The 50 albums that changed music
Sunday July 16, 2006
The Observer
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Though it sold poorly on its initial release, this has since become arguably the most influential rock album of all time. The first art-rock album, it merges dreamy, druggy balladry ('Sunday Morning') with raw and uncompromising sonic experimentation ('Venus in Furs'), and is famously clothed in that Andy Warhol-designed 'banana' sleeve. Lou Reed's lyrics depicted a Warholian New York demi-monde where hard drugs and sexual experimentation held sway. Shocking then, and still utterly transfixing.
Without this, there'd be no ... Bowie, Roxy Music, Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among many others.
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2 The Beatles
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
There are those who rate Revolver (1966) or 'the White Album' (1968) higher. But Sgt Pepper's made the watertight case for pop music as an art form in itself; until then, it was thought the silly, transient stuff of teenagers. At a time when all pop music was stringently manufactured, these Paul McCartney-driven melodies and George Martin-produced whorls of sound proved that untried ground was not only the most fertile stuff, but also the most viable commercially. It defined the Sixties and - for good and ill - gave white rock all its airs and graces.
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들은 사람은 별로 없었지만, 들은 사람이라면 누구나 기타를 들게 만들었다는 (섹스피스톨스나 너바나가 아니라) 벨벳 언더그라운드가 첫 손에 꼽혔다.
한국의 경우 누구를 들 수 있을까?
기타를 들게 만든 역할론으로 보나 당대 수준을 훌쩍 뛰어넘은 음악적 경지로 보나 김민기밖에 생각나는 사람이 없다.
벨벳언더그라운드 뒤에 앤디 워홀이 있었던 것처럼 김민기 옆에는 김영세가 있었고.
도비두(도깨비 두마리)였던 김민기와 김영세는, 2004년 가수와 디자이너로 'Past Life of 김민기'에서 다시 만났다.
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