With TPAB and T&Y as recent markers for recently released GREAT albums, I'm wondering if we should start breaking up the "classic" designation for albums into the "classic"/"masterpiece" option.

I love both albums, but if someone were to say "those aren't classic albums" I would probably agree. But there needs to be a category for this kind of achievement. It feels like classics meet the expectations of the waiting public, are are bonafide hits that enter into pop culture familiarity. Masterpieces though feel like they meet the expectations of the artists. It is a shared personal achievement opposed to a disseminated social accomplishment.

TPAB, T&Y, The Ecstatic....personally these albums aren't necessarily "classic" but they are definitely masterpieces, and I think I prefer them to actual standalone classic achievements.

What say you?

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