The Top 100 Most Influential Albums

So a few weeks ago someone in our Facebook group most a link to a website's version of the 100 most influential records.  It was garbage.  So in true LO&M fashion we decided to come up with our own list.

But how were three people with varying musical tastes ever going to agree on that many records?  Well, it was a long and arduous process. There were tears, bloodshed and name calling.  But through a carefully devised system we managed to piece it all together.  NO ONE is completely happy with this list.  But this is a start.  A discussion point, if you will.  So how did we do it?  In phases of course...

• Phase 1 was for each member to make his own list of 100, with zero knowledge of the other two lists being created.  Once finished any album that all three of us had on our list automatically made The Master List.  There were 10 such albums.  They will forever be known as "The Golden Ten".
• Phase 2 was to go back to our lists and any album that two out of the three of us had also made The Master List.  Because, as Meatloaf once said, 'Two outta three ain't bad."  
• Phase 3 was then to discuss the artists that two or more of us had on the list but had different albums listed.  If two of us had an artist with different albums the third person would then be the tie-breaking vote for which album made The Master List (unless that person was willing to concede to the other person involved - which actually did happen a couple times!).  
• Phases 4-6 involved a series of Round Robin like trials in which each one of us submitted 10 albums from what was left of our own lists and another 10 albums from what was left from what the other two submitted.  Again, any album that received two or more votes during any given phase would be added to The Master List.  
• Lastly we were each given one "Wild Card" album that we could add to The Master List with totally immunity.  (Ed. Note: I still think this was Lonesome's way of sneaking on an album that doesn't belong as he knew it was this album's only shot.)   

So without further ado here is The Master List (in alphabetical order by artist):

 

Band  Album Nominated AC/DC  Back In Black L, O The Animals The Animals O The Beach Boys Pet Sounds L, O The Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique L The Beatles Rubber Soul L, O The Beatles Revolver L, O, M The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band L, O Black Flag Damaged O, M Black Sabbath Black Sabbath L, O Black Sabbath Paranoid L, O Black Sabbath Master of Reality O, M Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum L, O, M Big Star #1 Record L David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars L, M Buzzcocks Another Music In a Different Kitchen O, M The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo O, M Can Tago Mago L, M Carcass Reek of Putrefaction O Johnny Cash At San Quentin O Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate L, M John Coltrane Interstellar Space M Cream Disraeli Gears L, O, M The Cure Disintigration L, O Miles Davis Bitches Brew M Deep Purple In Rock O, M De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising L Dio Holy Diver O The Doors The Doors L, O, M Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited L Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline O, M Marvin Gaye What's Going On L, M Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction L, O Happy Mondays Pills N Thrills & Bellyaches M Emmylou Harris Elite Hotel O PJ Harvey Rid of Me O Issac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul M The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? L, M The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love L, O Iron Maiden Iron Maiden O, M Iron Maiden Number of the Beast L, O Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow O Waylon Jennings Lonesome, On'ry and Mean O Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings L, O Joy Division Unknown Pleasures O, M Judas Priest British Steel O King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King L The Kinks The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society L, O, M Kraftwerk Computer World M Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson O, M Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley L, O Led Zeppelin II L, O Led Zeppelin IV L, O Love Forever Changes L, M Madonna Like A Virgin L MC5 Kick Out The Jams M Metallica Kill 'Em All L, O, M Metallica Master of Puppets L, O Minor Threat  The Complete Discography O, M Misfits Walk Among Us O Joni Mithcell Blue L, M Motorhead Ace of Spades L, O, M Willie Nelson Phases and Stages O, M Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger O Nirvana Bleach M N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton O Gram Parsons GP O Dolly Parton Jolene L Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates of Dawn L, O, M Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon L, O Pixies Surfer Rosa O, M Possessed Seven Churches O, M Elvis Presley Elvis Presley O, M Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain L Public Enemy It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back L, O Radiohead OK Computer L, M Ramones Ramones L, M The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet M Opeth Blackwater Park L Otis Redding The Soul Album O Portishead Dummy L R.E.M. Murmur M Run DMC Raising Hell L, O Rush 2112 L Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come L, O Slayer  Reign In Blood L, O, M Sly & The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On M Patti Smith Horses L Dusty Springfield Dusty In Memphis M Bruce Springsteen Born To Run L, M The Stooges Raw Power L, O T. Rex Electric Warrior L, M Television Marquee Moon L, M Uncle Tupelo No Depression O Van Halen Van Halen L, O, M The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico L, M Stevie Wonder Songs In The Key of Life L, O The Stone Roses The Stone Roses L, M Muddy Waters Folk Singer O Neil Young Harvest L, O The Zombies Odessey and Oracle L
We will be discussing this further giving you all a taste of which albums we had to fight for, which ones were our Wild Cards, and what our individual lists looked like.  We'll also discuss the albums from our lists that we feel should have made it.
For now tell us what you think in the comments!

This band tied for the most albums on the list.  Suck it haters.