Greatest album of all time

[YoungG03]

My opinion aight

But outta

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and

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whats ya liked betta as of now?

I gotta go wit the Chronic but damn if Doggystyle wasnt my first love.

[Ilash]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh... no.

[Shellhead]

In terms of enduring popularity, I would have to say Pink Floyd's classic, The Dark Side of the Moon. It came out in the 70's and was popular then. My friends and I got into it in the early 80's while we were in high school. My parents eventually came to like the album and they were folk music fans back when it came out. Now, one of my coworkers is a teenage lab assistant, and he's into this album.

[ocelotrevs]

My opinion

Rival Schools- United by Fate
Coheed and Cambria- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Off the top of my head
Do I have too give reasons

[The Mirrorball Man]

My opinion

Rival Schools- United by Fate
Coheed and Cambria- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Off the top of my head
Do I have too give reasons
Considering that I've never heard of these albums, and we're talking about the greatest album of all time, I would really appreciate if you gave us reasons, yes.

[cosmoboy]

Such a tough question. I'd agree with Dark side of the moon, if I didn't have such a soft spot for Pearl Jams Ten.

[Eliot Johnson]

While I can definitely see why people would like Doggystyle and The Chronic, I think they're both a good bit overrated.

Logically, if I look at it, it seems pretty clear to me that Dark Side of the Moon is the greatest album ever. All things considered...sales...enduring popularity...critical acclaim. Add in the fact that I personally adore that album (probably one of my fifteen favorite or so), and I think it's fair to call DSotM "the greatest album of all time."

Personally? Give me The Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett, Movin' On[i] by Playa Fly, [i]Kid A by Radiohead, or Danger Zone by K-Rino. Those are clear to me as my four favorite albums ever, even if I can't quite pick one.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

Nas - Illmatic

[FresnoXpatriate]

I would say Dark Side, for staying power, Thriller for popularity, and Appetite for Destruction, 1984 by Van Halen, London Calling, or Enter the 36 chambers for their contributions to their respective genres.

Discounting, of course, The Beatles.

[Headhunter]

Depends on genre, era, etc... Illmatic is still the standard for rap, I can't think of a bigger mainstream pop album than Thriller, I'm a huge fan of A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms; tons of options.

The last 25 years are probably the most relevant ones, so here's what MuchMoreMusic had as their best albums of the past 25 years:


01. Nevermind/ Nirvana
02. Thriller/ Michael Jackson
03. Joshua Tree/ U2
04. Appetite for Destruction/ Guns N' Roses
05. OK Computer/ Radiohead
06. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness/ Smashing Pumpkins
07. London Calling/ The Clash
08. Purple Rain/ Prince
09. Ray of Light/ Madonna
10. Out of Time/ R.E.M.
11. Play/ Moby
12. The Eminem Show/ Eminem
13. Born in the U.S.A./ Bruce Springsteen
14. Back In Black/ AC/DC
15. Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette
16. Synchronicity/ The Police
17. Fear of a Black Planet/ Public Enemy
18. Blood Sugar Sex Magik/ Red Hot Chili Peppers
19. Metallica/ Metallica
20. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill/ Lauryn Hill
21. So/ Peter Gabriel
22. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? / Oasis
23. Ill Communications/ Beastie Boys
24. The Queen is Dead/ The Smiths
25. A Rush of Blood to the Head/ Coldplay
26. Surfacing/ Sarah McLachlan
27. Raising Hell/ Run DMC
28. Ten/ Pearl Jam
29. Songs in A Minor/ Alicia Keys
30. Dookie/ Green Day
31. Daydreamer/ Mariah Carey
32. Superunknown/ Soundgarden
33. Debut/ Bjork
34. Slippery When Wet/ Bon Jovi
35. Ready to Die / Notorious B.I.G.
36. Tragic Kingdom/ No Doubt
37. CrazySexyCool/ TLC
38. Odelay/ Beck
39. The Unforgettable Fire/ U2
40. Hysteria/ Def Leppard


The station doesn't play all genres (no rap, country, etc), but the list has a lot of solid entries.

[Grant]

Proving music reached it's peak in 1983...

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[Hiromi]

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti(first disk anyway)

[elheffe]

For me it's:
Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones

[Ilash]

Three possibilities for me:

Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones, Quadrophenia by the Who or Abbey Road by the Beatles.

[zombie]

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[YoungG03]

Woahwoah...i feel ya bout those other ablumsand all but i just meant


A. Betwen these two albums
b. OUTTA RAP (if you fell there was others

[Dreadstar]

Live at the Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers.


...though I think it'd be fair to add in [i]Mountain Jam[/i}, which was recorded at the same time, I believe.

[Dreadstar]

For me it's:
Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones

Hella good choice, and quite often the one I put at the top.

[Adam Crocker]

Grant and Zombie are both wrong! As are all of you! Clearly the pinnacle of musical perfection is...

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[JeffreyWKramer]

Picking just one? Ugh.

I can't decide between SGT. PEPPERS, LOADED and THE VU AND NICO.

[JeffreyWKramer]

Grant and Zombie are both wrong! As are all of you! Clearly the pinnacle of musical perfection is...

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You know, I can't see that album cover any more without thinking it looks like Rod is getting hot with Nikki Sixx or some other member of Motley Crue.

[Karl J. Barnes]

Queen's A Night At The Opera

[Adam Crocker]

You know, I can't see that album cover any more without thinking it looks like Rod is getting hot with Nikki Sixx or some other member of Motley Crue.

And he probably is if you choose to believe that one story.

[SMKSPY]

Abbey Road is the best all time album, but as far as rap goes...

Still Standing-- Goodie Mob

Ridin Dirty-- UGK

[ocelotrevs]

Considering that I've never heard of these albums, and we're talking about the greatest album of all time, I would really appreciate if you gave us reasons, yes.

Alright
Rival Schools, they're a post hardcore outfit that broke up last year I think. United By Fate was there only release. I like them due too the emotions the songs put me through. Like there's heavy rocking songs, and some acoustic numbers. Basically it's one of the albums I'll listen too anyday of the week and love it. Especially the song Used For Glue

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, is a concept album, and part of a larger, longer story about Coheed and Cambria. The 2 central charecters in the story. When I first heard this album it was on another level, there are about 3 songs that surpass the 7 minute mark. This is another album with depth. The music by itself is pretty amazing, with melodies and orchestras in there as well

These 2 are off the top of the head at the time. The full list has about 6 other albums here. But these, I doubt, will be in any other lists as being the greatest albums of all time. It's just my humble opinion

[TomGun13]

What about KISS Alive!

[Phrozen]

01. Nevermind/ Nirvana
02. Thriller/ Michael Jackson
03. Joshua Tree/ U2
04. Appetite for Destruction/ Guns N' Roses
05. OK Computer/ Radiohead
06. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness/ Smashing Pumpkins
07. London Calling/ The Clash
08. Purple Rain/ Prince
09. Ray of Light/ Madonna
10. Out of Time/ R.E.M.
11. Play/ Moby
12. The Eminem Show/ Eminem
13. Born in the U.S.A./ Bruce Springsteen
14. Back In Black/ AC/DC
15. Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette
16. Synchronicity/ The Police
17. Fear of a Black Planet/ Public Enemy
18. Blood Sugar Sex Magik/ Red Hot Chili Peppers
19. Metallica/ Metallica
20. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill/ Lauryn Hill
21. So/ Peter Gabriel
22. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? / Oasis
23. Ill Communications/ Beastie Boys
24. The Queen is Dead/ The Smiths
25. A Rush of Blood to the Head/ Coldplay
26. Surfacing/ Sarah McLachlan
27. Raising Hell/ Run DMC
28. Ten/ Pearl Jam
29. Songs in A Minor/ Alicia Keys
30. Dookie/ Green Day
31. Daydreamer/ Mariah Carey
32. Superunknown/ Soundgarden
33. Debut/ Bjork
34. Slippery When Wet/ Bon Jovi
35. Ready to Die / Notorious B.I.G.
36. Tragic Kingdom/ No Doubt
37. CrazySexyCool/ TLC
38. Odelay/ Beck
39. The Unforgettable Fire/ U2
40. Hysteria/ Def Leppard




They sure got the wrong Metallica album. No Countdown to Extinction or Cowboys from Hell but Ray of Light and Mellon Collie. This is sad.

[The Mirrorball Man]

What's even more sad is that nobody even thought to mention Stevie Wonder's Innervisions before I did!

[Pepsigirl]

IMHO...

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Sigur Rós' Ágætis Byrjun.

[Grant]

Another classic record.

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Incidentely that's where my hairline was at Senior Year of High School.

[Pinball]

Woahwoah...i feel ya bout those other ablumsand all but i just meant


A. Betwen these two albums
b. OUTTA RAP (if you fell there was others

Then maybe you should amend the thread title.

a. haven't heard em.
b. i guess Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
c. as for Any Album At All? the Beatles double-double '62-'66 and '67-'70

[Adam Crocker]

A. Betwen these two albums

Never heard them.

(Good lord does the Snoop Dog album have an ugly cover.)

b. OUTTA RAP (if you fell there was others

Fear of Black Planet by Public Enemy though I haven't heard It Takes a Nation of Millions and my hip-hop album collection is still pretty scant at this point in time as I have a grand total of four hip-hop albums, and one of those is DJ Shadow's ENDTRODUCING (so no rapping there).


Incidentely that's where my hairline was at Senior Year of High School.

Man! You were way ahead of my Dad, who didn't start going there til he started university. You are THE overachiever Grant.

Picking just one? Ugh.

I can't decide between SGT. PEPPERS, LOADED and THE VU AND NICO.

I hear ya'. I'm stuck between ZIGGY STARDUST, RAINDOGS, LONDON CALLING, MARQUEE MOON, and THE VU AND NICO. The scary thing is though...I think RAINDOGS is winning out over LONDON CALLING now. http://www.issue9mm.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif

[Eliot Johnson]

You cannot really call DJ Shadow hip hop...

Trip hop maybe. Or electronica or whatever, but I don't think you can call him hip hop.

Anyway, my personal favorite rap album is Playa Fly's Movin' On, but it's not really right to call that the "greatest"...Playa Fly just, for some reason, really speaks to me. I honestly cannot explain it, but he does. I mean, I can see he's a great rapper, but I don't see why I like him so much more than everyone else. I just do.

As far as the best album? I believe you have to look to either of K-Rino's classic albums from the mid-nineties, Stories from the Black Book or Danger Zone. I'm inclined to go with Danger Zone just because the production is more polished. The actual rapping is about equal.

[The Mirrorball Man]

You cannot really call DJ Shadow hip hop...
Sure you can. Go there: http://www.djshadow.com/site/

The first sentence you're going to read starts like this: "DJ Shadow, acclaimed hip-hop and electronica artist..." :)

I think most people would call his music "Abstract Hip-Hop".

[Adam Crocker]

You cannot really call DJ Shadow hip hop...

Trip hop maybe. Or electronica or whatever, but I don't think you can call him hip hop.

Well based off my experience, everything I have heard has stated that Shadow's music is generally identified as a specific kind of hip-hop known as "turntablism." It's subgenre which puts the techniques of the turntable (and with it the figure of the DJ) at the forfront of the work itself (rather than the MC) by focusing on using the turntable and mixer to create new musical pieces. (And as a result, it's largely instrumental and often touches on other forms of electronic music.)

On the other hand he has been referred to as a practicioner of trip-hop, but apparently he doesn't like the label.

[Eliot Johnson]

Ah, well, I stand corrected. Thank you, both of you. Interesting.

I'm pretty ignorant as far as turntablism and electronica are concerned. I have four of his CDs and I always considered him Trip Hop (which I'm also fairly ignorant of), but if he dislikes the label, then, hey, who am I to say he's a part of that genre. Whatever, though, I guess it doesn't really matter what genre he is...he makes great music and that's all that matters.

Still, it would be an interesting discussion to see what makes something "hip hop." Also, it would be an entirely new thread, but, it would be interesting.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

Man, how could a hip-hop fan have not listened to The Chronic AND Doggystyle? Those are classics. That's like not listening to Illmatic or Reasonable Doubt.

[DDM]

Siouxsie & the Banshees, Peepshow (1988)

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[Slam_Bradley]

The answer is obvious.


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[The Mirrorball Man]

Man, how could a hip-hop fan have not listened to The Chronic AND Doggystyle? Those are classics.
Yeah, that would be absurd: whatever we might think of them, those are required listening at the hip-hop school. The best rap album is still Fear of a Black Planet, though.

[JackIZBoss]

Johnny Cash at San Quinton

One of my personal faves and critically one of the best

[Slam_Bradley]

Johnny Cash at San Quinton

One of my personal faves and critically one of the best


I love that album. Along with Live at Folsom Prison. San Quenton is rawer...and I like the song selection better overall. But Folsom Prison Blues is such a fabulous song. And Luther Perkins died before the San Quenton date. Two classic albums. And two of the best ever live albums.

[howyadoin]

Appetite for Destruction, followed closely by Born to Run and then Exile on Main St.

[thik_3rd]

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[jessecuster]

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[Punisher]

In my opinion the greatest album ever is Nine Inch Nails's cd The Fragile.

[Daniel Hopkins]

The Documentary - The Game.

There is not one single song i don't like on it

[estee]

The answer is obvious.


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Seconded.

That's your quitesential "Trapped on desert island" album.

[Cherokee Jack]

Electric Ladyland---Hendrix.

[d00m]

Nas - Illmatic

Incredible album.. one of the greatest rap albums ever.

But I'm still going with Kind of Blue as best album ever.

[Funeral Party]

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[Lubichev]

Plastic Surgery Disasters by the Dead Kennedys.
Abbey Road or Revolver by the Beatles.
Repeater by Fugazi.
Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley.

Yeah, that is five.
Can't.
Make.
Up.
Mind.

Rap album? Gotta go with Run DMC. The self titled album. Rock Box. It's Like That.
You know the one.