Their "best" isn't your favorite album...

[moonshot]

so what is?

If you ask a lot of people what the Beatles' best album is, most would probably say Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, or possibly The White Album. I think these are great albums, but nowhere near as good as Abby Road. The tracks on Abby Road just fit together better, in my opinion, and the songs stand well on their own too.


I think Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is far, far better than The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon, even though Wish You Were Here didn't do as well commercially. I enjoy listening to Billy Joel's The Stranger more than I do his Greatest Hits albums, which sold far more copies.

The Cure's album Pornography is IMO, 10 times better than anything else they've ever done, but I seem to be nearly alone on that.


The question I put to you is, what albums do you like better than the artist's so-called "best", and why?

 

[Minx Kitten]

I agree with you. I have many albums by artists that are more famous for another album; usually if I have both/all the artist's albums, I like the one I get most attached to the most, whether I have listened to it the most, have most of my favourite songs on it, etc. Very rarely my favourite album is the one that is considered the "best" one.

 

[Reaver]

Metallica's album "...And Justice for All" is SO much better than their so called "best" Master of Puppets. MOP isnt even that great of a song.

A lot of people like In Flames' new album "Come Clarity" I think Lunar Strain/Subterrainian is far better though

Everbody likes Opeth's albums "Deliverance" and "Ghost Reveries", and so do I, but I think their album "Still Life" is SO underrated. Most people havent ever heard of it, but I thinks it's their best.

Everyone likes "Californication" by RHCP, but I strongly prefer "By the Way"

And that's all I can think of atm