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Old 02-15-2011, 07:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Since when have Wipers, Slayer, Boredoms, Faust, My Bloody Valentine, Primus or Arcade Fire been essential Rock albums?

I could put 50 people in front of you and barely 10% would of even heard of these artists.

It's time to just list straight up Rock music here and what people may like.
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Old 02-15-2011, 10:36 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Since when have Wipers, Slayer, Boredoms, Faust, My Bloody Valentine, Primus or Arcade Fire been essential Rock albums?

I could put 50 people in front of you and barely 10% would of even heard of these artists.

It's time to just list straight up Rock music here and what people may like.
That's not anybody's fault but their own. Maybe if they opened their ears they wouldn't have trouble accepting 'lesser known' bands.

Haven't heard of Primus? Pfft
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Old 02-15-2011, 11:19 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Since when have Wipers, Slayer, Boredoms, Faust, My Bloody Valentine, Primus or Arcade Fire been essential Rock albums?

I could put 50 people in front of you and barely 10% would of even heard of these artists.

It's time to just list straight up Rock music here and what people may like.
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Old 02-16-2011, 03:01 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Since when have Wipers, Slayer, Boredoms, Faust, My Bloody Valentine, Primus or Arcade Fire been essential Rock albums?

I could put 50 people in front of you and barely 10% would of even heard of these artists.

It's time to just list straight up Rock music here and what people may like.
Well, we aren't the average music listener are we? When we think Essential Rock we think of a much looser term and all those bands are offshoots of Rock(except maybe MBV).
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Old 02-16-2011, 06:41 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Since when have Wipers, Slayer, Boredoms, Faust, My Bloody Valentine, Primus or Arcade Fire been essential Rock albums?

I could put 50 people in front of you and barely 10% would of even heard of these artists.

It's time to just list straight up Rock music here and what people may like.
I would argue a million times over that Slayer is a very significant metal band. They are pretty much the band that bridged the mainstream into black/death/speed metal. I personally went for only sounds that represented certain aspects of Rock. I mean, IE. Zappa's Hot Rats because it typifies Jazz Fusion in predominately rock form, and Gong's Angel Egg Trilogy because it's my favorite psychedelic work, and I feel for being so deep fairly easy for the rock listener to digest.

Obviously, I'm not putting Brotzmann, and Koenji Hyakkei on this list. Still, if you're putting up a list that contains everything you should put up one or two that fit more non-commercial avenues.
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Old 02-16-2011, 07:03 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I would argue a million times over that Slayer is a very significant metal band.
They're easily in the top five.
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Old 02-16-2011, 10:11 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Since when have Wipers, Slayer, Boredoms, Faust, My Bloody Valentine, Primus or Arcade Fire been essential Rock albums?

I could put 50 people in front of you and barely 10% would of even heard of these artists.

It's time to just list straight up Rock music here and what people may like.
Yeah, I can really see what you're saying here; in order for something to be "essential", it would have to typify rock and roll as a whole, and stand alone as an album which would appeal to a significant amount of people as an achievement in the genre.

With that said, I'll still stand by my list. I was kind of iffy about including Arcade Fire, to be quite honest, but I made my list more as the top 10 albums I would hand to someone who had never heard anything in the "rock and roll" genre. I figured a more contemporary inclusion would be necessary for this, although it certainly hasn't reached "classic" status. Who knows? It may never (probably won't) reach classic status, but I feel like it fit.

It's pretty subjective, anyway.
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Old 02-16-2011, 06:25 PM   #8 (permalink)
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No particular order, actually it's in chronological order.

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (1956)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? (1967)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1969)
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street (1972)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Ramones - Ramones (1976)
R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
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in the 50's rock was almost banned because of what it made people do - what would rock be now compared to that?
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