Answer for: What is the best rock 'n' roll album of all time?
#22 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
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by Public Enemy, 1988. From Wikipedia: Enormously influential, the album's mix of The Bomb Squad's sample-heavy beats and revolutionary lyrics railing against corporate control, structural racism and police brutality turned the album into a sensation, peaking at #1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, and #42 on the Billboard 200 chart. It also garnered much critical acclaim, and was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. According to AcclaimedMusic.net (a site which combines several critics' polls and lists), it is the most acclaimed album of the 80's and the 18th most acclaimed album of all time.
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nice, but not technically a "rock 'n' roll" album...
I'd actually grant this album rock 'n' status because of the Bomb Squad's beats (I'd do the same for Run DMC, too), but uewbawo makes a point, so I started a best hip hop album topic as well.
So, by that rationale, would Beck's Odelay be legit for the hip hop poll because of the Dust Brothers' work on it? (I'm really seriously not trying to be a jerk.)
Actually, I'd be willing to make the argument for Odelay=hip hop. Is it a stretching of definitions (like PE=rock'n'roll)? Sure. But it's also an acknowledgment of how each of these albums, Odelay and Nation of Millions, furthers their genres while refusing to be confined by those genres.