Top 20 Most Controversial Music Albums of All Time
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These albums rocked AND shocked! For this list, we'll be ranking the biggest albums that made headlines and ruffled feathers at the time of their release - and perhaps still do today! Our countdown includes "Reign in Blood", "In Utero", "Like a Virgin", "The Marshall Mathers LP", "Rage Against the Machine", and more! Did any of these shock you? Let us know in the comments!
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Yes, it scared us
I was shocked to notice the controversy was replaced with freedom of speech. We need both!!!
Marilyn Manson didn’t make this list???
@Carl Adams Yep Carl, It's been that long that it's been my desert island Lp also! Take care, bro.
Conversely sells,😎🤩
These albums are much more important than most people give credit to. They made people question conformity. They planted seeds of creativity. These albums ARE history.
Agreed. Was gonna say that this is a group of albums that music enthusiasts should hear.
Well said sir
I agree.
Notice how many of these contain songs that are important history lessons, and or important things that needed to be discussed.
Music is magic 😉
“If you play this record backwards you can hear your turntable’s needle screaming in pain.”
Thats hilarious , but true.
lol!
If you play these records backwards you hear "BOY BANDS SUCK!"
"If you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards... they sound better."
Oh My God, Chicago Kicks Ass!!! LOL
No matter how controversial albums Straight Outta Compton & The Marshall Matters LP were they are definitely top 5 best hip hop albums ever made
Arguably one of the reasons why they are so great, is because of the controversies actually
yeah but gaddamn I fucking hate hip hop fans
@@anemaldemomusic8182 *why*
@@anemaldemomusic8182 sounds personal lol
Straight Outta Compton is the best hip hop album, bar none. Each and every track is an absolute banger. I've been listening to hip hop since soon after Grandmaster Flash started scratching records back in the late 70s. None of the newer artists can make a genre creating album.
Dee Snider wrote memorable songs, but his performance at that senate hearing is pure gold.
Yes, he was prepared, well spoken, and his intelligence was evident. He showed all of those snotty suits that he was more than a mere rock n roll buffoon !
His interview on Metal: A Headbanger's Journey was epic in regards to that congressional hearing.
Most albums or songs that get a bad rap are usually misunderstood...... Ozzy is the perfect example of this.
Also if a child or adult commits suicide or murder bc of lyrics from a song means these people were already messed up.
I'm 56 and a rock and heavy metal lover. I've yet to murder someone.
I'm right there with ya!
ngl it’s more than a bit messed up if you to say that ppl who commit s*icide bc of a song are messed up. they have a mental illness that they can’t control and everyone battling through it is so strong. if people have triggers then just respect that and maybe have some sympathy bc ppl lost their lives. also the phrasing “messed up” means there’s something wrong with having mental illness, so maybe don’t do that bc i have mental illness and it can be quite offensive
@@robinsscrapbook everyone is so offended these days. Everyone has an opinion and maybe dont understand as much about mental illness. Instead of being so quick to be OFFENDED have an open mind...let people have an opinion and move on!
@@cindyjofaithful4469 hi, so yeah i was a little bit mad at the start of the comment but i tried to make it more educating later on, bc if people don’t know a lot about mental illness it’s best to try and explain it rather than leave them knowing nothing- 🥤(they/it/he)
@@cindyjofaithful4469 also i do have an open mind i’m literally gay but i draw the line at some things which are wrong, i can have a moral compass and an open mind- 🥤(they/it/he)
It's kind of ironic that the same people who've been screaming about cancel culture and censorship were and probably still the same ones who have been attempting to/have people canceled.
Yeah, they have been doing the same thing for decades.
Yes, but It's more ironic than the so called "young liberals" today are more conservatives than the actual conservatives, not to mention that most of these old cases of offended people were from adult parents worrying too much about their kids while today is the young people who were supposed to be the ones supporting speech and artistic freedom that are trying to censor anything they dont like.
When was the last time conservatives tried to get a musical act banned? Half this list is shit from the 70s/80s.
@@leonreborn1308 You’re absolutely right
Tipper Gore wasn't a conservative. She also had support from her husband, none other than Al Gore.
Wow, it's been 21 years since Eminem's album "The Marshall Mathers LP" came out.
One of the greatest albums ever made
I definitely prefer the Slim Shady LP more but MMLP is a classic though
@@JaredThaBoi ❤️.
We’re getting old
I wasn't allowed to listen to that album back then.
All the controversy helped Madonna become a legend in music, period.
2 Live Crew sucked but the controversy helped them become multiplatinum
Eminem said things on "Marshall Mathers LP" that made people mad on purpose and it worked. Also for those who wanted to 'cancel' Em over "Love The Way You Lie"....if you didnt cancel him in 2000 you will never cancel Em.
PE are rap legends, period.
Body Count and NWA sadly took the blame for the 1992 LA riots despite the LAPD being the ones who beat Rodney King near death.
You my sir are abusive
My friends and I passing around copies of "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" throughout my Catholic high school was quite a scandal.
Ah, what memories.
how many pregnancies were there at your school? my public school was down the street from a catholic school - we had 2 total pregnancies while I was in high school; they had a day care attached to their high school.
I fondly remember back in 1988 that most of us would be walking down the hallway in our dorm in a Christian boarding high school singing 'Heeeey, we want some puuuuuusssaaaay!' at the top of our lungs. Ha ha!
2 Live Crew is an example of how some entertainers turn bad press to their advantage. Prior to 1989, they were an obscure Miami rap group. The controversy over As Nasty as They Wanna Be earned 2 Live Crew multiplatinum sales and "Me So Horny" becoming a top 40 hit despite no radio airplay.
Sympathy For The Devil is still a masterpiece of rock. Probably my favorite Stones song.
It's not about the devil, it's about humans blaming the devil for their own acts.
@@Rekko82 Absolutely. "I watched with glee while your kings and queens
fought for ten decades for the gods they made" is so damn accurate.
It’s a great song, but I prefer “Gimme Shelter”. One of my favorite classic rock songs ever, with “More Than A Feeling” by Boston, “Us And Them” by Pink Floyd, “Under The Bridge” by The Red Hot Chili Peppers, “November Rain” by Guns N Roses, and “Somebody To Love” by Queen.
@@megaascension2748 Gimme Shelter is better. All of those songs are very good, Queen's song isn't as great as those others but still beautiful. "Us and Them" carries the timeless message how we discrimate each others.
Satisfaction is mine.
Some of these albums hit harder now that I'm older, not coming from a nostalgic perspective.
Imagine if The Marshall Mathers LP came out today...
I won't deny that I still love it
@Gavin Barksdale 😂😂😂🤡
@@universe-ie2mk he isn’t lying. Eminem hasn’t released a good album since infinite
@@joshdaboss2365 found the dababy fan 🤢 . It's quite ironic as Infinite was seen as a failure to Em and the backlash he got from the album created the Slim Shady persona.
@@Lost20048 calm down stan it was a joke
R.H.Giger? Never heard of him. H.R.Giger on the other hand, fuckin' legend.
And they don't even show the picture...
Yep 🤦🏼♂️
Beat me to the punch.
I was gonna say that but you beat me to it
Right I caught that too!
The song "Fight the Power" from the Public Enemy's album "Fear Of A Black Planet" became one of the best hip hop songs ever made.
I was a long blonde haired, blue eyed boy when I started listening for Public Enemy, I remeber my mother coming into my room, while I was blasting my boom box, with my tan cassette tape, and rapping along about Farrakan and shit. I had no clue what I was yelling, but I LOVED IT !
@@RayRhino1 PE in da house
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa boiiiiiiiiiiii
@@RayRhino1 Farrakhan the disgusting anti-Semite?
@@UnChannelDuVulpineX did u read what I said ?
That line is referenced in the sonic youth song Kool thing. Chuck d fills in for a brief breakdown. And "fear of a female planet" is mentioned. Chuck was only featured becuz he happened to be in the same studio that day. Line was added. And ferrakahn is an anti semite peice of total trash.
Can’t talk about controversy In music without Eminem, NWA, and Marilyn Manson
See it's funny how parents went off about metal and rap from the 80s, but most of the rap these days wraps up more violence, sex, drugs, etc in one song than most band's entire discography.
I think that it's BECAUSE of all the "going off" in the '80s that caused artists to up the ante...and for record buyers to fall right in line for the controversy. Think about it. If parents had kept their cool (and Tipper Gore kept her big trap shut), it would have probably taken a lot longer for things to get as bad as they are now...but it would have eventually, because controversy sells. Incidentally, I was a young adult during the '80s and remember the whole PMRC thing.
Yeah lol it's so ironic and hilarious but I have no problem with it whatsoever lmaoo
don't be like them
The ironic thing about Body Count is that it started out as a sales dude. The label was going to drop the album from its catalogue. Then Dan Quayle picked up the leadership of Conservative backlash against the album. It sold 200,000 records the very next week on route to becoming a gold record by year's end, a certified hit.
Even more ironic, Ice-T has a played a cop on Law&Order: SVU for the past 20 years.
What got me is how many people missed the point of that song, and how much more relevant it is today.
@@Kdog4660 agreed
It was a flop then the cops and the GOP helped it sell
@@THERSC216 More specifically, it was Dan Quayle. He made an election speech, trying to keep his job, condemning the album. I was a buyer in a record store. That's what his label's sales rep told me. The effect was instantaneous.
The 2 Live Crew should be #1 for they actually changed the music industry with the Parental Advisory sticker giving more freedom for musical lyrics, and album covers.
1 and 1 were having some fun in the bedroom!👍😁
@@sethputnamsghost All day, and all of the night!
@@Skorpio420 👉👌= Face down ass up! Man I gotta go rock that shit now!🤣
After all, they did make the classic "Fuck Martinez"
Mayhem, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer and Iron Maiden are all some pretty sweet bands. Got all their albums. Fuck yeah.
fuck yeah dude!
Iron Maiden is pretty different from those 3 lol
@@Johnnysmithy24 so is mayhem compared to slayer maybe but i agree lmfao
@@Johnnysmithy24 maybe add cattle decapitation, infant annihilator and dying fetus to that list lol
@@sc0tz_tomza507 I dunno. Those bands are Johnny come latelys and I think they try too hard. Slayer, Maiden and Cannibal were pioneers and Mayhem wasn't an act. They were exactly who they presented themselves to be.
I feel like Madonna’s most controversial album was Erotica. She got so much backlash for it
N. W. A still played the song live anyway because they didn't give a damn. Respect.
Here’s a couple I would’ve included: Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode for the track “Master and Servant” for bdsm themes. Violator - Depeche Mode for the album’s title as well as the track “Personal Jesus”.
Some Great Reward was probably their most controversial album due to the three singles being political, sexual, and blasphemous respectively but it wasn't nearly as bad as the ones in this list
I would think "The Velvet Underground & Nico" (1967) would qualify given it's dark, subversive lyrical content and wholly progressive attitude and sound utterly unheard of at the time
"Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP."
"2 Live Crew: As Nasty As They Wanna Be."
"Madonna: Like A Virgin."
@@henrysmart6854 bro name one marshall Mathers LP song first
@@henrysmart6854 i know I ain't tripping right now
@@BruudaOsas you might be right
Yea the MMLP was controversial as hell when that came out
“Middle of America, now it’s tragedy now it’s so sad to see.
An upper class city to be havin this happen
Then attack Eminem cuz I rap this way”
Bro if that aint controversy idk what is lmaoooo
This reminder to Go Watch the Movie, Straight Outta Compton. Dr. Dre made a sick ass beat at the beginning
@UCE1hFv7q1DD3vhS10LVKRAw name a underground rap album
Are you talking about when he was scratching the record in his room?
@@RenR70 yessir!!!!
@@retromagic5020 That’s actually not his song, it’s called “Al-Naafyish” by Hashim, they were a Electro band in the early 80’s. Look it up, it’s a bad jam!
Thought reingn in blood would be higher. Great album. Fuckin slayer.
Great Album I was 13 when I heard it and loved the aggression and speed. I didn’t know what double bass was until I heard Angel of Death
Fucking Slayer!
A lot of these albums should be in the most controversial songs list, since a lot of these albums are controversial due to one song. Heck, even in Mayhem’s case, controversial bands.
You do realize that the band's didn't have a clue??
@@karenjensen6642 Didn’t have a clue about what?
I think it's ironic that Ice-T, the lead singer of the group Body Count that sang "Cop Killer" now plays a cop on the show "Law & Order: S.V.U."
Maybe.. just maybe… it’s called being an ACTOR 😱😱😱
Yeah, it's cool to sing about killing.
@@jmbridges1780 What?! You mean he's not really a cop?! I believe I clearly said "plays a cop". I know it's ACTING, I'm not an idiot.
Yeah
he's a detective/sergeant on Law & Order. Cop Killer is about beat cops -_-
GnRs Lies did not come out in 1993. It was their second album and was released in 1988. Hell, they were essentially broken up in 1993
Seriously? The Downward Spiral Is a masterpiece.
Almost everything Trent Reznor has produced is, not just N.I.N. Just look at the movies and t.v. shows he's done over the years.
I was about to write the same thing 😂
that's why it's so controversial 🙄😝👍
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil should be on the list. I’d even say in the top 5.
Why?
Not really, they were an overrated glam rock band always in Metallica’s shadow
@@aztroog3429 google Motley Crue shout at the devil controversy.
@@Giratina1999 They still are an overrated glam rock band. However, I remember all the controversy that album stirred up. Parents were burning records and cassettes and it was talked about on talk shows and the news, had people protesting at their concerts. I even remember a service at church about it when I was a teen. I was never a fan, this list just made me remember how outraged everyone was over that album.
"raining blood" is the ultimate track to play out the car when you want to scare passers by lol.
🤣 for real. That song is great to play at high volume .
@@Reaperguy67 Never has a song truly captured the lyrical theme so accurately through its intro.
@@DokkaChapman for real. I like the opening of it as well. It was song that got me into slayer
Years ago I remember sitting in traffic trying to wake up, I had my windows down because I smoked back than so I was lighting up a cigarette, and that song came on so I cranked it up in my small truck, well I miss the fact that there was a minivan next to me with their Windows down, I've never seen Windows go up that fast in my life, and as I'm waiting for the light to go green they got the left turn light it was than that I realized there was Christian bumper stickers all over the back of it, I about dropped my cigarette laughing.
@@Reaperguy67 Still amazes me that it came out in the 80's.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Onyx's debut album was quite controversial as well. One of my favorite rap albums of all time.
Nwa is forever ❤
@@henrysmart6854 bro who asked?
@@henrysmart6854 troll
@@BruudaOsas It's a comments section. You don't want other comments? Go somewhere else.
@@edge3646 Name caller.
@@henrysmart6854 I listen to both so I can tell you how wrong you are
I remember seeing Body Count open for Guns n Roses & Metallica, and they signed a contract saying they won't play Cop Killer. They did anyway
Music is just a expression it shouldn't be act upon or should not hated just because someone hears the lyrics
The LBGTQ Community: “I’m gonna pretend i didn’t hear that”
A lot of music has a spells laid into it
Well despite the controversies of each album there is still one thing that is obvious to me because whether it's controversial or not. It's music y'all. Music's the life for some and others.
Straight Outta Compton and NWA
is still relevant even in 2020 and 21
No
@@lilreeseakathechiraqgrimre1995 yes little girl
Str8 up
Great video and I enjoyed it and have a blessed night
Sheena Easton's A Private Heaven rattled a few cages thanks to Strut, and especially the Prince penned Sugar Walls. It was her highest charting album, though.
Thank you for including Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in this list. That was one of the most important albums in metal. It created a wave of black metal albums, first from Norway, then Sweden and then all other countries. Hail Euronymous!
I know right?! Aside from them, Maiden, Cannibal, and Slayer the rest of these bands were all commercial bands doing the shock thing for money or to make a social statement, and make money. Mayhem was legit as real as it gets.
What about Venom (from England) & Bathory (from Sweden)? They inspired bands like Mayhem.
I bought reign in blood not long after it’s release. Best choice I ever made.
I argree. It's a great album. That was actually the first song that got me into slayer
And were we shocked?? Ummm not even close! We were shook. Remember thinking this music can not possibly get more intense.... and Fucki g slayer said.... here, hold my beer.
@@jennieohk6911 i don’t know your age. However that album left me both. I had never heard of them before that. No one I hung out with did either. My favorite bands at that point before I hit Reign was Poison, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot, and the Beastie Boys. That album was such a game changer. I wasn’t the same by the time I finished it the night I bought it. Nothing I heard before that even sounded close to what Angel of Death did.
A year later I’d discover King Diamond, GOOD METALLICA, and Anthrax and that was it.
No joke I learned of Reign thanks to a report on the controversy the album created on an episode of Headbangers Ball when it was still on at 4 pm during the week.
If not for that and my own curiosity I’d still be a pussy playing Slippery When Wet.
🙄🤦♀️🤣
Even though I was listening to Metallica at that point I had never heard Slayer, around the early '90s when their doubled live album came out somebody gave it to me for free, I remember putting it on and was one of the first albums that just blew me away.
@@mrpogo72 lol @ poison. Yikes! Although watching cc get drunk was always fun at shows.
Im est.1967.. I dont do the math anymore .. 54? And omg King Diamond, ozzy, sabbath, dio, slayer, megadeth, any Metallica before St.Anger... maiden, Priest, TFS, Y&T, early crue, ... I have no idea why but I didn't get into anthrax more than surface level... just the popular stuff. That music was absolutely transformative. Everything about it was aggressive.. grrrr.... fuck shit up or move.
To this day ... even if everything else in the song is going brutal... if the lyrics start whining and complaining...nah.. I'm out. I'll go listen to some Dope DMFD.
I like all kinds of music now.... jazz, blues R&B ,pop, GOOD rap, classical... anything that moves me. Theres NOTHING that compares to metal...79 to 87. *** listen to ... BUDGIE~ Panzer Division Destroyed *** you're welcome.
Didn't mean to write a book, I get a tad exuberant about music.
Completely glanced over how important some of these were. 2 Live Crew helped to implement parental advisory warnings and protected music in the Supreme court and ability to parody a song.
If you're gonna put Straight Outta Compton on here you might as well put NWA's whole discography
Fact bro. Especially a "Bitch is a Bitch"
I mean they had like two albums
@@mynamejeff2699 I mean 2 albums, and 2 EP's. 100 Miles and Running EP and the Express Yourself EP
@@pennywisegrey330 Niggaz4life is one of the 2 main albums i was mentioning
@@ScotMorleyBro Shame that White people aren't allowed to say that name, lest they lose their livelihoods.
I'll never forget covering "Angel Of Death" at a bar gig in front of a room full of "Hip-hop" and "Country" people. Shortly after transitioning from Slayer into one of our originals an older gentleman (had to be in his mid-late 60s) walked up to me, shook my hand and then just disappeared into the crowd.
Cool experience, thanks for sharing!
What kind of bar is full or hip hop and country people?
@@The_Infamous_Boogyman Small town bars. No one knows what the hell is going on.
Infest from Papa Roach was very much controversial in my small town when I was in eighth grade. Everyone loved it, and everybody's parents hated it. Good times.
“Hip hop has also seen their fair share of censors.” Boy is that an understatement
A person: *commits suicide*
Everyone: It was the music's fault!
Yeah, definitely Ozzy's fault, and not at all the parents who ignored their child's mental health to the point where he literally killed himself. That line about there being "no signs of a problem" or whatever made me feel physically ill. That poor kid.
@@nighmeansnear hi so i sometimes have a hard time interpreting things, but there are actually cases where people put up a front and act completely fine even though they’re struggling, i’m pretty sure it’s called smiling depression but don’t quote me on that
@@robinsscrapbook Even it that case though, it's pretty offputting that they'd blame an uninvolved stranger before bothering to take a look in the mirror.
@@nighmeansnear yeah ik but don’t blame the parents
@@robinsscrapbook You feel free not to if you want. We all have to follow our hearts on these types of things. For me, my sympathy ends when they start doing others harm, especially so publicly. To me, that's not grief, that's abuse.
I'm pretty sure the Dead Kennedys artwork was by H.R. Giger. (not R.H. Giger). Good list though!
Back when music was music
You say what's in your heart
And throw casual to the air
Again Like a Virgin? Sorry but other Madonna albums Like a Prayer (1989), Erotica (1992) and American Life (2003) were much more controversial and interesting. Not to mention great. With all those controversy she raised important messages
Ikr, she literally released a porn book around Erotica.
I still listen to that first Body Count album every once in awhile. “Cop Killer” is a decent track, but I also like “Freedom of Speech” which is the track that they added to later pressings of the album after “Cop Killer” was removed.
That "remix" of Freedom of Speech sucked.
I just started the video and all I know is that De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas should definitely be on here. If not that from Mayhem, then Dawn of the Black Hearts.
Edit: ok we’re good
A watch mojo video fresh out the box best thing ever
Excellent video. A lot of albums and artists I had forgotten about. Thanks for tips to put into my music algorithm.
Hey, WatchMojo. Can you please do a list of the Top 10 EDM Songs of the 2000's? I have some examples.
Examples:
2000: Daft Punk - One More Time
2001: Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky
2002: Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
2004: Eric Prydz - Call on Me
2005: Cascada - Everytime We Touch
2008: Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire - Ghosts 'n Stuff
so many classics 😭😭
i’ve got some more:
•2007: Tiësto - Elements of Life
•2008: Basshunter - Now You’re Gone
•2009: Calvin Harris - I’m Not Alone
•2011: Example - Changed the Way You Kiss Me
•2011: Avicii - Levels
I have to admit I literally have no clue who any of those people are or the songs you've listened. I know about daft punk just because the were played on a non stop basis, I think people in 3rd world countries that never scene a radio even no about them lol.
@@Stefan_Gerards Actually, my list only consist of the Top 10 songs of the 2000's. From 2000 until 2009.
All these albums are fantastic!! And some paved the way for others!! You can’t go wrong with any of them!! Especially Straight Outta Compton!! Album is 👌🏻 Nwa forever!!
How is Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue not on this list?
Don't know of it's been mentioned but "Animal" was not on W.A.S.P.'s self-titled debut.
It was originally released as an e.p. and later included on Live... In the Raw.
Animal wasn't on WASP's debut album, it was released as a single/EP in 1983.
I believe that you are correct. I had a 12 inch single of "Animal" on red vinyl. I thought that was so cool when I was a teenager. Oh, being young!
@@funzjag Yes, great song, love WASP, especially their early stuff, before they became a solo project for Blackie.
@@jasonvaughn4886 The thing that really bothered me about WASP was Blackie and his sudden social awareness. They did songs about screwing and other meaningless nonsense and then Blackie decides that he's going to be the voice of positivity. In interviews he started to act all high and mighty, as if after years of shock rock people are going to start looking at him as some kind of wiseman! Keep dreaming, you sawblade wearing buffoon!
@@funzjag Well, he's not the first person to change his act once he realized he's not getting any younger, or maybe he was fed up with the entire music business and just wanted to make records for himself without any realistic sales expectations. He's after all like 65 or more. Chris Holmes is 63 I think and he looks like a grandpa at a retirement home. That's even worse ! At least Dominator (07) and Babylon (09) are great albums, probably the only ones worth having post Crimson Idol.
The Downward Sprial should off been in the Top 5. Not just an honourable mention.
An album portraying violence , drugs , sex , suicide and many other subjects.
An absolute classic.
9:35 It's HR Giger.
It takes a crazy person to run an album backwards trying to find something
You can play the video in the UK and Ireland market for the blind and visually impaired by some miracle that you have any other iPhone and iPad Pro or the built in WiFi networks to be a great bunch of lads
Hey watchmojo can you plz do
Top 10 greatest bands from Australia,
Top 10 greatest bands from Ireland, Top 20 greatest bands from the US
Top 20 greatest bands from the UK, Top 10 greatest bands from Canada Top 10 greatest bands from germany
Top 20 rock drummers
Top 20 rock bassists
Top 20 male vocalists
Top 20 female vocalists
Top 20 frontman
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Top 10 hard rock guitarists
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Top 10 greatest bands from Sweden and the top 10 greatest classic hard rock and heavy metal bands of all time.
Mayhem's "new" bassist, Necrobutcher? He was the bassist before before Varg (and later, about 5 or so years after the album was released). It was Hellhammer (drummer) who was asked to/said he would replace the bass tracks.
Soon as I heard Mayhem I figured they would get something wrong lol. At least they pretty much pronounced the names correctly. 🤦🤷
@@ashleybrown4754 plus showing a picture of Gaahl during a bit on Mayhem. Amusing 😄
The album was probably the least controversial thing about Mayhem in 1990s
@@SaladPizzaRestaurant By far. Not even my favorite from them lol.
Wait, Hellhammer is a guy? It was also a band. Hellhammer is what Celtic Frost called themselves before they became Celtic Frost.
These album have shaped the newer generations as they come, such an important history, & they have definitely tackled so many issues to start changing the world fr. Surprisingly there wasn't more rap albums though.
I'm impressed by how most of these are either metal or rap, and not some pop BS, also so many of these albums I still listen to regularly.
Kinda off topic but: all these metal bands/songs make me want to cry. I never really liked metal but I had a close friend who i was apart of drumline with and he loved it and anytime I hear metal it reminds me of him. He passed away a couple months ago. Miss you buddy.
"They say the good die young"
Kind of fun when Slayer showed up on Jimmy Fallon and played their classic songs for the audience....
Yeah, that audience definitely had a 'WTF??' reaction there. They didn't know how to handle that. Ha ha!!
I don't know squat of some of your hair/thrash/death metal bands, but other than that, I think you nailed it. Especially Body Count. It's oh so ironic that Ice T actually ended up playing cops on TV and movies (before he started doing as seen on TV commercials!)
H. R. Giger* lol. Good list!
GREAT VID & TOPIC!!!!! 👍👍😉✌️
Some of these album stepped out of the line of comfort some in the best way and some in the worst way. If it was heavy metal oh boy that would escalate quickly if it was rap especially NWA and for public enemy it was on the good side because it talks about very important issues that was going on and to be honest they were all creative
Very great list.
What about Molotov? I know it's a Spanish speaker band, and this is an English speaker channel, but their first album were very controversial
They even had to sell it by their selves on streets
What about Dismembers debut album "Like an everflowing stream" wich got banned in the U.K because of the track "Skin her alive", and the police even went out to record stores to confiscate the album. The band had to fly to England and appear in court to explain themselves. The song was deemed "indecent & obscene" wich the band later named their second album to as a kind of mockery
How did 2Pac not make this list when he was singled out by a sitting Vice President calling for his album to be banned?
Because he was a fake thug, a drama queen.
I love these lists watchmojo
And no Deicide??? We're not gonna talk about how good their music is and how they probably made some people uncomfortable with their anti-religious lyrics about God and Jesus Christ?
@9:34 "R.H. Giger" lol
‘Erotica’ should be the Madonna choice
Perhaps. Although, Like A Prayer did incite a boycott from the Pope so I get why they chose it instead. Both were apparently pretty controversial for their time lol.
I was a little surprised Oingo Boingo, Only a Lad wasn't on this list due to the song, Little Girls.
What a memories, wearing CC Tomb of the mutilated shirt in high school...great times...BTW, those are 20 most influential albums in non pop music, minus Madonna.
Great album
Marc Almond (Marc and the Mambas) despite BBC RADIO ONE Kid Jensen supporting the album was banned by HMV for "obscenity". Now it is freely available for on Spotify anywhere (start at track 3). Track 4 got it banned but it still got to UK charts 28 which is a lot more sales than today. It was number 2 in Leeds uk records when I bought it as teenager 1983
NWA was goated.
1991 Rage Against the Machine
2021 Shill For the Machine
THEY were the "Machine."
You didn’t explain why rage against the machine was controversial at all lol
Its rage against the machine the album cover alone has a monk who set him self on fire in protest of a Vietnamese administration oppressing his religion. what do you want them to say. the whole album is shrouded in controversial topics.
They are a politically active bands and many of their songs criticize the government and society as a whole.
Parental Advisory labels were similar to having a blood alcohol machine at a party...One view was the advisory label would keep albums out of kids' hands, as BA machines would make people at the party realize they weren't in a condition to drive. Reality was an advisory label meant FOR SURE BUY, and the BA machines became a game to see who could become more inebriated. Hello?
Which one of these music albums is exciting and worth listening to again and again?
Cannibal Corpse. Style is unique and somewhat awesome.
Reign in Blood
#6 Public enemy - fear of a black planet
Most of them actually
The N.W.A. definitely got hip-hop into it's gangster theme of the genre cause without them hip-hop would have still remain a party genre.
Watch Mojo with this video officially has uploaded 20 thousand times
this is only it second time
Would have liked to have seen Dr.Dre's The Chronic on here was by far more influential than the Straight Outta Compton album and was released around the time of the Rodney King trial and really sparked the change in Hip-Hop which also brought new names and faces such as Krupt and Snoop Dogg.
R.H. Giger??? Who the heck is that? H.R. Giger in the other hand was an amazing legendary artist.
H.R. Giger influenced Alien.
I know that this album is too rich for WatchMojo's blood, but the velvet underground's debut album should definitely be on this list
Ah yes. My favourite surreal artist, R. H Geiger
Hahaha.
I have heard punk/metal albums that would be way more controversial than most of these if they were mainstream
God save the Queen, she ain’t a human being was bound to ‘raise a few eyebrows’😂😂
9:34 I think you meant *H. R. Giger