best-selling album of 20th century

[SEAWOLF97]

anybody know without looking it up ? (like I did ) US sales only.

hint : released in 1976

[Nightbrace]

I'm gonna guess Dark Side of The Moon..

[jim campbell]

dark side was in 73

[SEAWOLF97]

I'm gonna guess Dark Side of The Moon..

nope , and wasn't Thriller .... was a GH album.

[jim campbell]

i wonder if it was that eagles gh.everyone i knew seemed to have it

[SEAWOLF97]

Ahhh....Jim, you are too good at this.

http://archives.cnn.com/1999/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/08/eagles/

[Nightbrace]

Wasn't around in '73 :(. Do I get another guess?

[jim campbell]

id like to thank the academy...........i guess i may as well go dig that out now.

[SEAWOLF97]

Wasn't around in '73 :(. Do I get another guess?

only if you didn't read prior post.

[Nightbrace]

LOL., that was my 2nd guess. but as the Dude said in the Big Lebowski,
"I hate the F'in Eagles."

[hjames]

LOL., that was my 2nd guess. but as the Dude said in the Big Lebowski,
"I hate the F'in Eagles."

Ah - bless you my son, for that has made you wondrous in my eyes!!http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/icons/icon12.gif

yeah, gimme Byrds, Burritos Brothers, Graham parson, Poco, Manassas - heck, even Jerry Garcia on pedal steel - any of those earlier countrified guys - the Eagles were a bit too derivative for me ...

[opimax]

I too am anti eagles, how did they sell so many albums then?

Mark

[hjames]

I too am anti eagles, how did they sell so many albums then?

Mark

Most folks haven't the ears or the chops to know good music - they learn what they like by familiarity - what's on the radio gets most folks ears ...
and the Eagles did nice music very well, those other guys I mentioned - you had to seek them out and they were HARD to listen to at times.

Its the reason cover bands do so well in the DC clubs - most folks don't want to hear/learn something new, they just want nice background music.

[SEAWOLF97]

yeah, gimme Byrds,..

went to school with McGuinn - Santa Barbara HS

[SEAWOLF97]

I too am anti eagles, how did they sell so many albums then?

Mark

as I understand , that GH album, the 20th century bestseller , was not planned , just cobbled together to fulfill a commitment

[loach71]

went to school with McGuinn - Santa Barbara HS

"hippie-swabbie" ?? ;)

[SEAWOLF97]

"hippie-swabbie" ?? ;)

hippie-swabbie-photog-interp-rotorhead-techie-audioenthuser-retired-bimmer pilot-geezer.

geeze - I hate being stuck in a standard pigeonhole.

[Thom]

Birds had their troubles though Parsons was a star in the night and he was gone. Chris whatever got religious. I'm not sure if Crosby has the thing about drugs and guns not mixing too well down yet. What a band. Parsons, too bad he went out so young. Crosby has a voice like hardly any other but guns or drugs I really don't have a big problem with either one but maybe it's like fire and either keep one in one room and the other in the other room.

[Titanium Dome]

Ah - bless you my son, for that has made you wondrous in my eyes!!http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/images/icons/icon12.gif

yeah, gimme Byrds, Burritos Brothers, Graham parson, Poco, Manassas - heck, even Jerry Garcia on pedal steel - any of those earlier countrified guys - the Eagles were a bit too derivative for me ...

Yep, dug Poco and Buffalo Springfield before them.

My daughter, grandson, and I spent a night at the Joshua Tree Inn where Gram Parsons died and we listened to Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris softly on the iPod.

All better than the Eagles but not nearly as popular

[oznob]

I agree with most about The Eagles, especially in their later years. Pretty good and inovative band when they first stated with Bernie Leadon. They had that raw, unpolished almost garage band sound then. I have to say I do have their GH on vinyl and CD, please forgive me!