Those Best Album Of All Time Lists...

Urban Hat€monger ? · 12-07-2011, 01:51 PM

The discussion I had with Stu & Janszoon in some other thread inspired this one so you can blame them.

We've all seen those The Greatest Album Of All Time lists, we all know which albums are always featured, it's nearly always the same ones anyway.

Hey look!!!

Here's one of those very same generic lists I was talking about, It doesn't matter where it's from. It's a list of 'The Best Albums EVERRRRRR' so we'll use the top 30 of it for the purposes of this thread.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
3. Revolver - The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
6. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling - The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album") - The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions - Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road - The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind - Nirvana
18. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
20. Thriller - Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight - Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
23. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo - James Brown
25. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree - U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1 - Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next - The Who
29. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
30. Blue - Joni Mitchell

Now, this isn't one of those threads where people come in and say 'Oh (insert album title here) deserves to be much higher than (insert a different album title here)' We've done that here before loads of times and it was dull then.

No, what I want you to do is this...

These are supposedly the BEST albums of all time, The elite of the past 70 or so years of all recorded music.

Yeah?

Well If that's the case then people should be listening to them all the time. Which is why I ask this question

When was the last time YOU listened to any of them.

Be as specific or vague as you like.

12-07-2011, 01:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Those Best Album Of All Time Lists... The discussion I had with Stu & Janszoon in some other thread inspired this one so you can blame them. We've all seen those The Greatest Album Of All Time lists, we all know which albums are always featured, it's nearly always the same ones anyway. Hey look!!! Here's one of those very same generic lists I was talking about, It doesn't matter where it's from. It's a list of 'The Best Albums EVERRRRRR' so we'll use the top 30 of it for the purposes of this thread. 1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles 2. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys 3. Revolver - The Beatles 4. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan 5. Rubber Soul - The Beatles 6. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 7. Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones 8. London Calling - The Clash 9. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan 10. The Beatles ("The White Album") - The Beatles 11. The Sun Sessions - Elvis Presley 12. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 13. Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground 14. Abbey Road - The Beatles 15. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 16. Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan 17. Nevermind - Nirvana 18. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen 19. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison 20. Thriller - Michael Jackson 21. The Great Twenty-Eight - Chuck Berry 22. Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 23. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder 24. Live at the Apollo - James Brown 25. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac 26. The Joshua Tree - U2 27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1 - Robert Johnson 28. Who's Next - The Who 29. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 30. Blue - Joni Mitchell Now, this isn't one of those threads where people come in and say 'Oh (insert album title here) deserves to be much higher than (insert a different album title here)' We've done that here before loads of times and it was dull then. No, what I want you to do is this... These are supposedly the BEST albums of all time, The elite of the past 70 or so years of all recorded music. Yeah? Well If that's the case then people should be listening to them all the time. Which is why I ask this question When was the last time YOU listened to any of them. Be as specific or vague as you like. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.