What's the best album ever?

[MonorailMan]

In your opinion, what is the best music album ever produced, and why? The "best" doesn't necessarily have to be your favorite.

 

[OrlandoMike]

Probably Thriller.

Has one album ever produced as many hits?

 

[jlewisinsyr]

The one with the most sales is some Eagles album if I recall, but my personal favorite is Immaculate Collection by Madonna (does that say anything).

 

[Sugardimples]

Sgt. Pepper

 

[rosiep]

Sgt. Pepper

YES!!! Exactly the one I was going to post.

 

[zeitzeuge]

I have to go with Mike's suggestion of Thriller

 

[rpmdfw]

The one that comes immediately to mind is Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell".

Not sure why.

Just cuz it is, I suppose.

 

[craiggers]

Kansas....."Leftoverture"

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Purple Rain?
The Three Tenors?
Dark Side of the Moon?
Imagine?
Jesus Christ Superstar?
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy?
Goat's Head Soup?
Lucky?
The Body Acoustic?

Hell, I don't know!

 

[Phil'sFrontier]

Fleetwood Mac
Rumors


my .02

 

[ConcKahuna]

"The Downward Spiral" from Nine Inch Nails is one of my favorites

Here are, in order, the top selling US albums (stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia)

Eagles - Their Greatest Hits
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
AC/DC - Back in Black
Garth Brooks - Double Live
Billy Joel - Greatist Hist Volume I & II
Shania Twain -Come on Over.

 

[jjjmranch]

The Cars debut album

 

[wallyb]

Sade - Love delux.
Janet Jackson -Rhythm Nation 1814
B52s - THE B52s
David Bowie - Young Americans.
Rolling Stones - Forty Licks

 

[OnTheBoardsMyNameIs]

If I'm saying the best from a general standpoint, Sgt Pepper's is a hard one to beat, though of course Thriller is a great album too.

At the moment I'm going between Soundgarden's superunknown, MSI's Frankenstein girls will seem strangely sexy and Sparks' Exotic Creatures of the Deep, one of the most bizarrely humourous albums I've heard in such a long time.

 

[wallyb]

 

[soulmates]

I'd have to say, VAN HALEN. Jamie's Cryin, Aint talkin bout love, Eruption, Ice cream man...all HUGE songs..nobody had ever heard anyone doing those things with a guitar..Eddie is a genius!

 

[npmommie]

Probably Thriller.

Has one album ever produced as many hits?

another vote for Thriller
have to add
Prince Purple Rain and B52's , b52 and wild planet

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

wow! This is a Great Question but it's also a little like trying to figure out which one of your kids you love the best...

In no particular order:

Solti -- The Ring Cycle
Black Flag -- Damaged
Decembrists -- Crane Wife
Rolling Stones -- Get yer Ya-Yas Out (Great Album -- awful name)
MC 5 -- Kick out the Jams
Gogol Bordello -- Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
Bob Dylan -- Highway 61 Revisited
Grateful Dead -- Workingman's Dead
Clifton Chenier -- Bogaloosa Boogie

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

OMG -- that is just WRONG

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

Now I wanna do it too...

AWESOME! my work here is done.