What's the "greatest album" you don't actually have?

"Greatest" just meaning the biggest album you can think of that you respect as significant but either A) don't personally resonate with, or B) just have never purchased, for some reason.

I make the above respect caveat just to immediatedly thwart any desire to turn this into one of the infamous "negative threads", where we are all just bashing popular albums because they are popular or digging for any or all criticisms just to make ourselves feel better about our own subjective tastes.

At any rate, with that decided, feel free to offer your top "missing gem"!

I think the biggest one I can think of is perhaps one of these two (both of which I acknowledge and very much respect but have never owned):

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan
Dark Side Of The Moon: Pink Floyd

 

I am a big fan of most classic Prog rock,
yet I’m not overly familiar with
or own any albums from Jethro Tull.

So... “Thick as a Brick”

 

Among the candidates in my case...

The Band: Music from Big Pink
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
The New York Dolls
Radiohead: OK Computer

 

Probably whatever the "greatest" Bob Dylan album is...

 

Hot Buttered Soul by Isaac Hayes and whatever's considered Joni Mitchell's 'greatest' album.

 

I'm 56 years old and bought my first Beatles album less than a year ago (a used CD copy of The White Album). So, my answer is - all Beatles albums aside from that one.

 

Music from Big Pink
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde
In A Silent Way
Blue Train
Let it Bleed
Time Out
The Doors
L.A. Woman
Rumours

The list goes on and on and on...

 

I've listened to the Dark Side of the Moon "Immersion Box" and other Pink Floyd albums from the library, but never bought any Floyd albums. Same goes for Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Radiohead, Kanye, and Kendrick Lamar.

Probably the most highly acclaimed jazz album missing from my collection is The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. I love Mingus, but can't get into that one.

 

Another vote for Big Pink.
In fact I own nothing from The Band.

 

How the heck do you work
with that immense rock sitting on top of you?

 

Will purchase this album hopefully before Christmas 2018.

 

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

 

I have to ask, are you also one of those people who has never seen Star Wars?

 

Probably Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. I have some of their other albums, but not these two.

 

LOL - I saw Star Wars once, maybe 35 years ago. I have not seen any of the sequels or prequels.

 

I dont know, because whatever it is I dont think its great enough to register as great.

 

In that case, your listing here should be The Band, not Big Pink.

 

These are Albums I have been meaning to buy eventually:

Amy Whinehouse-Back to Black
Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea(do I have the Artist & Album Title Correct?)
Talk Talk-Laughing Stock(I do own 'Spirit of Edan')
Hawkwind-Quarks, Strangeness..........(I recently bought the early Albums from the 'This is Your Captain Speaking' Box Set and 'Warrior on the Edge of Time' Mini Box with the Steven Wilson Remox)
Love-Forever Changes

I plan to explore and potentially buy Albums from The Bevis Frond, as heard they are a Psychedelic-Rock Music Artist.

This Summer I knocked a few Albums off my 'To Buy' list when buying 'Pet Sounds'(AF & DCC).

 

My own post was a fairly simple process - I pulled the top 500 albums from RS and went down the list until I found the first album I didn't actually own.

I can acknowledge the general understanding of how important that album is for many people, but not owning it myself. Pet Sounds actually used to be my answer until some years back when I finally grabbed a digital copy.

 

I see what you mean, which is why I had to put greatest in cynical quotation marks.

 

FYI, that one took me quite a while to get used to. And I’m not generally averse to punk.

 

I did much the same. Which is how "Highway 61 Revisited" at #4 ended up as my first/ top candidate.

 

Good approach!

By that method, Elvis Presley's "Sun Sessions" (#11) would be tops - sort of. I do have the "Complete 50s Masters" set, though, and I think that all the "Sun Sessions" stuff is in there.

I own a copy of Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" (#12) but only because I collect early CDs. I've never played it for my own listening enjoyment.

Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks" (#19) is the highest-ranked I don't own at all...

 

I don't own Sgt. Pepper's...

 

Albums from the Top 100 on the site Rate Your Music that I don't own:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!
Pixies - Doolittle
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Slint - Spiderland
Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrjun
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A#infinity
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Portishead - Dummy
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Slowdive - Souvlaki
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Bjork - Homogenic
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Elliot Smith - Either/Or


I will likely add The Smiths, Pixies, Bjork, ATCQ, and Portishead titles to the collection at some point. Some of them have been on my wishlist for quite a while.