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What makes a great album great?

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Patrick:

--- Quote from: sketchyjoe ---The only dissapoint a great album should offer is when it finishes and you realise it's over.
--- End quote ---


I'll drink to that.

Aram:
Quality is a factor, of course, but I like to describe music with the phrase "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Different people have different tastes. Ultimately, it's the person who's listening that deems an album as "great"

blanketarms:
i hate to sound too rediculous, but i think a great album is any album that is so impressive (and i truly mean this word - it impresses its self upon the listener), that it feels like some place you've been, and after you listen to it enough, it can feel like home.
i studied photography for two years (before i dropped out), and when editing, i could always tell the photos that i could lean on and they'd still stand straight. of course they'd have their place, but they would hold a certain strength that would just make you want to look at it longer, and months after, you'd still have the highlights and shadows imprinted in yer mind.
i think there are all sorts of technical qualifications and stylistic seasonings that can make the production great, but as others have said, a truly great album captures a feeling (and within it compiled many emotions) and a moment. like a photograph.

mellon collie and the infinite sadness
trout mask replica
pink moon
o
13 songs
you forgot it in people
loveless
hatful of hollow
funeral

all these albums i save to listen to on rainy days. cos they take me somewhere.

Patrick:
A band's entire discography is really just a biography, and each album is a paragraph of that biography. A paragraph has each of its different sentences, and they all say something different each time, but when it boils down to it, they all focus on one main point. That is what a great album should do. A prime example: Presence by Led Zeppelin is the midlife crisis of their biography. Robert's son Karac had just died, Bonham was starting to drink even more heavily than before, Page was becoming more and more addicted to heroin, and JPJ was getting very homesick for his family. But their earlier album, Led Zeppelin II, goes off to show you their earlier life, their rowdy 'let's party' attitude.

Sorry if that's too much for y'all to read. :B

Kai:
Blanketarms: Bonus Points for the Captain Beefheart! That album is seriously one of my favorite albums of all time.

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