rolling stone's 500 greatest albums of all time

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.

sees Sgt. Pepper at #1

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See, that's where they're OTM. (I picked the white album in my POX mainly out of personal nostalgic associations but this is one album where I'm all for the canonical assessment.)

I've bitched about this elsewhere and I've already shit this thread up enough, but Beatles LPs are invariably inconsistent to my ears and Sgt. Pepper is no exception. Half of the material just feels inconsequential, even in context. Side 2 in particular is a slog, aside from 'Within You Without You' and, of course, 'A Day in the Life'.

it’s a pretty awesome album apart from “she’s leaving home” and “when i’m 64”, imo

The top 40 of me not really giving a shit, as per pomenitul

6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
36. Tapestry, Carole King
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
40. Forever Changes, Love
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
65. Moondance, Van Morrison
67. The Stranger, Billy Joel
74. Otis Blue, Otis Redding
77. The Clash, The Clash
85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
96. Tommy, The Who
100. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra
110. The Bends, Radiohead
113. The Who Sell Out, The Who
117. Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Byrds
121. Moby Grape, Moby Grape
124. Younger Than Yesterday, The Byrds
127. If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, The Mamas and the Papas
128. Marquee Moon, Television
129. 40 Greatest Hits, Hank Williams
132. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Bruce Springsteen
133. Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G.
134. Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement
135. Greatest Hits, Elton John
136. Tim, The Replacements
139. All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2
141. Live at the Regal, B.B. King
151. Darkness on the Edge of Town, Bruce Springsteen
153. Moanin' in the Moonlight, Howlin' Wolf
157. Closer, Joy Division

fucks sake even i like "She's Leaving Home"

FPed you for heinous Al Green libel btw pom

it’s probably good but it makes me sad

‘She’s Leaving Home’ is indeed good not bad.

And sorry about Al, NV, his music is pleasant enough, it just makes me feel... nothing (I’d be on board with it if it made me feel the Nothing tho).

such is life pom, hopefully the change to FP limits won't come into play :D

It’s alright, I’m just waiting for your own challopy list to come out of the woodwork, I’m sure there will be an FP-worthy pick or two among the lot.