Great could mean classic but it could mean... Yknow. This is great. Couple of recent ones that have slotted in amongst my classics, but I am not sure about "classic" simply due to time / me not caring about critical opinion.. My Bloody Valentine's "mbv", 2013 Godspeed You! black Emperor "Allelujah! Don't bend, ascend!" 2012 Aphex Twin, "Syro" 2014 Avalanches, "Wildflower" 2016
I'm talking original music so that excludes Cash....Cohen you could argue and indeed Dylan although his last masterpiece was when he was late 50's. I'd easily give it to Blackstar.
Yes, this is the correct answer Previous to this I believe American Idiot held the title and after, Something More Than This by Jason Isbell was in contention but lost by a hair in my inner mind discussion on the matter
leeanndevi said: ↑ The last time I listened to an album and thought, yes, this is a masterpiece: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DRM said: ↑ The Beatles were truly great but this album stood out. Not derivative explicit rap like Kendrick.
This thread is making me sad. So much incredible music is being made at the moment that I feel a bit sorry for anyone who doesn't think at least one "truly great album" has come out within the last 12 months, let alone within a few years or even decades. If you honestly think the last truly great album came out 30 or 40 years ago, then in my opinion you don't really like music, you just like a couple of bands.
Well, it's quite an achievement to create a "truly great album". Some people think it happens a fair amount of the time. I happen to think it's quite rare. Very rare. How many artists do we remember now and make special note of? Van Gogh? Picasso? Matisse? Da Vinci? A few others? Who we now view as "truly great"? 50 years from now, there will not be many albums that people will view...from the period of 1940 to 2018...as "truly great". Holding up under the test of time is not to be dismissed. Very good is one thing...excellent is another...ditto "great". But truly great? You have to respect and recognize that which stands "head and shoulders" above the rest. Otherwise, it's all about "I like music and truly great music is everywhere". Which is good enough. For some. And that's fine.
OK Computer. 1997. In general I should or will not have any opinion on new music past that date. ”Memory almost full” to quote Macca
I'd have to agree: this one is timeless on so many levels. Even what some people might term as "filler", I would call character of atmosphere and necessary to the experience of the album. A truly profound recording. (Posters who keep putting up 'Pet Sounds' & 'Abbey Road' and the like from over 50 years ago are missing out on generations of fantastic new music. And anybody familiar w/ these 2 masterpieces would be a fool not to hear the excellence of every aspect of them, but to me, has in way, also stopped listening to music and experience and revelation of the new or different. That makes me kinda sad...it's like saying "I will never love again, as I did once" and it becomes their only truth.)