top five albums of all time(rock/pop)
Submitted by sammy1929 on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 04:36
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- 1)Elvis Presley: Elvis Golden Records(vol.1) Although a compendium of singles-still the currency of the day-this collection has to be considered as "ground zero" for what would come to be called "rock 'n roll". There isn't a wasted second on this record: "Hound Dog", "All Shook Up", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Jailhouse Rock", etc. Little Richard had exuberance, Jerry Lee had the piano down cold but always on fire, Carl had his blue suede shoes and Chuck Berry had that one guitar riff, but Elvis had it all.
- 2)The Beatles:Revolver On any given day it could be Rubber Soul or Abbey Road, but this is the yardstick by which even the fab four must be measured. From "Eleanor Rigby" to "Tomorrow Never Knows", this is the album that heralded the arrival of the album as an holistic whole, an entity unto itself.
- 3).Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde The man was definitely on an artistic roll, to say the least.From stream of consciousness lyricism("Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands", "Fourth time Around", "Visions Of Johanna") to the velvet sneer of "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" and "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" to the romantic tenderness of "Just Like A Woman", it continues to spiral and unravel through the ages. Incandescant brilliance.
- 4)Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced If only to inaugurate the arrival of the electric guitar as avatar, and the artist as a guitarist/composer(why do you think Gil Evans did an album of orchestrated versions of Hendrix' music?)To this day, I cannot think of an album with such a variety of superlative guitar tones and transendental songs that measures up to this one.
- 5)The Doors:S/T Better than the Velvet Underground will ever be for dismantling the myth of the Summer Of Love, not to mention the fact that the Doors had/have timeless songs, and all V.U. has is a hypodermic needle in a cheap N.Y. hotel room.
Actually, I was going for the top TEN albums, but I ran out of room! I guess my commentaries for the albums should have been posted under the comments section. Live and learn, which, I guess, is what this list is all about. What the hell, I still stand by them.