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The one album
billiumbean:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 25 Jan 2009, 15:30 ---The White Stripes - De Stijl
Rough, hot, and full of character. I like albums to sound like a good fuck, and this delivers.
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I loved that album as much as the next White Stripes fan, but their discography is nothing without Elephant no matter what your personal favorite is.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
This album is something of an anomaly. First off, the request of the author of this thread was to name the best album of an artist, and though there is clearly no contest between Aeroplane and their first album, On Avery Island, it feels a lot more fitting to say that this album was a lot better than most other records put out in the later ninties than saying it was simply the best thing they'd released. Also, there is nothing very central about Aeroplane that is truly great; it's a collaborative effort, really, between his simple-but-fitting guitar chord progressions, brutally honest-but-beautiful lyrics about Anne Frank and the world she lived in, experimental song structures, and the unwavering gale-force voice of one desperately expressive Jeff Mangum.
jimbunny:
Ocean Machine: Biomech - The Devin Townsend Band
Barring all of the Strapping Young Lad material, which I've never listened to, I'd call this Devin Townsend's best album - his first with what would be called The Devin Townsend Band (to differentiate from the SYL project). After this, his albums with this lineup fall into a kind of groove; it's a good groove, perhaps, but Ocean Machine foreshadows the sound to come while remaining his most diverse musical effort.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Dazed on 23 Jan 2009, 22:16 ---Led Zeppelin — Houses of the Holy
I think this is absolutely their most complete and perfect studio album. The songs have a huge range, from beautiful and soft on The Rain Song; to the loud and popped out Dancing Days; to the dark, riff-driven proto-metal of No Quarter. Also, the riffs are great. The Ocean is still *the* classic rock riff in my opinion, and I get a huge kick out of the James Brown tribute that is The Crunge. Fantastic album, all the way through.
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It might be their most well-rounded in terms of incorporating all the many different styles of music they played, but I don't think it's either their best or the most representative of what they were really about (which, when it comes down to it, was just loud, hard, dirty blues rock.) For instance, I tend to think that Physical Graffiti and Led Zeppelin III are their best albums, but they're not their most essential or the best to be introduced to the band on. Albums I, II, or IV are all up there as competing for the "one."
valley_parade:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 23 Jan 2009, 20:15 ---To weigh in on the Beatles debate, I would say Sgt. Peppers' is great, mostly because it is where I started, and that seemed to work.
The White Album is a big no, in my opinion. Sure it balances the pop and the experimenting well, but-
a) double albums are not good to start off with, full stop
b) A lot of the experimental things fall flat on their face. Do you really want a person's first Beatles experience to involve Revolution 9?
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There was a thread last year (I think) where we cut the White Album down to a single disc. It was strange.
tuna ketchup x:
I might be the only person in the world who prefers On Avery Island to Aeroplane. I recognize that Aeroplane is the superior album and an important influence and all of that, but I LIKE On Avery Island more. Maybe because it's not even trying to be an important album.
TPP: The Sunset Tree is my favorite Goats album too, and if I were trying to get someone into JD I'd probably play that one. I just think Tally is more representative as a whole.
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