I'm curious as to the opinions of what the "best album...ever" is. Not the most "influential" or anything, just your favourite. If a few are tied, then throw a couple out there. If you feel like it needs defending, give a little insight on the decision. All genres are competing here, this is an equal opportunity questionnaire.
If I can only pick one . . .
I agree with AndyJ, From Taxman through to Tomorrow Never Knows you are talking about one great track after another. No album filler, (of course was there ever on any Bealtes Lp?) Karl
I would pick Rubber Soul before Revolver, but I can't say either is a bad album.
'Live at Leads' - Guitar/drums/bass at their most powerful, with a cohesion of minds, mistakes and all. Best played very loud. The electric guitar taken to it's limit, fulfilling it's potential as a true conveyer of human emotion.
one? ...... fire of love-gun club
Which day?
Who's Next
"Kind Of Blue"
Today? "Are You Experienced?" (US version)
cyclopssam,
I took a listen to gun club. Yeah... thanks for that. Frigging awesome.
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check out, yerself is steam-mercury rev a GREAT! album
William Shatner: The Transformed Man
I heard that this is a pretty good record:
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Otter said: I would pick Rubber Soul before Revolver, but I can't say either is a bad album.Rubber Soul is a very close 2nd. "Michelle" is the lone blemish IMHO, preventing the tie for 1st place. I skip that track whenever possible...makes my teeth hurt, it does.
I know many people here don't "get" Bruce. But for me, it has to be Born To Run. Influences..Duane Eddy guitar on Born To Run and Backstreets...Roy Orbison wailing at the end of Jungleland...Bo Diddley beats on She's The One...Phil Spector throughout...traces of Dylan in the lyrics. It's like he took every influence he grew up on and it exploded on this album. It's the album that made people feel like they were hearing music for the first time. So many great epic tracks...Thunder Road...Born To Run...Backstreets...and Jungleland...a song that Bruce and Clarence worked out the sax solo note for note for 16 hours in the studio.
And if it hadn't been for this album, the label was gonna drop Springsteen and pour all their money into an up and coming guy named Billy Joel.
I had not been present to hear "Jungleland" performed live in ages...when I heard it at Bruce's last show here in Anaheim...tears formed in my eyes during Clarence's sax solo...one of the best solos of all time...near perfection...I'm not ashamed to say it. I'm not religious in any way, the closest I'll ever get to a religious or spiritual experience is something like this.
Terry Bradshaw "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
This masterpiece is only a wee-bit better than our beloved William Shatner's groundbreaker.
I will throw in a very distant 3rd album just for laughs."At Fillmore East" Allman Brothers. 
There is absolutely no way i could narrow it down to one but two thumbs up for fire of love that one would definitely be in my top 5.
Dixie Dregs "Industry Standard".
Back In Black.
AC/DC's best, the first after Bon Scott's death, every song is a killer, no filler.
I generally refrain from using words like "Best", "Greatest", "Never", "Forever" as I've learned I'm unable to keep a strong opinion.
"Clear Spot" by Capt. Beefheart ranks in my brain today...
