5-Star Albums

The Beatles: Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) and Abbey Road (1969).
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (1966).
The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) and Younger Than Yesterday (1967).
The Doors: The Doors (1967) and Strange Days (1967).
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (1967).
The Kinks: The Village Green Preservation Society (1968).
Love: Forever Changes (1967).
The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969) and Sticky Fingers (1971).
The Who: Tommy (1969) and Who's Next (1971).
The Zombies: Odessey And Oracle (1968).

 

Genesis - Duke
David Bowie - Station to Station
War - The World is a Ghetto

Yup... that's about it. Those three are totally 5-star in my book.

 

Those are their best two albums.

 

K. D. Lang - Ingenue
Seal - ST (original mix, first issue)
Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love

 

Deep Purple - Machine Head
Allman Brothers Band - First one
Allman Brothers Band - Bro & Sis
Van Morrison - Moondance
D&TD's - Layla and other...
Blue Oyster Cult - Agent Of Fortune
Marshal Tucker Band - First one
Rainbow - Rising
Yes - The Yes Album

 

Creedance Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Who - Who's Next
Gordon Lightfoot- Summer Side Of Life
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, Moondance, St. Dominics Preview, Into The Music
John Stewart - California Bloodlines

 

Soft Machine - Third
Pink Floyd - Relics
King Crimson - Starless & bible black
Groundhogs - Split
Johnny Winter - s/t
Muddy Waters - Experiment in Blue
Mu - Lemurian Music

 

A very interesting album (or pair of albums) to list.

 

It`s a german Compilation from After the rain & Electric mud Album, so this one counts for two. Except Relics & Third it`s all outstanding sounds to discover, and especially for the electric-guitar.
I could have posted any PinkFloyd or SoftMachine Album, a great Compilation & one of my most listened Albums

 

I was aware of the Muddy Waters album being a compilation of those two albums. It's your choice of them as 5 star records that is the surprise. Most people rate them very low in the Muddy Waters catalogue.
Personally I rate them as 1 star records. To my mind Chess did not look after Muddy Waters very well at all in the 60's releaseing mainly novelty albums even though he recorded many great tracks that went unreleased for years untill the CD era.

 

J. Geils Band - Full House
Johnny Winter And Live
Steve Hillage - Green, Open
West Side Story - ST or original cast
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Antal Dorati LSO SACD

 

lol, I thought the same thing.

 

Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Magic Sam- West Side Soul
Aretha Franklin- I never loved a man
Alice Coltrane- Journey In Satchidananda
Pink Floyd- Animals
Ramones- Rocket To Russia
Iggy Pop- Lust For Life

 

When I see people listing 3, 4 or 5 albums by the same band, or when I see people listing 10, 15 or 20 albums - I know they are ignoring the 'don't exaggerate' maxim in the original post. It just feels like people are listing their favourite top ten, or albums by their favourite bands without any thought as to whether the albums really count as 5-star by other people's standards.

I'm afraid it makes it all feel rather worthless as a thread of recommendations.

 

Yes but by the same token there have been close to 80 albums listed where I agree with the 5 star rating.
It's possible that I agree with some of yours it's possible that I don't.
Opinions are just that, opinions.

There is of course one particular poster here (he likes to post covers) who seems to make a habit of not following the flow of the thread.

 

Jeff Beck, Truth
Sandy Bull, E Pluribus Unum
Ornette Coleman, This is Our Music
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are you Experienced
John Lee Hooker, I'm John Lee Hooker
Brian Eno, Another Green World
Mission of Burma, VS.
Willie Nelson, The Redheaded Stranger
R.E.M., Murmur
The Replacements, Let it Be
Suicide, self titled

 

I picked up a used LP of that one back in the spring. I haven't listened to it yet. I didn't know it was a five-star album - I guess I'd better throw it on the platter!

 

Then I think I'll wait for the 6-star list.

 

I consider these to be 5-Star albums:

David Bowie -- Ziggy Stardust

Pink Floyd -- Dark Side Of The Moon

Black Sabbath -- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Led Zeppelin -- Presence

Boston -- Boston

Bob Seger -- Stranger In Town

Blue Oyster Cult -- Spectres

Supertramp -- Breakfast In America

The Scorpions -- Animal Magnetism

YES -- 90125

The Cars -- The Cars

The Cult -- Love

Tears For Fears -- Songs From The Big Chair

 

a solid 4.85 for the 1970 album "Still Waters Run Deep" by The Four Tops; 4.89 for the 1968 album "Miles In The Sky" by Miles Davis.
.. still searching for that elusive 4.9.

 

Heard some other Muddy Waters albums but they didn`t had the thrill of this Bellaphon Compilation, i do also enjoy Folk-blues at times espc. when talkin` bout artists like Fred McDowell or Elmore James who did one step into electric-blues.
I haven`t encountered any other stuff like that yet, would add Howlin`Wolf`s New album.

 

Yes Howlin Wolf's New album was very similar to those 2 Muddy Waters albums.
Howlin Wolf was so happy with the results that he referred to his album as the dog **** album.

Once Muddy Waters hit Chicago any leaning towards folk blues were gone except for when he was pushed into recording an album in that style by Chess.
Howlin Wolf never ventured into folk blues territory. He started tough in Memphis & remained that way when he moved to Chicago.

 

Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon
The most beautiful music ever made.


And further:
The Beatles - The Beatles - Revolver - Abbey Road
Paul an Linda McCartney - Ram
Bobbi Gentry - The Delta Sweete
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding, Blood on the Tracks
Jacques Brel - Jacques Brel (1968), Brel (1977)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing

 

Van Morrison: Veeden Fleece
Lambchop: Nixon
Bjork: Homogenic
Nils Frank: Felt
Mercury Rev: Deserters Songs
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
King Crimson: Red
The Blue Nile: Hats
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock.