rolling stone's 500 greatest albums of all time

It's having The Complete Hank Williams (is this that 11-disc box or whatever?) and 40 Greatest Hits that's silly (along with the James Brown thing Matos cited).

And not to beat the Elvis thing too much, but if you gave someone who didn't own any modern pop music all 500 of these titles for their collection, they would take them home and still not be able to hear "Don't Be Cruel." How is that possible?

Kill them now, I still demand.

are both of the last two albums included on star time?

Can RS please please please stop bigging up Seargent Pepper. Anyone stale enough to be an avid RS reader already owns it. It doesn't need any publicity.

12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
102. Giant Steps, John Coltrane
356. Sketches of Spain, Miles Davis
454. Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim

It was very generous of them to include one album by someone who isn't Miles Davis or John Coltrane. What a shame they didn't have space left over for Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, etc. etc.

303. Grace, Jeff Buckley

A Neil Diamond compilation ranks 81 places higher than Jeff Buckley? That's sickening.

But what bugs me isn't the list itself - I mean, who among you clicked on this thread and seriously thought it wouldn't be all bitching that it was crap - but the spurious, 'official' nature of it.

1) It's impossible, obviously.
2) Even if it was possible, why should Rolling Stone get to be the officiator?
3) And why should they get to make money hand over fist by selling copies of it?

Lists can be fun. This one is not.

For that matter, Blood Sweat and Tears? What stopped Wenner from slipping in a Peter Cetera boxed set?

Seriously I want someone to slap these fucks in the skull and tell them that putting a lot of the music on this list is the same thing as putting a lot of James Michener on a greatest books list.

why? does jeff buckley's album have any songs as good as "cherry cherry" or "sweet caroline" or "cracklin' rosie"? the only problem i have here is that "the neil diamond collection" is far from the definitive neil diamond comp.

Do you really need me to answer that?

no zappa (BAD)
no gary numan or human league (ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE)
only ONE kraftwerk album and only ONE depeche mode album (INEXCUSABLE, ROCKIST AND ANTI-SYNTH)
VERY poor on the techno/electro front (anti-synth/electronic music bias YET AGAIN)
the top 100 or so are the usual sixties retread/boomer-favorite suspects (e.g., is anyone surprise AT ALL by anything b/w 1 and 100 on this list?)
if they had to have an EATB album, it should've been ocean rain
no XTC (though they're not really "my group," this is also a glaring omission)

otherwise, this list isn't as bad as i feared it would be ... particularly the deeper down you go

Soo, soooooo true!

246. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

no kinks album higher than #231

81 isn't nearly enough places.

as far as their zappa picks go: i guess it's verboten to admit to liking any of his post-original mothers stuff (and by no means is this restricted to rolling stone). even when the post-original mothers stuff blows the original mothers stuff off the map (see roxy and elsewhere, one size fits all, and joe's garage, just for starters). and if they had to pick a token sixties Zappa album (other than woiiftm), both absolutely free and uncle meat are INFINITELY better than freak out!

That said we all think the list is a big frikkin' joke. Blender's Top 1000 list was way better, esp. since they didn't do any ranking and didn't end up with overlapping hits comps like this one.

You speak wisely, should have been top 100 at least.

I don't find any redeeming value in Diamond, despite the debatable tag of memorable some of his songs could have. I shrug in my indifference, though I'm glad some of you like the man.

fact checking cuz is completely OTM here. And kudos for speaking up about it.

Where's Pulp, Saint Etienne, The Magnetic Fields? Even the Stone Roses didn't make it. What the...

Balls. Proof that albums can't make sense of music.

Geir still has 3 years left to be proven right. Give him a chance guys.

i can't at this list being a hype-able intellectual property

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin V
Led Zeppelin VI
Led Zeppelin VII
Led Zeppelin VIII
Led Zeppelin IX
Led Zeppelin X

imaginary Rolling Stone otm

I’m a big Dylan guy, but Highway 61 has never been one of my faves.. seeing it rated above Blonde on Blonde is surprising to me

Highway 61 was the first Dylan album where I really understood what the fuss was about, so that may be coloring my perceptions. But I still think that song for song, it is the most consistent Dylan album. Blonde on Blonde has better sound and better vocals. For a while it was my favorite. To be honest I mostly listen to post-2000 Dylan and/or bootleg series stuff these days, and haven't played either of these in a while.

To be honest I mostly listen to post-2000 Dylan and/or bootleg series stuff these days

Me too! That's funny.

New list, new #1:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/

As safe as ever.

Trying to read that on my phone and it’s just impossible to scroll down far enough to see number one. So I’m just gonna guess Wesley Willis finally made the top spot.

Here you go:

50 Best Albums of All Time According to Rolling Stone's BRAND NEW, 100% Revamped Top 500

Your service is as unsettling as it is quick, ty!

RS apparently revamped this list in December, but I can’t find a comprehensive rundown of the changes:

EDITOR’S NOTE, DECEMBER 2023: In the three years since Rolling Stone rolled out the all-new, fully revamped version of our 500 Greatest Albums list, artists like Beyonce, Bad Bunny, and Taylor Swift have all released undeniable classics. So we’ve updated the list, adding those albums while making a few other tweaks. The 2020 list covered many decades of popular music, and was the result of a vote among more than 300 artists, writers, producers and industry figures; this update covers just three years. So we kept the changes light.

(or I guess “updated” the “revamped” list)

Ok, Reddit to the rescue: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/18vmy8b/so_rolling_stone_just_did_a_mini_update_on_their/