Are we in agreement that

If Pop = Thriller

& Rap = illmatic
(Honorable Mention: MBDTF)

I don't really know the other genres like that.

Help me out.

We can even do Sub genres

Doggystyle/The Chronic/Graduation for rap probably

rap is too broad a genre to have one album define it

you’d have to break it down into its subgenres

this mentality is the bane of decent music discussion

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define "THE"

mysterious music = igor

Classical = Yeezus

Nah, Ready to Die >

Soul: Songs in the Key of Life
Jazz: Kind of Blue

better than chart watching

Un Verano Sin Ti

Category: vibes

Take Five (Jazz)

chart watching and sales watching really the death to music and art in generall

NOTE: Some of these are not my favorite in the genre but

Pop = Thriller
Rap = Illmatic
R&B = What's Going On
Soul = Innervisions
Rock = Sgt Pepper
Metal = Master of Puppets

MBDTF not a good pick for THE rap album because it doesn't really sound like any other rap album I feel like it has to be more representative of the genre

Rock would probably be Dark Side of the Moon, R&B would be Voodoo or Aaliyah. But I don't listen to enough R&B really tbh

no correlation

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these are all old as f*** which kinda defeats the purpose

that’s my point, culture keeps evolving, what captured the zeitgeist 50 years ago shouldn’t be held up as the same thing that captures it now

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To be fair, these are the albums that are still revered and name as the genre's best

Psychedelic/Prog rock for DSOTM
Neo Soul for Voodoo and Aaliyah

eh i feel like MBDTF has a strong case and i’m not even the biggest fan of that album. but it covers pretty much every base (Pop Rap, Underground, Mainstream, Experimental)

Graduation is rap's Thriller

Um…I love MBDTF but it is not the second in line for being “THE” album in hiphop lol

by who?

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Not before Doggystyle/AEOM/Get Rich in that convo

Rage - WLR