Let's also poll and moan about ... Acclaimed Music's Top 50 Albums of All Time

This one almost reads like the RS list.

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of course

blue lines is ??? unless this is based entirely on contemporaneous reviews, who the heck has rated that one over mezzanine in the last 20 years

I like Blue Lines a lot but I remember finding it weird that it was MA's check-marked album on AMG.

I'm not sure if they use critics reviews as well as year end and best of lists

Here's their alltime songs list
http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/alltime_songs.htm

I think acclaimedmusic only uses listicle results. (Critic reviews are metacritic's thing.) So if a now-dated-sounding record appeared on lots of end-of-year lists 20-25 years ago and failed to show up on any subsequent decade lists or whatever, it will likely still place really well.

trying to narrow down a shortlist... which of these albums has most ODB features?

This list reads like a specific college student's CD collection circa 2005

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oh ok, cheers!

Is there a metacritic all time list?

haha

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/score/metascore/all/filtered

that alltime list is certainly different to the others

xp 12-15 year olds love many of these records.

This list reads like a specific college student's CD collection circa 2005

Oh, that's interesting. I was struggling to imagine anyone whose favourite albums would be these albums, in this order, while I could easily do that with the RYM list.

The RYM list looks more diverse to me, at a glance (more rap, some metal, etc.); the above looks more like a "these are the albums you need to own" list for someone who's not deeply into music.

The Rolling Stones

The RYM list looks more diverse to me, at a glance (more rap, some metal, etc.); the above looks more like a "these are the albums you need to own" list for someone who's not deeply into music.

I agree. That's why I think it's hard for me to imagine this as an individual's collection.

I guess I haven't known many people who care enough about music to seek out these albums but not enough to develop an individual taste or curiosity that departs from that?

This list reads like a specific college student's CD collection circa 2005

Oh, that's interesting. I was struggling to imagine anyone whose favourite albums would be these albums, in this order, while I could easily do that with the RYM list.

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I'm guessing your student listening was different to most students, lol

the people seeking them out are 12-15.

That I could maybe see.

I think older more like 18-21

I'm guessing your student listening was different to most students, lol

It was different from both lists but I'm capable of observing other people. Two other people have said on the RYM thread that they knew people whose tastes looked like that list fwiw.

Wait, these are not the top 50 albums I see here: http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/061024/1948-02a.htm

London Calling is #10 on that list, for instance, and Is This It falls outside the top 50. Ditto Doolittle. Where was this list from?

I used this one which is the link on the main page!

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/alltime_albums.htm

Weird. Is the other one an older list?

No idea

yes, it was. pre 2015 apparently

So is the new revised RS top 50 better than this?

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I like at least one track from every one of these records. Best is Forever Changes over Astral Weeks.

I voted forever changes

Until Metallica starts showing up on these things, I always am the one Ramones voter.

This list reads like a specific college student's CD collection circa 2005

otm. it was a few years before that but yeah in college i definitely picked up a of a good portion of these as cheapo used discs, lol

voted for exile

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