reason enough to igore the list.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 May 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Zac, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― meis fidelus, Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Butterfly is a vocal and lyric masterpiece. It didn't chart even between 400's and 500's.
Rolling Stone truly hates her.
― distant laughter, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Music Lover, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
1. Ænema2. Lateralus3. 10,000 Days4. Undertow...
All these albums NEED to be on the list
― Brentus Monagentus, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 08:38 (seventeen years ago) link
How many of the top 100 albums from this list have you heard? (Thought about making a poll, but can't be bothered.)
I've heard 92 out of the top 100 (tho I'm only intimately familiar with about 80 or so of them -- can never remember what the James Brown albums sound like, and I never really *got* Trout Mask Replica no matter how many times I've heard it).
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 August 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
84, and 55% of the 500
http://www.listsofbests.com/list/5413/compare/duggie2
― abanana, Sunday, 30 August 2009 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Why does Wikipedia feel the need to mention how such-and-such album fared on this list?
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 30 August 2009 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
42 out of 100 for me, but i blame rolling stone's inclusion of albums like "hotel california" and "20 golden greats" at least partly for my failing grade. like, i've heard a couple buddy holly comps before, and i've heard hotel california like a billion times, but never the full album, and never that specific compilation.
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 30 August 2009 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Starting from 500 and working up and then stopping around halfway.. It doesn't appear to be such a bad list.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 30 August 2009 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
87/100, and more like 99/100 if you account for hearing all the songs on an album on other comps/mixes/radio etc. I've never listened to the Allman Brothers, that's the only one of which I'm completely ignorant (I know some of the singles off other albums).
― my dixie wrecked (Euler), Sunday, 30 August 2009 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
37/100
wikipedia feels the need to mention how a lot of things fared on a lot of lists, snrub
― some dude, Sunday, 30 August 2009 06:41 (fourteen years ago) link
96/100 for me (i like pie).
oddest choice of the top hundred: the Billy Joel disc.
― what kinda life is that? (Ioannis), Sunday, 30 August 2009 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
blame rolling stone's inclusion of albums like "hotel california" and "20 golden greats" at least partly for my failing grade. like, i've heard a couple buddy holly comps before, and i've heard hotel california like a billion times, but never the full album, and never that specific compilation.
I can see what you mean about the Buddy Holly comp but Hotel California is a studio album. Hearing the biggest hit single a billion times obv != knowing the album. (My count would be much higher than approx. 47 if I could do this.)
― Sundar, Sunday, 30 August 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
(Also, I'm exhausted and insomniac and thus bitchy and pedantic.)
― Sundar, Sunday, 30 August 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link
95/100
― President Keyes, Sunday, 30 August 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i just assume that the album is shit, and that the only reason it's on the list is because of the title track. i could be wrong, maybe it's a solid album. did you know the eagles' greatest hits is the best selling album ever in the united states?
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 30 August 2009 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
95/100 and 419/500. I was raised on classic rock.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 30 August 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i own, ironically, 50/100. i could add probably around 12 albums that i know but don't own.
if i did the whole 500, however, my average will probably go up.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 06:00 (fourteen years ago) link
19 i think
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Hotel California is reasonably solid in an Eagles way and contains two other big hits. Wouldn't be near my top 50 albums though, except maybe if I had to pick 50 mainstream rock albums from the 70s.
― Sundar, Thursday, 3 September 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
In the same vein here's another RS Top 500 list... their Worst Reviews of All Time! Sharing because I find it quite insightful considering the platform (RYM) and lack of a known name (who exactly is schmidtt, anyone know?). At first it looks like he's just picking beefs with reviews he thinks they got wrong, but his broad thesis that star ratings are dictated by Wenner and $$$ soon becomes apparent. The argument won't be novel to anyone on this board, but this contains a lot of value being a case-by-case study. IMO it's a worthwhile read for anyone interested in "criticism of criticism"... not your typical RYM list. Sorry if it's been shared already.
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/schmidtt/rolling_stones_500_worst_reviews_of_all_time__work_in_progress_/1/
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 17 July 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Rating: Mixed"The record as a whole is another matter - I don't think I could ever tolerate all of it. There are three brilliant songs, one good one, three qualified bummers, and three are the flaming shits." (Arthur Schmidt, 3/9/68 Review)
― niels, Friday, 17 July 2015 08:43 (eight years ago) link
The BeatlesAbbey Road (1969)
"...Side two is a disaster...The slump begins with "Because," which is a rather nothing song...the biggest bomb on the album is "Sun King," which overflows with sixth and ninth chords and finally degenerates into a Muzak-sounding thing with Italian lyrics. It is probably the worst thing the Beatles have done since they changed drummers. This leads into the "Suite" which finishes up the side. There are six little songs, each slightly under two minutes long, all of which are so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to..."
― niels, Friday, 17 July 2015 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Neil YoungAfter the Gold Rush (1970)
Rating: Unfavorable"Neil Young devotees will probably spend the next few weeks trying desperately to convince themselves that After The Gold Rush is good music. But they'll be kidding themselves. For despite the fact that the album contains some potentially first rate material, none of the songs here rise above the uniformly dull surface. In my listening, the problem appears to be that most of this music was simply not ready to be recorded at the time of the sessions. It needed time to mature. On the album the band never really gets behind the songs and Young himself has trouble singing many of them...The song "After The Gold Rush," for instance, reminds one of nothing so much as Mrs. Miller moaning and wheezing her way through "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia In An Onion Patch." Apparently no one bothered to tell Neil Young that he was singing a half octave above his highest acceptable range. At that point his pathos becomes an irritating bathos. I can't listen to it at all." (Langdon Winner, 10/15/70 Review)
― niels, Friday, 17 July 2015 08:47 (eight years ago) link
I'm glad I wasn't around when those reviews had any relevance
― niels, Friday, 17 July 2015 08:53 (eight years ago) link
Oh and it all goes downhill from there... if anyone's skeptical of the list being simply picking on a glorified zine, I suggest skipping to the late-90s/early-00s, where the "reappraisals" based on sales really get into their prime... if you're enthralled by the Hootie/DeRo (ptew) story, here it is again, album by album, from an outsider's view.
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 17 July 2015 09:51 (eight years ago) link
No idea why I just subjected myself to this little 'break' but here are the Top 40 albums I Don't Really Like (All That Much) based on the revised 2012 edition of this list, from their #1 upwards (reordering them would take too long):
1. The Beatles, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'2. The Beach Boys, 'Pet Sounds'3. Elvis Presley, 'The Sun Sessions'4. Bob Dylan, 'Blood on the Tracks'5. Bruce Springsteen, 'Born to Run'6. Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'7. John Lennon, 'Plastic Ono Band'8. Stevie Wonder, 'Innervisons'9. U2, 'The Joshua Tree'10. The Who, 'Who's Next'11. Joni Mitchell, 'Blue'12. Ramones, 'Ramones'13. The Band, 'Music From Big Pink'14. David Bowie, 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'15. Carole King, 'Tapestry'16. The Beatles, 'Please Please Me'17. The Sex Pistols, 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'18. The Band, 'The Band'19. Public Enemy, 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back'20. Al Green, 'Greatest Hits'21. The Beatles, 'Meet the Beatles!'22. Elvis Presley, 'Elvis Presley'23. Stevie Wonder, 'Songs in the Key of Life'24. Guns N' Roses, 'Appetite for Destruction'25. Phil Spector, 'Back to Mono (1958-1969)'26. Michael Jackson, 'Off the Wall'27. Billy Joel, 'The Stranger'28. AC/DC, 'Back in Black'29. John Lennon, 'Imagine'30. Bruce Springsteen, 'Born in the U.S.A.'31. Dusty Springfield, 'Dusty in Memphis'32. Stevie Wonder, 'Talking Book'33. Elton John, 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'34. The Who, 'Tommy'35. Bob Dylan, 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'36. Elvis Costello, 'This Year's Model'37. James Taylor, 'Sweet Baby James'38. Ramones, 'Rocket to Russia'39. David Bowie, 'Hunky Dory'40. Derek and the Dominos, 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'
...which takes us to #117. Could be better, could be worse. I also skipped a dozen albums I have yet to hear.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
Here's a more browser-friendly link to the full list:
https://musicbrainz.org/series/8668518f-4a1e-4802-8b0d-81703ced6418
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
what you got against stevie?
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Monday, 14 September 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
Too smooth, too cheerful.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
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?!
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
your silence speaks volumes, pomenitul
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
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?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:26 (three years ago) link
and again, no answer. pomenitul offers ZERO defense. there is none.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
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’.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
i was jk, sorry! sometimes i get way too committed to the character. i appreciate these challops. though some of them are incredibly gutsy
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:45 (three years ago) link
No, please, do go on, we’ve all got our little part to play!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
and I was just, uh, confirming your choices
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link
when I look at the entire RS list my mind glazes over and I no longer like anything
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
Wait, you don’t like Elvis? Is it physically possible to not like Elvis?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link