What's the Best Album of All Time?

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 lists… twenty I cannae live without:

Massive Attack Blue Lines
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
Pet Shop Boys Behaviour
Global Communication 76:14
Portishead Dummy
Wheat Hope and Adams
Bjork Debut and/or Homogenic
Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks (OST)
Brian Eno Apollo
The Black Dog Bytes
The Infinite Wheel The Infinite Wheel
Bob Dylan Blood on the tracks
Cat Power The Covers Record
Biosphere Substrata
Gillian Welch Time (The Revelator)
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement of the Decline
Kings of Convenience Quiet Is the New Loud
Mogwai Young Team
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas
Mojave Three Out of Tune

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

End of thread.

Either 2112 (Rush) or Trouble Over Bridgewater (Half Man Half Biscuit).

And my shame but I love it tears for fears

Pharaohs 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 Dubnobasswithmyheadman

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…..

PH1 – 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

Velvet Underground and Nico

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.