What was, in your opinion, the last truly great album released?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by garrincha, Jan 19, 2018.

  1. englishbob

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    Last album I truly obsessed over, and still do when I play it.

    Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

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  2. Erik B.

    Erik B. Fight the Power

  3. Erik B.

    Erik B. Fight the Power


    best line "this album makes st. anger look like a verified bona fide piece of art."
     
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  4. Erik B.

    Erik B. Fight the Power

    I love the stones. Not a huge fan of that one despite owning it on cd and vinyl
     
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  5. Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash
     
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  6. timnor

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    Keaton Henson - Dear blew me away and The National - Boxer is a kind of classic

     
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  7. ToneLa

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    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
     
  8. medium Rob

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  9. BSC

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    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.
     
  10. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

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    Actually, it’s coming out next week. And the week after that. And the week after that....

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  11. Galley

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    Evanescence - Fallen
     
  12. Amnesiac

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    Sun Kil Moon - Benji
     
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  13. gonz

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  14. JohnT

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    I've been enjoying the heck out of Highway Companion lately.
     
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  15. DLD

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    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 :confused:
     
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  16. M2225

    M2225 Nebulus 7 intergalaxy eclipse

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    I respect your opinion.
     
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  17. Audioresearch

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    You are right this one is really great!!
     
  18. DRM

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    leeanndevi said:
    The last time I listened to an album and thought, yes, this is a masterpiece:

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    DRM said:
    The Beatles were truly great but this album stood out.

    Not derivative explicit rap like Kendrick.
    :doh:
     
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  19. Phil Tate

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    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.
     
  20. DRM

    DRM Forum Resident

    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.
     
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  21. M2225

    M2225 Nebulus 7 intergalaxy eclipse

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    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
     
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  22. DRM

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    Here's a great album.

    Not quite truly great, but very good.

    Excellent.

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  23. DRM

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  24. ramdom

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    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.)
     
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  25. DRM

    DRM Forum Resident

    Some people are expressing sadness.

    No need for that.

    Or be sad.

    That's fine.
     
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