Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums
 

Do you agree ??

1 - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

2 - Pet Sounds

3 - The Beatles: Revolver

4 - Highway 61 Revisited

5 - Rubber Soul

6 - Marvin Gaye: What's Going On

7 - Exile on Main St.

8 - London Calling

9 - Blonde on Blonde

10 - The Beatles (White Album).

11 - Sun Sessions

12 - Kind of Blue

13 - The Velvet Underground & Nico

14 - Abbey Road

15 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Are You Experienced?

16 - Blood on the Tracks

17 - Nevermind

18 - Born to Run

19 - Astral Weeks

20 - Michael jackson thriller

21 - Chuck Berry: Great Twenty Eight

22 - Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings

23 - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

24 - Stevie Wonder: Innervisions

25 - James Brown Live at the Apollo

26 - Rumours

27 - The Joshua Tree

28 - Who's Next

29 - Led Zeppelin

30 - Joni mitchell blue

31 - Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home

32 - Let It Bleed

33 - Ramones

34 - The Band: Music from Big Pink

35 - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

36 - Tapestry

37 - Hotel California

38 - Muddy Waters Anthology

39 - Please Please Me

40 - Love - Forever Changes

41 - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

42 - The Doors

43 - Dark side of the moon

44 - Patti Smith, Horses

45 - The Band

46 - Bob Marley Legend

47 - A Love Supreme

48 - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

49 - The Allman Brothers: At Fillmore East

50 - Here Little Richard- Little Richard

51 - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

52 - Al Green's Greatest Hits

53 - Meet The Beatles!- The Beatles

54 - The Birth Of The Sound: The Complete Atlantic Recordings- Ray Charles

55 - Electric Ladyland

56 - Elvis Presley (album)

57 - Songs in the Key of Life

58 - Beggars Banquet- The Rolling Stones

59 - Chronicle Vol. 1- Creedence Clearwater Revival

60 - Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica

61 - Greatest Hits- Sly and the Family Stone

62 - Appetite for Destruction

63 - Achtung Baby

64 - Sticky Fingers

65 - Back To Mono (1958-1969)- Phil Spector

66 - Moondance

67 - Kid A

68 - Off the Wall

69 - Led Zeppelin 4

70 - The Stranger

71 - Graceland

72 - Superfly

73 - Physical Graffiti

74 - After the Gold Rush

75 - Star Time- James Brown

76 - Purple Rain (album)

77 - Back in Black

78 - Otis Blue

79 - Led Zeppelin II

80 - Imagine

81 - The Clash

82 - Harvest

83 - Axis: Bold as Love

84 - I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You- Aretha Fanklin (1967)

85 - Lady Soul- Aretha Franklin

86 - Born in the U.S.A.

87 - The Wall

88 - At Folsom Prison

89 - Dusty in Memphis

90 - Talking Book- Stevie Wonder

91 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

92 - Buddy Holly 20 Greatest Hits

93 - Prince: Sign of the Times

94 - Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits

95 - Bitches Brew

96 - Tommy

97 - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

98 - This Year's Model- Elvis Costello

99 - There's a Riot Goin On

100 - Odessey and Oracle- The Zombies (1969)

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Pointless thread is pointless.

well there's no powerviolence

Do you?

Actually i don't, saying a album is the best doesn't convince me. Doesn't it make the best just because Rolling Stone Magazine said so?

Ok so which ones would you take out, what would you replace them with, why would you replace them with those?

Though I enjoy Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I can't think of any particular reason it even made this list at all, let alone topped it.

In my opinion The Stranger should be a lot higher, as it's one of the more beautifully produced, lush-sounding albums on the list. It could just be that I love the album and think it's perfect, ...but it's still a prettier listen than most of the albums (specifically The Joshua Tree and Nevermind - are you kidding me?) listed before it.

Rolling Stone magazine is trash.

Ok here is my problem with the whole list, i understand because most of all these albums date back over the past 40 to 50 years but honestly i do believe that there has been some truly marvelous albums written within the past 5 to 10 years. I do believe the Beatles and the Ramones do deserve to be on that last but the rest i seriously think they could be debated as mediocre.

something tells me you probably haven't heard the majority of this list.

Nobody takes Rolling Stone seriously anymore.

Not even Rolling Stone takes Rolling Stone seriously anymore.

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I have heard them but because i wasnt impressed i stop listening to them ..

Justin Bieber is just a musical nuisance to keep the media from true artist.

I didn't say Rolling Stones, I said Rolling Stone.

just gives you more time to figure out what you do like.

That kid is a nuisance to planet earth with his shitty behavior, noise pollution, and disgusting fangirls.

fan girls , groupie's , trash ..

No I don't agree with the list, in general I think a lot of people feel that Rolling Stone magazine has lost its credibility on making judgments on such matters.

Here's a good example as to why?

69 - Led Zeppelin 4
87 - The Wall

8 - London Calling
33 - Ramones

and the Ramones before the Sex Pistols? bollocks!

My point exactly , Rolling Stone has turned more concern with selling then actually given reasonable thought to their own opinions.

Are you really looking to discuss this list as if it means anything at all? Rolling Stone have been and will probably continue to put out top 100 lists that are so generic and easy to predict, that you could take this list, and it'd be pretty much exactly like the next top 100 list they're going to release.

my prediction for Rolling Stone's next "top 100" list.

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or much worse , adding Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus to that list

Pink Floyd, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols.

Really?

No mention of Frank Zappa who has over 50 albums under his belt like, Zoot Allures, Joe's Garage and Overnight Sensation.
Only 48 more albums to choose from by Zappa alone.

Exactly .. I think they need to have a panel of 50 people voting on the best albums.

That would just make it even more generic.

Not if you stick them all in a room and they listen to thousands of albums through the last 70 years and then vote on which albums is the top 100

You're right. Let's write Rolling Stone and tell them of this ultra-realistic method of making a list.

Oh i know its not realistic but its what would have to happen to have some accuracy on that list

I think the peoples choice might produce more realistic results.

Rolling Stone is just a bone headed magazine that no one should take seriously, this list is exactly what I expected. Only put in classic revered albums because why would anyone want to see anything else, oh it would be such an outrage if something somewhat unknown made it on. The list represents the magazine absolute trash!

Sorry I get overzealous about these kinds of things sometimes, but I hate people who worship classic things for the sake of them being classic.

^What should I take seriously?

I think Rolling Stone probably made a calculated business decision based on the demographic of their subscribers.

The pandering makes it no less boneheaded

Nostalgia industry, mate. I've got nothing to back it up, but I'm guessing most of Rolling Stone's subscribers are Baby Boomers. It's still a crappy list, but a smart business decision.

Rolling Stone lists tend to be dull. If you want real entertainment read the NME's lists.
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The Strokes debut the 4th best album ever :laughing:

Totally agree.

I would assume that these old folks (I don't really like that term for some reason but it fits) who actually enjoy music would be even more passionate about busting this ****ty list. They've been around a bit longer and had more time to listen to half a million different things.

These lists are for the musically simple minded.
How do you rate one at 16 as opposed to 21, what's the criteria?
More to the point, what for, other than commercial ends.
Different genres, different eras, different demographic appeal....these lists are absolutely meaningless.