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The Brits have recently vaulted Oasis's "Definately Maybe" past Sgt. Pepper in greatest rock album ever according to a just released poll. After your head stops exploding, what album do you feel best deserves this lofty status in your collection?

My personal choice is QUADROPHENIA by the Who.

Love - Forever Changes

If I were only able to own one CD, period, this would be it for me.

I'd say my #1 album of all time is Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

But there are too many perfect lps to think of where every song on the album is good or great -- here are a few I love, and consistanly listen all the way through:

Benjamin Orr - The Lace
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Cars - The Cars
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Jon Brion - I Heart Huckabees
Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Enya - Watermark
Esthero - Breath From Another
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Howard Jones - Human's Lib
Ivy - Apartment Life
Ivy - Long Distance
José González - Veneer
k.d. Lang - Ingénue
Led Zeppelin - IV
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Naked Eyes - Naked Eyes
OMD - Crush
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
REM - Fable of the Reconstruction
REM - Automatic for the People
Ric Ocasek - Beatitude (ok, eliminate Time Bomb and it's perfect)
Ruby - Salt Peter
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
Til Tuesday - Welcome Home
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
U2 - War
Wang Chung - Points on the Curve
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot


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Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation barely beats out Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden as my all-time favorite.

Close but not quite:

3-jim carroll band-catholic boy
4-joe jackson-look sharp
5-the replacements-let it be

Not saying it's my #1 but every song on the first Cheap Trick album is great.

It seems that ther is not much attempt to be objective here so in the same vein, my top 3:

1. The Wild Swans: Bringing Home The Ashes
2. The Colourfield: Virgins and Philistines [:D]
3. The Waterboys: This Is The Sea

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<br>It seems that ther is not much attempt to be objective here so in the same vein, my top 3:
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What an asinine statement. Do you even think before you type? The question was "What's YOUR #1 album of all time?" , which everyone answered as asked. What seems to be the problem?

FYI, the definition of "objective" is "undistorted by emotion or personal bias". Exactly what the fuck is a favorite if not based on emotion (a mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling) and/or personal bias (preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment??? Let me know if you need "impartial" defined.

EHEHEH,
Motors (Educator)

No wonder that you have difficulty understanding the concept of objectivity since your mind is always distorted by emotion and personal bias.....[:D]

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[quote][i]Originally posted by fanciz[/i]
<br>It seems that ther is not much attempt to be objective here so in the same vein, my top 3:
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LOL! What a weenie.

New Wave? EATBM's Ocean Rain.

Others from other eras or genres since at one time or another I thought they were surely the best albums I'd ever heard:

Classic Rock - Led Zeppelin 1
Prog Rock - Dark Side of the Moon
Folk - Peter Rowan's Awake Me in the New World
Jazz - Cannonball Adderley's Sometin' Else
Classical - Van Cliburn's performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concert #1 w/ Kiril Kondrashin
Electronica - Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain
Current Alt - The Decline of British Sea Power

Stooges-Fun House.I want to be buried with this lp.

I would have to go with the Beatles Sgt. Peppers. That album it still blows Me away.

A good second would have to be Micheal Jackson's Thriller. I know he's not popular and even hated right now but that album is one of the best releases of all-time.

My personal favorite is Kraftwerks Computer World.

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We had a thread like this a month or so back, and my answer's still the same. Payola$ - "Hammer on a Drum." I connected with every single track on there. Four classic singles, awesome cover art, great lyrics -- all that and a duet with Carole Pope. What's not to like? The only thing that could have made it better was the inclusion of "Soldier."

I keep a loaner copy around just so I can convert the unaware. Every one who returns it tells me it's the best album they've ever heard.

They have to. I make them.

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