From this months November issue (21st Anniversary Special)
Lennon & McCartney
Kurt Cobain
David Bowie
Damon Albarn
Bob Dylan
Madonna
Jimi Hendrix
Elvis Presley
Public Enemy
Radiohead
Michael Jackson
Kraftwerk
Sex Pistols
Ian Curtis
Led Zeppelin
R.E.M.
James Brown
The Velvet Underground
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Brian Eno
Ian Brown
"From moptop to parent-baiting gangsta rap, when push comes to shove, these are the records that really mattered"
1. Meet The Beatles! – The Beatles
2. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
3. Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
4. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. Beggars Banquet – The Rolling Stones
6. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
7. Blue – Joni Mitchell
8. David Bowie – The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
9. Autobahn – Kraftwerk
10. Ramones – Ramones
11. Saturday Night Fever – Various Artists
12. Never Mind The Bollocks – Sex Pistols
13. Thriller – Michael Jackson
14. The Queen Is Dead – The Smiths
15. The Joshua Tree – U2
16. Nevermind – Nirvana
17. The Chronic – Dr Dre
18. Grace – Jeff Buckley
19. Definitely Maybe – Oasis
20. OK Computer – Radiohead
21. Is This It – The Strokes
Is that the real list. The Beatles album would not have been my choice it should have been Rubber Soul. Saturday Night Fever I really don't get this list. Will it count on Acclaimed Music.
Ian Brown??
I don't think he was nearly as influential a frontman as say Ian Curtis or Kurt Cobain - they drove the band - can't really say the same about Brown...
Why I think Meet The Beatles is the most important album.
Dylan’s gradual move from folk to rock and roll was inspired by the Beatles (whom Dylan “secretly dug") and the Byrds (whose electrified folk-rock arrangement of Dylan’s then-unreleased “Mr. Tambourine Man” eventually went to Number One in June 1965).
