The 5 Best Albums........Ever

1. The Clash (U.S. Version) - The Clash

2. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols

3. Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction

4. Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Red Hot Chili Peppers

5. Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa

Honorable Mention:

White Blood Cells - White Stripes

Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart

Streetcore - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones

American Recordings - Johnny Cash

The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste - Ministry

Four Track Demos - P.J. Harvey

Decade - Neil Young

Live Through This - Hole

In Utero - Nirvana

Let's see, in no order and not five albums:

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Talib Kweli and Mos Def are Black Star

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True

Van Morrison - Moondance

The Clash - The Clash

Carl LEWIS'-- GREATEST HITS

1. Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello

2. Violator - Depeche Mode

3. Labour of Love - UB40

4. Rain Dog - Tom Waits

5. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads

Repeat thread, I think, but here you go. I'm assuming live discs and greatest hits are copouts:

Led Zep IV

Who's Next

Revolver

Nevermind

Kind of Blue

diego marathona -- I like the way you think, though

Some honorable mentions:

The River

Tenacious D

Imperial Bedroom

My Aim Is True

Blood on the Tracks

Highway 61 Revisited

Moving Pictures

Are You Experienced?

Never Mind the Bollocks

Rubber Soul

Sign o' the Times

Van Halen I

London Calling

Synchronicity

Back in Black

Sgt Pepper

Thriller

1999

The Doors

What's Going On

Some that made me laugh:

Night Moves

Any Weezer

Born in the USA

You've gotta talk about GENRE here. You're wasting your time to compare the 5 greatest rap albums with the 5 greatest country albums or the 5 greatest blues albums of all time. So - I'm gonna throw out this cateogry...

The best true "rock" album ever is AFD by Guns N' Roses.

Bands like the Beatles w/ Sgt. Peppers, Led Zep with Houses of the Holy, Pink Floyd w/ Dark Side of the Moon, or U2 w/ Joshua Tree, aren't really "rock" by my estimate. The pop/experimental/blues elements of those albums is why I do not think of those bands as "rock" bands, per se.

These aren't my entire official top 5, but they all could be, depending on the day. Here, to add some variety:

Green Day- Kerplunk

Millencolin- Pennybridge Pioneers

Garbage- Garbage

2Pac- Me Against the World

NWA- Straight Outta Compton

Sublime- Sublime

Oasis- What's the Story

Revolver

London Calling

Highway to Hell

Led Zeppelin 4

The Rolling Stones / "Sticky Fingers"

The Afghan Whigs / "Gentlemen"

Swervedriver / "Raise"

Uncle Tupelo / "Still Feel Gone"

Sublime / "Forty Ounces to Freedom"

What??!! No DMB and "Under the Table and Dreaming?"

If Van Morrison goes on there, it's gotta be Astral Weeks, as someone suggested.

For the Stones, I'll take Exile on Main Street. Besides the music (few "hits," all great songs), the cover art is really cool. I consider this the greatest album ever.

I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan, but Dark Side of the Moon deserves consideration.

London Calling by the Clash?

Something by Led Zeppelin.

Whatever album contained "Johnny B. Goode," since Chuck Berry is the true father of rock & roll.

No one is really going to agree completely but Im tired of people thinking that if it isnt classic rock it cant be one of the best albums ever. I happen to think that five of the best albums ever (not the five best ever) are:

Weezer- Weezer (The Blue Album)

Radiohead- Ok Computer

The Killers- Hot Fuss

The Doors- L.A. Woman

Modest Mouse- The Moon and Antartica

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pearl Jam - Ten

Tool - Lateralus

Zeppelin - 3

Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled

Beatles - Revolver

Radiohead - OK Computer

NOFX - Punk in Drublic

U2 - Joshua Tree

"Innervisions" Stevie Wonder

http://www.sweeting.org/mark/music/mp3/stevie_wonder/innervisions.html

TOP 5 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

1. The Who - Who's Next

2. The Who - Tommy

3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

4. Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road

5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

1. The Clash - the Clash

2. Manic street preachers - the holy bible

3. Jeff Buckley - Grace

4. The pixies - Surfa Rosa

5. Blur - 13

In response to ACC student,

I'd classify stuff like Britney Spears or Clay Aiken as pop (and terrible, in my opinion)

Then there's rock, where I believe U2, The Police and current stuff like Modest Mouse belong

Then there's hard rock like Metallica, GNR, and Led Zeppelin, and current stuff like Linkin Park (although they are strange because they got the rapper dude and the singer dude)

That being said, here's my 5 personal favorites at this moment

1. Achtung Baby - U2 (1991)

The band totally reinvents itself with twelve songs, any of which could have been a hit single

2. Franz Ferdinand (2004)

They will not be a one hit wonder. They better not...

3. The Joshua Tree - U2 (1987)

All you need to know is Bullet The Blue Sky and Exit...the rest of the songs fill in nicely

4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (1975)

Underrated, a great tribute to Syd Barret

5. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2 (2004)

It couldn't hold the metaphorical jock of Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby, but is better than most rock out there at the present

1) Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

2) Doors - The Doors

3) Abbey Road - The Beatles

4) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

5) Fleetwood Mac - Rumors

a perfect circle

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