It's difficult to know how to interpret "influential." In what way? I'd say that Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" was influential, as was Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day."
If it's albums we're talking about then certainly the Beatles first album, whatever it was called, but also "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul." Those two, along with Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde," changed the way bands would sound forever. Bands still try to sound like that to this very day, that intimate acoustic/electric/in-the-studio sound.
Was "Sgt. Pepper" really all that influential? Not that I could ever tell. Maybe as far as album covers were concerned.
The first Jimi Hendrix album, "Are You Experienced," was hugely influential, in that it raised the bar for at least two generations of young musicians, and changed forever the way the electric guitar would be played. That was a true musical event, one that just doesn't come along very often.
I do think that, for better and/or worse, punk, by way of the Ramones first album, was a major influence on rock music. I remember it as being something like a breath of fresh air when I first heard it; it was wild and fun and very much like the bands that put out singles like "Louie Louie" back when I was a kid. But it lowered the bar so much that to this day you hear young people that can't play a damn thing getting up on stage and sounding like shit.
So these, the Beatles, Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix, and the Ramones, are the four biggest influential entities I've seen emerge in rock music during my life, a life which, I'll be the first to admit, hasn't been entirely focused on rock music at all.
It's difficult to know how to interpret "influential." In what way? I'd say that Chuck Berry's "Maybellene" was influential, as was Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day."
If it's albums we're talking about then certainly the Beatles first album, whatever it was called, but also "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul." Those two, along with Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde," changed the way bands would sound forever. Bands still try to sound like that to this very day, that intimate acoustic/electric/in-the-studio sound.
Was "Sgt. Pepper" really all that influential? Not that I could ever tell. Maybe as far as album covers were concerned.
The first Jimi Hendrix album, "Are You Experienced," was hugely influential, in that it raised the bar for at least two generations of young musicians, and changed forever the way the electric guitar would be played. That was a true musical event, one that just doesn't come along very often.
I do think that, for better and/or worse, punk, by way of the Ramones first album, was a major influence on rock music. I remember it as being something like a breath of fresh air when I first heard it; it was wild and fun and very much like the bands that put out singles like "Louie Louie" back when I was a kid. But it lowered the bar so much that to this day you hear young people that can't play a damn thing getting up on stage and sounding like shit.
So these, the Beatles, Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix, and the Ramones, are the four biggest influential entities I've seen emerge in rock music during my life, a life which, I'll be the first to admit, hasn't been entirely focused on rock music at all.
I'm out of my element so please be easy on me...
Foghat - Fool for the city
Kiss -Destroyer
REO - Live / Hi Infidelity
Styx Cornerstone & Pieces of 8
Whatever album Free Bird is on
Foreigner - Double Vision
Heart - Dog & Butterfly
Journey - Escape & Captured & Frontiers
Now you can poke fun at the suggestions....
Montrose - montrose
Kraftwerk's Autobahn's influence is arguably the most wide ranging of all.
David, if your list is an example of the rock you have heard, no wonder you stick with jazz
Kraftwerk's Autobahn's influence is arguably the most wide ranging of all.
David, if your list is an example of the rock you have heard, no wonder you stick with jazz
Anon La Ply; said:Kraftwerk's Autobahn's influence is arguably the most wide ranging of all.
Journey - Escape .
Appetite for Destruction was certainly a major point in rock history.Love me some Pink Floyd (Dark Side) and all things Led Zep but that Appetite for Destruction album is something. I think it could be an age thing though because I think for many it is just more "hair metal". What a kick in the balls it is though. Just bad ass from top to bottom. Nasty.
They were all only playing at it until The Smiths came along....