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

Can't wait until fart hop really takes off in 2040 and RS dumps every Beatles album underneath the debut by the Toot-Toot Crew.

farts >> The Joshua Tree.

Can't argue.

I thought this was common knowledge

yes we know ILX's opinion of the Joshua Tree but I don't buy Rolling Stone not still loving it

Smoke'em out!

2pac’s highest ranking is all eyez at 436. Maybe one day he’ll make an album as good as Rosalia or drake’s “if you’re reading this it’s too late”

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 11:03 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah this is bullshit

but also... somewhat reflective of broader trends

I personally think it's cool Rosalía made the list; it's one of the few recent albums on there that I stan for.

(2pac's rankings notwithstanding)

but also... somewhat reflective of broader trends

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:52 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Idk ... I can’t think of many rappers from that era who are still relevant. Polo G just did a pac tribute song. Kendrick used him heavily in the marketing of (top 100 album) TPAB

Interesting that Rumours moved from 25-->7 from the last list but the s/t fell off (from 183), and no other Fleetwood Mac album made the cut.

Idk ... I can’t think of many rappers from that era who are still relevant. Polo G just did a pac tribute song. Kendrick used him heavily in the marketing of (top 100 album) TPAB

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:03 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

reflective of broader trends among critics not rappers

The Balearic fad of the late '00s and early '10s not enough to elevate Tango in the Night

Before pandemic I asked my students about which old school rappers they still listened to. Every one said 2Pac. Pretty sure they stream 2Pac more than any Kanye before 2013.

excellent

If only 2Pac had come up with a lyric as deathless and universal as "MJ gone / Our nigga dead"

f.hazel otm, this bullshit list is basically them overcompensating and then turning around to everyone else all like, "HEY GUYS AMIRITE??"

moreover i think pac being at 346 and ready to die being at 22 is evidence that a really shitty and wrong attitude from the past twenty or so years has calcified

either that or the list is just as rockist as any of their past lists, just in different ways.

that has nothing to do with my point, the degree to which this list is rockist is not interesting to me. it's rolling stone, they're assumed rockist until proven guilty. a ton of ppl contributed to this list, a vast number of whom i imagine have no reason to get drunk on anything other than established canon

oh sorry austin i just realized that you were probably replying to yourself

I thought we'd already established that poptimism is the new rockism?

plenty of that going on in this list too

I will stan all day long for the Beatles from Rubber Soul through the white album, and even the early pop, but, except for the three big hits, I don't get what people see in Abbey Road tbch.

― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:41 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is pretty much where I am. I even prefer Let It Be to Abbey Road

I like the end of abbey road, golden slumbers and carry that weight. other than that, it's mostly toss bar come together, here comes the song, and something

blood on the tracks vs remain in light vs illmatic

ah, the old days of ILM!

I still think Abbey Road a solid 8/10, just the weakest Beatles album other than maybe Beatles For Sale. Revolver or White should have been the RS top-10 pick imo

as a true rockist i know that rubber soul is the best

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ilm using this opportunity to talk about the beatles:

I'm happier seeing Abbey Road at 5 than Sgt Peppers at 1 but I voted for The White Album, so there's that

brad its called beatlemania and its here to stay

It's been 5h and we're already at the point where not all messages are displayed. Thank you, RS, for resuscitating ILM. 🙏

should have gone with the beatles' red and blue albums, or maybe #1s, if we're including stuff like legend and the immaculate collection

Thank you, RS, for resuscitating ILM. 🙏

― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:12 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we're part of the problem, lists are like internet traffic flypaper and we're just proving to the venture capitalists who structure every waking moment of our lives that we want more

beatle divinities

i mean god bless merle haggard but putting his four-disc box set here is absurd

At least it's not Zaireeka.

The day one of these listmakers has the courage to include One Kiss Can Lead to Another is the day they finally have my undivided attention.

^^right?? (I feel silly agreeing w/everything O.L. sez here today, but...)

(I mean, I guess best ofs and box sets are okay but a multi-artist compilation that actually is one of the best 'albums' ever is crossing a line, I geddit, I geddit)

phony ILMania has bitten the dust

What can I say, morrisp, I'm seldom not right about everythign.

we're part of the problem, lists are like internet traffic flypaper and we're just proving to the venture capitalists who structure every waking moment of our lives that we want more

Next up: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – The Poll.

t/s: listening to these 1001 albums vs dying

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ilm using this opportunity to talk about the beatles:

I'd be happy to talk about Xenakis but he didn't make the list.

Xenakis is fine and all, but where are the tunes?

What are the best Xenakis bangers?

why did we need 8 different polls to discuss the same topic tho

would rather a hundred vanity “my favorite albums” polls