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’.
... 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appearances don't disguise it at all You say that after them, no new idols have ever existed You may even say that I'm out-of-date, that I made up all this But it's you the one who loves the past and can't see that new times will always come Now I've learned that the man who taught me of a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...
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.
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.
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.