Which Album Inspires Most?
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The first pop music album - The Voice of Frank Sinatra - came out in 1948, leading inevitably to the obvious question - which of the 10 million or so albums released since then, do songwriters find the most inspirational?
Well, International Songwriters Association members got to pick their favourites for the first ime in 1971, and since then have been pretty consistent in their choice.
Naturally, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan have featured heavily since day one, but without fail (and to be honest, much to our astonishment), an instrumental jazz album has never failed to reach the Top 50, a phenomenon which led Bill Miller (no less!) to once complain:
There are tunes you adore
And those that you don't.
Words that will inspire you,
And lyrics that won't.
But seriously folks - can it be true,
That a songwriter was inspired by Kind Of Blue?
To view the Top 50 Most Inspiring albums chosen by your fellow songwriters, click anywhere on this story.
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