Favorite Ground breaking Album?

[Croconil]

I would like to know what peoples favorite ground breaking albums are.

My favorites are:

Master of Puppets - Metallica.   

This has got to be one of the best albums. Some of the riffs and lyrics are so musically complimentative, it makes it ground breaking in my eyes.

Nevermind - Nirvana

This is also an amazingly ground breaking album. The lyrics, the music, the drums, the whole album is amazing. Smells like Teen Spirit has got to be one of the best Grunge songs ever.

What do you think?

[zanzibar]

24 hour revenge therapy (Jawbreaker)  ---- emotive punkrock with an emphasis on texture and harmony? yes.
Spiderland (Slint) ---- incredibly influencial to the indie rock world, especially math rock and instrumental rock
It's me god (Breach) ------ amazing textures, heavy, predicts later hardcore bands
Melloncollie and the infinite sadness (Smashing Pumpkins) ------- a monster of an album, popular rock but intense
Bitches Brew (Miles Davis) -------- jazz plus jimmy hendrix
Badmoon Rising (Sonic Youth) ---------- the album bombed but it's genius, noise with a great level of intention
Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth) -------- this album is sex
Dark side of the moon (Pink Floyd) --------- an early "concept album"
Zen Arcade (Husker Du) ---------- incredibly influencial to emotive punk
The theory of harmonial value (moneen) --------- their later stuff sucks, but this album has a lot going for it, incredibly influencial to its scene
Stoner witch (melvins) -------- sludge

[Drey]

.. ground breaking would be?

[Croconil]

Such as the Nirvana album.

alot of rock was quite mild as such, and then Nirvana released this album and grunge was born

[zanzibar]

Such as the Nirvana album.

alot of rock was quite mild as such, and then Nirvana released this album and grunge was born

Only pop rock was "mild"... Nirvana didn't change anything except the mainstream.

[Drey]

nirvana are overrated.

[zanzibar]

nirvana are overrated.

Overrated by some, underrated by others.

[Drey]

nirvana are overrated.

Overrated by some, underrated by others.

Possibly, i just dont like them - and similarly people who go on about them alot... i have nevermind, dont like it though.

I don't know how i would proclaim any of the albums i own ground breaking... but many of them are very good

[Croconil]

I love Nirvana. I think they are an amazing band

But everyones entitle to thier opinion eh?

[zanzibar]

Oh, I forgot the Indian Summer recordings!  But they never really had an album...

[Drey]

But everyones entitle to thier opinion eh?

I prefer my opinions.

[Croconil]

But everyones entitle to thier opinion eh?

I prefer my opinions.

Erm, Good for you?

[zanzibar]

Drey, you have to admit.... would you really want a band like Skid Row to be the major band of the early 90's?

[zog]

oh come on now ...Nelson!

hehehehe 

 Nirvana was the harbinger of doom! (remember, I played in hair metal bands ) ...it made a HUGE change in the popular music scene. They were not (with the possible exception of Grohl) a terribly musical band ...but they had power and emotion. They also paved the way for musicians of lesser ability to become iconic (no more guitar heros)

[Ralas]

I'd have to agree with the Metallica, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, and Pumpins albums already mentioned.  To that I would add NIN - Pretty Hate Machine, Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled, Deftones - Around the Fur, and albums of some lesser known bands that were ground breaking for them, and for me when I heard them: Jimmy Eat World - Clarity; Thursday - Full Collapse; AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset; From Autumn to Ashes - Too Bad You're Beautiful; Social Distortion - Self titled; The Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience.  This is all that I can think of, for now.