The energy of every Rolling Stone list: Dad to daughter: "You know, I actually gave that Harry Styles guy of yours a listen and I'll admit he's got some good songs." Daughter: "Oh, cool, glad you liked it." Dad: "Actually he reminds me of Jackson Browne a bit. You know Jackson Browne? Oh you've gotta take a listen to this..."
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear st
It's like they didn't want to be too biased toward classic rock and jazz, so they just went to the other extreme of including a bunch of inconsequential recent releases
Yeah for real. Including albums from harry styles, billie eilish, bad bunny, etc that are only a couple years old is a joke. This album ranking plays out like an Onion article
These lists should only include albums at least 10 years old. To ensure that these songs withstand the test of time. However, streaming platforms need to figure out how to get artists paid when they are good and weed out the astrpturfers
@@houserhouse 100% agree. It's impossible to tell if an album is among the most sonically influential and culturally significant if it only came out a couple years ago. If people are still talking about an album 10 years after its release then you know it's good. I very highly doubt that any of the picks on this list from 2018 and 2019 are still going to be considered important and worth listening to in 20 years from now. Except for maybe billie eilish. A lot of copycats of her are going to start popping up everywhere within the next couple years
@@mikubrot that's a much better idea. If they want to do all time, it can't include stuff that came out so recently it hasn't even had the opportunity to die off in relevance.
People talk about albums being “influential” and “going down in history.” I see that as an appeal to popularity. The greatest album does not equal the most loved or remembered album. The greatest album of all time could be recent or it could be one that’s completely overlooked and dismissed by music critics.
Ranking 500 albums is just such a Herculean task, the number is way too large to accurately rank any of these albums anyway. This list was doomed to fail
Completely agree. I don't think anyone here (including myself!) could make a top 500 list that music critics would agree with. It is inevitable that people will spot a few albums that seem out of place relative to other albums. Unless you want to rank albums by sales or some measurable statistic, it's impossible to justify your choices and satisfy everyone.
or a single album from Brazil, Japan, Cuba, etc. I mean, most of the countries in the world are missing, but I just named some hugely influential and with wildely known and respected musicians
Can't believe they didn't put Acabou Chorare, Clube da Esquina, Chega de Saudade, Construção, Tabua de Esmeralda, Previsão do Tempo and even Getz/Gilberto... But I'm okay with that...
WTF??!!!! Really??! How?! King crimson's debut album is easily one of the most influential prog rock albums of all time! And certainly one of the best prog albums! How the fuck didn't they put a crimson album there but they've putted HARRY STILES?!?! that makes me so mad
@Richie Hernández I'm not asking RS to be inclusive just for diversity's sake, it's just a bad look to make a list of the so called "greatest albums of all time" and leave out all these landmark titles... but since you ask, Clube da Esquina, Acabou Chorare, Chega de Saudade, Buena Vista Social Club, Solid State Survivor, Happy End, Long Season, Transa, Cachao... to name a few
Yah there’s no other explanation other than rolling stone likes to hold these grudges. All these years later they still can’t admit they were wrong about Led Zeppelin and many other bands so they continue to deny them the recognition they deserve
@@boylie7444 I mean, Tom Waits albums always get mediocre reviews in The Rolling Stone, and then lists like this are packed with him. I love Tom Waits, though, so I'm not complaining.
That's actually hilarious considering there's an album called "Best of the Beatles" - however that's a solo project by their first drummer, Pete Best. You see what he did there? Best got thrown out just before Ringo joined, so after the Beatles had their breakthrough he tried to benefit from his connection to them by releasing this record. (Don't mind me if that story was the reason you wrote your comment in the first place. I just take it you're referring to Anthony saying there's so many compilation albums on the list, and that's what your joke is about. Correct me if I'm wrong. )
@@jeebuz6627 you didn't get it. The album I was talking about was in fact not a Beatles album. It was a solo project by a person that used to be the drummer of the group for a short period of time before they got famous.
the fact that there’s 500 albums from all different genres here and anthony has probably listened to them all and has something to say about them all is mind blowing to me
I always think about: does Anthony ever listen to music just for fun? Like obviously he must, but he listens to so much music just for the reviews like if he was listening to music for pleasure on top of that jesus Christ how many hours a day does he spend listening to music
@@ueuuehhh9748 He definitely does. I've heard him mention "I keep going back to this" about albums or whatever, like clipping's first album video. Also, I barely do stuff with music, but I'm listening to music for large portions of the day too, so I'd be curious how much he actually does listen to music on average in a day 🤣 I know I probably haven't even listened to 500 albums through myself.
I was shocked to see Billie Eilish's When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? on the list. It's a fine album, but way too recent to be considered amongst the 500 greatest.
@@mothafuckinfoofighter8543 probably doesn't deserve to be on a list like this, but I can let it pass. not one of Ye's best, definitely not one of his most influential, not one of the most memorable, just "groundbreaking" for Kanye's standards and that's it
@@MrMiniPea their first album broke the record for fastest-selling UK album and is widely accepted as an indie classic, but you're still probably right, it ain't no Hotel California
I don’t know why he hates them so much. Their music has been done with genuine talent and although their music might sound basic, there is a lot of complexity behind their songs that people do not seem to realize…
Yeah I don’t know why he doesn’t like them. That album is one of the most sold records of all time. It deserves top 20 imo. And it is far from basic. I’d like to find one album that sounds remotely like it
No it screams they got yelled at for being too white. And to be fair the place punk has relative to rap is sort of absurd. Beyond that tho.....Yea just woke crying. There is an RB album voodoo which is like 35 that belongs at most like 250. Weird choices. Modern RB sucks It becomes obvious when you look at the 03 list. They just needed some color near the bottom. Also they seem to be forced to respect modern country...vaguely
@@ericmiller254 Yeah, Voodoo was only 488 in 2003, and 481 in 2012... Now it's suddenly at 28 just 8 years later?! The only way something should jump like that is if it basically created a massive genre and influenced most chart music over the last 8 years. And yet I've never heard of it, not seen any retrospectives anywhere, and Neo-Soul has been pretty irrelevant at least from a mainstream perspective pretty much since that album was released. Fucking insane.
I know right. Red i's not even better than Fearless, Speak Now, 1989, Folklore and Lover imo. A few songs on that album are worse than any Bjork song I can think of in her whole career. Not sure how an album containing a song as boring as "Stay Stay Stay" can be considered top 100 of all time.
Tbh this list was doomed before they even started making it. Music and art in general is just way too subjective and fluid to rank. Especially when talking about comparing really good art with really good art.
ikr, everytime I try and make a top __ list I always get stuck at number 3-1 because then I'm like "But there were other really good albums/songs tho" and then give up
It was polled by many people, not necessarily critics. It was weighted in a way that one idiot could have put Harry Styles top 5 and that alone could have put it on the list. That's what I suspect happened. There were a few idiot plebs voting that basically ruined the list
yeah there is no way any thinking or effort went into the listing and to which order they are in, just slapped 500 albums and pressed random order button a bunch of times
their lack of metal bothers me. out of 500 albums only 9 were metal , from only 5 different bands(iirc). the highest metal album is Master Of Puppets just barely at the top 100. they left out Toxicity. Paranoid, the single most important album for heavy and dark music(not only metal) is below Taylor Swift's Red. no Slayer no Iron Maiden no Alice in Chains this list is a joke to metal
Toxicity should have been on the list 100% Fuck I'd even put Hybrid Theory in the 500-451 just because of the notoriety of the album and the band itself in the 2000s
@@AST-erisked it was 2 albums by nine inch nails, black sabbath, paranoid, master of reality, a motorhead album, an album i cant remember(probably a third metallica record), black album and master of puppets.
Decade by Neil Young has no bad song it's gotta be his best album. Yeah I think compilations are kind of cheating because they purposely only include the best of the best work
@Kormak, Maker of Salad True. There’s a difference between compilations of stand-alone singles, rarities, b-sides, etc. and greatest hits albums. I have no problem with the former being included on lists like these because there are many bands and artists whose compilations are high points in their discographies. The only exception for greatest hits albums I would make are for older artists who were maybe more singles-oriented.
@@killergoose7643 The process of creating a "Greatest Hits" record is completely different from the artistic process of creating a normal album. A "Greatest Hits" album isn't a cohesive work of art. It isn't tied together structurally, thematically, or sonically in the same way that a normal album is. It makes no sense to include them on a list of "greatest/most influential albums of all time". They cannot possibly be influential, because they're made up completely of previously released material.
The fact that this magazine didn't included King Crimson's debut album for three straight times (2003, 2012 and now 2020) is a crime against music, and there's a lot of albums that deserve to be in there too
@LAW I agree that Red is better but ITCOTCK is so well known and standard example that it should be more likely on list like this one. King Crimson made so many good and artistic influencial records... in my perfect world on this list should be also Larks tongues in aspic, Red, ITCOTCK and Discipline and Animals by Pink Floyd to name a few.
@@zzzzzzzjsjyue2175 Dated isn’t always an insult to the music. It’s just that the album has a very specific sound that anchors it to a certain time period. A lot of albums that came out around graduation sound like graduation. Same thing goes for Stankonia by OutKast, great album but totally sounds like 2001 era hip hop.
@@krypto210 Robert Fripp pushes the limits of guitar playing on Fracture and FraKctured. I don't just mean mentally, but what the human hand can physically do and he plays it live like it's nothing to him. In the Court of the Crimson King is the best album of the 60s on Rate Your Music, 5th ever. The hipsters there aren't exactly scientists but the damn thing is 50 years old and it sounds just as good now as it did then. 21st Century Schizoid Man is metal at its core even though it came out months before Black Sabbath's self titled, almost universally considered the birth of the genre. To Taylor's credit she writes some of her own music and it's pretty good, but she never pushed any boundaries like King Crimson or even dared to go much outside of the norm like Captain Beefheart did.
@@smoshbooz Yeah I just chose to highlight some of my preferred artists that I'm baffled didn't make the list, especially with the mainstream success of each.
The jazz placements on these lists are always bizarre. The lists are clearly made by people who mostly listen to rock and occasionally some jazz, so they through in a couple jazz albums to make sure they're included but they're always below rock and pop albums that frankly make no sense to be ranked above them.
Yeah that's the sense I get too. Old rock fans who don't really know a whole lot about other genres of music but they still through in some albums by those other genred artists so that they can make it more diverse or something.
Idk about that, there aren't only writers from Rolling Stone having the right to vote... Some artists did too, and not everyone of them does Rock music...
If they were so concerned about “representing” the world’s music, why isn’t Clube da Esquina on this list? What many consider the greatest Brazilian album of all time.
It's pretty much a best music in english list I think. Kind of arrogant of them to label it as greatest albums ever as if there aren't an enormous amount of incredible albums from Latin America, Africa and Asia
I didnt go through the whole thing, but if this is true then some folks over at rolling stone must have a vendetta against prog. Close to the edge being so low was bad enough imo
Thank you, now I don't have to waste my time reading that list. Holy shit, it seems like they are purposefully doing it to just get a reaction more so than appreciating the albums that influenced generations to come.
I think everyone loves it, it ain't hard for it to be in the favorites considering how memorable, catchy and easy it is. that being said, it probably still deserves a placement on a list like this (not in the 200 range tho)
@@tayhammer Homogenic and Debut, although great in their own rights, are not better than Vespertine. That album is transcendent. I get that it's Fantano-core now but I've been stanning this album since I was a teenager.
@@sonnysinghcreates The Knife definitely have a few albums which could qualify in their own right. Silent Alarm was hugely influential and Shaking the Habitual was just punk as fuck.
@@xdman20005 I mean they're spot on there is well-deserved. It's hard making a greatest of all time list without Sgt. Pepper's (especially), Revolver, Abbey Road, and, maybe Rubber Soul. Also the fact that Sgt. Pepper's is at 24 bothers me.
Apparently Bad bunny and Harry Styles have released a better record than Tool, Boston, SOAD, Faith no More and Talk Talks whole discography... yeah a shocker right
They also completely skipped Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil, Skinny Puppy, Ministry-industrial just got completely shafted, along with electronic and experimental music more generally. And ambient music, unless you count Another Green World, was functionally entirely absent.
@@ConvincingPeople Front 242, Laibach, Nitzer Ebb, Portion Control, Revolting Cocks, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berserk, Psychick TV, and on and fucking on it goes.
Huge led zeppelin fan here but among all their albums Led Zeppelin II is probably the one with the most """stolen""" songs so... I don't know i would have put physical graffiti in top 20
It’s not. I know hating on Eagles is popular (for some reason?), but HC is a great album and it isn’t even The Eagles best. Desperado, One of These Nights, and On The Border would like a word. Don’t get me wrong, Zeppelin is EASILY in my Top 5 favorite bands.
@@creamcannon825 I get why they are hated as a group but they have undoubtedly put out some great stuff. I dont think any best rock list would be complete without at least a mention of appetite for destruction
@@creamcannon825 no, far too blanket of a statement - that said, of course they picked something the is synonymous with the band instead of something more artistically impressive from UYI 1 or 2.
When I first listened to Nick Drake, it felt like I had found a secret. It just caught me in exactly the right moment. First time living abroad, with winter quickly approaching while I was slowly falling in love with someone whom I was too afraid to tell. That melancholic wonder is still there when I hear him now. Glad to see other people who like him.
Yeah, they putted Kendrick and Kanye in the top 20. People over 40 almost never listen to Kanye or Kendrick. I doubt most of the people who worked on this even listen to MBDTF and TPAB.
@@idkyou8188 We know England, Ireland, France, Italy, China, Japan, Germany, At least one of the Koreas, Vietnam, Mexico, the other Mexico, other Mexicos, China 2, China 3, The Middle East, Somewhere in Africa, Russia, Egypt, various cities in other countries that we think are their own countries, Canada which we think is just cold America, and we have a revolving slot of 15 seconds of name recognition for any country that the news brings up for the day
@@ppmcpoo6920 for challenging the norm of rock music at the time on a compositional and artistic level. Before ITCOTCK album dropped, rock is mostly a blues-based subgenre, and King Crimson presented a rock album with notable influences from other niches from jazz to classical music. On technical level, this put rock music to a new realm of artistry just like what TVUN and Sgt Peppers did years prior. It also spawned a new movement of rock and inspired rock artists to take more inspirations beyond the realm of blues and itself
Bruh you're wrong. The Rolling Stones are a band. Rolling stone is a song by Bob Dylan which tops the list of the greatest songs of all time by a magazine whose name I forgot. The song is so great it was made into 500 albums Know ur facts smh
Harry Styles will be the first one off the list when they inevitably redo this list. That album and the Billie Eilish one strike me as last-minute additions to prove they aren't biased against albums that came out in the last two years.
Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2019 #23 Harry Styles - Fine Line A few months later.... Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time #491 Harry Styles - Fine Line Makes sense...
50 Best Albums of 2019 is voted by RS stuffs, while 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is not, RS500 is voted by 300+ musicians, experts and industry people, it's different of course...
Anthony already acknowledged over the years that he has a different take than (a lot) of others on MBDTF. No point in dredging that up again. (Disclaimer MBDTF is my fav album)
Yeah. I love it when they're like "BEST of ALL TIME!!!" when really they only mean a tiny subset from a small selection of genres across only a few decades from artists that were either American or native English speakers. They could've just made a list titled "500 classics old and modern that we recommend to hard rock, pop and jazz fans", but I guess it's not clickbaity enough. They want to get people's attention and make-a the moolah, for better or for worse. As an American expat living in Europe, who's been exposed to a very large diversity of European and Asian music, such lists are always an anglocentric joke to me. Even then, they have a peculiar affinity for ignoring bands and musicians that weren't or aren't on the spectrum of politically acceptable, i.e. that were anti-capitalist or unpatriotic. That's why CCR is ranked criminally low, Toxicity isn't on there, and neither is any Immortal Technique or Dean Reed album, to say nothing of albums by musicians from socialist or former socialist countries (cold war enemy nations). For a newspaper that likes to pride itself on how open-minded and pro-Marxist it is, the Rolling Stones has a real knack for corporate poptimist bootlicking.
Bingo. That’s what a list like this is great for. Out of their top 50 or 100, if you find one you don’t know, chances are it’s gonna be worth your time.
@@hermionestranger4964 Come on, you gotta admit a title like "500 classics old and modern that we recommend to hard rock, pop and jazz fans" is kinda rubbish though. It's so longwinded.
@@buttermilkjesus408 there's a reason music is universal. You don't need to know the language to enjoy the music. Also translations are widely available online nowadays so it's not like you can't find the meaning of the lyrics
The lack of metal and prog albums makes this list invalid. Also love how the comments here say how King Crimson should be on the list: BECAUSE THEY SHOULD
@@jackkitchen154 Which makes no sense. Even if you're referring to stuff from the 70s-80s, it's not like metal isn't being made anymore. There are dozens of genres with hundreds of bands still going.
I think it’s somewhere in the 200-100 area. I think DSOTM, WYWH and Animals are better than The Wall, but yeah, considering it’s Pink Floyd we’re talking about, it probably should crack the top 100.
@@jamescarlisle4023 yeah I think between those 4 you can argue for days and it basically just comes down to personal preference. For its Animals over Wall, then WYWH and DSOTM.
Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ not even cracking the top 50 is CRIMINAL. That album has some of the most forward thinking, creative and moving songs of all time... and that’s not even touching on the influence it’s had. So timeless.
@@zackzallie8735 heck ya !!! I l listened from pipers all the way through obscurity by clouds and now I’m on wish you were here. I remember the first time I put on DSOTM I shut my door and turned off the lights and stared at the moon 🌙
Last time around The Beatles dominated the top 20 of the list. Now only Revolver and Abbey Road meet the criteria. There's so many albums ahead of Sgt Pepper that should not be ahead of it too. Especially since some of those albums were heavily influenced by Sgt Pepper
album A influencing album B doesn't mean A goes higher, it doesn't even mean A should be on the list when B might have all the reasons of the world. Anyway, 'the white album' not being higher is the true crime here.
I mean, let’s be real, in a top 500 list, the placement of basically everything past the top 50-100 is completely random and doesn’t really matter. Whenever someone makes a top 100 / 500 list, it seems like the only rankings that are really thought about are the ones at the very top.
Speaking of the variety, or lack thereof, of artists represented on the list: There are almost no European artists on the list either. I'm excluding the British Isles from this consideration, as they are very well represented. But apart from that, the only European artists that you will find are, from what I remember, Kraftwerk and ABBA. No French musicians, no Italians, no Germans, no Dutch, no Spanish, no nothing!
The 2003 version of this list was really important for me as it introduced 15 y/o me to a fuckton of great albums such as "London Calling", "Exile on Main St.", "Pet Sounds" & especially "Nevermind". Even moreso considering the fact that my parents didn't really allow me to access the web freely until I was 17 (meaning that I had to plead my friends to download them for me). So I thank Rolling Stone's list for existing, at least. Now, on to my gripes (cuz why not, everyone else is doing it): 1) As many have pointed out already including Fantano himself, the anglo-centricity of the list is pretty depressing. Couldn't they at least name these lists something like "The 500 Greatest Albums From The English-Speaking World" or "The 500 Greatest Albums From North America & Europe" or something? I swear I wouldn't be offended by it - it would actually be far more honest that way. By naming a list like this "The 500 Greatest Albums OF ALL TIME" (emphasis obviously mine), they're pretty much denying the existence of the world at large outside of the largely-white continents of North America & Europe (despite them ranking that Marvin Gaye album - which I actually love quite a lot - at #1 to understandably keep up with recent social trends towards greater inclusivity & progressivism). I mean seriously - is that Harry Styles album better than "Estudando o Samba" or "Clube da Esquina" in terms of both quality (not-entirely-subjective) & influence (objective)? What about the works of Ravi Shankar or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan or even A.R. Rahman's blockbuster soundtracks? Is that Drake album REALLY better than anything put out by Ali Farka Toure or Toumani Diabate - arguably some of the best musicians of the 20th & 21st century? I'm sure that music connoisseurs all around the world could name hundreds of better albums that could easily rival or even beat many of the entries on the list. Again, I understand that they'd instinctively favour something more familiar to their ears than, say, field recordings of folk songs from some Oceanic tribe (though the exclusion/under-representation of UK dub/reggae & US jazz is really suspect) - but they don't even do THAT well. I'm not even talking about the exclusion of rock/pop stuff from places like Japan (Boredoms, Les Razilles Denuedes, Shonen Knife), Mexico (Cafe Tacvba), Russia (Auktyon, Kino) or even, say, Spain (Paco de Lucia, fucking Los Planetas???) - they (almost, since you HAVE to include fucking Lorde and AC/DC amirite) COMPLETELY fucking ignore the white & anglo-centric antipodes! Where's The Saint's debut? Where's Radio Birdman? Where's The Avalanches (this exclusion was really surprising for me as I thought the younger crop of Rolling Stone writers would at least love the fuck out of "Since I Left You")? Where's The Drones? You guys found the space to include so many superfluous compilations but not a SINGLE one to represent the incredibly influential Dunedin scene (via The Clean or The Chills)? So this list is not only culturally biased, but it's also geographically short-sighted to boot. Perhaps the sample pool used to compile the list ("[...] more than 300 artists, producers, critics and music-industry figures [...]") is to blame slightly for it, or maybe it's their superiority complex that drove them to label these 500 albums as the greatest that all of music has had to offer in the album format. One can only hope that their push towards greater inclusivity - indicated by their aforementioned #1 spot - also gradually extends to more foreign cultures in the next version of the list at the very least. 2) Speaking of inclusivity, one noticeable difference in this new edition of the list is its noticeably poptimist slant. While I can definitely understand the reason behind the change up (previous iterations of the list have been widely accused of being overwhelmingly rockist, and understandably so), it also results in many popular western genres, styles & even subcultures being under-represented or completely forgotten. The most glaring example of this is metal (only 7 entries on the list) & punk (nothing more extreme than Black Flag's "Damaged" to be found across its 500 entries) - these 2 genres alone contain multitudes of different styles & subcultures that end up being completely erased in way (given that the list itself has become a canon-defining institution, and many more people are likely to explore newer stuff from lists such as these than go a bit deeper). What about electronic music too? From the world of club/house music (and I'm just talking about its North American & British variants here) to dubstep/garage to even newer forms such as vaporwave, the entire genre is woefully underrepresented here as well (or rather, not meaningfully represented at all as I go through it now). All of this contributes to my main gripe with poptimism: that it's eventually just rockism, but inverted. But that entire debate is a messy can of worms in its own right, and I do not want to get into that just now. 3) What makes a "great" album? Are the selections all based on objective criteria such as musical/cultural influence and/or sales that are balanced reasonably with perceptions of artistry or quality (since, surely, it'd be named "Our 500 Favorite Albums Of All Time" otherwise?)? If so, assuming the list's specialty to be rock/folk/pop/rap/rnb etc- a) Most of the entries from the 2010s make no sense being here, as they're not even old enough to have their impacts felt yet. b) The exclusion of truly influential albums such as "Anthology Of American Folk Music", "Blind Joe Death", "In The Court of the Crimson King", "Silver Apples", "Trout Mask Replica", "Oar", "Tago Mago", "Neu!", "Deceit", "Spirit of Eden", "Spiderland", "Underground Vol. 1 1991-94", "Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1", "The Money Store" and literally DOZENS of others is considerably baffling (even if, on their own, the socio-cultural impacts for most of them were largely non-existent at the times of their respective releases, since influences all work in mysterious ways). Wow this is pretty long already.
Thanks for your input (honestly thought i'd only find memes in the comment section). It also struck me that it is really popcentric and US/UK english speaking orientated. Of course rankings are ultimately always biased. I personally like the way some websites moved from yearly rankings to overall "what we liked this year without ranking it" (resident advisor for example). That way it avoids those stupid ranking where Taylor Swift can be better ranked than Kraftwerk. Rankings should be stopped for music, as there is literally no objective way to find out what the best album of all time is...
Preach! I was around the same age when I first got the 2003 edition for Christmas, nothing else had a bigger impact on how my musical tastes have developed over time. Even the 2012 version was ok for the most part (outside of the exclusion of Massive Attack's Mezzanine!) but it stings to see this current version throw objectivity to the wind in favor of woke pandering in so many instances here. Politics ruins everything in this day and age.
Wait, they removed Trout Mask Replica and In The Court Of The Crimson King?! Jeez, that's really rough. Billie Eilish and Harry Styles got in, but not King Crimson or Captain Beefheart.
@@qty1315 Yep. Clowns like Beyonce and Drake is on there, they put The Ramones above fucking Dark Side of the Moon... They love Nevermind for some reason, its a good album when you're young, but come on, its not the 6th best album of all time...
@@xdman20005 Beyonce was one of the people who got to pick the albums on the list. I think that Nevermind does deserve a high spot, and that Dark Side Of The Moon should be much higher. Also, Graceland at #38? I get that part of the reason for the updated list is to include more black artists in higher spots. But, why Graceland at such a high ranking? That's actually considered to be the most racist album of all time. A rich white guy taking the songs of black people, making them more 'white', then profiting off of them. I don't get why people didn't latch onto that.
No albums by Swans, Ween, Coil, Igorrr, The Residents, Stereolab, Boredoms, and many more. Rolling Stone have never been right about anything. In fact, extremely few music critics have been right about anything.
@depressed cockroach Well Parklife is widely seen as their magnus opus, at least for the britpop era. I personally think it's their best together with 13 (which is criminally overlooked outside the Blur fandom for some strange reason) and that it should've been higher on the list
At least there's Parklife, which is one of the best Britpop albums (they have finally discovered this genre exists - Different Class also there, which is nice). But how Harry Styles, Drake, Beyonce in top 50 etc. are on this list is just baffling.
Their lists were really influential to me like 10-15 years ago. It made me actually sit down and get into The Beatles and Motown and a bunch of other legendary shit, not to mention music critique in general and your channel. Always loved the really personal and intense tributes for each selection by other musicians, many of whom are on the lists themselves. Fleas article on Metallica for example just makes me love them even more.
Right up there with Joni Mitchell's Blue. I don't even want to know where her album placed on this list... Honestly, I love Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'. It's a monumental record, and certainly Marvin's best, but greatest of all time? There are far more albums that I'd consider for that title long before 'What's Going On'.
"Hello fellow kids, look at how I celebrate Taylor Swift's greatness." "Grandpa, we enjoy her music, but stating that Pink Floyd isn't as artistically significant..." "Pink Floyd is overrated." "Ok, grandpa."
I don't trust Rolling Stone's opinion in general, it feels like they just have the safest opinions possible and always stay far away from anything resembling a niche genre i bet Pitchfork could make a much more interesting list of this type (before anyone replies with "pitchfork bad" - I know. but you have to admit they give a lot more love to more obscure records and genres than any other publication I'm aware of)
I really hate Rolling Stone because they always go for easy opinions and then they just give a shit rating without any valid justification whatsoever just to stand out a bit
Nah pitchfork would go in the opposite direction, they love to jack off Kanye and Arcade Fire and some choice indie acts but I feel like their opinions on older music would either be dumb or copy/paste rateyourmusic top 100 bullshit
@Sam Myers i said Soad is underrated not Toxicity, and I meant the album is a materpiece not the song, if you talk about the song, I think they have better songs, but imo Toxicity has the recognition that deserves
Sign "o" the times by Prince isn’t just an album, it’s an artistic reconstitution, the breeze you respire, it’s a motive for existence, a departure from this atrocious cosmos, an embosom from a cherished one, it’s a moment for history books, a body of finest craftsmanship
@Luke fair enough but it’s not something you can choose to buy into or choose to not buy into, his first few albums were, Lead vocals by price, backing vocals by Prince, all instruments played by Prince, mixed and mastered under guidance of Prince, and that were the first few at age 19 to 21, just got better from their till the late 80s. Can’t touch him man
Actually, they should. That sentence being “fine line by Harry styles doesn’t hold a candle to close to the edge by yes”. That’s a sentence where they can both be said.
