Beach Boys. PET SOUNDS.
I own that record. It’s got some good stuff and some crap. It’s definitely one of their better albums.
But art is subjective. There is no “best” album of any type.
The most enjoyable experience I ever had listening to a record from beginning to end was one night in the late 70’s listening to Alan Parsons I Robot. But I don’t think that is the greatest record ever made.
i.e. the premise is an excuse to write an article.
BTW, the article says their pace of producing records over 7 years was “extraordinary”. Well, since they were not a touring band, sure, they had the time. And lets be frank: A lot of their stuff was “lets throw it against the wall and see what sticks”. I’m thinking, “I am the walrus”.
A Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles 3rd studio album, movie soundtrack on side 1
And I Love Her the best ballad McCartney-Lennon ever wrote.
No, that would be Led Zeppelin IV
Short answer? No.
Longer answer? HELL no!
I never really got into ‘Bug’ music. That being said I so have multiple albums of theirs.
I purchased ‘Bug 1’s’ and after 20 minutes I had to turn it off! Had to have a beer in quiet...
I’ll vote for Tower Of Power’s What Is Hip? album, with a 2nd to The Crusaders Southern Comfort (OK - the Crusaders are not ‘rock’ I’ll admit that).
NOT trying to hijack the post, just sharing my thoughts...
Weekend starts at 5:00 PM local time! Perhaps I should start to play ‘Bug 1’s at 4:40 PM?
Good example for me is classical music. For most of my life, I found classical music boring. Then I decided to give it a listen and found that certain works grew on me over time. Now I'm able to appreciate most classical music from Baroque Era to modern day (and even some Renaissance Era works). To an extent, it's the same with jazz, blues and country, all of which I have come to appreciate to some degree.
Before the age of 30, it was rock music all the time. But I opened my mind up and explored elsewhere. I still go back to rock music but wonder how I ever listened to some of that stuff.
Fifty years ago, most albums were collections of songs that included an accumulation of hits packed in with filler material.
Revolver had some great songs, but as a whole, it just didn’t stand out.
Out of all my many LP’s; I only owned ONE ‘Beatles’ album...’Rubber Soul’. The rest of their catalog? Meh. (Which was blasphemy in the fab four obsessed northeast US.)
Surprised that no one’s mentioned Sgt. Pepper. I am unable to come up with a “best” album of all time.
I like Rubber Soul a little bit better
Not even close to the all time best album, but lord it is a great album. Every song is great. There is no filler at all.
Just, compare it to Led Zepplin 4 and there just is no comparison. Even Boston I was better, there are several that are better than Revolver.
I go back and forth on this, but I might give a slight edge to Rubber Soul. Tremendous quality throughout, and works as a whole. Revolver and the White Album have lots of quality, but feel disjointed. Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road are well put-together albums, but their song quality is a little more uneven. I’ll probably change my mind on this tomorrow.
And I won’t even attempt to rank among different bands...
“Days of Future Past” by the Moody Blues (1967) or “Out of the Blue” by the Electric Light Orchestra (1977) might give it a run for its money.