Greatest 7th album in rock music history?

The herd starts to thin somewhat by the time you get to most artist's 7th albums. Zep's run was over with Presence, a decent but not great album. AC/DC never matched the heights of Back in Black ever again. Metallica was on the downward slide.

Of these records, Revolver stands as the most influential, rather easily. But from a matter of personal taste, Beggar's Banquet is a top 5 rock album of all time for Yella Piss. Also, it marks the start of the Stone's epic 4 album run from 1968- 72 when the were The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.

dflea said:

I love this album. I'd like to split my vote between it and Beggar's Banquet, but since I can't.

What next? A fly rod?

chuck said:

This one should be a blowout.

I won't begrudge a man for going with Revolver, but not so fast on the blowout. Beggar's was just about as influential. I mean it was really the first rock record to so assertively fuse, country, delta blues and rock into one cohesive sound. And Street Fighting Man and Sympathy captured the turmoil of 1968 as well as any songs every recorded. I need to pull in Russian novel superiority guy @BearsWiin to get an easy Beggar's Banquet vote.

Gwad said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdQgYPr07Y


if you get off on this kind of stuff

I loved watching this documentary in my youth. And they were basically a 4 person group at this point as Brian Jones was pretty much dead and Mick Taylor was a year out. Apparently Ry Cooder played some on Beggar's and he is a GOD of course.