And nothing from Lee scratch perry, or King Tubby

so add in King tubby meets Rockers Uptown,

and The Upsetters (Perry's house band) Super Ape.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Another twosome hard to separate is Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited.

You're right that Revolver was the most influential Beatles' album, it was practically the opening statement of the "concept album" concept.

The Who, My Generation (?)

Agree with melo on The Band's Big Pink, Hendrix' Electric Ladyland, Neil Young's After The Goldrush.

Velvets were very "influential", so I'd probably pick The Velvet Underground & Nico.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn or Saucerful of Secrets for the Floyd.

It's not only that I like songs with words, but I think a new style of singer/songwriter music began in the 60s, and I'd probably pick Leonard Cohen's Songs From a Room as a starter.

I'll probably think of more, but not for now.

and it's all influential if you're looking at chart sales. and probably only US chart sales at that, but there are piles of rare records that you find people know of

Stiff Little Fingers' `Inflammable Material' was the first album put out by Rough Trade, which isn't important in itself, although was the first inipendent record to sell over 100,000 copies, but enabled the distribution net that allowed people like factory records and 2-tone and many others to get to market.

other bands that you'd see as influential are strangely missing, Nirvana's nevermind is in the list, but for truly influential album of the time you'd instead need to look at the Pixies 2Surfer Rosa" or "Doolittle" or Sonic Youths "Daydream Nation" and if you're looking  at UK music influences, the terribly underrated Cardicas are missing "a little man and the whole wold window" or if you're willing to go to video then "maresnest" which is one of the best live concert videos ever.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

In the same vein, there is a difference between influential and pioneering. An album only the select few listened to may not have been the one to inspire other musicians, much less the British-American youth of the time in general, even less elsewhere. For example, I discovered the pre-Invisible Touch Genesis only in the nineties, and didn't remember hearing any of it on the radio as a kid.

There is also the issue of whether an artist's biggest musical influence was through an entire album or some singles (with only harcore fans knowing the rest of the pioneering album). I knew singles of virtually all artists on my list from albums preceding the one I listed.

Regarding the Beatles albums, having been born after they dissolved, I can't know what kind of impact and influence each had on contemporaries, so I find it interesting that both you and afew named Revolver as their most influential. (For me, The White Album was always the Beatles album, and Abbey Road the symbol of the end of the sixties and the start of seventies introspection, while Revolver still had traces of fifties rock.)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

My son calls me to come down to the studio, something i need to hear. Turns out it's (in his opinion) the first time the blues has been integrated into a house beat. I had to agree. (This was way before St. Germain became famous.)

The son then says, "can you believe it, the French can't rock at all, but it's a frenchman who gets this done the first time, wow."

I've been a St. Germain fan ever since.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

I also found this essay on Lincoln's railroad cases, written by a law and history professor. It also includes this part:

It is important to keep Lincoln's representation of railroads in perspective. In fact, Lincoln also regularly brought suit against railroads on behalf of individual clients. He instituted actions against carriers for nonpayment of supplies and for assessment of damages when land was taken by eminent domain.

...after several examples, this sections ends with the conclusion:

By the same token, it is an exaggeration to conclude, as historian Edward Pessen has done, that Lincoln was an "attorney for banks, insurance companies, gas companies, large mercantile firms, and manufacturers." It is at best only partially accurate to present Lincoln as a corporate attorney. Although he represented railroads and businesses, he also sued them. As another historian has pointed out, Lincoln "still took business as it came, and opposed the corporate interests as often as he represented them." This leads to the question of whether Lincoln was in fact a hired gun. Perhaps the last word on this point should go to Lincoln's longtime legal partner, Herndon, who accurately declared that Lincoln was "purely and entirely a case lawyer."

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In spite of the South's shortage of manpower, until 1865, most Southern leaders opposed arming slaves as soldiers. However, a few Confederates discussed arming slaves, and some free blacks had offered to fight for the South. Finally in early 1865 General Robert E. Lee said black soldiers were essential, and legislation was passed. The first black units were in training when the war ended in April.^[102]