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Best Albums Ever:

reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
edited December 2007 in Other Music
At the moment at least:

Pearl Jam - Vs
Soundgarden - SUK...... or BMF......no, SUk..... no, BMF....
Radiohead - Hail to the thief - incredible
Led Zeppelin - IV
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Alice in Chians - Dirt
bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    ODB - return to the 36 chambers.

    i have returned to this album year after year and become addicted to it all over again EVERY time since the year it came out.
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
  • DriftingByTheStormDriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    A fairly standard list for me (no order):

    Help - The Beatles (some of my toppermost favorites are on Please Please Me and Beatles For Sale, but this is the best album, imho)
    ST\"XXX" - Jane's Addiction
    Life's Rich Pageant - R.E.M
    American Beauty - The Grateful Dead
    No Code - Pearl Jam
    The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground (half of me wants to say The Velvet Underground, for "What Goes On" alone anyhow, but fuck it)
    The Bends - Radiohead
    Appetite For Destruction - Guns 'n' Roses
    Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
    III - Led Zeppelin
    Rock Animals - Shonen Knife
    A Quick One [second side only] \ The Who Sell Out [first side only] - The Who (damnit, sorry i cheated)


    Uh.
    Ok. I know you didn't ask for a number, but there is 10. [edit - shit, i had to make it 12]
    I'd probably put Road To Ruin up there, even though i can't say it really is one of the "best" albums, because the Ramones were never really great at albums on the whole. I'd also maybe consider Why Do Birds Sing by the Violent Femmes, even though i only really love the first 9 tracks. And, if i weren't half embarrassed by them, Portrait of an American Family by Marilyn Manson which has the all out best dark,hard art-rock tunes ever crafted, and amazingly well produced (nod to Trent). If I Were A Carpenter has to be the best tribute album ever put out. A nod to my flirtation with dance, Bryant Street by Dubtribe Sound System. Oh, and the obligatory Pet Sounds, lol.

    I think "Best Album" lists are always tricky. Some bands will get excluded, because while their catalogue as a whole shines, perhaps their albums in specific did not. Great songs but bad production, ever lacking tracklists, or just an inability to convey on tape what becomes magic in a live setting. Also, some artists may have albums which, while subjectively their "best", may not include songs that are subjectively "better".
    :D
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  • pr4mojo1pr4mojo1 Posts: 102
    Pearl Jam - Vs
    GNR - Use Your Illusion 1
    Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
    Radiohead - OK Computer
    RATM - Evil Empire
    Nirvana - In Utero
    Faith No More - Angel Dust
    Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock and/or Dig Me Out
    QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
    Jay-Z - The Blueprint
    Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
    Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
    Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight an/or Suicide Invoice
    L7 - Hungry For Stink
    09/12/92-Irvine, 11/05/93-Indio, 06/24/95-San Fran, 11/06/95-SD, 11/07/95-SD, 7/13/98-LA, 07/14/98-LA, 10/25/00-SD, 10/28/00-Devore, 06/02/03-Irvine, 06/05/03-SD, 06/06/03-LV, 10/28/03-Santa Barbara, 09/02/05-Vancouver, 06/24/06-Cincy, 07/06/06-LV, 07/07/06-SD, 07/09/06-LA, 07/10/06-LA, 07/13/06-SB
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    pearl jam-yield
    bruce springsteen-born to run
    u2-achtung baby
    the verve-urban hymns
    rolling stones-exile on main st
    the beatles-depending on my mood-currently probably abbey road or revolver
    the clash-london calling
    I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.

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  • prodacakeprodacake Posts: 319
    pearl jam no code& yield
    counting crows this desert life
    gene drawn to the deep end
    eels, electro shock blues
    longpigs, the sun is often out
    ryan adams gold
    nirvana in utero
    3rd eye blind blue
    the hold steady seperation sunday
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Some of my all time favorites, in no particular order. And since 2007 was such a mind-blowing year for music, I had no choice but to add a few new ones as well. Off the top of my head:

    The Tragically Hip- Day for Night
    The Tragically Hip- Phantom Power
    Rheostatics- Whale Music
    Rheostatics- Melville
    Tom Waits- Mule Variations
    Lowest of the Low- Shakespeare, My Butt
    Wilco- Being There
    Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Uncle Tupelo- Still Feel Gone
    Sarah Harmer- You Were Here
    Weeping Tile- Cold Snap
    The Weakerthans- Left & Leaving
    Change of Heart- Smile
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
    The Constantines- Tournament of Hearts
    Buffalo Tom- Let Me Come Over
    Wintersleep- Welcome to the Night Sky
    Arcade Fire- Funeral
    The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir- Shyfolk
    Bob Dylan- Time Out of Mind
    Radiohead- The Bends
    The Clash- London Calling
    Sloan- Twice Removed
    Pearl Jam- Yield
    Pearl Jam- Vs.
    Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska
    New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
    U2- Achtung Baby
    U2- The Joshua Tree
    Midnight Oil- Diesel & Dust
    Drive-By Truckers- The Dirty South
    Cuff the Duke- Sidelines of the City
    Neko Case- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
    Nirvana- Nevermind
    Joni Mitchell- Blue
    Guns N' fuckin' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
    Counting Crows- August and Everything After
    Blue Rodeo- Five Days in July
    The Doors- The Doors
    Led Zeppelin II
    R.E.M.- Automatic for the People
    Joel Plaskett- La De Da
    Skydiggers- Restless
    K-OS- Joyful Rebellion
    Soundgarden- Superunknown
    The Police- Synchronicity
    Cowboy Junkies- Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
    Steve Earle- El Corazon
    Cracker- The Golden Age
    Tom Petty- Wildflowers
    Warren Zevon- Life'll Kill Ya
    The Replacements- Let it Be
    Headstones- Teeth & Tissue
    The Black Crowes- Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
    The Jayhawks- Rainy Day Music
    Ben Harper- Fight for Your Mind
    The Hold Steady- Boys & Girls in America
    Johnny Cash- American Recordings
    Billy Bragg & Wilco- Mermaid Avenue


    ...that's all I can think of at the moment.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • DaveMatthewsDaveMatthews Posts: 73
    the hold steady fucking blows
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    DaveMatthews wrote:
    the hold steady fucking blows

    Wrong.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    #1: Kid A by Radiohead
    #2: The Real Thing by Faith No More
    #3: Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
    #4: Ten by Pearl Jam
    #5: Thriller by Michael Jackson

    Honorable Mentions:
    Illmatic by Nas
    El Oso by Soul Coughing
    Angel Dust by Faith No More
    Yield by Pearl Jam
    Jars of Flies by Alice In Chains
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Pearl Jam - Pretty much everything they've ever done
    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Zeitgeist, Siamese Dream, and Gish
    Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies, Unplugged, Dirt
    Soundgarden - Superunknown
    Blind Melon - Soup
    Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, the Fragile
    Tool - Aenima, 10,000 Days, Lateralus
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Stadium Arcadium
    Nirvana - In Utero, Unplugged
    Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti, IV, and Houses of the Holy
    Pink Floyd - The Wall, Wish You Were Here
    Live - Throwing Copper
    Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
    The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
    Collective Soul - Dosage, Collective Soul
    Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles
    Jerry Cantrell - Degredation Trip

    and that's all I can think of for right now...
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • AzwethinkweizAzwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    1. The Who - Quadrophenia, Tommy, Who's Next
    2. Dredg - El Cielo
    3. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs, Bone Machine, Swordfishtrombones
    4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
    5. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
    6. Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, ZOSO, House of the Holy, Physical Graffiti
    7. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
    8. Incubus - Morning View
    9. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy, Ten, No Code
    10. Deftones - White Pony
    11. Jeff Buckley - Grace
    12. Weezer - Pinkerton
    13. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    14. Rush - 2112
    15. Yes - The Yes Album
    16. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
    17. David Gray - White Ladder
    18. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
    19. Pink Floyd - DSOTM, WYWH, Animals
    20. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
  • eoboeobo Posts: 102
    Azwethinkweiz wrote:
    11. Jeff Buckley - Grace

    i was beginning to wonder why no-one had mentioned this!!!!

    plus, DJ Shadow's "Entroducing" and the Chili's "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" should be on the go.

    Oh! And "Streetcleaner" by Godflesh. And Fear Factory's "Demanufacture".

    Part of me wants to say "The Battle of LA" too, but it's between the glory of that and the sheer inspiration that the self titled brings so I won't actually make that choice, because I'm too indecisive.
    heh, keep her lit.

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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Some:

    The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
    Born to Run - Springsteen
    Yield - Pearl Jam
    Horses - Patti Smith
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
    R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
  • THE BANDTHE BAND Posts: 83
    NY Harvest
    Pearl jam VS
    The hip courage
    Zep HotH
    white album not lewis black
    Ny tonights the night
  • rigneyclanrigneyclan Posts: 289
    #1: Fugazi - End Hits
    7/16/06 7/18/06
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Greatest Hits of the best bands
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
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