Let's poll... RYM's Top 50 Albums of All Time

Think I'll vote for Joni Mitchell or Aretha Franklin...oh, wait...

Geir would hate most of these.

yeah 51-100 has several of my favorite records on it whereas 1-50 doesn't really have any

I do really like the Fishmans obsession on RYM. Long Season will be in the top 10 one day.

its one of the most endearing parts of that site. amusingly I've been seeing something similar happen with Kyuusai no Gihou, it had like 15 ratings when I 5-starred it and now it's bold with over 800

don't remember Geir being into Euro pop tbh

I must be misremembering then. I thought his whole shtick was that melody rules supreme and that all other musical parameters must subside into the background in order to let the melodic line sing in all of its unvarnished purity.

As for this poll, eh, I can't decide. TPAB vs Loveless vs Abbey Road

Yeah, he was decidedly not a stan for Metallica, Slint, and GYBE.xp

Oh yeah Spiderland is up there too

wait a minute, jazz exists????

kind of blue

Endtroducing maybe the only one I was at all surprised to see

I listened to it a lot when I was also listening to a lot of these a lot so it didn't surprise me.

Thinking of voting for KC just bc it's good to see them on a list. My joke about Close to the Edge might actually apply with this list.

Mingus

My joke about Close to the Edge might actually apply with this list.

Oh, OK, it was at 68.

Ugh, I like almost all of these, but they're super boring as an aggregate

Checked the top 200 for female artists. There’s only three albums in there:

154 Joanna Newsom Ys
158 Bjork Post
163 Joni Mitchell Blue

I guess Portishead, Fleetwood Mac partially count too since they have a frontwoman.

56 Bjork Homogenic
69 Kate Bush Hounds of Love
79 Bjork Vespertine
81 The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (mentions ladys in the title)

RS's list is more progressive in some ways.

but, more significantly: The Queen Is Dead

I enjoy a lot of this list but ultimately voted for the last one on the list, 'Ride the Lightning.'

xp

more xs and ps

Loveless I guess

I guess, if I'm being honest, Dark Side of the Moon is my boring pick. It's been a reliable album this year.

gut instinct went with pet sounds, cause i've loved re-learning all those songs on the piano recently

They're inderectly responsible for a whole lot of generic "cresndocore" post-rock but Lift Your Skinny Fists holds up for me, beautiful album

more xs and ps

but, more significantly: _The Queen Is Dead_

voting for the album that features the most ODB verses

every album on this list that I like, I like a little less because of it appearing on this list

lol is it because it's RYM or because seeing them all huddled so close together is too normative for comfort?

Four Beatles albums sounds ok but four Radiohead albums? That is ridiculous. And there isn't even their by far best album - Amnesiac - there!

It's my second fave but its omission is indeed unforgivable.

This list looks like it was made by the Radiohead forum I used to post on in 2000/2001 (GYBE, Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada etc.)

Whatever happened to Melissa btw? She was the ultimate RH stan back in ILM's early days, fighting the good fight.

It's sort of what I like about it? There's no real pretence of objectivity. It just looks like someone's favourite albums from their collection. If you really like Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson, there's a good chance you'll like the whole list. Not everything has to be Pitchfork.xp

This list looks like it was made by the Radiohead forum I used to post on in 2000/2001 (GYBE, Sigur Ros, Boards of Canada etc.)

yeah the "music guys" I used to hang out with in college (circa 2006 or so) would've made pretty much this exact same list back then, mins Kanye and Kendrick. so many of these albums I heard for the first time through the same people. at the time the RYM list was pretty much all 60s and 70s classic rock + Radiohead.

in high school a lot of my classmates were big into classic rock stuff like Floyd, Zep, and the Beatles...music our parents and teachers liked. I guess for the current generation of teenagers that would be Radiohead? maybe why they got 3 albums in the top 10

There's maybe like 3-4 albums on this list I don't really care for so clearly it's doing a good job of catering to my demographic.

It's still astonishingly boring, though.

Let's also poll and moan about ... Acclaimed Music's Top 50 Albums of All Time

It's almost as if their star-rating methodology has nothing to do with designing a fun listicle that can logically compare to ones compiled by journalists.

Master Of Puppets and Red are the ones I listen to most lately.

Is there an updated Rolling Stone albums canon that I missed?

The 2003 list was revised in 2012 and a brand new one is apparently imminent.

We'll be polling it as soon as it drops, of course.

Before it drops as ILM is that hip

:)

pro tip just poll this one again

remember NME used to produce a list but deliberately out in a troll entry like Andrew WK to annoy readers/clickbait

um Andrew WK has 3 albums better than the majority of this list

Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets are about equally good and I'm happy the results reflect this.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

also, i'm down to do a mashup cover of "money" and "c.r.e.a.m." if you are.

Man, every good idea's been taken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCk6Zq6wds

WEAK!! WE CAN DO BETTER.

That's the spirit!

At least In the 36 Chambers Over the Sea is still available.