Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads, objectively the best album 'cause it truly is an album in a way all those more recent things aren't.
While I like the album, it's nowhere near my favorite Sinatra album, and it always seems weird to me that it's so often picked as the pinnacle of his work in recent years.
Your post reminded me that someone here once pitted those albums against one another. Turns out it was you! Forever Changes or Marquee Moon?
I don’t like the Beatles, but I would have to say that “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” would have to at least be a contender as far as rock is concerned. “Thriller” by Michael Jackson would be another in regards to pop music. Due to the vast amount of albums that exist representing many different genres, answering this question is impossible due to my lack of musical knowledge but I gave it my best effort.
Asking the question is absurd. There are too many disparate genres to pick one definitive "greatest album". Tell me, which is better...objectively.... Sir Benjamin Britten and The English Chamber Orchestra - Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Maria Callas - Puccini's Tosca (or Verdi's La Traviata, for that matter) Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Beatles - Revolver The Who - Who's Next Glen Gould - J.S. Bach Goldberg Variations Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers B.B. King - Live at Cook County Jail Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison I just rattled off 12. All great in their own way. All superior to most albums in their genre. I could rattle off more.
Objectively, The Shaggs ‘Philosophy of the World’ is the single, greatest recorded achievement by anyone. The device that can measure its depth, breadth, scope, and impact has yet to be invented. It remains ahead of its time, even now. </thread>
VU & Nico - changed the whole mindset of what music could be - literary, angular and artistic but still rock & roll.
It's Dark Side, has been for almost 50 years now. Put the above list of 12 to a vote from the masses and not the musical "elite" here and it will be Dark Side of the Moon.
Because in music we are talking about emotional impact and life experience/rememberances there can not be an objective answer. My number one is Miles Davis „In A Silent Way“
nah. the highs are so very high. but the lows are. so very low and even worse.... don’t register at all. it’s absolutely not the best album of all time.
You’ve nailed it. Like many, I suspect, there are many albums I love more than ‘Pepper’ (including at least three by The Beatles themselves) but there’s no denying the extraordinary creativity behind it (George Martin included) and the influence it still has to this day.