Greatest Albums of All Time

[magenta321]

Heh. The Beatles album thread got me thinking. If you could pick any five albums, which ones would make your greatest of all time list?

Here are my picks (I can't put them in any order, sorry, I'm just glad I narrowed it down to five!)

Pink Floyd -- The Wall

Metallica -- ...And Justice for All

Grateful Dead (they're all good, hard to pick a best, but here's my favorite) -- Built to Last (I know, I probably should've gone for the most popular and truly stellar "American Beauty," but I don't know... Built to Last is just perfect in my mind, and it tells a full story)

The Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper's

Outkast -- Stankonia
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Hmmm. I just went up and edited my Grateful Dead choice to add the bit about why I chose Built to Last over American Beauty and I noticed something. With the exception of Stankonia, all the albums I chose fit together like a puzzle. Interesting...

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Paradise Theater - Styx

So far that's the only one I can think of.

mj

[kurt_messick]

Hmmm... I wonder if anyone will mention Madonna?

[cyndilouwhoo]

I immediately thought of "The Wall" too. Stunning.

And I guess I have come around to Abbey Road too. You'd never know that most of it was recorded and tracked separately so's the boys wouldn't have to interact with one another.

Be back with more. Gotta think. There's a hell of a lot of good music out there.

Cyndi

[cyndilouwhoo]

Ok after a fair amount of thought I think I've narrowed my huge list down to 3 more-- But of course I reserve the right to change my mind

The Rolling Stones--Let it Bleed

Steely Dan--Aja

Eminem--The Marshall Mathers LP

Cyndi

Who hates choosing a "best of" anything. Too hard.

I skipped over all the compilation and double-albums... otherwise, there's be Clapton's Timepieces, Billy Joel's GH, and Genesis' Seconds Out. I stuck to rock, otherwise Jean-Michael Jarre's Oxygene and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells would be in there.

In this age of sampling and burning, it's easy to build a playlist that kicks most albums' rear ends. There's always a slop track or two in there nowadays, or it's some lame greatest hits with one or two "bonus" tracks added.

Each of these, to me, is rock-solid and ought to come with every CD/CD-DVD player burned into the system's RAM:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Eagles - Hotel California

Led Zeppelin IV

(If it were 6, I'd add Genesis - Duke)

If you want the usual laugh at VH1's expense, look at:
http://www.vh1.com/insidevh1/shows/1...ums_list.jhtml It's amazing how they sneak political correctness in there... and then the lame attempts to justify it with stretching definitions.

[cyndilouwhoo]

Originally posted by kurt_messick
Hmmm... I wonder if anyone will mention Madonna?

NO!

[lambchops]

OoOoOoh!

In no particular order, as follows:

Led Zeppelin - IV
AC/DC - Back in Black
nine inch nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
U2 - The Joshua Tree

There are others, but these are probably my five favorites I know, it's only rock & roll (but I like it!)

[Joubert[$]]

Five favorite or greatest. Big difference! With greatest, you have to consider the impact on the music world. Thus, Buddy Holly, Simon & Garfunkel, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Taylor, The Supremes, yes Madonna, and other trendsetters get nods. I'm just doing stream of consciousness here - I couldn't even get that list much below 20 or 30.

But favorites is another story. I'll have to think on that a while.

[tipu]

Originally posted by file13
I stuck to rock, otherwise Jean-Michael Jarre's Oxygene and Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells would be in there.

It's amazing how JMJ's music still remains accessible... though I preferred the sounds from O2 to the original... and have moved on to Robert Rich from there....

Greatest albums? I'm not going to spend hours thinking about the other four, but the #1 spot is taken. I'm sorry, jolly good try and all that, even good music in some of your choices, but the greatest, indubitably is:

Operation Mindcrime :: Queensrÿche

[taurusmoon]

Van Morrison's Moondance.

Sara
Who might think of 4 more given time

[magenta321]

Joubert has a point. I sort of worked greatest and favorites together. I took the greatest works of art that were my favorites, ya know?

And Led Zep IV almost made my list. But, because the favorite factor was playing in and I heard waaaaaay too much of that album in high school to ever want to hear it again, it dropped off the list.

[MrsNormanMaine[$]]

I'll stick to rock/pop, otherwise it's apples and oranges. Here's five that always stay in my collection...

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road

2. Steely Dan - Aja

3. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

4. Billy Joel - An Innocent Man

5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors


MNM

[cyndilouwhoo]

Originally posted by MrsNormanMaine
I'll stick to rock/pop, otherwise it's apples and oranges. Here's five that always stay in my collection...

3. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

MNM

Ooh! Ooh! This is what I mean by "too hard"

How could I forget Silk Degrees?

Cyndi

And Hotel California and Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time and...

[pageclot[$]]

Here's my random top 5, without thinking too much about it:


The Clash - London Calling (such energy, such spluttering, and I proposed to my wife during Spanish Bombs)

The Beatles - White album (although it is too long and unfocused; Abbey Road would be a better representative of the Fab Four)

Led Zeppelin - IV (no question, move along, next please)

Radiohead - OK computer (would make the list just for Paranoid Android, but there's oh so much more on there)

Rush - 2112. (a classic of progressive rock. Doesn't have Tom Sawyer on there, but what the hey)


Too many to mention didn't make the list.

I'd like to nominate Nirvana's From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah as Best Live album (followed closely by Live Between Us by The Tragically Hip, and maybe Songs and Stories by Harry Chapin).

I'd also like to nominate The Sugarcube's Life's Too Good as best Icelandic album, and that Ministry album with "Jesus Built my Hotrod" on it as The Best Album that doesn't fit into any other category.

pageclot

[hadassahchana[$]]

Q: What do you get if you mix MNM with taurusmoon?

A: My album list!

I am not an original any longer - but what great company I keep!


Cindy

[hypotenuse]

Ok. I know I'm going to mess this up, simply because I have too many favorites...

Led Zep - Houses of the Holy
Eagles - Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
ACDC - Back in Black
The Who - Who's Next

Lynne - who is in because she had to leave out VanHalan, Simon and Garfunkel, and Heart

[lambchops]

Originally posted by hypotenuse
Led Zep - Houses of the Holy
Eagles - Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
ACDC - Back in Black
The Who - Who's Next

Great list!

[MrsNormanMaine[$]]

Another one that's in my top five that I forgot

Carole King - Tapestry

How could I forget that?

MNM

[systemdwn]

I dont really know the greatest albums of all time ... but here is a short list of the first albums that popped into my head...

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Korn - Korn
Bjork - Homogenic

im sure if i think harder...there are others that definately deserve to be in this list

FABIEn

[jsgoddess]

If it can be anything, I'd say:

Dvorak--Symphony # 9 and serenade for strings, Eugene Ormandy and the Munich Philharmonic

Verdi--"La Traviata" with Domingo and Cotrubas (she's amazing amazing amazing in this role), Carlos Kleiber; the best recording of this opera I've ever heard. Fab.

"Anything Goes"--Capitol Sings Cole Porter

Paul Simon--"There Goes Rhymin' Simon"

Pink Floyd--"Dark Side of the Moon"



If I have to stick with rock/pop, substitute Counting Crows, "August and Everything After"; Freedy Johnston, "This Perfect World"; and Suzy Bogguss, "Aces."

[Grouch]

At random, off the top of my head:

Hotel California, Eagles
The Innocent Age, Dan Fogelberg
Between the Lines, Janis Ian
The Stranger, Billy Joel
Star Wars (the one, the only original), John Williams

As others have said, there are many, many others....but these are the ones I can think of right now which have had a personal impact on my life.

I'm excluding hardcore classical music from the list, but suffice to say it moves me to the core.

[mrisch[$]]

I wrote an epinion on this. I can't put it all here, because that would violate TOS. SO, I will violate the rules here, and put the link. Don't worry, I'm not going to get paid for this, but I am proud of the list.

http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-...39C3C283-prod1

[vonboob]

Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
Breakfast in America, Supertramp
A Day At The Races, Queen
I’m Your Man, Leonard Cohen
Communiqué, Dire Straits

That's a final shortlist from "original artists playing original material". My long list started at around 400...