| 50s & 60s |
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| 70s |
| #5 Dark Side of the Moon |
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| 80s |
| #5 Appetite for Destruction |
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| 90s to today |
| #1 Nevermind |
Oh ya these refined,upright,insightful Sages here are the envy of the recording industry.And someone should loosen Axel's bandana he screams enough as it is
Zep and Floyd are the Bama and Clemson of rock music. It's their world and everyone else is just taking up space.Pink Floyd IMO is the ultimate album band. I have their double CD "Best Of", but eh. But they have so many great albums, that work well together
I liked Nirvana alright, but certainly not Greatest of all Time.Voting for Nirvana here doesn't require one to think Nevermind is the best of all time, just that it beats GnR's.
Voting for Nirvana here doesn't require one to think Nevermind is the best of all time, just that it beats GnR's.
Honestly, Boston-Boston and The Cars The Cars are two of my favorite "complete" albums of all time. Loved every song, album tracks as much as hits, and never felt the need to fast forward or skip anything. If I started on Side B I was fine with that, too.I hate to admit this, but I agree with Boston and the Cars
AAA left it deliberately open as far as criteria, which is fine and appropriate for this kind of tourney/ranking/rating. You could define best album as "best collection of hit songs" in which case Michael Jackson's Thriller is probably way up there, or as "best flowing from song-to-song," or any number of other methods.To me, "coherent album" is important. Obviously Dark Side is that by far. There are a couple good hits on the album too, but when taken as a whole, it's just amazing. It fits together.
For me, I chose to think about it in terms of-- "Which albums did I enjoy so much that I always played them all the way through, and never felt the need to skip a song, nor did I really even have a preferred side." To me that is COMPLETE album, and when I rate "best album" that's the way I think of it. As opposed to being a collection of popular hit singles, which is also certainly a way to rank and rate them.
Honestly, Boston-Boston and The Cars The Cars are two of my favorite "complete" albums of all time. Loved every song, album tracks as much as hits, and never felt the need to fast forward or skip anything. If I started on Side B I was fine with that, too.
To me, this one came down to which album I think aged better.Agree with all of this.
I think Nirvana was a more "important" album for musical history, to mainstream the grunge alternative sound. But I find myself changing the channel anytime Smells Like Teen Spirit or Come As You Are comes on the radio. Whereas Paradise City or Sweet Child O' Mine or Welcome to the Jungle are "turn it up and sing along" songs.
To me Nirvana seems dated. And oddly, it seems dated in a way that I don't think applies to Pearl Jam Ten.
Agree with all of this.The sad thing is that I think Pearl Jam has been one of those cases where every single album is worse than the one before it.
And I think your final sentence is true because Pearl Jam Ten simply had better-written songs. Nevermind was important as a sound-- the sound was the art-- but the songs themselves are pretty simple and one-note, there's just not a lot of depth there. Ten, on the other hand, was a really rich musical tapestry and the sound itself was only half of the message.