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

that album side: i wish, knocks me off my feet, pastime paradise, summer soft, ordinary pain. i could write books about that album side. if i could write symphonies, i could write symphonies about that album side. if i had any idea what string theory is, i could probably explain string theory based on that album side. etc.

that album side: i wish, knocks me off my feet, pastime paradise, summer soft, ordinary pain. i could write books about that album side. if i could write symphonies, i could write symphonies about that album side. if i had any idea what string theory is, i could probably explain string theory based on that album side. etc.

(i can even double post about that album side!)

i love "Knocks Me Off My Feet". it's just an immaculate transition from that verse to that chorus.

"Ordinary Pain" also awesome. it's just funny that i heard the album so late that after the first side I was sitting htere counting how many hip hop songs had jacked beats from/interpolated songs from that album

an immaculate transition from that verse to that chorus

yes

i used to sing that at karaoke night but only if I was a little tipsy cos the high note would only be there then

remember fifteen years ago when we were all hating on this list

that list of 2010s albums jaymc posted on 9/22 bugs me.

not the albums themselves; there are lots of good ones on there

but am i crazy for wishing RS could at least squeeze a couple of smaller artists in there?

smallest artists on that list are, who, Rosalia and Isbell? both of whom are pretty big!

are we to believe that out of the 40ish best albums of the 2010s, not a single one was made by an artist who plays venues with capacities under 1,000?

i realize this is a niche thing, i just hate that, idk, like The Beths (just as an example) basically have no shot at being on this list.

No “Light Up Gold,” no credibility.

literally all I'd have wished for in an updated RS list is for Pet Sounds to drop 20 places, but here we are

Haha, this was the thread that sparked the Xenakis listening project.

I voted for Kind of Blue in the end, btw.

but am i crazy for wishing RS could at least squeeze a couple of smaller artists in there?

RS didn't game the results, 500 some odd people voted

I fell in love with songs in the key of life around the same age as my uncle did, i remember my grandmother telling me how she knew the album by heart because he played it all the freakin time when he was around 14

xpost alright, fine ... ppl like popular artists, turns out

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Screw the canon revisionists - I'm voting Sgt Peppers.

Could have been my choice on another day

I surprised myself and went with VU & Nico.

Couldn’t choose between VU, Ramones, or T Heads, so went for Miles.

I voted for the VU too. Exile would be second for me...bold picks!

Pretty sure I voted for Nation of Millions, obviously, but as the years go by I think the first Ramones LP might be overtaking it

NYC bias makes me wonder about whether other people more or less unconsciously voted based on geographical proximity.

I voted for Nation of Millions. I was 16 when it came out and I can't even describe how hard it hit me. I listened to that record basically every day that summer, and through most of my junior year of high school. Saw them live that year, too, with Stetsasonic, EPMD and Big Daddy Kane opening. What a time to be alive, as old people say.

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I prefer the original order tbh.

I can't object to any of the albums with 0 votes.

I object to 2 of the 3 that won.

Great three-way tie!

Putting To Pimp a Butterfly over The Chronic, Low End Theory, Enter the Wu-Tang and Illmatic is such a hilarious decision

1. Marvin Gaye, 'What's Going On' 0

Take that, Rolling Stone.

Butterfly not even my favorite Kendrick album lol

ilm list is an improvement. 5 votes for Ramones as GOAT was the biggest surprise.

the write-in vote for Bathtub Shitter was surprising