# Recommend revolutionary rock music. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891 "2005-06-26T05:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/21 "2005-06-27T14:40:39Z")
Might as well give a plug to **Jesus Christ Superstar** here. **Hair** and the Who’s **Tommy** too. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/22 "2005-06-27T14:56:47Z")
**Loveless** - My Bloody Valentine **OK Computer** - Radiohead **Pet Sounds** - The Beach Boys **Entertainment** - Gang of Four **Chairs Missing** - Wire **Daydream Nation** - Sonic Youth **Screamadelica** - Primal Scream **Criminal Minded** - Boogie Down Productions **Marquee Moon** - Television ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/23 "2005-06-28T03:47:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Unlistenable noise is revolutionary? 😕 I was being facietious. :o ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/24 "2005-06-28T04:27:14Z")
**Art Of Noise** (Who’s Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise **Beastie Boys** To The 5 Boroughs **Jello Biafra w/D.O.A.** Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors (standout track: Full Metal Jackoff) **The Clash** any album, all are excellent (but my fav is Combat Rock) **Funkadelic** Maggot Brain, Funkadelic **Gang of Four** Entertainment, Another Day EP, Solid Gold **MC5** Kick Out The Jams (“It takes 5 seconds…”) **My Own Victim** Burning Inside, **No Voice, No Rights, No Freedom** , The Weapon **Pitchshifter** [www.pitchshifter.com](http://www.pitchshifter.com) **Public Enemy** It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back **Psychic TV** pretty much everything they did was revolutionary, in some sense **Rage Against The Machine** again, pretty much everything they did was revolutionary **Suicidal Tendencies** third times the charm, eh? **Sun Ra** everything he did was _really_ freaking **out there The Stooges** first eponymous album, Fun House, Raw Power and the single greatest rock album of all time: _The Shape Of Punk To Come_ by **Refused** That’s just off the top of my head, mind ya. I know some of it would be more “social commentary” music, but it has an angry, restless NOW! feel to it, so I listed 'em anyway. I also tried to avoid listing great artists who have been previously mentioned. Cheers and good listening! Bo lol I’ve taken to previewing my posts here to check that my html coding works correctly, and of course discovered that the Pitchshifter album title was also a functioning link. Clever, those guys. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/25 "2005-06-28T05:03:18Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > You preferred the stranglehold that 3.5 minute songs had on the pop airwaves? 😕 Sure. I like my rock songs to be short and punchy, just like I like my blues. I just roll my eyes over a 12-minute drum noodle. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/26 "2005-06-28T08:17:17Z")
_Revolutionary_ isn’t something that can be deconstructed, surely. I mean, the first Jimi Hendrix album (actually, hearing “Hey Joe” late, late one night) blew my mind like nothing had ever blown it before, or since probably, but that was then and for someone listening to it today, maybe it wouldn’t have the same effect. “Another Side of Bob Dylan” was another one of those records that made you feel like the game had been upped another peg, and “Rubber Soul” and the first Frank Zappa LP “Freak Out”. And “Miles In The Sky” - man, that cat was onto a whole new bag there. John Lennon once said the best rock and roll sounded like it beamed in from outer space. You just don’t get that “outer space” vibe these days. mm ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/27 "2005-06-28T13:57:41Z")
> [@mamboman](#): > > \John Lennon once said the best rock and roll sounded like it beamed in from outer space. You just don’t get that “outer space” vibe these days. Sure you do, XM, and Sirius are by definition beamed in from “outer space.” 😃 I would say that Green Day’s American Idiot is a revolutionary current album ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/28 "2005-06-28T14:25:42Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#): > > and the single greatest rock album of all time: > > _The Shape Of Punk To Come_ by **Refused** This actually is quite a great album. There’s actually a few more I could think of, although they’re not all of the hard rock mold: **Agaetis Byrjun** - Sigur Ros **Autobahn** - Kraftwerk **Tago Mago** - Can **Neu** - Neu **Another Green World** and **Music for Airports** - Brian Eno **Kill 'Em All** - Metallica ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891/29 "2005-06-28T16:33:08Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Sure. I like my rock songs to be short and punchy, just like I like my blues. I just roll my eyes over a 12-minute drum noodle. [Experience the counter-revolution!](http://www.superseventies.com/spsaturdaynightfever.html)😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-revolutionary-rock-music/309891.md?page=1)