OT #1 - Touch the Sky

[jcyclonee]

Automatic is my favorite REM album. I know many people believe Reckoning or Murmur are better, but Automatic hit me where I lived, and it dropped when I was early on in high school. Similarly, I loved Monster - our first dance at our wedding was "Strange Currencies."

I'm also just okay on most of The Boss, but that was a huge album.

That's a great wedding song. a little edgy but still beautiful and romantic.

 

[SouthJerseyCy]

Three big omissions for me: Dark Side of the Moon, Hotel California, Graceland.

All just absolutely fantastic front to back.

Hotel California comes in at 118 on this list for God's sake. It's behind an album from Hole. SMH

 

[cyclones500]

For fun/comparison/reference, RS did its first “500 Greatest” in 2003 (and published an update in 2012).

Here’s the 2003 Top 25. Full list HERE

25. James Brown, “Live at the Apollo”
24. Stevie Wonder, “Innervisions”
23. John Lennon, “Plastic Ono Band”
22. Robert Johnson, “The Complete Recordings”
21. Chuck Berry, “The Great Twenty-Eight”
20. Michael Jackson, “Thriller”
19. Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks”
18. Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
17. Nirvana, “Nevermind”
16. Bob Dylan, “Blood on the Tracks”
15. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Are You Experienced?”
14. The Beatles, “Abbey Road”
13. The Velvet Underground, “ … and Nico"
12. Miles Davis, “Almost Blue”
11. Elvis Presley, “The Sun Sessions”
10. The Beatles, White Album
9. Bob Dylan, “Blonde on Blonde”
8. The Clash, “London Calling"
7. The Rolling Stones, “Exile on Main Street”
6. Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”
5. The Beatles, “Rubber Soul”
4. Bob Dylan, “Highway 61 Revisited”
3. The Beatles, “Revolver”
2. The Beach Boys, “Pet Sounds”
1. The Beatles, “Sgt. Pepper ... ”