#81

If you go with Grace by Jeff Buckley you’ve a good chance of getting both Coldplay and Muse plus all those earnest Hallelujah covers.

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#82

Admittedly, without reading much of the thread this feels like 6 music list stuff bullshit. If I don’t like something I try not to devote anytime listening to it?!?

#83

I think people may be overthinking a spot of philosophical pondering. It’s fun to think about.

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#84

I love Grace but this is a very persuasive argument

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#85

Albums no. Podcasts yes.

#86

fully on board with this suggestion

#87

I’d delete “Off The Wall” and rewrite the 80s and hopefully MJ would be denied the agency to do what he did (if he did do what they said he did) or would have a healthy and productive life healing from the abuse he experienced as a child (regardless of whether or not he did what they said they did).

#88

White Ladder by David Gray. Maybe not the most influential album in terms of DiS tastes, but paved the way for two decades of male singer songwriter nonsense.

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#89

I’d go for Grace for that tbh

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#90

As much as I like it I might go to Loveless. The worst/most boring “nugaze” acts aped Loveless. If it hadn’t existed and people tried to sound like Isn’t Anything, or Slowdive/Cocteau Twins became more popular relatively it would’ve made the music that followed much more interesting

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#91

I know people love to dunk on Jeff Buckley on here, but I’m struggling to hear his influence on our David Gray. I reckon some record company exec thought “hey, let’s give a busker a record contract” and 20 years later we have Ed Sheeran.

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#92

Oh I’m talking general “singer songwriter nonsense”, not Buckley being responsible for David Gray

#93

Nah you’d need to delete The Bends to do that and that ain’t gonna happen.

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#94

I actually like the idea of thinking of a cornerstone in music progression and then removing it and thinking how things might have progressed differently. But the fact is there is no single album by an act that destroys what they were already doing to a scene in the majority of cases.

Like maybe the Bad Brains one but we’d all be listening to suckier music in that case I think.

#95

Without wanting to labour the point, that’s why I went for David Gray - it was less about musical influences and more about him being a marketable prototype.

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#96

Yeah I mean I get that too, but the acoustic thing was going to break out in that form anyway I think. He’d still have done another album. In a lot of cases that breakout album is less about the actual songs and more about the work the band/artist has put in before it to start the avalanche effect.

#97

Maybe on second thoughts maybe I’ll swap NWA for Geoff Buckley…

#98

Yeah that Geoff Buckley dude really fucked up Hip-Hop on the West Coast.

#99

:grinning:

Eradication of Ed Sheeran is more important than whoever created gangster rap

(which Wikipedia reckons is Ice T)

#100

Not sure where I read it but I think Brian Wilson once said the future of pop music was gonna be banjo, piano, drum trios. So whatever album would have allowed that to happen.

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