My choice is Massive Attack's Blue Lines. But what do you think is the best album of all time? Hopefully this will throw up a few forgotten gems.
Exodus. The album that brought reggae to wider recognition and it still sounds good today.
Massive attack? Good but will it be remembered 30 yrs on? Best of all time?
TJ - it is already 20yrs old , so it has stood the test of time already.
TandaemJeremy very good choice but I have to say If you want blood ACDC
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Massive Attack's [i]Blue Lines[/i] is also my favourite album of all time (well, that or Global Communication's [i]76:14[/i]) - but I can't speak for all humanity. 😀
pink floyd the wall ,never get bored of it listened to it weekly for the past 20 years
Got to be 'Raw Power' by Iggy and the Stooges....loads of demented pantomime machismo, crunchy riffs and guitar solo's that'll slice the top of your head off....that, ladies and gentlemen, is rock and roll!
Led Zepp IV?
Stone Roses?
Exodus. The album that brought reggae to wider recognition and it still sounds good today.Massive attack? Good but will it be remembered 30 yrs on? Best of all time?
It's got to be the best part of eighteen years old already... Still as fresh as a daisy.
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. An album made with the band pouring their hearts into it with superb songs. Stevie Nicks faboulous vocals and Buckinghams brillaint guitaring and song-writing. Absolute classic.
Blue lines is great, 100th Window is better and this is my fave:
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hadge have you got a beard?
Hadge Sorry about that 🙂
Impossible to choose just one but these would be in my top 100 :lol::
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Led Zep 2 - Led Zep
Rubber Soul - Beatles
What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
Disralli Gears - Cream
Nevermind - Nirvana
Music For The Jilted Generation - Prodigy
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Gimme Shelter (documentary)- Rolling Stones
Gang of Four - Entertainment for me. But I don't expect (or want) anyone to agree. Each person has their own favourite album.
I mean, Blue Lines: tracks 1 & 6, total classics, the rest extremely average & forgettable.
Enigma Variations - Elgar
Cheers glynP!!! No I haven't - designer stubble though 😉
I could have said U2 "Joshua Tree" or Oasis "What's The Story" and I'm a massive Killers fan having seen them twice this year. Beard - no no. 47 years old - oh yes 😳
Good shout Hadge
Achtung baby
The Cult "Love"
or
The cure "disintegration"
[i]Beard - no no. 47 years old - oh yes [/i]
Way too young to be into Fleetwood Mac 😉
Evol Intent - Era Of Diversion
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.
Violator - Depeche Mode.
Thriller - ground breaking video and best selling album of all time by the King of Pop clearly.
RIP Michale gone but never forgotten
Johnny Cash at Folsom prison as I keep telling you.
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Whatever I'm listening to at the time 😉
my nominations would be:
public enemy- it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
iron maiden- the number of the beast
slayer- reign in blood
beastie boys- paul's boutique
van halen I
in the wonderfully subjective world of music, i'm sure many people will disagree with the above. oh well.
Diamond Dogs...........Bowie
Whats The Story........Oasis
Penthouse And Pavement...........Heaven 17
and the 1st one by the arctic monkeys.
"Exodus"? Can I be possibly the first to say that Bob Marley was a mysogynistic, boring, dope-addled drug addicted cult follower with a head full of mystical tosh and bollox? Haile Selassie my arse. A man who fed meat to his pet lions and watched his people starve.
Thankyou.
best of the beatles by the beatles
for mrwoppit, you miserable gyt.
Massive Attack's Blue Lines
never really got Massive Attack strangely but would have to put this as a contender, Tricky's Maxinquay. Don't listen to it that much nowadays but everytime I do it blows me away.
Others include
Ed Rush & Optical - Wormhole
Nirvana - Nevermind
Leftfield - Leftism
The Genius - Liquid Swords
...it's a difficult one really - lots of others too.
I'm sure some new stuff could go in there also but will it stand up against time, how old does an album have to be before it gets into these things?
Mozart's Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Very difficult to bring it down to just one album !
However for me I think it would have to be,
2112 by RUSH
Some simply amazing technical musicianship especially unique.
Can't get youtube at the mo' but if that's a Bob Marley video, I've told you what I think of the overrated dope-head "Lost Tribe of Yiddle-e-bong" yawn-a-thon, so what's the point?
My favourite album of all time. Difficult. Off the top of my head:
"John McLaughlin Trio Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1989."
Might change tomorrow, though... 8)
"Out of the Lion's Mouth" probably. By, er, me and some other guys.
Another vote for blue lines. Still listen to it regularly.
Saw massive attack again few weeks ago. Unfinished sympathy as last song?
Of course.
Also for me stone roses "eponymous debut"
Van Morrison Astral weeks
Beach Boys pet sounds
radiohead ok computer and the bends
Human League dare
Portishead dummy
spiritulaized lazer guided melodies
leftfield leftism
tricky maxinquaye and pre-millenium tension
primal scream screamadelica
sundays reading writing arithmetic
aha shake hearbreak kings of leon
i like songs me
Ed Rush & Optical - Wormhole
Good call that man!
Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Otis Blue, Otis Redding
At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
Live at the Regal, B.B. King
The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
Songs in A minor, Alicia Keys
Objectivity into subjectivity doesn't go.
Which in itself seems like a decent album title.
DJ Shadow - Entroducing an album I always come back to.
De La Soul - 3 feet high & rising
Metallica - Black Album
Vampire Weekend.
Ah, if we are going to have [i]lists...[/i] twenty I cannae live without:
Massive Attack [i]Blue Lines[/i]
A Tribe Called Quest [i]Midnight Marauders[/i]
Pet Shop Boys [i]Behaviour[/i]
Global Communication [i]76:14[/i]
Portishead [i]Dummy[/i]
Wheat [i]Hope and Adams[/i]
Bjork [i]Debut[/i] and/or [i]Homogenic[/i]
Angelo Badalamenti [i]Twin Peaks[/i] (OST)
Brian Eno [i]Apollo[/i]
The Black Dog [i]Bytes[/i]
The Infinite Wheel [i]The Infinite Wheel[/i]
Bob Dylan [i]Blood on the tracks[/i]
Cat Power [i]The Covers Record[/i]
Biosphere [i]Substrata[/i]
Gillian Welch [i]Time (The Revelator)[/i]
Stars of the Lid [i]And Their Refinement of the Decline[/i]
Kings of Convenience [i]Quiet Is the New Loud[/i]
Mogwai [i]Young Team[/i]
Cocteau Twins [i]Heaven or Las Vegas[/i]
Mojave Three [i]Out of Tune[/i]
Best album ever hasn't come out yet
Gentlemen by The Afghan Whigs.
For an overall album;
Lateralus - Tool
or
Ghost Reveries - Opeth
or
Angel Dust - Faith No More
Bjork - Debut
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Fleetwood Mac - Romours
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
The Four Seasons - St Martin in the Fields Neville Marriner
Debussy - Clair D Lune
The The - Infected
Curtis Mayfield - Live
Jimmy Smith - Root Down Live
Nirvana NeverMind
Couldn't do without these 10.
And my shame but I love it tears for fears, songs from the big chair...
Public Image Limited - Metal Box
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Either 2112 (Rush) or Trouble Over Bridgewater (Half Man Half Biscuit).
[i]And my shame but I love it tears for fears[/i]
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sounds strangely balearic...
Exile on main street, the stones.
Never mind the bollocks.
da funk
Can war of the worlds (think it was done by jeff buckley )I know it's more of a musical than straightforward music album but I still think it's brilliant
try, Everything Picture by Ultrasound
It gets more perfect everytime I listen to it
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt cowboy - Elton
Goodbye Yellow brick road - Elton.
Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel.
with a head full of mystical tosh
Wasn't his name Peter?
Anyway: Top few for me would be:
NMA - No Rest For the Wicked
Culture Shock - Go Wild!
Daft Punk - Da Funk (how is everything else they have done since so shit?)
Mr Hudson & Library - Tale of Two Cities. Before the Kanye era...simply beautiful.
GRACE by jeff buckley
electric ladyland by jimi
fight for your mind by ben harper
abbey road by the beatles
dummy by portishead
lamb lies down on broadway by genesis
plays live by peter gabriel
august and everything after by counting crows
figure of 8 by eliott smith
harvest by neil young
Underworld [i]Dubnobasswithmyheadman[/i]
Stone Roses - Stone Roses for me. Timeless.
It may change but if I was asked today it would be...
The Blue Nile - Hats
Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
New Order - Technique
Afghan Whigs -1965
Mark Lanegan - Field Songs
Chuck Ragan - Feast Or Famine
Black Market Flowers - Bind
Carl Craig - Landcruising
Urge Overkill - Saturation
why did no one have a go for me saying Jackson ?
Stone roses -Stone Roses - best first album EVER hilariously bad live though
Beatles Sgt Peppers
Led Zep - II personally but anything would do
Roy Harper - FolkJokeOpus
Bach - I just love his music
Segovia - The Guitarist dont really care what he plays
Grieg - Peer Gynt
Carol King - Tapestry
Dylan - Not sure which one
crezzy - Member
Can war of the worlds (think it was done by jeff buckley )I know it's more of a musical than straightforward music album but I still think it's brilliant
Jeff Wayne. An epic. Richard Burton's voice......that voice.....
[b]PH1[/b] - Dubnobasswithmyheadman.......Dirty Epic what a great great track.
Rainbow's "Rising"
Nothing else rivals it for the way five musicians are all at their peak producing an album of pure brilliance
Still sounds as good today as it did when it was released, from the opening note of Tarot Woman to the last note of Light In The Black
For me...
Stones - Exile on Main Street
Van Halen 1
Brad - Shame
Janes Addication - Ritual da...
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Mile Davis - Kind of Blue
Elliott Smith - XO
Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
Another vote for the Mac's Rumours. I'm surprised the feminists haven't dragged out Alanis yet (Jagged Little Pill).
And since noone's mentioned it, Layla - Derek and the Dominoes (and not just for the title track)
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
or
Joy Division - Closer
This list would change on a regular basis but for what it's worth...
Husker Du- New Day Rising or Candy apple Grey (New Day Rising is a great song on its own)
Dead Kennedys- Frankenchrist
Sugar- Beaster
The Wedding Present- George Best
NIN- Pretty Hate Machine
Metallica- Justice for All
The Who- quadrophenia
My Lass just voted for the Stone Roses by the Stone Roses
Best of all time is a bit subjective
but these are the albums
I constantly come back to time after time
Teenage Fanclub - Catholic education
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Galaxie 500 - Today
Cat Power - The Greatest
Bonnie Prince Billy - Master and Everyone
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Damian Rice - O
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
Love - Forever Changes
One Dove - Morning Dove White
Belle and Sebastian - If your feeling sinister
Impossible to say really, but at the moment I am feeling that anything by Black Sabbath is pretty damn good (of course I mean with Ozzy on vocals, none of that Dio /Hagar shit). And of course AC/DC Black in Black. Then there's dark Side of the Moon, Floyd and Bridge over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel. Agree with above re. Fleetwood Mac too.
Personally thought Neon Nights was the best Sabbath album especially the track Heaven and Hell
Surprised no one has mentioned Wishbone Ash with Argus, my second choice after Rainbow
New Order - Lowlife
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Ask me again tomorrow.
Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Mr Woppit - very strong reaction to Exodus there.
The question was best album of all time. Nothing to do with the behaviour or philosophy of the musicians
Exodus was a huge influence - it was probably the album that brought reggae into the mainstream. Very influential - the Clash acknowledged that they were influenced by it for example. There is not a duff song on the album and it also ties together as an album.
If we are going for lists 🙂
Exodus - Bob Marley
London Calling - the Clash
Dark Side of the moon - by far the best Floyd album IMO
The specials - the specials
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Morrison Hotel - the Doors
Pet Sounds - The beach boys
Velvet Underground and Nico
Jailbreak - thin Lizzy
The name of this band is talking heads
Kind of Blue - miles davies
Nitin Sawney - displacing the priest
Glad to see nobody's voted for that Mancunian covers band Oas.. something
My suggestions
Wish you Were Here- Pink Floyd (I agree with Rick Wright its their best)
Year of the Cat- Al Stewart
Raise the Pressure- Electronic
New Gold Dream- Simple Minds
Making Movies- Dire Straits
Ziggy Stardust- David Bowie
The Yes Album- Yes
Katy Lied- Steely Dan
This is very age related. I'm 45.
For me: Pink Floyd's DSOTM.
It changed everything.
I do listen to WYWH more though.
The next album that blew my socks off was The Joshua Tree.
Then Dummy was a revelation.
More recently: Doves the Last Braodcast and I love Ludovico Einaudi's Una Mattina.
Singles: London calling or maybe A Town Called Malice.
I think Floyd's live album, Pulse, recorded using a re-commissioned mobile valve studio takes some beating.
As for the book I'd take with me on my desert island, that's harder to pin down & I don't think I've read it yet.
Bizarro - The Wedding Present
Seamonsters - The Wedding Present
The Bends - Radiohead
Hup - The Wonderstuff
[i]Velvet Underground and Nico[/i]
Beat me to it TJ, AWESOME album.
Also
Let it Bleed - The stones
Back in Black - ACDC
Sheer Heart Atatck - Queen
Best album of all time - I think that's really hard to say, as you have to consider the impact it has had on music since, technical aspects, etc. as well as the music on the album itself. Hence I'll leave it to genuine music critics to determine (and no, not the voting public!!)
My favourite album of all time..... for where it takes me back to, and on hearing the opening to it even now takes me straight back there again:
George Best.
But Stones Roses debut runs it close, and I would also feel guilty not naming the first Smiths album for the major impact their music had on me.
best of all time? dunno but i like these:
the mighty heed - ok computer
floyd - dark side (anyone else think money should not be on it?)
leftfield - leftism
plenty more i guess but those never let me down.