What's the Best Album of All Time?

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 Blue Lines is also my favourite album of all time (well, that or Global Communication's 76:14) – 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:

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"

Beard – no no. 47 years old – oh yes
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

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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