Best Album... OF ALL TIME

[Dan R]

Although it spawned many prog. rock outfits who eventually became overblown and boring: In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson. Pete Townshend called it a "Masterpiece". At the time of it's release, it was an innovative, fresh and ground-breaking recording.

Dan R

[Mid Life Crisis]

Revolver

I still have an original mono copy of it that was probably the first album I ever listened to when I was a kid. My gran owned a pub which had a juke box and we used to get all the old 45's. For some reason we had two copies of Jumpin Jack Flash and our neighbour swapped his copy of Revolver for one of them. He must've been keen!

For many years it was always Sgt Pepper that got voted as the best Beatles album, or best album of all time even, but in recent years it seems people have begun to see Revolver as the best. It has great songs, brilliant playing (e.g. Paul's solo on Taxman, and on my fave And Your Bird Can Sing) and really went out there for its time, with backwards guitars, the first real Indian-sounding track (Love You To) and of course Tomorrow Never Knows. We'll gloss over Yellow Submarine...

[Stuco]

Try to list just one guys. There is some stuff on the list so far that I haven't heard and am defianately going to check out.

[tugboat]

There's too many good ones to have one all time greatest album. But I'll give a go at it.

First off, IMO, compilation albums and live albums don't count. All they did was determine the set list. All the hard stuff was already done on previous albums. As much as I love Live at Leeds or Pat Green's Live At Billy Bob's Texas, they don't count.

I'd have to go with Sticky Fingers. There's some rock, there's some blues, there's some country, and its all FANTASTIC.

[zombywoof]

Originally Posted by mark norwine

Best? Just one? Forever & always? Then I'd have to pick this:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125; Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, 1990 . Deutsche Grammophone.

In my opinion, NOBODY captures Beethoven like Abbado, so this CD is my #1 fave of all times.

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Abbey Road ain't too shabby, either......

Ludwig's No. 9 - Great flippin choice although I still like the Furtwangler and Solti recordings and have been trying to warm up to the Celibidache.

[David Barnett]

Originally Posted by tugboat

There's too many good ones to have one all time greatest album. But I'll give a go at it.

First off, IMO, compilation albums and live albums don't count. All they did was determine the set list. All the hard stuff was already done on previous albums. As much as I love Live at Leeds or Pat Green's Live At Billy Bob's Texas, they don't count.

I'd have to go with Sticky Fingers. There's some rock, there's some blues, there's some country, and its all FANTASTIC.

"Live At Leeds" definitely counts, because the old songs are treated to new arrangements. For example, "A Quick One" is pretty wimpy on the album of the same name, but the live version on "Live At Leeds" rocks out. I would venture to say that the "hits" on that album are heard for the first time the way The Who intended them to sound, without the intervention of Shel Talmy.

[1293]

Originally Posted by David Barnett

"Live At Leeds" definitely counts, because the old songs are treated to new arrangements. For example, "A Quick One" is pretty wimpy on the album of the same name, but the live version on "Live At Leeds" rocks out. I would venture to say that the "hits" on that album are heard for the first time the way The Who intended them to sound, without the intervention of Shel Talmy.

For me, the live performance is what music is all about in the end. However, there's something to be said for a great album that results from a creative effort in the studio. If a band doesn't develop a song live before recording a song in the studio, the live version will almost certainly improve over the original studio version.