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What is the greatest album ever made?
    #7802902 - 12/27/07 03:52 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The subject says it all... In your opinion what is/was the greatest album ever made and why? I have been racking my brain and I just have to many favs. I can't decide.
Mb Led Zepps best of album or the first 3 Black Sabbath albums.

What do you rekon?


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7802928 - 12/27/07 04:29 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

pink floyd - dark side of the moon


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: stefan]
    #7802935 - 12/27/07 04:34 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline... best album ever...

bahahaha

I cant really think of my pick for the greatest... To me, In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson comes to mind, of course Pink Floyd's DSOTM is amazing too. Hard question :smile:


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7803307 - 12/27/07 09:27 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

This is an impossible task. They only way to really say an album was the greatest is by how influential it was. That being said, you have to go with The Beach Boys pet sounds, Or the Beatles White album, or The Beatles Sgt peppers lonely hearts club.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7803932 - 12/27/07 01:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico OR The Shaggs- Philosophy of the World


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7803936 - 12/27/07 01:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I'd say either Tool -- Lateralus or Smashing Pumpkins -- Siamese Dream.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7803967 - 12/27/07 01:11 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

for me, jason webley - counterpoint.

for the world? it's tough to say.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: lukeboots]
    #7804399 - 12/27/07 03:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

An interesting question which I have long ago decided upon. There is really only one true monster. Many albums are great and some have been mentioned. Pet Sounds. Court of the Crimson King isn't even the best Crimson album. Dark Side is the tits and there are a couple Stones albums, especially Sticky Fingers. The Beatles are for homos. Blind Faith. Genesis Selling England By the Pound. Any one of the first three Zeps plus Zoso. Zappa Roxy and Elsewhere. The Dead Workingman and Skeleton and Roses.
But none of the them is the total monster that is the Who's Who's Next. Top to bottom wall to wall brilliance, from Baba O'Reilly to Going Mobile, from Won't Get Fooled Again to Behind Blue Eyes. My Wife to Bargain. A true masterpiece. If you don't believe me play the whole thing again from beginning to end.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7804400 - 12/27/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot London Calling


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7804410 - 12/27/07 03:21 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The short list, at first thought, would be:

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie...
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys...
The Bends by Radiohead...
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7804424 - 12/27/07 03:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Very tough question and almost impossible to answer.

Right now I'd have to say the greatest album in my opinion is Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin.  But tomorrow I might say Darkside of the Moon by Pink Floyd.  Led Zeppelin IV kicked major ass...they used some very cool recording locations and the hit Stairway to heaven was recorded on that album.

Lateralus by Tool is mind blowing as well as their new one!

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is easily one of my favs as well.

Deep Purple's Machine Head rocks some serious ass as well(Lazy anyone? :wink:)

Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz is in there as well.

So tough to pick just one


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Spooge]
    #7804438 - 12/27/07 03:33 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7804455 - 12/27/07 03:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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OneLessForeskin said:
The short list, at first thought, would be:


The Name of This Band is Talking Heads




Those four albums were by far the top one-band product of the late 70s early 80s. Except for the Clash. Maybe.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7804605 - 12/27/07 04:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)





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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #7806183 - 12/28/07 12:02 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Haha Some very interesting albums here. I can't believe I forgot dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd slipped my mind. Good too see Tool made peoples list, Lateralus was amazing, so was 10,000 Days. No one mentions the Eagles at all, Selected Works 1972-1999 was a great album, even tho it was a best of. Just showcase the bands greatness... Cheers, keep em' comming, Gen

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Jimmy Hendrix- Are you experienced
Jimmy Hendrix- Axis: Bold As Love
John Coltrain- Afro Blue Impressions
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Marilyn Manson- All his albums, minus the first and last, lol


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7806373 - 12/28/07 01:22 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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But none of the them is the total monster that is the Who's Who's Next. Top to bottom wall to wall brilliance, from Baba O'Reilly to Going Mobile, from Won't Get Fooled Again to Behind Blue Eyes. My Wife to Bargain. A true masterpiece. If you don't believe me play the whole thing again from beginning to end.




Wow. I've been trying to think of a few albums I could name for this thread. Not once did Who's Next pop into my mind, but reading your post made me smack myself in the head. What a great suggestion.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: jewunit]
    #7807089 - 12/28/07 10:48 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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    #7810999 - 12/29/07 04:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Abrahadabra]
    #7811976 - 12/29/07 10:53 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

this is a silly question, its like asking what your favorite kind of music is. Music is like food in the sense that there's alot more too it then just the general tantalizing of your senses, music builds an atmosphere and an environment on its own, without even trying. Something's sound great at some times, and at some times there's things I couldn't stand listening to at one point and love it the next.

But if I had to pick a seriously well produced album, it have to be dj shadow's entroducing. :boobs:


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: stefan]
    #7812016 - 12/29/07 11:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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pink floyd - dark side of the moon




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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Afroshroomerican]
    #7812800 - 12/30/07 08:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

thats really a hard question
for me to say
death's all albums (chuck)
hendrix are you exprienced
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: kopilcom]
    #7813608 - 12/30/07 01:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Seomthing by Pink Floyd, not sure what though  :ohwell:


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: stefan]
    #7813801 - 12/30/07 02:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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pink floyd - dark side of the moon




Yes; It's not my favourtie album, not even by far, but still the best ever.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #7813809 - 12/30/07 02:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I can't believe nobody mentioned Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland.
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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #7814012 - 12/30/07 03:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Everyone seems to pick Dark Side of the Moon, but that's not even my favorite Floyd album. I like Wish You Were Here and The Wall better. Maybe it's just because I've heard Dark Side of the Moon so many times.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Silversoul]
    #7814124 - 12/30/07 03:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Today, I'm going to go with the album U.K. by U.K..


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7814860 - 12/30/07 07:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

My personal favorite is "The White Album".








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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Learyfan]
    #7815202 - 12/30/07 08:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

It seems the people are going for anything by Pink Floyd. I remember when I refused to listen to them cause I thought they were a fag band, purely from the band name. How young and stupid I was... Why is music not as influential now as it was then? Every thing has been smashed out of the same mould these days, it is generic and boring as the next. There are very few exceptions.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7815293 - 12/30/07 09:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7815618 - 12/31/07 12:12 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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It seems the people are going for anything by Pink Floyd. I remember when I refused to listen to them cause I thought they were a fag band, purely from the band name. How young and stupid I was... Why is music not as influential now as it was then? Every thing has been smashed out of the same mould these days, it is generic and boring as the next. There are very few exceptions.




Sounds like you need to open your ears and eyes. There's plenty of stuff to listen to, you just gotta look. I don't listen to older stuff nearly as much as I listen to new stuff, and I think plenty of it is influential.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7816267 - 12/31/07 08:33 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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It seems the people are going for anything by Pink Floyd. I remember when I refused to listen to them cause I thought they were a fag band, purely from the band name. How young and stupid I was... Why is music not as influential now as it was then? Every thing has been smashed out of the same mould these days, it is generic and boring as the next. There are very few exceptions.




Forty years ago it was much more difficult for a band to have its music heard, so there were fewer bands in the public eye, so the ones that took off really took off.

There is a ton of good music these days; music is more diverse than it's ever been, but you'd never know it if you're trying to find it on mainstream radio.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7816591 - 12/31/07 10:40 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i nominate pet sounds, abbey road and any of the velvet underground's studio albums except squeeze as contenders. i never really got into any pink floyd album other than piper at the gates of dawn. there is no way, in my opinion, that dark side of the moon is even close to the best album ever. it's maybe in the top 50, if that.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7816652 - 12/31/07 11:09 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)


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    #7816833 - 12/31/07 12:10 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Silversoul]
    #7816995 - 12/31/07 12:57 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Everyone seems to pick Dark Side of the Moon, but that's not even my favorite Floyd album. I like Wish You Were Here and The Wall better. Maybe it's just because I've heard Dark Side of the Moon so many times.




As I said it's not my favourite, but it's probably the most amazing album I've ever heard, I reckon I've heard it more than 1000 times. Still, I'd take Animals over TDSOTM almost anyday.


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    #7817083 - 12/31/07 01:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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    #7817195 - 12/31/07 01:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Everyone seems to pick Dark Side of the Moon, but that's not even my favorite Floyd album. I like Wish You Were Here and The Wall better. Maybe it's just because I've heard Dark Side of the Moon so many times.




As I said it's not my favourite, but it's probably the most amazing album I've ever heard, I reckon I've heard it more than 1000 times. Still, I'd take Animals over TDSOTM almost anyday.




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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: geedorah]
    #7819887 - 01/01/08 12:22 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Tool - ænima




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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Viveka]
    #7820014 - 01/01/08 01:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Very, VERY strong choice, although I personally prefer Selling England By the Pound, for overall brilliance. Supper's Ready is magnificent but side two drops off after Get 'em Out By Friday.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7820039 - 01/01/08 01:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I'm partial to [The White Album].

Love it's audacity, it's diversity, it's weirdness.


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    #7820703 - 01/01/08 04:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Everyone seems to pick Dark Side of the Moon, but that's not even my favorite Floyd album. I like Wish You Were Here and The Wall better. Maybe it's just because I've heard Dark Side of the Moon so many times.




As I said it's not my favourite, but it's probably the most amazing album I've ever heard, I reckon I've heard it more than 1000 times. Still, I'd take Animals over TDSOTM almost anyday.




Truth, plain and simple.




Bold, edgy, bitter and straight to the point. Awesomeness!

And that bridge in P3DO... wow. All hail Animals!



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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #7820789 - 01/01/08 05:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The Cure - Disintegration

Type O Negative - October Rust

Tool - Lateralus


these are three albums that I love to listen to start to finish and I feel they tell an abstract story, so they are the best albums ever made IMO.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Afroshroomerican]
    #7821509 - 01/01/08 08:18 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Well, what characteristics/attributes are we looking for? What qualities should 'the greatest album ever made' have? I'll have to say it's probably something by The Beatles or Frank Zappa. Although, it would have to be an album that transcends all genres and that's not something that either of those artists have effectively done. However, I'd say my favorite album ever made is We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'n' Roll by Black Sabbath.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Boots]
    #7821933 - 01/01/08 10:24 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)



lots of great ones have already been mentioned, thought I'd throw this out there if no ones said it.

might not exactly be the greatest album but echoes is great


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Robo]
    #7821948 - 01/01/08 10:35 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Echoes is definitely up there


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7822000 - 01/01/08 10:53 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

1 Evil Empire by Rage Against The Machine.
2 Check Your Head by The Beastie Boy.
3 White Pepper by WEEN.

Relics by Pink Floyd was on top for a while.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: marz13]
    #7822053 - 01/01/08 11:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #7822199 - 01/02/08 12:14 AM (16 years, 30 days ago)

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There is a ton of good music these days; music is more diverse than it's ever been, but you'd never know it if you're trying to find it on mainstream radio.




This I would have to second. It seems pop songs these days and mindless trash, as I said before. I may have been a little to quick to say that all new music is meaningless tripe, a lot of it is, but there are still modern artists who are amazing. Another thing WhiskeyClone said was music is much more diverse these days than it ever has been, also I agree. But I think its been taken a little two far. Metal alone have like 4 billion sub-genres, from Grind-core to math-core, thrash, hair metal and any combination of two or more styles (Ghetto-trashgrindcore). Its stupid.

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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7826160 - 01/03/08 01:07 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)
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Supper's Ready is magnificent but side two drops off after Get 'em Out By Friday.




Watchu mean man, side 2 is Supper's Ready, all 23 minutes of it. I would probably go with 'Selling England' for best Genesis album as well if it weren't for Supper's Ready which somehow crept up on me and became one of my favorite songs of all time even though I was less than impressed after the first 6 or 8 listens.

Can Utility and the Coastliners plays after Get 'em Out by Friday along with Horizons(which is practically an intro for Supper's Ready). Are you saying you don't like Coastliners because I think it's one of the best, not to mention most concise, songs in the Genesis catalog. Listen again if you forgot how damn good it is:


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7826527 - 01/03/08 06:51 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)

Ok I'm gonna say it, Sea Change by beck is probably my all-time favourite album. There I said it.



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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #7826746 - 01/03/08 09:25 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)

At this moment in time, for me, the greatest album ever made is

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Genesis]
    #7827141 - 01/03/08 11:58 AM (16 years, 29 days ago)

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme deserves a mention in my mind.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: jewunit]
    #7827169 - 01/03/08 12:05 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

I have to throw out Sigur Ros' untitled album as well.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Viveka]
    #7827380 - 01/03/08 01:01 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

I should have just said "the Other Side". Clearly side One for me is Supper's Ready. I haven't played the Get 'em Out By Friday side in years. Part of the problem is the Watcher of the Skies version on that album. The live version is so much better. I'll give it another shot but it's not likely to replace Selling England since I played both of them through to the other side. We've had similar musical convergences before, haven't we?


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: wilshire]
    #7827420 - 01/03/08 01:14 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

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i nominate pet sounds, abbey road and any of the velvet underground's studio albums except squeeze as contenders. i never really got into any pink floyd album other than piper at the gates of dawn. there is no way, in my opinion, that dark side of the moon is even close to the best album ever. it's maybe in the top 50, if that.




if there was a serious debate involving certain aspects of the progression of music, impact, etc.... then Pet Sounds would probably be #1.

but if I were stranded on an island with only one cd, I would pick...



Disco Volante by Mr. Bungle.
such an epic journey of exploration that utilizes almost every genre of music while managing to be one of the only truly original albums in the last 20 years.
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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7827557 - 01/03/08 01:48 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

Amazingly enough an album no one has ever heard of and even fewer people bought. I would think Greatest entails some kind of consideration for general popularity. Otherwise it would just be Favorite.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7827839 - 01/03/08 02:56 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

that is why I prefaced it with a situation that denoted a personal preference.
But I dont think popularity should have any sway with what would be considered the greatest album of all time.
If this were the case then elvis presley, garth brooks and mikey jackson would be the top 3 greatest artists of all time. The backstreet boys would be considered "greater" than zappa because of popularity.
if anything, only concept/themed albums should be in the running, because it is an entire work of art, rather than a conglomeration of random focus-group-passed songs that have nothing to do with each other.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7827908 - 01/03/08 03:09 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

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that is why I prefaced it with a situation that denoted a personal preference.
But I dont think popularity should have any sway with what would be considered the greatest album of all time.




I kind of think it really has to. Otherwise, like I said, it's just favorite.
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If this were the case then elvis presley, garth brooks and mikey jackson would be the top 3 greatest artists of all time. The backstreet boys would be considered "greater" than zappa because of popularity.




I understand and am clearly not making the case for a strictly popular consideration. Artistic value and influence are also factors. I'm trying to do a balancing act here.
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if anything, only concept/themed albums should be in the running, because it is an entire work of art, rather than a conglomeration of random focus-group-passed songs that have nothing to do with each other.




Unless they are each and every one a masterpiece. I do understand that criteria as well. For that reason, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was among my finalists. But it really is too limiting, in my opinion. There aren't that many.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7827958 - 01/03/08 03:23 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

your average music listener is a dumbass that has zero understanding of how to even go about appreciating real music.
everyone thinks that they have good taste in music, but very few people actually do.... oddly enough, very many people are willing to admit that they dont know dick about visual art (paintings/sculptures), or at best will say "ohh Dali, Vincent, Michealangelo" or some shit like that and reveal themselves for the sophomoric comprehension/exposure they have had to such art.
If we were to make a thread about the greatest painting of all time, we would get a lot of Dali's, Alex Gray (or is it grey?), and MC escher's nominated.... which is kind of like the equivalent to nominating Britany spears, justin Timberlake and Tupac in this thread.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7828517 - 01/03/08 05:51 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

I don't agree and when you say something like that about rock and roll you just sound like a pompous windbag. It is a visceral medium, accessible to all through their genitals, with a modicum of cerebral appreciation as a possible, but not essential, bonus. First and foremost, it has to make you want to move. Take a clue from Matthew Barney and Put a Sock in It.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7829231 - 01/03/08 07:43 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

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that is why I prefaced it with a situation that denoted a personal preference.
But I dont think popularity should have any sway with what would be considered the greatest album of all time.
If this were the case then elvis presley, garth brooks and mikey jackson would be the top 3 greatest artists of all time. The backstreet boys would be considered "greater" than zappa because of popularity.
if anything, only concept/themed albums should be in the running, because it is an entire work of art, rather than a conglomeration of random focus-group-passed songs that have nothing to do with each other.




I wholeheartedly agree.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #7829349 - 01/03/08 08:08 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album? Pretty loosely applied there pal.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7829447 - 01/03/08 08:29 PM (16 years, 29 days ago)

well , it may not fit the textbook definition of being a concept album, but it definitely is themed, and uses a lot of melodic themes over again.

I also think one criteria is that the album should be playable from front to back.
Carol King's tapestry is an album like that, which has almost single handedly inspired almost every single female musician... but it isnt a themed or concept album... it also is multi-platinum.

that is why I think this questyion is far too broad to answer.... so i made a thread asking what the greatest album is in individual genres. try that one out, I think it will be much easier, because no matter what, this is going to be a personal preference.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #7892364 - 01/17/08 10:21 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

Today, in my opinion, the greatest album ever made is

Comments of the Inner Chorus by Tunng


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: theorganicdomino]
    #7892374 - 01/17/08 10:24 AM (16 years, 15 days ago)

Today, in my opinion, the greatest album ever made is

Tonight's the Night by Neil Young


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #7935878 - 01/26/08 03:52 PM (16 years, 6 days ago)

I gotta throw this out there, Earth's latest three albums are pure ace. HEX, Hibernaculum, and The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull are all excellent forms of ambient guitar music. Dylan Carlson is a master of his form.


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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: mentalIMAGE]
    #7938852 - 01/27/08 01:38 AM (16 years, 5 days ago)

This is impossible for me to answer, so i'll cheat and list 5 that immediately come to mind (in no order)...



Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Radiohead - Kid A


other notables would include (but not be limited to):

The Kinks - Arthur, Or The Decline and Fall of The British Empire
The Who - Who's Next
Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
either of Joy Division's two studio albums (theyre equally amazing)
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
Traffic - Traffic
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Sly and The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin On
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On (doug martsch is the fucking man!)
Dntel - Early Works For Me If It Works For You (UNDERRATED...my favorite electronic album from the 90's)


and now i've exhausted myself in an absurd (and failed) attempt at answering the poster's question.

...seriously though that is a beast of a question to tackle!

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Re: What is the greatest album ever made? [Re: Soularize]
    #7942816 - 01/27/08 09:27 PM (16 years, 5 days ago)

Kid A by Radiohead is by far the most amazing and influential album to me.

I bought it the day it was released having never listened to Radiohead before, not knowing what to expect. I had read about it in some magazine while I was on break at work and thought it sounded like it might be a cool change of pace for me. At the time I was accustomed to shitty, generic, and unoriginal pop rock bullshit from the top 40 charts.

Kid A blew my fucking mind wide open and I have since never looked back. I had never done any drugs at the time, so when I first got high it was the first thing I rushed to listen to.


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