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GREATEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME ROUND 2 (first poll)


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  1. 1. Choose SEVEN from this group

    • Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
    • Rocket to Russia - Ramones
    • Unknown Pleasures- Joy Division
    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
    • Draconian Times - Paradise Lost
    • Back In Black - AC/DC
    • Queen II - Queen
    • Abbey Road- The Beatles
    • Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
    • Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
    • Hallowed Ground -- Violent Femmes
    • Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
    • AB III - Alter Bridge
    • War - U2
    • Foxtrot - Genesis
    • The Beatles - The Beatles
    • Destroyer - KISS
    • Skull Daze - Skull Daze
    • Exile on Main Street- The Rolling Stones
    • To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
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    • Trilogy - Emerson Lake & Palmer
    • Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
    • Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest
    • Lateralus - Tool
    • The Resistance - Muse
    • Late for the Sky- Jackson Browne
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    • Who's Next- The Who
    • Rising - Rainbow
    • Rust In Peace - Megadeth
    • Making Movies- Dire Straits
    • Are You Experienced ? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    • Main Course - The Bee Gees
    • Animals - Pink Floyd
    • You're Not Alone - Roy Buchanan
    • 2112 - Rush
    • Within Temptation- The Heart of Everything
    • Outlandos d'Amour - The Police
    • Leftoverture - Kansas
    • OK Computer - Radiohead
    • London Calling - The Clash
  2. 2. Choose SEVEN from this group

    • Live At Leeds - The Who
    • Paranoid - Black Sabbath
    • Heaven Tonight - Cheap Trick
    • Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
    • Nevermind - Nirvana
    • Holy Diver - Dio
    • Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
    • Permanent Waves - Rush
    • Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
    • Born To Run- Bruce Springsteen
    • Marquee Moon - Television
    • Superunknown - Soundgarden
    • Candy Apple Grey -- Husker Du
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    • Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
    • Crime of the Century - Supertramp
    • Boston - Boston
    • Fun House - The Stooges
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    • Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - Budgie
    • It's My Life-Talk Talk
    • Ascendancy - Trivium
    • Hysteria - Def Leppard
    • 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Midnight Oil
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    • Dirt - Alice In Chains
    • Heart Like A Wheel- Linda Ronstadt
    • Doolittle - Pixies
    • Revolver - The Beatles
    • Murmur - R.E.M.
    • Let It Bleed- The Rolling Stones
    • Remain In Light - Talking Heads
    • Stranger in Town - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
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    • Overkill - Motorhead
    • Definitely Maybe - Oasis
    • Journey To The Vast Unknown - Pythagoras
    • The Least We Can Do is Wave To Each Other - Van Der Graaf Generator
    • The Doors - The Doors
    • Fragile - Yes
    • Red - Taylor Swift
    • Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
    • Wildflowers - Tom Petty
    • Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
  3. 3. Choose SEVEN from this group

    • The Cars - The Cars
    • Blackstar - David Bowie
    • Ixnay on the Hombre- the Offspring
    • Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
    • Sign O' The Times - Prince
    • Hemispheres - Rush
    • Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney and Wings
    • Lacuna Coil- Karmacode
    • Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
    • Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
    • Aquemini - OutKast
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    • The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
    • Darkness on the Edge of Town - Bruce Springsteen
    • A Farewell To Kings - Rush
    • Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Red Hot Chili Peppers
    • Fair Warning - Van Halen
    • Kamikyokutachi - AKB48
    • Harvest - Neil Young
    • 1999 - Prince
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    • Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
    • Quadrophenia - The Who
    • Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - Kings X
    • Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
    • Close To The Edge - YES
    • Forever Changes - Love
    • Rocks - Aerosmith
    • Everybody Wants - The Struts
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    • A Night At The Opera - Queen
    • Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
    • Queen - News Of The World
    • In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
    • Connect The Dots - MisterWives
    • Machine Head - Deep Purple
    • Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
    • Diary Of A Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
    • Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller Band
    • Machine Head- The Blackening
    • Mastodon - Blood Mountain
    • Van Halen - Van Halen
    • Moving Pictures - Rush


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I listened to the Kendrick Lamar album listed here, "To Pimp a Butterfly", based on the glowing reviews it got here and I have to say, meh. A whole lot of the typical braggadocio, bitches and hoes, and other words I won't repeat here. Beef with this guy and feuds with that 1.

It's just opinions, chillax. Smoke a J. Have some wine. Eat a Xanax. Whatever.

 

 

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That'll take the edge off!
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I listened to the Kendrick Lamar album listed here, "To Pimp a Butterfly", based on the glowing reviews it got here and I have to say, meh. A whole lot of the typical braggadocio, bitches and hoes, and other words I won't repeat here. Beef with this guy and feuds with that 1.

 

...that's definitely not the same album I listened to. The Blacker The Berry is a disturbing and hard hitting attack on racism while also being a self-flagelating admittance of hypocrisy on the author's part. How Much A Dollar Cost is a dramatic attack on prejudice framed through a meeting with God in a street beggar. Alright is a black empowerment social anthem. The last track uses a recording of Tupac Shakur speaking and manipulates it so that Kendrick has a conversation with 2pac, his hero. The whole theme is Kendrick trying to use his success in the rap world in order to make his home, Compton, a better and safer community. It has the least bit to do with old beefs and sexual encounters compared to the social critiques and observations it's trying to accurately convey in a musical manner. If all you got was typical rap braggadocio, I'm not sure you were listening very closely.

 

Listened to it on Spotify. Not something I’m crazy about but is tolerable compared to mainstream rappers these days and the same old themes of blings and Kartrashian esque groupies. That’s what I like about him and Big Boi from OutKast. At least they’re doing songs that have something important to say.

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Blizzard of Ozz isn't on the list. Good lord.

 

I'm sure if we'd gone past 120 albums it would've made it. Someone decided to post Diary Of A Madman instead. And I guess no one deemed it important enough to pick before the thread was over. Sorry for your (its?) luck.

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Blizzard of Ozz isn't on the list. Good lord.

 

I'm sure if we'd gone past 120 albums it would've made it. Someone decided to post Diary Of A Madman instead. And I guess no one deemed it important enough to pick before the thread was over. Sorry for your (its?) luck.

 

I think what happens when we put these lists together is that some people think "well surely someone will pick that album. I'll go with something different". Then because of that some very obvious choices get left off when the list is finished.

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To those who are upset with what is and isn't an option...

 

I had basically two options: let the people choose albums to be on the list in the simplest and fairest way possible, or find/compile a list myself that seems fair to the average person. The main criticism of the first option is that, because many people like to choose personal favorites that may not be very acclaimed, many classics were left off. The main criticism of the second option is that, because no one could possibly agree what 120 albums should be on the list, many personal favorites would likely be left off, and the author's bias would stick out like a sore thumb. I chose the first option for two reasons. First, everyone had plenty of opportunity to add albums that they thought were deserving. If you don't see an album on the list that you'd have liked to see there, you have to remember you could've posted it yourself back in the qualifying round. Second, allowing people to choose personal favorites generally means fewer classics make the list, but the thing about classics is that we all already know their timeless quality and don't really need to be reminded of that. Taylor Swift's Red is on the list and Ozzy's Blizzard of Ozz is not. Does this mean we all agree that the Taylor album is better? No, obviously many people here disagree vehemently with that. But we all already realize the Ozzy album is one of the all-time greats, whereas there may be some of us who might actually like the Taylor Swift album if we were to listen to it, and maybe this thread is just the recommendation someone needs to listen to a lesser-acclaimed album that could become one of their favorites. We've already had a couple people check out the Kendrick Lamar album in the poll due to the praise it had received. On the other hand, I doubt any of us haven't listened to Sgt. Pepper's before or haven't formed an opinion on it.

 

 

So look, I know a bunch of classics aren't here, and I know there are some very controversial options, but it was probably either this, taking a list from Rolling Stone, or inventing a list with all 15 Queen albums on it. Maybe we'll try it another way some other day, but this is what I thought would work the best for the most people when I started the first thread. Besides, by the next couple rounds we're gonna be down to just the classics anyway, so it won't even matter that MisterWives' Connect The Dots is on the list and The Wall isn't. It's probably gonna be something like Hemispheres versus Led Zeppelin IV, much as I think it's between A Night At The Opera and A Farewell To Kings, personally.

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Blizzard of Ozz isn't on the list. Good lord.

 

I'm sure if we'd gone past 120 albums it would've made it. Someone decided to post Diary Of A Madman instead. And I guess no one deemed it important enough to pick before the thread was over. Sorry for your (its?) luck.

 

I think what happens when we put these lists together is that some people think "well surely someone will pick that album. I'll go with something different". Then because of that some very obvious choices get left off when the list is finished.

 

Yeah pretty much. What I always kept in mind when I posted an album was "do I think this would actually make my top 120 albums ever, and would I like to see this in on the list over any other albums I can think of atm?" If yes to both of those I posted it, except for the MisterWives album, which I posted just to toss in a wild card, and because other people were posting some more personal favorites and I figured I'd support them.

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Choose seven options from each poll. The albums with the most votes by Friday will advance to round three.

 

How many from each section will move on?

 

I haven't decided yet. I'll probably base it off of Lucas' "Godz" threads.

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Choose seven options from each poll. The albums with the most votes by Friday will advance to round three.

 

How many from each section will move on?

 

I haven't decided yet. I'll probably base it off of Lucas' "Godz" threads.

 

...which are based on the duckBlaze Gods of the Cinema threads ;)

 

So you’re somewhat like my alternate universe grandchild :hail:

 

Anyway, I’m interested in the final round contestants! :yes:

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I listened to the Kendrick Lamar album listed here, "To Pimp a Butterfly", based on the glowing reviews it got here and I have to say, meh. A whole lot of the typical braggadocio, bitches and hoes, and other words I won't repeat here. Beef with this guy and feuds with that 1.

 

...that's definitely not the same album I listened to. The Blacker The Berry is a disturbing and hard hitting attack on racism while also being a self-flagelating admittance of hypocrisy on the author's part. How Much A Dollar Cost is a dramatic attack on prejudice framed through a meeting with God in a street beggar. Alright is a black empowerment social anthem. The last track uses a recording of Tupac Shakur speaking and manipulates it so that Kendrick has a conversation with 2pac, his hero. The whole theme is Kendrick trying to use his success in the rap world in order to make his home, Compton, a better and safer community. It has the least bit to do with old beefs and sexual encounters compared to the social critiques and observations it's trying to accurately convey in a musical manner. If all you got was typical rap braggadocio, I'm not sure you were listening very closely.

 

Listened to it on Spotify. Not something I’m crazy about but is tolerable compared to mainstream rappers these days and the same old themes of blings and Kartrashian esque groupies. That’s what I like about him and Big Boi from OutKast. At least they’re doing songs that have something important to say.

 

I just read the lyrics to The Blacker Berry and it seems like to me he's blaming all the ills of his people and community on white people. Maybe he takes responsibility in his other songs, but I kind of doubt it. When other black people point out that much of what's wrong in inner city neighborhoods is because of single parents, drugs, etc, they are labeled as an Uncle Tom.

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Entre, why do we need this poll when we already have Rolling Stone to tell us what the best albums are and what we should listen to?

 

 

 

 

 

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Close to the Edge by Yes should have been in the first group.

 

That doesn't matter. People picked the albums for the list at random. What group an album is in means nothing.

 

Right. It won’t really matter since the truly most popular albums will make it to the finals anyway.

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Hands downs it's this one:

 

Johnny Blaze and the Horse's Ass-Eating Leather Lather Lickers - Gamey Sticky Shit Strings Stuck To My Teeth

 

It's a classic! :notworthy:

 

Earl already has double copies of the Japanese release!

 

And for a limited time, it comes with two tarts dressed in tight red leather ready to lather!

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Hands downs it's this one:

 

Johnny Blaze and the Horse's Ass-Eating Leather Lather Lickers - Gamey Sticky Shit Strings Stuck To My Teeth

 

It's a classic! :notworthy:

 

Earl already has double copies of the Japanese release!

 

And for a limited time, it comes with two tarts dressed in tight red leather ready to lather!

He would do!

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Hands downs it's this one:

 

Johnny Blaze and the Horse's Ass-Eating Leather Lather Lickers - Gamey Sticky Shit Strings Stuck To My Teeth

 

It's a classic! :notworthy:

 

Earl already has double copies of the Japanese release!

 

And for a limited time, it comes with two tarts dressed in tight red leather ready to lather!

He would do!

 

Do did done Earl did!

 

Crusty yet clammy hands, pants still pulled down to the ankles!

 

Residual coke scattered about the table!

 

BLESSED AND CURSED!

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Hands downs it's this one:

 

Johnny Blaze and the Horse's Ass-Eating Leather Lather Lickers - Gamey Sticky Shit Strings Stuck To My Teeth

 

It's a classic! :notworthy:

 

I've got one of the 5 that had the Golden Package inside

 

It's actually an envelope with a bunch of airline and train tickets which bring you to a exclusive meet up with the other winners and, supposedly, Johnny Blaze himself !!!

 

 

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Hands downs it's this one:

 

Johnny Blaze and the Horse's Ass-Eating Leather Lather Lickers - Gamey Sticky Shit Strings Stuck To My Teeth

 

It's a classic! :notworthy:

 

I've got one of the 5 that had the Golden Package inside

 

It's actually an envelope with a bunch of airline and train tickets which bring you to a exclusive meet up with the other winners and, supposedly, Johnny Blaze himself !!!

 

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Hands downs it's this one:

 

Johnny Blaze and the Horse's Ass-Eating Leather Lather Lickers - Gamey Sticky Shit Strings Stuck To My Teeth

 

It's a classic! :notworthy:

 

I've got one of the 5 that had the Golden Package inside

 

It's actually an envelope with a bunch of airline and train tickets which bring you to a exclusive meet up with the other winners and, supposedly, Johnny Blaze himself !!!

 

 

EXCATLY what I was thinking !!!!

 

I'm Charlie Buckets !!!

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