Best Album of all time

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Well with all these musical threads I figured Id start 1 more.

For me its again the Beatles. To me Abbey Road is the best Album ever produced. Next id go with Tommy by the Who. and Aqualung by Jethro Tull. I really am a 60s British invasion maniac ~;) I think the late 60s and early 70s were the pinnacle of roack.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Tommy is definitely right up there. I think I'd include DSOTM for it's sheer ubiquity and listenability, Led Zeppelin II, The Wall for its conceptness, and my favourite Beatles album, Revolver.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is also a great Album

[PanzerJaeger]

Zep III

[Byzantine Prince]

Stars by the Cranberries.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Um... this is hard.
One more from the Road by skynyrd gets my vote though.
I love live albums ~;)

[JAG]

'Fear of the dark' by Iron Maiden and 'A night at the opera' by Blind Guardian. Two amazing albums in which every song is a winner.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

In the rock variety for me is as follows:

Vulgar display of power by Pantera

Science by Incubus

Relationship of command by At the Drive in

[Axeknight]

Appetite for Destruction


Welcome to the Jungle, baby :guitarist: :guitarist: :drummer: :singer: :guitarist: It's gonna bring you down

Axl: :bandana: Closest I could get to Slash: :toff: Izzy: :smoking: Steven: :drummer: And Duff, (okay, so the smiley isn't blonde - but the hairstyle's about right): :mad:

[InsaneApache]

u have gotta be joking...mebbe not of all time but def best of the 70s

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Startdust and the Spiders from Mars...

nuff said

[Beirut]

Dark Side of the Moon

The White Album

Led Zeppelin I

Machine Head

Sinatra Live at The Sands with Count Basie in '65 (Outstanding album! :yes: )

[Togakure]

To try and pick even ten out of so many would give me a headache, so I'll list the first that come to mind. These were formative R&R classics for me: consistent from front to cover, excellent songwriting, brilliant performances:

A Tie for #1:
Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II

Honourable Mention: Dark Side of the Moon (spelled in British fashion because they are British).

Live Album: The Song Remains the Same

[Quietus]

There's a lot of excellent albums. ~:)

My favorites:

Linton Kwesi Johnson - More Time (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I5FI/qid=1105056842/sr=1-13/ref=sr_1_13/002-9138156-9029628?v=glance&s=music) . Liesense Fi Kill and New Word Hawdah are two of my favorite songs ever (both unbelievable). (then you add other classics like Reggae Fi May Ayim and Hurricane Blues ). Bless the Dennis Bovell Dub Band and LKJ (http://www.lkjrecords.com)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Kaya (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MKA1/qid=1105057703/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-9138156-9029628) If it was up to me, then the better half of Kaya and the better half of Exodus (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LANG/ref=pd_sim_music_4/002-9138156-9029628?v=glance&s=music) since they were culled from the same sessions anyway, just divided into two albums. But Kaya barely edges Exodus ( Easy Skanking is just perfect, Sun Is Shining is mindblowing, Time Will Tell is heavenly, Is This Love is gorgeous, Running Away is hypnotic and the rest fills in one cohesive album). If only Exodus' Guiltiness, Waiting In Vain, Natural Mystic and The Heathen were the rest.... ~D


Other Superb (favorite) albums:

Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004XT2P/qid=1105059862/sr=1-19/ref=sr_1_19/002-9138156-9029628?v=glance&s=music). (Wow. Inspired music straight from the heart and soul of Fela Anikulapo Kuti; easily blows away his other stuff).

Laurindo Almeida - Chamber Jazz (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000006CK/qid=1105060020/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/002-9138156-9029628?v=glance&s=music). ( Beautiful).

Hugh Masekela - Sixty (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004TE0V/qid=1105059736/sr=1-18/ref=sr_1_18/002-9138156-9029628?v=glance&s=music). (Simply great).

Shake Keane - Real Keen: Reggae into Jazz. ( A grooving and flying delight).

~:)

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Sinatra Live at The Sands with Count Basie in '65 (Outstanding album!

Sinatras the Man ~;) and the count sure swings. I must dissagree with you on Darkside of the moon though. I dont think its evem Floyds best album. Ill take Wish you were here anyday, what a trip that album is.

[Togakure]

Dark Side of the Moon

The White Album

Led Zeppelin I

Machine Head

Sinatra Live at The Sands with Count Basie in '65 (Outstanding album! :yes: )
*bold emphasis, mine

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Ah ... there's evidence of a B3 lover ~D. Jon Lord is definitely one of the B3 immortals. ~:cheers:

[ichi]

Dark Side of the Moon, hands down

ZoSo second

Aqualung third


ichi

:bow:

[English assassin]

Tommy is a good call, I'd put Physical Graffitti ahead of Zep II (and Zep II ahead of I,III and IV).

Judging from the number of times I play it for me it would be one of Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden, obv), (self titled) Rage Against the Machine, or Floodland (Sisters of Mercy). But I want to namecheck Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, nowhere near big enough to be a serious contender for best album ever but still very fine.

[monkian]

Radiohead- The Bends

In Utero - Nirvana

[Byzantine Prince]

I think Ok Computer is Radiohead's best song. Whatever blows your whistle though.

[monkian]

The Bends is more of a 'rock' album - though I loved Ok Computer- pitty about Kid A and Amnesiac- they started to disapear up their own arse.

I think Fake Plastic Trees and Just are my favouraite Radiohead songs.

I'd love to see them live again.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

The bends is a great album, radioheads best i think. Muse first album was also class

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

The Bends is a great album.

Remembered another good one-Rush's 2112.

[bizarre falsetto]WE...ARE THE PRIESTS...OF THE TEMPLES OF SYRIIIIIIIINX![/bizarre falsetto]

[ah_dut]

The dark side of the moon

[NagatsukaShumi]

Ok, heres my personal faves.

In Utero - Nirvana - I LOVE this album, by far the best Nirvana album.

Tales From The Elvenpath - Nightwish - Class.

Vs. - Pearl Jam - Best Pearl CD there is.

Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo - Great band, great album. I would suggest the Greatest Hits but outside Greatest Hits this is their best album.

[Navaros]

Elephant by The White Stripes. easily the best album of this Millenium, possibly even of all-time

[BalkanTourist]

No house fans in here?
I like "You've come a long way baby" by Fatboy Slim, "Live from Brighton Beach" by Fatboy Slim and "Release Yourself" 2003 by Roger Sanchez. "Toursim" by Danny Tenaglia. Also the Hotel Costes series are great albums.
I don't think it is fair to name one album as "the best". Everyone has a special album that he associates with some memories or some feelings. Personally, I don't have one ever. I listen to something, if I like it I do it a lot. Then gradually I listen to it less and less till it is in the back of my cd case and I haven't listen to it in a year or two. By that time I've moved along and have switched tastes.

[JAG]

Tales From The Elvenpath - Nightwish - Class.

That is a live / combination of songs from different albums isn't it?

Anyway Century child and Wishmaster by Nightwish are a couple of the best metal albums ever done, such great riffs, truly amazing. Anyone who likes metal I advise they listen to them!

[Ronin]

Songs for the deaf - Queens of the stone age

[BDC]

Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall.

[william the bastard]

The Clash London calling LP is my favorite one
Stranglers The Raven
U2 new year day

just a tale from a veteran

[Gregoshi]

For the sheer impact of the album, it has to be the Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - the record that changed Rock & Roll.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Pronouced Leh-nerd Skin-erd and Second helping are nice
Viscous Cycle is nice
both by the 20th Century Masters, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Queen II, Queen Greatest Hits I,II,III are good
So is Queen-The Works, Hammer to fall
Echoes, Greatest hits of Pink Floyd is nice
So is the Remasterd Led Zepplin imported album I bought a while back
America Greatest Hits
The Eagles Greatest Hits volume II
AC/DC Back in Black, Highway to Hell, and Live
Southern by the Grace of God-Skynyrd
Dino-The Essential Dean Martin
War-I have no Idea who it's by

[NagatsukaShumi]

That is a live / combination of songs from different albums isn't it?

Anyway Century child and Wishmaster by Nightwish are a couple of the best metal albums ever done, such great riffs, truly amazing. Anyone who likes metal I advise they listen to them!

Well, there are no live songs on the album but yes its got a combination of songs from the other albums, I just love the front cover more than the others ~;).

Wishmaster is a great song, I've currently got Once and Tales From The Elvenpath, can you recommend any of the other albums JAG? I've seen TONS on the shelf and I don't know where to start, looking to basically buy in order of quality before getting the last few to finish the collection off. He is right, Nightwish are certainly something else, brilliant band and thats just after hearing a few songs.

[MoROmeTe]

A little something by Metallica named The Black Album. I swear you've never heart suffering and rage being so damn artistic

[JAG]

I must dissagree with you on Darkside of the moon though. I dont think its evem Floyds best album. Ill take Wish you were here anyday, what a trip that album is.

I agree with Gawain - :O - on that, for me Wish you were here is not only the best Floyd song but the best album as well. The wall is awesome as well though.



Wishmaster is a great song, I've currently got Once and Tales From The Elvenpath, can you recommend any of the other albums JAG? I've seen TONS on the shelf and I don't know where to start, looking to basically buy in order of quality before getting the last few to finish the collection off. He is right, Nightwish are certainly something else, brilliant band and thats just after hearing a few songs.

As I said - for me at least - two albums you havent got of theirs "Century Child" and "Wishmaster", are their best. Wishmaster is one of their best songs as well, very good. Other great songs are "End of all Hope" and "Wanderlust". Very, very good. Definately get those two albums, you won't regret it.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Wish you were here is not only the best Floyd song but the best album as well

Its the best album bit Comfortably numb is the best song IMO and my favorite guitar solo of all time. I love the way they do it in concert with Gilmore wailing away atop the wall. Did you know that Wish you were here and Animals were suppoesed to be 1 album? They decided to split it in two at the last minute.

["Black Bob" Craufurd]

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