Greatest albums of all time?

[Playdrv4me]

The Knife - ALL of their albums.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Eagles - Hotel California

The Cars - Heartbeat City

Coldplay - X&Y

Depeche Mode - Violator

[dkozloski]

Weird Al Yankovic.

[93DevilleUSMC]

Red Hot Chili Peppers-Stadium Arcadium

Gnarls Barkley-St. Elsewhere

Matt Kearney-Nothing Left to Lose

Coldplay- A Rush of Blood to the Head

Coldplay-X&Y

U2- The Joshua Tree

Bob Dylan- Desire

Hootie and the Blowfish- Cracked Rear View

Nickelback- All the Right Reasons

Disturbed- The Sickness

Disturbed- Believe

Disturbed- Ten Thousand Fists

Anna Nalick- Wreck of the Day

AFI- Sing the Sorrow

[gary88]

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

[Dadillac]

Def Leppard - Vault

Don

[K38chomponTHIS]

Black Label Society - Mafia
Blues Traveler - Four
Incubus - Make Yourself
Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
KISS - Destroyer
KISS - Alive IV Symphony
KISS - Hotter Than Hell
KISS - Love Gun
Lenny Kravitz - Baptism
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe
MC Paul Barman - Paullelujah!
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy - Tribute
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Primus - Frizzle Fry
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks..
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
ZZ Top - Eliminator

[JimHare]

Greatest albums of all time, or favorite albums? There's a difference.

I'd have to define "great" as being an album that changed the direction of the genre it represented, or became a groundbreaking statement. or made such an impact on the music industry that it's still being felt 25 or 30 or 40 years later. It would have to have stood the test of time, and be relevant even today.

The #1 album in THAT regard then, would have to be Meet the Beatles.

Say what you will about Presley or Cash or the Stones, but MTB STARTED rock and roll for 99% of the people who heard it.

My second choice would also have to be a Beatle LP - Sgt Pepper - those of you too young to have been growing up when this album was released have NO concept of the impact it had in 1967. Take Born To Run, add in Thriller, and top off with DSOM and you have some idea. Everything else since then is just 'another rock album'. And I say this admitting that I'm not even a big Beatles fan.

Third? Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison live album. Took C/W away from Flatt and Scruggs and gave it back to the realists.

Fourth? Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. - did for "folk" what Cash did for C/W. Totally changed the entire genre. After that, The Kingston Trio were never the same again...

Fifth? Considering the impact it had on millions of guitarists for whom it may have been the first "non-pop" rock album, you'd have to give the nod to Cream's "Wheels of Fire". Again, it took rock and roll in a whole new direction.

"Thriller" probably has to be in the list there somewhere - it ushered in the era of sexy teenybopper favorites from Madonna to Spears to Lil Kim and the rest. Virtually ALL solo "pop" artists of today owe it to Jackson for getting them started.

Born to Run? Yeah, it was a watershed.

Jimi Hendrix's first album blew nearly everything else on the charts completely out of the water. Totally unique. Never heard anything like it, and never will.

Grunge? Rap? Hip-Hop? Not familiar enough to say with any authority. Get back to me in 30 years and we'll see.

And I'll admit that apart from Hendrix and Cream, I don't own any of the other one's I listed.

[pabstcadillac]

Originally Posted by JimHare

Greatest albums of all time, or favorite albums? There's a difference....

Best post of the thread so far. While there were a lot of albums posted that I like I also couldn't believe the amount of crap people listen to on this board.

For me it's "The Great Twenty Eight" by Chuck Berry. Who IS the "King of Rock n Roll" only w/o the title because he was black. :shakeshead: He revolutionized music much the same way The Beatles did only w/o the credit, accolades or money.

[90Brougham350]

Led Zeppelin 2
Led Zeppelin 4
Pink Floyd - Animals
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Kid A
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Blind Faith
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Eagles - Hotel California
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Boston
Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

There are other great albums out there, hard to get them all, but I'd put these in a category all of their own.

Brian

[Lesley's93STS]

The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

2 CDs I can listen to without skipping a single song.

[JimmyH]

i am seeing a surprising lack of gansta rap in here

[wait4me6920]

Queen -

A Night at the Opera & News of the World

- particularly enjoy Bohemian Rhapsody & We are the Champions.

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) -

- Most any album

- Proud Mary, Bad Moon Rising, Who'll Stop the Rain, Down on the Corner, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, Lodi, Up Around the B, etc., etc. These folks owned a good bit of the 60s & 70s. John Fogerty & crew were right up there with the Beatles, Stones, Who, Dylan and a few others in setting the pace of the day.

[EcSTSatic]

Originally Posted by jimmyhauser

i am seeing a surprising lack of gansta rap in here

There's a good reason for that. See the post title

[I~LUV~Caddys8792]

Originally Posted by EcSTSatic

There's a good reason for that. See the post title

Exactly. How much "gangsta" rap will we remember in 30-35 years? Not much.

EDIT: NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" is still very highly regarded after ~17 years.

[JimmyH]

Originally Posted by EcSTSatic

There's a good reason for that. See the post title

Greatest albums of all time?

i was being facetious