What are the 5 most influential albums of all time?

The Velvet Underground & Nico

-Created alternative rock...

In Da Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly

-Basically created heavy metal

Chuck Berry Is on Top

-Created rock

Rubber Soul by The Beatles

-Revolutionized rock

Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges

-Created punk, heavily influenced metal and alternative.

1) Beatles - Sergeant Pepper (1967) To this very day you will still see costumes in theatre and television inspired by the album cover. With A Little Help From My Friends, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely...,and A Day In The Life were in their own rights, great hits for the band, but Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds changed young Americans from "Leave It To Beaver" stereotypes into what was known as the Hippies who took life as a philosophy and experimented with their new found friend, Lucy.

2) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970) When the title track from the Paranoid album was pressed into a vinyl 45 rpm record and coupled with Iron Man as the B-side selection, the volume of juke boxes carrying the record increased dramatically. Suddenly, people who were used to hearing The Beatles and Patsy Cline at their favorite bar or bowling alley, or cafe were petrified to hear such an incredible force of energy released by the band. For many, It was almost terrifying at high volume. There was nothing else exactly like it. Powerful, Raw, Intense...and the young people craved more.

3) Led Zeppelin - IV (1971) The four members of Led Zeppelin made history for themselves when they released this album. Incredibly intricate guitar, melodic, ingenious lyrics. LZ-4 took the world by storm with Stairway To Heaven. For most Americans, this was their first taste of Led Zeppelin. Kashmir was the next song that demanded to be heard. An entire album worth listening to. Not just one or two songs, the whole thing. Jimmy Page inspired uncounted guitar players. There was nobody else quite like Led Zeppelin at that time. Have you ever been around someone who was just picking aimlessly at a guitar and hear somebody say, "Hey man, can you do Stariway?" I was in a music store just a couple of months ago and over in the guitar section there was a sign, a very nice sign in a frame that read simply "NO STAIRWAY!" I asked the clerk about the sign, and of course she replied, "It's just a joke!" 37 years after it's release, just those two words can easily be related to Rock and Roll, the world over.

4) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) This album bridged the gap that existed between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and The Beatles. It had ramdom noises like you would hear on the Beatles White Album that kept continuity between the songs. It had intricate guitar work and wonderful melodies like Led Zeppelin. It could display the raw power of synthisizers coupled with acoustics and driving beats and rhythms. It was a roller coaster ride. And those that liked our friends Lucy and Mary Jane began to follow the mysteries of pink Floyd. Roger Waters lyrics were incredible. A single line could convey a thousand words worth of emotion. It so inspired people that somebody got the idea that it was a conspiracy because the audio could be matched with the actions in the movie Wizard of Oz.

5) AC/DC - Back In Black (1980) I live in South Texas. When this album came out, even the country fans had this one on 8 track tape in the pickup trucks. If you did not have this album, you were not part of the crowd. This album actually brought the rednecks and the hippies together around where I live. Where I come from you were one or the other. Of course there was the Lawerance Welk crowd among the Senior Citizens. This album stands as a freedom of expression. The right to party. It also was the first taste of AC/DC for most of the young Americans. It inspired many garage bands to emulate this incredible sound.

The White Album--The Beatles

Dark Side of the Moon--Pink Floyd

Zeppelin IV--Led Zeppelin

Destroyer--KISS

Boston--Boston

Off the top of my head:

Dark Side of the Moon: Pink Floyd

Beatles: White Album

Led Zeppelin: 1

Thick as a Brick: Jethro Tull

Van Halen: 1

There are countless others by so many great bands, these in my opinion started a new wave of music, or encouraged music to go into a different direction.

a million. It Takes a u . s . a . of thousands and thousands to carry Us back - Public Enemy. This replaced into the first and the staggering political social moral experience rap album. on the instantaneous KRS-One replaced into the in reality different rapper who tackled social topics yet not in this way. cleared the course for destiny rappers like X-prolonged family contributors, Mos Def, easy, Talib Kweli, Kanye West 2. waiting to Die - notorious B.I.G. At a time even as west coast rap replaced into dominating the game, Biggie dropped this album and each and everything replaced. concentration replaced into then shifted back to the east coast rappers like Nas, Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, Mobb Deep etc. 3. instantly Outta Compton - NWA This placed West Coast rap on the map and spawned the careers of Eazy E, Ice dice, Dr Dre, 3 extremely influential rap figureheads. 4. RUN-D.M.C. - Run DMC This replaced into the arriving out of rap as a valid mainstream music type and triggered in basic terms about each and every artist contained in the 1980's. 5. Illmatic - Nas Proved that high quality is more advantageous than volume. in reality 9 songs with in basic terms over 1/2 an hour of music, for an album to have this a lot result's superb. It lower than pressure the magnitude of lyrical content textile going back to the roots of hip hop after 4 years of raps popping out party aka the Golden era characterized by using relaxing bragging lyrics, cool beats, hip homestead and new jack genres.

The White Album

Ok Comuter

Denfinitely Maybe

Thriller

Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon

Beatles-Sgt. Pepper

Led Zeppelin-ZOSO (IV) "Stairway To Heaven"

The Band-Music From Big Pink

Rush-2112

My opinion.

1) Highway 61 Revisited

2) Sgt. Pepper

3) London Calling

4) Led Zeppelin ll

5) Who's Next

Nevermind...Nirvana

White Album...Beatles

Dark side of the Moon...Pink Floyd

Thriller...Michael Jackson

Appetite for Destruction...Guns N' Roses

Not in any particular order.

In chronological order:

Elvis Presley (1956)

Rubber Soul

Pet Sounds

Tapestry

London Calling