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Rolling Stone 500 Best Albums of All Time

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FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
edited September 2020 in Music
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6636
    Are the La's in there?
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6636
    The highest album I possess in that list is no 14.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited September 2020
    I think I prefer the original list. It feels like somebody wrote an algorithm to randomly insert Rap albums into the new one  
    If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 6021
    Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On at 422. Yeah, right.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    JezWynd said:
    Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On at 422. Yeah, right.
    What are you talking about?
    If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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  • Some great albums but I'm not having 3 Beyonce records being apparently better than Axis: Bold as Love :) :)
    "A city star won’t shine too far"


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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited September 2020
    Some great albums but I'm not having 3 Beyonce records being apparently better than Axis: Bold as Love
    I think they should split the list, say Pre-2000 & Post-2000, or Pre & Post the introduction of computers? It's hard to compare Sam Cooke & Smokie Robinson with some dudes making beats on a laptop. Besides that, musical tastes have changed considerably over the years, and Rolling Stone obviously has to appeal to their core market for financial reasons. I'd have been pissed off as a young lad if I had to read about how great Vera Lynne was, even though she was very talented!  
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71955
    Pet Sounds is not better than Sgt. Pepper's. It just isn't... and I love both of them.

    And anything by Kanye West is not better than anything by the Beatles.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    It's such a long list that scrolling through it is kind of numbing... I'm just pleased every time I spot something I've got (that's 56 of them, it turns out).

    I go into it with a preconception that anything released since, say, 1990 can't be any good, that all the hip hop and R&B stuff must be rubbish... but to be honest I've never heard any of those albums.  I probably wouldn't like them if I did hear them, but I'm not in any position to judge if they're good or not.

    I don't really have any strong feelings about it.  It seems a pretty pointless exercise really.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 11262
    It's Rolling Stone being Rolling Stone.

    I haven't read it in a while but it always seemed to me that they considered the music to be secondary to their writing, as if musicians did what they did in order to get mentioned by the magazine. 

    That said, the list is bollocks. 
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  • Abbey Road and Revolver above Sgt Pepper's for once. Justice is served! I agree all 3 are better than Pet Sounds tho.

    I'm not going to comment on records I haven't heard, but I'd have Kid A and Born To Run in the top 10.
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • Trying to look through but it’s a PIA on my iPad. 
    I did notice albums from the last three or four years, including Styles, whereas I probably think an album has to have some legs for it to be considered great. 
    I also spotted a few compilations/ anthologies whereas maybe I’m thinking about great albums as a single piece of work. 

    Freebird said:
    I think I prefer the original list. It feels like somebody wrote an algorithm to randomly insert Rap albums into the new one  
    Seems a bit like that, a mixture of rap and the aforementioned current albums to try and sneak in some apparent modern relevance into a list otherwise still leaning on David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles,etc. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • droflufdrofluf Frets: 3613
    Also found it a pain on an iPad so for those of you too lazy to scroll :) here's the top 50.

    (Realise this may be dodgy ground copyrightwise so I've flagged it with the mods so they can decide)

    1Marvin GayeWhats Going On
    2The Beach BoysPet Sounds
    3Joni MitchellBlue
    4Stevie WonderSongs in the Key of Life
    5The BeatlesAbbey Road
    6NirvanaNevermind
    7Fleetwood MacRumours
    8Prince and the RevolutionPurple Rain
    9Bob DylanBlood on the Tracks
    10Lauryn HillThe Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
    11The BeatlesRevolver
    12Michael JacksonThriller
    13Aretha FranklinI Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
    14The Rolling StonesExile on Main Street
    15Public EnemyIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
    16The ClashLondon Calling
    17Kanye WestMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    18Bob DylanHighway 61 Revisited
    19Kendrick LamarTo Pimp a Butterfly
    20RadioheadKid A
    21Bruce SpringsteenBorn to Run
    22The Notorious B.I.G.Ready to Die
    23The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground and Nico
    24The BeatlesSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
    25Carole KingTapestry
    26Patti SmithHorses
    27Wu-Tang ClanEnter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
    28D’AngeloVoodoo
    29The BeatlesWhite Album
    30Jimi HendrixAre You Experienced
    31Miles DavisKind of Blue
    32BeyoncéLemonade
    33Amy WinehouseBack to Black
    34Stevie WonderInnervisions
    35The BeatlesRubber Soul
    36Michael JacksonOff the Wall
    37Dr. DreThe Chronic
    38Bob DylanBlonde on Blonde
    39Talking HeadsRemain in Light
    40David BowieThe Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
    41The Rolling StonesLet It Bleed
    42RadioheadOK Computer
    43A Tribe Called QuestThe Low End Theory
    44NasIllmatic
    45PrinceSign O the Times
    46Paul SimonGraceland
    47RamonesRamones
    48Bob Marley and the WailersLegend
    49OutKastAquemini
    50Jay-ZThe Blueprint
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  • The most consistently entertaining thing about these lists is the absolute seethe that they induce.


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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 12255
    edited September 2020
    I'm a huge fan of nevermind but it isn't better than the bends or OK Computer which are both better than Kid A.  Stone Roses (still maintain it was called Made of Stone when I was a lad) is also way better than most on here.  I'd say Pink Floyd should certainly have 3 or 4 of the top 25.

    A lot of albums by the 'greats' beatles, stones, doors etc always seem to have a few good songs on then absolute filler where some later albums which seem to have mostly strong tracks.

    REM Out of Time would be top 10 too.

    And yes @mrkb The La's is also top 10.... : )

    Doolittle is no. 1 btw.
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  • ReverendReverend Frets: 4974
    To pimp a butterfly better than 36 chambers and Illmatic?
     chortle
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28280
    What??? No dark side of the moon in the top 50???

    I don't mind their list to be honest it's quite interesting (er .. I've only looked at that top 50, can't be assed to wade through pages of it), but the trouble with Rolling Stone is that they are so biased against some styles of music, they never rate prog or metal for example. 
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  • drofluf said:
    Also found it a pain on an iPad so for those of you too lazy to scroll :) here's the top 50.

    (Realise this may be dodgy ground copyrightwise so I've flagged it with the mods so they can decide)

    1Marvin GayeWhats Going On
    2The Beach BoysPet Sounds
    3Joni MitchellBlue
    4Stevie WonderSongs in the Key of Life
    5The BeatlesAbbey Road
    6NirvanaNevermind
    7Fleetwood MacRumours
    8Prince and the RevolutionPurple Rain
    9Bob DylanBlood on the Tracks
    10Lauryn HillThe Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
    11The BeatlesRevolver
    12Michael JacksonThriller
    13Aretha FranklinI Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
    14The Rolling StonesExile on Main Street
    15Public EnemyIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
    16The ClashLondon Calling
    17Kanye WestMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
    18Bob DylanHighway 61 Revisited
    19Kendrick LamarTo Pimp a Butterfly
    20RadioheadKid A
    21Bruce SpringsteenBorn to Run
    22The Notorious B.I.G.Ready to Die
    23The Velvet UndergroundThe Velvet Underground and Nico
    24The BeatlesSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
    25Carole KingTapestry
    26Patti SmithHorses
    27Wu-Tang ClanEnter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
    28D’AngeloVoodoo
    29The BeatlesWhite Album
    30Jimi HendrixAre You Experienced
    31Miles DavisKind of Blue
    32BeyoncéLemonade
    33Amy WinehouseBack to Black
    34Stevie WonderInnervisions
    35The BeatlesRubber Soul
    36Michael JacksonOff the Wall
    37Dr. DreThe Chronic
    38Bob DylanBlonde on Blonde
    39Talking HeadsRemain in Light
    40David BowieThe Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
    41The Rolling StonesLet It Bleed
    42RadioheadOK Computer
    43A Tribe Called QuestThe Low End Theory
    44NasIllmatic
    45PrinceSign O the Times
    46Paul SimonGraceland
    47RamonesRamones
    48Bob Marley and the WailersLegend
    49OutKastAquemini
    50Jay-ZThe Blueprint
    It's a reasonably eclectic list ( and moreso as you go down the 500) so I don't know if there's an expectation that people work there way through the list, bopping around the kitchen to Carole King and Wu Tang Clan.  


    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • Hell is other people's taste in music.
    My wife asked me to stop singing Wonderwall.
    I said maybe.....
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