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New Gold dream is a great shout and didn’t expect to see it mentioned on here. The follow up sparkle in the rain has some corkers on it as well.
Aren’t good albums about every track being decent, Bowie Ziggy, Radiohead The bends, Genesis trick of the tail. Conceptual in a vinyl age.
As for Oasis, First album a real rock and roll belter, down hill from there.
Always intrigued me that bands brought out albums, toured with them, rinse repeat etc and the live set as it progressed would take the 1or 2 corkers from previous albums and add them to the set. New Order and the latest Cure tour for example. Hence end up playing with a great set list of great tunes. Learning the craft.
I'm joking (a bit), but it's a CD that was unbelievably good considering it was free and also has the worst cover of any CD before or since. Anyone who was into all that at that time knows this mix. Also the first time I heard James Holden "Horizon" {misty eyed emoji}
Hmm. Dont even think Made In Japan is the best Deep Purple album! In Rock is the best then Machine Head. Oasis is an age thing for me they were always a second rate Slade. And Barboletta is probably 4th best Santana after Abraxas, 3 and the first LP. Stone Roses? I get it. But the best ROCK album since 1975 is Queens of the Stone Age Songs For the Deaf. Mark Lanergan on vocals, Dave Grohl on Drums, a lunatic on Bass and Josh Homme for once focussed and funny. Best LP of all time is obviously Love Forever Changes but maybe you had to be there/here
In no particular order as albums I’ve listened to the most over the many years a random top ten
Stone Roses - Stone Roses New Order - Technique Jesus and Mary Chain - Barbed Wire Kisses Neil Young - Weld Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Beatles - White Album (could pick any of them tbh) De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising Public Enemy - Takes a Nation of Millions Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic James Browns Funky People The Streets - A Grand don’t come for free
As time has gone on I’ve got into making mammoth playlists so it’s more of a snapshot of my 80/90s!
If you got the best mogwai songs from the early EPs - happy songs for happy songs for happy people you'd have a contender for best album imo. But I think there are one too many songs that don't have 'classic' status from them.
Fantastic choices there, as well as from others on this thread as well. I'd really struggle to pick a single best album as it just changes depending on time and mood. I'd probably include something from the ones below:
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the young soul rebels. Just a storming debut.
A-ha - MTV Unplugged Summer Solstice - Shows just how good these guys actually are live.
U2 - War - Band just finding it's identity prior to breaking it big
Radiohead - Pablo Honey so so different when released
Faithless - No Roots - Just brilliant infectious dance music
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material - first heard this and was just blown away by it
Joy Division - Closer Haunting and grows everytime I hear it
On Oasis, was so looking forward to the second album at the time and, while I liked it, for me it never hit the heights of Definitely Maybe or even got close.
Unpopular opinion probably, but I think Wonderwall was the worst thing that ever happened to them (their bank accounts say different of course!) as the commercial success of it brought them into the mainstream and they then just started playing to the crowd in future releases.
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