Entroducing DJ Shadow is a great record. It's 100% sampled but has more life to it than 99% of the manufactured garbage released by most mainstream acts. It's a great listen & a memorable one.
So happy to see Vampire Weekend on the list. A band that just does not get the credit they deserve for their inventive style of Indie Rock in the 2010s. Modern Vampires of the City is a FANTASTIC album.
I have quite a few of those albums. Adding compilation albums is cheating unless it’s someone like Robert Johnson or recordings like Elvis’ Sun Sessions. My ten favourites in order are 1 Black Sabbath 2 From Elvis in Memphis 3 Alive! 4 Closer 5 King of the Delta Blues Singers 6 Sandinista! 7 Let It Be 8 Elvis Presley 9 Kick Out the Jams 10 Rocks
First off I hope the procedures for your pain went well Larry,that's more important then this and If we all picked our favorite 100 albums they would all be different then each other and I'd be hard pressed to even think of a hundred albums that I like,my list would be every Beatle album ever made,a few Stones albums,a few Springsteen,Hendrix and Beach Boy albums and a few different albums from individual artists and a lot of artists on this list wouldn't even make mine,sorry but I think rankings like Rolling Stone's are pointless. Bob
So many of these should be in the Top 100, but instead we have lots of crap designed to appeal to younger listeners who wouldn't know good music if they heard it.
Your take culturally is genius on this. PS, I think tha Li$t is pretty much a P0p mashup rather than Ro¢K per say. Their out n out hypocrisy ( since how and who they covered between 78-99 years, for example) is truly mindnumbing. Gladly Janis J is on here. Wew... See B52sdebut on here bee nice.
Hi Larry Anything by the Beatles that low to me is disrespectful. For some reason nobody knows or gives much respect to Springsteen the wild the innocent etc. but to me its his best album less yelling and whining than his other albums.
To add anthologies and best of compilations to such a list is a bit disgraceful for a magazine that prides itself on knowing everything about pop and rock music. Compilations aren't albums in the classic sense. Very uneven, quite random list, but some great entries.
The first list like this that I'm aware of _Rolling Stone_ putting out was in their 20th Anniversary Issue in the summer of 1987. It was a list of the 100 greatest albums of the previous twenty years. They even advertised it on television! It was the first copy of RS that I ever bought. I laughed at a lot of the choices, but over the years, I ended up acquiring nearly all the albums on the list--and I also ended up liking nearly all of them. This was my first exposure to the idea of a rock & roll canon. That list was a very good list because the people who voted on it were nineteen music critics who were regular contributors to RS. Since then, RS has thrice published their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, in 2003, 2012, and 2020. Rather than having the list be picked solely by music critics, it was a poll sent to around 300 music-industry insiders--so instead of it being a critical list, it became instead a popularity contest. With the last of these lists, RS publicly stated that they had controlled the results to get the proper quota of female artists and artists of color. I don't like that idea to begin with, but what really infuriated me was that they dropped a bunch of albums by older black artists to make way for younger ones. That truly infuriated me. When I complained about it on their web site, RS informed me that my comment would be removed for "making terroristic threats and encouraging violence." HUH? In the last few years, RS has been publishing all kinds of lists, such as greatest singer of all time or greatest guitarist or greatest drummer. Every time they do, they get severely criticized for the contents of those lists. The reason is that these lists aren't even an attempt at being objective. They're not lists, they're listicles--published solely to generate clicks without putting any thought into it whatsoever. I gave up on RS in 2020. I'll never buy an issue of their magazine again.
Here's my original post on RS's website that got deleted for violating their "community guidelines." I fail to see any exhortations to violence here. "I think RS needs to better define the bounds of such a list. The small number of jazz and blues albums included here is a slap in the face to both genres-- there should definitely be more blues albums, but it would probably be better to exclude jazz altogether, as the number of great jazz albums would overwhelm this list if they were all included. That being said, I'm not going to go over all the albums I think should have been included or excluded. However, I will include a short list of albums I want to dispute. It is a list of nineteen albums that were included on the 2003 list which have been deleted here. I consider these deletions to be ABSOLUTELY UNFORGIVABLE: Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica Johnny Cash: American Recordings Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love Howlin' Wolf: Howlin' Wolf [The Rockin' Chair Album] Albert King: Born Under a Bad Sign John Mayall with Eric Clapton: Blues Breakers Willie Nelson: Stardust Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash Public Image Ltd.: Metal Box R. E. M.: Document Bruce Springsteen: The River Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights Muddy Waters: Folk Singer X: Wild Gift Frank Zappa: We're Only in It for the Money"
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Entroducing DJ Shadow is a great record. It's 100% sampled but has more life to it than 99% of the manufactured garbage released by most mainstream acts. It's a great listen & a memorable one.
Some great albums in there once again. Hope you’re feeling ok. All the best. Dave ✅✅
So happy to see Vampire Weekend on the list. A band that just does not get the credit they deserve for their inventive style of Indie Rock in the 2010s. Modern Vampires of the City is a FANTASTIC album.
I just did a song reaction for them on my Patreon and gave it a very good review.
I only have 3 out of this 100 albums:
1. RUSH - Moving Pictures
2. BEATLES - Let It Be
3. KISS - Alive
...and that is it!
I have quite a few of those albums. Adding compilation albums is cheating unless it’s someone like Robert Johnson or recordings like Elvis’ Sun Sessions. My ten favourites in order are
1 Black Sabbath
2 From Elvis in Memphis
3 Alive!
4 Closer
5 King of the Delta Blues Singers
6 Sandinista!
7 Let It Be
8 Elvis Presley
9 Kick Out the Jams
10 Rocks
I agree that with all these different genres, it’s almost impossible to rank these. So many of these new artists I’ve never even heard of.💁🏻♀️
First off I hope the procedures for your pain went well Larry,that's more important then this and If we all picked our favorite 100 albums they would all be different then each other and I'd be hard pressed to even think of a hundred albums that I like,my list would be every Beatle album ever made,a few Stones albums,a few Springsteen,Hendrix and Beach Boy albums and a few different albums from individual artists and a lot of artists on this list wouldn't even make mine,sorry but I think rankings like Rolling Stone's are pointless. Bob
Aside from the comps not bad. Has a couple of albums, I didn't expect to see on such a list.
You should Listen to "Another Green World" by Brian Eno, it's a 10/10
I recommend vampire weekend. One of the newer bands I listen to.
So many of these should be in the Top 100, but instead we have lots of crap designed to appeal to younger listeners who wouldn't know good music if they heard it.
Hi Larry. Well, I have 47 of these so I guess I’m feeling pretty good 😂. The compilations though….C’mon…
I totally agree what you said about Coldplay. 😆
51 out of 200 so far, I'm doing well!
I own 17 of these albums 👍xxx.
Your take culturally is genius on this. PS, I think tha Li$t is pretty much a P0p mashup rather than Ro¢K per say. Their out n out hypocrisy ( since how and who they covered between 78-99 years, for example) is truly mindnumbing. Gladly Janis J is on here. Wew... See B52sdebut on here bee nice.
Would just pick ‘Let it Be’ as way too low down on the list.
Hi Larry Anything by the Beatles that low to me is disrespectful. For some reason nobody knows or gives much respect to Springsteen the wild the innocent etc. but to me its his best album less yelling and whining than his other albums.
To add anthologies and best of compilations to such a list is a bit disgraceful for a magazine that prides itself on knowing everything about pop and rock music. Compilations aren't albums in the classic sense.
Very uneven, quite random list, but some great entries.
The first list like this that I'm aware of _Rolling Stone_ putting out was in their 20th Anniversary Issue in the summer of 1987. It was a list of the 100 greatest albums of the previous twenty years. They even advertised it on television! It was the first copy of RS that I ever bought. I laughed at a lot of the choices, but over the years, I ended up acquiring nearly all the albums on the list--and I also ended up liking nearly all of them. This was my first exposure to the idea of a rock & roll canon. That list was a very good list because the people who voted on it were nineteen music critics who were regular contributors to RS.
Since then, RS has thrice published their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, in 2003, 2012, and 2020. Rather than having the list be picked solely by music critics, it was a poll sent to around 300 music-industry insiders--so instead of it being a critical list, it became instead a popularity contest. With the last of these lists, RS publicly stated that they had controlled the results to get the proper quota of female artists and artists of color. I don't like that idea to begin with, but what really infuriated me was that they dropped a bunch of albums by older black artists to make way for younger ones. That truly infuriated me. When I complained about it on their web site, RS informed me that my comment would be removed for "making terroristic threats and encouraging violence." HUH?
In the last few years, RS has been publishing all kinds of lists, such as greatest singer of all time or greatest guitarist or greatest drummer. Every time they do, they get severely criticized for the contents of those lists. The reason is that these lists aren't even an attempt at being objective. They're not lists, they're listicles--published solely to generate clicks without putting any thought into it whatsoever. I gave up on RS in 2020. I'll never buy an issue of their magazine again.
Here's my original post on RS's website that got deleted for violating their "community guidelines." I fail to see any exhortations to violence here.
"I think RS needs to better define the bounds of such a list. The small number of jazz and blues albums included here is a slap in the face to both genres-- there should definitely be more blues albums, but it would probably be better to exclude jazz altogether, as the number of great jazz albums would overwhelm this list if they were all included. That being said, I'm not going to go over all the albums I think should have been included or excluded. However, I will include a short list of albums I want to dispute. It is a list of nineteen albums that were included on the 2003 list which have been deleted here. I consider these deletions to be ABSOLUTELY UNFORGIVABLE:
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Johnny Cash: American Recordings
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love
Howlin' Wolf: Howlin' Wolf [The Rockin' Chair Album]
Albert King: Born Under a Bad Sign
John Mayall with Eric Clapton: Blues Breakers
Willie Nelson: Stardust
Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks
The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Public Image Ltd.: Metal Box
R. E. M.: Document
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power
Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights
Muddy Waters: Folk Singer
X: Wild Gift
Frank Zappa: We're Only in It for the Money"