Greatest albums of all time

[Dino Velvet]

No hip-hop albums = bullshit list.

Yeah, you're right. Where's the representation of that? I empathize as a Metalhead.

[Abartig]

Pyromania!

Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (part 01)


Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (part 02)


Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (part 03)


Full Album:


I've forgotten how to embed videos again, DOH!

******

Honorable Mention High 'N' Dry

[Dino Velvet]

Pyromania!

Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (part 01)


Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (part 02)


Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (part 03)


I've forgotten how to embed videos again, DOH!

When there is a locked symbol on the top left of the YouTube link I don't think it will work here. I Google the title of the video and click when I see it on the Google page.

[Abartig]

Thnx Dino

[Dino Velvet]

Thnx Dino

Not a problem. I never have trouble posting my videos anymore.

[Prospero]

That ISB album really is a neglected classic. And their best

Lists are pointless but fun

[EZWind]

Very interesting list from those BBC listeners. Must be something in the water over there cuz I don't get it. Coldplay #1 and Tommy #54? WTF?
And Clapton way down at #85, five spots below Michael Buble? That's just wrong. No Miles? No Allman Bros? No Cream?

My votes would have been:
1 Miles Davis Kind of Blue
2 Dylan Blonde on Blonde
3 Allman Bros Eat a Peach or Fillmore East
4The Dead weren't exactly an album making kinda band, but American Beauty and Workingman's were pretty dam good
5 Santana...whatever that first album was called

[EZWind]

Just got to say "Sgt Pepper's" is NOT the best Beatles album at all.

...maybe so, but when that thing came out it was so totally different from everything before it that it just blew everyone away....among the musicians as well as listeners...very influential

Coldplay? -- well that is just silly.

...you're right on about that

Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" -- Must be on any list of best albums of all time.

...who?

Mile Davis "Bitches Brew" -- creates a new genre of music but not on the list?

...amen to that, man....and don't forget Kind of Blue...I could listen to that any time of day any day of the week

[Jimmy W]

Nothing worse than the guy who wants to be obscure and interesting although he is in fact making a list, but after agreeing with most of the other posts, here are a couple of albums I like pretty much from track one to done:

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Bob Dylan - Desire
The Jam - The Gift
The Knitters - Poor Little Critter in the Road
Regina Spektor - Fidelity

[robertlouis]

A question raised by the list is whether or not albums match the performing abilities of the recording acts -there is no doubt that the biggest acts of the last 60 years have been Presley, The Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Dylan, Michael Jackson and Madonna -it is hard to know if The Beatles were any good live because noone could hear them; the Stones were revealed as mediocre when you could hear them; Pink Floyd developed a 'concept show' that moved music out of the clubs to the detriment of rock music generally until the advent of Punk, so choosing albums doesn't necessarily privilege the same acts as performers, Dylan isn't much of a singer, for example, but has written some enduring songs, as is also true of Leonard Cohen. These lists are created for the most part by nostalgia rather than artistic merit. As is my own.


If one sets aside Jazz and Classical Music, my choice would not reflect any trends but merely the ones I still listen to with pleasure.

Leonard Cohen -The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen -Songs from a Room
Incredible String Band -The 5000 Spirits
Van Morrison -Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan -John Wesley Harding

What unites these albums is the quality of songwriting, because over time it is the songs that matter most.

I like your criteria, Stavros, both in terms of listening pleasure and the delight in a well-crafted lyric, so in the most-played-and-still-listened-to category I would have The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell, Blood on the Tracks by Dylan, Still Crazy and Graceland by Paul Simon, Not Till Tomorrow by Ralph McTell, Homeless Brother by Don McLean, Country Life by Show of Hands (Steve Knightley), Ziggurat by Steve Tilston, Handful of Earth by Dick Gaughan, Let Me Paint You A Picture by Billy Bragg, King of America by Elvis Costello, Harmonograph by Boo Hewerdine, Late for the Sky by Jackson Browne, Nebraska by Springsteen, Faultlines by Karine Polwart, and The Back o' the North Wind by Brian MacNeill.