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

oh hey! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rolling_Stone_Brasil_100_Greatest_Brazilian_Music_Records

abbey road ffs

literally the last beatles album i would reach for on any given day

is there any SST on the list?

is this Groundhog Day? How many more of these are there?

stopped reading thread after first pet sounds diss

voted kendrick

lots of people who like Kind of Blue — maybe even own it — unfortunately don't listen to much else when it comes to jazz

which has exactly zero to do with whether its a great record

xxp Damaged is at #487

theres something so dispiriting about these lists that I can't bring myself to vote for anything even though I love many of these albums and have even listened to one or two of them in the last month

answer to self:

minutemen at 267
huskers and black flag in the 400s

top 50 box score:

jazz 1
metal 0

it's wild that spirit of eden or laughingstock have not penetrated this cohort enough to make a top 500 list after 30 years!

two solo female artists in the top 10. writeups of both use their first sentence to note that they are, in fact, female.

Still an improvement over having no solo female artists in the top 25 (or so)

Yeah, to be somewhat fair, there's not an obvious Kind of Blue/Legend/Indestructible Beat* type token pick for Brazil for the less interested (not meaning you Alfred, obvs) to include

Does Getz/Gilberto count?

ooh I hadn't clocked no Zeppelin, that is weird!

― rob, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:25 AM

It's not actually true: Led Zeppelin IV (#58); Led Zeppelin (#101); Led Zeppelin II (#123); Physical Graffiti (#144); Houses of the Holy (#278).

Fucking Abbey Road

Flashing back to “Here Comes the Sun” being their top track (by a lot) on Spotify.

the Womack & Womack version, of course

I will stan all day long for the Beatles from Rubber Soul through the white album, and even the early pop, but, except for the three big hits, I don't get what people see in Abbey Road tbch.

...it's their best album? if you ignore the first few tracks

yes aside from having three of the best songs by the band The Beatles, not much to recommend it

xp we were talking only about the top 50 re Led Zeppelin

It and Revolver are the only two I’d say I listen to with any regularity.

That leaves "Here Comes the Sun", basically.
3xp
Yeah, three great songs IS low for a Beatles album imo and "Here Comes the Sun" is the only one I'd put among their best.

Getz/Gilberto probably a little too jazzy for RS, but elsewhere yeah that would be a perfect token pick to signal awareness of Brazil

xxxp oh, sorry

(they only had one album in the top 50 last time – the debut)

Haha, Close to the Edge did make the top 500 this time!

Also Journey to Satchidananda - nice

Hate this list

Yeah, three great songs IS low for a Beatles album imo and "Here Comes the Sun" is the only one I'd put among their best.

*good songs

2pac’s highest ranking is all eyez at 436. Maybe one day he’ll make an album as good as Rosalia or drake’s “if you’re reading this it’s too late”

Fucking MIA - Arular is over the entire 2pac discography. Go to hell

Someone make the case that Amy Winehouse's Back to Black is a better or more important album than anything made by Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, or John Coltrane.

To their credit I’m amazed they haven’t canonized Tyler, the creator. I’m not a fan, but it feels like such a bullseye for their taste in rap it almost feels like negligence that he didn’t make it

Laid the groundwork for Adele
xp

honestly find it kind of stunning that the highest U2 album is achtung baby at 124

And by stunning I hope you meant 'deeply refreshing'

Re Indestructible Beat of Soweto:

* This is one of those odd canon artifacts though; surely no one really listens to this comp as a thing in itself anymore?

It's not actually that good, at least not when compared with, like, 90% of African music. It was a political pick in the '80s and it's just grandfathered in now. At this point it should have been replaced by, I don't know, the first volume of the Nigeria Special series.

Anyway, amusing/bemusing to see Kanye in the canon right at the moment when he's spending his time Not Running For President.

The Diary of Alicia Keys at 277 ... never listened to this. Is it actually any good?

No.

Figured.

Neither is Blood on the Tracks fwiw

considering the rest of the cultural landfill that made this top 50, Joshua Tree definitely belongs there who does Rolling Stone think they are kidding they love that shit

anyone fronting that this list is anything other than deeply conservative trash that nobody needs is a shill

that goes for all these lists, but at least RYM etc are just the unhappy realities of aggregates. this is editorialised

The lack of electronic really bothers me. No Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Burial. One Kraftwerk (238). One New Order (262 - new to this list). Two Daft Punk albums in the 200s including RAM, ew. Another Green World at 338.

deeply refreshing

i suppose? no matter how one feels about U2, *rolling stone* listing three kanye albums before reaching them is unexpected

^it's like the R.E.M. thing... those bands have fallen deeply out of favor, I guess

Can't wait until fart hop really takes off in 2040 and RS dumps every Beatles album underneath the debut by the Toot-Toot Crew.

farts >> The Joshua Tree.

Can't argue.