I have my opinions, but I want to hear yours first.
Led Zeppelin II
By decade:
'60s - The Beatles: The Beatles
'70s - Big Star: Radio City
'80s - XTC: English Settlement
'90s - Radiohead: OK Computer
'00s - Sleater-Kinney: The Woods
For overall #1, I’d say the White Album. (I struggle between that and The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society though. Ask me the same question tomorrow, and I may name VGPS instead.)
Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East
Well, I think that there is no true answer to this question, due to differences in preference in style, etc etc. But, if I were choosing just one, my vote would go to Springsteen’s Born to Run.
Great album coherency, orchestration, dynamic range, emotional output, and power.
I’d probably have to go with Abbey Road.
I’d have a few contenders:
The Beatles - Revolver
The Clash - The Clash
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
T. Rex - “the slider”
Big Star - “radio city”
Husker Du - “new day rising”
Wire - “chairs missing”
Led Zeppelin - “houses of the holy”
Black sabbath - “paranoid”
Descendants - Milo Goes To College
Who’s Next.
I am
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Agreed. No contest. This thread is done.
Such a field to choose from. Depending on my mood, I’d probably choose one of the above Sometimes it’s Who’s Next. Other days it’s Born To Run. But today I’m going to go with Dark Side of the Moon.
The Stones --* Let It Bleed.*
This June will be 40 years ago today.
I feel better now that my two choices have been mentioned. My other is Abbey Road.
Or as I like to put it, it was 20 years ago today that it was 20 years ago today.
There’s no one album that’s an answer to this question, but off the top of my head here are 14 not already mentioned that would be on my short list:
Thirteenth Floor Elevators: Easter Everywhere
Relatively Clean Rivers: Relatively Clean Rivers
Johnny Burnette: And the Rock 'n Roll Trio
Bad Brains: s/t
The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
Love: Forever Changes
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
Them: The Angry Young Them
The Remains: The Remains
Dave Bixby: *Ode to Quetzacoatl * (the best christian folk-rock LP I’ve ever heard, although perhaps too much folk for this list)
Stephen David Heitkotter: Heitkotter (the most Incredibly Stange LP of all, and a real vision of howling madness)
Wire: Pink Flag
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain
Badfinger: Straight Up
Love- Forever Changes
Another vote for Dark Side of the Moon. Unlike many other albums from the '70s, this one never seems dated.