Might as well give a plug to Jesus Christ Superstar here. Hair and the Who’s Tommy too.
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
I was being facietious. :o
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
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.
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.
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.
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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
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
