5-Star Albums

Oh joy, another just-post-albums-you like-without-discrimination thread!

 

Explosions In The Glass Palace - Rain Parade
Being There - Wilco

 

Steven Wilson: Hand Cannot Erase
Yes: Close To The Edge
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Sigur Ros: Agaetis Byrjun
Leonard Cohen: Songs Of Love And Hate

 

Horses

 

Easily a five star album.

 

Just off the top of my head - studio albums only.

The Who Who's Next
The Pretty Things Parachute
The Who Sell Out
The Pretty Things Silk Torpedo
The Move Shazam
John Entwistle Smash Your Head Against the Wall
Genesis A Trick of the Tail
The James Gang Rides Again
Joe Walsh Barnstorm
Procol Harum Exotic Birds and Fruit
Steppenwolf For Ladies Only
Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
It Bites Once Around the World
Sally Oldfield Three Rings
Mountain Climbing
Quatermass s/t

Some that are close:
King Crimson Red - the band should have held back 'Fracture' from Starless and Bible Black and replaced 'Providence' with it.
King Crimson In the Court - they should have made 'Moonchild' into a proper song rather than the meandering nothing that it turned into.
The Who Quadrophenia - leave off the intro 'I Am the Sea' and it's 5/5. The album should have kicked off with the blast of 'The Real Me'.
The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow - leave out 'The Journey' and it's 5/5. They could easily have replaced it with 'Walking Through My Dreams' or 'Talking About the Good Times' or both.
Genesis Wind and Wuthering - leave out 'Wot Gorilla' and it's 5/5.
Procol Harum Grand Hotel - leave out 'A Rum Tale' and it's 5/5.
Siouxsie and the Banshees Superstition - leave out 'Softly' and it's 5/5.
Caravan Better By Far - leave out 'Silver Strings' and it's 5/5.
Steppenwolf Monster - leave out the un-PC named instrumental 'Fag' and it's 5/5.

 

These are my 10 ***** Albums by different artists
Metallica - Master of Puppets (by a hairs breadth from Ride the Lightning)
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Rush - Moving Pictures
Led Zeppelin - IV
Beatles - Help
The Shadows - 20 Golden Greats
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
AC/DC - For those About to Rock (I love them all equally from Let there be Rock to Flick of the Switch) - This one conjours up the best teenage memories.
Black Sabbath - Sabotage

 

The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - MMT
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
The Monkees - PAC&JLTD.
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Neon Philharmonic - The Moth Confesses
The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle
Paul McCartney - RAM
Paul McCartney - Tug Of War
Wings - Venus & Mars
Boston - Boston
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
Blur - Parklife
The Verve - Urban Hymns
Radiohead - The Bends
Noel Gallagher - Chasing Yesterday
Phoenix - Ti Amo
Foster The People - Supermodel
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Gorillaz - Demon Days

Etc...

 

I'd opt for Silk And Steel myself ....

 

Too many to name, so I'll stick with soul albums.

Al Green - Call Me
Al Green - Greatest Hits
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
Aretha Franklin - I Never Love a Man the Way I Love You
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye- What's Going On
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Stevie Wonder - Looking Back
Stevie Wonder - Song in the Key of Life
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

 

Yikes, this is turning into an Amazon list...everybody gets a five!

 

Hey, every single one of their albums was 5 Star!

 

The White Album

Revolver

With the Beatles

Who's Next

Something Else by the Kinks

Dark Side of the Moon

Surrealistic Pillow

Are You Experienced?

Strange Days

Layla

Blonde on Blonde

American Beauty (Grateful Dead)

Led Zep IV

Plastic Ono Band

Benefit (Jethro Tull)

On the Beach (Neil Young)

Nevermind (Nirvana)

.

 

Elton John-Goodbye Yellow Brick Rd
Stevie Wonder-Songs in the key of Life
Supertramp-Breakfast in America
Zombies-Odessey & Oracle
Beatles-A Hard Days Night
Billy Joel-The Stranger
Beatles-With the Beatles
Michael Jackson-Thriller
George Michael-Faith
Boz Scaggs-Silk Degrees

 

lol post all your favourite albums from your favourite bands lol

to my taste, there are hundreds of five star albums in my collection ... a couple of not great songs don't stop an album being a five star album to me. I kind of view an album as one thing with many parts. For example - sgt pepper doesn't contain all a class number one songs, but it is a heck of an album

 

Hmm, tough choice. Luxury of Life has the great 'System Addict', but Silk and Steel has 'Can't Wait Another Minute', Find the Time', 'Rain or Shine'. 'Can't Wait Another Minute' and 'The Slightest Touch' which are all top notch pop songs, so I think I'd go with S&S too.

 

Take Me With You is rather naff. Computer Blue shouldn't have been included in its edited form.

 

Queen-Night At The Opera......-Queen-News Of The World........The Who-Tommy.........The Allman Brothers-At The Fillmore East/Brothers And Sisters/Idlewild South.......Deep Purple-Machine Head.......Wings Over America........Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak/Live and Dangerous

 

The Doors s/t
The Beatles Revolver
Deep Purple Made in Japan

 

Kraftwerk Autobahn. Just perfect.

 

The Beatles - Revolver, White Album, Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - II, Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall
Queen - SHA, ANATO, ADATR, NOTW and Innuendo
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, In Rainbows, A Moon Shaped Pool

 

Too many dodgy albums listed that are no more than one star rating so not gonna bother

 

Frumpy - 2
&
Grobschnitt - Solar music live
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Subject ESQ. is great too

 

ABSOLUTELY!