What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard?

@kb673 I beg to differ.  
As I said, it’s all pop. It’s all rooted in “Rock N’ Roll,” which is popular music. Pop.  
Blues is absolutely pop. So is country.  
That’s “Rock N’ Roll.” (with a bit of gospel thrown in there)
Songs with a verse, a chorus. Repeat. Some sort of middle section. Repeat.  
Pop. All the same s**t, just different flavors.

You’re just thinking of “pop” in the terms that record companies, radio stations and media marketing schemes have sold you as “different genres.”  
The better to take your money with.  

If you want to accept a marketing scheme as objective reality as far as delineating, segregating and categorizing music goes, that’s your prerogative.  
If you want to just swallow these marketing labels that were made up to give certain businesses more money, go nuts, friend.

I prefer to just listen to music and decide for myself if I like it. You know…with my own ears. 

You’re also free to define what “pop” is, and how it is in any way useful to sit around and say:  
“no, no, that’s not rock and roll, that’s pop…no, no, that’s not metal, that’s stoner rock…no, no, that’s not reggae l, that’s ska…no, no, that’s not punk, that’s hardcore…”

For me it is Incubus / Science. Unique, interesting, recorded well and definitely rock.

I have to agree the Beatles in my opinion are a pop band, with one or two rock songs in their locker, all music is not Pop, it not all rooted in Rock n roll, pop is a mainstream popular music, a great deal of rock music is born from the blues, Metallica is not Pop they are a massive metal band but you wouldn’t define them as being popular with all listeners yet my favourite band, Jazz also is not Pop as it’s not popular across the board and I’ll vouch for that as I can listen to the stuff. 

You wouldn’t declare One Direction, Take That, Coldplay rock bands. 

To really hear and “show off” what my system can do it’s Diana Krall’s “The Girl in the Other Room”. Plus every single song is just so emotionally involving especially “Departure Bay” the last song on the CD. It’s honestly the one CD I play in it’s entirety and sit with my eyes shut and do not move…
 

For just pure jammin out it’s undoubtedly Iron Maiden “Live After Death”! 🤟🏻🤟🏻 Man that one is truly timeless!😂

@mrmeaner Once again, as we see in this thread here, someone made a fuss about calling the Beatles, “rock.” Who cares? We all know the Beatles. Nothing bad is going to happen, no egregious misappropriation occurs if someone calls the Beatles “rock,” or “pop,” or whatever. It’s all madeup label malarkey anyway. It’s all pop.  
Yes, everything in popular music is essentially rooted in Rock and Roll. I really don’t want to be didactic and don’t have the energy for a history lesson, but, yeah. Everything from the last 60+ years of popular music essentially flows from the Rock and Roll Big Bang of the mid-‘50s.

Metallica has sold 125 million albums.  
Nothing is “popular with all listeners.” 
You’ll actually find people that don’t like…Michael Jackson…Beatles…Adele…Mariah Carey.  
But Metallica has sold 125 million albums.  
Pretty popular. Intro, verse, chorus, repeat, bridge/interlude/solo, repeat.  
Pop. 
I already said Jazz and Classical wasn’t pop.  
I don’t know how I’d describe One Direction, Take That and Coldplay other than, “crap.”

One is free to call this stuff whatever they want.  
I just prefer to describe the sounds of things than to just bluntly, hamfistedly apply made-up marketing labels to music.  

People either are brainwashed by all the marketing labels and accept them as “fact” or “truth,” just really enjoy segregating and labeling things, reflexively equate “pop” with “bad,” or some combination of all the above.