The most important debut album in history

[Icy Gull]

I've just been reading up on Buddy Holly's first and last album you read what Lennon and Mcartney, Bob Dylan and Jagger and Richards have said about him then you'd have to give him a shout. Only had 18 months..... Quite incredible that. Wonder what he could have been ?

Bigger than the Beatles I would suggest

 

[Mellotron]

Bigger than the Beatles I would suggest

Pretty hard to say. The Beatles helped invent about 4 different genres of music.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Pretty hard to say. The Beatles helped invent about 4 different genres of music.

Oh great I gotta hear these......

Prey tell......

 

[Kumquat]

Not read all the thread so sorry for a few repeats but my shortlist is:

Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

VU - VU featuring Nico

Eminen - Marshall Mathers album

Portishead - Dummy

And of course, Ver pistols......

Wasn't Portishead's Dummy one of the many albums influenced by Massive Attack's Blue Lines?

 

[keaton]

Oh great I gotta hear these......

Prey tell......

At a guess Psychedelia, Heavy Metal, Experimental, Dance

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

At a guess Psychedelia, Heavy Metal, Experimental, Dance

The Beatles invented dance?!

 

[keaton]

The Beatles invented dance?!

No, I said they 'helped' invent Dance.

 

[Icy Gull]

At a guess Psychedelia, Heavy Metal, Experimental, Dance

Psychedelic rock came from the West Coast during Flower Power imo. The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Love etc. I believe the Beatles latched onto it rather than invented it.

 

[Albumen]

The Beatles invented dance?!

No, I said they 'helped' invent Dance.

Delia Derbyshire from the BBC Radiophonic workshop invented dance music in the mid to late sixties. Unfortunately nobody heard it until 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szE5D-dPs_Y

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

No, I said they 'helped' invent Dance.

That's ever tenuous link if ever I heard one, so many bands could lay claim to that then.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Psychedelic rock came from the West Coast during Flower Power imo. The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Love etc. I believe the Beatles latched onto it rather than invented it.

The Beatles latched on to everything and invented nothing themselves ever fact.... Every type,style there was someone was doing it before them, they may have been at the forefront possibly of some styles and because of the publicity they commanded it seemed like they started whatever.... we know they did not. Most over rated band ever.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

At a guess Psychedelia, Heavy Metal, Experimental, Dance

The Beatles invented Heavy Metal. How do you get from Love Love Me Do to Slayer's Angel of Death?

 

[wallyback]

The Beatles invented Heavy Metal. How do you get from Love Love Me Do to Slayer's Angel of Death?

Helter Skelter certainly helped.

The Beatles did what a lot of successful artist did. Took what was going on underground and sold it to the masses.

Just the The Stones, Bowie, The Pistols etc!

 

[Codner's Wallop]

Wasn't Portishead's Dummy one of the many albums influenced by Massive Attack's Blue Lines?

Yes fair point, both heavily influenced the birth of trip-hop and both involved with the Bristol scene of the early and mid nineties. I preferred Dummy, though Blue Lines is still of course brilliant.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

The Beatles latched on to everything and invented nothing themselves ever fact.... Every type,style there was someone was doing it before them, they may have been at the forefront possibly of some styles and because of the publicity they commanded it seemed like they started whatever.... we know they did not. Most over rated band ever.

Dull & inept post

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Dull & inept post

You must be a Beatles fan then.....

Prove me wrong rather than Dull and inept ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Helter Skelter certainly helped.

The Beatles did what a lot of successful artist did. Took what was going on underground and sold it to the masses.

Just the The Stones, Bowie, The Pistols etc!

I'm not suggesting anything other than I'm struggling to see a link between The Beatles and metal.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I've not heard 'The Elephants'...... Any good ?

Not as good as The Brontosauruses.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Helter Skelter certainly helped.

Not seeing it. Sorry. I'd say Led Zep and Black Sabbath is the starting point for metal.

 

[wallyback]

I'm not suggesting anything other than I'm struggling to see a link between The Beatles and metal.

Does this help?