5-Star Albums

OH YES!!! (No pun intended)

 

Not seen yet
Colin Blunstone - One Year

 

ok heres van the mans true 5 star-ers:

astral weeks
moondance
st dominic
veedon
its too late to stop
into the music
no guru

(hes gotta a lot more on the verge of 5 stars but we gotta be stringent!)

 

Crest Of A Knave, brah!

 

my personal essentials: Sgt.Peppers, Forever Changes, Beggars Banquet, VU&Nico, Blonde on Blonde, DSOTM, Pink Moon, Rust Never Sleeps, London Calling, Closer, Power Corruption & Lies, The Queen Is Dead, Nevermind, Loveless, OK Computer, The Fragile.

 

Not a 5-star album, just Grammy worthy. Heavy!

 

I think both are excellent........I could see Baby I'm a Star being considered slight.
Take Me With You endured in setlists years down the road (IIRC) and for a reason!

 

here are just a few off the top of my head

spiritualized - lazer guided melodies and pure phase
belle & sebastian - if you're feeling sinister
stone roses - s/t
echo & the bunnymen - ocean rain
the clash - london calling
the alarm - declaration
big country - the crossing and steeltown
ride - nowhere
dexys midnight runners - too-tye-ay
youth group - skeleton jar
noah and the whale - the first days of spring
the chameleons - strange times
jens lekman - night falls over kortedala

 

A few that come to mind:

 

Yeah, because it's the least explicit track on Purple Rain.

 

Pardon?

 

GETZ / GILBERTO

 

I have 277 5-star albums, according to my rateyourmusic.com page, though a fair number of these are comps and live sets. This list is probably outdated, anyway - at some point I'll have to check my 4.5 star albums from the last 10 years and see if I want to bump any up.

Below is a list of what I think are the best 5-star albums regular albums a for each year that I have one, from 1963 to the present:

1963: Charles Mingus - Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
1964: John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound
1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1966: Larry Young - Unity
1967: Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
1968: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
1969: Neil Young/Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
1970: Soft Machine - Third
1971: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
1972: Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
1973: King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
1974: King Crimson - Red
1975: Brian Eno - Another Green World
1976: The Ramones - ST
1977: Klaus Schulze - Mirage
1978: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1979: Henry Cow - Western Culture
1980: Talking Heads - Remain in Light
1981: Rush - Moving Pictures
1982: Univers Zero - Ceux du Dehors
1983: James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
1984: Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Sonny Sharrock - Seize the Rainbow
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
1990: Primus - Frizzle Fry
1991: Cypress Hill - ST
1992: Dr. Dre - The Chronic
1993: Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang
1994: Pavement - Crooked Rain
1995: Radiohead - The Bends
1996: Beck - Odelay
1997: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
1998: Tortoise - TNT
1999: Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
2000: Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
2001: Tool - Lateralus
2004: Madvillain - Madvillainy
2005: Electric Masada - At The Mountains of Madness
2006: J Dilla - Donuts
2007: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Buttefly

 

Alice Cooper-Killer
YES-CTTE. Fragile,The YES album,Relayer, Going for the One, Drama. 90125, Talk
Bowie-Aladdin Sane
ELP-Tarkus & BSS
Utopia-RA
The Who-Who's Next
Uriah Heep-Demons and Wizards
Rush-Moving Pictures
Budgie-Bandolier & Squawk
Magnum-Vigilante and On a Strorytellers Night
UFO-Lights Out & Obsession
Queen-Sheer Heart Attack
Tears for Fears-Songs from the Big Chair
Dream Theatre-Wake of Magellan
Savatage-Wake of Magellan

 

This Year’s Model - Elvis Costello
Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello
Pure Pop for Now People - Nick Lowe
The Clash - The Clash
London Calling - The Clash
Ram - Paul McCartney
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells w/Buddy Guy
West Side Soul - Magic Sam
AHDN, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road - Beatles
Rocket to Russia - The Ramones
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
Willy and the Poor Boys - CCR

 

John Gorka - I Know.

5 stars from me

 

Genesis - Seconds Out

The best live album you will ever hear.

YMMV

 

I love the Who ,but Who are You isn't a 5 star lp

 

Frank Sinatra: Swing Easy!, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sinatra and Swingin' Brass, Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! And More, A Swingin' Affair, Come Dance with Me, Ring-a-Ding Ding!, Sinatra-Basie, Songs for Swingin' Lovers
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour, Rubber Soul, A Hard Day's Night, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road
Sergio Mendes ft. Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Swinger from Rio
Julie London: Julie
The Beach Boys: Smiley Smile, Pet Sounds
Doris Day: Hooray for Hollywood Vol. 1
Astrud Gilberto: The Astrud Gilberto Album
The Coasters: The Coasters' Greatest Hits (1959)
Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
Tamba 4: We and the Sea
Dean Martin: The Dean Martin TV Show, Swingin' Down Yonder, Dream with Dean
Stan Getz & João Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim: Getz/Gilberto
Herbie Mann: At the Village Gate

 

Hendrix- Are you experienced
Electric ladyland
Stones- Let it bleed/Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
Dylan- Highway 61/Blonde on blonde/Blood on the tracks
Beatles- Revolver/Sgt Pepper
Abbey road
Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
Otis Redding- Otis blue
Albert king- Born under a bad sign
BB King- Live at the regal
Robert Johnson- King of the delta blues singers
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Bob Marley- Live
Howlin wolf- Rocking chair album
Derek & The Dominos- Layla

 

The Who - Whos Next
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
ACDC- Back-N- Black
Pixies - Doolittle
REM- Lifes Rich Pageant
The Cult - Love
The Who - Live at Leeds (original EP)
Pink Floyd - Darkside
Judas Priest - British Steel

 

neither is who by numbers......