The best albums of all time, and sure I am missing some, and sure the order is really hard to know: ( I Probably don't know a lot of albums, but those who mention some I did know so I guess I know enough). Forever Changes - Love 60s Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield 60s Live Rust Concert - Neil Young 70s Decade - Neil Young 70s Tim - The Replacements 80s The 2023 remixed album is so great Let it Be - The Replacements 80s Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements 80s Don't Tell a Soul - The Replacements 80s Astral Weeks - Van Morrison 60s Groundbreaking. Moon Dance - Van Morrison 70s Moments - Boz Scaggs 70s Unknown but so much better than Silk Degrees. And his second album has an unbelievably greatest version of "Loan Me A Dime" with D Allman. This Years Model - Elvis Costello and the Attractions 70s Get Happy! Elvis C and the Attractions 70s Heat Treatment - Graham Parker and the Rumour 70s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie 70s Revolver - The Beatles 60s On every album, I'm a Lennon lover. There are so many songs by Paul that I don't like (yes I know who contributed what for most any song) that the Beatles albums do not stand as tall as for the average Beatle fan. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan 60s The Doors - The Doors 60s Maybe the best debut? I am not really into their other records. Best of the Smiths Part I - The Smiths 90s I like them a lot but just don't know each album that well. The X Album - Lloyd Cole 90s Where you Been - Dinosaur Jr 90s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco 2001 Pet Sounds - Beach Boys 60s Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix 60s Banana album - Velvet Underground and Nico 60s Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols 70s Avalon - Roxy Music 80s Eponymous - R.E.M. 80s Aliens Lanes - Guided By Voices 90s Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs 80s A Hard Days Night - The Beatles 60s Not a bad song. Why so low? My Aim is True - Elvis Costello 70s Shazam - The Move 60s I'm Still in Love with You - Al Green 70s Music from Big Pink - The Band 60s The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen 70s Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service 60s Zuma - Neil Young 70s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo la Tengo 90s My Favorite Things - John Coltrane 60s Kind of Blue - Miles Davis 50s Child is the Father to Man - Blood Sweat and Tears 70s Doolittle - The Pixies 80s Core - Stone Temple Pilots 90s Pretenders - The Pretenders 70s Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan 60s Sea Change - Beck 2002 Odelay - Beck 90s Marshal Crenshaw - "Eponymous" 70s My Maudlin Career - Camera Obscura 2009 Viva Hate - Morrissey 90s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea - PJ Harvey 2000 Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen 80s His best. I sort of feel I like about 2 songs per album, and usually not the anthems. Warehouse: Songs and Stories - Hüsker Dü 80s So - Peter Gabriel 80s Californication - RHCP 90s (this is a questionable pick, not sure why?) Sky Blue Sky - Wilco 2007 14 songs - Paul Westerberg 90s Alien Lanes - Guided by Voices This is great! Blue Oyster Cult - debut Classical: many albums Jazz: Some albums by John Coltrane Blue Train, A Love Supreme, My Favorite Things. My least favorite albums of all time that were very popular. This doesn't mean I hate them. I really mean this, cross my heart: Abbey Road - The Beatles - The worst Beatles album and George Martin disliked it too. The White Album is not all that good but better. Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones. I don't get this. Songs are OK, none are great. OK Computer - Radiohead The Wall - Pink Floyd Their worst album. Best music in a movie. Much better than The Last Waltz and better than the Beatles' "Hard Day's night" is Neil Young's "Live Rust". Neil Young's "Live Rust" does his hits and some better versions of a few songs than the originals. Movies with good soundtracks: I haven't about this before, so I'll say: A Bronx Tale, Almost Famous Not really that good: Pulp Fiction. I like Lonesome Town, Girl You'll be a woman soon, Misirlou, Lets Stay Together but hate Flowers on the Wall and Son of A Preacher Man is not a good Dusty Springfield song.
Kinda sad that they didn't use Tomorrow Never Knows though, or I'm Only Sleeping or even Eleanor Rigby. Yellow Submarine is the one song of Revolver that doesn't really fit with the heavy psychedelia of the rest of the album.
Also interesting to see some variance in rating between years. There’s definitely a few years where had the album come out a few months earlier or later it’d buried.
I noticed the transition, too. But, to be honest, it made me think that jazz is a music to explore boundaries of creativity, while pop is Music to be sold, nothing more.
Very happy to see the three best King Crimson albums on here. As well as Pink Floyd, The Smiths, and Radiohead's best work. I feel very validated that I agree with 95% of this list.
I think the 90s and 2000s are more stacked tbh. Edit: I still stand by most of what I said but I like the 70s more than I used to. Tago Mago, Another Green World, Dark Side Of The Moon and Unknown Pleasures are some of my all time favorite albums ever
@@user-wx2ek3uv1i Kid A, Vespertine, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven!, Deathconsciousness, Velocity Design Comfort, Every Boris Album that came out that decade, The Ape of Naples, Toxicity, In Rainbows, Merriweather Post Pavilion, drukqs, Madvillainy, The Glow Pt. 2, Discovery, The College Dropout, A Promise and The Black Parade show how good of a decade the 2000s was. The 70s were great but it’s the most overrated decade for music imo
@@x.pescobard3216 That's fair but my main problem with the 00s is that all the good albums are completely unrelated. Every other era had entire genres scenes and movements worth of great music, but in the 21st century apart from rap and some tiny niche microgenres all the great music is just a selected few from a ton of different genres scenes you can't really point to any trend or anything that says "wow that was a great time for X"
Still strange that this video defines an acoustic folk album as the best of 2013 and 2018, between other good music created in that years,but Ichiko has a very special vibe that now I recently discovered, some songs are like the "pure and raw" state of music, recorded outside of a study, in front of a street, feels like she is at your side while you Walk around in the park of your neighborhood, something unique and wonderful, thanks to this video for let me discover a such a wonderful artist
My favorites (amd I'm starting at '65): 65- John Coltrane- A love supreme 66- Beach boys- Pet sounds 67- Beatles- Sgt. Peppers 68- Moody blues- In search of the lost chords 69- Frank Zappa- Hot rats 70- Black Sabbath- Paranoid 71- Rolling Stones- Sticky fingers 72- Yes- Close to the edge 73- Elton John- Goodbye yellow brick road 74- Genesis- The lamb lies down on broadway 75- Black Sabbath- Sabotage 76- Rainbow- Rising 77- Peter Gabriel- Car 78- UK- Self titled 79- Talking heads- Fear of music 80- David Bowie- Scary monsters and super creeps 81- Rush- Moving pictures 82- Iron maiden- Number of the beast 83- U2- War 84- Metallica- Ride the lightning 85- Marillion- Misplaced childhood 86- Paul Simon- Graceland 87- Prince- Sign O the times 88- Talk talk- Spirit of eden 89- Nine inch nails- Pretty hate machine 90- Megadeth- Rust in peace 91- My bloofy valentine- Loveless 92- Faith no more- Angel dust 93- Wu Tang Clan- 36 chambers 94- Blur- Park life 95- Smahing pumpkins- Meloncoly and the infinite sadness 96- Rage against the machine- Evil empire 97- Devin Townsend- Ocean machine 98- System of a down- Self titled 99- Dr. Dre- 2001 2000- Eminem- Marshall Mathers LP 2001- Converge- Jane Doe 2002- Meshuggah- Nothing 2003- OutKast- Speakerboxxx/The love below 2004- Kanye West- The college dropout 2005- Gorillaz- Demon days 2006- J Dilla- Donuts 2007- Between the buried and me- Colors 2008- Cynic- Traced in air 2009- Mastodon- Crack the Skye 2010- Gorillaz- Plastic beach 2011- Asap Rocky- Live love asap 2012- Death grips- The money store 2013- Daft Punk- Random access memories 2014- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib- Piñata 2015- Kendrick Lamar- To pimp a butterfly 2016- Danny Brown- Atrocity exhibition 2017- Brockhampton- Saturation III 2018- Daughters- You won't get what you want 2019- Tyler the creator- IGOR 2020- Fire toolz- Rainbow bridge 2021- Jane remover- Frailty 2022- Black midi- Hellfire 2023- Young fathers- Heavy heavy
This really shows how insanely innovative the late 1960s were for music. Edit: Some people in the replies said that I overstated the musical influence of the late 1960s due to the flaws in the RYM algorithm. Since many RYM users don’t listen to old music, it’s not a perfect choice for finding a general consensus on albums released before the late 1960s. I agree with this sentiment to some extent, as I recently discovered some much earlier songs that I enjoy (albums weren’t very popular back then), such as Guitar Boogie by Arthur Smith from 1945, That’s All Right by Arthur Crudup from 1947, and Dust My Broom by Elmore James from 1952. However, it is worth noting that the late 1960s was a very powerful time for music. It gave us Pet Sounds, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (aka The White Album), Abbey Road, and In The Court of the Crimson King. Each of these make strong contenders for the greatest album ever made. Admittedly though, I may have drawn the wrong conclusion from the sudden musical shift in the middle of the video. Just wanted to clear that up.
@@xeroxparc HAHAHAHA definitely had an affect. That whole period of time was a massive shift in culture in general. Drugs, wars, post-WW2, technology going crazy, kinda wish I was alive to see how big of a shift it was.
everyone’s talking about the transition from jazz to yellow submarine, but i think the transition from heaven or las vegas to my bloody valentine’s loveless deserves more attention too 5:55
Idk man I think the drums on ICCK are so terribly balanced within every track, so dull and lacking dynamics. That's not to say that in terms of composition it's not one of the greatest but god damn the drums are so bad especially in light of how amazing Michael Giles' playing was
8:15 i'd like to mention that this is the wrong album version and one that was made in 2011 by will toledo in his college dorm. the 2018 version is a recreation with better quality and instrumentals / vocals / everything
king crimson doesn't have a single masterpiece album. they have great albums like Larks' Tongues and Wake of Poseidon, but none of them are masterpieces on the same level as other Prog bands like Genesis and Yes
2001 = Discovery by Daft Punk. It’s impact on music as a whole is unprecedented, it popularized the practice of sampling (which strongly influenced albums that came after, such as Ye’s Graduation and MBDTF) and combined disco, funk, classical music and house into a timeless masterpiece that is pure creative genius
Ehhhhh I'd argue as someone who has Discovery on her top 5 favorite albums of all time that Discovery would be nice but Vespertine does deserve that place also and I have that album in my top 5 too.
It’s interesting how people were hyper focused on producing the best instrumentals pre 1970’s but then quickly transitioned to vocals being more prominent
@beepboop What do you mean it's only been decent post 1930? Do you disqualify musical quality because of elitism? Or do you really not think it's good?
The 60s. Not only were Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton all active at that time, they were in the same fucking band. And that's just for starters.
I love how MBDTF and In The Court Of The Crimson King were both chosen, and also how Power (the sample) and 21st Century Schizoid Man (the original) were the songs playing for their respective album.
Most of Kanye's music is a masterclass in using samples to convey a message and that 21st Century Schizoid Man sample is one of my favourite of all time. It's really hard for me to decide which one's better
the ratings are unexpected in that they slightly differ from the typical best-of lists you might see on rolling stone or any other music publication, but once you listen to the albums at the top you realize why they're there.
#5 with 53000 ratings and 3.96/5 average behind Talk Talk, Slint and A Tribe Called Quest. Loveless is an album that has a greater influential impact on the new generations (indie rock/pop), compared to Nirvana... and after all, the amount of people from the new generations who gravitate to music sites is greater than generations of the 80s or 90s.
Im a huge MBV fan but we all literally have to agree that never mind was the most influential album of the whole 90s, gave the whole fuckin sound to a lot of bands even still
@@tidalphantom0277 you can't compare alt rock creation to what the Beatles did, Beatles literally popularized art rock, and everything that came later, including the velvet underground, even if indirectly
A list that completely surprised me (in a positive way). I don't agree with all the choices (which is absolutely normal) but it's a consistent and high-quality list. There are some albums that I don't know at all and others that I only know "in passing", but the mere 5 seconds that I listened to these albums "opened my appetite" to listen to them. Highlight that my favorite band (Pink Floyd) is represented with 3 albums, including the superlative "animals" which is sometimes a little undervalued in comparison to "wish you were here", "the wall" and "dark side of the moon". It is also worth noting that the "kings" of progressive rock King Crimson are equally represented with 3 albums. And also Radiohead, also with 3 albums. Finally, I highlight Stevie Wonder's album "songs in the key of life", which is, in my opinion, the best double album in the history of pop/rock music.
King Crimson appearing 3 times is such a W... especially on their three greatest albums. I really didn't expect to see them because they're often underrated but it's so great that they are here.
@@spaghettisauce445 It’s the best album of every year so it’s completely fair for Red and Discipline to be there. A lot of great albums came out in 1969 so I agree that it is disputable that it is the best of that year.
Artists with multiple albums: 📌4 albums: John Coltrane 📌3 albums: King Crimson Pink Floyd Radiohead 📌2 albums: Black Sabbath Clifford Brown and Max Roach Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Ichiko Aoba Kendrick Lamar Sweet Trip The Cure Tyler, the Creator And also a couple of philharmonics/orchestras with multiple albums (not to mention "various artists"). Surprising to see Miles Davis, The Beatles, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, The Smiths, Björk, Sufjan Stevens and Kanye West with "only" one album. Even more surprising to see all these artists missing: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Queen, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Fleetwood Mac, U2, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Eagles, AC/DC, Muse, Rush, Arctic Monkeys, Neil Young, Arcade Fire, Genesis, RHCP, Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, The Doors, Tame Impala, Oasis, Joni Mitchell, Bon Iver, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Frank Ocean, Lana del Rey, Pixies, Talk Talk, The Clash, The Beach Boys, The Smashing Pumpkins, Van Morrison, Daft Punk, Fiona Apple, Dire Straits, PJ Harvey, John Lennon, LCD Soundsystem, Leonard Cohen, Swans, Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Green Day, Lorde and Animal Collective. Master of Reality by Black Sabbath over Led Zeppelin IV and Who's Next (The Who) really surprised me. Was also expecting "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea".
yeah, while all the artists you mentioned are great, it should be noted that pretty much all of them are rated quite highly on the website. a lot of them have albums (in some cases quite a few albums) that maybe came 2nd or 3rd place for certain years. it's of course unfortunate to have to pin a bunch of great albums and artists together for certain years because it'd be nice to give them all their flowers, but that's just the result of doing a best album of each year list. i recommend anyone who feels like this list was lacking in any way to actually check out the website and scroll through the charts for each year, and you'll likely be a lot more satisfied.
@@lostinpictures509 Basically every AM album is great. SIaS was meh, and The Car is too new, we'll see how it ages. Lorde had really good chances with Melodrama, some chance with PH. I dig SP, but it's not an acclaim album or anything. The choices I made are based on my experience visiting sites such as the one used for the video, plus an idea of how many people listen to the artists. That's why I said that your comment was audacious, because I know for a fact that several of these artists albums are ranked Top10, sometimes even Top5 for the years they were released. So to assert that they would be lucky to be Top50 on their respective year is ridiculous. Exuma and Wipers are artists that I could see *not* cracking Top50.
@@michaelmalone7231 I think he ranks higher than both (although I know Adele's album was in 2015, not 2016). But Danny Brown ranks higher, even if just by a little
1967: The Doors 1970: Black Sabbath 1971: Led Zeppelin 4 1977: Rumours 1981: Moving Pictures 1990: Rust in peace 1991: Nevermind 1995: What's the story morning glory 1998: In the aeroplane over the sea 2001: Toxicity (My opinion)
Took a history of rock and roll class in university and honestly learning about these albums/people is an amazing experience, the transition to rock from jazz is honestly insane
The Beatles, but also Hendrix, The Doors, The Band, Cream, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Beach Boys, and so so many more. It’s unreal to think how much music grew in those five years.
I know these lists have to be by necessity a subjective choice. The absence of Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan seems to be a bit of a mistake. I have admired Coltrane most of my life but to in effect have 4 years in a row in this list is a bit excessive. I also feel that to have King Crimson,Duke Ellington Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath in multiple times would raise some eyebrows. One last beef Glen Miller surely didn’t have the most influential swing LP!
I love how the Beatles show up and then immediately it switches from jazz to rock and metal. And yes, Court of the Crimson King definitely earned it's place here.
1978-Dire Straits 1979-The Wall 1983-Hit The Lights 1986-Master of Puppets 1990-Violator 1992-Dirt 1993-Siamese Dream 1995-Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1998-Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 1999-Californication
Also 1991 should have been Nevermind, it’s literally one of the most if not the most influential albums of all time, everyone has heard “smells like teen spirit” “come as you are” and “something in the way”😐
@@Henryduckfan63 I wouldn’t say that- I suppose it depends how we define “mainstream”. As a younger person who listens to almost exclusively jazz, most responses are either people going “yeah I like *x thing that is barely jazz* a lot myself” (nothing against those people but… pat methaney?) or “huh. Yeah I don’t really know much about it.” It’s generally regarded as a mysterious and somewhat classy genre if not one undestood by most people nowadays.
i wasn’t expecting ichiko to be on this list twice, but i guess rym has always had a lot of japanese albums that are highly rated. 0 was the first album by her that i listened to, its absolutely stunning
As of 15/08/23, the list has changed quite a bit. Here are the new #1 best albums for some of those years. (No longer adding from 1909 - 1950) 1968 > Beatles - The White Album (overtaken Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland) *1971 > Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (overtaken Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV)* 1998 > Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Airplane Over the Sea (overtaken Outkast - Aquemini) *2002 > The Fire This Time (overtaken Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights)* 2013 > Kanye West - Yeezus (overtaken Ichiko Aoba - 0) 2014 > Swans - To be Kind (overtaken Freddie Gibbs - Piñata) *2016 > Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (overtaken Frank Ocean - Blonde again)* 2021 > JPEGMAFIA - LP! (overtaken Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert)
i think attrocity exhibition is more good i know blonde reach to your emotion but atrocity attach to your experience and how danny can rap on any sound
I am surprised at the lack of names such as Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin but also at the inclusion of names like Grouper and Have A Nice Life Solid list, overall
@@jeanoltt just so happens that the "mainstream generic rap" is also fucking amazing? whats ur point. rym users will try to be different, of course, but when it comes to records like those, they would be crucified if they weren't rated highly.
increible como pasamos de John Coltrane, The Beatles, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Kanye West, Kedrick Lamar hasta Black Country, New Road.
Kid A, Wish You Were Here and Pornography are probably my favourite albums of those. I really love that Radiohead, The Cure and Pink Floyd appeared multiple times
1966 Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan 1968 White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground 1969 Hot Rats by Frank Zappa 1971 Songs of Love And Hate by Leonard Cohen 1972 Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull 1973 Future Days by Can 1990 Violator by Depeche Mode 1998 Mezzanine by Massive Attack
2013 honestly should’ve been Daft Punks, Random Access Memories. Exquisitely produced original music (something they didnt do much before as a lot of what they did was sampling), working with some of the best around, Nile Rodgers, Todd Edwards, Giorgio Moroder, Julian Casablancas, Pharrell Williams and a few more i wish i could remember off the top of my head.
Solid choice. That album made my year. One of my favorite things about this list is not what’s on there but what’s not on there. Really gets you thinking.
Really glad that Karajan, João Gilberto, John Coltrane, Joy Division, The Smiths, Aphex Twins, Radiohead, and DOOM were all featured. Pretty much perfectly sums up my music taste
@@emporioalnino4670 red is my favorite king crimson album, and they played every song from the album when i saw them live in 2017. also kurt cobain cited red as the album that inspired him to play music.
@@emporioalnino4670 Nope. I disagree. Larks is my personal favorite KC album but Red is definitely more popular overall. I would say it's more popular than Discipline also. Next to Court it's their most well known based on everything I've seen.
