All 92 Diamond-Certified Albums Ranked from Worst to Best
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paulfromcamden
Baffled
This is true. I seem to have two copies but don't recall buying either.
Tony L
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I’ve got the Beatles In Mono CD box and stereos of the last few which gets me all on the list, both Michael Jackson, LZ I, Rumours, both Floyd, Nevermind, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Eminem, Notorious BIG, Norah Jones, Saturday Night Fever and the Bruce Springsteen (again in a box set, I’d not have bought that album). I think I’ve still got a West German ‘target’ CD of the Eagles Hotel California sitting around, but I’ve never played it (I buy any I see cheap as investments, Rumours is the same, but I quite like that one so it counts properly).
I’ve owned far more Led Zep, but came to the conclusion I only ever play the first one so offloaded the rest. I may possibly have the Alanis Morisette, I remember buying it but I suspect it has similarly exited via the shop.
kensalriser
pfm Member
I did a little better with the UK list but not much; both Fleetwood Mac, Amy Winehouse and Paul Simon. Maybe Marley, I think I have all the studio albums but not sure about the greatest hits.
Conspicuous by their absence are anything that could be described as punk or new wave and any iteration of black music save for Marley and arguably Michael Jackson. It’s a stultifyingly conservative list, but perhaps that’s inherent by definition of mainstream pop music.
Conspicuous by their absence are anything that could be described as punk or new wave and any iteration of black music save for Marley and arguably Michael Jackson. It’s a stultifyingly conservative list, but perhaps that’s inherent by definition of mainstream pop music.
kasperhauser
pfm Member
Just to be clear, both lists are simply based on sales. The list in the initial post is arbitrarily "ranked", but all the albums on both lists are only there because millions upon millions of people bought them.
(No, that doesn't make them good albums, any more than it makes them bad albums. It just makes them albums that sold well.)
(No, that doesn't make them good albums, any more than it makes them bad albums. It just makes them albums that sold well.)
Did you know that Whitney Houston's debut LP, called simply Whitney Houston had four number one singles on it? Did you know that, Jeremy?
It's hard to choose a favourite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instils one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since it's impossible in this world we live in to empathise with others, we can always empathise with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really. And it's beautifully stated on the album.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Legend is one of the great compilations though. Wasn't Dave Robinson behind it?
JensenHealey
pfm Member
23 of the USA list and 27 of the UK list. I was surprised it was so many of them..
kensalriser
pfm Member
Impressive, your taste is even more niche than mine appears to be.
Seanm
pfm Member
I don’t even have the cool ones like Prince! It’s a bad sign. Too niche.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
True. Though when she died our elderly alcoholic wife-beating neighbour (who I used to regularly find urinating in the communal stairwell) played it on repeat for hours at full blast. When I finally went down and asked him to turn it down he appeared at the door legless and sobbing in a string vest.
It's sort of put me off the track.
Arkless Electronics
Trade: Amp design and repairs.
It's shite, Alex.
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
I've only bought Pink Floyd, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin from that list.
kasperhauser
pfm Member
Compilation albums shouldn’t sell well?