How many of these 'influential' albums do you own?

http://www.influentialalbums.com/

Wtf says clap your hands say yeah is influential? wtf is the rap/funk/jazz/techno etc? (my score may have been higher then)

but now that's out the way

http://i.imgur.com/zaUVlqL.jpg

oh and there was no sabbath on it which was really wtf

I did that, but it got stuck processing my results graphic. I had 90/100.

Not on facebook I won't.

Post a list?

you are under the influence

johnny fever wins

45/100.

some of the selections made me chuckle.

and yes, the clap your hands .. was a little 'huh !?', and i love that album.

then again, maybe it was down the whole word of mouth of a "self released album that broke through post p-fork love" thing that they meant by influential ..

johnny fever wins

Nah, I'm just a hoarder.

Just imagine ILM trying to agree on 100 influential albums mind you

oh totally.
i'd score 7 ..

yeah I don't do FB either but hey if somebody wants to post a list I will try it.

not sure there's a way to post the list but you could console yourself with this other one
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping

24/100. totally absurd cross section of albums befitting someone who throws around the word "influential" loosely to mean "i like this."

yeah i wish there had been a version with a really good list

ehhh. you could do this with any boring magazine "100 greatest albums" list i guess. it's not like anyone's "score" means anything.

lol delgados?

true. but it would be nice if it could be done with an actual good list rather than as you say a boring magazines list

my score only reflects the £3 offers on @ fopp.

43/100.

Pleased to see The Chameleons and The Go-Betweens in there... my favourite Go-Betweens album, too!

49/100.

RIP Brubeck and all, but ffs, when Brubeck is on a list and Miles isn't, fuck said list.

16

lol

I can't get the page to load properly for some reason. Is there a further URL to get to the list or something? Not sure what's going on there, tried refreshing several times too, only seeing maybe 7lps with no ability to scroll either sideways or up and down. Is that my computer?

i dont share shit on facebook so fuck this

I uninstalled the app straight after I did it, and unchecked the sharing box. I only share shit with my toilet.

tmi

61/100 and it crashed my browser twice.

thats flash for you

i could not get it to work in chrome, had to fall back on ie ...
maybe thats the root cause for peoples problems ?

Embarrassed that some of them were albums I bought on recommendation then regretted, like Smashing Pumpkins and Big Star

big n rich arent on there

right, wondered if it was the browser, but haven't checked another yet. i'm on Chrome too.

61%, finally managed to get it to work in Firefox which I hadn't used in ages.

69. With is always the best score out of 100. No Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Sly Stone, Funkadelic, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, etc etc etc. but CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, wtf?!

& rarest lps were Bert jansch s/t, Slint Spiderland and Pretty Things, S.F.Sorrow

out of mine anyway, sorry should have edited that with the other post.

69 !
bravo sick ..
no congos. no specials. etc.
its a list to make ilm regulars choke on their cornflakes ..
but so what .. tis lightweight fb bollox ..

no foetus ;)

I love how at the end it asked me if I want to buy the Donovan, Gerry Rafferty and I Am Kloot, lol.

I'd imagine an ILM version would have to be 1,000 deep to please everyone!

nothing could please ilmers

honestly the arguments would be worse than this!

No Anal Corpse Riot, no credibility.

would sufjan make it?

I hope not.

a thing where i look at a list of 100 arbitrarily chosen albums and then click boxes i cannot click fast enough want to click boxes

boxess

I think I've heard 15 of these? Lol at Time Out being the only jazz album, among other things.

Got 55 based on what I have had in the past, have sold at least 40 of them.

Was it my imagination, or was there no Who on there?

No lots of things

Anyone done this yet that got a score of 0?

I got like 30%. However I grew deeply suspicious of the list when I got to Gerry Rafferty's City to City

Tuomas will have the brubeck and public enemy at least im sure otherwise I thought maybe him.

aye the gerry rafferty was a strange one. His folk stuff was influential in scotland in that scene no doubt but that was way before his famous albums.
My dad saw gerry rafferty in his folk days. The Humblebums (featuring pre-fame billy connolly too)

I had 60%. If they'd replaced britpop records w/ Black Flag, or Miles, or Kate Bush, or Tom Waits, or.... you know good music that I like. I do own the CYHSY record but really? Even culturally influential as a self release it's tenuous at best. You might as well throw Black Kids in there as the fastest boom and bust hype cycle known to man.

there is just no way clap your hands say yeah is influential.

there's no way i'm doing this but i will lol forever at "very few people own more than 70"

85. terrible list

74. Odd list. Missing some of the 80's Indie stuff. Some of the ones I've missed, I've at least streamed at some point.

I have stolen more than 70 of these records, does that count

influence does not exist! mark s to thread!

he influenced this thread

i'm 69. terrible list, but chuckle chuckle.

53

I have one copy of transformer.

I have 3 copies of After the goldrush.

I have 3 copies of that bob dylan hair album

I have 3 copies of Revolver. (one canadian)

I have one copie of Hunky Dory

I have 2 copys of Pattie Smith Horses

I have one cmpy of kinks

I have 2 copoies of exile,

In conclusion, I have got 16.

78 for me.

does it count if you have it on tape or illegal download, i wonder

i just counted anything i've listened to in its entirety, since i've listened to a lot of streamed or borrowed albums as many times as some albums i own.

I think some dude is right in a way. You could own records you've never played but played a copied tape or mp3 or spotified an album hundreds of times.

Yes, but having subscribers account to Spotify could 'technically' mean you 'own' all of those albums.

well you gotta at least have listened to the albums

Damn there are too many users i wanna see how i do. I probably have most of these on vinyl.

Oh i have to log into Fascistbook? Forget it.

28%, not counting albums that I used to have.

79. Love that Roy Harper record, but is it really influential? Super Furry Animals and I Am Kloot? Public Enemy being the only rap album? Britishes...

In spite of unchecking the box on the front page, this still posted to my facebook wall.

I wanted to try this, but avoid Facebook applications. Found a message board where someone posted the list (cutting and pasting, so I don't vouch for spellings):

Pretty Thing - SF Sorrow
Ride - Nowhere
Wire - Chairs Missing
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
New Order - Technique
Harry Nilsson - Nilson Schmilsson
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Elliot Smith - Roman Candle
Devo - Q: Are we not men A: We are Devo
Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us back
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Fall - Perverted by Language
Blur - Parklife
Stooges - Fun House
Love - Forever Changes
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Magazine - Real Life
Slint - Spiderland
XTC - Drums and Wires
Donovan - A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
The The - Soul Mining
Nirvana - Nevermind
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Lou Reed - Transformer
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
AC/DC - Back in Black
Joy Division - Closer
Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
Cure - Disintegration
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Breeders - Last Splash
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Ramones - Ramones
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Strokes - Is This It?
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Led Zeppelin - IV
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Slow Drive - Souvlaki
REM - Automatic for the People
Mercury Rev - Derserter's Songs
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Patti Smith - Horses
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Roy Harper - Stormcock
John Cale - Paris 1919
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Spiritualised - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
White Stripes - Elephant
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories
Clash - London Calling
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
John Martyn - Solid Air
Delgados - Peloton
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Cream - Disraeli Gears
I Am Kloot - Gods and Monsters
Pixies - Doolittle
Wedding Present - George Best
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Beatles - Revolver
Kinks - Face to Face
Television - Marquee Moon
Can - Tago Mago
Radiohead - OK Computer
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Primal Scream - Screamadelic

I count: 38 on vinyl, 7 on real CDs, 5 on homemade/illegal CDs. So 50 out of 99 (or 100, if I Am Kloot actually exist).

WTF is I Am Kloot?

thanks for the list btw

I Am Kloot were a highly influential band, evidently.

A NAM band iirc

(New Acoustic Movement)

There's no shroomadelica albums on that list

thx for posting clem

i think i'm at about 28. this was written by a britishes huh.

11, with about 3 listened to in the last five years.

i own 3 on cd and i've listened to/enjoyed about 10-12 of them. this looks like every rock publication's top 100-whatever-who-could-possibly-care-anymore lists.

hopefully bon iver is influencing more people to move to log cabins in the woods than to make music

i own 4. i am not really an album person

want to do my own verzh of this

Shocked that I have 45 of them, though at one time it would have been closer to 60. I assume in five years it'll be down to 25 or so.

18. Nice to see that Gerry Rafferty album on there.

34. huge lols at including the breeders album in the influential of all time category

24 now, about 49 including albums I've once owned or heard in their entirety. Pretty confident in my reasons for not caring much about most of the 76 albums I can't queue in with a mouseclick.

In fairness, it's "100 Influential Albums" not Teh Most.
45.

so it's completely arbitrary?

QUICK GIVE THIS GUY MY FACEBOOK LOGIN

64/100 My 'rarest' albums are Bert Jansch, Slowdive and The Pretty Things.

Some of these are weird. How are Bon Iver or The White Stripes considered influential?

I love the idea of polling the 100 most influential albums according to ILM

41.

Where is James Brown on that list?

14/100 - kind of disappointed not to score zero

That would mean you didn't own Elephant though

94/100

lol at the blowout success of this really arbitrary rateyourmusic list but I take the bait: Why are the Delgados on it? Why is "Script of the Bridge" in the 100 of all-time? Not that it couldn't be, but...

Why is "Script of the Bridge" in the 100 of all-time?

Because it's awesome!

and clap your hands say yeah?

Well, that's something that only the creators of the list could answer.

you should make your own list

Why is "Script of the Bridge" in the 100 of all-time?

Because it's awesome!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, January 26, 2013 7:43 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the music is awesome and arguably influential. the album art, not so much:

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-chameleons-uk/album-script-of-the-bridge.jpg

all that's missing is the unicorn.

but yeah i love the music on script of the bridge regardless of the cover art :D

Allowing for my North American bias, and bias towards old fogey stuff, these are the ones I'd say are either inarguably or quite likely influential, however you define that word:

Wire - Chairs Missing
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us back
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Fall - Perverted by Language
Blur - Parklife
Stooges - Fun House
Love - Forever Changes
Slint - Spiderland
Nirvana - Nevermind
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
AC/DC - Back in Black
Joy Division - Closer
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Ramones - Ramones
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Led Zeppelin - IV
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Patti Smith - Horses
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Spiritualised - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Clash - London Calling
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Pixies - Doolittle
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Beatles - Revolver
Television - Marquee Moon
Can - Tago Mago
Radiohead - OK Computer
Kraftwerk - Computer World

No, I didn't give any of that a great deal of thought. With most of the more recent names (doesn't it take a while for something to be deemed influential?), I was simply going by a general impression based on what I've read. I left out something like Exile--as great as it is, did it actually influence anyone? Obviously there should be many, many more hip-hop albums on the list.

I meant to delete the Fall album...The Fall are obviously very influential, but wouldn't they be better represented by something earlier?

yeah, i think that hex enduction hour would be the better Fall representative.

37 for me. I like that they included Stormcock, though they probably shouldn't have.

24 plus another 4 or 5 I used to own.

What a weird-ass list. Hit 89, but some of this stuff ... why are they here? The Cream record? That one Joni Mitchell or Tim Buckley disc? A couple of other totally random choices, like the first Elliott Smith record? Just weird.

A recurring problem on that list--besides, you know, the list itself--is that later albums are picked for people who might reasonably be included on the basis of earlier albums. I could see a case for the first Cream album: invented the "supergroup" (I think), invented the "power trio" (I think), etc. I could certainly see a case for any Joni album up to and (especially) including Blue. But I can't see that these later albums--good, great, or otherwise--actually influence much.

loads

not the shit ones though

Oh this. Shit, I spent about 2 minutes on facebook doing this and ended up getting hacked off with it.

didn't you score 99?

i dunno, it didn't work on my iphone and i switched it off once i realised how cack the choices were.

I fee like this really shouldn't count unless you own it as a physical format, or paid for the download.

I only have about 38 of these, but I own all of them.

Of course it's highly skewed toward indie/collegiate taste (like much of ILX). No Sabbath, no credibility.

*feel

Currently gots 57 (have owned 65 but got rid of eight that I hate)

Thing I like most about that list: Absence of the word "most"

58 on CD + 15 on vinyl + 9 as mp3s (but used to own the CD) = 82

oh, you should post the 8 u h8 xp

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

^ i had this for less than 24 hours and then it went straight back to the shop. it influenced me never to listen to bloc party again

xpost - they're all from the '90s or later! Actually, it's less that I HATED them, more just "I'm old & bored & too lazy to play these more than two or three times to see if they'll grow on me - too lazy, indeed, to do anything other than dismiss them and proclaim hatred." From memory: Jeff Buckley, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Pumpkins and a couple more I forget.

I still got 52 off the list as CDs. There are about 6 more that I had at one point and the CD's dissapeared over the years. There are 3 others that I have on vinyl LP in boxes that haven't been opened in over a decade.

93/100 - 4 of the remaining i am familiar with, but have no interest -- 2 more i actually do have interest in, and 1 i've never heard of.

Why no Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac? Seeing Oasis on any of these-type lists is always a disappointment. Cocteau Twins album choice should have been Victorialand.

Isn't this a more accurate list?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/jul/16/popandrock.shopping

At least there's an attempt at an explanation.

Whole thing is a 'likejacking' scam I guess? Like, you fill this out and a few weeks later it's 'Jane Doe likes Union Carbide ; share, like, or comment'

Every single one of my friends who have done this on Facebook have Souvlaki listed as their most obscure album leading me to conclude that either it's not that obscure or that I hang out with a ton of corny indie fuxxors.

One i didn't have..

last one on the list that i actually listened to

(this morning in the bath)

75, but what a schmindie list. Embarrassingly obvious Token Black Music picks. Jimi, Stevie, Marvin, PE and that's it. Thanks for your contribution, black music! Wish we could have had more of you but we had to make room for The Wedding Present and I Am Kloot.

Every single one of my friends who have done this on Facebook have Souvlaki listed as their most obscure album leading me to conclude that either it's not that obscure or that I hang out with a ton of corny indie fuxxors.

That's weird. I saw on facebook that my mum did this, and along with Revolver she had Souvlaki listed. There is not a fucking chance she has that record or has ever heard any similar music or even the word Slowdive in her life. I assumed she was trying to look cool.

Maybe she remembered you had it

Impossible.

Perhaps the whole thing is guerrilla marketing by Slowdive.

who were worse than Hitler iirc

must have missed his shoejackbootgaze period

I own exactly 2 of these, Time Out and What's Going On. (The former I love, but the latter isn't among my favourite soul albums, I probably wouldn't own it if a friend hadn't given it to me for free.) However, 95% of the stuff on the list is rock music, and I don't listen to rock, so this result is not surprising.

What is the most obscure album you had Tuomas?

My score was 80. Shame on me.

haha same as me

A paltry 65, but I do own them all physically. The Felt record and Script of the Bridge were my "rarities"...

Struggling to think of any publication, however white-guy-centric, that would omit Prince, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, James Brown, Sly Stone and all reggae ever. It makes Uncut look like The Source.

My "rarities" were Peloton, Stormcock and Script Of The Bridge. All of which were bought from high street chainstores.

It's nicely coincidental, given Roy Harper is about to make a dramatic return to Then Play Long, but "rare"? Shurely not.

You would be good on Pointless.

If only I were a real Know-It-All like Alexander Armstrong or Philip Hensher, as opposed to Know-A-Lot-About-A-Bit.

So there's a newer more US-Centric version
http://www.influentialalbums.com/

http://i.imgur.com/W8rGsgu.jpg

95/100.

95/150, rather.

What was your rarest albums?

definitely, definitely not clicking on that again

Apparently there was a vote on twitter/fb to decide what albums got added this time.
So lots of people nominated Amy Winehouse,Michael Jackson, Grateful Dead, Police and The Kinks.