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

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Dunno if there’s other pieces like this, and checking the RS site would only waste valuable seconds, but here’s Butch Vig on his top pick:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/butch-vig-whos-next-500-greatest-albums-1067055/

I've heard 46 of these records, all of which have some songs I like except Tapestry. The only ones where I like all the tracks are Kid A and Blood on the Tracks, and I voted for the latter because I prefer the running order.

Honestly Kid A sounds as good if not better to me than it did 20 years ago.

https://thequietus.com/articles/28987-kid-a-radiohead-review-anniversary

I feel like the “best album ever” has to feel groundbreaking and influential on both underground and mainstream levels and there are several albums in here that qualify but honestly for my age group I’d say Kid A is the one from this list. There were many underground acts doing what Radiohead was attempting to do with Kid A in the mid to late 90s but few had albums that felt this concise and had the level of goodwill and media attention that they had earned with OKC - which is also brilliant in its own way but I honestly think Kid A is the one that’s the bigger album

Hate to do this but can't help it. Everyone's favorite movie critic weighs in: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-political-decoy/

From the album’s opening party vibe, Gaye offers a masterful blend of harmoniousness, the thing that the angry Left forbids. The album’s lack of harshness, its soft rhetoric and tenderly voiced petitions, do not match today’s tantrums — they contradict the violence and stubborn unwillingness to compromise or express empathy and compassion. What’s Going On is non-militant whereas the Black Lives Antifa movement has proven destructive. It is necessary to call out this BLA alliance in order to clarify the usurpation of black American social and spiritual aspiration by the plainly political, even satanic aims of social domination. This is key to understanding how Gaye’s entreaty opposes today’s inflammatory, anarchic rhetoric.

You probably should have refrained, tbh. Not everything needs to be platformed.

i'm sorry, is that person's last name white???? absolutely DISGUSTING, check your privilege.

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I considered that Kid A wouldn't have made top 20 if it were released in 1999, and they snuck it in so they could have something representing that decade. Its release was certainly an event though, one that may have felt more tangible to the voters than OKC's slow ascent.

The Bends is the album that won them actual permanent listeners, showed the MTV crowd that they weren't just the "Creep" band, and could write lots of quality pop songs (singles like "Just", "High and Dry", "Fake Plastic Trees", et al). OK Computer I think is the album that made fans diehard 'Head heads. dropping a weird 7 minute song with a quirky video as the lead single, expanding the sonic palette, and then "Karma Police" being omnipresent for a bit after it got released as a single. It definitely didn't retain everybody that joined with The Bends (my stupid local paper gave OKC a shit review and couldn't believe they "stooped so low" as to add "electronic music influence"), but probably expanded the base from fans of proggier, less immediate stuff.

I do also remember Kid A being a huge event. A small amount of it was hyperbole regarding how different the album was going to be, overplaying the "experimental" nature of the album (tbh I don't think "experimental" even is an accurate term for it - they really just added additional genres into their mix). I think I had an early table-waiting shift the next morning but I gave up the sleep to make a 90 minute round trip to buy it at midnight, and listen to it once before bed. I do miss those days.

think I played it and went on DALnet the next day to harass people who said negative things about it.

ad-rock treated the list with the seriousness it deserved: https://uproxx.com/music/beastie-boys-ad-rock-fake-albums-rolling-stone/

ultimate spinach in the top ten. nice.

Lol

Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

40. Khia — Thug Misses

ikr, way too low

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a hundred million billion trillion monkeys typing for a hundred million billion trillion years would come up with the complete works of shakespeare *and* the complete scripts of anthony fantano before they came up with a string of 12 words as perfectly on brand as "a masterful blend of harmoniousness, the thing that the angry Left forbids." i am in awe.

Hedging and throwing my vote to Songs in the Key of Life.

Ramones

"Pastime Paradise" rules.

that album side: i wish, knocks me off my feet, pastime paradise, summer soft, ordinary pain. i could write books about that album side. if i could write symphonies, i could write symphonies about that album side. if i had any idea what string theory is, i could probably explain string theory based on that album side. etc.

that album side: i wish, knocks me off my feet, pastime paradise, summer soft, ordinary pain. i could write books about that album side. if i could write symphonies, i could write symphonies about that album side. if i had any idea what string theory is, i could probably explain string theory based on that album side. etc.

(i can even double post about that album side!)

i love "Knocks Me Off My Feet". it's just an immaculate transition from that verse to that chorus.

"Ordinary Pain" also awesome. it's just funny that i heard the album so late that after the first side I was sitting htere counting how many hip hop songs had jacked beats from/interpolated songs from that album

an immaculate transition from that verse to that chorus

yes

i used to sing that at karaoke night but only if I was a little tipsy cos the high note would only be there then

remember fifteen years ago when we were all hating on this list

that list of 2010s albums jaymc posted on 9/22 bugs me.

not the albums themselves; there are lots of good ones on there

but am i crazy for wishing RS could at least squeeze a couple of smaller artists in there?

smallest artists on that list are, who, Rosalia and Isbell? both of whom are pretty big!

are we to believe that out of the 40ish best albums of the 2010s, not a single one was made by an artist who plays venues with capacities under 1,000?

i realize this is a niche thing, i just hate that, idk, like The Beths (just as an example) basically have no shot at being on this list.

No “Light Up Gold,” no credibility.

literally all I'd have wished for in an updated RS list is for Pet Sounds to drop 20 places, but here we are

Haha, this was the thread that sparked the Xenakis listening project.

I voted for Kind of Blue in the end, btw.

but am i crazy for wishing RS could at least squeeze a couple of smaller artists in there?

RS didn't game the results, 500 some odd people voted

I fell in love with songs in the key of life around the same age as my uncle did, i remember my grandmother telling me how she knew the album by heart because he played it all the freakin time when he was around 14

xpost alright, fine ... ppl like popular artists, turns out

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Screw the canon revisionists - I'm voting Sgt Peppers.

Could have been my choice on another day

I surprised myself and went with VU & Nico.

Couldn’t choose between VU, Ramones, or T Heads, so went for Miles.

I voted for the VU too. Exile would be second for me...bold picks!

Pretty sure I voted for Nation of Millions, obviously, but as the years go by I think the first Ramones LP might be overtaking it

NYC bias makes me wonder about whether other people more or less unconsciously voted based on geographical proximity.

I voted for Nation of Millions. I was 16 when it came out and I can't even describe how hard it hit me. I listened to that record basically every day that summer, and through most of my junior year of high school. Saw them live that year, too, with Stetsasonic, EPMD and Big Daddy Kane opening. What a time to be alive, as old people say.

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I prefer the original order tbh.

I can't object to any of the albums with 0 votes.