Geatest Ever Album.

[Reg Smeeton]

That Top 100 Albums prog was utter bollocks.

How on earth can Radiohead (in whatever shape or whining form) or The Joshua Tree (reasonable though I think it is) ever be "more progressive and inspiring" albums than Sgt. Peppers or Dark Side Of The Moon or even Nevermind?

I don't care if anybody doesn't like them they are true landmarks in the history of music.

Oh and I thought Thriller was deservedly in the top ten  

Yes indeed Alan. Spot on. Except the  Thriller bit  

  And the DSOTM bit

   It was pretty much all downhill for the Floyd after Ummagumma...Wish You Were Here is good enough though.

[Ben Wah Balls]

I'd go for At the Drive's in Relationship of Command.

A great albumbut not of all time.

Wrong. It is the best ever, seven years later and nothing's came close and nothing did before either.

hmm..

Name one that has. It's very rare you get an album where every track is the the highlight of the album but on that there is not even one I could pick as slightly weaker than the rest, even great albums like what's the story morning glory had some shite on, cast no shadow is fucking awful.

[Red81]

I agree it's a great album. But not of all time. It's a crazy question to even contemplate answering. It comes down to personal preference I guess. Oceansize's debut, Effloresce, is a bit special in my opinion of recent times.

[Samdy Gray]

Listening to a greatest hits thingy of theirs at the moment.

'About a girl' has just started, 13 more to go..

'Tis not the best Nirvana album. I generally don't like greatest hits type albums.

[TalkTalk]

  It was pretty much all downhill for the Floyd after Ummagumma...Wish You Were Here is good enough though.

Nah Reg.

Meddle was actually more ground breaking than DSOTM.

I don't like Wish You Were Here much any more. It sounds dated in a way that Dark Side and Meddle don't for some reason.

Everything after WYWH is crap though, including the awful The Wall.

Funnily enough I think that a lot of bands suffer the same way, lose their originality, spark and rawness surprisingly quickly. Like U2's Boy, War and October were brilliant yet it just fell away with The Unforgettable Fire onwards.

Perhaps the mark of a truly great band/artist is that it never fades. Hmmmm. Perhaps that's why bands break up deliberately and bail out on a high. Or commit suicide. Or get shot. Or overdose.

[Ben Wah Balls]

I agree it's a great album. But not of all time.

Why not? A lot of the best albums ever are from the last couple of decades, this is the best of them.

[Bogus Dave]

IMO the best album ever is bloc partys silent alarm. I doubt many will agree with me, but thats the beauty of music

[Red81]

I agree it's a great album. But not of all time.

Why not? A lot of the best albums ever are from the last couple of decades, this is the best of them.

Ok. It did have a massive effect on me and At The Drive In as a band did. I still wear their t-shirt proudly.

[Sussex]

Listening to a greatest hits thingy of theirs at the moment.

'About a girl' has just started, 13 more to go..

'Tis not the best Nirvana album. I generally don't like greatest hits type albums.

Me neither, but my favourite (the MTV Unplugged session), I only had on tape. Bit uselesss now.

[Samdy Gray]

I dont see how Nevermind is considered pivotal in musical history at all.

Was music different because of Nevermind...nope,

Is the music that Nirvana made massively different to stuff before it..nope

All it did was spawn a load of scruffy fuck 20 somethings for a year or so and allowed even bigger piles of shit like Pearl Jam to chart.They spawned a scene,so did they Bay City Rollers are they also a pivotal band in music history?

There's nothing wrong with Pearl Jam.

Generally, 'music' wasn't changed by Nevermind. But alternative rock was. No, it probably wasn't massively different to stuff before it, but for some reason people loved it and it got the sub-genre into the mainstream.

[Samdy Gray]

Me neither, but my favourite (the MTV Unplugged session), I only had on tape. Bit uselesss now.

That is a fucking brilliant album. I've got all seven albums on CD somewhere.

[Sussex]

Me neither, but my favourite (the MTV Unplugged session), I only had on tape. Bit uselesss now.

That is a fucking brilliant album. I've got all seven albums on CD somewhere.

I'd pay good money if you could rip it and sort me a copy for Saturday  

[TalkTalk]

Generally, 'music' wasn't changed by Nevermind. But alternative rock was. No, it probably wasn't massively different to stuff before it, but for some reason people loved it and it got the sub-genre into the mainstream.

Word.

There are a hell of a lot of bands that you would never hear of if Nevermind hadn't flown off the shelves and had massive airplay.

It is still one of the great albums of all time though.

[Ben Wah Balls]

I don't think that Nevermind really changed music too much, it is just 12 great songs but they really are good, as an overall album I prefer in utero but I have to say smells like teen spirit is unbelievably good and deserves all the acclaim it has had.

[Samdy Gray]

I'd pay good money if you could rip it and sort me a copy for Saturday  

Done.