Rolling Stone 500 Best Albums of All Time

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duotone

EricTheWeary said:

duotone said:

EricTheWeary said:

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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. 

Yep it was a big hit from what I remember. Just Googled it & that song was on The Fugees album. 

Would be interested to see what you think of the album Blonde - Frank Ocean.

Cranky

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. 

I like Miseducation, though not as much today as when it first came out.  I was surprised to see it so high on the list.  If we count Fugees, I don't even think it's Hill's best work, that being The Score.  But Miseducation is more well-rounded than the Fugees stuff as far as genres go.

idiotwindow

Miseducation is a terrific album but it is ludicrous to be considered the 10th greatest of all time.