Milestone Albums

[Viking]

This list will grow. Here are mine, in no particular order:

OK Computer, Radiohead. This is a masterpiece.

Master of Puppets, Metallica. The greatest metal ever made.

2112, Rush. The epitome of musical rebellion and inspired a generation of rock.

Pet Sounds, Beach Boys. I tear up every time I hear this album. The greatest of all time.

[wuapinmon]

This list will grow. Here are mine, in no particular order:

OK Computer, Radiohead. This is a masterpiece.

Master of Puppets, Metallica. The greatest metal ever made.

2112, Rush. The epitome of musical rebellion and inspired a generation of rock.

Pet Sounds, Beach Boys. I tear up every time I hear this album. The greatest of all time.

Please define your use of milestone for us so we can know the parameters for our own list.

[Commando]

Paul's Boutique-- Beastie Boys. This is the ultimate sampling album. Although the Dust Bros. sampled a ton on Odelay, this is an album never to be repeated due to modern copyright laws.

Siamese Dream-- a sound so perfect that SP had nowhere to go after this but deconstruct their sound and start from scratch on Mellon Collie.

[venkman]

By far, the biggest milestone album of my generation was Nirvana's Nevermind.

[Viking]

Please define your use of milestone for us so we can know the parameters for our own list.

Albums that defined a genre or significantly influenced one

[Commando]

By far, the biggest milestone album of my generation was Nirvana's Nevermind.

can you please articulate why you think that is and how this album is distinct from Bleach or In Utero in that regard?

[wuapinmon]

=w= Pinkerton. The disc that spawned a thousand emo bands.

[MarkGrace]

can you please articulate why you think that is and how this album is distinct from Bleach or In Utero in that regard?

Nevermind is such an interesting phenomenon. In many ways it's as much a cultural landmark as musical. I suppose to consider those things separately is to divorce the album from its proper context, but when you view the album simply as a musical entity, I don't know that it is vastly superior to Bleach or In Utero (well, I think it's better than Bleach, though In Utero is probably on par). Similarly, I think there are several albums from the 90s that are as good or better than Nevermind, but none that had the overall impact. If that makes any sense...

[MarkGrace]

Paul's Boutique-- Beastie Boys. This is the ultimate sampling album. Although the Dust Bros. sampled a ton on Odelay, this is an album never to be repeated due to modern copyright laws.

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing is supposedly the first album ever created entirely from samples.

That album is amazing.

[TripletDaddy]

nevermind is what...about 19 years old now? Which would have made some of you guys around 8 or 9 when it came out.

Reviews not necessary, thanks.

[MarkGrace]

The only person who would have been that young in '91 is Boylen Over. Actually, he would have been like 5 or 6, I think.

[Commando]

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing is supposedly the first album ever created entirely from samples.

That album is amazing.

I love dj shadow, too. That album was the ultimate study music.

[Commando]

Nevermind is such an interesting phenomenon. In many ways it's as much a cultural landmark as musical. I suppose to consider those things separately is to divorce the album from its proper context, but when you view the album simply as a musical entity, I don't know that it is vastly superior to Bleach or In Utero (well, I think it's better than Bleach, though In Utero is probably on par). Similarly, I think there are several albums from the 90s that are as good or better than Nevermind, but none that had the overall impact. If that makes any sense...

yeah.. I was 14 when this came out, so I wasn't super sophisticated but I liked it because I detected a lot of subversiveness in it toward contemporary rock music, that I didn't connect with anyway. However, although I was down w/ Kurt, I never connected with his music in an emotional way as with other bands-- as well documented here.

[Viking]

Ten, Pearl Jam.

Thriller, Michael Jackson.

[Viking]

Deloused in the Comatorium, The Mars Volta