Yes, I think it can be easily done...just take everything down to Highway 61.

[Miles Archer]

If this isn't Bob's BEST album, it's DAMN CLOSE.

YOUR challenge: Post what you believe to be the BEST album from one of your favorite performers.

[Tobin S.]

1. Black Sabbath's Vol. 4 is the best of their records with Ozzy

But I love almost everything they've done. Ironically, the song I like the least by them is "Changes" which is on Vol. 4. The rest of the album is superb, though.

[kwassa]

2. "Disraeli Gears" by Cream

[Miles Archer]

8. Listened to that just last night...

...I am still in awe of the tone they got on those albums...especially the live tracks on Wheels of Fire. Just terrifying and completely atypical for the times.

[hibbing]

3. Achtung Baby - U2

[Wounded Bear]

4. Days of Future Passed-Moody Blues...

Just the whole album is orchestrated to flow from one tune to the next.

[bluesbassman]

5. Tattoo: Rory Gallagher - 1973

[Miles Archer]

9. So shamefully underrated

Jimi Hendrix was once asked what it was like being the greatest guitarist in the world, and he replied "Ask Rory Gallagher".

[ok_cpu]

13. I'd always heard that quote with Jimi naming Phil Keaggy of Glass Harp

One thing is for sure. He didn't name me.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Fleetwood Mac - "Rumours"

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Stevie Nicks' voice really got to me,

still does.

CC

[Miles Archer]

10. I went full circle on that one...

...like most of the people on the planet, I heard that album non-stop when it was released...and as a result, I OD'd on it a bit. But in the last year I have rediscovered it and developed a whole new appreciaation for it...especially since I now own the 4-CD "Super Deluxe" version.

[hibbing]

12. always a go to again

Same with me, I love Buckingham tracks. I won't listen to it for awhile and then will get it out and play it over and over.

Peace

[hobbit709]

7. Grateful Dead-American Beauty

[Miles Archer]

11. Have you heard the new HD Tracks "Complete Studio Albums Collection?"

http://www.dead.net/features/complete-studio-albums-collection/grateful-dead-complete-studio-albums-collection-available

Pretty crisp, clean, and amazing. Mickey Hart's remixes / remasters of "Beauty" and "Workingman's" from a few years ago met with mixed results. But on the new HD Tracks, everyone is raving about how good they are. I'm in agreement.

[ok_cpu]

14. I think Highway 61 is Dylan's best

These guys seem to get strong reactions one way or the other, but I submit Genesis Selling England by the Pound

[Miles Archer]

16. Interesting choice...

...in a lot of ways it's their most fully realized and least eccentric album. I like Foxtrot & Nursery Crime, but "England" is more mature. I like "Lamb," but sometimes two albums worth of raging eccentricity can be a bit much.

For the non-Gabriel stuff I love Trick of The Tail, Wind & Wuthering and Seconds Out, but pretty much wrote them off for dead when Hackett left the band (with a VERY FEW exceptions...I like songs here and there but none of the Hackett-less ALBUMS).

[nomorenomore08]

15. The Stone Roses - "She Bangs the Drums"/"Mersey Paradise"

The self-titled album is a classic, of course, but this is probably one of the greatest singles ever released.

[vanlassie]

17. Van Morrison. Astral Weeks.

The fact that he could re-record it 40 years later says something.

"It received critical acclaim immediately upon its first release and subsequently has been placed on numerous widely circulated lists of best albums of all time. In 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number seven on "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years". The 1995 Mojo list of the 100 Best Albums ranked it as number two, and it ranked nineteenth on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003. Astral Weeks became and remains a cult favourite, despite the fact that it failed to achieve significant mainstream sales success for decades; after 33 years, it finally achieved gold in 2001.[3] Music historian Andrew Ford compared its musical sophistication and commercial success to classical music – "neither instant nor evanescent: Astral Weeks will sell as many copies this year as it did in 1968 and has every year in between".[4]

Forty years after the release, Morrison performed the songs on the album live during two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in November 2008. Other concerts followed with a CD and DVD from the Hollywood Bowl performances released in 2009. Warner Bros. Records had not promoted the album with touring when it was released in 1968."

[Miles Archer]

18. Reminiscent of "Doors of the 21st Century"...

"Warner Bros. Records had not promoted the album with touring when it was released in 1968"

On the DVD "Doors of the 21st Century," Ray Manzarek opens the show by saying the band never had the opportunity to tour behind the LA Woman album due to Jim Morrison's death. That's followed by a performance of the entire album.

[vanlassie]

19. Van finally gets the last laugh.

No wonder he hates the business.