Ultimate Albums
This show features one of what VH1 thinks is the greatest albums. The show focuses on one specific album that a band or singer had released and had a great successful outcome. It also contains interviews with the band members. The show tells a story about how the album originated, its subject matter, what the band/artist thought about it, how they managed it, and how it became so famous.
- 2002-2003
- 1 season
- VH1 Television
- Music
This show features one of what VH1 thinks is the greatest albums. The show focuses on one specific album that a band or singer had released and had a great successful outcome. It also contains interviews with the band members. The show tells a story about how the album originated, its subject matter, what the band/artist thought about it, how they managed it, and how it became so famous.
Season 1 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
Pyromania - Def Leppard
Sun, Mar 10, 2002
When they went into the studio to make Pyromania, Def Leppard were just another meat and potatoes rock band with two flop albums and a silly name. But producer Mutt Lange had a dream of stadium-filling choruses, whomping drum tracking, and turning these Sheffield wannabes into pop-rock gods. VH1 tells the tale of how one guitar player and thousands of overdubs later, a masterpiece was born.
Episode 2
Dookie - Green Day
Sun, Mar 17, 2002
Episode 3
Legend
Sun, Mar 31, 2002
Episode 4
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Sun, Apr 28, 2002
Episode 5
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
Thu, May 16, 2002
Episode 6
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Sun, Jun 2, 2002
Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers were the world's greatest party band - except the world didn't know it yet. All that changed with Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Inspired by sobriety, a new guitarist, and maybe a ghost or two, the veteran group's 1991 crossover success redefined the California sound. Ultimate Albums celebrates the sexy insanity of the disc's popfunknroll.
Episode 7
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
Sun, Jun 16, 2002 51 mins
An inside look on the making of Eminem's 2nd commercial album "The Marshall Mathers LP".
Episode 8
Raising Hell
Sun, Jun 23, 2002
Episode 9
Tragic Kingdom
Mon, Sep 7, 2026
Episode 10
CrazySexyCool
Mon, Sep 7, 2026
Episode 11
Led Zeppelin IV
Mon, Sep 7, 2026
Led Zeppelin's monumental fourth album, released in 1974, transformed the history of rock-and-roll and turned the British band into legends.
Episode 12
Mötley Crüe: Dr. Feelgood
Mon, Sep 7, 2026
Episode 13
Alive! - Kiss
Sat, Apr 26, 2003
Episode 14
Back in Black
Wed, Jun 4, 2003
Episode 15
Black - Metallica
Sat, Jul 5, 2003
This explores why twelve years after its release ""Metallica"" stands as one of the best selling rock albums of all-time.
Episode 16
Songs in A Minor
Thu, Jul 17, 2003
Episode 17
Butterfly
Mon, Jul 28, 2003
Episode 18
Country Grammar - Nelly
Tue, Jul 29, 2003
Episode 19
Santana: Supernatural
Sun, Aug 3, 2003