Favorite/Most influential albums

[Bumpa STIKKA]

Most influential?

[Bumpa STIKKA]

This is gonna be a GREAT thread!  

[JaiDee]

While I was never really a BIG AC/DC fan after Bon Scott passed on {their best effort was High Voltage IMO}, this one came out in 1980 and belongs on this list more because it told the world "we are back, we have a new singer with gravel in his throat, and we are still rocking hard''.

Also sold 10 or 12 million copies and made them a household name forever.

Other bands must've been thinking ''where the hell did Angus find THIS guy''?? LOL

[JaiDee]

(Bumpa STIKKA @ Feb. 21 2010,19:34) Most influential?

yups, and that Stranglers album fits in perfectly!!!

They changed the way a LOT of bands presented their music....a true game-changer for sure.

Still playing after 30 years, Robert Smith and crew deserve to make it up here as well;

[Bumpa STIKKA]

two more...

[JaiDee]

Morrissey and company were playing "Emo" rock before it even had that name attached to it

[Tomcat]

Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie must sit pretty high in the Pantheon of all time great albums..what surprises me is that no one has ever turned this into a stage show like they did for Queen..

I think ill pen Bowie a letter... maybe hell put me on 10% when he gets around to it

[Bumpa STIKKA]

three more...

[Tomcat]

yeh that Smiths Album is great. The only one i got of them but brilliant

( ooops this thread is moving to fast)

[Bumpa STIKKA]

how about...

[Tomcat]

Lou Reed was great as was that album. heavily influenced by Bowie.
Or was Bowie influenced by him... cant remember

[Bumpa STIKKA]

or...

[Bumpa STIKKA]

two more...

[Tomcat]

I see YES in Vegas 5 years ago and they performed the whole A side of Close to the Edge . Siberian Katru i think its called is the second track on the original album...it dont get better than that for a Guitar nut and i still cant copy the opening riff after all those years

( actually it was more than five years ago but i got the T Shirt to prove it)

[Tomcat]

found it... Also Alice Cooper must be up there somewhere

Billion Dollar Babies perhaps