The New Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums List • Page 16

Also, lol at Harry’s House being one of the 500 best albums ever made.

 

Yeah that's the most egregious cut, imo, followed by Disraeli Gears.

Also, you know I'm opposed to how many comps they have in here, but Legend is actually important and culturally impactful in its own right. Cutting it to put Beyonce's 5th best album in the top 100 is insanity.

 

Goo is also painful

 

Wait they just cut stuff from the middle...instead of like, adding 10 and then taking 490-500 off? That makes no sense!

 

A year later, people still aren't ready for THAT conversation.

 

It does if you’re disingenuous hacks who want the headlines for including Swift, Beyonce, Rodrigo, and Bad Bunny while doing zero work

 

Yeah I might get tarred and feathered if I admitted that I think her Lion King album wipes the floor with it

 

Sometimes I think I'm on crazy pills thinking that 4 is far and away her best album.

 

It's that or the s/t for me. "1 + 1" is still the best song she's ever done.

 

Oh, easily. That song is amazing.

 

The threshold should be at least 10 years, IMO.

 

Have we ragged on the batshit Apple Music 100 Greatest Albums of All Time List yet? Some truly wild choices on this thing.

Apple Music 100 Best Albums

 

Is there a way to see it without that godawful UI?

 

It’s so bad haha

 

Here's what we've got so far:

100 Robyn Body Talk
99 Eagles Hotel California
98 Travis Scott Astroworld
97 Rage Against the Machine RATM
96 Lorde Pure Heroine
95 Usher Confessions
94 Burial Untrue
93 Solange A Seat at the Table
92 Tyler the Creator Flower Boy
91 George Michael Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1
90 AC/DC Back in Black
89 Lady Gaga The Fame Monster
88 Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You
87 Massive Attack Blue Lines
86 Mary J Blige My Life
85 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
84 Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
83 Patti Smith Horses
82 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'
81 Neil Young After the Gold Rush
80 Eminem Marshall Mathers LP
79 Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell
78 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
77 Madonna Like a Prayer
76 Bad Bunny Un Verano Sin Ti
75 Missy Elliott Supa Dupa Fly
74 Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
73 Steely Dan Aja
72 SZA SOS
71 Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express
70 NWA Straight Outta Compton
69 Metallica Master of Puppets
68 The Strokes Is This It
67 Portishead Dummy
66 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
65 De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising
64 Erykah Badu Baduizm
63 The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
62 2Pac All Eyez On Me
61 Sade Love Deluxe
60 The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground & Nico
59 Arctic Monkeys AM
58 Oasis Morning Glory
57 D'Angelo Voodoo
56 The Cure Disintegration
55 Rihanna ANTI
54 John Coltrane A Love Supreme
53 The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
52 Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction
51 Prince Sign O' the Times
50 Kate Bush Hounds of Love
49 U2 The Joshua Tree
48 The Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
47 Drake Take Care
46 Bob Marley & The Wailers Exodus
45 Bjork Homogenic
44 Stevie Wonder Innervisions
43 Talking Heads Remain in Light
42 Janet Jackson Control
41 Outkast Aquemini
40 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man…
39 Nas Illmatic
38 Carole King Tapestry
37 Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang
36 Beyonce Beyonce
35 The Clash London Calling
34 Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions
33 Radiohead Kid A
32 The Notorious BIG Ready to Die
31 Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
30 Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep…
29 A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
28 Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
27 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
26 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
25 Miles Davis Kind of Blue
24 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
23 Daft Punk Discovery
22 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
21 The Beatles Revolver

 

See above.

 

Jagged Little Pill at 31 is an odd choice. I mean, I dig Alanis Morissette, but #31 on the Greatest Albums of All Time? I dunno...

 

Billie Eilish at 30 is even more insane.

 

These lists are always an exercise in futility, but even more so if they aren’t at least accompanied by some sort of explanation for why each album was chosen and placed where it was.

 

I love how random and insane this list is

 

And once again, Linkin Park absolutely snubbed so far.

 

just fuckin baffling

 

this is one of the less insane choices on the list

 

This really isn’t that crazy in my opinion. Pretty much all of these albums have been on a number of other similar lists. It’s obviously trying to take a stab at including some modern albums too and the choices they’re going with are pretty easy to understand

 

What are we betting shows up in their top 20? I'm thinking:

Guarantees:

Nirvana - Nevermind
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (putting my chips on this as their number 1)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Frank Ocean - Blonde
Adele 21
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

Artists feel locked but could be different albums:

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (Good Kid?)
Taylor Swift - Red (1989?)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (Highway 61 or Blonde on Blonde?)
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters (could really be any of them)
Jay-Z - The Blueprint (Reasonable Doubt?)
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Coin toss:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Dr. Dre - The Chronic