American Recordings, Johnny Cash

Bat out of Hell II, Meatloaf

American Idiot, Green Day

Judy at Carnegie Hall, Judy Garland

Private Dancer, Tina Turner

Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan

Graceland, Paul Simon

Smile, Brian Wilson

The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey

Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers

wots missing do we agree?
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Ray of Light

supernatural from santana!!! that is his album with the most grammy awards , most selling units , and his carreer was pretty much low key

xperience319 said:

xperience319 said:

I usually hate lists, but this one is pretty good.

Dr Dre 2001 got to be on this list as it's covers Green Day?

xperience319 said:

I don't know about these two.

Green day had some pretty decent hits on basically every other album. So Warning (before A.I.) was a flop, but the previous one got plenty of radio play.

And the Chili Peppers had big hits on the album right before Californication (One Hot Minute). I guess it just took a while to make it. But that's like saying Bad was a comeback after Thriller.

I'd add these of my youth






Let's Dance is kind of questionable (I think the album before it was Scary Monsters, which is what the critics always site when they say "_____ is the best Bowie album since Scary Monsters") But it's the album that changed Bowie's stature and made little kids like me buy his albums.

NDRU said:

i think of it more as a top 40 crossover than as a comeback. before let's dance, he had more of a cult/underground following but he was releasing at least one or two albums a year, almost always to great critical acclaim.

Anxiety said:

yeah I agree. I have a slightly skewed viewpoint, because at that age just a few years was half a lifetime. So I only knew Bowie as the weirdo who did Fame, and he was an "old" artist in my mind making a huge comeback. But I know that's not really accurate.
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NDRU said:

yeah, when let's dance came out, i was a kid and i only knew david bowie as the person my mom compared aliens to whenever we were watching tv. "ooh, look at that creature, it looks just like david bowie!"

Any such list is patently llegitimate without this record.

Anxiety said:

Isn't that the album with "Blue Jean" on it? That's the jam right there. I seem to remember those LD singles being played on both pop and what was then called "black" radio, which may have been a first for Bowie.

namepeace said:

'Fame' was probably more popular with black radio.

namepeace said:

Blue Jean was on the next one, called Tonight. Kind of weird album with some remakes of tunes from Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, and a few new ones, like Loving the Alien

SUPRMAN said:

I remember it from when i was a tyke, one of my earliest musical memories, actually (my parents definitely weren't listening to R&B radio). The ending especially, with the voices going from high to low "fame fame fame fame fame fame fame..."

I remember reading that it came from a jam with John Lennon, who may have actually come up with the title and the odd way of singing it.

SUPRMAN said:

FORGOT about that, you're right.

Ray of Light.