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June 2, 2025 11 mins
What’s the greatest album of all time—and why does it feel like the answer changes depending on who’s holding the aux cord?In this music-fueled, laugh-out-loud episode of The Ben and Skin Show, with Ben Rogers still out on vacation, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into a newly compiled list of the top-rated albums of all time—sourced from seven major music outlets and mashed together into one glorious, chaotic ranking.🎶 Key Highlights:
  • The Big Reveal: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here takes the #1 spot, beating out Dark Side of the Moon—and sparking a passionate debate among the crew.
  • Beatles Breakdown: Abbey Road lands at #2, with Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s close behind. But which one is the real GOAT?
  • Surprise Entries: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly at #3? MF DOOM’s Madvillainy in the top 25? The crew is both shocked and impressed.
  • Jazz Love: Skin makes a strong case for Kind of Blue by Miles Davis as the greatest album ever: “It’s flawless.”
  • Funniest Moment: “The rise and fall of the spider monkeys” — a totally butchered attempt at naming Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album that had everyone in stitches.
  • Hot Takes & Deep Cuts: From Talking Heads to Tribe Called Quest, from Bowie to Nas, the crew shares their personal favorites, guilty pleasures, and the albums that shaped their lives.
🎧 Whether you're a vinyl junkie, a Spotify scroller, or just here for the chaos, this episode is a must-listen for music lovers and comedy fans alike.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety some point one The Eagle
last day with Ben on vacation. He'll be back tomorrow
loaded with all kinds of tales of Shenanigan's guiltiest charged
with the stories. That's Big Ben. He's also my partner
in Rollertown Beer Works and that's who the sponsor is
of this segment right here, Rollertown beer Works, the brewery
up there in Salina. We got big doings all year long,

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including launching our new mothership in in October out there
in Frisco. But I want to tell everybody put this
on your calendar. We do it in June every year.
It's big German Weekend and so not this Saturday, but
next Saturday, the fourteenth is the big German Car Show.
It's an evening car show cause of cooler weather. And
you know, we were honoring Dirk the big German. We

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have that coulch named after him. Minimal hops and a
smooth finish, but we're gonna have smash burgers, hot dogs,
live music, beer, wine, cocktails and a family friendly car
show from the nice people at the Porsche Club. And
people love this. It's so will make plan Saturday June
fourteenth for the big German Car Show, and in the meantime,

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on and on. It is Rollertown beer Works. But right
now it's time for this. Something's big Man. There's this.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's basically it was put together on Twitter, but someone
took seven different music outlets, okay, and had and there
are music outlets that you know, rank albums pitched four
and also grade them.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Sometimes it's user ratings, sometimes it's critic ratings and all that.
And they just kind of merged all these scores together, okay,
and you pushed them together so nice and the Beautiful
Cleavage was the overall score.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So what are the best albums of all time according
to six or seven different music outlets and their their scores.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Can you give us a hint, like, in other words,
does it lean more modern? It is not. There's a
few up there that the score.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, but it does not, okay, and it never does
on these lists.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
So so always like classic, right, classic rock, mostly classic?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, Okay, do you have one. You want to guess
Beatles Abbey Road number two. Oh, that's number two. I
would have thought Sergeant Pepper's God You Came Out Fire.
I did.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Sergeant Pepper's not. The second ranked Beatles album. Revoliver Sarget
Peppers Revolvers, that's my favorite Beatles album.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love. That was number ten on the list overall. Okay,
I think the number one album, can I get too? Well? No,
I just I'll do one. Guess. I think it's gonna
be The Beach Boys Pet Sounds. No, oh, okay, no.
In fact, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys is twenty eight. Interesting,
all right. It's one of those albums that's so lauded,

(02:54):
always up there, another one that's always up there.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'll just say this right now, Marta, What's going On
was twenty six on this list normally a top five. Yeah,
on any list of Rolling Stone all that stuff. They
didn't use the Rolling Stones list, so okay, which.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I wouldn't have either. I wonder, go ahead. Zeppelin four.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Zeppelin four is up there, Christina. In fact it is.
It's in the top thirteen there, number thirteen.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Is it the highest rated Zeppelin album? Yes? What is
your favorite? Only Zeppelin album in the top fifty. My
favorite is Physical Graffiti.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Oh, it's tough for me to pick up favorite. I
know what's stupid to say, so Zeppelin two, Zeppelin two,
Zeppelin three.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I go back and forth with Poser. Here Houses of
the Holy I love Houses of the Holy. I was
gonna say, it's either physical Graffiti or Houses of the
Hole for me. Okay, okay, Computer, Okay, Computer is on
their Jeff Skinway number eight. Hell yeah, I like this list.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Now let me go ahead and get this out of
the way. While we're on the radio. Ahead is on
there another time. Kid A is also it is not
kid A though in Rainbows. It's in Rainbows? Where is
it in Rainbows? All the way down?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Number thirty? Do you have a favorite Radiohead album?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, Computer? Yeah, we talked to me and Mike talked
about this over the weekend. Actually, yeah, Okay, in Rainbow
is my favorite. So it depends on the mood i'm in.
It's either okay, Computer or in Rainbows. And sometimes I
might get real funky and slip in kid A. But
let me just say, as an old man, moon Shape.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Pool, I know you like that one. Oh my god,
it is it's good. It's very good.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay, real quick, real quick. I think the tour rumors,
I think it's going to be in Europe this fall,
just what I I think that.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I do think there's something here against, not against, but
I think there's something here where they're like, oh, Oasis
is gonna come back.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Ah, that's fine, I really do think, because honestly, no
offense to the Gallagher brothers that wipes them off the
mat for a second.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Everyone's like, okay, you guys come back, Okay, we'll radio six. Well.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
The interesting thing about that, though, is Oasis is bigger
than radio Head, and they also so yeah commercially, not
quit in terms of just making music.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I don't think for a second Tom York gives
a crap about all that. But I just think there's
something there. I want to pretend there's something there.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
At least I think he scretly really cares. Yeah, it
projects that they don't care. If they actually care. Yeah,
I think he likes to project that he doesn't care.
But he got an ego. All right, give us a
hint on number one, but don't give it away.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well number one and I'll say the band is in
the top five twice, number one and number four. Oh
and I did say band, You did say band? They
I mean iconic albums really not my jam. I'm not
like a huge disciple of this band. I'll tell you
that much.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Weed smokers definitely love this in the seventies. Black Sabbath Nope.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I mean that could be anything.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
It could be anything. Yeah, surely not if you mixed
a color with a name Black Sabbath.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Nope, Sabbath is not a name. Uh yeah, you never
met Sally Sabbath to be Sabbath. So Pink Floyd, Yes, okay.
The number one album is Dark Side of the Moon.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
It is not number one Wish You Were Here, which
I think is better than Dark Side of the Moon.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I do two Dark Side of the Moon four, Okay,
Wish You Were Here one, all right, that's good.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
The one with the guy on fire on the cot Yes, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
To pimple a butterfly Kendrick cal Mart number three. Are
you serious? That is so weird? I mean maybe they
got some outlets who are like, you know, no I
get and that is his Uh. I think people think
that's his creative apex. If I if I'm going to
put a Kendrick album on. I'm not putting that one on.
You're doing good kid, Mad City, Yes, olumber fourteen on
the list, there is it? Really? Yes, sir? Okay, your guys,

(06:46):
the Wu Tang Clan fifteen uh thirty six chambers of course,
all right? Is a tribe called Quest Midnight Marauders or
low End Theory on there. You know what? I did
not see tribe on there? Okay, I did not. Let
me tell you the Daylass three feet high in Rising,
no appetite for destruction. No, he's kind of going for this.

(07:08):
Hold on real, real quick. I'm throwing well number number
five Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key absolutely number six.
He passed away in the last decade. Well that's a hint.
Oh it's a solo artist. Yeah, that passed away in
the last decade.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
This album was more of a concept record where he
had a fake band and a fake name, Ziggy Star Dust. Oh,
David Bowie David Bowie Number six and The Rise and
Fall of the Spider Monkeys from from Mark.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Are there any other Bowie records up there?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You're asking this question, and I can tell you that
there's I don't think there is early.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Don't Is there any Sabbath in the top one? A
lot of bomb Dylan? Alright, Number seven Miles Davis kind
of Blue. I think that's the greatest record of all time.
Miles Davis on a anytime. Oh, there is a bunch
of Miles. Yeah. So Bitch's Brew uh No, in a
Silent Way? Oh, in a Silent Way is actually better
than Bitch's Bruce. So they got it right. But Bitch's

(08:08):
Bruce is a double ALUs twenty nine. For Bitch's Brew
silent way is two songs? In a silent way is
two songs? A couple bands on here I've never heard
of Okay, wait, hold on a second. Whenever anyone asked
me what's the greatest album of all time, you can
only pick one ninety nine times out of one hundred,
I say kind of Blue. It's a flawless album. What
am I missing here? On Number eleven Mingus Charles Mingus

(08:28):
is an incredible bass player. So is that one?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
The Black Saint and the Center Lady? Okay, I don't
know that record. Well, he was number eleven Nos twelve,
the first NAS record. Yeah, okay, o Maddick Christina, you'll
love Yeah, you'll love Jimmy Hendrick's experience Electric Lady Land seventeen.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is that like your favorite Hendrick's album?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
I yeah, yeah, i'd say that. Say I'm trying to
think of what all I have. I haven't listened to
Hendrick's album in a long time.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Part of it too, is like the first Indrix thing
I bought was like greatest hits, you know, yeah, like
I never consider those for this. Oh did they put
a hotel California on this? I didn't see it.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
No, twenty King Crimson twenty one, Talking Heads, Remain in Light.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think that that's my favorite album. That one's yeah,
Psycho Killer. No, Remain in Light is the one that
has uh you myn have still so in a lifetime. Yeah,
really song. Yeah, it's such a great song. Okay, it's
got it's got born under Punches. Okay, do you see it? Yeah,
I'm trying to get the tracks. Can pull up there

(09:29):
this stairs. Yeah, dude, that's not no, that's not no.
I love that album. That's the album that they worked
with Brian Eno and they pulled in all the Fela influence.
So for me, that's my talking head. Oh that's trash,
give me speaking in tongues. That's a great album for people.
Burning Down the House was a big hit. Yeah, Girlfriend

(09:50):
is Better is a good song. It's corny. I've never
heard of this though. Help me out on this number
twenty one, No. Twenty five Mad Villain Oh by m
F Doom, MF Doom. Well that's am F Doom. Yeah,
well they have it on here is mad villainy by
Mad Villain. Yeah, I don't have it was that. It
wasn't as if Mad Villain is I believe that his

(10:12):
collaboration with mad Lib the producer. Okay, okay, that makes sense. Yeah,
so it's MF Doom is rapping and then mad Lib
is the dude that made the beats. I didn't realize
that would have been under the sky's of mad Villain. Okay, well,
hold on, there might be some MF Doom fans out there,
like hold on, I'm ninety nine percent sure that's mad
Lib and m F Doom. I like to give Doolittle
by the Pixies a big shout out as well. Hell yeah,

(10:35):
what's all on that album? That's gonna have here comes
from mad Baser on that one on Yeah, it was
on that and Machine. I'm blanking on the name of
their other big hit. God, what was the other big hit? Though?
Sure this Monkey's Gone to Heaven, Monkey's Gone to Heaven
album rules.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Twilight Lounge added that to their little juke box not
too long ago.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Oh what are we doing? The first Nirvana al or
the second Nervella?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Never mind?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Never mind? Never mind Nirvana?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
That was a huge album.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Man, I don't see it on here. Why that's fine,
but we're running out of time. Is there anything we
need to know? No, that's it. Well, I guess we'll
end the show.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Then tomorrow we're gonna come back and we're gonna try again.
We're gonna rewrack because I've been shaky today. Let's admit
it hadn't been a good show. But don't worry. Ben's
back tomorrow. I'll never forget the time that Ben came back.
He walked in the door, KT looked him directly in
the eye. He dropped his pants, and he said, do
your job, go home, enjoy your night, turn around, do
it again. Die, that's life. Ben was so confused he

(11:42):
left immediately.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Christina is gonna stick around and play some tunes here
on the Eagle. There you going, well, I'm gonna get
my sock back, dude,
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