Top 20 albums of all time... (Page 2)

scoobysdad - 2008-07-30 2:13 PM

the bear - 2008-07-30 1:49 PM

As long as "anything" is limited to writing doggerel, playing one's skin flute onstage, and drinking oneself into a coma.

Mr. Mojo simply wanted to leave at the top of his game. You know before he did something embarassing... like pretty much anything Dylan, McCartney and others on your list did from the 90's on. Oh, and by the way, "L.A. Woman" was released in the '70s, making it much easier to make a case it was one of the best of the decade.

Some of Dylan's latter-day work (Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft) far outshines anything Morrison wrote or recorded. And Jimbo embarrassed himself enough in the short time he lived.

OK, I stand corrected on the release date. So make the case that LA Woman was the best album of the 70s.

scoobysdad - 2008-07-30 2:53 PM

the bear - 2008-07-30 2:38 PM So make the case that LA Woman was the best album of the 70s.

 

How can I describe the sunrise to a blind man? It's genius is readily apparent to all those enlightened stoned enough to appreciate it. Others listen to Neil Young

fixed that for you

Earlier in my years, I would have said

1. The Beatles, The Beatles
2. High Tides and Green Grass, The Rolling Stones
3. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
4. Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
5. Tommy, The Who
6. Electric Ladyland?, Jimi Henndrix
7. Eric is Here, Eric Burdon and the Animals
8. Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart
9. Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon and Garfunkel
10. In the Midnight Hour, Wilson Picket

Today, it would be more like:

1. Mozart
2. Beethoven
3. J. S. Bach
4. Vivaldi
5. Haydn
6. Handel
7. Mendelsohn
8. The best of Pavarotti

We got "RickRolled"!  That is so freaking hilarious.  I just sent like 20 emails to friends pretending to post a real link with that attached instead.

You know, that's a great point.  I wonder how many of the so-called greatest 20 albums of all time, on my list or anyone else's, will still be listened to hundreds of years from now.  I'd venture to say very few, if any.