Rolling Stone 500 Best Albums of All Time

drofluf

Redlester said:

I never did like these sorts of lists, and this is really just clickbait in this day and age. 

So thanks to those who transcribed the top 50! Saves me clicking on the RS site.

 

My pleasure  

duotone

Anyone know if this lists printed in the latest issue of the magazine, Or just online only?

ICBM

duotone said:

Anyone know if this lists printed in the latest issue of the magazine, Or just online only?

To make sure they've left hard evidence, and can't just delete it when they realise how stupid it makes them look?

Freebird

ICBM said:

duotone said:

Anyone know if this lists printed in the latest issue of the magazine, Or just online only?

To make sure they've left hard evidence, and can't just delete it when they realise how stupid it makes them look?

Especially in a few years time when nobody can remember who Harry Styles was! Not to mention Take That were so much better  

duotone

ICBM said:

duotone said:

Anyone know if this lists printed in the latest issue of the magazine, Or just online only?

To make sure they've left hard evidence, and can't just delete it when they realise how stupid it makes them look?

  I think we are on the same wave length! @ICBM ;
@Freebird ;

When I make it to a decent Newsagent I’ll check & let you guys know.

underdog

EricTheWeary

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)

1	Marvin Gaye	Whats Going On
2	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
3	Joni Mitchell	Blue
4	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life
5	The Beatles	Abbey Road
6	Nirvana	Nevermind
7	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
8	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain
9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks
10	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11	The Beatles	Revolver
12	Michael Jackson	Thriller
13	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street
15	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16	The Clash	London Calling
17	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
19	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly
20	Radiohead	Kid A
21	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
22	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die
23	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground and Nico
24	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
25	Carole King	Tapestry
26	Patti Smith	Horses
27	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
28	D’Angelo	Voodoo
29	The Beatles	White Album
30	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced
31	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
32	Beyoncé	Lemonade
33	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
34	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions
35	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
36	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
37	Dr. Dre	The Chronic
38	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde
39	Talking Heads	Remain in Light
40	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed
42	Radiohead	OK Computer
43	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory
44	Nas	Illmatic
45	Prince	Sign O the Times
46	Paul Simon	Graceland
47	Ramones	Ramones
48	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Legend
49	OutKast	Aquemini
50	Jay-Z	The Blueprint

I want to say What’s Going On is amazing but I find it very hard to love. 

Anyway, I’m trying to pick out the odd one I’m not familiar with and play that. Realistically that’ll mean fifty hip hop albums and that’s probably not happening but I’ll give D’Angelo a go with the washing up. 

Rocker

Does anyone actually listen to the records that they nominate for such lists?  I have three Nirvana CDs: Nevermind, Unplugged in New York and another that I can't remember the name of and all apart from Unplugged.... are rubbish even if they are continually name checked as albums you must have.  Which is why I asked the question in the first place.

Philly_Q

Rocker said:

Does anyone actually listen to the records that they nominate for such lists?  I have three Nirvana CDs: Nevermind, Unplugged in New York and another that I can't remember the name of and all apart from Unplugged.... are rubbish even if they are continually name checked as albums you must have.  Which is why I asked the question in the first place.

Well, that's Nirvana officially condemned to the dustbin of history, then.

wesker123

Rocker said:

Does anyone actually listen to the records that they nominate for such lists?  I have three Nirvana CDs: Nevermind, Unplugged in New York and another that I can't remember the name of and all apart from Unplugged.... are rubbish even if they are continually name checked as albums you must have.  Which is why I asked the question in the first place.

You mean Nickelback? 

ICBM

underdog said:

Love James Blunt .

Shame I don't like his songs or his voice...

Although there was one recently I didn't mind - I didn't even recognise it as him at first.

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

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)

1	Marvin Gaye	Whats Going On
2	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
3	Joni Mitchell	Blue
4	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life
5	The Beatles	Abbey Road
6	Nirvana	Nevermind
7	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
8	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain
9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks
10	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11	The Beatles	Revolver
12	Michael Jackson	Thriller
13	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street
15	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16	The Clash	London Calling
17	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
19	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly
20	Radiohead	Kid A
21	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
22	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die
23	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground and Nico
24	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
25	Carole King	Tapestry
26	Patti Smith	Horses
27	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
28	D’Angelo	Voodoo
29	The Beatles	White Album
30	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced
31	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
32	Beyoncé	Lemonade
33	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
34	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions
35	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
36	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
37	Dr. Dre	The Chronic
38	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde
39	Talking Heads	Remain in Light
40	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed
42	Radiohead	OK Computer
43	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory
44	Nas	Illmatic
45	Prince	Sign O the Times
46	Paul Simon	Graceland
47	Ramones	Ramones
48	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Legend
49	OutKast	Aquemini
50	Jay-Z	The Blueprint

I want to say What’s Going On is amazing but I find it very hard to love. 

Anyway, I’m trying to pick out the odd one I’m not familiar with and play that. Realistically that’ll mean fifty hip hop albums and that’s probably not happening but I’ll give D’Angelo a go with the washing up. 

Is twenty five minutes enough to say ‘D’Angelo third rate Prince what’s the point?’

Knowing nothing about him and googling it just comes up ‘...heavily influenced by Prince...’
Maybe these things have to grow on you. 

Right, Lauryn Hill next. All I know about her is she made ( in my opinion obviously) one of the most hateful cover versions of all time which isn’t a great start but it’s not on Miseducation so I’ll travel in hope. 

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

Love James Blunt .

Shame I don't like his songs or his voice...

Although there was one recently I didn't mind - I didn't even recognise it as him at first.

It's coming to something when he has to disguise his voice to make people like his records...

underdog

ICBM said:

underdog said:

Love James Blunt .

Shame I don't like his songs or his voice...

Although there was one recently I didn't mind - I didn't even recognise it as him at first.

He is probably the single best person to follow on Twitter, he is a very funny guy.

viz

Is Passion and Warfare on there?

barnstorm

EricTheWeary said:

EricTheWeary said:

Is twenty five minutes enough to say ‘D’Angelo third rate Prince what’s the point?’

Knowing nothing about him and googling it just comes up ‘...heavily influenced by Prince...’
Maybe these things have to grow on you. 

Right, Lauryn Hill next. All I know about her is she made ( in my opinion obviously) one of the most hateful cover versions of all time which isn’t a great start but it’s not on Miseducation so I’ll travel in hope. 

Try this when you get to the Wu-Tang Clan:

https://tomcaruanamashups.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-magical-mystery-chambers

I don't like the (Wu-Tang) originals and can't help but roll my eyes at the lyrics, but it's a fun listen for large parts, and quite an achievement. I love the snippets of old newsreel dialogue that pop up in some of the songs:

[Warily, to a girl determined to get into the Beatles' hotel] 'Are you a Beatlemaniac?'

'Well you can trust us – we're not going to bite you or grab you or something.'

[To another fan] Do you think they're the best there's ever been?

'Oh yes, definitely'

'Would you like to grow up to be a Beatle?'

I haven't put it on in a while, but from memory Forget Me Not, Uh Huh, Daytona 500, and Uzi are the best ones.

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

EricTheWeary said:

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)

1	Marvin Gaye	Whats Going On
2	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
3	Joni Mitchell	Blue
4	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life
5	The Beatles	Abbey Road
6	Nirvana	Nevermind
7	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
8	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain
9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks
10	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11	The Beatles	Revolver
12	Michael Jackson	Thriller
13	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street
15	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16	The Clash	London Calling
17	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
19	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly
20	Radiohead	Kid A
21	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
22	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die
23	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground and Nico
24	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
25	Carole King	Tapestry
26	Patti Smith	Horses
27	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
28	D’Angelo	Voodoo
29	The Beatles	White Album
30	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced
31	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
32	Beyoncé	Lemonade
33	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
34	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions
35	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
36	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
37	Dr. Dre	The Chronic
38	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde
39	Talking Heads	Remain in Light
40	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed
42	Radiohead	OK Computer
43	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory
44	Nas	Illmatic
45	Prince	Sign O the Times
46	Paul Simon	Graceland
47	Ramones	Ramones
48	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Legend
49	OutKast	Aquemini
50	Jay-Z	The Blueprint

I want to say What’s Going On is amazing but I find it very hard to love. 

Anyway, I’m trying to pick out the odd one I’m not familiar with and play that. Realistically that’ll mean fifty hip hop albums and that’s probably not happening but I’ll give D’Angelo a go with the washing up. 

Is twenty five minutes enough to say ‘D’Angelo third rate Prince what’s the point?’

Knowing nothing about him and googling it just comes up ‘...heavily influenced by Prince...’
Maybe these things have to grow on you. 

Right, Lauryn Hill next. All I know about her is she made ( in my opinion obviously) one of the most hateful cover versions of all time which isn’t a great start but it’s not on Miseducation so I’ll travel in hope. 

Lauryn Hill went from 314 in the last list to 10 in this one. Don’t know what that means. 

The old school wicky wicky DJ noises and the conceptual padding stuff I’d live without but I get why this was such a huge hip hop/ neo soul/ rap album. Impressive list of guest guitarists too ( although sniff and you’ll miss them): Santana, Francis Dunnery, Al Anderson ( Wailers, Peter Tosh), Earl Chinna Smith ( reggae supremo). 

Philly_Q

viz said:

Is Passion and Warfare on there?

Nope.

Nothing by Michael Angelo Batio either.

duotone

EricTheWeary said:

EricTheWeary said:

EricTheWeary said:

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)

1	Marvin Gaye	Whats Going On
2	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
3	Joni Mitchell	Blue
4	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life
5	The Beatles	Abbey Road
6	Nirvana	Nevermind
7	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
8	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain
9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks
10	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11	The Beatles	Revolver
12	Michael Jackson	Thriller
13	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street
15	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16	The Clash	London Calling
17	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
19	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly
20	Radiohead	Kid A
21	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
22	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die
23	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground and Nico
24	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
25	Carole King	Tapestry
26	Patti Smith	Horses
27	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
28	D’Angelo	Voodoo
29	The Beatles	White Album
30	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced
31	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
32	Beyoncé	Lemonade
33	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
34	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions
35	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
36	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
37	Dr. Dre	The Chronic
38	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde
39	Talking Heads	Remain in Light
40	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed
42	Radiohead	OK Computer
43	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory
44	Nas	Illmatic
45	Prince	Sign O the Times
46	Paul Simon	Graceland
47	Ramones	Ramones
48	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Legend
49	OutKast	Aquemini
50	Jay-Z	The Blueprint

I want to say What’s Going On is amazing but I find it very hard to love. 

Anyway, I’m trying to pick out the odd one I’m not familiar with and play that. Realistically that’ll mean fifty hip hop albums and that’s probably not happening but I’ll give D’Angelo a go with the washing up. 

Is twenty five minutes enough to say ‘D’Angelo third rate Prince what’s the point?’

Knowing nothing about him and googling it just comes up ‘...heavily influenced by Prince...’
Maybe these things have to grow on you. 

Right, Lauryn Hill next. All I know about her is she made ( in my opinion obviously) one of the most hateful cover versions of all time which isn’t a great start but it’s not on Miseducation so I’ll travel in hope. 

Lauryn Hill went from 314 in the last list to 10 in this one. Don’t know what that means. 

The old school wicky wicky DJ noises and the conceptual padding stuff I’d live without but I get why this was such a huge hip hop/ neo soul/ rap album. Impressive list of guest guitarists too ( although sniff and you’ll miss them): Santana, Francis Dunnery, Al Anderson ( Wailers, Peter Tosh), Earl Chinna Smith ( reggae supremo). 

@EricTheWeary ;
I was actually giving this a listen today too. It’s a really good album & rare to have someone equally at good rapping as they are at singing.

To add to the list of talented musicians, I know that a young John Legend also plays piano on the album. 

EricTheWeary

duotone said:

EricTheWeary said:

EricTheWeary said:

EricTheWeary said:

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)

1	Marvin Gaye	Whats Going On
2	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds
3	Joni Mitchell	Blue
4	Stevie Wonder	Songs in the Key of Life
5	The Beatles	Abbey Road
6	Nirvana	Nevermind
7	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours
8	Prince and the Revolution	Purple Rain
9	Bob Dylan	Blood on the Tracks
10	Lauryn Hill	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11	The Beatles	Revolver
12	Michael Jackson	Thriller
13	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
14	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main Street
15	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
16	The Clash	London Calling
17	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
18	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited
19	Kendrick Lamar	To Pimp a Butterfly
20	Radiohead	Kid A
21	Bruce Springsteen	Born to Run
22	The Notorious B.I.G.	Ready to Die
23	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground and Nico
24	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
25	Carole King	Tapestry
26	Patti Smith	Horses
27	Wu-Tang Clan	Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
28	D’Angelo	Voodoo
29	The Beatles	White Album
30	Jimi Hendrix	Are You Experienced
31	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
32	Beyoncé	Lemonade
33	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
34	Stevie Wonder	Innervisions
35	The Beatles	Rubber Soul
36	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall
37	Dr. Dre	The Chronic
38	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde
39	Talking Heads	Remain in Light
40	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
41	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed
42	Radiohead	OK Computer
43	A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory
44	Nas	Illmatic
45	Prince	Sign O the Times
46	Paul Simon	Graceland
47	Ramones	Ramones
48	Bob Marley and the Wailers	Legend
49	OutKast	Aquemini
50	Jay-Z	The Blueprint

I want to say What’s Going On is amazing but I find it very hard to love. 

Anyway, I’m trying to pick out the odd one I’m not familiar with and play that. Realistically that’ll mean fifty hip hop albums and that’s probably not happening but I’ll give D’Angelo a go with the washing up. 

Is twenty five minutes enough to say ‘D’Angelo third rate Prince what’s the point?’

Knowing nothing about him and googling it just comes up ‘...heavily influenced by Prince...’
Maybe these things have to grow on you. 

Right, Lauryn Hill next. All I know about her is she made ( in my opinion obviously) one of the most hateful cover versions of all time which isn’t a great start but it’s not on Miseducation so I’ll travel in hope. 

Lauryn Hill went from 314 in the last list to 10 in this one. Don’t know what that means. 

The old school wicky wicky DJ noises and the conceptual padding stuff I’d live without but I get why this was such a huge hip hop/ neo soul/ rap album. Impressive list of guest guitarists too ( although sniff and you’ll miss them): Santana, Francis Dunnery, Al Anderson ( Wailers, Peter Tosh), Earl Chinna Smith ( reggae supremo). 

@EricTheWeary ;
I was actually giving this a listen today too. It’s a really good album & rare to have someone equally at good rapping as they are at singing.

To add to the list of talented musicians, I know that a young John Legend also plays piano on the album. 

Very, very long list of musicians! 

Her version of Killing Me Softly I still think was atrocious but somebody bought it and it’s not on the album.