Greatest Album in Rock History...

Based on excellence, sustainabilty, context, and how does is stand up? I mean is it worth listening to the whole thing? :15:

Some that come to mind:

At Folsom Prison ~ Johnny Cash

Black in Black ~ AC/DC

London Calling ~ The Clash

Apetite for Destruction ~ Guns n Roses

Honorable mentions to:

Rumors ~ Fleetwood Mac

Pearl Jam ~ Ten

The Pretenders, Areosmith, Van Halen and
of course Pink Floyd & Hendrix ~ before my time.

Dylan might be big for some people... I just don't get him, I can barely understand a word the man says. :confused:

Without doubt, without debate: Dark Side of the Moon.

An album that epitomizes rock 'n roll, its roots and influences, and where it would go from there is the Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet". It is rock 'n roll from start to finish.

Hmmm, over at Obner, they're talking about this being the best live album evar.

Words cannot describe -- cannot contain -- the performance captured on Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, an album that contains the very essence of rock & roll....Who knows why this was a night where everything exploded for Jerry Lee Lewis? It sounds like all of his rage at not being the accepted king of rock & roll surfaced that night, but that probably wasn't a conscious decision on his part -- maybe the stars were aligned right, or perhaps he just was in a particularly nasty mood. Or maybe this is the way he sounded on an average night in 1964.

In any case, Live at the Star Club is extraordinary -- the purest, hardest rock & roll ever committed to record.


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Originally Posted by Auricauricle

Without doubt, without debate: Dark Side of the Moon.

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Not in my top 2000.

Led Zeppelin II

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Originally Posted by 02audionoob

Led Zeppelin II

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There's the first one that I can agree with.

I don't know if anybody caught Sound and Vision's Top 50, but it had more holes in it than a box of Cheerios.

I'll give you maybe 2 Stones albums, but that starts with "Let it Bleed"

And "Dark Side of the Moon"? that's not even Pink Floyd's best album.

And C'mon SB, when did Johnny Cash become Rock.

I don't think I'm the only one that considers that album rock. He's awesome on that, start to finish.

As these posts are showing, there is no such thing as "one" (or even 100) greatest album when your talking about such a subjective topic.

Myself, even the top 100 is constantly changing as I and my tastes get more IMHO, "mature".

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Originally Posted by Luvin Da Blues

As these posts are showing, there is no such thing as "one" (or even 100) greatest album when your talking about such a subjective topic.

Myself, even the top 100 is constantly changing as I and my tastes get more IMHO, "mature".

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I could make a list of 100 records that are my favorites, but picking one that is 'the best' is impossible for me. That's like telling you my favorite food.

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Originally Posted by Sugar Beats

I don't think I'm the only one that considers that album rock. He's awesome on that, start to finish.

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No way rock. Sorry.

any album from Steely Dan

well sugar, I think you've exposed one of the greatest fears around here: to step up and pick something. "Oh no! That's too hard for me, but your pick sux."

I'm callin' you regs out. Stop whining and pick something. Hang your critic's hat on one of SB's parameters for greatest (not favorite) and say whatever pops into your pointy head.

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Originally Posted by dean_martin

An album that epitomizes rock 'n roll, its roots and influences, and where it would go from there is the Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet". It is rock 'n roll from start to finish.

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Oh, GREAT choice! Sympathy for the Devel is one of the finest rock and roll songs ever. I also have to put the Stones Let It Bleed Album up there at the top also.

RR6

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Originally Posted by Sugar Beats

At Folsom Prison ~ Johnny Cash

Black in Black ~ AC/DC

Dylan might be big for some people... I just don't get him, I can barely understand a word the man says. :confused:

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AC/DC and Johnny Cash in the same genre?

If you can't understand Dylan maybe you should listen to his Nashville Skyline album, specifically Dylan and Cash singing Girl from the North Country. BTW, this is a great album.

RR6

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Originally Posted by Finch Platte

Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, Jerry Lee Lewis -- the purest, hardest rock & roll ever committed to record

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Oh yes! OH YES!

Only four post into this thread and Finch Platte has brought up from the past one of the greatest Rock and Roll performers ever. Jerry Lee Lewis would have been at the top of the class if not for some unfortunate choices in marrying his very young cousin. That put the skids on his career. This is "Rock and Roll." at it greatest.

Of course I have to mention the greatest pop/rock group of all time, The Beatles. There are a number of choices and it is almost impossible to decide. So I'll list three of my favorites:

... A Hard Day's Night

... Help

... Abbey Road

Sugar Beats listed her criteria as: "Based on excellence, sustainabilty, context."

100 years from now no one will even know the name Pearl Jam. However, many, many of the songs that McCartney and Lennon wrote will still be covered by different types of musical groups from classical to jazz to pop/rock. These two prolific songwriters wrote song after song after song that have lasting memorable melodies, the true test of time.

RR6

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Originally Posted by RoadRunner6

Oh, GREAT choice! Sympathy for the Devel is one of the finest rock and roll songs ever. I also have to put the Stones Let It Bleed Album up there at the top also.

RR6

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If someone who had never heard rock 'n roll asked me to recommend one album that best exemplifies rock 'n roll, I'd suggest Beggars Banquet because it has all the pieces that became rock - country, blues and gospel, and then balls-to-the-walls rockers like Stray Cat Blues. And like all great albums it has at least one transcendent track like Sympathy for the Devil.

But most of all, it's an unpretentious celebration of the proletariat class. Side 2 is the perfect everyman side: Street Fighting Man, Prodigal Son, Stray Cat Blues, Factory Girl, Salt of the Earth. It's the 1969 Plymouth Road Runner of music.

I'd say the #1 rock album of all time is Led Zeppelin's 4th album. I have the album which I purchased when it was released, had the 8 track and now have the CD. Just so happens that the #1 most popular Rock-n-Roll song of all time is Stairway to Heaven.

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Originally Posted by dean_martin

well sugar, I think you've exposed one of the greatest fears around here: to step up and pick something. "Oh no! That's too hard for me, but your pick sux."

I'm callin' you regs out. Stop whining and pick something. Hang your critic's hat on one of SB's parameters for greatest (not favorite) and say whatever pops into your pointy head.

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I'll pick-up that gauntlet...

London Calling

Beggars Banquet is also a very good pick and one I considered, but in the end LC is the one.

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Originally Posted by dean_martin

well sugar, I think you've exposed one of the greatest fears around here: to step up and pick something. "Oh no! That's too hard for me, but your pick sux."

I'm callin' you regs out. Stop whining and pick something. Hang your critic's hat on one of SB's parameters for greatest (not favorite) and say whatever pops into your pointy head.

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1. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers - African Herbsman
7. Love - Forever Changes
8. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
9. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
11. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
12. Ramones - Leave Home
13. The Kinks - Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround
14. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
15. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
16. Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston
17. Wire - Pink Flag
18. Big Star - Radio City
19. The Clash - The Clash
20. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
21. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
22. Husker Du - New Day Rising
23. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch a Fire
24. Ramones - Ramones
25. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
26. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
27. Elvis Costello - This Years Model
28. Black Flag - Damaged
29. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
30. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
31. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
32. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
33. The Stooges - Fun House
34. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
35. Misfits - Walk Among Us
36. Pixies - Doolittle
37. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
38. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road
39. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
40. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
41. Fugazi - Repeater
42. Ramones - Rocket To Russia
43. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
44. The Connells - Boylan Heights
45. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
46. Fugazi - 13 Songs
47. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
48. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
49. Big Star - #1 Record
50. The Beatles - Abbey Road
51. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
52. Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
53. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
54. The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
55. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
56. Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
57. Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
58. The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
59. The Cure - The Head On the Door
60. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
61. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
62. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
63. Bedhead - WhatFunLifeWas
64. Van Morrison - Moondance
65. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
66. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
67. Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy
68. James Brown - Live at the Apollo, 1962
69. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks
70. Otis Redding - Otis Blue
71. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
72. The Clash - Give 'em Enough Rope
73. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
74. Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
75. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
76. The Feelies - Only Life
77. X - Los Angeles
78. Wire - 154
79. Manu Chao - Clandestino
80. Front 242 - Front By Front
81. Descendents - Milo Goes To College
82. XTC - Drums and Wires
83. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
84. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Burnin�
85. Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
86. NoMeansNo - Wrong
87. Buck Owens and His Buckaroos - Live at Carnegie Hall
88. Rank and File - Sundown
89. Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
90. The Replacements - Tim
91. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
92. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
93. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
94. Buddy Holly - The "Chirping" Crickets
95. The Stooges - Raw Power
96. Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1967)
97. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
98. Love - da capo
99. Wire - Chairs Missing
100. The Celibate Rifles - The Turgid Miasma of Existence

Stone, I see you have the Bobs covered (Dylan & Marley). :thumbsup:

It's hard to argue with the success of albums like Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, The Beatle's White album or The Eagle's Hotel California, but song for song I'd like to put my vote in for Boston's first album. Every song was a hit.

Jeez! A girl tries to start a thread, what can I say, I like to have options. (what woman doesn't?)
If I had to pick a fav... It would either be Back in Black or London Calling.

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Originally Posted by Sugar Beats

Dylan might be big for some people... I just don't get him, I can barely understand a word the man says. :confused:

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I can understand this with some of his tunes but the man is one of the top critically acclaimed songsters of all time. I challenge you to have a deeper listen (Tangled Up In Blue, Workingman's Blues #2, Buckets Of Rain, etc,.etc). If your interested, I could sent you a comp of, IMO, his better written, performed and recorded material.

I guess I'm always up for a challenge. Maybe inbetween the kids, the movie I am going to and the reg. weekend stuff, I'll take a listen... And then I'll let you know. I've just never liked him.