The 10 Greatest Albums Ever Made? 

"Music critics don't review music, they review themselves." - Robert Fripp. I think Robert has a point.

FZ wrapped it up best: "Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read."

Here’s my top 10: 1. Who’s Next - The Who; Tough choice over Tommy, but a slight nod to this one. 2. Abbey Road - The Beatles; I just think the last 15 minutes is the greatest 15 minutes of music since Beethoven. 3. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder; Definitely better than Songs in the Key of Life. 4. Led Zeppelin IV - enough said, although Houses of the Holy can give it a run due to the incredible variation in songs. 5. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd; so innovative. 6. Boston - Boston; every song was great enough to get airplay. 7. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac; although the self-titled album from 1975 is almost as good. 8. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen; every track is great with fantastic sax playing. 9. Breakfast in America - Supertramp; this album is often overlooked in greatest of all time lists but it’s great from start to finish. 10. Thriller - Michael Jackson; hard to understand how anybody could leave this off a top ten list. A few notes: I didn’t want to choose an artist more than once to spread out the wealth. I stuck to rock/pop, which left Davis and Coltrane off this list. Tapestry would have been my next choice and was difficult to leave off. I think Pet Sounds is a bit overrated with only a few great songs and some throwaway, but I understand how The Beach Boys changed direction. Same for most Rolling Stones albums, a few great with some throwaway mixed in. I understand the innovation that was Nirvana but I still think their music is massively overrated (same with Velvet Underground) and they only get rated so high because Cobain died young. Obviously, I grew up in the 70s, but I still think that’s where the most creative and listenable rock comes from.

Every day and every mood I'm in, I have a whole new and different top 10.

Nice to hear someone articulating what many of us think.

Agree, wholeheartedly. Stevie deserves a place on any top 10 list! HIs run of classic '70s albums represents the greatest quality of the rock/pop era.

Here's My Top 10 For Today (It's Always Changing): 1. Animals, Pink Floyd 2. The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 3. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin 4. Close To The Edge, Yes 5. Abbey Road, The Beatles 6. Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd 7. In The Court Of The Crimson King, King Crimson 8. Hot Rats, Frank Zappa 9. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin 10. Deep Purple In Rock, Deep Purple

I have to say I’m a big Dylan fan and Blood on the Tracks has always been my favorite.

Rumours is a good choice purely based on artistic merit and recording quality.

My friend, John told me about this channel, I really enjoy it. Spot on regarding the music critics and Morrissey. Because he's vegetarian they assumed he was archetypal Guardian reader and when they found out he wasn't he's gone from being W B Yeats to persona non grata. Either he is a great lyricist/poet or he isn't. The fact the music press have changed their views on his work because they don't like his views shows how superficial most of them are.

Here's Mine.. 1. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock 2. T Rex - Tanx 3. Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks 4. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here 5. Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti 6. Japan - Adolescent Sex 7. Bob Dylan - Desire 8. Van Halen - Van Halen 1 9. Frank Sinatra - Greatest Hits 10. The Beatles - 1

The greatest albums ever made are the albums that every single music lover chooses to be their favorite albums. So their really is no answer as to what albums are the greatest. The most sold albums - are they the greatest? We all have our own favorites and just have to accept music for what it is - an enormous pie of flavors that satisfy all of us from some of the time to most of the time.

Stevie Wonder's fusion tune you were trying to remember is "Contusion", with Mike Sembello on guitar, I love that tune. Stevie is truly awesome.

I would have put Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys, I know its live, but its a classic one of a kind.

Love your style , man.

"contusion" is the track on SITKOL that is "fusion" ; My top ten albums; 1.Exile on Main Street-Rolling Stones 2.Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan 3.Marquee Moon-Television 4.Layla..-Derek & the Dominoes 5.Rust Never Sleeps-Neil Young 6.Station to Staion-David Bowie 7.Pink Flag-Wire 8.Court and Spark-Joni Mitchell 9.Close to the Edge-Yes 10.Secret Treaties-Blue Oyster Cult

The Who "Who's Next" might be one if the greatest albums ever made. And when is the last time anyone ever cared about any list ever put out by Rolling Stone magazine?

My favorite records are "Joe's Garage," "Tales From Topographic Oceans" and "Bitches Brew." I also love "Aja" and "A Wizard, A True Star."

I like the click-bait title and it is a great way to discuss the subject! This was fun!

I have my own top ten list 1. Close To The Edge - Yes 2. Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson 3. Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 4. Animals - Pink Floyd 5. Long Distance Voyager - Moody Blues 6. Mirage - Camel 7. Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa 8. Lost Souls - Doves 9. Currents - Tame Impala 10. Within And Without - Washed Out

For what its worth my ten are: 1) Sandy Denny-The North Star Grassmen and the Ravens 2) Miles Davis-In a Silent Way 3) Can-Tago Mago 4) Marvin Gaye-What's Going On 5) The Pretty Things-Emotions 6) Augustus Pablo-East of the River Nile 7) Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures 8) John Coltrane-A Love Supreme 9) Davy Graham-Midnight Man 10) Brian Eno-Another Green World 11) Van Der Graaf Generator-Pawn Hearts-ok its 11, didn;t know what to lave out!

Youre the man, Andy

Those music magazines are on the top list of the best hygienic papers ever made

The Band. Invented Americana. So influential. Brilliant music from storied musicians,

I suspect _"What's Going On"_ gets attention because it was such an abrupt turn for Marvin Gaye. He'd had all kinds of songs about love, sex, and relationships, and then suddenly he's doing an album which comments on the society.

I In retrospect, I think I bought Velvet Undgrounds ‘Banana’ because it reminded me of a toy my sister and I played with in the early 60s called Colorform. The music was dreary and immediately ended up in the back of my collection!

Hi Andy, great video as usual - a couple of spin off subjects that you raised here - authenticity and Joni Mitchell - would love to see you talk about both those subjects - apologies if you already have and I missed it, cheers Matt

As much as I love jazz and fusion and prog, I realize that advanced musicianship doesn’t really matter much to most people. Song writing, singing, and the personality/identity of the performer are what count, not how great of a solo the bass player can play. It is really no surprise you don’t find fusion and prog on these lists, they will always be marginalized genres. Reminds me of the joke, what’s the difference between a rock guitarist and a jazz guitarist? A rock guitarist plays 3 chords for 3,000 people. A jazz guitarist plays 3,000 chords for 3 people.

Miles Davis is a pioneer of jazz and his work from the 67 to 73 was incredible

My top ten. 1. U2 / Achtung Baby 2. Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 3. The Future Sound of London / Lifeforms. 4. Midlake / Trials of Van Occupanther. 5. The Decemberists / Castaways and Cutouts 6. Beck / Mutations 7. Miles Davis / Get Up With It 8. Speedy J / Ginger 9. Red Snapper / Prince Blimey 10. Shpongle / Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland

Love this video! 👍

Loved your assessments, particularly of Oasis.

The thing is that it's always down to personal opinions, and no two people will come up with exactly the same preferences. My own preference is heavily geared towards the classic rock era and although it would change from time to time, currently it would be something like (in no particular order and limiting to one per artist): Made in Japan - Deep Purple Rubber Soul - Beatles Permanent Waves - Rush Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy Abraxus - Santana Selling England By The Pound - Genesis Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Calling Card - Rory Gallagher Rumours - Fleetwood Mac Thriller - Michael Jackson I'm willing to bet though that no one else comes up with the same list!

Really enjoyed this video. Brilliant!!

Thanks Andy. On the money. From Soft Machine, Santana, Wonder, ISB & Gong through to individual tracks by Archive, Röyksopp, Heilung & Unkle & ...... the very idea of 10 (or 100) best Albums is now relevant or defensible. There is just too much years of wonderful, amazingly glorious diversity & richness. Today such lists are simply meaningless clickbait.

Blood on the Tracks is Dylans best work in my opinion and is justified on any top 10 list for what it repesented. Its a break up album at its core. Its a bit of an emotional rollercoaster and goes from mature reflection to bitterness and spite. But the songs are beautiful. And Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts is the light relief: a breathtaking, breakneck display of masterful story telling with a complex plot. In my opinion.

Good subject Andy! You know if we are talking about albums that changed the landscape of music, I sure think we would have to include DC Talk's Jesus Freak album..... It was incredible when I first listened to it and still love it today..... an incredible album in my opinion.....have you listened to it?

Agree with your approach 100% Have to say paranoid album by sabbs was so important to me, it needs to be there. Not cool I know but what an impact

I keep seeing Pet Sounds on these lists and I always give it another listen. Each time I realize that I hate that album and so this time I'm not going to take the bait.

Good discussion. It took me a bit to see where you were going but was worth it. New subscriber.

Take a walk on the wild side is just a slow version of the Beatles' Get Back. The lyrics structure is the same, and the too-too-too bit is a hummed variant of John's solo.

Everyone forgets Small Faces Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. This started Psych.

Aja , Boston, Hotel California, Dark Side of the Moon, Bright size Life, Rubber Soul, Sargent Peppers , Kind of Blue , George Benson CookBook, Machine Head. My top Ten. Do a deep into Steely Dan.

Wow. I really liked the subject here. What makes stuff important? Great video.

a lot of us don't quite get jazz either, like you know how to cook but just shove everything into the mix then shake - especially Coltrane - I do like Miles Davis, sorry, probably more to it than that, I know you are not obsessed and like a wide variety of all music - and I do enjoy your show and your funny personality and always join when you upload. Mostly agree with you eclectic choice anyway paradoxically!

I think a top ten list can only be a very personal thing. My greatest album of all time is: I Sing the Body Electric by Weather Report but I expect not one in a million would agree with me.

brilliant analysis of Lomax et al. In complete agreement.

thanks Andy! I really enjoyed this video and your perspective. If someone wants to publish a list called The 10 Greatest Albums of All Time, it would be helpful for them to start out by defining the criteria to be met to make said list. Then we'd at least have an inkling as to why each particular album is there. And a little blurb about each of the albums on the list as to how it got there.

Here's mine Rush albums, all. Depeche Mode albums, all.

Hello, I always love and respect your comments on music, I notice especially among the young, they give there top ten albums , purely on what they are into, if it’s Pop, it’s 10 Pop albums, if it’s Rock it’s 10 Rock albums, I myself love Jazz, Blues, Rock, Country and Pop in that order, and I think that people need to understand all the genres for a really true assessment, best wishes.

One should replace greatest with favorite in these list..with that said these are mine : 1.Astral Weeks : Van Morrison 2 Tapestry : Carol King 3. What's Goin On : Marvin Gaye 4. Pet Sounds : Beach Boys 5. Blonde on Blonde : Bob Dylan 6. Rubber Soul : The Beatles 7. London Calling : The Clash 8. For The Roses : Joni Mitchell 9. Dark Side of The Moon : Pink Floyd 10 Exile on Main Street : Rolling Stones

Last two tracks on Songs in the Key of Life are AS and ANOTHER STAR. The first approaches and the 2nd inhabits fusion. Great stuff.

Agree with everything you say on this Andy. My term for most of those choices are that they are the 'worthies' about whom we unworthy people need to be educated, the problem being, perhaps more so in the past when there was less access to everything, that the 'worthy' influencers directed people in a cultish way down a path that they want to herd them so that the critic can be lauded and worshipped by their followers. Many years ago when I had a discussion with a work colleague about Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans (not that that's one of the greatest ever, desite being my favourite - although arguably Close to the Edge could occupy a slot in a greatest ever top 10) whereby he said it was overblown rubbish - but have you heard it I asked - 'er no' he replied 'but I've read enough critiques about it to be able to be assured that that's the case.' I have no idea if he ever did listen to it with or without prejudice as I left fairly soon after. It would be interesting to go back and see what was in their lists ten , twenty, thirty years ago, and whether back in the 70's and 80's they had any Beatles in there at all. Look forward to your video on authenticity as I think I may also share your views on that one.

Getz/Gilberto is the best Album ever made. It's Jazz, it's Pop, it's Samba, it's timeless. It still sounds utterly wonderful and there is not a single thing I would change apart from having it three times as long. The second best album is probably 'You're living all over me' by Dinosaur Jr. I loved it when it came out and it has grown on me ever since.

New to you channel pal! Wonderful content!👍

Dear Andy, thanks for the video. Sadly you have made a common mistake. The greatest albums of all time are nothing to do with music. So here, in no particular order are my idea of the greatest albums of all time and the reasons why they are on the list. Miles Davis “Kind of Blue”. Great because it showed people that it was cool to wear sunglasses indoors. Charles Mingus “Live at Antibes”. "We can go to the south of France, perform to the elite and play it safe (thereby cementing our status) or we can play our hearts out and hope they get it." Watch the live youtube video of “Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting” from this concert. It is one of the most sensational musical performances. Dannie Richmond on drums. Tasty. The Velvet Underground and Nico. This is great because a generation if kids heard it and thought, “that sounds simple, I could do that”. The Sex Pistols “Never Mind the Bollocks”. This album is great because it said “you do not have to re-do what has been done before.” Throbbing Gristle “Heathen Earth”. This is great because it said, “you can do anything you want.” My Bloody Valentine “Loveless”. This is great because it showed that sonics are not just about melody and chord progression. Alternative TV / The Good Missionaries “Scars On Sunday”. Side one, the band breaks up in the middle of this live performance. Side 2, the band reforms under a new name with all of the shackles off. A cacophonous improvisation from non musicians. From about the 10 minute mark on side 2 when Mark Perry shouts, “Restaurants, vibing up the senile man” I regard this as lightening captured in a jar. If the truth exists, it is written on a scrap of paper, floating on some water in the gutter, traveling towards the drain. Planet Gong “Floating Anarchy”. This is great because when I was a teenager this group of anarchists came on their bus, to my home town of Nuneaton, they played a free concert, my head exploded and I have never been the same since. Keep up the good work.

Agree with your general take on these lists

I would love to see your video on Joni. From folk to fusion…….?

Very well done. The list is put in a a well thought out historical context. I would have had Pet Sounds on it, a Frank Sinatra album from the Capital years of the ‘50s, Chuck Berry instead of Elvis, and something soul or funk from James Brown or Stevie Wonder.

Bingo! You're spot on.

Two of the heaviest played LP s in the early seventies that seems to be at every party., were " Get your Ya Ya's out" and "Who's next"'We used to call them "'Road map albums" because they usually were scratched and worn out from being played so much. 😎

AC/DC - Powerage Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo Black Sabbath - Paranoid MC5 - Kick Out the Jams The Stooges - The Stooges Van Halen - Van Halen Kiss - Kiss Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced Ramones- Ramones Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood

He played with Terry Bozio, one of the best most underrated drummers of all time. If you toured with Zappa, you had to be amazing!

I'm really with you regarding "Pet Sounds." I was just barely 13-years old when it was released and I purchased it on vinyl (which was the only option then.) The irony was, up to that point, I was a huge fan of The Beach Boys' surf music and PS was completely different. Decades later, when CDs became "reasonably-priced," I replaced my scratched-up and worn-out vinyl collection with CDs and of course, "Pet Sounds" was among them. My CD collection eventually grew out-of-control. I had something like 800, most of which fit in three-250 CD changers (that you better never lose where you put any given CD or you would never find it again.) I got tired of hauling them around so I ripped them all to FLAC and literally gave all of them away.

That NME list is pretty special. Has this made you want to make up your own Top 10 innovative albums or artists lists? What makes something an innovation in music? Is it using a piece of gear that’s never been used before to create new sounds, a change in form, new approaches to lyricism, etc. For me, I think of artists like Arsenio Rodriguez, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Chuck Berry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Miles & Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Fela Kuti, Can, Kraftwerk, Black Sabbath, Glenn Branca, Einstruzende Neubauten, Steve Coleman, etc etc etc. I’d be interested to see people’s ideas about that… Or we can just listen to Last Night by The Strokes.

Not sure if anyone mentioned, but the fusion instrumental on Songs In The Key Of Life is called Contusion, if my memory serves me well

couldn't agree more with your comments, particularly about the attitudes and motivations of critics.

Why Pet Sounds? Brian Wilson's falsetto. Melody, arrangement.

I enjoyed that - I can't remember what is was about though! 😉

I believe Pet Sounds was inspired by Rubber Soul, not Revolver.

Spot on.

My List: #1 - The Beatles - "Revolver" AND "Sgt. Pepper" #2 - Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" AND "Bitches Brew" #3 - John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme" #4 - Ornette Coleman - "The Shape of Jazz to Come" #5 - Jimi Hendrix - "Axis: Bold as Love" (Any Album really) #6 - Led Zeppelin - "Led Zeppelin IV" #7 - Pink Floyd - "The Dark Side of the Moon" #8 - Mahavishnu Orchestra - "The Inner Mounting Flame" #9 - Frank Zappa - "Uncle Meat" and/or "Hot Rats" #10 - King Crimson - "In the Court of the Crimson King"

Would love to see you explore the life and catalogue of Joni Mitchell. One of my faves. 🇨🇦

It seems to me like choosing glass beads among pearls

My top 10 albums would come from these artists - Miles Davis John Coltrane Frank Sinatra The Beatles The Beach Boys The Rolling Stones The Kinks The Who Bob Dylan Neil Young The Guess Who Pink Floyd King Crimson Yes Genesis Gentle Giant Van der Graaf Generator Peter Hammill Tangerine Dream Klaus Schulze Led Zeppelin Jethro Tull Soft Machine Caravan Camel Fairport Convention Renaissance Jimi Hendrix Cardiacs Marillion Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Le Orme Premiata Forneria Marconi Porcupine Tree Red Hot Chili Peppers Yo La Tengo Stereolab After Crying Cast Can Faust Grobschnitt Emerson Lake and Palmer Goblin Nektar Mike Oldfield Echolyn Isildurs Bane Earl Scruggs John Hartford Kris Kristofferson That should be enough - my top 10 is somewhere in these artists!

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There are two types of listeners. People for whom music is a background accompaniment to life, and people for whom music is an indispensable part of their lives. Writers for NME and Rolling Stone fall into the first category, by and large. There are some exceptions, but it’s the case. They were taught to nod to the man, build bands up and knock them right down again to sell papers.

Weather Report? Miles Davis? John Coltrane? Keith Jarrett? Herbie Hancock? Frank Zappa? Soft Machine? Steely Dan? and how about all the progressive English rock? In the court of the Crimson King, EL&P, Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant? Led Zeppelin!! but also Michael Jackson, CSN&Y, Sting, etc. etc.

As others have suggested, it seems to me that such a list must balance two factors, one being whether the artist/album changed the course of music going forwards and whether the album was actually great music to listen to. Any such list which does not include Miles Davis falls at the first hurdle.

I feel John Cale was more important to the VU ? His solo output and production credits shows just how great he is.

I have a lot of disagreements with Rolling Stone's list but I think that's the point. Also I thought the list was the result of the votes of a group of people. The big change this time was in the makeup of the group so there were some big changes to the list though who you choose helps determine the list. Interesting hearing your views nevertheless.

With a list like that they should be called Trolling Stone

Agree about velvets

NME (est. 1952) and Rolling Stone (est. 1967) are really pop magazines, aren't they? They were at their peak of circulation and influence when pop-rock music was most popular (and all but monopolized the sales charts) so I wouldn't expect much authoritative awareness of jazz or funk or fusion or hip-hop or metal or country or prog or even soul (as R&B was known in the '70s) from them. But you're right on the mark about the calculation that goes into the "curating" (hate that word) of these lists. It's performative -- "taste signaling," if you will -- and it's pretty transparent. While I dearly love the Pixies' "Doolittle" (because it meant a lot to me when it came out and "Debaser" is sometimes the greatest song in the world when I'm in the right mood), I don't think I'd put it on a "10 Greatest Albums Ever" list. But I don't think I'd assign myself to write such a list at this "silver" stage of my life (60+). While it's a fun exercise in your formative years (when you're trying to figure out who you are and manipulate how you want other people to perceive you) to make canonical lists that are really little autobiographies, they really are quite silly and narcissistic. But they're also expressions of human nature, so there you go... That said, "Blood on the Tracks" IS Dylan at his most personal and deeply felt (it's his "Blue" in that regard -- as in "Tangled Up In..." -- and it certainly belongs on any list of great break-up albums); "Sign o' the Times" absolutely is Prince's masterpiece; "Is This It" and "Miseducation" are both kind of embarrassing because they were popular and overpraised and now we don't remember why; "Rumours" is the very definition of MOR; and I admit I wouldn't know Pulp (or was it Blur?) if they were sitting on my lap right now because I'm an old American git and that is not within my experience.

For Blood on the Tracks I'll side with RS. You're right that his mid-60s stuff was more groundbreaking and influential - but they maybe thought that they had to have a Dylan in there as one of the greatest and most important artists of all time, and then chose what they regarded as his best music. I'd go for Blood on the Tracks as his best as well. I've watched how what is currently accepted as the Beatles greatest has progressed over forty years. Seems to have been Sgt Pepper in the 80s, Revolver in the 90s, White Album in the 00s, then Abbey Road and I think we're now back to Revolver!

Here "my" top 10 albums 10. Mule Variations - Tom Waits The premier American songwriter and jazz singer. He transforms his tortured soul into songs about the lost, whiskey and bars. 9. Exodus - Bob Marley The warrior took a break to enjoy the Natural Mystic. Still militant, but in a mellow lover kind of way. Bob died too early. 8. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Supremacy bordering on arrogance. But never clinical. A subtitle could've been "Catch Me If You Can". 7. Never Mind - Sex Pistols Uncompromising words, chaotic playing, Rotten defiant vocals, a moment in history .. all conspiring to create a soundtrack for a perfect storm. 6. Remain in Light - Talking Heads The album I played the most, so much so it cost me a relationship. I didn't even notice what happened until later 😅 Byrne & company mixed world music with Afro beats and artsy college lyrics to give birth to infectious crazy songs. 5. Exile on Main St. - Rolling Stones The devil wrote it and a college dropout sang it. The real rhythm & blues at its finest. 4. Hejira - Joni Mitchell Impeccable lyrics. Tarty songs. Styles from folk to jazz to blues. And guitar tunes to match the storytelling. 3. Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison Unmatched vocal virtuosity, almost like Van was showing off his vocal gifts. The human voice as a musical instrument. Enjoy the wide-ranging vocals, the weird stories and uncanny lyrics. 2. Left blank coz nothing comes close to number 1. Gotta respect perfection. 1. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison The ultimate fusion album. It effortlessly mixes jazz, blues, Irish folks and English styling to produce strange songs that tells stranger stories and mysterious lyrics (really poems). What's amazing is that it was recorded "live" in a few days .. and when Van was in his early twenties!

Why Rolling Stone picked these albums: 10. Miseducation of Lauren Hill: black woman recognition 9. Blood on the Tracks: it's Dylan's most SELF-confessional album 8. Purple Rain: It's Prince and this is objectively his most influential album as well as his most popular (don't have much of a problem with this) 7. Rumours: Its catchy pop about relationship DRAMA. The backstory may mean more to many than the music 6. Nevermind: 3-chord tortured genius effect that aided in the normalization of punk in the mainstream 4. Songs in the Key of Life: black artist recognition 5. Abbey Road: Its the popular favorite these days and people would rather pick apart Sgt. Pepper than recognize its innovations. 3. Blue: SELF-confessional album effect, but by a woman and that's why she's the only artist who gets away with openly hating Rolling Stone and Jann Wenner (honestly am about the Joni love tho) 2. Pet Sounds: the album that everybody loves to go at the Beatles with. 1. What's Going On: black artist recognition and the juxtaposition between socio-political advocacy and tortured genius effect (why Rolling Stone anointed John Lennon and trashed Paul McCartney after the Beatles breakup).

I love how you give your opinion usually making a good case for your reasoning, but if somebody disagrees, you don't get all bent. That's the sign of a grown up. Life is too short. Edit: Hadda come back and agree with you on the list makers, their demographics and their motivations. Like 11/10.

Came across this channel last night and watched about 3 hrs worth. Totally engaging. The mixture of logical deconstruction, spontaenous emotional probe and expression, paradox and contradiction is just about perfect listening. I'm a 40 year gtr band/recording artist vet - 25 yrs immersed in psyche-therapy and philosophy within that, so I wish I lived next door to you Andy. On the philosophy/political vids the way you outline the recent and present danger in the education of the arts is very (darkly) enlightening - probably the most important institution they have marched through, and now the 60's looks rather different. On the anxiety/depression - artistic drive process, I've found that the more I vanquished the former the less I felt like listening to music, especially in recent times as rock and roll - as we all know it and love it - seems to be dead. You place that death around 2000 and I wouldn't disagree. I've found it a fairly complex bereavement. Listening to once loved music feels like mummification - like I'm trying to love a corpse. Still I play guitar every day and wonder where the spirit of rock is and long for it to continue, be passed on. Needles and Pins to say we are well beyond the realms of mere fandom here...one of the real problems is that we're perhaps not really conversing with each other here, never really emotionally present with each other, this medium hampers if not destroys that. This I feel mirrors the death of the pub/pub rock scene for bands - even by bands. I've played in a tribute type band so I guess I'm guilty. The Taylor Hawkins vid was a good watch. I like Rush alot, special band - only saw them the once on the Farewell To Kings tour as a kid and mind blowing it was. I really felt what you meant with the esoteric murmur comment - beautiful. Re this vid - if greatest hits were allowed I think 'ChangesBowie' would be hard to beat, if The Beatles didn't previously exist of course. At this time I think my own desert album would be 'The La's' or Julie Andrews greatest if there is one. I don't know anything at all about jazz or jazz fusion or blues - these things have generally repelled me, but I will certainly be checking those vids of yours out now. Thank you Andy.

Superb. I used to read NME and hated the reviewers and as for Rolling Stone? - I just could never take it seriously

The ten greatest albums ever made? Maybe : 1- Wagner : Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Solti) 2- Schonberg : Moses Und Aron (Gielen) 3- Mingus : The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 4- Jarrett : The Survivors Suite 5- Coltrane : A Love Supreme 6- Stravinsky : Petrushka/The Rite of Spring (Boulez Sony) 7- Mahler : Symphony n°2 (Bernstein DG) 8- Corea/Burton : Lyric Suite for Sextet 9- Miles Davis : Kind of Blue 10- Magma : KA

"I don't believe in authenticity" - great statement!

Top 10? Of all times? Wow, that's tough! From my 4000+ collection of vinyl and in no particular order since that is really hard for me to do: Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall, 1938 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed Beach Boys Pet Sounds Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Gershwin Porgy and Bess Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Beethoven 9th Symphony New York Symphony Orchestra Bernstein Pink Floyd Meddle Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach Procol Harum Grand Hotel Franz Liszt Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Svjatoslav Richter London Symphony Kondrashin

Who’s Next Electric Ladyland Don Juan reckless daughter - Joni Slow train coming - Dylan Kind of Blue - miles Nebraska - Springsteen Court of crimson king Inner mounting flame Thursday afternoon - Eno Dancing in dragons jaws - Cockburn Proof through the night - T Bone Burnett Arial Boundries - Micheal Hedges

You really sorted them out. What you say makes sense. I look to lists like these from music media to try to expand my musical tastes, but so far it hasn't helped. Random exploration of youtube has proved more musically fruitful.

I can't stand Dylan either, and I agree the search for authenticity effectively undid punk. I'd have put the Stone Roses debut further towards the top of the list-a big favorite of mine. And while I find the Strokes boring, The Smiths 'Queen is Dead' is a top-five album for me. Great video. Thanks.

'The Queen is Dead' Wow!

That NME list is way off in the deep weeds, IMO. I don't put much stock in any top-10 music lists, because it seems to me there are so many different ways to rate albums or even songs. But that list isn't even trying to make any sense.

I might be wrong, but I doubt if Rolling Stone got its name from Like A Rolling Stone. The Rolling Stones were formed in 1962, five years before the magazine started and three years before Dylan's song came out. Well before that, in 1955 Muddy Waters' song Mannish Boy featured the line "I'm a rolling stone" and in 1950, he brought out a record called simply Rollin' Stone. It's possible that earlier blues songs used the phrase. It seems more likely to me that all these influences came together to inspire the name of the magazine.

Pretty sure Rolling Stone magazine in fact took its inspiration from the Muddy Waters track Rolling Stone, which predated Dylan's song by several years. Good video though.