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What makes a great album great?

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pat101:
"What makes "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" catchy and perfect everytime you hear it? "

I found myself asking that today, again! I mean I can't imagine how many times I've listned to that album, but today it just struck me again how AMAZING it really is. I was just blown away like I was the first time.

nescience:
"Aeroplane" blows.

There, I said it.

pat101:

--- Quote from: nescience ---"Aeroplane" blows.

There, I said it.
--- End quote ---


There's no doubt about it, if I could find you I might make an attempt on your life.

Spartan Pho3nix:
I think he's kidding. Either that or stupid.

I don't care if you fricken only listen to hip hop. Aeroplane doesn't blow.

Aeroplanes use JET PROPULSION. Get it straight.

(and, yes, I too would kill you if I met you)

nescience:
On a more on-topic note, a great album certainly has good songs on it, and it certainly represents a synthesis of influences that is unique and diversely cultivated, but I think it's gotta go farther than that.  Over the course of a really great album, the listener must be exposed to an array of emotional or sonic experience, but should come away with a sense that the work is ultimately and essentially cohesive.  On an album like Loveless, I feel like I'm taken by the music into its own little world and shaken around like a little doll, thrown up, thrown down, and finally left to float on my own.  I guess a really great album has to have a real arc, a well-struck balance of variety and unity.  That, and having the songs and sounds to keep me reeled in, are of utmost importance.

Oh, and Here you go.  Come an' git me.  

(edit, having now seen the above post) I must say that yes, I am one of those who really, truly does not like In the Aeroplane Over the Sea for my own rather well-articulated reasons that I will not share here because they are not on-topic and further discussion on this specific subject could degenerate into at least a modest flame-war.  I rather bluntly gave my opinion of Aeroplane in the hope to quell what as I saw as a shared opinion here that the term "classic album" can be used objectively.  I've never been too huge on Slanted & Enchanted either, but that's neither here nor there.  If there is any place in this thread for "maybe classic, but I can't stand it," I would appreciate more discussion on the subject; otherwise, let's drop it.

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