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The best album ever made is the one that you like the most. That's really the simplest answer. Because what one person may like another may loathe. It's also a genre sensitive topic. The best metal album and the best country album can't really be compared because it's two different types of music and often two different audiences consuming it. Magazine lists are usually full of pretentious picks and retarded list order. They're totally useless.
 
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Without arguing "best" I'd say the following albums are consistently high-quality across all the songs with no bad or weird outliers. There's a reason most of them were big successes in their time.

Graceland - Paul Simon (huge impact in it's time)
Weezer (the blue album) - Weezer
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads (kinda doesn't count because it's a live album)
The Joshua Tree - U2 (another huge impact when it hit, before they started sucking)
Apocryphon - The Sword (little bit of a commercial outlier)
Heartbeat City - The Cars (upbeat fucking ROCK&ROLL one and all)
Dude Ranch - Blink 182 (definitely not the best album of all time but very consistently good at what it does)
Black Album - Metallica (so played out that people sometimes forget how good it is across the board)
Strange Trails - Lord Huron (not real successful but consistently outstanding)

I'll second Rumors as well.

The problem with Tool is there's always a couple "experimental" songs on each album that are just a waste of space. They'll have to settle for just being possibly the best band of all time.

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Jesus. What's up Mr. Time Traveler from, like, three months in 1995?
 
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I like the music as well as the album covers
King Crimson - Red
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Marconi Union - Ghost Stations
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Hiromi - Alive
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Dysnomia said:
The best album ever made is the one that you like the most. That's really the simplest answer. Because what one person may like another may loathe. It's also a genre sensitive topic. The best metal album and the best country album can't really be compared because it's two different types of music and often two different audiences consuming it. Magazine lists are usually full of pretentious picks and retarded list order. They're totally useless.
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I dunno man, I really like Captain Beefheart but it's virtually impossible to recommend to anybody. Therefore I would feel like an absolute tool putting "Trout Mask Replica" up there with the best albums ever.

The best album ever probably has some combination of mass appeal/accessibility, artistic merit/experimentalism, and major commercial success.

Therefore the canonical answer is:
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Pet sounds The Beach Boys
dark side of the moon pink floyd
rumours fleetwood mac
Dookie Green Day
the Black album Metallica
Jagged little pill Alanis morissette
Born to run Bruce Springsteen
Hot fuss the killers
on the impossible past menzingers
bleed American Jimmy eat world
The stranger Billy Joel
the black parade my chemical romance
Pinkerton Weezer
Tim the replacements
Fearless Taylor swift

I don’t know, that‘s enough to get started.
 
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Thought: would we be better, rather than trying to answer the eternal question of 'what is the best album ever and why is it still Rumours', recommending some greatest hits collections rather than actual albums per se to OP. OP isn't engaged in the classic 'my favourite is better than yours' game, maybe we should just throw up some certified banger greatest hits collections for them to try and see what they like
 
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Thought: would we be better, rather than trying to answer the eternal question of 'what is the best album ever and why is it still Rumours', recommending some greatest hits collections rather than actual albums per se to OP. OP isn't engaged in the classic 'my favourite is better than yours' game, maybe we should just throw up some certified banger greatest hits collections for them to try and see what they like
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This sounds like a job for a blind soulless computer algorithm
 
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Thought: would we be better, rather than trying to answer the eternal question of 'what is the best album ever and why is it still Rumours', recommending some greatest hits collections rather than actual albums per se to OP. OP isn't engaged in the classic 'my favourite is better than yours' game, maybe we should just throw up some certified banger greatest hits collections for them to try and see what they like
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Yes, for example, Operation: Mindcrime is the collection of all the best Queensryche songs arranged in the ideal order, making it the best album of all time.
 
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The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse all the way for me. Give it a listen if indie/alternative is something that piques your fancy. Kid A by Radiohead isn't far off, though I think you should get deeper into music before giving that one a listen.

Emergency & I by the Dismemberment Plan was my favourite album for the longest period of time, being one of the first I ever listened to. It has some of my favourite lyrics out of any album, though I can't deny that it can be extremely annoying. I'd give that one a soft recommendation.

Based on your listening history, I think you might get a kick out of the F-Zero GX soundtrack - particularly the track themes. It's a pretty great fusion of metal and electronic music.
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Judging by your comment I have a feeling you might like the Beta Band. They opened for Radiohead back in the early 2000s.


This selection is from their final show. They were something special. I was lucky to catch them live a couple times in Boston.


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Brasilian Skies by Masayoshi Takanaka.
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The whole album is killer
 
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Crowdsourcing from all 50+ mutuals on RateYourMusic (ranges from zoomers at 18 to seniors in their 70s) There's more on that list who almost exclusively stick to metal so it leads to some overall biases.
It seems like the best album of all time is King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, followed by Yes's Close to the Edge
This is followed by Metallica and Iron Maiden's 80s output, some Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Ziggy Stardust-Era Bowie, 70's Black Sabbath, Judas Priest's Painkiller, and the Beatles' Revolver
So lots of rock mostly of the progressive variety and foundational metal albums, Painkiller is 90 but for this sake i'll call it an end of an era.

Exceptions?

Alt Rock - My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Alice in Chains' Dirt
Electronic - Aphex Twin's Ambient Works 85-92 and Daft Punk's Discovery
Black Metal / Death metal - Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse, Death's Sound of Perseverance, Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness
Thrash Metal - Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Slayer's Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood
Power Metal - Angra's The Temple of Shadows, Nightwish's Oceanborn, Blind Guardian's Imaginations from the Other Side
Dream Pop/ Shoegaze - MBV's Loveless, Slowdive's Souvlaki, Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas
Jazz and Hip-hop are woefully underrepresented, only Kanye West's MBDTF shows up as it has a lot of crossover appeal with pop/electronic fans.

Ignoring crowdsourced consensus, i give a lot of praise for albums from love-it-or-hate it genres that seem to have mass appeal without muddying their sounds.
Streetlight Manifesto's Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between are loved by even ska-punk haters and Lost Horizon's Awakening The World is power metal so over the top that it doesn't need to be parodied.
Ian Tyson mostly sang covers but his music tends to break peoples' "I hate country" beliefs.
 
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Crowdsourcing from all 50+ mutuals on RateYourMusic (ranges from zoomers at 18 to seniors in their 70s) There's more on that list who almost exclusively stick to metal so it leads to some overall biases.
It seems like the best album of all time is King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, followed by Yes's Close to the Edge
This is followed by Metallica and Iron Maiden's 80s output, some Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Ziggy Stardust-Era Bowie, 70's Black Sabbath, Judas Priest's Painkiller, and the Beatles' Revolver
So lots of rock mostly of the progressive variety and foundational metal albums, Painkiller is 90 but for this sake i'll call it an end of an era.

Exceptions?

Alt Rock - My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, Alice in Chains' Dirt
Electronic - Aphex Twin's Ambient Works 85-92 and Daft Punk's Discovery
Black Metal / Death metal - Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse, Death's Sound of Perseverance, Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness
Thrash Metal - Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Slayer's Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood
Power Metal - Angra's The Temple of Shadows, Nightwish's Oceanborn, Blind Guardian's Imaginations from the Other Side
Dream Pop/ Shoegaze - MBV's Loveless, Slowdive's Souvlaki, Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas
Jazz and Hip-hop are woefully underrepresented, only Kanye West's MBDTF shows up as it has a lot of crossover appeal with pop/electronic fans.

Ignoring crowdsourced consensus, i give a lot of praise for albums from love-it-or-hate it genres that seem to have mass appeal without muddying their sounds.
Streetlight Manifesto's Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between are loved by even ska-punk haters and Lost Horizon plays power metal so over the top that it doesn't need to be parodied.
Ian Tyson mostly sang covers but his music tends to break peoples' "I hate country" beliefs.
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Growing up, Ska/punk was my favorite genre of music. Streetlight Manifesto is an incredible band.

Here are a couple of my favorites for those interested

A Little Bit Ugly · Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Break The Glass · The Suicide Machines
 
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