Truly great, probably Purple Rain: Prince & The Revolution (1984). And then several albums since then I simply really like. But truly great is always a very individual term I suppose.
Most normal people 'give up' on new music by their early 30's. Some, even earlier. The longer you're around, the more crowded it gets in your head, and it's hard not to hear echoes of everything that came before in what's current. Not much is really new anyway. For me, it would have to be Blackstar or In Rainbows. But I'm in my mid-50's. When people talk about Kendrick Lamar or Beyonce, I get it, I understand how talented they are. But that stuff doesn't really speak to me personally.
There's at least a dozen great albums released every year. They may not be to my taste but that doesn't make them any less great. For me last year it was Father John Misty's last album and the Lucinda Williams re-record of Sweet Old World are two I loved (yes, I know the Father John Misty album had mixed reviews).
Yeah, that one had me shaking my head. Come on, folks, music didn't die after the Beatles packed it in. I can sometimes be single minded in my passions, but I would hate to be so in the thrall of one band that everything else paled by comparison.
The most recently released album that I heard that I believed, and still believe, is probably an all timer is last year's Roscoe Mitchell live album Bells for the South Side. It was a recording from a live performance in 2015, if that matters date wise, but it may be the best album in the 77 year old living legend's career, it's certainly up there with the greatest of his albums like the historic Sound and the Art Ensemble's People in Sorrow. But I pretty much come across "truly great" new music every year of one sort or another.
"tons"? I thought we were talking a stone cold classic, one for the ages, to put on the pedestal and worship....otherwise we can open the floodgates milk eyes mender is up there for me
Could be, but those are all your words, I think most of us were just going by the thread title, some people might only find a truly great album once a decade, while others find a few every year. Not sure there's really a wrong answer here
This is certainly it, if not Leonard Cohen's "You Want it Darker", also the lesser known artist, Cold Specks' "Fool's Paradise" is extraordinary and is for me the album of 2017 (Peppers 50th getting honourable mentions).