Can RS please please please stop bigging up Seargent Pepper. Anyone stale enough to be an avid RS reader already owns it. It doesn't need any publicity.
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:39 (twenty years ago) link
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis102. Giant Steps, John Coltrane356. Sketches of Spain, Miles Davis454. Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
It was very generous of them to include one album by someone who isn't Miles Davis or John Coltrane. What a shame they didn't have space left over for Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, etc. etc.
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:41 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
303. Grace, Jeff Buckley
A Neil Diamond compilation ranks 81 places higher than Jeff Buckley? That's sickening.
― Miggie (Miggie), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
But what bugs me isn't the list itself - I mean, who among you clicked on this thread and seriously thought it wouldn't be all bitching that it was crap - but the spurious, 'official' nature of it.
1) It's impossible, obviously.2) Even if it was possible, why should Rolling Stone get to be the officiator?3) And why should they get to make money hand over fist by selling copies of it?
Lists can be fun. This one is not.
― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
For that matter, Blood Sweat and Tears? What stopped Wenner from slipping in a Peter Cetera boxed set?
Seriously I want someone to slap these fucks in the skull and tell them that putting a lot of the music on this list is the same thing as putting a lot of James Michener on a greatest books list.
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
why? does jeff buckley's album have any songs as good as "cherry cherry" or "sweet caroline" or "cracklin' rosie"? the only problem i have here is that "the neil diamond collection" is far from the definitive neil diamond comp.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 24 November 2003 21:03 (twenty years ago) link
― fletrejet, Monday, 24 November 2003 21:05 (twenty years ago) link
Do you really need me to answer that?
― Miggie (Miggie), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 24 November 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
no zappa (BAD)no gary numan or human league (ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE)only ONE kraftwerk album and only ONE depeche mode album (INEXCUSABLE, ROCKIST AND ANTI-SYNTH)VERY poor on the techno/electro front (anti-synth/electronic music bias YET AGAIN)the top 100 or so are the usual sixties retread/boomer-favorite suspects (e.g., is anyone surprise AT ALL by anything b/w 1 and 100 on this list?)if they had to have an EATB album, it should've been ocean rainno XTC (though they're not really "my group," this is also a glaring omission)
otherwise, this list isn't as bad as i feared it would be ... particularly the deeper down you go
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
Soo, soooooo true!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
246. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
no kinks album higher than #231
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 24 November 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
81 isn't nearly enough places.
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
as far as their zappa picks go: i guess it's verboten to admit to liking any of his post-original mothers stuff (and by no means is this restricted to rolling stone). even when the post-original mothers stuff blows the original mothers stuff off the map (see roxy and elsewhere, one size fits all, and joe's garage, just for starters). and if they had to pick a token sixties Zappa album (other than woiiftm), both absolutely free and uncle meat are INFINITELY better than freak out!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
― billstevejim, Monday, 24 November 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
That said we all think the list is a big frikkin' joke. Blender's Top 1000 list was way better, esp. since they didn't do any ranking and didn't end up with overlapping hits comps like this one.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
You speak wisely, should have been top 100 at least.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
I don't find any redeeming value in Diamond, despite the debatable tag of memorable some of his songs could have. I shrug in my indifference, though I'm glad some of you like the man.
― Miggie (Miggie), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
fact checking cuz is completely OTM here. And kudos for speaking up about it.
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:32 (twenty years ago) link
Where's Pulp, Saint Etienne, The Magnetic Fields? Even the Stone Roses didn't make it. What the...
― daavid, Monday, 24 November 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
Balls. Proof that albums can't make sense of music.
― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
Jann gives love a bad name
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
That is cool. I wonder how high Trout Mask Replica charted.
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
BLOCKHEADS!
― reo, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
New list, new #1: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
As safe as ever.
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
Trying to read that on my phone and it’s just impossible to scroll down far enough to see number one. So I’m just gonna guess Wesley Willis finally made the top spot.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Here you go:
50 Best Albums of All Time According to Rolling Stone's BRAND NEW, 100% Revamped Top 500
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
Your service is as unsettling as it is quick, ty!
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
RS apparently revamped this list in December, but I can’t find a comprehensive rundown of the changes:
EDITOR’S NOTE, DECEMBER 2023: In the three years since Rolling Stone rolled out the all-new, fully revamped version of our 500 Greatest Albums list, artists like Beyonce, Bad Bunny, and Taylor Swift have all released undeniable classics. So we’ve updated the list, adding those albums while making a few other tweaks. The 2020 list covered many decades of popular music, and was the result of a vote among more than 300 artists, writers, producers and industry figures; this update covers just three years. So we kept the changes light.
― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Sunday, 7 January 2024 01:04 (three months ago) link
(or I guess “updated” the “revamped” list)
― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Sunday, 7 January 2024 01:05 (three months ago) link
Ok, Reddit to the rescue: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/18vmy8b/so_rolling_stone_just_did_a_mini_update_on_their/
― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Sunday, 7 January 2024 01:09 (three months ago) link