[Music] we'll get it out of the way before the football starts ... Best album EVER

[WATFORD zero]

Not sure the last 60 years have produced anything better ?

 

[burnee54]

What is wrong with you people?
The answer is obviously PEPPER!



Just to prove it's THAT good, here it is by someone else and still sounding brill.

 

[boik]

When I opened this thread I knew straight away that Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds would feature highly. I really don't get it. Most of the songs are pretty average if you strip them back, but massive over-production using fancy new (at the time) techniques turn them into something glossy. Most bands go through this where the first albums are pretty straight up and down, then they get a big contract and loads of money and spend months in a studio with a fancy producer to produce their "masterpiece". Then they realise that they've lost their way and go back to making their "own" music.

Anyway, I have no "best album". On any given day......

 

[Icy Gull]

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Happy 50th to the greatest album (as a whole piece).

I can hardly listen to that album, two Harrison masterpieces aside, Something and Here Comes the Sun. mostly trite shit other than that. EG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De1LCQvbqV4

 

[Icy Gull]

Again, for me, a MASSIVELY overrated album. Yes there are some stand out tracks (three for me) but other than that it’s all a bit meh imo. I say this as a big Beach Boys fan. Much prefer Holland myself

No way is it the greatest album ever, although I am repeatedly told that it is

 

[wellquickwoody]

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Happy 50th to the greatest album (as a whole piece).

Good, but overly indulged as just the first boy band.

Find a bad track on this just cannot be done.

https://youtu.be/HW-lXjOyUWo

 

[studio150]

Can't decide, so

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - debut album
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Elvis Costello -This Years Model
The Clash - Combat Rock
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
The Jam - Setting Sons
Paul Weller - Stanley Road
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Graham Parker - Acid Bubblegum
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Nick Lowe - The Jesus of Cool

 

[brakespear]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmhfN386Skw&t=1037s

It's a great album (especially 'Touched' and 'When You Sleep') but it's not 'Bone Machine' by Tom Waits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKsbR60EuUk&list=PLMRCubysYRii6QcR1Cv9gRNyeEV4YP5mC

 

[happypig]

Disraeli Gears

 

[marcos3263]

you are all ****ing wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pdEkREqQ_c

 

[marcos3263]

you are all ****ing wrong twice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWm03wYBTbM&list=PLuR3CWq59OyrTdWAeVkqH3F6UziQICYeN

 

[Play it cool Rodders]

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

 

[zefarelly]

Nah.

First time I went to the T&CC was '89. .. . . To see Ian Dury and the Blockheads. They recently released a live album from the same era as GOR. It's all good stuff. But the HP album stands out not just for the performance but the sound quality, and a good ten years beforehand, it's quite something. More to the point, it hasn't been ****ed about with and 'added' to like most 'old' live recordings.

This is v good. . . . https://youtu.be/sIiEXi0w0W0

 

[Binney on acid]

Obviously Jackson Browne's 'Late for the sky'.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]