The last truly great album...

[Guest]

I didn't see sublime on there anywhere, am I ther only one whon likes them.  I think the self titled album is the last great one.  I could be wrong

 

--Rob

[Guest whatitistoburn]

I'll probably get some flack for some of these but it's all good:

 

System of A Down - Toxicity:  Best cd of 2001, a mishmash of styles and weirdness, yet at the same time a cd that I believe will become a classic.

 

Tool - Lateralus:  I think this cd is a lot better than lateralus, with it's main flaw being track listing.  But look at the songs... the grudge, the patient, ticks and leeches, lateralus, disposition/reflection.  

 

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory: Weird choice I know, but frankly, this is one hell of a concept album, and the fact that these are some of the most talented musicians around makes it all the better.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

redbaron, Scenes From New York is Scenes From A Memory, methinks. It's just Scenes From A Memory played live. Hold on, lemme check...

 

**runs to entertainment center, looks at Dream Theater VHS, runs back**

 

Yes indeed, Scenes From New York is just a live performance of Scenes From A Memory. Only thing that changed is the keyboard solo's, and the vocalist doesn't sing as much live as he does on the studio album (the audience sings some of the songs).

 

Must-own CD for anybody, IMO.

[Guest AzkulKazul]

In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Anathema - Eternity, Alternative 4, Judgement

Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings, The Dark Saga, Horror Show

Opeth - Morningrise, Still Life

Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine, Predator's Potrait

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery, The mind's I, Projector

Children of Bodom - Something Wild, Hatebreeder

Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side, Nightfall in Middle Earth

Demons(Iced Earth)& Wizards(Blind Guardian) - s/t

Cryptopsy - None So Vile, Whisper Supremacy

 

[Guest saturnmark4life]

I know it's a love or hate situation, but i think Lateralus by Tool is the last truly great album i heard.

Lateralus isnt bad. the song Lateralus is good and no. 8 Ticks and Leeches rocks too but compared to Aenima, it is shit. Aenima was the best album to come  out in the last 6 years with Ok Computer by Radiohead following that.

I haven't listened to Aenima in ages, but it is great. Lateralus is also great however.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

And i should add the music from sonic the hedgehog on genesis is probably just about the best music i heard in the 90's. seriously.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

hmmmmmm.....

 

Barring Laundry Service by Shakira....

 

I'd have to go back to Appetite for Destruction as the last album I consider great from start to finish.

[Guest Kinetic]

hmmmmmm.....

 

Barring Laundry Service by Shakira....

 

I'd have to go back to Appetite for Destruction as the last album I consider great from start to finish.

Do you think maybe HHH is holding back great music so we have no choice but to watch wrestling as an alternative?

[Guest dreamer420]

Jay-Z, The Blueprint

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Am I only one who isn't really into the newer Radiohead stuff? I just feel Pablo Honey and the Bends were so much more enjoyable. OK Computer and Kid A are fine but it seems artificial and experimental for the sake of sounding experimental.

I agree fully, although Radiohead has some good songs, I was never really a big fan at all.  They're just another band to me.  Now, having said, such, seeing as how thousands of CD's are released every year, even being as pessimistic as possible there has to be, even by some random chance, at the absolute very least 10 "classic" CD's released every year.  The question is, have you heard any of them? That being said, I'm sure to annoy the holy hell out of Kinetic with some of my choices for recent "truly great albums".

 

Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott?

Everlast - Eat at Whitey's

Green Day - Nimrod

Zebrahead - Waste of Mind

The Marvelous 3 - Ready Sex Go (somebody, I think it may have been Kinetic, really chastised me for liking this one)

 

Yea I know, even though I try to listen to as much different stuff as I can, at heart I'm just a slightly off-mainstream pop slave (not total mainstream pop slave, otherwise crap like Blink 182 would have made the list for sure), but hey, at least it leaves room for a fair pop music critic for the music column...

[Guest]

still no one mentions sublime, thats bullshit, AM I THE ONLY ONE?

 

--Rob

[Guest goodhelmet]

"still no one mentions sublime, thats bullshit, AM I THE ONLY ONE?

 

--Rob"

 

Yes, you are.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Under the Western Freeway, by Grandaddy. Genius.

[Guest Kinetic]

I agree fully, although Radiohead has some good songs, I was never really a big fan at all.  They're just another band to me.  

Unthinkable.  

 

And, yes, it was me who berated you for liking Marvelous 3.  Anyone who thinks brining ass rock back into vogue is a good idea is a bad musician with terrible intentions.  I consider them, Andrew WK, and Buckcherry to be the greatest offenders.  I will stop at nothing to ensure that this type of music doesn't return to popularity.  It's bad enough that VH1 is trying to pimp Def Leppard's Pyromania as a "classic" album.  We don't need new bands biting off of their suck-ass formula.

[Guest Addy]

Hmm, i'll wonder what type of response I will get if I put:

 

Bloodhound Gang - Hooray For Boobies.

 

Now say what you like, but never have I listened to a CD as much as I have listened to this! (Plus I own all The Beatles albums)!

 

Can somebody please explain why the Bloodhound Gang are so underrated? Jimmy Pop is a very clever man. Some of the lyrics he writes are unbelievable. He uses words I can't even say!

 

But still there only remembered as the group that done "that mammal song"

 

Oh well, i'll shut up now...

[Guest swan]

still no one mentions sublime, thats bullshit, AM I THE ONLY ONE?

 

--Rob

While I think 40 ozs. To Freedom is a good album, calling it or any of the other releases by them some of the best albums of all time is pushing it. The crossover punk/ska sound has many artists that have put out much better albums.

[Guest pochorenella]

It's bad enough that VH1 is trying to pimp Def Leppard's Pyromania as a "classic" album

 

Pyromania IS a classic rock album, indeed. Not a bad song in the bunch.

 

I'm going out on a limb and say the last truly great album I heard (not counting reissues or compilations) is Supernatural by Santana.

Peace.

[Guest Kinetic]

Pyromania IS a classic rock album, indeed. Not a bad song in the bunch.

It may be, but having the inaugural episode of a show called "Essential Albums" or whatever be about THAT album is unforgivable.  But, you know, I hate Def Leppard more than any other band to ever exist so perhaps I'm biased.

 

I'd also like to nominate the White Stripes' White Blood Cells in this category.  After six months of semi-regular listening, I'm still not bored with it.  That has to count for something.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Pyromania IS a classic rock album, indeed. Not a bad song in the bunch.

It may be, but having the inaugural episode of a show called "Essential Albums" or whatever be about THAT album is unforgivable.  But, you know, I hate Def Leppard more than any other band to ever exist so perhaps I'm biased.

Def Leppard's not really that bad.  I mean, there has to be some bad/cheesy music that you can listen to just to have fun.  As for VH1's "Essential Albums", I don't get VH1, but since one of their other choices was Green Day's Dookie and they ARE a pop music station (at least they're not as bad as MTV, whose "Essential Albums" list would probably have Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and nothing released before 1998), it's pretty obvious you wouldn't agree with them, since you're a more mature listener anyway.

[Guest Kinetic]

As for VH1's "Essential Albums", I don't get VH1, but since one of their other choices was Green Day's Dookie and they ARE a pop music station (at least they're not as bad as MTV, whose "Essential Albums" list would probably have Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and nothing released before 1998), it's pretty obvious you wouldn't agree with them, since you're a more mature listener anyway.

Yeah, but VH1 occasionally tempts me by showing that they are, in fact, not as ignorant as they appear.  Their "Top 100 Albums of All Time" was...uh...not as ridiculously far off as you might expect.  And they had Elvis Costello in quite a few of the segments, so that's always a plus. I mean, Revolver was #1, Blonde on Blonde was in the top ten, Londong Calling was, like, #22, and OK Computer made the list.  Not bad for a channel that still takes Sting seriously.  So it really upsets me when they try to pass Def Leppard off as anything other than a terrible band that needs to be stricken from the history books altogether.  Shame on you, VH1.  You could do so much better.

[Guest ant_7000]

Im not into the rock so I'll go with hip hop

Here's Mine:

Outkast: Aqumeni (its better than stankonia 2 Me)

 

Lauryn Hill: Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

 

The Roots: When things fall apart

 

Bigge: Life after Death

 

Nas: Illmatic

 

2pac: Me against the world

 

Bone: E. 1999 Enternal

 

Jay-z: Blueprint

 

Ice Cube: Death Certificate

[Guest MasterMadness]

The best album in many years is easily Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform. The best band at the moment by some distance.

[Guest BobbyBacklund]

Radiohead- Kid A

Tool - Lateralus

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

Cold - 13 Ways to Bleed Onstage

Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler(Just Kidding)

Slav Simanic - Water of Life

I am going to go on a limb and say my personal favourite album of the late 1990s is...

 

David Usher - Little Songs

 

If you have not heard of this guy, download some songs off of this CD right NOW. He is a great songwriter, great guitarist, and a great singer. I personally feel he is the most underappreciated singer over in the US. I personally recommend St.Lawerence River, or Jesus was my Girl. Some may not like it though, because it is not the most commercial stuff out there.

 

I would like to point out, after reading the last post before mine, that Stereophonics is now the most overrated group on the planet.

[Guest godthedog]

questions for some of the responses this has been getting (not smartass rhetorical questions):

 

why is 'kid a' a great album, in the same category as 'electric ladyland' and 'nevermind'?  

 

in fact...why is it even a better album than 'amnesiac', an album i find a lot more fun and inventive?

 

incidentally, to addy: i used to be a big bloodhound gang back in the day, around the time 'one fierce beercoaster' came out.  i think 'hooray for boobies' is about on par with that album, but i don't think it's necessarily musically good enough to be a great album.  it is funny & clever, but the music itself isn't anything inventive or noteworthy (separating them from another really funny band, ween).

[Guest]

"still no one mentions sublime, thats bullshit, AM I THE ONLY ONE?

 

--Rob"

 

Yes, you are.

FUCK

[Guest Cataclysm911]

Creed- My Own Prison & Human Clay were both good all the way through. I'm not as fond of Weathered as I am of the previous two CD's, but it's not bad by any means.