You should probably start a thread for "Top selling album" - those may be the largest sellers, but that doesn't make them the "greatest album"!
Top sales is just record company mumbo-jumbo with how many units are pushed out the door, and all of that. Payola and radio airplay and all of that entered into it ...
That's not what Seawolf wanted for this thread he named "Greatest Album" ...
I could argue about how Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds fought to change the very nature of albums -
even Their Santanic majesties request tried crashing THAT party ...
Les Paul and his multitrack revolutions are certainly pretty Great
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Alan ...it seems you did not read the premise of the thread or its comments ...
but as long as you are making claims like the above quote , please provide a link to that fact... I gave an actual RIAA link
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , the official guys who keep track of this meaningless stuff.
see ? SOG gets it..
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Well here is a link but there are many others....RIAA is within the USA, not worldwide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...bums_worldwide
I am not saying that this album is the best ever but when someone uses the word "greatest" what are they asking? 120 million people can't be wrong can they? I guess in the eyes of some members here, they can......
And just in case you want some more reading, here is an RIAA link.
http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumd...ble=tblDiamond
Can you tell me the name of the album at the top?
yup, I was going to note that we now seem to have a NZ version of that UK guy , except the UK guy can do math...
He claims 120 million worldwide sales of an album ,,,,I ask for links , he can't provide any , in fact , I checked Google...nobody else seems to know that 120 million number either...they just have wildly varying guesses that change by website since overseas sales are not tracked accurately. The sites that liked the album guesstimate it higher ...even Wiki has no clue.
"Thriller became—and currently remains—the best-selling album of all time, with sales estimated by various sources as somewhere between 65 and 110 million copies worldwide"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%28album%29
does this make sense to you ? ..estimates that disagree by 45 million units ??
120 million total worldwide minus the certified 29 million US sales = 91 million (more than 3x the US total amount) for the rest of the world...are there that many turntables in the rest of the world ?
I guess he can believe any number he wants ...although it doesn't pertain to the premise of this thread, and is just troll bait. Another add to the ignore list.
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When I first put the needle down on these records, things changed in my world. Not always change for the better, but the world seemed different while listening.
Kind of Blue
Are You Experienced?
Sticky Fingers
Abbey Road
Europe '72 (sorry)
Dark Side of the Moon
Horses
Remain in Light
Thanks for the reminders on the Bill Evans discs ... Amazon also has a crazy-cheap price on Turn Out the Stars - $39.71 - thats flat crazy for a 6 disc box set! Money is a bit tight right now for buying the 2 $100 each box sets, but the 6 disc set is impossible to ignore at that price!
We got the Bill Evans Oslo concert DVD from netflix last year - a very nice recording of his work.
Edit - 10:30AM -
Just checked and The last Waltz is now available from Amazon/Newbury comics New for $69.99 ... again, a heck of a discount over the $100 price (supersaving shipping, too!)
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Greatest Album Ever? That's not even a subjective question. It's a well-documented fact that the greatest album ever recorded is "Welcome to the Rat Race" by Vollmer. Judging by some of the comments above, the proof is that only 1,000 copies have been sold worldwide AND nobody knows who the heck this band is.
BUT, I'd be willing to say it's the worst, most commercial, down-to-the-lowest-common-denominator drek ever recorded if you all will help out and buy 1,000,000 of them off me!
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/Vollmer
All kidding aside, I love some of the top selling albums listed above and I also love some really obscure stuff most people have never heard of. I agree that we should be talking about the greatest album ever to each respondent.
I was just playing my copy of Turn Out the Stars for the first time and am comparing it to Consecration. Frankly the difference is startling. I am glad I now have the Village Vanguard recording of this trio, but no comparison. This is of course picking nits, as Turn Out the Stars is merely great (great!).
But Consecration is not only recorded much more to my liking, but the music on it is even more special, by quite a bit. The recording is much less dry and miked very differently. The playing is the best he ever did, ever. It is a level above what came before, even though only a few months had passed. It is like hearing Glenn Gould playing Bach on his beloved Steinway CD318, that is to say perfection, surprising perfection because we had no idea it could ever be this good.
I have to say Turn Out The Stars is worth forty dollars, and Consecration is worth one hundred - or even three hundred, if Bill Evans is your thing. What about The Last Waltz? It is at the same level, pretty much, but I have always personally liked Consecration even better. YMMV. My best friend like The Last Waltz better.
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