Ancient Ways Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Its the biggest selling album of all time not The Eagles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Its the biggest selling album of all time not The Eagles...Thriller must have sold a lot of albums in the last 15 years because I know the Eagles Greatest Hits is the best selling album of the 20th century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Its the biggest selling album of all time not The Eagles...Thriller must have sold a lot of albums in the last 15 years because I know the Eagles Greatest Hits is the best selling album of the 20th century. In the US maybe? Worldwide Thriller is the biggest selling. Its not a secret lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Its the biggest selling album of all time not The Eagles...Thriller must have sold a lot of albums in the last 15 years because I know the Eagles Greatest Hits is the best selling album of the 20th century. In the US maybe? Worldwide Thriller is the biggest selling. Its not a secret lol. I've always heard that it was Thriller as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Its the biggest selling album of all time not The Eagles...Thriller must have sold a lot of albums in the last 15 years because I know the Eagles Greatest Hits is the best selling album of the 20th century. In the US maybe? Worldwide Thriller is the biggest selling. Its not a secret lol. I've always heard that it was Thriller as well. Its not just rumour...its certified. Historically no album comes close. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Ways Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 seems it's just the U.S. Interesting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 #1 selling album of all time is Eagles Greatest Hits and I doubt there are a lot of people here lining up to proclaim it quality. I do like them but is clearly isn't the best album of all time so sales is only part of the equation. Erm...Michael Jackson's Thriller, anybody?Not sure what you mean, you like it or don't like it? Its the biggest selling album of all time not The Eagles...Thriller must have sold a lot of albums in the last 15 years because I know the Eagles Greatest Hits is the best selling album of the 20th century. In the US maybe? Worldwide Thriller is the biggest selling. Its not a secret lol. After doing a quick internet search both Thriller and Eagles Greatest Hits ('71-'75) have both been certified 29 million in the US. Worldwide Thriller is the biggest selling album ever though with reportedly over 65 million copies sold (HOLY SHIT!!!). The Eagles greatest hits is reported to be 42 million worldwide. Can I just say how odd I think it is that the Eagles compilation has sold that many copies. They are an OK band, but seriously? If Hotel California had been on it, maybe I could understand. Everyone had a copy a Thriller it seems. I even had it on vinyl when I was a kid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I still have Thriller on vinyl. It was purchased new, in 1982. Very good condition, still. Last I knew, Thriller had sold around 40 million, but I guess that was a number of years ago, too. The Eagles Greatest Hits from 1971-'75 is in second place? Seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Segue, isn't it time for Test For Echo? :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket ignites Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Actually, Vapor Trails. We were on T4E yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I just looked but I didn't see the T4E thread. I'll look again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Actually, Vapor Trails. We were on T4E yesterday. Should be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket ignites Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 ^ I'd like a nickel each time the word "production/produced" gets used on the next one... :beathorse: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 ^ I'd like a nickel each time the word "production/produced" gets used on the next one... :beathorse: There's no need to make a big production of it. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Yeah not sommuch produced but just a bunch of random squeals and drum beats put to tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas King Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 (edited) The only 90's Rush album I dig vs the only 2000's Rush album I dig - CA is a stronger album IMO.I found two clunkers on CP - The Speed of Love and Stick It Out(mainly due to very bad chorus) and only one stinker on CA - BU2B2. And the strongest tracks on CA easily trump the strongest tracks on CP. Edited June 25, 2017 by Texas King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Imagine if albums could really fight each other... :sundog: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Counterparts is f***ing hideous with the buttock-clenchingly embarrassing Nobodys Hero as stand out stinker, whereas I can't really remember how anything on CA goes at all...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YYZ Working Man Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 CP and the caveman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Rush's worst album vs. CA? Is this a joke? I think you are talking about the poll before this Nope. CP is more painful than a kick to the nuts, and it scared off a lot of fans who came back to Rush for RTB. Uh, really? Just who are these fans who "came back" for RTB? And why the hell would they? For Roll The Friggin' Bones??? We all get that you hate Counterparts, but RTB certainly wasn't a step back towards classic Rush either. And that's putting it mildly. Every album from MP to Presto sold fewer than the one before it...HYF and Presto went gold. RTB went platinum, and CP went gold.RTB had the most charting singles of any RUSH album, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Imagine if albums could really fight each other... :sundog: Here's 2112 vs A Farewell to Kings http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/13/139138/2760967-mar120552.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diatribein Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) Rush's worst album vs. CA? Is this a joke? I think you are talking about the poll before this Nope. CP is more painful than a kick to the nuts, and it scared off a lot of fans who came back to Rush for RTB. Uh, really? Just who are these fans who "came back" for RTB? And why the hell would they? For Roll The Friggin' Bones??? We all get that you hate Counterparts, but RTB certainly wasn't a step back towards classic Rush either. And that's putting it mildly. Every album from MP to Presto sold fewer than the one before it...HYF and Presto went gold. RTB went platinum, and CP went gold. I'll take your word for it that CP sold less than RTB because I honestly don't know (or care, really). But higher sales doesn't prove quality. You claimed that RTB sold better because many previous Rush fans "came back". I would say that more likely it sold well because NEW fans were being drawn in from Rush being lost musically and continuing to pander to the mainstream. RTB could not sound any less like classic Rush. If anything, CP was the album that drew old fans back because it at least showed them back to a heavy guitar driven sound reminiscent of their classic period. Whether people prefer that or a softer sound like RTB is just opinion. One last thing you have to remember is that grunge mania was in full force by the mid 90s. ALL hard rock/ metal acts starting selling less. I think maybe you need a personal story to help you realize how much Roll The Bones meant to some of us. Background: I was a little kid when Grace Under Pressure came out and I loved it. When Power Windows came out I bought it on cassette and loved it too. In 1987, still not a teenager, I bought Hold Your Fire on vinyl and liked it a tiny bit less than the previous two albums. Over the next two years I started listening to a lot of other bands and RUSH became less important to me. When Presto came out I bought it and listened to it but not as much as any of the previous albums. I had lost interest. Another two years passes and I was firmly in my teenage years. Roll The Bones came out and I was a little more circumspect because I hadn't connected well with Presto. In the interim I had bought Archives, A Show Of Hands, and Chronicles. I liked the live album, enjoyed some of the songs that were new to me on Chronicles and hated the 3 albums on Archives. I remember putting Roll The Bones on my turntable and thinking WOAH.. They are BACK! The keyboards that had been tucked away on Presto were once again more prominent and the songwriting was so much better. I really enjoyed most of the album right away. I listened to that album a lot and it was in that time period that I went and bought all of the old albums, largely because the latest album was connecting with me so well. Roll The Bones definitely reinvigorated my fandom after Presto. In contrast, I actually remember the day Counterparts came out because I was in the US at the time and people were doing the midnight lining-up thing they did back then. I think I saw the video for Stick It Out and it made me sad. Where were the keyboards? It sounded like they were trying to chase the in vogue grunge sound too. At the time, I personally had a lot of animosity towards that sound because there was a real sense that it had become the only acceptable rock style and if you didn't sound like that your career was over. I didn't buy Counterparts that day. I waited until I was back in Europe and bought the German CD because it had a fancy case. I didn't even buy the German vinyl (which I regret to no end today) because I don't remember seeing it and I wasn't as invested. The complete lack of any synthesizers on Counterparts was a real drawback for me and I never really listened to the album. It was so bad that I didn't even bother with Test For Echo until years after it had been released. When I finally got it, I realized that Test For Echo really did remedy some of what I disliked about Counterparts, but it wasn't as good as Roll The Bones in my opinion. So maybe none of those classic RUSH fans who think Caress Of Steel is a masterpiece came back for Roll The Bones, but certainly some of us that were big fans of the synth era did find their way back into the fold for Roll The Bones. Edited July 11, 2017 by diatribein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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