BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME...
Cosmo
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... like really, what do you think is the "Greatest Album Of All Time?" I'm interested in hearing what you think. 
Cosmo
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For me the greatest LP of all time has to be one that I never tire of and the LP that has held up for the longest period of time to my ears is Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On".
Others that come a close second are War's "All Day Music" and Mountain's "Nantucket Sleighride".
I have about 15 other LPs I can list but won't - I cheated big time on your original question.
If I had to pick between picking one record and lying in a vat of cockroaches, then I could and I would probably go with Hot Buttered Soul. But this answer would probably be different a few days from now.
And yeah therein lies the rub, and the reason why I posed the question. I was in a conversation not too long ago with someone about what albums have that particular "staying power" in which it incites a particular feeling or emotion that is comparable over the years. An album that you could easily see listening to and not growing tired of in 40+ years. Such a tough question, and not particularly fair I'll admit. I just really wanted to see if there are things that people were dead certain that they could ride for in this case. And all teh examples have been stellar, even though I could see the answers changing in days, or hours. That doesn't make these examples per se. In fact, if it was the instinctual answer than I think it's probably the right answer - even though there is no right answers.*
* I'm hopped up on a whole lot of f*cking cold medicine and this shit has got me funky in the head haha.
PS: My answer?
Probably this:
really? B.A.O.A.T.? ...
i'm extremely biased and non-objective about this, but this is the first album I can think of offhand where I'll never skip a track when listening to it til the day I die.
I'm not sure though that what I said should be the criteria we use.
That would be the first thing we have to do: come to a consensus on what an album would have to do to be the BOAT. Ideas?
Not that I like it any more or any less than Total Destruction To Your Mind or Teenage Head or The Isaac Hayes Movement (which are all favorites of mine as well), but it's definitely up there. Ask me again, I might not tell you the same...
Any album where every last song stands out, you play it all the time, and there are no skipovers. And believe me, it would be easier to name ten than one.
ditto...
"I'll be loving you allllways......"
Yep. What can I say, this record clicks with me a in a big big way.