Geatest Ever Album.

[TalkTalk]

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

Done.

Will you give me your left over bad money, Sussex?

[yeo]

There's nothing wrong with Pearl Jam.

If this was my forum that'd be a banning offence.

Yep people liked Nevermind,but then people liked the Cheeky Girls as well.People like all sorts of shit.I can accept we wont all like the same stuff, the world would be boring if we did but I cannot accept Nirvana were an important band and will argue the toss till the cows come home

[TalkTalk]

I cannot accept Nirvana were an important band and will argue the toss till the cows come home

Time.

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[Reg Smeeton]

  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.

  Meddle is decent...TBF I haven't listened to it for years, Floyd really lost their spark when Syd Barrett quit.....OK they've had a few bits and pieces since, and have a tidy back catalogue.

  An artist who's stuff has spanned a long time with consistent high points is Neil Young....After The Goldrush, may have been his best album, but its probably debatable.

[Sussex]

Cheers fella. That's the soundtrack from the CG back to Birdys sorted for Saturday  

[yeo]

I think my problem with Nirvana basically stems my school days and my hatred of the "rock" bands of the 80's.Nirvana are just a   Poodle Rock band with dirty hair  

[sonic youth]

ATDI had a couple of decent tunes and don't belong in this thread, hardly surprising that Mr Ben Wah 'I AM UNIQUE, CONTROVERSIAL AND HOLD OPINIONS THAT ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TO EVERYONE ELSE' Balls is championing their cause...

nevermind is a decent album, perhaps one of the greatest indeed, but not sure what is changed - they were a pixies (and killing joke) rip-off and just made loads of teenagers mope around a lot.

pink floyd's the wall is awesome both musically and lyrically. u2 are shit and bono is a cunt.

i decided that i'm voting for nick drake's pink moon. anyone who disagrees will be banned.

other honourable mentions go to dj shadow for endtroducing, pavement for terror twilight, sonic youth for daydream nation...

[lebowski]

nevermind sold on the back of two things... 1) smells like teen spirit, 2) the death of kurt cobain. it's not a great album, and isnt even the best nirvana album.

the likes of entroducing by dj shadow, and mezzanine by massive attack, meanwhile are truly great albums. but people generally are scared to listen to anything that isn't in 4/4 with a white singer.

like johnny rotten said, i've met the man on the street, and he's a cunt.

i'll drink to that.

let's have it right though, terror twilight is easily the worst pavement album.

[Ben Wah Balls]

ATDI had a couple of decent tunes and don't belong in this thread, hardly surprising that Mr Ben Wah 'I AM UNIQUE, CONTROVERSIAL AND HOLD OPINIONS THAT ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TO EVERYONE ELSE' Balls is championing their cause...

nevermind is a decent album, perhaps one of the greatest indeed, but not sure what is changed - they were a pixies (and killing joke) rip-off and just made loads of teenagers mope around a lot.

pink floyd's the wall is awesome both musically and lyrically. u2 are shit and bono is a cunt.

i decided that i'm voting for nick drake's pink moon. anyone who disagrees will be banned.

other honourable mentions go to dj shadow for endtroducing, pavement for terror twilight, sonic youth for daydream nation...

Have you actually heard more than a couple at the drive-in songs. Probably not.

If I was actually trying to be unique and controversial I would hardly be championing smells like teen spirit would I. In fact I'm just giving my honest opinion, I have a few thousand albums and Relationship of Command is the best I've heard, it is not as well known as many others that make best album lists but had they not split up just as they were becoming popular it probably would be, it really is an incredible album. It has everything a good rock album should have, at times beautiful, often frenetic, always passionate and although it builds on the foundations of stuff like Fugazi, there is nothing quite like it. To claim it doesn't belong in this thread is pretty ridiculous and more than a little pretentious.

It often does make best albums lists anyway, although ranked way lower than it really should be, this is a pretty good list http://www.spin.com/features/magazine/covers/2005/06/0507_cover_greatest_albums/
 with most of those being very good albums but relationship of command deserves to be a lot higher, still at least they included it.

Entroducing is definitely one of the classics of it's genre, although nothing too revolutionary as Coldcut had being doing similar stuff for a long time but I'd definitely have that in my top 10. Pavement and sonic youth, good bands but none of their albums quite stand out amongst the many bands with a similar style, there is no-one quite like at the drive-in.

[sonic youth]

let's have it right though, terror twilight is easily the worst pavement album.

i nearly prefer slanted and enchanted but major leagues and the hexx edge it.

i don't think there's any pavement song i dislike, at least not album track.

[Simon Pieman]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Smurfs Go Pop!

[redbullzeye]

nevermind sold on the back of two things... 1) smells like teen spirit, 2) the death of kurt cobain. it's not a great album, and isnt even the best nirvana album.

Hmmm - only smells like teen spirit - don't think so...

He's the one
Who likes all the pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means

Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is your, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend as an old memoria

I'm so happy 'cause today
I found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly, but that's okay
Cause so are you
Broke our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles
In a daze cause I found god

[flammableBen]

Nevermind is absolutely awesome if you're about 15. After that you should probably grow out of it.

Bloc Party are worse than bad, they're horribly average. Which means they are horribly boring.

Greatest albums can't have pink involved in titles or artists. Otherwise it means that the gays have won and humanity is doomed.

For what it's worth, different albums are for different times and moods. Air's Moon Safari is an ace album but I don't want to listen to it now. Well actually I do. But I'm not going to or something. Wait I think it's the Stone Roses I don't want to listen to, that's fucking awesome too. Decksandrumsandrockandroll from the Propellerheads is pretty neat but I don't fancy listening to that either.

I'm starting to ramble aren't I?

[strooood]

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.[/quote]

SLTS is just a cover of more than a feeling.

[Mexicano Rojo]

the specials- the specials
pixies - doolittle
stone roses - stone roses
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life
the beatles - white album
housemartins - london 0 hull 4
smiths - queen is dead
de la soul - 3ft high and rising
kate bush - hounds of love