Answer me this, music geniuses...

[iceman]

Back in the day, there were a lot of great albums, records (dating myself, I know, but if you can't get a date with yourself...) that were quality from top to bottom, albums that qualified as GREAT. Easy choices are Dark Side of the Moon, Eat a Peach, Sargeant Peppers, Pet Sounds, Kaya, Who's Next, etc. etc. I could come up with twenty others in ten minutes.

But a friend of mine who happens to work for a major label (not boastin', just explainin') said to me a while back that there hasn't been a great ALBUM (concept to continuity, lyrics to likeability, etc), for at least fifteen years. I couldn't refute him.

I can't think of one album that I would qualify as GREAT in forever. There's been a lot of great songs, but is there an album in the past fifteen years that you would qualify as great?

Closest I could come up with on short notice was Digital Underground - Sex Packets. It hangs together, it has a lot of talent, but...nahhhhh.

Anybody?

Sorry, U2 suggestions are immediately disqualified.

[Odin]

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[Blurred Elevens]

Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory

2Pac-Me Against the World

BIG-Ready to Die/ Life After Death

Dre-The Chronic

Tool-Enema

Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience

Dishwalla-Pet your friends


Must I continue?

[phUnk]

Originally posted by Odin
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All those fuckers had their seatbelts on and their water & waters clutched tightly to their chests. Couldn't get a laugh out of any of em.

All the karaoke regulars were like this: http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif


While all the maggots were like this:

[iceman]

Originally posted by Blurred Elevens
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory

2Pac-Me Against the World

BIG-Ready to Die/ Life After Death

Dre-The Chronic

Tool-Enema

Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience

Dishwalla-Pet your friends


Must I continue?

Top to bottom top quality material? I know every one of those albums and all of 'em combined couldn't put fifty classic minutes together (IMVFHO).

Bring it stronger.

edit: Looking for ONE classic album from the past fifteen years. Should be pretty easy, except all a y'all kidz iz a buncha ADD numbnuts. Now step up.

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by phUnk
All those fuckers had their seatbelts on and their water & waters clutched tightly to their chests. Couldn't get a laugh out of any of em.

All the karaoke regulars were like this: http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif http://skiingismylife.com/media/serious.gif


While all the maggots were like this:

[Odin]

Top to bottom, the greatest.

I was on the edge of my seat, oh yes.....

[iceman]

Who sang the duet on "Ebony and Ivory" with phUnk?

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by iceman
Top to bottom top quality material? I know every one of those albums and all of 'em combined couldn't put fifty classic minutes together (IMVFHO).

Bring it stronger.

You must remember that a lot of what you think to be "epic" albums came out during the time when you were a very emotional teenager. Don't let reminescing and the such cloud your judgement of what a bunch of drug addicts did playing instruments while being out-of-their minds in a basement of an apartment.

I on the other hand DESPISE music nowdays not being made from the heart, and composed in simply in an hour or two for sake of filler or room on an "album".

[train07]

Red Hot Chili Peppers.....Californication

[gonzo]

Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987, but whatever)

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Nightrain
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. Paradise City
7. My Michelle
8. Think About You
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. You're Crazy
11. Anything Goes
12. Rocket Queen

[funkendrenchman]

RATM - self titled

Deltron 3030

Sublime - Sublime

Nirvana - Unplugged

[iceman]

Originally posted by gonzo
Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction (1987, but whatever)

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Nightrain
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. Paradise City
7. My Michelle
8. Think About You
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. You're Crazy
11. Anything Goes
12. Rocket Queen

Dude, decent album, no doubt.

Not what I'm talking about.

"Nevermind" is 1992, that's the closest I'm getting.
(edit: I don't really consider "Nevermind" a classic album, so pleeze don't jump all over my shit on that one. As I said, I'm reaching here)


Some young punk set me straight, please.

[SponsoredByDuctTape]

Last 15 years huh? Anything anyone says is going to reflect their personal musical tastes, but, here it goes:

Sublime - Sublime (Can't really think of any songs I skip over. Of course, that's true for almost all their stuff)

The Cult - Electric (A bit beyond 15 years, but......I'm not, nor ever really was, into 80's hard rock/metal, but every song on the album is great)

Bob Marley - Legend (Again, I'm not a huge reggae guy, but hard to argue. Beyond 15 years, though)

I'm sure I'll think of more.

[rip]

pearl jam - ten


there are more but i can't think of them now

also, linkin park and limp bizkit lick donkey balls.

[funkendrenchman]

I'll throw in System of a Down - Toxicity, but realize it is hard to call any recent album genius until several years down the road.

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by SponsoredByDuctTape


The Cult - Electric (A bit beyond 15 years, but......I'm not, nor ever really was, into 80's hard rock/metal, but every song on the album is great)

I like Sonic Temple a lot as well

[gonzo]

Appetite for Destruction is not a "decent album".

Appetite for Destruction is the best. album. ever.

[funkendrenchman]

Originally posted by train07
Red Hot Chili Peppers.....Californication

and By the Way.. IMHO their albums keep getting better and better.

[CS]

Some of the Few Albums I'll listen to all the way through:

Nirvana - Unplugged

Tool - Lateralus (sp?)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication and By the Way

Metallica - Black Album

[iceman]

Originally posted by SponsoredByDuctTape
Last 15 years huh? Anything anyone says is going to reflect their personal musical tastes, but, here it goes:

Sublime - Sublime (Can't really think of any songs I skip over. Of course, that's true for almost all their stuff)

The Cult - Electric (A bit beyond 15 years, but......I'm not, nor ever really was, into 80's hard rock/metal, but every song on the album is great)

Bob Marley - Legend (Again, I'm not a huge reggae guy, but hard to argue. Beyond 15 years, though)

I'm sure I'll think of more.

Sublime, c'mon. Nice band, but...
The cult, again, decent band, not great, plus the 15 years thing...
Bob Marley was dead fifteen years ago, Still is, in fact...

Let's try again.

[CS]

Originally posted by funkendrenchman:
and By the Way.. IMHO their albums keep getting better and better.

yup

[gonzo]

ever!

[Blurred Elevens]

Originally posted by iceman
Sublime, c'mon. Nice band, but...
The cult, again, decent band, not great, plus the 15 years thing...
Bob Marley was dead fifteen years ago, Still is, in fact...

Let's try again.

You said you'd name 20 others in 10 minutes...let's see'em...and don't give us that Hotel California bullshit.

[iceman]

Originally posted by gonzo
Appetite for Destruction is not a "decent album".

Appetite for Destruction is the best. album. ever.

Heh, okay, play that, "Never Mind the Bollocks" , the first Van Halen Album and "Live at Leeds" in a row, and get back to me.

You should at least be sticking up for the Pixies, Bosstown kid.