This has always been my favorite album to listen to in the CD format:

Didn't Time magazine famously rank Bob Marley's Exodus as the "greatest album of the twentieth century"? How come it didn't make their top 100?

Something had to go so "Live through this" could be on the list.

My two all-time favorites:

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
The Cure - Disintegration

Why doesn't someone (not it) run a tournament like what was just recently done for artist, but do best album instead.... then we'll find out.

I say we run a tournament to determine who will run a best album tournament.

I nominate goodwill.

I nominate "Live through this".

Oh, you wanted *A PERSON* nominated to *MAKE* the list.

I saw the Chris Isaak Show on the weekend (the one with Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam) and his guitarist? None other than Gunnar Nelson.

It's more on my favorites, not the best:

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Garbage - Version 2.0

It is interesting to note that the question asked for the best CD of all time. Under that definition I would say that ABBA's album "The Visitors" (1981 LP release, 1982 CD release) is, for me, the greatest CD.

Having said tha,t people here are taking a bit more of a liberal attitude towards this question (ie recommending LPs etc), so in that case, I think that Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor op. 125 is the greatest work of art ever given to human mankind.

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Rudolf Ondrich

Looks like you believe in stats.
So what do you think of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER?

He made a statement, then his opinion (3 months ago). One does not imply the other.

You don't pay attention much, do you?

Originally Posted by Stupid Time list I actually spent time formatting, God knows why

Al Green, Call Me (The Right Stuff, 1973)
Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Atlantic, 1967)
Aretha Franklin, Lady Soul (Atlantic, 1968)
Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique (Capitol, 1989)
Black Sabbath, Paranoid (Warner Brothers, 1971)
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde (Columbia, 1966)
Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia, 1965)
Bob Dylan, Time Out of Mind (Sony, 1997)
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Legend (Island/Tuff Gong, 1984)
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (Sony, 1975)
Carole King, Tapestry (Ode/A&M, 1971)
Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight (MCA, 1982)
David Bowie, Hunky Dory (RCA, 1971)
David Bowie, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (RCA, 1972)
DJ Shadow, Endtroducing... (Mo' Wax, 1996)
Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors (RCA, 1971)
Dr. Dre, The Chronic (Death Row/Interscope, 1992)
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (MCA, 1973)
Elvis Presley, Elvis: 30 No. 1 Hits (BMG/Elvis, 2002)
Elvis Presley, Sunrise (BMG / Elvis, 1999)
Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP (Interscope, 2000)
Eric B. and Rakim, Paid in Full (Island, 1987)
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (Warner Brothers, 1977)
Frank Sinatra, In the Wee Small Hours (Capitol, 1954)
Frank Sinatra, Songs for Swingin' Lovers (Capitol, 1955)
Garth Brooks, Ropin' The Wind (Capitol, 1991)
Hank Williams, The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years (Mercury, 2005)
Hole, Live Through This (Geffen, 1994)
James Brown, Live at the Apollo (1963) (Polydor, 1963)
James Brown, Star Time (Polydor, 1991)
Jimmy Cliff and Various Artists, The Harder They Come (Island, 1972)
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (Impulse, 1964)
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison (Sony, 1968)
Joni Mitchell, Blue (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1971)
Kanye West, The College Dropout (Roc-a-Fella, 2004)
Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a. Zoso) (Wea International, 1971)
Little Richard, Here's Little Richard (Specialty, 1957)
Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Universal, 1998)
Madonna, Like a Prayer (Sire/London/Rhino, 1989)
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On (Motown, 1971)
Mary J. Blige, My Life (MCA, 1994)
Metallica, Master of Puppets (Elektra/Wea, 1986)
Michael Jackson, Thriller (Sony, 1982)
Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (Sony, 1969)
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (Sony, 1959)
Muddy Waters, The Anthology, 1947 - 1972 (Chess, 2001)
N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton (Priority, 1988)
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush (Reprise, 1970)
Nirvana, Nevermind (DGC Records, 1991)
Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory (Sony, 1995)
Otis Redding, Otis Blue (Atlantic, 1965)
Outkast, Stankonia (LaFace, 2000)
Parliament / Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove (Warner Brothers, 1978)
Patti Smith, Horses (Arista, 1975)
Paul Simon, Graceland (Warner Brothers, 1986)
Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted (Matador, 1992)
PJ Harvey, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (UMG Recordings, 2000)
Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon (Apple/EMI, 1970)
Prince, Purple Rain (Warner Brothers, 1984)
Prince, Sign O' The Times (Paisley Park, 1987)
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam/Columbia, 1988)
R.E.M., Document (I.R.S. Records, 1987)
R.E.M., Out of Time (Warner Brothers, 1991)
Radiohead, Kid A (Capitol, 2000)
Radiohead, OK Computer (Capitol, 1997)
Ray Charles, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (ABC/Paramount, 1962)
Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers (Columbia, 1961)
Run-DMC, Raising Hell (Arista Records/Profile, 1986)
Sam Cooke, Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964 (ABKCO Music & Records, 2003)
Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (Columbia, 1970)
Sly & the Family Stone, Stand! (Epic, 1969)
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life (Motown, 1976)
Stevie Wonder, Talking Book (UMG Recordings, 1972)
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1984)
The Band, The Band (Capitol, 1969)
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds (DCC, 1966)
The Beatles, Abbey Road (Capitol, 1969)
The Beatles, Revolver (Capitol, 1966)
The Beatles, Rubber Soul (Capitol, 1965)
The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol, 1967)
The Beatles, The Beatles ("The White Album") (Capitol, 1968)
The Clash, London Calling (Sony, 1979)
The Eagles, Hotel California (Elektra/Wea, 1976)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (Experience Hendrix, 1967)
The Notorious B.I.G., Ready to Die (Bad Boy, 1994)
The Ramones, Ramones (Sire, 1976)
The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street (Virgin, 1972)
The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (Virgin, 1971)
The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1977)
The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses (Jive, 1989)
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground and Nico (Polydor/Pgd, 1967)
The Who, Who's Next (Mobile Fidelity, 1971)
U2, Achtung Baby (Island, 1991)
U2, The Joshua Tree (Island, 1987)
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1968)
Van Morrison, Moondance (Warner Brothers/Wea, 1970)
Various Artists, Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969) (Abkco, 1991)
Willie Nelson, Red Headed Stranger (Sony, 1975)


not one queen album

garbage.

There are many but i'd include:

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else

I didn't know an opinion had an expiration date.
Because I always check the milk's date.

No Tom Waits or Leonard Cohen? A Dylan album that isn't Blood on the Tracks?

Fail.

That is a great album.

Yeah, I think a more interesting idea is to come up with a 1980-present list of "essentials." Only time itself can determine which hold up.

Something along the lines of:

U2 - Joshua Tree
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - (black)
Michael Jackson - Thriller

or even toss in Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime or Empire. That's just rock, I can see tossing in Shania or Garth into the mix even though I'm not a fan.

It's too early to determine a subjective "Best" list of recent music, but one could hardly argue with how monumental the above 5 albums were and by an educated guess, will stand the test of time.

Are you sure they didn't name it the worst album of the twentieth century? Because that would make a lot more sense to me.