Captain Beefheart's 'Trout Mask Replica' was ranked 42nd (somewhere in a British poll). Now how's that for a trippy album?
In general, the whole greatest thing is really hard to judge. What I do find - whenever someone posts a 'The Greatest [whatever]" topic in this forum, people just tend to stick their favorites, and polls are kind of useless since it's well known that most people largely don't care about music and thus have little real understanding of it.
Also, how good is an album is really a very subjective thing. One person might think a group is uniformly good, or releases consecutive good albums - another may think otherwise. What is a great album? I mean sheesh, the above-mentioned 'Trout Mask' causes some people to take it out of their record player and toss it across the room, while others make a little shrine for worshipping it!
So, the moral of this story is - while this makes an interesting discussion, I'd rather stay away from making these 'Greatest Whatever in the History Music". In the end, it's all subjective.
