Best album of all time: Born to Run?

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• 1 - Eric Olsen

  Sep 29, 2003 at 9:42 am

  Ah, where to begin? First, I will say it's not a bad list, though it's pretty generic. Born to Run isn't even my favorite Springsteen - The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle is, I'm fine with Abbey Road and Joshua Tree, but how can you leave the Stones, Dylan, Hendrix, Sinatra, Velvet Underground, Who, Robert Johnson, Bowie, Roxy Music, Billie Holiday, Aretha, and on and on out of the top 10? And Luther Vandross for top R&B - ick, ick, ick - that's about the worst one I can see. Like I said, not a bad list, but ...

• 2 - BRICKLAYER

  Sep 29, 2003 at 9:53 am

  And where the heck is Right Said Fred?

• 3 - Eric Olsen

  Sep 29, 2003 at 10:04 am

  too sexy to appear

• 4 - Andrew Ian Dodge

  Sep 29, 2003 at 10:13 am

  The gay bloke in RSF admitted on a VH1s "pop years" that he was an Iron Maiden fan in his youth. Rather funny to hear that.

• 5 - Eric Olsen

  Sep 29, 2003 at 10:19 am

  there is no way anyone in Right Said Fred is gay - I refuse to believe it

• 6 - Andrew Ian Dodge

  Sep 29, 2003 at 10:22 am

  You were shocked when Rob Halford "outted himself" I bet :p
  
  

• 7 - Eric Olsen

  Sep 29, 2003 at 10:31 am

  Rock Hudson and Richard Chamberlain too - it's a gay gay world.

• 8 - Mark Saleski

  Sep 29, 2003 at 11:00 am

  my favorite Springsteen song is probably "Thunder Road", but i don't think Born To Run is my favorite album of his....Darkness On The Edge Of Town probably is....
  
  as far as best album of all time...dang, that's a tough one.

• 9 - Natalie Davis

  Sep 29, 2003 at 11:06 am

  Woo hoo for that!
  
  Eric, re: "Born to Run isn't even my favorite Springsteen - The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle is" -- we converge musically yet again.
  
  If I understand correctly, the restaurant rankers at Zagat took votes for this list from the general public, so the results do not surprise me any. Luther Vandross, best R&B? Best alternative, U2? (Damn good, but alternative?) Supports my opinions regarding mainstream musical taste and knowledge and my deeply held desire that wider playlists were available via mainstream radio.

• 10 - Andrew Ian Dodge

  Sep 29, 2003 at 11:14 am

  Interesting that Master of Puppets is best metal album. It was not Metallica's most popular album at all. Its a great album.
  
  U2 isn't alternative, they just play good rock. It would be possible to argue they are Christian rock.
  
  The catagory which Pink Floyd came top is pretty damn daf.
  
  I got to say my fave Bruce album is Born in the USA. When he drops the touchy-feely bs and rocks out he is damn impressive. John (Cougar) Mellancamp is simillar in this respect.

• 11 - Eric Olsen

  Sep 29, 2003 at 11:25 am

  I just realized for the first time that Bruce was Born to Run in the U.S.A.
  
  My favorite metal is Black Sabbath's Paranoid, unless you think LZ2 is metal, which I don't.

• 12 - Andrew Ian Dodge

  Sep 29, 2003 at 11:30 am

  I think my favourite metal album is Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden (or maybe Live After Death). Best Hard Rock album is Physical Graffiti by Led Zep.

• 13 - Eric Olsen

  Sep 29, 2003 at 11:42 am

  We're vibing Nat, it's only a matter of time before you start defending the administration on the War on Terror. I feel that train a-comin'

• 14 - Natalie Davis

  Sep 29, 2003 at 12:05 pm

  Heh. Do not hold your breath waiting.

• 15 - The Theory

  Sep 29, 2003 at 12:07 pm

  NEVER! The war on terrorism is a joke.

• 16 - David

  Sep 29, 2003 at 4:16 pm

  I really really really really really really really really really really don't like U2.

• 17 - The Theory

  Sep 29, 2003 at 4:30 pm

  wow. shame. thanks for letting us know.

• 18 - Chris Arabia

  Sep 29, 2003 at 4:39 pm

  Right Said Fred's Smash Hit "I'm too Sexy" was the #100 video of 1992. I love the part when he drives past in a convertible.
  
  I'd put Electric Lady, Doin it to Death, and Songs in the Key of Life in my Top 10. For that matter, where are Pet Sounds and Beethoven at the Fillmore West?

• 19 - Craig Lyndall

  Sep 29, 2003 at 4:46 pm

  Master of Puppets can't be the best metal album of all time. I really don't like Metallica, but I don't see how that one could be it anyway. I don't have an answer at the moment for which one it should be, but I am reminded of the sabbath conversation from a couple of weeks ago.
  
  Also, U2 is a great band and deserves to be acknowledged, but I might not have put them so high on the list. I might have put the Police before them.
  
  I would leave the rolling stones off of any list I was creating, but I do realize they are significant.
  
  Also I assume we aren't including the classic works like Carmina Burana, etc. That piece of music ranks with any rock album ever created, but probably belongs in a separate conversation.

• 20 - Rodney Welch

  Oct 01, 2003 at 3:03 pm

  Blonde on Blonde is the greatest album ever made -- I've said this many times in the past, but buying the SACD and listening to it (which is what I am doing at this very moment) reminds me of how great.
  
  And I am pleased to join Eric and Natalie in hailing Wild and Innocent as the best Springsteen. It is an annual tradition in my home to play "Sandy" every year on the fourth of July.

• 21 - TDavid

  Oct 01, 2003 at 3:09 pm

  Best album of all time? No.

• 22 - Taloran

  Oct 01, 2003 at 3:13 pm

  Abraxas

• 23 - Eric Olsen

  Oct 01, 2003 at 3:47 pm

  Pretty hard to argue with Rodney, though best album of all time is really hard to pin down.
  
  Love that "Wild, Innocent ..."!!
  
  Abraxas is really really great, but might not be EPIC enough for the title.
  
  Mine would change from moment to moment, at the moment I might pick "Country Life" by Roxy Music, but I know that's a bit ... eccentric.

• 24 - Taloran

  Oct 01, 2003 at 3:51 pm

  1. Abraxas
  2. Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
  3. Blow By Blow

• 25 - Taloran

  Oct 01, 2003 at 4:00 pm

  I really don't like Springsteen. He's number 1 on my list of musicians I wish I'd never heard.