Rolling Stone - 500 greatest albums of all time

[Al Krow]

Refreshing to see Sergeant Pepper's, as totally iconic and ground breaking as it was, knocked off the top spot for once.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/

Any obvious omissions?

Edited September 27, 2020 by Al Krow

[alexa3020]

Obviously these lists are subjective, and You can pick holes in them fairly easily. The hole I’ll pick is surely Electric ladyland is superior to are you experienced!

[Old Man Riva]

1 hour ago, alexa3020 said:

Obviously these lists are subjective, and You can pick holes in them fairly easily. The hole I’ll pick is surely Electric ladyland is superior to are you experienced!

... and I’ll add: the inclusion of Stone Roses and Oasis but no Happy Mondays. No Roxy Music debut. No Aladdin Sane. Hejira and Sign ‘o’ the Times ranked way too low. No New Boots & Panties. Back in Black vs. Powerage or Highway to Hell? No Tricky or Blue Nile?

And as daft as these types of lists are it’s absurd to include compilation/best of albums - if you’re going down that route where are the Beatles’ blue and red albums?

Apart from that it’s excellent!! 

(I’ll admit now that there’s every chance that all of the above are included and I’ve missed them!)
 

 

Edited September 27, 2020 by Old Man Riva

[Doctor J]

Compilations? Pshaw to this lazy clickbait.

[ahpook]

Absolute Frikkin' Tosh !

Linda Ronstadt's  'Heart Like a Wheel' is absolutely the 498th best album EVER. And there it is at #490. FFS

How anyone can even think that it belongs anywhere else is smoking crack. I mean, seriously...

Edited September 27, 2020 by ahpook

[Heathy]

The only non-subjective way to do this must be sales based, surely?

Although, I expect that there would need to be an algorithm to factor in how long the album has been available, LPs that were later resold as CDs etc.

 

[TheGreek]

Can't be rrrrsed to look...JOOI what was No1?

[Old Man Riva]

Just now, TheGreek said:

Can't be rrrrsed to look...JOOI what was No1?

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On...

[Marvin]

Obviously very US dominated, there are loads of bands/artists that I've not even heard of. That said, there are some awful errors. For example: I'm a fan of The Breeders and the list does include one of their albums, The Last Splash. Ok, it had the catchy Cannonball on it, however, as an album it's not as good as their debut album.

Weirdisms

[Barking Spiders]

obviously too much time on their hands during full/partial/zero lockdown or whatever's been going on in the US of A

[Guest]

Very disappointed that Milli Vanilli disn't make the top spot.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

The fact that Kanye West features on the 1 to 50 page should give everyone a clue how utterly pointless this is.

[dannybuoy]

A more concise list with Spotify and other links:

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1500-rolling-stones-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-2020/?s=asc