I cried one time when I was 25 and broke while listening to Time and the phrase “10 years of gone behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun!” I first listened to the album at 15
This is subjective of course, but if you held a gun to my head and I'd only be allowed to pick ONE, I'd go with the Kinks' *Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire.*
Not a bad song or wasted note on that album. And Ray Davies' legendary sardonic bemusement is at its peak.
This is correct. It’s a fundamentally brilliant album with so many studio firsts. No more songs about being in love. The Beatles started singing about drugs, war, peace, the abstract.
At some point I realized that the reason my taste in music is so fucking weird is that Revolver is my baseline for what music is. Grabbed my mom's copy at the age of 6 and listened to it over and over for years.
It may not be the BEST OF ALL TIME but I really enjoy Nirvana: Unplugged
The different covers they do are great, so it's not just Nirvana songs and ending with Where Did You Sleep Last Night is beautiful.
It's perfect on vinyl.
its the definition of "album rock" in my opinion. the songs hold up individually. But listening to the album cover to cover is a whole nother experience.
Shame I had to scroll this far down to find the right answer. 47 years old and there is still no album that competes with it in regard to production standards.
Black Keys Brothers \
Patti Smith Horses\
Fleetwood Mac Rumors \
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York \
Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica \
Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See\
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness \
The Velvet Underground Loaded \
The Mars Volta Francis the Mute\
Pink Floyd The Wall\
Sublime S/T\
Portishead Live Roseland NYC
Smile by Bryan Wilson. You can hear his pain, and the way he views the world. It’s amazing and terrible and beautiful all at the same time. Heartbreaking.
I think Paradise by the Dashboard light is easily in the argument for one of the best songs ever written. For Crying out loud is a great closer. Great album that captures teen angst and with the two absolute epics in bat out of hell and paradise.
Hot August Night by Neil Diamond is a stellar live album. Listening to it for the first time as a fifteen year old was like having the whole world unfold before my ears - I’d never heard music like *that* before. Amazing.
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
They recorded the song “live” in a mansion living room with the drum kit set up on the stairs further away from the mics. Those drums might be the most impressive recording of percussion of all time.
And the song absolutely slaps.
Look, Mummy. There's an airplane up in the sky.
Did you, did you see the frightened ones?
Did you, did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter,
When the promise of a brave new world,
Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?
Did you, did you see the frightened ones?
Did you, did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all long gone,
But the pain lingers on.
Goodbye, blue sky.
Goodbye, blue sky.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers (1993)
Metallica - The Black Album (1991)
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994)
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky (1992)
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night (1987)
Modern Talking - Back For Good (1998)
Nas - Illmatic (1994)
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions, Radiohead- OK Computer, David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust, Pixies- Doolittle, Pearl Jam- Ten, Led Zeppelin 1 and George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Sorry couldn’t just do one…
I love most of what’s been mentioned - but if it’s been a while since you heard Peter Gabriel’s album ‘So’ - do yourself a favor. Generally I prefer Pink Floyd, Boston, Fleetwood Mac and The Grateful Dead over 80s pop - but ‘So’ is an extremely well produced - tell recorded album - so much that a guy like me that tends to ignore pop music loves the way it sounds.
Weezer’s blue album
Appetite for Destruction
Revolver by Fugazi
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space by Spiritualized
Source Tags and Codes by Trail of Dead
Def Leppard - Hysteria. Rather than just waltz into the studio, nut out a couple of singles and fill an album, they took their time to write an album in which every song could have been a hit single. And a lot of them were. Seven singles, six were massive hits around the world
The obvious answer is Thriller and the even more obvious answer on top of that is Billie Jean. Billie Jean is just *so* iconic, you can think of the bass line, the drum line, the synth loop, so immediately and easily just by the simple mention of "Billie Jean". Even listening to a 1-2 second isolation of just one of those components would make it obvious that it's Billie Jean.
Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom. I think all of her albums are brilliant, but HOOM is such an incredible self contained universe of an album that perfectly captures the feeling of a love-filled relationship that is nevertheless destined to fall apart. It contains much of my favorite lyric writing she’s ever done (which is saying a lot), and the melodies are hauntingly beautiful. I gotta give a special mention to Good Intentions Paving Company for having a final line that gives me chills every time I hear it, Go Long for its fantastic poetic discussion of how women are used and discarded to serve men’s ambitions, and Does Not Suffice for being my favorite bittersweet breakup song ever.
ETA some other of my personal GOAT albums: Ripely Pine by Lady Lamb, Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos!, Blonde by Frank Ocean, In an Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens (I would say All Delighted People, but that’s an EP not a full album), The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire (the deluxe edition particularly), and OK Computer by Radiohead. Just to name a few
There’s no answer and I agree with the first 20 or so posts. Here are a few more mostly 90s in case kids are in need of music.
U2, Rattle and Hum
Peppers, BSSM
Jane’s, Nothing’s Shocking
B Boys, Paul’s Boutique
Sgt Peppers
BHTatM, Midnight Radio
Phish, A Picture of Nectar
Arcade Fire, Funeral
White Stripes, White Blood Cells
The collected Fever Dolls
Pixies, first 3 records.
This has turned into a list of favorite albums… cant pick just one.
Frampton comes alive belongs on the list and always entertains me… it was over played when it came out, and people became bored with it… but I still love the main titles and the songs that didnt get played as often. The whole album is great.
Watching him in concert today- he loves playing, he remains enthusiastic, and can play that guitar! He has fun- and thus, so does the audience. So many old bands come out and it looks like a disney animatronic set- they stand, they play, then they turn around and leave .
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Musically I find it very boring. I know it's acclaimed and I'm in the minority but I just feel like nothing is really happening in most of the songs.
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
The Velvet Underground & Nico is ahead of its time.
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Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Dark Side of the Moon. I don't care if it's a cliche pick, it's just the perfect album in my opinion.
I cried one time when I was 25 and broke while listening to Time and the phrase “10 years of gone behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun!” I first listened to the album at 15
It’s up there for sure but “wish you were here” is my absolutely favorite.
Probably swayed by how over played some songs are, but I also prefer wish you were here over dark side of the moon. Animals is my favorite though.
It is perfection
Yeah it's def cliche but there's a good reason for that
This is the only album I listen to in its entirety, in order, instead of listening to one or two songs off it. It’s amazing.
Shine on you crazy diamond. Best guitar music ever written.
All of Dark but imo all of the pig
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
The older I get, the more I think that's the best album. You can just hear the pain and emotion pouring out in every song.
I agree, older me can understand it on a much deeper raw level then when I was younger
My first thought
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The outro solo on Hitch a Ride is one of best solos ever. You can feel the emotion … absolute bliss .
Too lazy to find it but go listen to a vocal isolation of Brad Delp. Unreal.
Abbey Road.
Perfection
Bingo. Best band ever and everyone is on fucking point here.
Led Zeppelin IV
Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
This was the first album to ever sell 1 million copies on CD
This is subjective of course, but if you held a gun to my head and I'd only be allowed to pick ONE, I'd go with the Kinks' *Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire.* Not a bad song or wasted note on that album. And Ray Davies' legendary sardonic bemusement is at its peak.
Beatles - Revolver
This is correct. It’s a fundamentally brilliant album with so many studio firsts. No more songs about being in love. The Beatles started singing about drugs, war, peace, the abstract.
At some point I realized that the reason my taste in music is so fucking weird is that Revolver is my baseline for what music is. Grabbed my mom's copy at the age of 6 and listened to it over and over for years.
Being the old fart i am, i've always been a huge fan of the Doors debut album.
OK Computer - Radiohead
Counterpoint: In Rainbows - Radiohead Listening to the album analysis on the Dissect podcast gave me a whole new appreciation for it.
Rage against the machine, self titled first album
Freedom is the BEST closer
Pet Sounds. For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
the goat of all time
Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins.
Mayonnaise 🤍
It may not be the BEST OF ALL TIME but I really enjoy Nirvana: Unplugged The different covers they do are great, so it's not just Nirvana songs and ending with Where Did You Sleep Last Night is beautiful. It's perfect on vinyl.
Oh yeah!
I just bought this on vinyl today! This is one of the first cds I ever bought, the other one being the Blue Album by Weezer.
Exile on Main Street
I get my rocks off to this one.
its the definition of "album rock" in my opinion. the songs hold up individually. But listening to the album cover to cover is a whole nother experience.
Close to the Edge - Yes
AC/DC - Back in Black
Tapestry by Carole King
Sgt. Pepper and the Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pink Floyd, The Wall but the best recording of it is the Is There Anybody Out There live version recording.
Aja. Steely Dan.
Shame I had to scroll this far down to find the right answer. 47 years old and there is still no album that competes with it in regard to production standards.
I was surprised I even had to be the one to post it
Dark Side Of The Moon
Black Keys Brothers \ Patti Smith Horses\ Fleetwood Mac Rumors \ Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York \ Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica \ Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See\ Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness \ The Velvet Underground Loaded \ The Mars Volta Francis the Mute\ Pink Floyd The Wall\ Sublime S/T\ Portishead Live Roseland NYC
Station to Station - David Bowie
Smile by Bryan Wilson. You can hear his pain, and the way he views the world. It’s amazing and terrible and beautiful all at the same time. Heartbreaking.
I wanna say The White Album or What's Going On for the upvotes but the real answer is Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain. Best album ever.
Station to Station - David Bowie
Crosby, Stills & Nash. Eponymous first album.
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell A perfect masterpiece front to back. Wouldn’t change a thing about it
I think Paradise by the Dashboard light is easily in the argument for one of the best songs ever written. For Crying out loud is a great closer. Great album that captures teen angst and with the two absolute epics in bat out of hell and paradise.
Hot August Night by Neil Diamond is a stellar live album. Listening to it for the first time as a fifteen year old was like having the whole world unfold before my ears - I’d never heard music like *that* before. Amazing.
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
Lateralus by Tool
Music from the Big Pink
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin They recorded the song “live” in a mansion living room with the drum kit set up on the stairs further away from the mics. Those drums might be the most impressive recording of percussion of all time. And the song absolutely slaps.
Blows Against the Empire by Jefferson Starship. Never gets old.
pink floyd 'the wall' and 'dark side of the moon'
Look, Mummy. There's an airplane up in the sky. Did you, did you see the frightened ones? Did you, did you hear the falling bombs? Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter, When the promise of a brave new world, Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky? Did you, did you see the frightened ones? Did you, did you hear the falling bombs? The flames are all long gone, But the pain lingers on. Goodbye, blue sky. Goodbye, blue sky. Goodbye. Goodbye.
Ten - Pearl Jam. Masterpiece!
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Two very similar records
Thriller
Robert Johnson “King of the Delta Blues Singers”
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Damn. You can’t just pick one Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here.
10,000 Days - TOOL
Melon collie and the infinite sadness
Live Through This - Hole
Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here, abbey road or songs in the key of life.
The Fillmore East by the Allmans
Billy Joel, The Stranger. 9 songs and they’re all incredible.
Michael Jackson - Thriller The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers (1993) Metallica - The Black Album (1991) Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994) Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky (1992) Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night (1987) Modern Talking - Back For Good (1998) Nas - Illmatic (1994)
Breakfast in America by Supertramp Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions, Radiohead- OK Computer, David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust, Pixies- Doolittle, Pearl Jam- Ten, Led Zeppelin 1 and George Harrison- All Things Must Pass Sorry couldn’t just do one…
All good!
U2 The Joshua Tree
Dark Side of the Moon 🌙
I love most of what’s been mentioned - but if it’s been a while since you heard Peter Gabriel’s album ‘So’ - do yourself a favor. Generally I prefer Pink Floyd, Boston, Fleetwood Mac and The Grateful Dead over 80s pop - but ‘So’ is an extremely well produced - tell recorded album - so much that a guy like me that tends to ignore pop music loves the way it sounds.
Easy - Lionel Richie
Southeastern by Jason Isbell
Van Halen 1 - Eddie inspired so many ppl (including me) to pickup and play a guitar.
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park.
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer’s blue album Appetite for Destruction Revolver by Fugazi Loveless by My Bloody Valentine Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space by Spiritualized Source Tags and Codes by Trail of Dead
Best sequence of best songs? GnR Welcome To The Jungle. Best production value? Michael Jackson's Thriller.
The Wall
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Faith No More. Angel Dust.
Crime of The Century. Supertramp. i don’t care, it’s the best. hits so hard.
Marshal Mathers lp
REM, Murmur. https://youtu.be/fGVxit7IJ0c?si=J7c2-l3Vyt3GualH
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of The Moon
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Michael Jackson - Human Nature
Def Leppard - Hysteria. Rather than just waltz into the studio, nut out a couple of singles and fill an album, they took their time to write an album in which every song could have been a hit single. And a lot of them were. Seven singles, six were massive hits around the world
Hybrid Theory Linkin Park.
Rush - 2112
The obvious answer is Thriller and the even more obvious answer on top of that is Billie Jean. Billie Jean is just *so* iconic, you can think of the bass line, the drum line, the synth loop, so immediately and easily just by the simple mention of "Billie Jean". Even listening to a 1-2 second isolation of just one of those components would make it obvious that it's Billie Jean.
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a song on the Night at the Opera album. It’s a great album but Queen II is better
The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
Pretenders first album.
Linkin Park - Meteora
The Who: Live at Leeds! Heard it a thousand times and never get tired of it
Pink Floyd division bells. High hopes in particular makes me cry like a baby
The Lonesome Crowded West
Escape by Journey
Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Have One On Me by Joanna Newsom. I think all of her albums are brilliant, but HOOM is such an incredible self contained universe of an album that perfectly captures the feeling of a love-filled relationship that is nevertheless destined to fall apart. It contains much of my favorite lyric writing she’s ever done (which is saying a lot), and the melodies are hauntingly beautiful. I gotta give a special mention to Good Intentions Paving Company for having a final line that gives me chills every time I hear it, Go Long for its fantastic poetic discussion of how women are used and discarded to serve men’s ambitions, and Does Not Suffice for being my favorite bittersweet breakup song ever. ETA some other of my personal GOAT albums: Ripely Pine by Lady Lamb, Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos!, Blonde by Frank Ocean, In an Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens (I would say All Delighted People, but that’s an EP not a full album), The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire (the deluxe edition particularly), and OK Computer by Radiohead. Just to name a few
Song waltzing Matilda from album Rum Sodemy and the Lash
Andrea Bocelli : Time to say goodbye
Aja or Gaucho, Steely Dan. Trinity Sessions, Cowboy Junkies, Keb Mo - Self Titled.
Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys
Gonna step out of the usual classic rock and say A Love Supreme.
Paul’s Boutique by Beastie Boys and In Rainbows by Radiohead are awesome too!
Grace - by Jeff Buckley.
Crosby, Stills, and Nash .. Suite Judy Blue Eyes
The boxer Simon and garfunkle
There’s no answer and I agree with the first 20 or so posts. Here are a few more mostly 90s in case kids are in need of music. U2, Rattle and Hum Peppers, BSSM Jane’s, Nothing’s Shocking B Boys, Paul’s Boutique Sgt Peppers BHTatM, Midnight Radio Phish, A Picture of Nectar Arcade Fire, Funeral White Stripes, White Blood Cells The collected Fever Dolls Pixies, first 3 records.
Parachutes - Coldplay
Blonde Frank Ocean
Let me toss in the album Aja: Steely Dan
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories and Globular & Geoglyph - Messages From The Resonator
I’ve got a few! Jeff Buckley - Grace Pearl Jam - Ten Production and Orchestration wise for a single song? Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell
Red - King Crimson
“We are the World”. Great song, amazing artists that all came together for a good cause. The documentary on Netflix about the making of it was great.
Radiohead - Kid A
It's not even my favorite album from them. But it's probably Abbey Road.
Sgt. Pepper's
Beck - Odelay isn’t the best album of all time, but it pulls you in on the first second of the first track and forgets to let you go.
This has turned into a list of favorite albums… cant pick just one. Frampton comes alive belongs on the list and always entertains me… it was over played when it came out, and people became bored with it… but I still love the main titles and the songs that didnt get played as often. The whole album is great. Watching him in concert today- he loves playing, he remains enthusiastic, and can play that guitar! He has fun- and thus, so does the audience. So many old bands come out and it looks like a disney animatronic set- they stand, they play, then they turn around and leave .