The four most influential albums of all time

The four most influential albums of all time.

you might as well swap that for sugarhill gang or something if you insist on having not music on the chart

lol, how is Public Enemy influential? It got co-opted if anything. I'm a gen x boomer and I remember as a kid when all kinds black kids started wearing African symbols and doing the PE thing. Then out of nowhere NWA hit and ghettoized all of black culture across America. To the point that no one even thinks of blacks as anything except ghetto now. They never recovered. None of that self-empowerment ever existed again. Just blacks imprisoned on colossal scales, families torn apart, drugs or drug dealing crashing all of their lives and neighborhoods, and blacks killing each other left and right. And every white, both politician and pleb, egging them on and indulging it.

Swap every single one of these with a different album and then you're correct

how is Public Enemy influential?

Proceeds to explain how they were in fact, influential

Or swap Autobahn for Trans-Europe Express for consistency.

Replace Sabbath with Burzum and you almost got it.

tl;dr replace it with Straight Outta Compton and I agree.

Their influence lasted a whole minute. The songs Macarena and Who Let The Dogs Out had more societal influence for a longer period of time, and I doubt you'd consider those to be influential to this day.

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What did they influence?

Media coverage and controversy =//= influential

Every single black teenager today wanting to be a mothafucking gangsta rapper nigga = influential

I'm talking about media coverage. I'm talking kids and people on the street and other bands/rappers. Who actually follows Public Enemy's footsteps? De La Soul? Tribe Called Quest. This isn't anything. The amount who followed in NWA's footsteps is immeasurable.

I'm NOT talking about media coverage.*
Damnit.

BM has never influenced anything outside its own genre.

everything after

OP should have swapped Srt peppers with TVU&Nico though

sgt pepper

The Beatles did a bunch of studio trickery but that would've ended up happening anyway as technology progressed. Not a lot of music after sgt pepper sounded like sgt pepper.

black sabbath

Ask the average person what genre it is and they'd say hard rock (and they'd be right). Metal developed in a very slow and gradual way.

are you retarded?
yes

public enemy was political
that's nerd shit, no real ghetto blacks were into that shit for more than a minute
NWA brought forth the black of niggaz we live with today

ask a black if they listen to public enemy in 2025
put Michael Jackson in your DEI spot

Ye

Public Enemy is the ideal. What you wish was influential, if any hip hop. It just ain't so.

What do you gain by pretending to be urban on Anon Babble?

Who did Public Enemy influence? Honestly, look at modern day rappers and show me PE's influence

Heres my attempt at the most influential albums, I think mine is more objective (imagine not adding the album that started rock)
The third one is In the court of the crimson king

The third one is In the court of the crimson king

Did Fripp copyright block you from the real pic?

yea what a jerk, it only shows up a ugly AI version

Straight outta compton should always be on there unfortunately. Which one will you remove?

If we insist on including hip hop, this is the proper list, having "experimental" rock and metal as different things is dumb when you can cover both grounds with the VU & Nico, which invented alternative and abrasive music.

Imagine not adding the album that started rock

No Little Rirchard or Chuck Berry but instead a yahoo who only has any relevance because girls got their rocks off to him

you are either a racist, a pedestrian, a moron or some combination of the three

Swap Sgt Pepper for Made in The AM

the velvet underground & nico?

sugarhill gang

First doesn't make it the most influential. retard.

The average person has no idea who Black Sabbath was

The four most influential albums of all time.

Impossible to narrow it down to just 4. You need at least 8.
'Nevermind the bollocks' influenced two decades of rock and it's not there.
Thriller keeps influencing, look Weeknd.
So many bands quoted AC/DC as a big influence.
Then Nirvana's Nevermined set the final blueprint for whatever was left of rock. Everyone who didn't go retro later pretty much did something influenced by it.
Led Zep was also a huge influence on many.
The Stones too, just think the Strokes, that's how far it reached.

Really your list is very very reductionist. It misses a lot by limiting it to 4

OK Zoomer

Rapper's Delight is agreed to be the first recorded hip hop song ever, just because it was so infectious. It kickstarted hip hop as a movement unlike something like the beatles who just created a boyband """niche""" of something that already existed from blacks and was beloved by many people. First does not always equal influential but in certain instances the most influential album happens to be the first. See also: Days of Future Passed and Progressive Rock.

I didn't want to be verbose but what I meant was: "play a sabbath song and ask the average person what genre it is"