Best Album { LP } ever

It's a close call but I'd have to say :
Madman Across the Water
Virtually for me,every song is telling and terrific.
The song writing { not a particular fan of Lyrics }
does it for me.As did Cat Stevens :
- Tea for the Tillerman -.

 

Zep II.

And every Rush album ever made.

AA

 

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - "Zuma" - I can listen to it all day long!
[video=youtube;U06-E2JKxgo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06-E2JKxgo[/video]

 

Like best Guitarist or singer-its too subjective but some of the best albums IMHO include

LZ One, III and the famous untitled one with Stairway to Heaven and When the Levee breaks

Aqualung -Tull

Grateful Dead-Europe 72

Achtung Baby-U2

The Pretenders (debut album)

Automatic for the People-REM

Blows against the Empire (while this was allegedly the first Jefferson Starship Album its really a collective of San Fran's best including david crosby and Jerry Garcia)

Eat a Peach-ABB

Are You Experienced-Hendrix, Mitchell, Redding

and my number one LONDON CALLING Clash

 

Any from Jethro Tull!!!! They're all great!

Love ABB & Hendrix also...

ahhhh the good old days when music was great.... and lyrics weren't about bustin' a cap in you rival cus they stole your bltch hoe!

 

well old time guys Like Garcia loved music first and became wealthy as a result rather than some of the more modern guys who looked at making it big first and took lots of short cuts. some modern musicians are incredibly proficient-examples Aaron and Bryce Dessner of "The National" (I know their father), and John Myung of Dream Theater who it is reported used to practice his bass 6 hours a day while at the Berkelee school of music.

BTW anytime someone talks to me about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I note its a joke until Ian Anderson and Tull and Robert Fripp and Greg Lake of King Crimson and ELP get in because there is crap like NWA in there.

 

Let me be clear.I am talking about LP's { albums } where
EVERY song is Liked.That is a very hard hurdle to overcome.
As a young kid { in 8th grade } who saved my paper route money
to Purchase a Heathkit Catalog Amp & Speakers I had only LP's
as my source.Because my father had the best Stereo in town,
hands down. But he used it to show off how Loud it was.
He gave me his nice Garrard turntable after I finished building my
Heathkit Amp { 30 watt }.
The funny thing is ... I never replaced the stylis on his Garard.maybe Once.
I can't remember. I played like hundreds after hundreds of LP's on that
Garrard turntable.It lasted from my Freshman year in high school till my
senior year in college.
I used that set-up in my Frosh year in college for our Christmas
Dorm floor party.Meaning I had to make sure and be there when the
LP ended.The turntable had no ability to replay or shut off.
My favorite LP { song } at that time was Johnny Winter's
Johnny B Goode

 

For me that would depend upon my age at the time.

In my teens it would have been Skid row, in my early twenties Metallica (....and Justice for All), now in my early 40s Madison Rising (American Hero)

I find that as I age my attitudes in life change therefore changing what I like in albums. I like the music, but I also like the lyrics and what I believe the meaning in them to be. Of course there are some that I like just to cause, like Gwar (America Must be Destroyed)....ah The Morality Squad.

 

Grace by Jeff Buckley would be my personal choice, though Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon would probably be the more populist choice.

 

Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd

 

With full appreciation for nostalgia and pure 70's cheese, what LP could possibly be better than one thin layer of finely grooved vinyl that offers all of "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass, the Hollies' "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)" and "Backstabbers" by the O'Jays. But wait, there's more super explosive hits on this wonder of the bell-bottomed, mood-ringed world. This wax artifact also includes "Go All The Way" by the Raspberries, Rod's "Maggie May" and "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" by half-breed Cher herself. Finish off this (also available in 8-track) cornucopia of auditory delight with Dr. Hook's "Sylvia's Mother", Argent's "Hold Your Head Up" and Clapton's "Let It Rain", and you have yourself the undisputed, best LP in the history of recorded music.

I offer you... "Believe In Music" by K-Tel Records: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Believe-In-Music/release/2578296

 

Bob Dylan : blonde on blonde . Brillian , but that's Bob Dylan .

 

Unleashed in the East~ Judas Priest
followed closely by

White Album~ Beatles
Animal Magnetism~ Scorpions
Dark Side of the Moon~ Pink floyd

 

Hard to list all the greats here but here goes:

Derek and the Dominoes, Live
Marshall Tucker Band, Where we all belong
Eat a Peach, ABB
Blue, Miles Davis
Songs for Swinging Lovers, Sinatra
Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
Born to Run, The Boss
Abraxas, Santana
Buena Vista Social Club
Dixie Chicks Live
Paranoid, Talking Heads
Mother Lode, Loggins and Messina
Deja vu, CSNY
Babylon by Bus, Bob Marley

Just a few off the top of my head

 

Best is subjective.

Favorite album is a better descriptor.

[video=youtube;QmKvM_Q4jKM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKvM_Q4jKM[/video]

 

Hands down, The Beatles -- Rubber Soul. John, Paul, George & Ringo at their best!

 

I like Zeppelin's Celebration Day, their live performance at the 02 in 2007. I realize that live albums usually don't make these lists because the sound quality isn't top notch but it's the album I'd want on a deserted island. A CD player would also be handy.

 

Excellent choice, I love that one too. But my all time favorite is "Back in Black" by AC/DC.

 

Have to say any vinyl LP that was pressed before the oil embargo of 1973/74.

Vinyl LP's are made from oil. Because of the Arab oil embargo on the USA the record industry had to go to a lower quality of vinyl and also from a 200 gr. or 180 gr. LP to a lighter and thinner LP as low as 100 gr. !!!

Did this cause people to switch over to the tape cartridge and cassette ???

Record players in cars didn't workout to well, a lot of skipping. And people wanted to listen to LP's in their cars instead of always having to listen to the radio were quick to go to tape.

There was also heavy drugs and alchol use going on during the early 70's which resulted in a whole lot of scratched LP's.

The 4 track Muntz Blue Light 4 track tape player of the late 60's became the answer then the 8 track and soon the small cassette player.
The quality wasn't the same as the LP but no more scratches. But it got worse with the CD, a whole lot of frequencies that you can't hear on a CD but can on a vinyl LP.

 

Remember the old RCA Dyna-Flex 33rpm records? You could literally bend them in half without breaking them. They made excellent frisbies.

 

I remember my parents 78 rpm records and they didn't bend, they just broke in half. -> http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/historyof78rpms.htm

 

Oh yeah, the old shellac 78 rpm records, what about the old acetate discs where you cut your own records at home? I've got a bunch of them. The threads from them made toxic but excellent smoke bombs.

 

I remember them. They use to have them at the Long Beach Pike amusement park during the 50's and 60's and you were able to cut your own album.

 

Derek and the Dominos was a favorite of mine.
Led Zeppelin had about 3 really good LP's.
I know I'm forgetting a couple albums.Don't forget I'm thinking
of Albums where every cut is good to great.

 

Planet P - Pink World
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Every song is fantastic! ...In the same category as Pink Floyd's - The Wall