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Post by PistolPete on Sept 24, 2020 11:06:23 GMT
Rolling Stone have released a new list of their Greatest Albums of all time (the last one was in 2003) voted by industry professionals. Cue half the internet explaining why their taste in music is correct and everyone else's is wrong. Here's the list
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are? Who would you include that's been missed out? It seems like it covers a broader range of music to me than I remember the 2003 list doing, I wonder if that's down to digital music allowing people to discover more diverse artists?
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Post by Onechordtrick on Sept 24, 2020 11:38:29 GMT
Found it really loaded slowly on my IPad so here’s the top 50 As with any “top” list it will attract discussion. Seems to have a fair spread of my favourites so I suppose it’s “right” 1 Marvin Gaye Whats Going On 2 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 3 Joni Mitchell Blue 4 Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life 5 The Beatles Abbey Road 6 Nirvana Nevermind 7 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 8 Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain 9 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks 10 Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 11 The Beatles Revolver 12 Michael Jackson Thriller 13 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 14 The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street 15 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 16 The Clash London Calling 17 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 18 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited 19 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 20 Radiohead Kid A 21 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run 22 The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die 23 The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico 24 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 25 Carole King Tapestry 26 Patti Smith Horses 27 Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers) 28 D’Angelo Voodoo 29 The Beatles White Album 30 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced 31 Miles Davis Kind of Blue 32 Beyoncé Lemonade 33 Amy Winehouse Back to Black 34 Stevie Wonder Innervisions 35 The Beatles Rubber Soul 36 Michael Jackson Off the Wall 37 Dr. Dre The Chronic 38 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 39 Talking Heads Remain in Light 40 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 41 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed 42 Radiohead OK Computer 43 A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory 44 Nas Illmatic 45 Prince Sign O the Times 46 Paul Simon Graceland 47 Ramones Ramones 48 Bob Marley and the Wailers Legend 49 OutKast Aquemini 50 Jay-Z The Blueprint
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Post by stringdriventhing on Sept 24, 2020 11:39:11 GMT
These lists are daft. I only had a brief look, but putting Harry Styles above Arcade Fire's Funeral has got to be a joke, right?
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Post by PistolPete on Sept 24, 2020 11:55:20 GMT
These lists are daft. I only had a brief look, but putting Harry Styles above Arcade Fire's Funeral has got to be a joke, right? Given the methodology (a top 50 list from "more than 300 artists, producers, critics, and music-industry figures") I can only assume more people working in the music industry enjoy Harry Styles' work than enjoy Arcade Fire. Given that the music industry produces a lot more records that sound like Harry Styles than sound like Arcade Fire, perhaps that shouldn't really come as a surprise?
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Post by stringdriventhing on Sept 24, 2020 12:13:40 GMT
Given that the music industry produces a lot more records that sound like Harry Styles than sound like Arcade Fire, perhaps that shouldn't really come as a surprise? I guess so. Silly old music industry
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Post by delb0y on Sept 24, 2020 13:41:06 GMT
Not many genres represented. I guess Rolling Stone magazine doesn't cover many genres, but they should still have renamed the list the greatest pop/rock albums or something. I mean, if I was into K-Pop I'd be hugely disappointed. I have 16 of those listed, so mustn't grumble.
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Post by Matt Milton on Sept 24, 2020 15:53:58 GMT
That is an odd list, partly because it reads a lot like 1 person's taste in music rather than several people's. It's certainly a long way from my own taste in music. I can't see I actually like many of those albums. I love the Beatles, obviously, I love 'Pet Sounds', and I came of age in the early 1990s, which was a great period for US hip-hop so things like Public Enemy 'It Takes A Nation of Millions' and Nas's 'Illmatic' are all-time favourites of mine. But pretty much all the rest is a bit so-so for me. Lots of albums I'm aware of but never really did it for me. And where they pick acts I like, such as Prince or the Rolling Stones, it's way off being my favourite albums by them. There's probably only about 10 albums in there I actually like!
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Post by ocarolan on Sept 24, 2020 22:07:26 GMT
I've gone through the list (thanks Onechordtrick) and markd in red those I bought - mostly as LPs, though some later duplicated on CD. 1 Marvin Gaye Whats Going On 2 The Beach Boys Pet Sounds3 Joni Mitchell Blue 4 Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life 5 The Beatles Abbey Road6 Nirvana Nevermind 7 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 8 Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain 9 Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks10 Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 11 The Beatles Revolver12 Michael Jackson Thriller 13 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 14 The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street 15 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 16 The Clash London Calling 17 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 18 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited19 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly 20 Radiohead Kid A 21 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run22 The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die 23 The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico24 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band25 Carole King Tapestry26 Patti Smith Horses 27 Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang(36 Chambers) 28 D’Angelo Voodoo 29 The Beatles White Album30 Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced 31 Miles Davis Kind of Blue 32 Beyoncé Lemonade 33 Amy Winehouse Back to Black 34 Stevie Wonder Innervisions 35 The Beatles Rubber Soul36 Michael Jackson Off the Wall 37 Dr. Dre The Chronic 38 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 39 Talking Heads Remain in Light 40 David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 41 The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed 42 Radiohead OK Computer 43 A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory 44 Nas Illmatic 45 Prince Sign O the Times 46 Paul Simon Graceland47 Ramones Ramones 48 Bob Marley and the Wailers Legend 49 OutKast Aquemini 50 Jay-Z The Blueprint A strange collection, as all lists inevitably will be. Pleased to see Rubber Soul gets a mention - great LP! But no Elvis or Clff, no S&G (though PS comes in fairly lowdown with the magnificent Graceland) - maybe they appear in 51-500 - can't be bothered to check though! As for me, there'd have to be some Richard Thompson, Fairport Convention, Ralph McTell in my own faves list, plus Sky in my Pie (John James and Pete Berryman - I don't listen to much soloish acoustic guitar music, but this is just magnificent!), Emmylou Harris, Blazin'Fiddles, Dire Straits, Chuck Berry, Francoise Hardy, maybe Moody Blues, Tom Paxton, Steeleye Span, Ry Cooder, Eagles and even perhaps Peter Skellern (who?!), and, of course, Des O'Connor. I'm not sure I could make a list of 500, but then that list took lots of people to compile it. I'd maybe choose 20, though they would likely change form day to day.... Keith PS I lied about Des O'Connor.
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Post by martinrowe on Sept 25, 2020 4:49:23 GMT
You meant Val Doonican Keith, didn't you?
Hmmm, no Beethoven String quartets, Bach, Chopin, Boccherini, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, Robert Johnson, Django's Greatest Hits Vol 1, 2, 3 and 4, Tuba Skinny, Flatt and Scruggs - have I got something wrong here?
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Post by grayn on Sept 25, 2020 5:29:17 GMT
These lists are bo+*ocks, as far as I'm concerned. It's all down to taste or with these lists I'm guessing it's what people think has the most cred. Most people in the business or supposed experts, are the most likely to talk nonsense.
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Post by vikingblues on Sept 25, 2020 11:17:24 GMT
Must be short of things to do - just looked through the entire list. Confirms I'm right out of step with popular musical opinion ... as always. I have only had at some time or other 20 of the 500 albums listed. Just 1 in 25. It's a better hit rate of 1 in 5 on the Onechordtrick list. Then I recall whenever I tried to read Rolling Stone when I was young I rapidly lost interest in anything but stopping reading it. Mark
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Post by stringdriventhing on Sept 25, 2020 13:49:12 GMT
Hmmm, no... Robert Johnson He's in with a bullet at no. 374 I was sad enough to go through the list and I actually own 73 of those albums and there's a few others that I owned when I was younger. Not sure what this says about me or the list, apart from it's Friday afternoon and I had nothing better to do
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Post by PistolPete on Sept 25, 2020 17:34:46 GMT
I've just been through them all I think I have (or had - some of them were on cassette) 68 physically I've bought with my own money, plus another ten or so you can count that are in our joint collection but definitely belong to my wife, and about a half dozen I've downloaded from a subscription music service but don't 'own' in the conventional sense - although to be fair Gillian Welch has done better from me downloading her from Spotify than Eagles have from the two copies of Hotel California proudly sporting Oxfam price tags on my shelf...
Plus there's a couple you could quibble over - I have the Complete Robert Johnson, but not King of The Delta Blues; I have a box set of everything the Meters recorded between 1965 & 1972, but not the Look Ka Py Py album itself.
It still saddens me that Burnside on Burnside is not recognised as the greatest album of all time...
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Post by K Tresp on Sept 25, 2020 18:14:52 GMT
What’s an album? I don’t listen to anything other than the first 5 seconds of a streaming track then flip it on. How do you concentrate for all that time?
(Slightly facetious but even if these lists were ever relevant not sure they are now).
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