Posted on 04/16/2009 12:24:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ has topped a new poll of ‘The Greatest Albums of all Time’.
The 1982 hit notched up almost one in three of all votes cast by more than 40,000 fans, and 20 percent more than its nearest rival.
Paying tribute to the king of pop, DJ Trevor Nelson said there would probably never be another album like it. “Thriller was innovative, groundbreaking and is timeless. I don’t think there will be another album like it - ever,” the Daily Star quoted him, as saying.
In the poll, conducted by music channel MTV, Craig David’s ‘Born To Do It’ came second.
Craig, now 27, admitted that he was ‘amazed’ at his album’s position.
“I am incredibly proud - it’s an amazing achievement when you look at the other albums,” he said.
Rockers Guns N’ Roses landed the third spot with 1987’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’, which sold 28m copies. Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ came fourth and Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ rounded off the top five.
The MTV poll included albums dating back to 1981, the year it launched.
The Greatest Albums of all Time (since 1981): 1. Michael Jackson - Thriller 2. Craig David - Born To Do It 3. Guns’n'Roses - Appetite for Destruction 4. Radiohead - OK Computer 5. Nirvana - Nevermind 6. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? 7. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 8. U2 - The Joshua Tree 9. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 10. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (ANI)
Hello one week ago... guess I don’t need to get in my time machine to relive this story again
If the eligible albums had to be released in 1981 or later, then none of them are “Greatest Album”.
They might be “Greatest Album Released After 1981 When the Record Industry Began to Die Because it Focused Marketing on So-Called-Innovation Rather Than Talent”
It didn’t help when Achmenijad started wearing his jacket.
I was on a SCUBA diving trip in the Sea Of Cortez in the early 80’s and one of my fellow divers played that album CONSTANTLY on the dive boat. The only escape was in the water. Several others wanted to destroy the tape but the owner honestly loved it. C. Lee Woodard, where ever you are, you’ll never know how close that tape came to being deep sixed.
I consider myself reasonably in touch with pop culture, but find myself forced to admit I have no idea who Craig David is.
No kidding. No Beatles, no Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. Stupid top 10 is all it is...
Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain is better. So is The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds.
It's too bad what ended up happening. A whole mess of horrible choices and we have the Michael Jackson of today.
More deception from Viacommie.
“The MTV poll included albums dating back to 1981”
It isn’t the poll of the greatest albums of all time. It is a poll of the greates albums since 1981.
And even then, it fails.
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Dark Side of the Moon ... Pink Floyd
Days of Future Past ... Moody Blues
... anything less isn’t even worthy of consideration.
( N.B. I will neglect Sound Track albums, otherwise #1 is ‘An American in Paris’. )
I won’t even listen to anything from that serial child-molester. If he pops up on the radio, I leave the station. If he’s played in the background musak in a store, I leave the store. Zero tolerance at its best ...
How could at least one of the three great Dire Straits albums Making Movies/Love Over Gold/Brothers In Arms, not be in the Top Ten since 81?
And once again, Debbie Gibson gets gypped.
Gotta be biggest seller basically. Thriller still tops that chart. Can think of a LOT of other albums that are better, but none sold more.
I don’t know about “greatest album of all time” but it was one heck of a music video.
Supertramp, “Breakfast in America”
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