Best Album Of All Time (revealed)

Erabarrassing isn't it.

LesPaul...I know what you mean, the mag is Brit focused.
I just love the way the readers have put the odd classic album in there too...you just know they won't even have listened to Queen's, 'A Night at The Opera'.
 
Well, I wasn't talking about greatest. Those are definitely not the greatest ever. Influential was mentioned a couple pages ago so I made this post in respond but I got side tracked time passed so I said edit this doesn't make any sense in context anymore.
 
How big are they now anyway? It seems like they just have a niche amongst those who still give two sh*ts about grunge or think that the use of the term "alternative" hasn't been warped so much as to have lost all meaning. As far as I know this is a fairly small group.
 
I don't know, I was listening to OK computer, and I just thought, this could have been something pink floyd had done.
It just kind of clicked in my mind, kind of like how i though punchup at a wedding could have been Neil Young singing it, only not his writing style, just tones.
 
I think youre completely backwarRAB on this whole thing. Radiohead has a wider canvas of influence? Thats better than almost single-handedly starting the grunge movement? I hate Radiohead. They sound like a Coldplay cover band who sucks even worse (and yes, I realize Radiohead came first). Im just gonna agree to disagree.
 
I love Night at the Opera. Calling it overblown, pompous rubbish is overblown pompous rubbish in itself.

Love,
The Biggest Queen Fanboi ever.
 
But look at the glaring flaw in your logic here. "You can see Queen slipping into that stereotypical sound that they are known for" - can you look at this sentence and tell me what's wrong with it? They weren't SLIPPING INTO ANYTHING "stereotypical" THEN. At the time, it was a brand new sound for them and the world, it doesn't become stereotypical until they release 11 more studio albums and then new generations remark upon it.

Go back to 1975, When Night at the Opera is released, and think about the people who would laugh in your face if you called Queen stereotypical. The first 2 Queen albums are magnificent of course, but it's during Sheer Heart Attack, Night at the Opera and a Day at the Races when they fully develope their own sound.

What you said above nearly blows my mind. I take back what I said about you getting these thoughts from an article, because anyone who knows anything about Queen would never make some of these ridiculous comments. Potential? I mean... they are considered by many to be one of the greatest banRAB of all time! What else could Queen accomplish!? Oh yeah, in their homeland, they have spent more time on the charts than any other artist EVER (yes, that includes the Beatles) - Queen's Greatest Hits? Yeah, in the UK - it's the ALL TIME BEST SELLING ALBUM.

Look on the Queen's Greatest Hits (you can pick the ones released in 81, or the most well known one, Greatest Hits Red, 92) tracklist and tell me how many of those songs come from Queen, or Queen II. The only one you will find is Seven Seas of Rhye - which came off of Queen II. It isn't until the box sets start arriving when Greatest Hits II features some off of Queen or Queen II, and you get a couple of more in Queen Greatest Hits III.

Now... I think you are letting personal preference get the better of you here - I LOVE Queen and Queen II, don't get me wrong... but they don't become the QUEEN we all know and love (which you called stereotypical, which may be the most blind statement you could make here... I have to reiterate this) until the second half of Sheer Heart Attack, you could argue, or until A Night at the Opera hits in 1975.

Mercy.
 
Oasis shouldn't be anywhere near that list.

I'd put in:
Ziggy Stardust
Dark Side of the Moon
Rubber Soul

Personally, I think albums should've passed some sort of "test of time" before being considered.
 
Nevermind=better album than OK Computer
Nirvana=more influential than Radiohead
Nirvana=better band than Radiohead
Good music>lame-o Radiohead sh*t
 
Of course, In Utero was just a cash in on the Nevermind sound, this is why they had Steve Albini produce the album and make it as striped down as possible and why it dosen't sound a thing like Nevermind, they were following a formula, it's oh so obvious.



Of course I am, just look at how big of a flop their recent s/t was, it entered the UK charts at #5 and the US charts at #2, selling 1,577,025 units worldwide and was ranked 90th biggest selling album of 06 by Billboard... What a bunch of f*cking hasbeens.



Oh yeah, because you know EXACTLY what I am thinking.

What a goddamn stupid generalization, "people only like Nirvana because hes dead", what a BRILLANT conclusion in trying to understand why someone would have a opinion different from your own, people who like Nirvana are clearly in denial of the fact they suck and they only care about them because Cobain died, duh.

And the only reason Blind Melon are so popular now is because of Shannon Hoons overdose.... Oh wait.

Nirvana were huge when Cobain died, and his death merely elevated their popularity into infinity, if they continued making albums as good as Nevermind and In Utero they would still be popular today, only not as much.
 
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Word.

Again it well illustrates how different Urbans musicial view is from mine, I've tried getting into some of the banRAB Urban likes, and Super Furry Animals, Primal Scream and Aphex Twin aside I don't like any of it... I recall listening to Pulp, and then trying to get someone to euthanize me afterwarRAB.
 
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