[clintonh8r]

I would have picked Rubber Soul.

[Skooz]

Better than the White Album?!

No.

[Cool_V]

Best Side 1?

[Revolting cat!]

Not the best album!

[Vinomori]

Oh no, Abbey Road was better!

[Psycho_Bunny]

The Beatles produced the "best album ever"?

How can this article not be a joke?

[Skooz]

Hey, looky what I found:

More here.

[snowstorm12]

'Sgt. Pepper' Is Best Album (Better than the White Album?!)

No noway better than the White Album

[Jhensy]

Will somebody finally kill off that damn "Astral Weeks"? I've been reading these facking lists for 25 years and that stupid overrated obscurity is ALWAYS on it. (disclaimer: I've owned it for years, I know it front to back; it's OK, but come ON.)

No one I knew growing up ever owned this album, much less ever heard it, much less ever loved it. Just because it reminds Dave Marsh or Greil Marcus or whoever about some long-lost girlfriend in 1968 doesn't compete against the immense impact and fascination of, say, "Dark Side of the Moon", "The Doors", "Led Zeppelin IV", etc.

[GOP_Lady]

Never cared for the Beatles. They were either too pop or too psychodelic for me.

[FreedomCalls]

My vote for greatest album ever:

[chilepepper]

Well, I'll get flamed but i think Sgt. Pepper is a pretty good choice in a field with a *lot* of great music. Musically, it may not be the best of the best, but IMHO it launched the hippies (at least in the popular culture) all by its lonesome, and musically, it affected everyone. The Stones Beggar's Banquet is spoof of it, for example, but any serious group had to go acid to be taken seriously after Sgt Pepper. It set the stage for the whole Rock era.

I find Rubber Soul pretty revolutionary as well, but SPLHCB is probably the album that personally brings me the fondest memories of the era, and i still love to listen to it, while the songs on Dark Side of the Moon just get me depressed reminding me about how another 10 years have slipped away...(but i still really dig the songs and the group! particularly UmmaGumma!!)

Musically, i tend to prefer Zep and Pink Floyd over the Beatles but not everyone out there liked these groups folks, everybody liked/likes the Beatles...

just for the record my choice of the best album ever is Blind Faith

[bvw]

Huntz Hall!

[FreedomCalls]

How could you have a top-100 list and not mention Frankie Yankovic?

[Mr. Mojo]

Ping to the quarterly album thread.

[One_American]

Cattle Call

Simply stated........Slim Rocked!

[Revolting cat!]

In the end, as lasting as anything mentioned here. Especially, since we all seem to agree that quantity (of sales) equals quality. I'll take Astral Weeks and similar things that never sold and most never heard of, some of it by artists most never heard of. And now back to that other lowest common denominator, the living room idiot box! As my grandfather, the elitist, used to say, if it's popular there must be something wrong with it. Who was it that said 95% of everything is crap?

[Revolting cat!]

And now for something completely different:

The Haze at his worst!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Did anyone hear the new "Let It Be - Naked"? They played it in SF on an oldies station, then had a sort of round-table discussion with famous people calling in and saying what they thought of it. I thought it was just so-so. What did you all think of it?

[John Lenin]

Not the best but way better than Sgt Peppers.