Is Selling England really the greatest prog album?

I was looking at the top prog albums of all time, and while I love SEbtP, I'm not sure it's the best prog album ever released. It's great and all but even some other albums in Genesis' discography (The Lamb and Foxtrot) are better. I gave it 5 stars and it is a monumental album, but is it really the best prog album of all time in the history of the world?

Your thoughts?

Yes. SEBTP is the best prog album because it is rated number 1 on what I can only imagine is the #1 prog resource out there. Is it my favorite album? No. Not really close even. But the fact that it appeals to so many people and so many people think highly of it, it is the best at this time.

It's pretty darn good, but there are better albums.

I think not, that's just good concurrence of circumstances. In other sites, other great album had this good concurrence of circumstances to became number 1. In our site SEBTP had this luck. SEBTP is SEBTP. It will be the same album if it drops to 2,3,4,5 or 10 place. It will not became another album. It's the same with the other great albums.

Well, it's my favourite Genesis album, personally I think it's their best.

There exists no album, prog or otherwise, that I could possibly rank above all others.

For me CTTE is what I consider to have all the elements for the top prog album.
As far as Genesis, I think Lamb is their best album however I think it is good that the top rated albums change from time to time. Otherwise it would be a boring listing.

NaturalScience wrote: Ricochet wrote: NaturalScience wrote: There exists no album, prog or otherwise, that I could possibly rank above all others. So...Western Culture and Love Beach are of the same rank for you? Goof.  I can easily rank Western Culture above Love Beach. I cannot rank Western Culture above every other album I have.

Still don't get your point, but I'm not stop delving into this anyway.

progrocker2244 wrote: Ricochet wrote: Offf...every time an album (other than CTTE) is #1 on the "Top rated prog albums" list, someone jumps in and ask "I don't find it the best prog album ever released". It's the "top rated prog albums" list, people. Top rated =/= best prog album ever. Just notice that most people have said that it's not their favorite prog album. Sure it's the top rated, but is that because it's the best or because of it's popularity. It's a great album. I gave it 5/5 stars, but I still don't think it's the greatest prog album. There are probably a lot of people like me, who love it, gave it 5 stars, but still don't think it's the best. Because so many prog fans know of this album, and also love it, that's probably how it got to be the highest rated prog album, possibly without being the best.

It's because of popularity, because there are many "ratings without reviews" which don't state anything at all, as far as arguments go (especially not if it's the greatest prog album ever) - plus many reviewers just gave 5 stars because it's the best Genesis in their vision, or it's an extraordinary prog album.

My point was that we don't need to signal every change of top 1 spot between Close To The Edge, SEBTP, Thick As A Brick (it's always these three or so anyway), and then turn it into a discussion "is album #1 the best prog album ever?" (which has been done more than enough times by now ).

Interesting that SEBTP contains BEST (P)...