# Vote for the Best Album EVER (from rateyourmusic.com top 50)

Oh, and, went for "Pet Sounds".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWWUsHRZ6k

Didn't they make albums before 1959?

They were called "Harmonious Orchestrated Compendiums" and they were only available on 75-inch wide parchment discs so they weren't that popular.

Didn't they make albums before 1959?

Yes, they did:
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1950s

Rock albums weren't particularly consistent back then though, and most of the albums in the RYM list - like every list otherwise - are "rock" in some way or other.

Sez shitipedia:

"The term "record album" originated from the fact that 78-RPM phonograph disc records were kept in a bound container resembling a photograph album. The first collection of records to be called an "album" was Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, released in April 1909 as a four-disc set by Odeon Records. It retailed for 16 shillings (approximately £56 or US$101 in 2005 currency)."

Which i guess is interesting-ish.

Vaguely annoyed as per usual by boomer critical discourse "best record EVER" meaning best record since the beatles-sorta, but lets throw a couple of miles albums in to show we're "eclectic".

I voted for "Forever changes" it wasn't a particularly difficult choice.

Geir it doesn't say best ROCK album ever! it says best album ever! "The man with the golden arm" soundtrack, from 1955, I think is much better than many of the records listed.

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best album ever means it cant exclude other genres, Geir. If you want best rock album ever since the beatles began then you should call your poll exactly that.(or a mod should change it)

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best album ever means it cant exclude other genres, Geir. If you want best rock album ever since the beatles began then you should call your poll exactly that.(or a mod should change it)

I haven't exluded anything. It is RYM who have excluded post 1959 albums. Probably mainly because the number of ratings is too low (and that is a sensible rule, or RYM would have been completely dominated by weird and obscure stuff)

And the fact that music began with The Beatles. Well, largely it did. Before that, only classical music from before 1900 was worthy of any attention. And maybe the occasional Tin Pan Alley composer in-between. Everything else was rubbish.

3... maybe 4 bassists, 1 drummer and 2 part-time singers?

It's like women don't exist. Who comes up with these ratings and what perverse all-male universe do they live in?

I feel like a broken record at this point, but seriously...

Well, the list - other than hard rock being slightly overrepresented - looks like most rankings made by generalist music mags.

xpost: Nico, Kim Deal, Tina Weymouth, MBV's Belinda & Debbie, Kim Gordon

Is Joey Santiago from The Pixies the only Asian on the list?

He may, but maybe this list is based upon with music geeks actually like, not caring about all kinds of quota criteria to make sure the list is as diverse as possible.

Music geeks don't like asians or ladies then?

They appear to be rockist, racist and sexist. (o noes, not THAT discussion again!) :-)

Village Green or Enter the Wu?

Ziggy.

Love Supreme.

Those are weird-ass Stones choices.

Music geeks don't like asians or ladies then?

Looking at these lists, first and foremost they like bands consisting of guys with guitars. Let's not speculate about who they do not like.

white guys who want to play guitar in liking other white guys who do in fact play guitar shockah!

thread wins groundhog day award

And the fact that music began with The Beatles. Well, largely it did.

No Mozart no credibility.

Not kidding, actually. We don't include those classical dudes just because their format wasn't the album, but we do throw vinyl albums (you know, with A and B sides) together with CD albums and presumeably download only collections next?

No Mozart no credibility.

― StanM, domingo 4 de octubre de 2009 20:17

Yeah I mean, it's not like albums weren't invented almost 200 years after his death.

He made some good ones though.

and how would you decide which version is the best? a poll of each mozart piece of music with every performance ever culminating 200 years later with a poll of each poll winner?

poll 'em all and let Geir sort them out.

Why is it always Paranoid? They have better albums...

StanM, you do see a difference between sound recordings and notated sheet music? Like, one that is greater than the difference between different audio formats?

(Honestly, don't see the issue with this poll, esp considering that Geir just copied the list directly from rateyourmusic.)

I was just being facetious after that "it's like women don't exist" and I apologize.

Seriously voting for this seems a waste of time. But I gave The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady a point simply because I feel like listening to it the most right now.

went for 3rd VU over marquee moon. felt bad about ignoring unknown pleasures but i only really listen to disorder anyway

Ha, cool. Sorry if I was dickish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS181X4F3bw

voted crazy frog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xLkpiYldMU&autoplay=1

a poll of each mozart piece of music with every performance ever culminating 200 years later with a poll of each poll winner?

oh yes that would suit you and your polling ways JUST FINE, wouldn't it, Mr. Herman

um, i don't see death cab for cutie anywhere on this list. wtf?????

Neutral Milk Hotel isn't on there either. :-(

Oh, they may be in there somewhere. This is just the Top 50, but at RYM, the all time list is actually a Top 5000. :)

Geir do you like the singles list?
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=single&year=alltime&genre_include=1&genres=&include=both&origin_countries=&limit=none&countries=

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Geir do you like the singles list?

please please no more