my
whether you’re into smooth-talking soul
or soul-shattering electro there’s a
genre for every taste and mood welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
albums that popularized as onra that’s a
good song for this list we’re choosing
musical albums that brought a specific
genre from the underground to the masses
they don’t necessarily have to be the
biggest selling or most influential
records of their time nor do they have
to be an artist debut record but they do
have to have been released within the
latter half of the 20th century to today
number 10 Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division atmospheric and brooding
Joy Division’s debut album Unknown
Pleasures quickly became the keystone of
the post-punk movement thanks to its
heavy stripped-down sound
taking 1970s Punk ideals and channeling
them through dark haunting lyrics
Unknown Pleasures turned lead singer Ian
Curtis and company into anti-heroes up
their generation while Curtis is
untimely death at the height of Joy
Division’s fame broke up the band
indefinitely his passing at the age of
23 only added to their cult stardom
sparking an intense following countless
cover bands big pieces and movies
the album’s legacy lives on
the cover art almost being as iconic as
the music itself
number nine kill them all Metallica
fast aggressive and completely
mesmerizing Metallica’s debut album
kilomole thrust the sub-genre of thrash
metal into the limelight one of the
biggest-selling bands in the world
Metallica helped to introduce fast paced
percussion low register chords and
intense shredding to the genre of heavy
metal fans with this record with
influences from the new wave of British
heavy metal
Metallica infused a punk sensibility
into their music that counteracted the
popular and more digestible glam metal
sounds of the time while the album
didn’t chart as well as their later
studio albums kill them all nonetheless
transform the lives of metalheads
everywhere
number eight Dookie Green Day
panic attacks boredom and masturbation
were the main focus of Green Day’s
critically-acclaimed third album
producing singles like Longview
basket-case
and when I come around Dookie saw Billy
Joe Armstrong Mike turns and tré cool
become the poster children for 90s punk
rock their hard-hitting tracks bringing
out the angst in virtually every
teenager the world over
while other punk bands were making
headway at the time of Duty’s release
the album’s pop infused melodies sent
the trio to the top of the Modern Rock
charts surpassing the competitors and
gathering a multitude of devoted fans
along the way
number seven the rise and fall of Ziggy
Stardust and the spiders from Mars David
Bowie
just anything
chronicling the trials and tribulations
of david bowie’s alter-ego Ziggy
Stardust are the people reread him and
contributed more information about Ziggy
than I’ve put into him the rise and fall
of Ziggy Stardust was an album that
checked off every box conceptual record
about an androgynous alien rock star
check flamboyant costumes heavy makeup
and miming check
throw that into the mix with David Boies
sheer talents and you get the album that
sent glam-rock into the stratosphere and
which inspired every makeup wearing rock
star since hey that’s far out number six
the Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd
filled with sprawling and complex
psychedelic tracks Pink Floyd’s 1973
masterpiece became the keystone of the
prog rock movement catapulting the genre
and the band into the mainstream
spotlight one of the best-selling albums
in music history the Dark Side of the
Moon included groundbreaking tracks like
time money and us and them
which took themes like conflict greed
and the passage of time and sent them
through that iconic mind-melding prism
taking each listener on a trip through
his or her multifaceted world
the Dark Side of the Moon was more
enlightening than anyone could have
imagined
thank you whoa
number five Ramones Ramones
while the class were slowly getting
things started on the other side of the
pond
it was the Ramones who really introduced
the mainstream kids to the transgressive
world of punk rock flat and leather
jackets sunglasses and matching last
names The Ramones took the world by
storm with their badass self-titled
debut their single blitzkrieg bop
serving as the anthem of every punk and
skater kid the world over
fast loud and unforgiving to Ramones
well-constructed catchy tracks booze the
self-confidence that trumped all the
other punk acts of the era
number four Straight Outta Compton NWA
armed with Street knowledge big
attitudes and raw unapologetic energy
NWA quickly took over the hip-hop scene
essentially forming the genre of gangsta
rap as we know it today while many
albums of the time were veering towards
a much harder hitting sound Ice Cube
eazy-e dr. Dre and the rest of the posse
beats everyone to the punch with anthems
like the police and Straight Outta
Compton tracks that push just the right
amount of buttons and that catapulted
them into the mainstream with honest
brutal lyrics and high-energy live
performances that both excited and
infuriated the police coming straight
from the underground a young got it bad
cuz I’m brown and not the other color so
police think they have the authority to
kill a minority
number three Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
influenced heavily by the blues and
roots rocks of the late 60s Black
Sabbath’s debut album launched the genre
of heavy metal as we know it infused
with dark macabre images and heavy chord
progressions Ozzy Osbourne led Black
Sabbath with the first band to really
differentiate rock from metal morphing
blues rock into something uglier and
more sinister
while their sophomore album paranoid was
released the same year it was their
eponymous debut that launched the band’s
dark look and deliberately sacrilegious
performances into the limelight
number two never mind Nirvana assuring
in the alt-rock movement of the early
90s with reckless abandon this rock band
led by the late Kurt Cobain brought the
Seattle grunge movement to the forefront
of the mainstream an aggressive response
to the age of excess that was the mid to
late 80s anthems like in bloom come as
you are and of course smells like teen
spirit ignited a movement and a very
serious fan following not only of kids
in tattered sweaters but fed up adults
all over the world
and while the baby on the album’s cover
is not nearly as ubiquitous as Cobain’s
own face it still stands as a symbol of
just how transformative one record can
be
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
legend the world
yes
hi
good real
well except for my leg self in a boat on
a river with tangerine trees and skies
number one sergeant pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band The Beatles
one of the biggest concept albums in pop
music history Sergeant Pepper fused
elements of bowed Ville and Indian
classical music with traditional guitar
rock resulting in the most sprawling and
most popular psychedelic rock album ever
recorded
while are you experienced from the Jimi
Hendrix Experience is a psychedelic rock
staple it’s this eight effort by the Fab
Four that really brought those psyche
rock sounds to living rooms around the
globe while some songs on the album are
more psychedelic than others Sergeant
Pepper as a whole transformed what the
public considered is pop and introduced
the world to a different side of the
Beatles as well so do you agree with our
list
Jamie essentially the John is done down
one second what is your favorite genre
defining album easy as its name and the
boys coming for more memorable top 10s
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com so you can see
whether you’re into smooth-talking soul
or soul-shattering electro there’s a
genre for every taste and mood welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
albums that popularized as onra that’s a
good song for this list we’re choosing
musical albums that brought a specific
genre from the underground to the masses
they don’t necessarily have to be the
biggest selling or most influential
records of their time nor do they have
to be an artist debut record but they do
have to have been released within the
latter half of the 20th century to today
number 10 Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division atmospheric and brooding
Joy Division’s debut album Unknown
Pleasures quickly became the keystone of
the post-punk movement thanks to its
heavy stripped-down sound
taking 1970s Punk ideals and channeling
them through dark haunting lyrics
Unknown Pleasures turned lead singer Ian
Curtis and company into anti-heroes up
their generation while Curtis is
untimely death at the height of Joy
Division’s fame broke up the band
indefinitely his passing at the age of
23 only added to their cult stardom
sparking an intense following countless
cover bands big pieces and movies
the album’s legacy lives on
the cover art almost being as iconic as
the music itself
number nine kill them all Metallica
fast aggressive and completely
mesmerizing Metallica’s debut album
kilomole thrust the sub-genre of thrash
metal into the limelight one of the
biggest-selling bands in the world
Metallica helped to introduce fast paced
percussion low register chords and
intense shredding to the genre of heavy
metal fans with this record with
influences from the new wave of British
heavy metal
Metallica infused a punk sensibility
into their music that counteracted the
popular and more digestible glam metal
sounds of the time while the album
didn’t chart as well as their later
studio albums kill them all nonetheless
transform the lives of metalheads
everywhere
number eight Dookie Green Day
panic attacks boredom and masturbation
were the main focus of Green Day’s
critically-acclaimed third album
producing singles like Longview
basket-case
and when I come around Dookie saw Billy
Joe Armstrong Mike turns and tré cool
become the poster children for 90s punk
rock their hard-hitting tracks bringing
out the angst in virtually every
teenager the world over
while other punk bands were making
headway at the time of Duty’s release
the album’s pop infused melodies sent
the trio to the top of the Modern Rock
charts surpassing the competitors and
gathering a multitude of devoted fans
along the way
number seven the rise and fall of Ziggy
Stardust and the spiders from Mars David
Bowie
just anything
chronicling the trials and tribulations
of david bowie’s alter-ego Ziggy
Stardust are the people reread him and
contributed more information about Ziggy
than I’ve put into him the rise and fall
of Ziggy Stardust was an album that
checked off every box conceptual record
about an androgynous alien rock star
check flamboyant costumes heavy makeup
and miming check
throw that into the mix with David Boies
sheer talents and you get the album that
sent glam-rock into the stratosphere and
which inspired every makeup wearing rock
star since hey that’s far out number six
the Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd
filled with sprawling and complex
psychedelic tracks Pink Floyd’s 1973
masterpiece became the keystone of the
prog rock movement catapulting the genre
and the band into the mainstream
spotlight one of the best-selling albums
in music history the Dark Side of the
Moon included groundbreaking tracks like
time money and us and them
which took themes like conflict greed
and the passage of time and sent them
through that iconic mind-melding prism
taking each listener on a trip through
his or her multifaceted world
the Dark Side of the Moon was more
enlightening than anyone could have
imagined
thank you whoa
number five Ramones Ramones
while the class were slowly getting
things started on the other side of the
pond
it was the Ramones who really introduced
the mainstream kids to the transgressive
world of punk rock flat and leather
jackets sunglasses and matching last
names The Ramones took the world by
storm with their badass self-titled
debut their single blitzkrieg bop
serving as the anthem of every punk and
skater kid the world over
fast loud and unforgiving to Ramones
well-constructed catchy tracks booze the
self-confidence that trumped all the
other punk acts of the era
number four Straight Outta Compton NWA
armed with Street knowledge big
attitudes and raw unapologetic energy
NWA quickly took over the hip-hop scene
essentially forming the genre of gangsta
rap as we know it today while many
albums of the time were veering towards
a much harder hitting sound Ice Cube
eazy-e dr. Dre and the rest of the posse
beats everyone to the punch with anthems
like the police and Straight Outta
Compton tracks that push just the right
amount of buttons and that catapulted
them into the mainstream with honest
brutal lyrics and high-energy live
performances that both excited and
infuriated the police coming straight
from the underground a young got it bad
cuz I’m brown and not the other color so
police think they have the authority to
kill a minority
number three Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
influenced heavily by the blues and
roots rocks of the late 60s Black
Sabbath’s debut album launched the genre
of heavy metal as we know it infused
with dark macabre images and heavy chord
progressions Ozzy Osbourne led Black
Sabbath with the first band to really
differentiate rock from metal morphing
blues rock into something uglier and
more sinister
while their sophomore album paranoid was
released the same year it was their
eponymous debut that launched the band’s
dark look and deliberately sacrilegious
performances into the limelight
number two never mind Nirvana assuring
in the alt-rock movement of the early
90s with reckless abandon this rock band
led by the late Kurt Cobain brought the
Seattle grunge movement to the forefront
of the mainstream an aggressive response
to the age of excess that was the mid to
late 80s anthems like in bloom come as
you are and of course smells like teen
spirit ignited a movement and a very
serious fan following not only of kids
in tattered sweaters but fed up adults
all over the world
and while the baby on the album’s cover
is not nearly as ubiquitous as Cobain’s
own face it still stands as a symbol of
just how transformative one record can
be
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
legend the world
yes
hi
good real
well except for my leg self in a boat on
a river with tangerine trees and skies
number one sergeant pepper’s Lonely
Hearts Club Band The Beatles
one of the biggest concept albums in pop
music history Sergeant Pepper fused
elements of bowed Ville and Indian
classical music with traditional guitar
rock resulting in the most sprawling and
most popular psychedelic rock album ever
recorded
while are you experienced from the Jimi
Hendrix Experience is a psychedelic rock
staple it’s this eight effort by the Fab
Four that really brought those psyche
rock sounds to living rooms around the
globe while some songs on the album are
more psychedelic than others Sergeant
Pepper as a whole transformed what the
public considered is pop and introduced
the world to a different side of the
Beatles as well so do you agree with our
list
Jamie essentially the John is done down
one second what is your favorite genre
defining album easy as its name and the
boys coming for more memorable top 10s
published daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com so you can see
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