Originally posted by Axl_Rose
This is ridiculous, a lot of people here would sooner start a slagging match than an interesting thread. Awiass, are you honestly saying the 7 or 8 albums you listed are any where near as successful or influencial as something like 'Nevermind'. EVERYBODY knows of 'Nevermind'!!
You hear Guns n Roses, Nirnava, Metallica etc mentioned on this site everyday, on tv everyday, in papers everyday, talked about by kids everyday! They have monster albums. Nevermind, Appetite and the Black album for example.

Ive noticed for some time now how negative some people are on this site. Just read my first post and answer the flaming question without all this snobbery of musical preferences

Funny, now you've turned into the snob. aiwass was just simply stating his opinion. If you ask for people's opinions and they give them, and then, you don't like the outcome, don't cry about it. It's just an opinion, everyone is entitled to one.

To you, Nevermind, Appetite, the Black Album, may have been monster albums, but to aiwass, his choices are different. Many people see different kinds of music as influential and revolutionary. If you ask me, I don't even think the Black album is a Monster Album. It's just the first album that Metallica had that went mainstream. Master of Puppets, And Justice, and Ride the Lightning, were way bigger Monster Albums in the fact that they revolutionized music.

You should change the thread to, Albums that went Mainstream, or Albums that everyone noticed. Just because it sells doesn't make it influential or revolutionary or a monster album, it makes it popular.

Many of the albums that Aiwass mentioned (I haven't heard them all) had very big impacts and defined many of the bands that produced them.

To me if it's a monster album, it changes how the music is done in general, not how many people can rip off the same stuff (see: Nevermind, nu-metal) over and over until it's no longer popular.