Top 885 albums of all time

[desh]

So the best radio station ever is currently counting down the top 885 albums of all time. Now, this is a much less compelling countdown than last year's countdown of the top 885 songs of all time. I probably can't even name the albums that 75% of my favorite songs come from. But it should still get interesting around the top 50 or so.

I'm definitely keeping my eye out to see which Beatles album is their best, how Animals measures up to Pink Floyd's 3 other popular ones (and how their others measure up to those 4), if TMBG's Flood gets the respect it deserves, if U2's newer stuff deservedly gets ranked near Joshua Tree, whether newer groups (Decemberists) can get anywhere near the top, and a few other things. My best guess for the number 1, right now, is Dark Side of the Moon. Though I reserve the right to change my guess later.

What do you think the best album ever is? What do you think they'll think the best album ever is?

Comments

[krisispm.livejournal.com]

They ranked Garbage's eponymous LOWER than Norah Jones completely shit second record, so i have to recuse myself from having an opinion based on the fact that their rankings SUCK ASS.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i don't grok this "best", neither as applied to a radio station, nor as applied to art. how, please, is it measured?

[pkzimmer.livejournal.com]

If you look as an album as a complete work, with each song both being good in and of its own right and fitting in with the rest, I can give you a few I think are great, in no particular order. I won't even attempt to rank them.

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Joshua Tree - U2
Hail to the Thief - Radiohead
Ten - Pearl Jam
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Supernatural - Santana
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Sueños Liquidos - Maná

and a bunch more, but I think it would get a little silly if I just went on.

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

i also think Dark Side. also, Massive Attack's "Mezanine" is great.

[myq.livejournal.com]

Nas - Illmatic

[estepha.livejournal.com]

the beach boys' pet sounds should, and probably will be up near the top.