rolling stone's 500 greatest albums of all time

As in the 10 albums you'd retain out of the 500?

Top 100, but yeah top 500 works too but it’s probably harder to pick only 10 out of 500.

If we're sticking to the top 100, I guess I'd go with:

The Doors – The Doors
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Radiohead – Kid A
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.
Sly & The Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico

No more than one album per act.

And I can't believe there's no Black Sabbath at all in their top 100, smh.

Kid A is not in the top 100?

Sticking to the top 100 this would be my pox

#35 David Bowie
#58 Captain Beefheart
#69 Curtis Mayfield
#75 Led Zep
#80 Zombies
#82 Jimi Hendrix
#89 Dusty Springfield
#95 Creedence
#99 Sly & the Family
#100 Frank Sinatra

It is, somewhat unexpectedly (at #67). Yet OK Computer is not.

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Mayfield, Creedence and Zombies would def make my POXX.

Huh? I got Billy Joel at 67 and Kid A at 428. But I am looking at the list on the opening post. I guess it got updated.

Yep, I've been working with the revised 2012 edition:

https://musicbrainz.org/series/8668518f-4a1e-4802-8b0d-81703ced6418

Ok so the list has remained pretty much the same but Sinatra is gone from the top 100 so I guess change that one for Kid A in my POX

POX, one album per artist, in the order they're listed:

Pet Sounds
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Nevermind
Robert Johnson’s The Complete Recordings
Blue
Electric Ladyland
Kid A
Led Zeppelin IV
Bitches Brew

From your list I like pretty much all the artists but my favorite albums from them are not those. I’d pick these as my favorite albums by them:

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Miles Davis – In A Silent Way
Pink Floyd – Meddle
The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Yeah I’m one of those weird people who thinks Loaded is the best VU album.

If those were in the top 100 I’d definitley pick them.

I wavered between Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew but I've spent so much time with the former that picking the latter would've felt like a betrayal.

I almost added Nevermind but I'm just so much more partial to In utero.

I love Robert Johnson but I've always struggled with the sequencing on that one.

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As amazing as Meddle is, Dark Side of the Moon is one of the very first albums I ever listened to in its entirety, at the age of 5 or 6, and nothing can supplant that kind of chronological precedence.

I do prefer IASW and In Utero but neither was in the top 100.

Yeah In Utero def more of an impact in my life than Nevermind.

DSOTM was also very influential in my early teens and I think it’s brilliant but it’s one of those overplayed beyond meaning albums for me. I’m never in the mood to listen to it again.

Can't believe Close to the Edge didn't make it.

sees Sgt. Pepper at #1

closes browser tab

See, that's where they're OTM. (I picked the white album in my POX mainly out of personal nostalgic associations but this is one album where I'm all for the canonical assessment.)

I've bitched about this elsewhere and I've already shit this thread up enough, but Beatles LPs are invariably inconsistent to my ears and Sgt. Pepper is no exception. Half of the material just feels inconsequential, even in context. Side 2 in particular is a slog, aside from 'Within You Without You' and, of course, 'A Day in the Life'.

it’s a pretty awesome album apart from “she’s leaving home” and “when i’m 64”, imo

The top 40 of me not really giving a shit, as per pomenitul

6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
36. Tapestry, Carole King
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
40. Forever Changes, Love
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
65. Moondance, Van Morrison
67. The Stranger, Billy Joel
74. Otis Blue, Otis Redding
77. The Clash, The Clash
85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
96. Tommy, The Who
100. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra
110. The Bends, Radiohead
113. The Who Sell Out, The Who
117. Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Byrds
121. Moby Grape, Moby Grape
124. Younger Than Yesterday, The Byrds
127. If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, The Mamas and the Papas
128. Marquee Moon, Television
129. 40 Greatest Hits, Hank Williams
132. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Bruce Springsteen
133. Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G.
134. Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement
135. Greatest Hits, Elton John
136. Tim, The Replacements
139. All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2
141. Live at the Regal, B.B. King
151. Darkness on the Edge of Town, Bruce Springsteen
153. Moanin' in the Moonlight, Howlin' Wolf
157. Closer, Joy Division

fucks sake even i like "She's Leaving Home"

FPed you for heinous Al Green libel btw pom

it’s probably good but it makes me sad

‘She’s Leaving Home’ is indeed good not bad.

And sorry about Al, NV, his music is pleasant enough, it just makes me feel... nothing (I’d be on board with it if it made me feel the Nothing tho).

such is life pom, hopefully the change to FP limits won't come into play :D

It’s alright, I’m just waiting for your own challopy list to come out of the woodwork, I’m sure there will be an FP-worthy pick or two among the lot.

(At least half of peace, man’s list fits the bill as far as I’m concerned.)

i don't hate music i love it (and sometimes i ignore it)

Like, how dare you:

6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
40. Forever Changes, Love
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
110. The Bends, Radiohead
134. Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement
153. Moanin' in the Moonlight, Howlin' Wolf
157. Closer, Joy Division

xp

the least compelling music discussion is people talking about what they don't like

Ranking The Bends above S&E is a very particular “challop.”

Hard disagree, obv. I'm against repressing one's musical feelings.

xp

okay 10 from this list i am never going to sit down and listen to (again, sometimes) one per artiste

Sgt Poppers
Nevermoand
Led Zeppeline
Horsies
Achtung Babby
Toommy
Fresh Creamed
Loalded
Tim
The Downword Spirl

No Teem/Tym?

i figured more than 3 seconds of thought was overdoing it

I love Robert Johnson but I've always struggled with the sequencing on that one.

I generally don't listen to it all through in sequence fwiw.

Also, "When I'm 64" is amazing. I'm in the minority, I'm pretty sure, but I've tried to say why before.

My top ten from this list is just Sgt. Poppers ten times on repeat. Heaven. Heaven.

there were a bunch of records i'm problaby never going to play thru in their entirety but i left them off because the odd song from them still has a place in my heart

then again i haven't listened much to albums beginning to end in an eternity

I do not get why Robert Johnson is singled out among the blues musicians of the 30s, except if for stupid mythology reasons, he's fine but listening to his whole recording discography in one go would be very repetitive and dull.

I also still like Sgt Pepper, do I need to be put on some sort of list?

Yeah, I like it as a resource to draw from. There are some very surprising and clever things going on in the playing and writing. Who do you put on or above his level? xp

i love Johnson but i love Skip James more off the top of my head

I mean, you get two takes of half the songs. I never thought of it as a sequenced album like Rumours or something.xp

Son House is probably my fave old blues dude based on the names I'm acquainted with.

That list is mostly either a) albums I generally like or b) albums/musical acts IDG enough of AF about to listen to, but they're mostly very boring choices.

Sgt. Pooper is both the least good of the latter day Bettles albums and not even in the top, what, 30? 40? albums released in '67. Such a boring, dumb choice for number one, every time it's chosen as number one in anything.

xps big bill broonzy, barbecue bob, kokomo arnold - also think the late 20s is a better time for blues than late 30s

I mean, it's RS. There's no canon to be bored by/rail against if there's no one upholding it.