Here in the states, several radio stations over the Memorial day Weekend (last Monday in May) will have people vote (generally before the weekend) on their favorite song /album. Around here, near Detroit, the "Classic Rock" station that I listen to has has the top 500 albums for several years. Generally, every year, it ends up being Led Zepplin (ZoSo - IV) / "Stairway to Heaven" or Pink Floyd "Dark Side of The Moon". Granted, I love these albums & songs, but I have especially have gotten "sick" of "Stairway to Heaven" winning "best song EVER" close to every year!!!! The Beatles Abbey Road & The White Album usually end up maybe 4 & 5 on this list. And the station will have pretty much - any "classic Rock" person in South-east Michigan vote for their "favorite". Any thoughts????
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Right now I'm going to say the best album ever is Blonde On Blonde, but I'll have a different answer for that one every six hours or so. It'll be Revolver around 4:00 PM, Sound Affects at dusk and Exile On Main Street by about 3:00 AM.
I can't believe people are still flogging "Stairway To Heaven," even on classic rock stations. Zeppelin were always better doing this sort of thing, I think:
Is this none Beatle best ever? Its down to my own opinion time , when you pick your best ever , i tend to think albums like Dark Side Of The Moon is a masterpiece and allways in the running as best album ever but i Love Wish You Were Here my fav Floyd album So then In My Opinion the best album is After Sgt Pepper Its Quadrophenia - The Who . I still play it and not skip a single track on a double album after 30 years is not bad in my book .
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Right now I'm going to say the best album ever is Blonde On Blonde, but I'll have a different answer for that one every six hours or so. It'll be Revolver around 4:00 PM, Sound Affects at dusk and Exile On Main Street by about 3:00 AM.
I'm generally the same way. What song is going thru my head when I wake up is not what's going thru my head by time I have Breakfast / shower. And by lunch - it's something else. I "try" not to say "Beatles kick EVERY OTHER MUSIC EVER", but this might not be fair, I just "prefer" The Beatles over a lot of others. There are albums that are "manitory" in ones collection (every one mentioned in this thread is in my collection.) I'm just not in favor of "Stairway" being "all THAT great" - good ok. ("Stairway" better than "Day in a Life"??? - No way, but my option, to someone else, that's your option.)
(If a song gets into your head and you "want it out", what do you do?? I just start humming the last part of "Hey Jude", since it basically just keep going on and on. Evenually, I get rid of the other song. Can Anybody tell ... that I work by self and have nobody else to talk to!!!! guess this is what happen's when you're in a big building and no one to talk with!!! Just glad I'm a Beatle nut in DM's Beatle Forum!!!!)
Best album " EVER " thats none Beatles would be David Bowie " Hunky Dory " or Pink Floyd " Wish You Were Here " can't really decide which is the best between these two brilliant albums .
well, my fav album ever really is Sgt Pepper, but there are so many albums i play constantly which i cannot live without,
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Villlage Green Presevation - Kinks The Band - The Band Pet Sounds - Beach Boys Meat is Murder - the Smiths Blue - Joni Mitchell Talking Book - Stevie Wonder Blonde on Blone - Dylan...........to name a few.
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well, my fav album ever really is Sgt Pepper, but there are so many albums i play constantly which i cannot live without,
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Villlage Green Presevation - Kinks The Band - The Band Pet Sounds - Beach Boys Meat is Murder - the Smiths Blue - Joni Mitchell Talking Book - Stevie Wonder Blonde on Blone - Dylan...........to name a few.
Great list: for myself, I'd throw in some Curtis Mayfield, Paul Weller, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard.
Best album..........hhhmmm.......... Ok.......... My "favorite" album I can't live without is the Beatles "White Album". It's just so different and "strange"..... Next would be Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon".......Hello.....dude.....on Billboards' top 100 for over 14 YEARS.......... ..............and Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Tarkus".........not Brain Salad Surgery, but I really, REALLY like this album.......it's in my cd player in the car right now.... And I've got to have King Crimson's first album, "In The Court of The Crimson King". I love Zep, the Stones, you know..........but these four listed are the four I LOVE.
Not to mention..............."Sgt. Pepper" and "Abby Road".........I love all the Beatles' early work, but I ADORE the later stuff........no more be said............
Weller's another of those guys it's hard for me to pick favorites of because the pieces all seem to make the most sense as parts of a whole, at least to me. I hear the Beatles the same way. But I particularly like The Jam's In The City, Setting Sons, and Sound Affects; and Paul Weller, his first solo album.
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Indeed Wellers 1st solo album was spot on as is Wild Wood, Live Wood & Stanley...Not been too impressed by his latest offerings though...Anyone catch 'Invisible' on Jools Holland the other night? More like 'misreable.' lol In fairness, he did have to perform straight after Jimmy Cliff belted out many rivers to cross...
best album ever....back to topic...ummm.....Well....Stevie, Curtis, DSOTM are all up there...like Douglas it changes all the time.
The best album ever has still to be made...Today I'll say, Inner Visions & Nuyorican Soul but I acknowledge the Zep & Floyd are probably closest to a complete best album as in start to finish for me. I did once upon a time love Sting's Ten Summoners tales as a good contender for all the way through album. Theres always a song that ruins it somewhere on an album though...even with my beloved Beatles. heheheh.
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To elaborate that last attempt a bit....The best album ever in my eyes is one where every song start to finish is a corker. That proper narrows it down. Easy to pick a best album where you like most of the songs....Gee I'm not awake yet! lol
T.rex - Electric Warrior Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures The Human League - Dare Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Lou Reed - Transformer Blondie - Plastic Letters Radiohead - In Rainbows David Bowie - Station To Station The Associates - sulk Dusty Springfield - Ev'erything's Coming Up Dusty Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy ELO - Out Of The Blue Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years Stevie Wonder - Innervision Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left The Killers - Hot Fuss George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Kate Bush - The Kick Inside ABBA - The Visitors Goldfrapp - Supernature
I'm not sure where to draw the line between 'best' album and 'favourite' album. I chose Todd Rundgren's 'Something/Anything' because it has been my favourite album since I bought it in 1974. That's a long time to stay up there. There isn't a single song that I don't like on it, and I can only say that about AHDN as far as The Beatles are concerned. But does that make it the best album ever? I can also say similar things about Weller's 'Stanley Road', and 'Heavy Soul'.
I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
It's a difficulte distinction BlueMeanie between best ever album and favourite album , some on my longer list i've loved for years and they never appear on these best lists that you see . Electric Warrior by T.rex is a brilliant album and i've never seen that in the top 100 of these lists .
I think Electric Warrior is often overlooked because T-Rex are often - unfairly, in my opinion - thought of as just another 70's glam band, and placed alongside the likes of The Sweet, Slade, and Gary Glitter. And they all had more successful chart careers than T-Rex. But it is an excellent album.
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Agree BlueMeanie it is an excellent album two knockout singles in "Get it On " and "Jeepster " and stunning album tracks like Mambo Sun , Cosmic Dancer and life's A Gas . And Tony Visconti's production is brilliant Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love rightly appears on these lists but ive always thought Electric Warrior is as good if not better than an album like Hounds Of Love , i think there is a lot of musical snobbery around when such polls are drawn up .
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I totally agree. "Innervisions" was my favourite album for a long time, now I'm enjoying more "Songs in the Key of Life", I really think is one of the greatest albums ever made. "Still Crazy After All These Years" is amazing. "My Little Town" is my favourite song from that album.
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now that's a great album! i always think it's an album that got lost in the 60's but kind of gain regonition in recent years.
Yeah, I absolutely love it. Just for a comparison, it plays like 'Revolver' compared to 'Please Please Me' when it comes to the Zombies other stuff. Its so far away and better than the pop stuff they were during prior. I've been wanting to get 'RIP' by the Zombies also but its really steep as its an import. I'll break down eventually.
Well - here's the "list" from Memorial Day weekend (songs this time instead of albums), and might I say, what a disappointing list!!! I'm glad I have a CD player/cassette player in my car!!
Oh, man! I haven't heard most of those songs in ages. What fun!
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Well - here's the "list" from Memorial Day weekend (songs this time instead of albums), and might I say, what a disappointing list!!! I'm glad I have a CD player/cassette player in my car!!
Now, my reaction is to immediately start dancing to these song titles. These are my people!
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Beatles aside these are a few personal faves but maybe not the what i rank as the greatest ever
Blur - Blur Blur - Parklife The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left The Police - Synchronicity The Police - Regatta de Blanc Radiohead - The Bends Rhcp - BSSM King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king Jimi Hendrix - Axis bold as love Beach boys - Pet sounds
I've never understood the popularity of The Smiths. Can somebody honestly say that their songs don't all sound the same?
Police albums were always ruined by the non Sting songs.
Rhcp - BSSM?
i think thats one of the reasons i love that album in particular (The queen is dead) as it does kind off have similar sound running through all the songs (morriseys voice and marrs own unique sound) that it flows really nicely and is good to listen to as a whole.
but i do agree a lot of there songs can have the same sound, but it aint a problem if you like that sound
Never gets the credit it deserves, its in my top ten best ever .
I agree. Its a great album. 'Dark Star' has always been one of my favorite songs ever. 'Shadow Captain', 'Just A Song Before I Go', and 'I Give You Give Blind' are incredible also.
(I might have the wrong album. I'm talking about CSN when their riding the boat on the cover. I believe your talking about the debut where their sitting on the couch on the cover. That is an incredible album also. Either way, you cant go wrong.)
Transformer by Lou Reed is one album that I never get sick of listening to. To me, it's perfect, with absolutely no filler. And the bonus acoustic tracks on the 30th anniversary are great too.
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