Objectively, what do you think is the best album of all time?

Exile On Main Street seems to sum it all up for me. Revolver neck and neck with it.

(Though my favourite is The River.)

 

There is some which I find very close to perfect:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers & Exile On Main St.
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & Station To Station
The Who - Live At Leeds
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Lou Reed - New York
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
The Beatles - Revolver & Abbey Road
S** Pistols - Never Mind The B*****
Nirvana - Nevermind
Emitt Rhodes - Rainbow Ends
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
John Coltrane - Ballads

However, ‘close to perfect’ does not necessarily mean ‘personal favourite’. Bowie’s “Lodger” is far from perfect, but for me it’s a favourite over ‘Ziggy’.

 

I don't even think it's one of the Beatles' best albums.

 

Here's my vote....

Elis Regina - Falso Brilhante



... such beauty ...

 

... one more track from Elis Regina - Falso Brilhante



I don't want to talk, my greatest love,
About things that I've learned from my vinyls
I want to tell you how my life was like
And about all that betided me

To live is better than dreaming .
I know that love is a pretty good thing
But I also know that any place is smaller than anyone's life

For this reason, watch out, darling,
The danger is waiting around the corner
They won and the way is now barred to us, the youngs.
To embrace your brother and kiss your girl in the street
is what your arms, your lips and your voice are made for

You ask me what's my new passion
I say I'm wondered at all this, it feels like a new invention
I'm going to stay at this city, I'm not coming back to the backwoods
Because I sense the smell of the new season hovering in the wind
I can learn anything through this wound, that lives within my heart

It's been a while since I saw you in a street
With the wind blowing in your hair,
Along young people, all joined together.
Hanging up on my mind's wall,
The memory of this is the frame that hurts me most
My pain is to realize that despite all we have done
We are still the same as before and live...
We are still the same and live as lived our parents
Our idols are still the same
And the appearances don't disguise it at all
You say that after them, no new idols have ever existed
You may even say that I'm out-of-date, that I made up all this
But it's you the one who loves the past and can't see that
new times will always come

Now I've learned that the man who taught me of a new conscience and youth
is now sitting at home, guarded by Lord, counting coins of vain money
My pain is to realize that despite all we've done
We are still the same as before and live...
We are still the same and live as lived our parents

 

Obviously, it’s John Zorn’s Naked City.

Either that, or the first Black Sabbath album. I can never remember.

 

Well it would have to be the greatest album by one of the greatest artists of all time, so my vote goes for Joni Mitchell’s Blue…

 

I have a hard time equating albums like Dark Side of the Moon and Kind of Blue when the former took a year and the latter was done in two days. They are both worthy candidates...

 

The Band - The Band "the brown album" 1969

 

Abbey Road

 

There’s no such thing as the objectively best album of all time. There’s no such thing as an objectively good album. Here are some of my favorites though:

Abbey Road - The Beatles
To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
Titanic Rising - Weyes Blood
Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
Sign “☮️“ the Times - Prince
LONG SEASON - Fishmans
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
This Year’s Model - Elvis Costello and the Attractions

 

This is a funny question. Sometimes I play an album and it seems like the best thing ever.
Then I pull out something else and that seems just as great in its own way. Last week it was:
The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Miles Davis - Bag's Groove
Redd Kross - Third Eye
Yardbirds - Roger The Engineer
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Ike Turner - Rocks The Blues
Love - Da Capo
etc. etc. etc.

 

The Honorable Mentions include (but are not limited to):
Beatles: Abbey Road or Pepper
The Who: Quadrophenia
Big Big Train: English Electric (Vol. 1 or 2)
S&G: Bridge Over Troubled Water (title track is perhaps the greatest pop vocal performance ever)
Crowded House: Self-titled

But in the end, for sheer songwriting quality and breadth of styles, it has to be:

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Not diminishing Bernie's lyrical input, the sheer musicality from one guy.

 

Yeah, I have no problem with anyone making a Back to Black pick. It is a phenomenal album.

 

That’s what I thought of too. Tull’s Thick as a Brick is also a contender. And Abbey Road I guess.

 

This would be my answer, too

 

Ya, not sure if it (Sticky Fingers,) is "the best album of all time", but it was the first great album (imo) that came to mind.

 

There is no such thing.

 

Abbey Road

 

Objectively? There is such a thing?

 

thats a shame......

 

Gee, if there were only a solution so people would at least know what was posted when this happens.

 

Miles Davis - On the Corner

 

Today, I'd say Kind of Blue or Pet Sounds. Tomorrow, it could be Astral Weeks or Born to Run. You get the idea...impossible to answer.

 

Could be . . . I pop my corn in oil on a stove burner.

It mighta gotten outta hand . . .