Best Ever Albums

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

revolver94 — Mon, 4 Apr 2016 12:10:39 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 04/04/2016 16:10

alelsupreme wrote:

revolver94 wrote:

easily the 60's for me. followed by the 00's i guess? idk

edit:

u should make!!!

Hugh you already know my fave era.

Back when we were kings...

*looks at sky wistfully, wishfully, longingly*

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

SuedeSwede — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:46:28 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 03/30/2016 16:46

80s. two bad albums but apart from that it's in another ball park to the others. 50s is good too, p consistent. the rest have some major flaws for sure

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

paladisiac — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:15:19 GMT

Author: paladisiac

Posted: 03/30/2016 14:15

90s > 60s > 50s

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

RoundTheBend — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 02:12:29 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/30/2016 06:12

Grzywa wrote:

... this actually did not happen until December 1965 :wink:

hahaha... Rubber Soul?

I agree with the previous comments that a couple rockers in the 50s made alright albums. Ray Charles, Little Richard, Elvis' debut, Johnny Cash's debut all were actually pretty top albums in my book.

Here's my 50's list. My top 20 are 85 and above records... but top 10 are 90 and above.

Everything rock related after that... well is pretty mediocre at best.

Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s by sethmadsen

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Listmeister — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:28:58 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 03/30/2016 01:28

Listmeister wrote:

1960's 7/10 The top 10 here would be more interesting without the Beatles and Dylan (but I can't disagree with the Beatles albums. I love most of them.)

For the record: Top 10 from the 60's, minus the Beatles and Bob Dylan:

1. The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
3. The Doors
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience are You Experienced?
5. Led Zeppelin II
6. King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King
7. The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
8. Van Morrison Astral Weeks
9. Led Zeppelin
10. Love Forever Changes

This list, I'd give 5/10.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Listmeister — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:20:39 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 03/30/2016 01:20

1950's 2/10 I'm not really a fan of jazz (I say this to my shame), but I did like the Elvis and Little Richard albums. 'Chirping Crickets' by Buddy Holly and the, was the best near miss (i.e., in 11-20)
1960's 7/10 The top 10 here would be more interesting without the Beatles and Dylan (but I can't disagree with the Beatles albums. I love most of them.) Best near miss: Led Zeppelin II
1970''s 7/10 I voted for this one because the ones in this that I like are among my favorites, with three of these top tens in my own top twenty. Best near miss: Queen's A Night at the Opera.
1980's 3/10. I love the music of the 80's, but not this top ten list. Best near miss: Graceland, by Paul Simon
1990's 3/10. I don't love the music of the 90's. I don't understand the hate for Oasis, the inclusion of that album saves this list. Best near misses: Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros, and Achtung Baby by U2
2000's 2/10. I've had to really dig to find albums that I've liked from this decade. On this list, it's Funeral and Yoshimi and that's it. Best near miss was Fleet Foxes. American Idiot (my favorite from the decade) was #22, so it didn't even qualify as a near miss.
2010's 1/10. It takes time to separate truly good stuff from stuff that just has good marketing. So I can't really say my favorites are classics, because who knows what people are going to say about these records in 20 years? So, I've just picked albums that I've like, but they're usually nowhere near agreeing with BEA's ranking. One exception, I really liked Reflektor, it's my favorite of 2013. Best near miss was Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

bcmandude — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:02:18 GMT

Author: bcmandude

Posted: 03/29/2016 21:02

denmarkman wrote:

I didn't even know BEA was around in the '50s.

This made me chuckle 😄

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Grzywa — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:12:50 GMT

Author: Grzywa

Posted: 03/29/2016 17:12

alelsupreme wrote:

The Chirping Crickets and Buddy's s/t are both great records from the R'n'R era.

Will check them out, thx.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

alelsupreme — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:58:38 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 03/29/2016 16:58

Grzywa wrote:

Which one should I check out you mean ?

The Chirping Crickets and Buddy's s/t are both great records from the R'n'R era.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Grzywa — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:54:28 GMT

Author: Grzywa

Posted: 03/29/2016 16:54

alelsupreme wrote:

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Which one should I check out you mean ?

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

denmarkman — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:41:14 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 03/29/2016 16:41

I didn't even know BEA was around in the '50s.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

alelsupreme — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:09:27 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 03/29/2016 16:09

Grzywa wrote:

... this actually did not happen until December 1965 :wink:

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Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Grzywa — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 05:56:43 GMT

Author: Grzywa

Posted: 03/29/2016 09:56

sethmadsen wrote:

the quality of albums coming from Rock n' Roll just wasn't as developed

... this actually did not happen until December 1965 😉

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

RoundTheBend — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:02:13 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/29/2016 02:02

Grzywa wrote:

50s apparently get the votes because the choice is relatively limited. That was the age when giant jazz reptiles dominated the planet, and apart from few pre-rock mammals such as Elvis or Little Richard, none of which had been able to fully develop distinctive album focus features at that stage yet, there is not much to select from or disagree with, I presume :-)

I agree. As much as I side with the early rockers with my personal tastes, the quality of albums coming from Rock n' Roll just wasn't as developed, and Jazz and Classical (so I'm told) very much was already in an album format. It wasn't about the hits (although I feel Jazz and Classical went through that too).

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Grzywa — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:56:27 GMT

Author: Grzywa

Posted: 03/28/2016 13:56

dihansse wrote:

It's crazy that the 50's are getting the most votes upto now. I can understand the 60's but the 50's are to me the pre-rock era, but I'm sure lots of the people on this forum won't agree :wink:

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

dihansse — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:51:57 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 03/28/2016 11:51

It's crazy that the 50's are getting the most votes upto now. I can understand the 60's but the 50's are to me the pre-rock era, but I'm sure lots of the people on this forum won't agree 😉

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Norman Bates — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 18:20:56 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 03/27/2016 22:20

LoneStarRebel wrote:

That was rhetorical.

No kidding.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

RichardSauce — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:57:32 GMT

Author: RichardSauce

Posted: 03/27/2016 21:57

50's is solid, honestly it's a pretty easy decade. I'd add in some Link Wray somewhere, but whatever.

60's: Too Beatles heavy, but what are you gonna do.

70's: Weakest batch. So much more went on that decade other than Pink Floyd and Zeppelin.

80's: Solid, got my vote.

90's: Solid, kind of obvious.

2000's: Meh.

2010's: Maybe it will like better ten years from now.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:18:06 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/27/2016 19:18

LoneStarRebel wrote:

This just shows that what is popular here, isn't with me. But should it be? Should what I like become more popular here?

That was rhetorical.

Re: Which BEA era do you agree with most?

Norman Bates — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:59:15 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 03/27/2016 18:59

LoneStarRebel wrote:

Should what I like become more popular here?

Should you care?