That is, records which exploited the studio in some new way such that records which came afterwards reflected that new approach to sound. Obvious examples range from Pet Sounds to It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
I'm still not sure I get it. Is this a technical question or a musical question? Because these are two different things to me. Are you talking about the sort of technical innovations Tom Scholz did in his home studio, or the massively imitated "sound" of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless?
I'm going to have to say Never Mind the Bollocks, because nothing sounded like it before. I don't know how much of that is technical, though, since I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman.
The Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
or the massively imitated "sound" of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless?
More like
Loveless
I guess.
The Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
I would've said
Remain in Light
or even
My Life In the Bush of Ghosts
was the breakthrough record.
Remain in Light
That's probably what I meant to type.
Dinosaur Jr. - "Bug".
Loveless wouldn't have happened without it.
And while I think "You're Living All Over Me" is a better album, it was the dozen-overdubbed-guitar-attack of "Bug" that was more influential in terms of sound.
I think most of us use iTunes.
Damn. I can't use iTunes, because it won't load onto Windows ME computers.
Any other options?
Unkonwn Pleasures by Joy Division. Martin Hannett's production was definitely an influence on much of what was to come, IMO. Metal Box by PiL was also quite striking.
Not sure I know much about studio stuff but a lot of women would not be recording artists today without Janis Joplin's "Pearl" or Patti Smith's "Horses" making women's place in rock much more...serious?(it's early...don't have the right words yet. Sorry.) But now when I hear Alanis, Fiona, Melissa E.,who paid tribute with her awesome cover of "Piece of My Heart" that is what I think. Not to slight Grace Slick, bitterness over "We Built This City" notwithstanding.
Also, and unrelated to the "girls with guitars", I'd feel remiss if I didn't say "What's Goin' On?"
