5 Rock albums that revolutionized their era

Write an album capable of to catch the attention of the mass public can be a particularly difficult undertaking hard, even for a very gifted artist, especially in the world of Rock. Having a strong point predisposition sometimes it’s not enough for writing and composition. To create a Rock album capable of revolutionize an entire epoch, a very high dose of charisma. We are talking about records that, often, have not seen their authors covered with fame and success for their work immediately; but which, more often than not, have been widely revalued however advanced they had been in their time.

Whether it’s attention to detail during production or use eccentric of new compositional techniques, some albums have completely revolutionized the Rock panorama of their era; contributing particularly wide to give shape and, above all, to sound and style to the most modern meanings of the genre. Often, the re-listening by fans and professionals has allowed these works to be widely re-evaluated.

As said, most of these albums have run the risk of being misunderstood in the historical period in which they saw the light; while providing a decidedly contribution massive the genres that would come. In this article, we want to pay homage to the genius of the Rock bands that gave birth to these albums that revolutionized the history of music, indicating a few.

5) David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust

In the late 1960s, Rock was beginning to raise its own technical and compositional standards. This, thanks to the contribution of bands like Who and their iconic Rock Opera Tommy. Furthermore, artists such as Alice Cooper and Kiss would, in a short time, completely upset the conceptions that fans had of frontmen on stage. David Bowie he wanted to raise the above concepts to levels literally astronomical. Ziggy Stardust and the concept extraordinary that stood behind us acted as a watershed between the past and everything that would come later. The White Duke, as we know, did a profound work transformation, basing himself on his work; immersing the viewer in a deeply immersive experience.

4) Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine

The 90s represented a real point of no return in the world of Rock, deeply revolutionized by the bursting innovations proposed in the albums of the great bands that defined that period. Among these, we must mention the Rage Against The Machine. Through the mixture of genres meticulously orchestrated with which they composed their iconic sound, Rage Against The Machine yes imposed in less than it is said to be a ferocious as well as involving mass phenomenon.

3) Nirvana – In Utero

Nevermind sanctioned the definitive turning point for Nirvana and for the world of music in general. Through the sonic revolution raw and overbearing with whom, Kurt Cobain and his Nirvana, imposed themselves on the socio-cultural landscape of their time, managed to sweep away the icons platinate Glam Metal, a phenomenon that had raged throughout the 1980s; giving voice to an entire generation of young people. Although the album has become the anthem of the misunderstood, their next work, In Utero, wanted to be Cobain’s warning to growth artistic.

At the time, the vast audience of Nirvana was waiting for a disc along the lines of the previous iconic album, therefore, when fans and professionals listened for the first time to the masterpiece, signed by the brilliant production of Steve Albini, they couldn’t do that twist the nose. In Utero, as we know, it would have been soon, fortunately, revalued; seen the amazing rush experimental conducted by Nirvana in the composition of the disc; while not disdaining unstable feelings and angry that distinguished their work.

2) The Beatles – Abbey Road

The passage of the Beatles on Earth, it completely changed the way we make music, in every aspect and in every genre. With Abbey Road, the legendary quartet of Liverpool wanted to underline his importance in the socio-cultural panorama of the time, through a disc capable of enclosing, under a single name, a mix of genres as articulated as genuine; capable of resizing the aspects of every single facet of which Rock was composed at the time. From the extraordinary folk ballad, Here Comes The Sun to what, for many, represents the very first imprinting Heavy Metal in the history of modern music, I Want You (She’s So Heavy). The Beatles, albeit lacerated from the profound disagreements within the group, they wanted to give one last, massive, testimony to their amazing artistic identity.

1) Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon

It is a disc that simply refuses to grow old. Pink Floyd decided to schernirsi of the inexorability of time, giving rise to a disc that knows no age. The Dark Side Of The Moon represented the momentum essential which Progressive Rock had necessarily need to rise to eternity. The Dark Side Of The Moon helped write some of the more pages bright in contemporary history. A disk basically perfect in every respect, whose themes still come today debated in a particularly heated way, thanks to the depth introspection with which, Roger Waters, analyzes the company, denouncing its most traits deplorable. From the compositional point of view, The Dark Side Of The Moon continues, even today, to place itself in the future, proving extraordinarily orchestrated in every respect, even to the millionth listener.

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