Post by ponygirl's vapor on Mar 29, 2004 21:25:03 GMT -5
In your opinion, what is the greatest album that has ever been made? I'm not talking about popularity or anything like that, by the way.
That VH1 show had the Beatles's Revolver as the greatest album ever made. Granted, it's a great album but I don't think it's the best. In my own opinion the Beatles' "Abbey Road" is the greatest album that has ever been made. If you have never heard this album then you just don't know what you're missing. Artistically it is increadible. Never have I heard an album in which the order of the songs is so perfectly picked. This is an album that needs to be listened to as an album because to take the songs out of order would ruin it. You have songs like "Here Comes the Sun" following "I Want You." They just go together perfectly. "Here Comes the Sun" is the perfect answer to the heavy "I Want You." It actually seems like the sun is coming out after a storm. Then as the album goes on, it almost becomes impossible to hear where one song ends and another begins. Each song is a part of another. "Golden Slumbers" runs right into "Carry that Weight." "Carry that Weight" runs into "The End." It's just increadible. Then previous songs are incorporated into the others. "Carry that Weight" suddenly breaks out into "You Never Give me Your Money" which was from earlier in the album. The songs themselves are completely different from other songs. The album itself transends anything I've ever heard. It rises beyond the linear limitations that other albums have. Many of these songs don't have central tunes or an end. They just run into and compliment each other. "Abbey Road" sets a standard that other albums have never been able to reach.
As well as Abbey Road, also Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Radiohead's OK Computer, Sigur Rós's Ágætis Byrjun, and The Flaming Lip's The Soft Bulletin.
That VH1 show had the Beatles's Revolver as the greatest album ever made. Granted, it's a great album but I don't think it's the best. In my own opinion the Beatles' "Abbey Road" is the greatest album that has ever been made. If you have never heard this album then you just don't know what you're missing. Artistically it is increadible. Never have I heard an album in which the order of the songs is so perfectly picked. This is an album that needs to be listened to as an album because to take the songs out of order would ruin it. You have songs like "Here Comes the Sun" following "I Want You." They just go together perfectly. "Here Comes the Sun" is the perfect answer to the heavy "I Want You." It actually seems like the sun is coming out after a storm. Then as the album goes on, it almost becomes impossible to hear where one song ends and another begins. Each song is a part of another. "Golden Slumbers" runs right into "Carry that Weight." "Carry that Weight" runs into "The End." It's just increadible. Then previous songs are incorporated into the others. "Carry that Weight" suddenly breaks out into "You Never Give me Your Money" which was from earlier in the album. The songs themselves are completely different from other songs. The album itself transends anything I've ever heard. It rises beyond the linear limitations that other albums have. Many of these songs don't have central tunes or an end. They just run into and compliment each other. "Abbey Road" sets a standard that other albums have never been able to reach.
As well as Abbey Road, also Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Radiohead's OK Computer, Sigur Rós's Ágætis Byrjun, and The Flaming Lip's The Soft Bulletin.