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The Best Album Of All Time - Final - What's Going On v Sgt Pepper

Which is the better album?


  • Total voters
    28
  • Poll closed .

milo

Jack L. Jones
Marvin defeated II,
phuq and Appetite for Destruction and Nevermind to reach the final.

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What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released May 21, 1971, on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records.[1] Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1970 and March–May 1971 at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World and United Sound Studios in Detroit and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California.

The first Marvin Gaye album credited as being produced by the artist himself, What's Going On is a unified concept album consisting of nine songs, most of which lead into the next. It has also been categorized as a song cycle; the album ends on a reprise of the album's opening theme. The album is told from the point of view of a Vietnam War veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing nothing but injustice, suffering and hatred.

What's Going On was the first album on which Motown Records' main studio band, the group of session musicians known as the Funk Brothers, received an official credit. The album features introspective lyrics and socially conscious themes of drug abuse, poverty, and the Vietnam War. What's Going On was both an immediate commercial and critical success and has endured as a classic of early-1970s soul. A deluxe edition set of the album was released on February 27, 2001, and featured a rare live concert shot at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center from May 1972.

In worldwide critics', artists' and public surveys, it has been voted one of the landmark recordings in pop music history and is considered to be one of the greatest albums ever made.[2] In 2003, the album was ranked number six on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", placing that same position nine years later.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Going_On_(Marvin_Gaye_album)

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Sgt Peppers beat Second Toughest of the Infants, Dummy, Thriller and Exile On Main Street to reach the final.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 22 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music" and the New Statesman praised its elevation of pop to the level of fine art.[1] It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.

In August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and began a three-month holiday from recording. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian era military band that would eventually form the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. Sessions for the Beatles' eighth studio album began on 24 November in Abbey Road Studio Two, with the original intention to record an album of material that was to be thematically linked to their childhoods. Among the first tracks recorded for the project were "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", but after pressure from EMI the songs were released as a double A-side single; they were not included on the album.

In February 1967, after recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album that would represent a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically. During the recording sessions, the band endeavoured to improve upon the production quality of their prior releases. Knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, they adopted an experimental approach to composition, writing songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life". The producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album included the liberal application of sound shaping signal processing and the use of a 40-piece orchestra performing aleatoric crescendos. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the band posing in front of a collage of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth based on a sketch by McCartney.

Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It has been described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and credited with marking the beginning of the Album Era. An important work of British psychedelia, the multigenre album incorporates diverse stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. In 2003 the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry, honouring the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2] That same year Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. As of 2014 it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. The music scholar David Scott Kastan described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band

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I'm abstaining, neither of these in my opinion come anywhere near to being my best album of all time.

Marving Gaye, decent album, but best, no way at least 3 albums in this poll infinitely better, Nirvana, Smiths, Stone Roses

Sgt Peppers ..... really???? How many of you actually believe that this is the best album of all time, when was the last time any of you actually played it? Its not even in the top 3 best Beatles albums is it? Surely its really just an album famous for its cover and being ahead of its time with production..... when i'm 64 cough

Musics subversive though and thats whats so great about it, i bet though if the poll had been done another way, ask everyone on the board for their best album ever, then count them all, neither of these would be anywhere near the top.....

I'm off to listen to the new Morrissey album...... much better than these 2 :lol:
 
I'm abstaining, neither of these in my opinion come anywhere near to being my best album of all time.

Marving Gaye, decent album, but best, no way at least 3 albums in this poll infinitely better, Nirvana, Smiths, Stone Roses

Sgt Peppers ..... really???? How many of you actually believe that this is the best album of all time, when was the last time any of you actually played it? Its not even in the top 3 best Beatles albums is it? Surely its really just an album famous for its cover and being ahead of its time with production..... when i'm 64 cough

Musics subversive though and thats whats so great about it, i bet though if the poll had been done another way, ask everyone on the board for their best album ever, then count them all, neither of these would be anywhere near the top.....

I'm off to listen to the new Morrissey album...... much better than these 2 :lol:

That probably counts one for "what's going on"...
 
I'm abstaining, neither of these in my opinion come anywhere near to being my best album of all time.

Marving Gaye, decent album, but best, no way at least 3 albums in this poll infinitely better, Nirvana, Smiths, Stone Roses

Sgt Peppers ..... really???? How many of you actually believe that this is the best album of all time, when was the last time any of you actually played it? Its not even in the top 3 best Beatles albums is it? Surely its really just an album famous for its cover and being ahead of its time with production..... when i'm 64 cough

Musics subversive though and thats whats so great about it, i bet though if the poll had been done another way, ask everyone on the board for their best album ever, then count them all, neither of these would be anywhere near the top.....

I'm off to listen to the new Morrissey album...... much better than these 2 :lol:

I think the qualification process needs looking at, this is like a Norway vs New Zealand final. No offence to those fine nations etc.
 
I think the Beatles are rubbish, could never understand the love. I wonder if One Direction was around then, would they too be revered by the industry today!, afterall a 100,000 screaming women cannot be wrong can they.
 
I think the qualification process needs looking at, this is like a Norway vs New Zealand final. No offence to those fine nations etc.

I'd watch that.

Would the worst, most boring, defensive game ever. Long balls, tackles and incredibly poor technique all around.

If a song comes on the radio, fine, but I don't own, nor have I ever felt inclined to put on, either of these two albums or artists. Same goes for the two losing semifinalists :lol:. Tiny possibility that a copy of Nevermind exists at the bottom of a box somewhere. I was young, they were on MTV (back when music videos were a thing) and I didn't know what I was doing.
 
I'm abstaining, neither of these in my opinion come anywhere near to being my best album of all time.

Marving Gaye, decent album, but best, no way at least 3 albums in this poll infinitely better, Nirvana, Smiths, Stone Roses

Sgt Peppers ..... really???? How many of you actually believe that this is the best album of all time, when was the last time any of you actually played it? Its not even in the top 3 best Beatles albums is it? Surely its really just an album famous for its cover and being ahead of its time with production..... when i'm 64 cough

Musics subversive though and thats whats so great about it, i bet though if the poll had been done another way, ask everyone on the board for their best album ever, then count them all, neither of these would be anywhere near the top.....

I'm off to listen to the new Morrissey album...... much better than these 2 :lol:

I agree with this - there were so many top albums not represented in the final 32. But what Milo has done is very interesting, he has arranged for a democratic system to agree the best album, and I applaud the effort.

There are SO many albums, so many genres, and I don't think that the active members of this forum are representative enough to be able to determine the best album of all time. There were whole genres missing from this poll, and some true classics that either got overlooked or beaten by an album that just so happened to be by an artist that some active forum members really like, currently

Consider some of these, which may not be to all/any of your taste, but they changed music and the way people consume it - as well as standing the test of time:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - IV
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Abbey Road/Revolver
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Elvis Presley - Sun Sessions
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life/Innervisions
The Doors - The Doors
Prince - Purple Rain
Santana - Abraxas
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Eagles - Hotel California
REM - Automatic for the People
Paul Simon - Graceland
Ray Charles - Genius + Sould = Jazz
Goldie - Timeless

There are many, many more - and I am sure you will all shoot me down for some of these selections - but these aren't my favourite albums, these are albums that define their genres, or changed music or continue to be played/listened to long after they were initially released

I understand the love for the Stones/Smiths/Marvin Gaye - but the above listed deserved to be discussed alongside them, even if some are looked down at because they were pop music or girly etc

Just my opinion
 
I agree with this - there were so many top albums not represented in the final 32. But what Milo has done is very interesting, he has arranged for a democratic system to agree the best album, and I applaud the effort.

There are SO many albums, so many genres, and I don't think that the active members of this forum are representative enough to be able to determine the best album of all time. There were whole genres missing from this poll, and some true classics that either got overlooked or beaten by an album that just so happened to be by an artist that some active forum members really like, currently

Consider some of these, which may not be to all/any of your taste, but they changed music and the way people consume it - as well as standing the test of time:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - IV
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - Abbey Road/Revolver
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Elvis Presley - Sun Sessions
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life/Innervisions
The Doors - The Doors
Prince - Purple Rain
Santana - Abraxas
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Eagles - Hotel California
REM - Automatic for the People
Paul Simon - Graceland
Ray Charles - Genius + Sould = Jazz
Goldie - Timeless

There are many, many more - and I am sure you will all shoot me down for some of these selections - but these aren't my favourite albums, these are albums that define their genres, or changed music or continue to be played/listened to long after they were initially released

I understand the love for the Stones/Smiths/Marvin Gaye - but the above listed deserved to be discussed alongside them, even if some are looked down at because they were pop music or girly etc

Just my opinion
Quite a lot if those albums were in the heats but didn't get enough votes. To keep it interesting, we limited it to one album per artist which is why we have Wish You Were Here rather than Dark side and II rather than IV.

There were some acts that got a lot of votes (Radiohead and RHCP notably) but they were spread across several albums with none of them getting enough votes to make the short list.

There were several albums that I would have loved to have seen on the list, the Velvet Underground and Bowie are glaring omissions. Pet Sounds, It Takes A National of Millions..., Straight Outta Compton, Never Mind the ********, Songs In The Key Of Life, There's A Riot Goin' On, Autobahn, Live At The Apollo, Daydream Nation and Highway 61 Revisited would all have made my list but there you go.

It was only meant to be a bit of fun to give us something to talk about over the summer. I think that it has done that.

So who is ready for the greatest singles of all time?
 
Quite a lot if those albums were in the heats but didn't get enough votes. To keep it interesting, we limited it to one album per artist which is why we have Wish You Were Here rather than Dark side and II rather than IV.

There were some acts that got a lot of votes (Radiohead and RHCP notably) but they were spread across several albums with none of them getting enough votes to make the short list.

There were several albums that I would have loved to have seen on the list, the Velvet Underground and Bowie are glaring omissions. Pet Sounds, It Takes A National of Millions..., Straight Outta Compton, Never Mind the ********, Songs In The Key Of Life, There's A Riot Goin' On, Autobahn, Live At The Apollo, Daydream Nation and Highway 61 Revisited would all have made my list but there you go.

It was only meant to be a bit of fun to give us something to talk about over the summer. I think that it has done that.

So who is ready for the greatest singles of all time?

I'd love for there to be a greatest books poll - I need some inspiration for some good reads....
 
Quite a lot if those albums were in the heats but didn't get enough votes. To keep it interesting, we limited it to one album per artist which is why we have Wish You Were Here rather than Dark side and II rather than IV.

There were some acts that got a lot of votes (Radiohead and RHCP notably) but they were spread across several albums with none of them getting enough votes to make the short list.

There were several albums that I would have loved to have seen on the list, the Velvet Underground and Bowie are glaring omissions. Pet Sounds, It Takes A National of Millions..., Straight Outta Compton, Never Mind the ********, Songs In The Key Of Life, There's A Riot Goin' On, Autobahn, Live At The Apollo, Daydream Nation and Highway 61 Revisited would all have made my list but there you go.

It was only meant to be a bit of fun to give us something to talk about over the summer. I think that it has done that.

So who is ready for the greatest singles of all time?

I think its been good that its got the board talking about music, would have been better if folk had added some comments when they voted on why they felt that way about a certain album.
 
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