# What do you consider to be the Greatest Albums of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392 "2013-02-05T15:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392/101 "2013-02-08T06:38:46Z")
Skipping over several that have already been mentioned, Captain and Me - Doobie Bros To Our Children’s Children’s Children - Moody Blues ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392/102 "2013-02-08T06:46:55Z")
_The Yes Album_ (Yes) and _Hollywood Town Hall_ (Jayhawks) are great albums. ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392/103 "2013-02-08T10:22:43Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > The greatest Heavy Metal album, Queensryche, Operation: Mindcrime. I was going to nominate that one. In no particular order, a few more I don’t think have been listed: “A Boy Named Goo” - Goo Goo Dolls “Boston” - Boston “Hotel California” - Eagles “Who’s Next” - The Who “Silk Degrees” - Boz Scaggs “Welcome Home” - 'Til Tuesday “Strength” - The Alarm ---
**Author:** ![DarkFire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@DarkFire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkFire)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392/104 "2013-02-08T12:08:54Z")
These are my personal favorites, where everything (to me) just clicks on the album. Sgt. Pepper’s - Beatles White Album - Beatles Appetite for destruction - GN’R The Joshua Tree - U2 Purple Rain - Prince Ten - Pearl Jam Vs - Pearl Jam Blind Melon - Blind Melon Dirt - Alice in Chains Worst Case Scenario - dEUS BadMotorFinger - Soundgarden ---
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> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > This is a great list without a clinker on it. I’m not sure every one of these is 100% perfect, but Titus Andronicus and Neutral Milk Hotel certainly are. Thanks. My list wasn’t in order, but if it had been, The Monitor would been #1 and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea would have been #2. Some of the others on the list took time for me to appreciate them in full, but those two hooked me from the very first listen. Another I should’ve mentioned: Misplaced Childhood by Marillion. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392/106 "2013-02-08T15:07:22Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > I would also like to add \* Duke Ellington live at Newport \*. I would like to pat you on the back for mentioning that. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392/107 "2013-02-08T15:11:50Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Neil Young’s _Everyone Knows This is Nowhere_ is another one I like to listen to from start to finish. In this era of mp3s, it’s easy to cut and paste and not have the full experience of listening to a whole album, or even the same artist in the same sitting. It’s a curse and a blessing, but I try to listen to whole albums from time to time. that is a good work to be listened to as an album. back then many of the better musicians/composers made an LP to be listened whole. it showed their quality. ---
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**Alice Cooper** Billion Dollar Babies. A band in their prime that hit perfectly on all notes, and also avoids sounding dated. **Black Sabbath** Paranoid. 'nuff said. **Heart** Dreamboat Annie. This is one of the most unbelievably polished and technically excellent debut albums ever, like Van Halen 1, or Boston 1. ---
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One other that’s come to mind, that is flawless from start to finish - Floodland by The Sisters Of Mercy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-to-be-the-greatest-albums-of-all-time/649392.md?page=5)