GOAT Music Albums

[Kiante]

Good morning first off.

I was thinking since we have such an influx of people here on the forum and we all enjoy music with so many genres out there, I wanted to know since we have a thread for posting music. This thread is for posting opinions about what are considered the GOAT (Greatest of all-time) for everyone on the forum. Meaning, post albums that resonate with you, but at the same time music that resonated with others. We all are from different times, but we all have personal tastes that never get old. Also, post the album cover because I'm always interested in listening to different styles of music. I will start, but if mods want to merge this with the other music thread it's fine.

Being a 90s' kid, I grew up listening to a lot of rap, but as I've gotten older I've expanded my tastes. For instance, I started listening to grunge and we all know where this is going.

Nirvana - Cobain was a great musician and it was sad that he took his life, but pretty much all of the Nirvana albums are great. Bleach, their debut, was by far my fav. Just the pure raw nature of it, didn't take long to record, the cover is great, and the man who took the picture gave donated money to help them record it. It's awesome and a lot of people place Nevermind and In Utero over it, but it was their introduction to the world. So underrated and just shows their punk roots.
Fav Tracks: Blew,Floyd The Barber, School, and Negative Creep

Rage Against The Machine (RATM) - Holy moly their debut... Transcending with Zack De La Rocha's strong, coherent vocals. The metal mixed with rap made RATM unique, hardcore, but with plenty of substance with his social and political issues he states so greatly with uniquity, but their sound and album is just timeless and has aged so well. I still own the tape version and a CD version of it, I love the WHOLE ENTIRE album. There is not one song on it that cannot be forgotten after listening to it.


Just a couple of examples. I could go on and on, but I want this to build as an archive so people can expand their love for music. Thanks for reading.

 

[Greg]

Freebird was run in the ground but there are some gems that never got much radio time.

They do a great cover of "CrossRoads"
"Needle and the spoon", "Travelin man" "Whiskey Rocker Roller" Searching .... all grest stuff.

 

[Greg]

I like every song but Back in Black.

" Have a drink on me " " Shook me all night long" " Giving the Dog a Bone" really almost every song is great. One the best of all times.

 

[Greg]

Neil Young may be the most artistic musican i have ever had the privilege to enjoy.
From this record album my favorites are

- Cortez the Killer" the guitar rift at the begin mesmerizes like classic Neil Young, you can almost see the ships come dancing across the water.
- like a hurricame
- Powderfinger

 

[Greg]

Kansas is great , probably to well written for the masses.

They had to simplify to score commercially still the same "Carry on Wayward Son" is great and Steve Walsh is great.
But the written masterpieces and Kerry Livgrens brilliance needs to heard from:

- Miracles out of nowhere
- Cheyenne Anthem

 

[*WEAVER*]

Back in Black for me as well. Then probably Motley Crue - Dr Feel Good. That album always gets me pumped.

 

[Greg]

UFO " Rock Bottom " Schenker

 

[VaDirt]

UFO " Rock Bottom " Schenker

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IMO, a better UFO choise would have been Strangers in the Night. That thing is a monster. Almost completely a real live album, warts and all.

 

[Greg]

IMO, a better UFO choise would have been Strangers in the Night. That thing is a monster. Almost completely a real live album, warts and all.

Agreed I thought that was the cover. It figures back in the college days a friend made me an unauthorized cassette no original cover art.
I still have an authorized version in my google libary play list.

 

[BobbyFord]

The Wall
Physical Graffiti
Dark Side of The Moon

 

[Kiante]

Dark Side of The Moon was incredible.

Us and Them brought tears to my eyes when I first listened to it.

 

[HoneyBadger]

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

The entire album is good. I like every single song on it.

 

[Greg]

Fleetwood Mac: Rumors

My favorites

- Dreams
- Go your own way
- You making loving fun
- Gold dust woman
- The Chain
- Songbird
- Of daddy

 

[Benevolent One]

In not a big AC-DC fan, but Back In Black was a tremendous album. The biggest problem they had, was that everything else they ever did all sounded the same to me and sucked. Dark Side Of The Moon was one of the first albums that popped into my head. Again, not a huge Floyd fan, but a great album.

Rush - Moving Pictures

 

[Greg]

Jackson Browne. "Running on Empty"

-Running on empty
-The Load out
- Loves needs a heart
- The Road
- Shaky Town

 

[Benevolent One]

I'm sure there are very few, if any, real Iron Maiden fans on here, but Maiden and Rush were my two favorite groups during my formative years. I really liked several of their albums quite a bit, Powerslave and Number Of The Beast were close as well, but Piece Of Mind was just one of my favorite albums of any genre ever and everything I ever loved about Iron Maiden.

• Where Eagles Dare
  
  
• Revelations
  
  
• Flight of Icarus
  
  
• Die With Your Boots On
  
  
• The Trooper
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• Still Life
• Quest for Fire
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• Sun and Steel
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• To Tame a Land

 

[be9ak7ts16]

I don't no where to start. I was lucky enough to see the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964. Since then there have been so many albums that have said somthing to me. When I was a kid my neighbors Dad and his friends would sit around and play country music all afternoon. I'd sit and watch them for hours. I guess that's why my CD collection contains everything from Aerosmith, to Hendrix, to Waylon, to Johnny and just about anybody else you can think of. Hell I. Even like old Kid Rock.

 

[CamelPowered]

The original album was great, but the reissue was even better. Voodoo Chile, Tin Pan Alley, and Hideaway make this one of my favorite blues/rock albums.

One of the most beautiful guitar albums ever recorded, imo. Primarily acoustic, mostly a mellow listen and quite a departure from Buckethead's typical style at the time it was released.

Couldn't make a greatest list without including a DT album, and I chose Train of Thought because of the personal connection I have with it.

 

[RacerrecaR]

All of the following get at least a 9/10 in my book.

Metallica - Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, & self-titled
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell & Bat Out Of Hell 2
Rush - Moving Pictures
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Tool - Lateralus
Slipknot - self-titled & .5: The Gray Chapter
Meshuggah - Catch 33 & ObZen
Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus & Demigod
Rage Against The Machine - self-titled
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated & Torture
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Animals as Leaders - Weightless
Mudvayne - L.D. 50

 

[Benevolent One]

The original album was great, but the reissue was even better. Voodoo Chile, Tin Pan Alley, and Hideaway make this one of my favorite blues/rock albums.
One of the most beautiful guitar albums ever recorded, imo. Primarily acoustic, mostly a mellow listen and quite a departure from Buckethead's typical style at the time it was released.


Couldn't make a greatest list without including a DT album, and I chose Train of Thought because of the personal connection I have with it.

I went back and forth about an SRV album, but I just couldn't pick one that really stood out from the rest. Stevie's is my favorite artist of all time, but all of them rank about equal to me. If I had to pick, it might be Soul To Soul, mostly based on my favorite song, Life Without You, but Couldn't Stand The Weather has some great tracks like Cold Shot as well, and The Sky Is Crying has some great stuff too, like the under appreciated Close To You.

 

[Benevolent One]

Switching genres completely, I have to say that there are a few other albums that I've found to be exceptional. Such as these.

Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Russ Taff - The Way Home

 

[ChexOrWrex]

 

[Kiante]

Please... Yes, I do listen to some Elvis. Marshall Mathers LP was by for Em's greatest in terms of his delivery, flow, instrumentals done by Dre... Just the emotion and the mood of the album to an extent is already on the cover at his old childhood home, which he burned down after the release of EM LP 2, last year. Daft Punk Homework... Cmon now, the replay value is INSANE!

 

[CamelPowered]

I went back and forth about an SRV album, but I just couldn't pick one that really stood out from the rest. Stevie's is my favorite artist of all time, but all of them rank about equal to me. If I had to pick, it might be Soul To Soul, mostly based on my favorite song, Life Without You, but Couldn't Stand The Weather has some great tracks like Cold Shot as well, and The Sky Is Crying has some great stuff too, like the under appreciated Close To You.

Yeah, it was really difficult to choose one, because everything he recorded was great. The Sky Is Crying is, sadly, overlooked by some that just view it as a leftovers album; but it's a great album from start to finish, and that version of Little Wing is one of my absolute favorite songs.