rolling stone's 500 greatest albums of all time

Too smooth, too cheerful.

when i saw this thread come up i wondered if they revamped their list again like they did in 2012... after all, it's only a matter of time before they re-do it and Frank Ocean's Blonde cracks the top 200 or something

Pet Sounds?! Blood on the Tracks?! Innervisions?! Blue?! Ramones?! Tapestry?! Please Please Me?! It Takes A Nation?! Songs in the Key of Life?! Dusty in Memphis?! Talking Book?! This Year's Model?! Rocket to Russia?! Hunky Dory?!

your silence speaks volumes, pomenitul

The Stevie reasoning is weird, but whatever. I can, if I really stretch my brain, find a reason someone could conceivably dislike most of these, but

20. Al Green, 'Greatest Hits'

How is this possible?

and again, no answer. pomenitul offers ZERO defense. there is none.

I don’t rate him very highly as a singer and I find his songs kind of bland, there’s never any edge to them.

Anyway, be the challlop you want to see in the world and attempt this little experiment yourself.

Btw I don’t hate any of these albums (well, almost), I just enjoy them way less than I ‘should’.

i was jk, sorry! sometimes i get way too committed to the character. i appreciate these challops. though some of them are incredibly gutsy

No, please, do go on, we’ve all got our little part to play!

and I was just, uh, confirming your choices

when I look at the entire RS list my mind glazes over and I no longer like anything

Wait, you don’t like Elvis? Is it physically possible to not like Elvis?

i like a lot of these albums but there is something depressing about seeing the exact same titles lined up over and over again. i mean, i love pet sounds, i have plenty of fond personal memories attached to specific songs on that album, i even love the goofy cover photo, but i'm not sure we're doing it any favors by sticking it at the top of every damn list, yknow?

pomenitul's hatelist is somehow worse than RS's list...

Don’t knock it till you try it! (Sort of.)

it's ok to dislike things and pom dislikes singers

Only some singers, thank you very much.

I refuse to believe that the majority of us genuinely enjoy almost every single album on that list up until, say, #200.

Besides, you also need to consider the 80-odd titles I do like.

Tbf, you made a point of listing the ones you don't.:P

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I think in the top 100 the only albums I don’t like at all are the Guns n Roses and the Sex Pistols ones.

Van Morrison and U2 albums in the top 100 I don’t hate but don’t really understand the appeal either. They seem highly overrated to me.

Astral Weeks is all-time and always will be imo, Moondance is pretty good too. The rest I can do without.

Anyway, you clearly have a bone to pick with the Irish.

wow that is an awful lot of rong+facepalm+wtf in a 2-line post xp

people not liking stuff is fine, picking Moondance and Astral Weeks as better than any of the list of unapproved LPs above is... looking for a nice word than "wrong" here.

Everyone who disses my list without submitting to the crucible is RONG by default.

Hey I specified I don’t hate the u2 and Van Morrison albums. I even like some of the songs in there.

The only ones I can’t stand from there are GnR and Sex Pistols

Honestly knowing myself only hating 2 out of 100 albums is a pretty good ratio.

Yeah but do you *really* enjoy all 98 of those? Like I said upthread, of the 40 I listed, I only really hate maybe about 5 tops, it's more a matter of feeling like I don't quite get everything there is to get in most of those instances.

I mean at this point of my life I probably would only listen and rate highly around 10 out of 100 albums in there. The rest are overplayed beyond meaning now or I can see why they’re considered important but don’t really vibe with them.

I guess I wasn’t sufficiently forthcoming about my criteria. Most of the albums I didn’t list are those I’d be happy to hear again.

Maybe a POX albums would be better then.

As in the 10 albums you'd retain out of the 500?

Top 100, but yeah top 500 works too but it’s probably harder to pick only 10 out of 500.

If we're sticking to the top 100, I guess I'd go with:

The Doors – The Doors
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead – Kid A
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.
Sly & The Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico

No more than one album per act.

And I can't believe there's no Black Sabbath at all in their top 100, smh.

Kid A is not in the top 100?

Sticking to the top 100 this would be my pox

#35 David Bowie
#58 Captain Beefheart
#69 Curtis Mayfield
#75 Led Zep
#80 Zombies
#82 Jimi Hendrix
#89 Dusty Springfield
#95 Creedence
#99 Sly & the Family
#100 Frank Sinatra

It is, somewhat unexpectedly (at #67). Yet OK Computer is not.

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Mayfield, Creedence and Zombies would def make my POXX.

Huh? I got Billy Joel at 67 and Kid A at 428. But I am looking at the list on the opening post. I guess it got updated.

Yep, I've been working with the revised 2012 edition:

https://musicbrainz.org/series/8668518f-4a1e-4802-8b0d-81703ced6418

Ok so the list has remained pretty much the same but Sinatra is gone from the top 100 so I guess change that one for Kid A in my POX

POX, one album per artist, in the order they're listed:

Pet Sounds
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Nevermind
Robert Johnson’s The Complete Recordings
Blue
Electric Ladyland
Kid A
Led Zeppelin IV
Bitches Brew

From your list I like pretty much all the artists but my favorite albums from them are not those. I’d pick these as my favorite albums by them:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Miles Davis – In A Silent Way
Pink Floyd – Meddle
The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Yeah I’m one of those weird people who thinks Loaded is the best VU album.

If those were in the top 100 I’d definitley pick them.

I wavered between Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew but I've spent so much time with the former that picking the latter would've felt like a betrayal.

I almost added Nevermind but I'm just so much more partial to In utero.

I love Robert Johnson but I've always struggled with the sequencing on that one.

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As amazing as Meddle is, Dark Side of the Moon is one of the very first albums I ever listened to in its entirety, at the age of 5 or 6, and nothing can supplant that kind of chronological precedence.

I do prefer IASW and In Utero but neither was in the top 100.

Yeah In Utero def more of an impact in my life than Nevermind.

DSOTM was also very influential in my early teens and I think it’s brilliant but it’s one of those overplayed beyond meaning albums for me. I’m never in the mood to listen to it again.

Can't believe Close to the Edge didn't make it.