Greatest Album of all time?

[GRADS]

I know what are my favorites but I'll wait to see what everyone else says.

 

[KENDOG689]

Great Zeppelin by Great White.Done live in OC,two of my favorite bands.If your a Zep fan this is a must hear.

 

[welldigger00]

Master of puppets


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[Sleek-Jet]

Free to be You and Me, I and II

 

[KevinR]

 

[FreeBird236]

Sargent Pepper's.

 

[TPC]

1. Frampton comes alive.

2. da Capo - Love

3. Doors

 

[KENDOG689]

Frampton live is great,got an 8 track still in the wrapper.

 

[OldSchoolBoats]

Revolver

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[RitcheyRch]

All the Zeppelin albums

 

[brianwhiteboy]

 

[sprintcvx]

Mother Love Bone- On Earth as it is.
https://genius.com/albums/Mother-love-bone/On-earth-as-it-is-the-complete-works

 

[Rotten deal]

1. Back in black
2. Appetite for destruction .

 

[Old Texan]

Hotel California

 

[DRYHEAT]

I don’t know how anyone can narrow it down to one or two or even a few albums. There’s too much great music out there old and new.

 

[RCDave]

Dream theater: Systematic chaos. Train of Thought

 

[Old Texan]

A little known album to many that I love......

 

[Hallett1974]

The best album Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. The founders of heavy metal.

The Descendents Milo goes to College.

Black Flag Damaged.

Just to name a few

 

[the lynch mob]

The Beach Boys - Endless Summer.

 

[Dirtbag]

The Wall /endthread

 

[adam909]

van halen first album.. would also say GnR appetite would be a runner as well.

 

[MrMayhem]

Sabbath Live Evil, comes to mind. But I’m sure I can come up with another.

 

[brgrcru]

pink Floyd dark side of the moon...............

 

[C-2]

The Wall /endthread

X2. While there are lots of other great albums, at the end of the day, if I could only choose one, this would be it.

 

[Marko]

A little known album to many that I love......

I still love these guys! I have two of every record they did on vinyl cause I knew they would be hard to find. One of my long time favorite bands! Russell Smith rules!

 

[mobldj]

ditto on the dark side of the moon,the rest is just noise

 

[GRADS]

Madonna-Ray of Light. That is one I could listen to over and over again. I'd also put some of the Pink Floyd and Zeppelin albums mentioned in my top 5.

 

[C-2]

van halen first album.. would also say GnR appetite would be a runner as well.

Appetite would be my second choice, too. Over and over again, it never gets old. Great first choice!

 

[nameisbond]

The Wall /endthread

Great album.... my personnel favorite and one of the few vinyl albums I have left.

 

[highvoltagehands]

 

[Deangang]

This might not be the best but it’s right up there . The solo debut of Mr. Ronnie James Dio

 

[jetboatperformance]

1. Frampton comes alive.

2. da Capo - Love

3. Doors

Man I thought I was the only one here to think of Love , Saw them at Earl Warren circa 68 or so with the Chambers Brothers

 

[JDKRXW]

Back in Black
Definitely Maybe, Oasis

 

[TPC]

Man I thought I was the only one here to think of Love , Saw them at Earl Warren circa 68 or so with the Chambers Brothers

I was there too.
I think Arthur Lee is still alive. Brian McClean died some years ago.

My wife wasn't even alive back then and I put the Da Capo album on last year and she was floored.
She's a hell of a musician and singer and that album really piqued her interest.
She was expecting me to play my other favorites Diana Washington or the Mills Bros I guess.
I loaned those albums to 460.

Was sitting having a drink with Mullet Jim at Sues Tavern in Frazier Park yesterday and some kid came in and played the Chambers Bros on the Jukebox.
I thought they were long forgotten.

 

[Willie B]

I was there too.
I think Arthur Lee is still alive. Brian McClean died some years ago.

My wife wasn't even alive back then and I put the Da Capo album on last year and she was floored.
She's a hell of a musician and singer and that album really piqued her interest.
She was expecting me to play my other favorites Diana Washington or the Mills Bros I guess.
I loaned those albums to 460.

Was sitting having a drink with Mullet Jim at Sues Tavern in Frazier Park yesterday and some kid came in and played the Chambers Bros on the Jukebox.
I thought they were long forgotten.

...Unfortunately...Arthur Lee passed away several years ago...

 

[Willie B]

...Allman Brothers...Live Filmore East...
...Little Feet...Live From Neon Park...
...Love...De Capo...
...Derrick & The Dominoes...Layla & Assorted Other Love Songs...
...Bob Dylan...Highway 61 Revisited...

 

[jetboatperformance]

I was there too.
I think Arthur Lee is still alive. Brian McClean died some years ago.

My wife wasn't even alive back then and I put the Da Capo album on last year and she was floored.
She's a hell of a musician and singer and that album really piqued her interest.
She was expecting me to play my other favorites Diana Washington or the Mills Bros I guess.
I loaned those albums to 460.

Was sitting having a drink with Mullet Jim at Sues Tavern in Frazier Park yesterday and some kid came in and played the Chambers Bros on the Jukebox.
I thought they were long forgotten.

Was about 17 , wasted.... slept in the Buddys car @ Devereuax Beach , Got rousted there By SB SO will never forget Chambers Bros LIVE

 

[Long Way Home]

Van Morrison - Moondance
Stones - Let It Bleed and Beggars Banquet
Creedence - Willy and the Poor Boys
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

 

[was thatguy]

There is no greatest album imo.
An “album” as a whole is an entity unto itself. The great albums aren’t just a collection of great songs, they are a cohesive benchmark in a bands career.
A great album stands out as a whole.
For instance, every Zeppelin album is a collection of iconic songs, a display of the genius of JPJ and Page. I have every one of them plus every bootleg I’ve ever found. There “great” albums, to me, would be the first album (like many iconic bands, it’s the introduction to us) but then Zep 4 (Zoso) is the next milestone. Physical Graffiti marks a shift.
But to me their greatest “album” is their least popular...Presence. It has a theme, a continuity of songs, an anthem (Achilles last stand, perhaps their most complicated arrangement in a sea of complicated arrangements) and the most gut wrenching down in the dirt blues song ever written “Tea for one”
But a truly significant album would be one like Sgt. Pepper. An album that changes the entire trajectory of a band and the genre itself.
We can include Dark side of the moon, 2112, etc.
Pink Floyd (post Sid Barrett) makes albums. GREAT albums.
Pick one. The Wall, Wish you were here (Sid Barrett tribute), Animals, Dark Side. All with themes and continuity. That’s all David Gilmore and his genius.
Bowie made great albums his entire career. Themed, different characters, 100% cohesion, each album a musical journey...a musica stage show.

I could list 100 albums that are must have and full of great songs.
From Bowie’s Man who sold the world to Soundgarden A sides.

Hell, I even have Bow wow wow and letters to Cleo somewhere on the shelf!

 

[Essexive G's]

pink Floyd dark side of the moon...............

PINK FLOYD, DARK SIDE OF THE MOON!!!!!

That’s how you say Greatest album of all time.

 

[Paul65k]

Springsteen - Born to Run

 

[Jimmy]

Hilltop Hoods - The Calling.
Only because its got there old stuff on it. But the "Hard Road" is a close 2nd.

 

[KevinR]

“But to me their greatest “album” is their least popular...Presence. It has a theme, a continuity of songs, an anthem (Achilles last stand, perhaps their most complicated arrangement in a sea of complicated arrangements)”

was thatguy, I enjoyed your description of a great album and in particular the quote above. It got me thinking, what artist/album had the most impact on my life? It do not take me long to answer the question.

In 1980 Bob Dylan came out with this album, Saved. It was his second of three he composed and produced after his conversion to Evangelical Christianity. I happened to be in a place where I had been asking myself about how do I want to live my life going forward and does God play a part in it?

In a way never before, these songs he wrote just resonated in me unlike anything I’d read or heard before. Sent me down a path to research and read more about Jesus Christ and what it meant to have a personal relationship with him.

While Saved is not one of Dylan’s most acclaimed albums from the music industry, it is indeed a masterpiece to me.

 

[was thatguy]

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“But to me their greatest “album” is their least popular...Presence. It has a theme, a continuity of songs, an anthem (Achilles last stand, perhaps their most complicated arrangement in a sea of complicated arrangements)”

was thatguy, I enjoyed your description of a great album and in particular the quote above. It got me thinking, what artist/album had the most impact on my life? It do not take me long to answer the question.

In 1980 Bob Dylan came out with this album, Saved. It was his second of three he composed and produced after his conversion to Evangelical Christianity. I happened to be in a place where I had been asking myself about how do I want to live my life going forward and does God play a part in it?

In a way never before, these songs he wrote just resonated in me unlike anything I’d read or heard before. Sent me down a path to research and read more about Jesus Christ and what it meant to have a personal relationship with him.

While Saved is not one of Dylan’s most acclaimed albums from the music industry, it is indeed a masterpiece to me.

And that’s what matters, and what makes a great album!

As a teenager in the early 70’s, and in what we now know as a “dysfunctional family”, my music was where I turned for answers to all those questions teens have.
My headphones were on my head all night every night. Sabbath’s “A National Acrobat” meant he entire world to me. Page and JPJ were my councilors. Uriah Heep my mentors.
And of course, Bowie was the final word on everything!

My friends today look astonished when I recite every word to almost every song they can think of. It’s a good party trick! It took a lot of headphone hours dissecting the lyrics and interpreting the meanings of the great albums of that time.

 

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Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

 

[TPC]

Wait a minute,,,,,
Cha Cha Heels:

 

[Sleek-Jet]

Those girls popped up my YouTube feed this morning. I subscribed....

 

[TPC]

Those girls popped up my YouTube feed this morning. I subscribed....

 

[MrMayhem]

This might not be the best but it’s right up there . The solo debut of Mr. Ronnie James Dio
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I wore out two cassettes of this album. RIP RJD.

 

[was thatguy]

Let’s not forget Big Brother and the holding company...as well as every Hendrix album.