5-Star Albums

Crosby Stills & Nash S/T

 

Geez too many to list but right off.....

Allman Bros. - s/t thru Bros & Sisters
Black Oak Arkansas - s/t, Keep The Faith, If An Angel Came To See You, X Rated
James Gang - Rides Again
ZZ Top - First album, Tres Hombres, Tejas
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping, Nuthin Fancy, Gimme Back My Bullets, Street Survivors
Ted Nugent - s/t
Doobies Bros. - Toulouse St. thru Stampede
Elton John - s/t thru Goodbye Yellow Brick Rd.
Led Zep - s/t thru IV
CS&N
CSN&Y - Deja Vu
Joe Walsh - Barnstorm thru So What
UFO - s/t, Flying
Traffic - s/t, John Barleycorn, Low Spark

 

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Astor Piazzolla- Oblivion
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 ; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
Il Balleto Di Bronzo - Ys
Cherry Five - Cherry Five
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39 ; Charriots Of Fire (motion picture soundtrack album)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
ELP - Trilogy
Univers Zero - Uzed
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
Keith Jarret - The Köln Concert
The Cult - Love
The Who - Live at Leeds
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (though lacking my all time fave song 'Skyline Pigeon')

.

 

Prince became a rather devout Jehovah's Witness in his later years, and many of the songs from Purple Rain didn't jive well with his new outlook. Take Me With You is a rather innocent pop song, and so he kept singing it.

 

Who Are You isn't a 5 star but, I can see why someone considers Numbers a 5 star. It's my second favorite Who album and the one I play the most.

 

I like it but if Im going true 5 star for the who its:

who's next
quadrophenia
and live at leeds

(tommy is close)

 

Must add this one.....

 

My go-to for threads like this:

 

Five stars all the way. Perfect from beginning to end, and timeless.

Seal and Trevor Horn were magic together in the '90s.

 

KINKS:
SOMETHING ELSE
VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY

THE ZOMBIES:
ODESSEY AND ORACLE

 

Gonna argue anyway. "Objective" means the exact opposite of what you think it means. What you're describing is "subjective."

You should have just left it out.

 

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

 

It wasn't all Dirty Mind before the conversion.....plenty of "innocence" to choose from, including the majority of the tracks on Purple Rain.
I saw him in concert near the time of his conversion.....he did Darling Nikki......and let the audience sing the naughty parts.

 

Lots of 5 star albums in this thread. If I had to pick five I consider meeting the rating without hesitation it would be the following:

Sly & The Family Stone- THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON
My Bloody Valentine- LOVELESS
Miles Davis-MILES SMILES
Joni Mitchell- HEJIRA
The Beastie Boys- PAUL'S BOUTIQUE

My only regret is leaving so many off.

 

Your choices were almost credible to me, until I scrolled down to Incantations. Amarok is debatable but I can let that one slide... Incantations is just tedious, to try and describe it kindly.

 

OH MAN!!! You got this one right! Although, for my own list, I’d also include Five Miles Out, Crises, and Discovery.

 

Congrats, your multiple choice posting is the only one so far in this thread I have no qualms with.

There are other choices given throughout that I agree with one or a few on the list, but then albums I totally can't stand will be thrown in among the great choices. It's all down to taste obviously, but it's curious what causes two people to be equally attracted to some common music taste themes, while being equally repelled by other music tastes of that same person.

 

Some of the others I agree with so far include:
Are You Experienced
James Gang Rides Again
Who's Next
Nevermind
and a few others

what I would include in addition from my list
Sugar - Copper Blue

 

Steely Dan-Aja
Supertramp-Crime of the Century
Alice in Chains-Jar of Flies
The Who-Who's Next
The Police-Ghost In The Machine

 

Not really. I like Mystery Tour more than most Beatles albums I listed, but I don't think it's a 5 star album. Same with Saucerful of Secrets. Also I'm missing all Cream and too much Doors, and they're my fourh and third favourite bands respectively.

Except it's not your opinion, it's their's.

Wrong. Objectivety can be based on different things. Instrumentation, melody, whatever. Some may feel instrumentation isn't something that needs to be taken into account objectively, some may. I added it so people won't argue as to whether something needs to be objectively considered or not.

Also, objectivety, despite being based on fact, is still a subjective thing to some extent. Everyone sees things differently, even things that are undeniably true and based on pure fact. That's just the way people are.

 

Rufus - Rufusized
Ricky Lee Jones - debut
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Beatles - Rock n Roll Music
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Love - Forever Changes
Roy Wood - Boulders
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like A Wheel
Warren Zevon - Stand In the Fire
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night

 

Michael Penn Free-For-All

 

Traveling Wilburys. Dylan, Harrison, Orbison, Petty, Lynne: all of them stars.