The 100 greatest CDs of all time. (vanity post for weekend relaxation)

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[BluesDuke]

It isn't as tough to beat The Band and Tonight's The Night as you think. Unless, of course, folks haven't heard Music From Big Pink and Rust Never Sleeps...

[BluesDuke]

UH......AC / DC "Back in Black"? How could you not post the greatest Hard Rock album of all time!

Er...I did: Blue Oyster Cult's first album. Makes Back in Black sound like the Archies.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Wow. I'm amazed.

How could Lynyrd Skynyrd's "One More For From the Road" not have made your Top 100 list?

[BluesDuke]

How could Lynyrd Skynyrd's "One More For From the Road" not have made your Top 100 list?

It wouldn't be on mine, either. But The Allman Brothers Band, The Fillmore Concerts, would be.

[BluesDuke]

Regarding Creedence Clearwater Revival, right attitude - wrong album. (Willy was good - hell, except for Mardi Gras there is no such thing as a bad Creedence Clearwater Revival album - but Bayou Country was better.)

Regarding the Velvet Underground, I'm glad to see someone besides me would think of Live 1969 worthy of a top 100 list. But I'd have left myself to choose between Loaded and The Velvet Underground and Nico

[varon]

It's based on my own tastes, so it does have its own quirks and eccentricities.

Wander what the top 100 would be based on sales?

[VOYAGER]

No offense intended but your "all time" only seems to cover about 30 years.

It would seem before the CE nothing existed but a black hole that vomitted up many of these misfits which are now considered(by some)to be American Icons.

Hopefully this situation miraculously will improve!

The world can only hope!

[Mr. Mojo]

I'd rate Rust Never Sleeps as Young's third best, behind Tonight's the Night and Harvest. ... Everybody Knows this is Nowhere and After the Gold Rush follow closely behind those three.

Of course I love The Band's Big Pink; I just don't think it's as good as "The Brown Album." ...And neither do most hardcore Band fans.

[dpa5923]

43 posts before someone showed some taste!

[Mr. Mojo]

except for Mardi Gras there is no such thing as a bad Creedence Clearwater Revival album - but Bayou Country was better.

I agree with you there, although "Sweet Hitchhiker" is a good cut from Mardi Gras. Bayou Country stands out as Creedence's best, imo. ....and therefore among the best in the history of the genre.

[StriperSniper]

Vulgar Display of Power--Pantera

I've been looking for that one!

(Don't know if it's in the basement or the attic or somewhere in the middle. How it ever got out of sight beats me!)

Have you tried: The Sickness - Disturberd?

[StriperSniper]

Disturberd=Disturbed

[Wm Bach]

This is the greatest album ever recorded in the history of the human experiment.

The previous 1956 recording of the same by the a younger, brasher Glen Gould would be the second greatest.

[Chi-townChief]

I believe the late 50s hit version of "Poinciana" was by Robert Maxwell, His Harp, and His Orchestra. Kind of an odd name.

[BluesDuke]

Mardi Gras could have been John Fogerty's told-ya-so album: My understanding is that Fogerty got cheesed off enough about the other members of the band kvetching that he was hogging all the songwriting, so he let them write some stuff, too...but all the album ended up doing was proving even more how good Fogerty was as a songwriter, and between that and a number of crises (mostly springing, I'm told, from a bunch of investments the band made with label boss Saul Zaentz that went belly up and provoked rounds of lawsuits and recriminations, in the midst of which Fogerty managed to lose the rights to his own material for years) the whittled-down-to-a-trio Creedence called it a career. A shame, too. For three years (1969-71), they made the Top 40 a wonderland again. The sleeper Creedence album of them all: Live (In Europe), the trio in concert and an energetic set of stuff at that. The recording isn't really that good but the music makes up for it. Even down to a trio, even in the middle of all the crap, Creedence Clearwater Revival could rock the snow off the mountaintop.

I still think Big Pink was better than The Band. Having said that, I'm going to go on a limb and say the best Band album of them all was the concert set, Rock of Ages. As for Neil Young, I'd rate Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere just below Rust Never Sleeps and Tonight's The Night just behind it, with After The Gold Rush just behind that. Harvest is a pleasant album but not even close to those sets. The sleeper Neil Young album: Live Rust. And it all beats the living bejesus out of the entire Crosby, Stills and Nash (with or without Young) catalog...

[avenir]

Top Five:

1) Steely Dan, Aja

2) Steely Dan, Gaucho

3) Propaganda, A Secret Wish

4) Rush, Moving Pictures

5) Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon

[tet68]

The Wall at 96? Give me break!
And there isn't a single Dead CD.
American Beauty ought to be in the first 10 anyway.

[avenir]

number 3:Adobe Photoshop 7.0

LOL!

[ErnBatavia]

and get me some CDs to listen to.

...and may I humbly suggest some David Benoit (smoooooth jazz, pianist) or Pat Metheney (not quite so smooth jazz, world's finest guitarist).....either should work just fine.

[mdittmar]

Another of my favs by the "Chairman of the Board"