock, punk, garage, grunge, shoegaze, gothic, indie, and most other forms of alternative music (thanks wikipedia).
Ronnie James Dio was the voice of this album.
Along with "Toys In The Attic", "Rocks" was one of the albums that broke Aerosmith into critical acclaim and popularity.
This album should be #1 instead of that Offspring album.
The album that changes Slash's life!
At least this album is in the top 20.
The only thing important about this album is that it briefly saved SoundCity that's it...
Massively popularized grunge.
The Chili Peppers' breakthrough album