Really I would rather have a top 20 or 10 where he talks about his personal taste and experiences and connections to the music rather than trying to make a “greatest” list.
The low percentage of jazz, blues, rock, punk, funk, indie, grunge, metal, etc. was a bit shocking. "Band music" in general seems to have taken a backseat to more contemporary individual artists on this list.
@@xwexarexbulletsx There's close to zero non-anglophone music. Egregious absence of bossa nova, latin music in general, etc. And as the OP mentioned, far too much pop and rap.
@@raugusto0 there isn’t “far too much rap” The problem with people like you is if you don’t like a genre you say things like this without understanding what’s going on. Sorry to break it to you but Hip Hop/Rap is arguably the most influential genre of music….. there’s a reason there are so many hip hop albums and lack of “Latin, punk and metal” like come on now let’s be serious. The choices of hip hop I personally wouldn’t go with but it is what it is. I also think it’s mad linkin Park didn’t make the list but not having listened to all 100 of these albums for now I can’t be angry. Now whe. I get through all these albums I can be a better judge. (I’m 100% going to listen to all of these). Some reason I doubt youve heard all 100 of these albums
@@raugusto0All these lists are a product of their time. The lists that were made 10 or 20 years ago lacked so much Rap and Electronic music while also adding way too much Rock is just an example of this. At then of the day, I think only a handful of albums truly deserve to be regarded as “Greatest of all time”, and most of them are always named. The Abby Roads, the What’s Going ons, the Neverminds, the TPaBs, etc. Those ubiquitous projects that you’d be crazy for not including are the ones. After that, it’s all it’s really all just a snapshot of the music trends of the times.
@@jamesonedwardsii4943 "there isn’t “far too much rap”" Yes there is. Pop and rap completely dominated a list that was supposed to have the "100 greatest albums of all time". "The problem with people like you is if you don’t like a genre you say things like this without understanding what’s going on." I like rap quite a lot, not sure why you assumed I don't. "Sorry to break it to you but Hip Hop/Rap is arguably the most influential genre of music…." Today. In the US. It was not 20 years ago, or 30, or 40, and it is not in many countries today. Wasn't the list supposed to be a "greatest of all time" list? Even if we accept the list is going to be anglo-centric, there are genres within the American musical scene that have been completely snuffed such as blues (BB King? Robert Johnson?).
How can anyone in the universe, pick a #1 album of all time? As you get closer to #1, each pick exponentially says more about the person picking, than anything about music. Once you get to #1, you're at 100% bias
Bro you are speaking straight facts, even ranking albums is so disrespectful, and kind of dishonest to how we even process music. How do you quantify Prince over Micheal Jackson, or vice versa. We listen to the music we're in the mood for.
If you don't set a list of measurable and objective aspects that make an album strictly better than any other one (which I think nobody can), this kind of TOP lists are meaningless.
Right, like, the only way a top 100 oat list would feel satisfying in my opinion is if there were maybe 10 albums per number rank and each album had a blurb about it. Something to show that lots of different albums contend for the same spots on a list like that but for different reasons. That list would be so big it could be a book, but, I really think it would be an amazing resource if a big, diverse pool of educated people collaborated to make it
The fact that there is only one non-English album on this list (and it’s Bad Bunny of all people) automatically invalidates its claim of being the “best albums of all time.”
100% agree. I was happy with his inclusion regarding its not in english, but no brazillian music album in here is insane... at least should have had Acabou Chorare or a Chico Buarque album
yes absolutely!!! bro they put kenderick's album on number 7? and the weekend is not on the list and it's all English, i can tell you couple of albums in another language that define a whole new music style
You gotta hand it to Apple for letting underdogs like Michael Jackson and Prince shine instead of playing it safe and putting every NAV album in the top 10 🙏🙏
@ceruvelt8073 Honestly, Taylor's album isn't the worst shout. It could've been lower in the list, but the fact they put the bad bunny album on there over TPAB is insane.
We get Drake's Take care in the top 50 above beastie boys and 2 numbers above we get Homogenic. This list was made by 2 people, one being someone in their 20s and the other one who at least put some effort into it 💀
I think I would go even further and say that any album less than 20 years old just hasn't been around long enough to have definitely stood the test of time.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 yeah honestly me too, even though there’s still great stuff coming out every year. Was just trying to avoid accusations of “boomer” haha.
i don't think it's an unpopular opinion, i have a recency bias in my own music taste as i despise the notion that modern music is bad/worse than old music. but for a list like this i think at bare minimum 5 if not 10 years is needed, especially for cultural impact.
The fact that there was ONE non-English album on the list and it was fuсkin’ Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny. What a joke. No Cerati or Fishmans or Buena Vista Social Club. And I don't even dislike Bad Bunny.
It put blonde over Marvin Gaye’s what’s going on. Like, how? What is the reasoning? There’s many other ones where it just doesn’t make sense for them to be there.
Playing to the room. Why TF is Rihanna here? Why are there so many pointless, cowardly, cash grab pop albums making this list? I mean 1989 in the top 20??? Above f'n albums that dramatically changed the course of music history forever? Albums that were extraordinarily brave, personal, transcendent... Unbelievably stupid list
I’m not gonna lie, Night At The Opera is carried by Bohemian Rhapsody and The Prophet’s Song (I’m In Love With My Car’s also pretty good). Half of the deep cuts weren’t for me unfortunately. I still love Queen though, they’re one of my rock goats.
And absolutely no country music? Like I know not everyone loves country music, but there are some undeniable artists and albums there. Like no Willie Nelson? no Johnny Cash?
@@francoestrubia6503 Strange for an American company with mostly American subscribers to share western centric albums on their list? Were you expecting Cambodian Psychedelic rock to top their charts?
@@gaelbaca2958 But in the same way it's understood that the list needs to be taken in the context of the critics' opinion, it's also understood that it's taken in the context of the critics' culture. If the critics name is Huy Yaleng and he's publishing the article to a magazine based in Phnom Penh, I'd expect Sin Sisamouth over Jefferson Starship even if it's simply titled "Best Music of All Time." Not everything needs a qualifier. And if the audience either isn't intelligent enough to understand that or tries to be overly pedantic on a technicality, it's not the fault of the author. You read a list put out by an American Company, don't expect any of the Polka greats from the 80's. It shouldn't need to be said, but that's not the world we live in.
@@StormDogg It's true that an unbiased opinion does not exist; it's true that trying to be objective with the mostly arbitrary rankings of such a list is mostly a waste of time, but a critic CAN try to make a list that is representative of the actual world we live in, however difficult this may be. I think it's a little misguided to rationalize that it should be "natural" or "obvious" that since the author is an (x nationality) their opinion is naturally limited to that of an (x nationality).
@@alecl9430I’d love you to elaborate. It’s one of my top 3 albums but I feel like outside of a Kanye sample I haven’t seen where it has impacted the scene. Kind of like TPAB I just see it as a masterpiece that is hard to recreate.
I think front to back, Red is the better King Crimson album. And just like Court influenced waves and waves of prog and art rock, Red has a ton of influence on metal and post rock. Still, Court and Red would both be worthy of being in a top 100 list.
I've been reading a punk history book, and in the very beginning, they ask someone which bands inspired them to get into punk and they say "the eagles, because I hated them so much." and now when I hear about the eagles I just think of that lol
I just want to say that my sister absolutely loves Musgraves. Pictures of her in her house, constantly playing her music, even her husband is jealous of Musgraves and hates her.
I genuinely don’t understand how Taylor Swift ranks significantly higher than Nina Simone unless the entire point of the list was to make people angry at it
No Roots. No MF DOOM. No Black Parade. No SOAD. No TPAB. No Weeknd. No College Dropout or Graduation. And like he said, such a huge lack of love for metal and electronic in general. The list is absurd. The albums are fine, but the exclusions are egregious.
Also zero blues on it. But I understand the lack of MF Doom and the Roots for example, because the list is already VERY HEAVY on the R&B, rap and Hip Hop. I would have loved to see some love for the blues and some more actual indie. I would have expected something like Funeral to be on a list like this.
I’m so glad Anthony mentioned Depeche Mode and New Order’s absence. Like, with how influential it was to multiple sides of rock, electronic, and pop as a whole, I couldn’t believe that Violator wasn’t anywhere on the list…
Violator is one of the best albums ever and that’s a fact, not an opinion. Queen, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin have 2 albums combined on this list if that’s gives you any indication of its invalidity.
@@benamisai-kham5892 she's been making albums since the 90s, if you get into music discourse you'd see people who dig deeper hold her in high regards, listen to "Fetch The Bolt Cutters", and you'll see how experimental and playful she is, the percussions and drums on that album are insane
This was the big miss for me too. You can’t listen to Ian Curtis’s vocals on New Dawn Faded and not realize this is exactly what music would be doing the next 50 years. LCD Soundsystem also a big snub.
Well, Guardsman, the Emperor expects you to live beyond your name. Bring glory to the God Emperor and honor to the name of Tanner. The Emperor Protects *THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If a job is worth doing, it is worth filing in triplicate.
This list suggests South America, Africa and Asia collectivelly have not through the years managed to produce a single top-100 record. Not really serious work tbh
This feels like a "pop" top 100 list, not in that it's all pop, but in that each album and artist was picked because of some explicit cultural moment and not based purely on its importance or influence or even creativity and best listen
i dont agree. There are some highly influential albums on this list. Something being underground can also be influential, but often will a popularity of an album reflect if it's influtenial or not. Most often older albums such as abbey road, modern music doesnt really have the same function i found
Hmm but if it was based on influence, more Lana albums should be there. Skrillex should be there. More trap should be there. I don’t think they based it on influence alone.
Aja admittedly isn't my favourite work of theirs but my heart is warmed to see so much defence and support of Steely Dan in these comments. I grew up absolutely adoring them (CBAT is one of the few albums where I love every single track) but as time has gone on I've found they seem to divide opinion a fair bit. Really happy to see so much love here and feeling proud to be a Dan stan again 😊
their albums were the first i ever owned, and i've listened to each of them hundreds to thousands of times by now. they have been the soundtrack to my life :)
@@MonkeyBoy-o2w I don’t think that’s how this list is…..listed lol. To save room for other artists and albums, they chose only one album from each artist. Everyone knows TPAB is up there w MAAD city, so they decided to pick only one of the two to save a spot
Completely man - BOTW is a perfect album. While where here: No linkin park No sufjan stevens No elliott smith No system of a down No queen No coldplay No bon iver No bob dylan No jeff buckley No chet baker No gorrilaz No vampire weekend Ok im gonna stop cryin 😢
@@FentForEnt i like both but personally i prefer dirt. Facelift is different from dirt as layne has more space for his awesome vocal lines, but i just like the dirt riffs more. My favourite song from dirt is probably Rain when i die, such a banger
Love that 2 minutes after talking about how bland steely dan aja is he talks about how creative and inspired the de la soul album is. The main song from de la soul is a steely dan song!!
I'm not a Steely Dan hater, but you are insane if you don't think that song is more than the Steely Dan interpolation. Also he isn't talking songs, but full albums.
@@carstenmoney920 What I found ironic about the De La Soul/Dan comparison is Melon praising the former for having so much personality, but the latter is bland. What makes Steely Dan unique *is* the personality put into it. The production is deliberately perfect & sterile, but the lyrics & delivery are very idiosyncratic
@@carstenmoney920 I didnt say that, or maybe i implied it idk. I love Eye know, its not just a steely dan interpolation but the main building block of that song was the use of that sample and with melon describing that album as so creative, yet the main element of the main song being so bland, it just strikes an odd chord that maybe his steely dan hate isnt perfectly considered
You’d be surprised! Many MJ fans have that take, especially black American fans. It’s a lot more soulful than Thriller, which is a lot more polished and more poppy. Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough, Rock With You, the title track, and I Can’t Help It are some of MJ’s best work.
Thriller is 3 hit singles plus 1 great album opener and then 1-2 more good songs. It's stalls like 4 times in the flow of it as said. I can't remember being more dissapointed when listening through it all the first time. Bad is also better as an album. Bad also sound more timelessly prestine and punchy. Thriller wasn't ever a gold standard of timeless pop that could last. Too many elements in there needing room so that nothings sounds big. Bad does it better as said but I usually bring up Take A Chance On Me as the right timelessly prestine and full sound pop should have. That's ABBA the album of 1977.
As someone who loves Radiohead and Kid A to death, I 100% agree that they probably should’ve just had Ok Computer, Kid A should be replaced by something by Aphex Twin.
RIGHT? I am also a swiftie and I went on a whole rant in my head about how the only reason 1989 is there is because of the influence it had on pop culture. If I were to choose a Taylor album to put on top 100, it would have been folklore or speak now.
@@aliceinbookland1or Red! I get why 1989 is on there though. It’s a solid Pop record for what it is. Its one of the better Pop albums from the 2010s. Not Taylor’s best album though.
I AGREE. I would have been OK with Greatest Hits. I know its chagrin for the fans but in popular culture that album has taken a life of it's own. And I would put it in top 10. Let alone top 100.
There’s better jazz, rock, pop albums than Aja, sure. But it’s the only jazz rock/pop album, i don’t even know any other jazz fusion that’s this radio friendly. Zappa, Weather Report, Miles and the rest did make better fusion, but they were never pop.
@@noitsbecky.4291It’s funny how opinions on Taylor’s albums are so different from whoever you ask. To me, Lover is her best Pop record by a slim margin because the concept and production interests me more than 1989 does. I also believe Lover holds the stronger tracks in her discography. 1989 is more cohesive as a whole album, but I don’t think a lot of the deep cuts on 1989 are among some of her best songs. We do have Out Of The Woods, I Know Places and Clean, but I don’t believe Welcome To New York, All You Had To Do Was Stay, This Love, or How You Get The Girl are among her best songs. Lover has The Archer, Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince, Death By A Thousand Cuts, Cornelia Street, False God and Daylight.
I like plastic beach more but Demon Days is the most classic Gorillaz. I am shocked they are not on the list and even more shocked that Fantano didn’t mention them
I gotta disagree with your comments on The Blueprint by Jay Z. Even as a Nas super fan, what Jay managed to do on The Blueprint was something I don't think any other artist could've done. Aiding the cultural transition of rock to rap as pops default sound and filling the power vacuum left by the 2Pac v Biggie aka West v East feuds before the South (Bling era) took over in the aughts was what The Blueprint accomplished (I mean think of the albums name, Hov was setting the "blue prints" for the culture, it was the bridge that divided the conscious hardcore rap fans of the 90's and the ignorant, dirty crunk wave that was about to hit the 00's). Even without getting too deep into what it symbolised, Jay himself sounded fresh, wasn't tacky, fostered one of the greatest artists early production (Kanye) yet kept a chip on his shoulder for what he wanted to gain, which made it still sound hungry and innovative. Even if the Takeover v Ether beef stains peoples memories of this album, The Blueprint is a flagship in hip-hop/rap history.
@@jacobburghart8125 every god damn album they dropped was good imo bro. Aja Katy lied the royal scam perfect records. Countdown to ecstasy pretzel logic awesome.cant buy a thrill all bangers
@user-mh2wc3tq9s Superior in what way? Culturally? I mean, if that's what you are arguing for, I can kinda see why you would think that: People all over the world listen to our music, while we listen to none of their music, therefore ours is better. But then again unless you are making some weird quality = popularity argument; you can't ever sincerely defend your cultural supereority when it's obvious you are not engaging with any of the cultures you claim to be superior to.
It's literally one of the most influential records of all time in that its emblematic of post-punk/goth rock, and without it we wouldn't have new order. Both 'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Power Corruption and lies' should be on a top 100 list
Considering that one of the best songwriters of all time says that Joy Division was the best thing he has ever seen … I'm talking about Robert Smith from the Cure, here. And I hope Disintegration is on this list. If not, it's toilet paper. - EDIT: Disintegration at 56 is okay, I guess.
Imagine including Drake, Arctic Monkeys, Taylor Swift, SZA (with an album from 2022, like hello? Classics from ALL TIME?), 50 Cents, Lorde and not including Unknown Pleasures. 😐
No shoegaze, barely any metal, barely any prog, no idm. Kinda ridiculous how under represented some genres are, when others like hip hop gets so many mentions. Pretty clear that apple music just gave up on trying to have a more objective list and just listed the best selling albums instead. Madvillainy was robbed too and it's especially criminal too since this list already had so many hip hop inclusions, many of which you wouldn't dream placing above it.
Indie as a whole is just snubbed from this list, pretty much 99% of these picks are major label releases, I can't help but to look at these kinds of lists as a massive music industry circle jerk
Man, you cannot put a Billie Eilish album here after ignoring both the rock and punk scenes of the 90s and 2000s that inspired her. You have Nirvana and nothing else
Dude I cant agree more. I was listened to him name Zappa and Mahuvishu Orchestra and I'm like you're gonna dis Steely Dan when you have projects like The Royal Scam compared to Franks Garage or Hot Rats????? Wth??
Fantano acting like Black Cow (which MF DOOM samples on Gas Drawls), Peg (sampled by De La Soul on Eye Know), Deacon Blues, and Josie aren’t iconic Steely Dan bangers. They clearly influenced other genres and got mainstream audiences into jazz. Cmon melon
I do think that Steely Dan has one or two better albums than Aja but like… I just don’t understand how you can trash it like this. Like not only is the composition transcendent but the contributions of Wayne Shorter, Steve Gadd, Michael McDonald, Chuck Rainey, Bernard Purdie… it’s like a who’s who of jazz greats just hanging out on a record.
The lack of post punk/punk is what I really hate about this list Like no Ramones? Dead Kennedys? Bad Brains? Wire??? Joy Division??????????? So many modern rock albums don't exist with punk's influence and to have London Calling be the sole representative is gross
The cultural impact of artists like dead Kennedys versus Adele is insane, they really just ignored so many genres to fill the list with pop from the past 10 years
@@raecat9228the thing about those two is that they don't even have a legacy/huge hits like 1989, Folklore was successful, Evermore isn't, and this list clearly shows that it also takes impact and commercial perfomance accountable.
calling aja “bland” is so fucking funny to me i’m guessing he more so doesn’t mess with donald fagen’s voice then the actual musicality of the record and hasn’t listened to it recently
The more I listen to music I realize that making such list is nearly impossible while being true to even yourself. There are so many classic, influential and just flawless albums spread across so many genres, that it's just hard comparing them, let alone putting on such list. The only way of making a list like this would be either splitting it into genres or make some albums share some spots on the list, maybe even put a few albums of some artist or few artists from same era on one spot as general contribution. Like, I don't know. Back in the day I used to be curious about lists like this, back when I wanted to know what people consider as classics, but now it's just like "yeah, whatever". I can't be mad at somebody liking something over something else. Yeah, there may be some obvious duds here and there, that make a lot of people scratch their head but apart from that it's just fine.
the fact Is that this list Just Takes popular albums, not booking at the actual quality or content, Just some mainstream choices (some are obviously good),
Lists like these are completely pointless for any medium. People have too many personal preferences, and your list is never going to satisfy any of them. Also influence and quality should be separate. Either make the top whatever most influential or the top best; don't make both at the same time if you have to make a list at all.
The production on Aja was revolutionary, not Steely Dan's best but certainly influential. Steely Dan is top 100 worthy for sure... no Hot Rats is also criminal.
Aja is obviously a tentpole in the Yacht Rock movement (indulged only by Aja and later SD studio albums) but is sadly not even the best Steely Dan album.
my issue is just that it mostly has nothing interesting to say. it’s the same albums we all think are good. mostly inoffensive except for specific placements (which are gonna get people mad regardless). i’m reminded of tyler the creator speaking about people on twitter making these “top whatever artists” lists without any thought behind personal feeling and context, etc, which is admittedly difficult to do when you’re a faceless conglomerate like apple, but alas.
“The fact that it’s not like every list ever is criminal” have you not had enough of mf doom being on every best album list ever? I can get J Dilla deserving a spot because his music is way better than Endtroducing
I’m surprised there was no Selena. She was one of the first Spanish speaking artists to be huge in the US. She also lifted an entire genre (tejano) to the highest of highs and that genre was been stagnant since she left.
No prog except Pink Floyd No metal except Metallica No Jazz except Miles Davis and Coltrane No synthpop except Kraftwerk Only three electronica albums And the worst thing as always in this lists, is that is completely anglocentric . Apparently, music by artists that don't sing in english is not worthy. The only artist here that doesn't sing primarily in english is Bad Bunny. It's like if artists from Latin America doesn't exist, artists from Asia doesn't exist, artists from Africa doesn't exist and the only artists from Europe that exist outside the british isles are the ones that make music in english (Björk, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk). It's not a west biased list, is an anglo biased list (anglo as in angloesphere: the english speakong countries, not as an ethnic group). And music is the only art form in that thing happens oftenly and nobody complains about it.
@carlosvazquez7173 🤣🤣🤣 is that actually why? I will say I haven't listened to that era of Steely Dan but I haven't heard good things 💀 sucks there grammy win was far after there peak
not sure what is more ridiculous, this top 100 list itself, or his dislike of this album. ask the greatest musicians of the past 70 years and they pretty much will all have Aja in their top 10. goes to show there is a difference between being "knowledgeable" and "knowing a lot of stuff".
@@SKIECLASSESRajbagh the fact that you can’t wrap your head around someone both not liking the most boring, mainstream music and also not copy and pasting their own opinions off of Rate Your Music tells me everything I need to know about you. You’re a walking stereotype.
3:36 imagine being back in 2011 after the goblin review and someone telling you that in the future fantano would be saying Tyler should be higher in the top 100 albums of all time. The evolution is Crazy
No To Pimp A Butterfly is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever seen, watched this video for half an hour waiting for it to land at #1 for nothing.
Use this as an “Anthony should make a top 100 albums of all time list” button
He already did top 20000 a while ago actually
i can’t fathom having listened to 20,000 albums
still need that all time top 100
Really I would rather have a top 20 or 10 where he talks about his personal taste and experiences and connections to the music rather than trying to make a “greatest” list.
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This is like they got a 70 yr old and a 15 yr old to name their top 50 favourite albums, and then just alternated between them.
this is so funny
Ngl I let out a chuckle 😭
Accurate
apple clearly just made that top based on what the most people would agree on their ranking.
And a 40 year old
Idk how they forgot about Fiona when they are literally named after her
lol
That’s a bar
HAHAHA SO REAL
There's no Fiona! Wtf 😮
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is truly brilliant
Drake over The Velvet Underground And Nico, Hounds of Love and other masterpiece albums is fucking criminal
it really is lmao!!
The velvet underground is very good but not a masterpiece 🤷♂️
@@uncleuddersdrake isn’t better is the point
drake clears those randoms
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Anthony Fantano the type of guy to listen to a song
Fr like who tf listens to music???
The woke agenda really messed him up I remember chugging beers and calling people N words with him, crazy how much he changed 😪💔
Fax
Agree
Bro listens to music
The low percentage of jazz, blues, rock, punk, funk, indie, grunge, metal, etc. was a bit shocking. "Band music" in general seems to have taken a backseat to more contemporary individual artists on this list.
@@xwexarexbulletsx There's close to zero non-anglophone music. Egregious absence of bossa nova, latin music in general, etc. And as the OP mentioned, far too much pop and rap.
@@raugusto0 It's really truly bad. I thought the Rolling Stone list became worse every or so years ago, but this one trumped it
@@raugusto0 there isn’t “far too much rap”
The problem with people like you is if you don’t like a genre you say things like this without understanding what’s going on.
Sorry to break it to you but Hip Hop/Rap is arguably the most influential genre of music….. there’s a reason there are so many hip hop albums and lack of “Latin, punk and metal” like come on now let’s be serious.
The choices of hip hop I personally wouldn’t go with but it is what it is. I also think it’s mad linkin Park didn’t make the list but not having listened to all 100 of these albums for now I can’t be angry. Now whe. I get through all these albums I can be a better judge. (I’m 100% going to listen to all of these).
Some reason I doubt youve heard all 100 of these albums
@@raugusto0All these lists are a product of their time. The lists that were made 10 or 20 years ago lacked so much Rap and Electronic music while also adding way too much Rock is just an example of this. At then of the day, I think only a handful of albums truly deserve to be regarded as “Greatest of all time”, and most of them are always named. The Abby Roads, the What’s Going ons, the Neverminds, the TPaBs, etc. Those ubiquitous projects that you’d be crazy for not including are the ones. After that, it’s all it’s really all just a snapshot of the music trends of the times.
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"there isn’t “far too much rap”"
Yes there is. Pop and rap completely dominated a list that was supposed to have the "100 greatest albums of all time".
"The problem with people like you is if you don’t like a genre you say things like this without understanding what’s going on."
I like rap quite a lot, not sure why you assumed I don't.
"Sorry to break it to you but Hip Hop/Rap is arguably the most influential genre of music…."
Today. In the US. It was not 20 years ago, or 30, or 40, and it is not in many countries today. Wasn't the list supposed to be a "greatest of all time" list? Even if we accept the list is going to be anglo-centric, there are genres within the American musical scene that have been completely snuffed such as blues (BB King? Robert Johnson?).
The U2 album that Apple forced onto everyone's iTunes should have been number 1.
I'd take that over Hotel California!!! And I haven't even heard it!!!
😂🤣😂 can’t deny tho it’s a fire album
Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
@satorified1612 so you're just admitting you don't like the eagles then?
I even had Premium ITunes but Apple forced it on me too, hated it.
The Shrek 2 soundtrack not being in the top 25 let me know this list was a joke
Anthony’s top 100 list would have at least 500 albums all in the top 50
I was looking for this comment lol
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I can ignore TPAB not making the cut, but not having even one NAV album is where I draw the line.
There's not even any Tom Macdonald album in this list. It sucks.
anything less than three NAV albums in the top 10 is criminal
Lmaooo@@Farizz150
facts
Haha😑
How can anyone in the universe, pick a #1 album of all time? As you get closer to #1, each pick exponentially says more about the person picking, than anything about music. Once you get to #1, you're at 100% bias
Bro you are speaking straight facts, even ranking albums is so disrespectful, and kind of dishonest to how we even process music. How do you quantify Prince over Micheal Jackson, or vice versa. We listen to the music we're in the mood for.
All of this is solved by “my/our favorite “
Companies obsession with “of all time” is Nasty
If you don't set a list of measurable and objective aspects that make an album strictly better than any other one (which I think nobody can), this kind of TOP lists are meaningless.
Right, like, the only way a top 100 oat list would feel satisfying in my opinion is if there were maybe 10 albums per number rank and each album had a blurb about it. Something to show that lots of different albums contend for the same spots on a list like that but for different reasons. That list would be so big it could be a book, but, I really think it would be an amazing resource if a big, diverse pool of educated people collaborated to make it
Just rank them in groups: 34 albums in Group A+, 52 albums in Group A, 120 albums in Group A-, etc.
In The Court isn’t my favorite King Crimson album, but leaving it out of the top 100 is genuine sacrilege
My college girlfriend's favorite lights-off album - I heard it a lot! (1977)
The fact that there is only one non-English album on this list (and it’s Bad Bunny of all people) automatically invalidates its claim of being the “best albums of all time.”
100% agree. I was happy with his inclusion regarding its not in english, but no brazillian music album in here is insane... at least should have had Acabou Chorare or a Chico Buarque album
totally right, huge huge albums that are non-english and were/still are very influential overall (in different country) that haven't make the list.
thats bad bunny best album ever with most hits other ones not as good
yes absolutely!!! bro they put kenderick's album on number 7? and the weekend is not on the list and it's all English, i can tell you couple of albums in another language that define a whole new music style
@@theskepticcoder7883 don’t downplay Kendrick Lamar just because he’s English speaking.
You gotta hand it to Apple for letting underdogs like Michael Jackson and Prince shine instead of playing it safe and putting every NAV album in the top 10 🙏🙏
Thanks Apple music for saying the Deluxe Taylor's Version of 1989 is better than TPAB and Wish You Were Here
@ceruvelt8073 Honestly, Taylor's album isn't the worst shout. It could've been lower in the list, but the fact they put the bad bunny album on there over TPAB is insane.
Even though NAV doesn't have 10 albums, they could've duplicated them to make the 10 placements
@@DrRAZI99or include mixtapes for tha 🐐
Nav is shit
Let’s fix the title: Apple’s north american worldvision 100 best records.
Exactly
Yep
.....doesn't need to be said. People from other countries will watch this. No one is watching the top 100 for your individual country.
jesus christ ur salty
north american company made north american list? wowie zowie
We get Drake's Take care in the top 50 above beastie boys and 2 numbers above we get Homogenic. This list was made by 2 people, one being someone in their 20s and the other one who at least put some effort into it 💀
And no MF DOOM
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but albums should be at least 10 years old to see if it stands the test of time, and not just “the latest thing”
I think I would go even further and say that any album less than 20 years old just hasn't been around long enough to have definitely stood the test of time.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 yeah honestly me too, even though there’s still great stuff coming out every year. Was just trying to avoid accusations of “boomer” haha.
Hard disagree some things are instant classics.
i don't think it's an unpopular opinion, i have a recency bias in my own music taste as i despise the notion that modern music is bad/worse than old music. but for a list like this i think at bare minimum 5 if not 10 years is needed, especially for cultural impact.
@@fisherlatham9986except 1989
madvillainy getting snubbed is insane
It’s an overrated album
It would’ve made it if this was a top 25 rap albums list, but tbh I’m more upset about Drake being higher then the MMLP
Like that’s embarrassing
@@Shiloh_Shepherd L take
Idk I like mmfood more
No DOOM at all is ridiculous actually
Feeling like Fantano overestimates how many albums can fit into a top 25
It would be 25 albums btw
@@BrysonWood-dn5hl no shit sherlock
I think it's like 25
Every album should have been much higher to him, like dawg it's a top 100 list
Light Melon, Dark Melon, Bald Melon, Real Melon
Rich Melon, Apple Melon, Internets busiest music nerd Melon, Field Melon
Still Melon, still Melon
Blind Melon - what a great band
only metal album on the list being master of puppets is ridicilous
I thought something from Black Sabbath at top 20 was mandatory at this point, but apparently not, 🤷♂
@@michaelpalin8953 No Sabbath on this list is a crime. No Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Pantera or Slayer either
rage against the machine self titled is on there too but yeah only 2
Should’ve have some slipknot and tool
When your 100 comes from San Fran with most contributors under 40 this is what you get
The fact that there was ONE non-English album on the list and it was fuсkin’ Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny.
What a joke. No Cerati or Fishmans or Buena Vista Social Club. And I don't even dislike Bad Bunny.
Bocanada is great
No charly or flaco spinetta
It’s fine if you consider it a top 100 albums in the USA. Which it is
YOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT. BUENO VISTA SOCIAL CLUB.
Even Brazilian albums
It put blonde over Marvin Gaye’s what’s going on. Like, how? What is the reasoning? There’s many other ones where it just doesn’t make sense for them to be there.
Ikr what's going on with that?
I ask what’s going on with that
Playing to the room. Why TF is Rihanna here? Why are there so many pointless, cowardly, cash grab pop albums making this list? I mean 1989 in the top 20??? Above f'n albums that dramatically changed the course of music history forever? Albums that were extraordinarily brave, personal, transcendent... Unbelievably stupid list
Does what’s going on have the nights beat switch on it???
Bruh they put 1989 over it 😭😭
I'm sorry, but NO NIGHT AT THE OPERA? or ANY Queen? what were they thinking?
I’m not gonna lie, Night At The Opera is carried by Bohemian Rhapsody and The Prophet’s Song (I’m In Love With My Car’s also pretty good). Half of the deep cuts weren’t for me unfortunately. I still love Queen though, they’re one of my rock goats.
AM right after Velvet Underground is probably the most blatant piece of rage bait I've ever seen and I still fell for it.
Piss off and get your own opinions drone. I love how no one is offended by Rihanna Anti being placed higher than BOTH.
Get your own opinions. There's way worse selections in the top 50 than AM. Rihanna Anti is ranked above both for god sake.
@@jl91iiiAM is barely a top 5 arctic monkeys album
"Get your own opinions" Bro, there's a reason everyone has this EXACT SAME opinion.....
@@jl91iiiit's just that when these dumb placements are placed one after another it looks worse
90% sure Anthony's top 100 would've been a top 150
Each record :
'-Should be a little bit higher.
-But Anthony, you got 150 records on your top 30...'
121 are tied for 30th place
there were only 25 in the top 30 spots.
And absolutely no country music? Like I know not everyone loves country music, but there are some undeniable artists and albums there. Like no Willie Nelson? no Johnny Cash?
Yes, strange thing being a northamerican selfcentered list.
@@francoestrubia6503 Strange for an American company with mostly American subscribers to share western centric albums on their list? Were you expecting Cambodian Psychedelic rock to top their charts?
@@StormDoggI mean, it is called the "Best albums of all time" list
@@gaelbaca2958 But in the same way it's understood that the list needs to be taken in the context of the critics' opinion, it's also understood that it's taken in the context of the critics' culture.
If the critics name is Huy Yaleng and he's publishing the article to a magazine based in Phnom Penh, I'd expect Sin Sisamouth over Jefferson Starship even if it's simply titled "Best Music of All Time."
Not everything needs a qualifier. And if the audience either isn't intelligent enough to understand that or tries to be overly pedantic on a technicality, it's not the fault of the author.
You read a list put out by an American Company, don't expect any of the Polka greats from the 80's. It shouldn't need to be said, but that's not the world we live in.
@@StormDogg It's true that an unbiased opinion does not exist; it's true that trying to be objective with the mostly arbitrary rankings of such a list is mostly a waste of time, but a critic CAN try to make a list that is representative of the actual world we live in, however difficult this may be. I think it's a little misguided to rationalize that it should be "natural" or "obvious" that since the author is an (x nationality) their opinion is naturally limited to that of an (x nationality).
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King not making the top 100 is criminal. It’s one of the best prog rock albums ever.
One of the best albums period.
It’s not that it’s just one of the best prog records, it’s that In The Court is one of the most directly important records ever released.
@@alecl9430I’d love you to elaborate. It’s one of my top 3 albums but I feel like outside of a Kanye sample I haven’t seen where it has impacted the scene. Kind of like TPAB I just see it as a masterpiece that is hard to recreate.
I think front to back, Red is the better King Crimson album. And just like Court influenced waves and waves of prog and art rock, Red has a ton of influence on metal and post rock.
Still, Court and Red would both be worthy of being in a top 100 list.
@@sifibruh7055 insane take, what the fuck is going on in your mind
“When dudes named Tanner started listening to Travis Scott”
So accurate
Rodeo & astro deserved to b in the top 100 imo
dudes named tanner punching the air rn 😭😭😭
@@realallblue2200 Idk what i even did tho
Rodeo maybe, Astro no.
@@aldrianspalding4157Rodeo yes.. Astro? Nah
WHERE THE FUCK IS DEPECHE MODE
seriously…once it got to the top twenty i thought violator had to show up but nope
@@hisgrinningskull2122 I literally had that same thought at the same point
i was literally thinking this earlier like where the heck is violator
Not even top 500
FOR FREAKING REAL‼️
I've been reading a punk history book, and in the very beginning, they ask someone which bands inspired them to get into punk and they say "the eagles, because I hated them so much." and now when I hear about the eagles I just think of that lol
How on God's green earth did they make this list? I swear Don Henley's relatives must be on the board......
what book was that?
@@starkiller-1983 Gimme Something Better by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor!
Nina Simone at #88 to Musgraves at #85 gave me whiplash
Sheer disrespect. I think Lauryn Hill would be mad with her placement.
Reminder that according to this list, Take Care by Drake is better than anything Nina Simone did, TPAB, AND Wish You Were Here
I just want to say that my sister absolutely loves Musgraves. Pictures of her in her house, constantly playing her music, even her husband is jealous of Musgraves and hates her.
I mean I absolutely love Kacey Musgraves and Golden Hour is perfect, but nah fam. Nina Simone got flat out disrespected from this list
I genuinely don’t understand how Taylor Swift ranks significantly higher than Nina Simone unless the entire point of the list was to make people angry at it
No Roots. No MF DOOM. No Black Parade. No SOAD. No TPAB. No Weeknd. No College Dropout or Graduation. And like he said, such a huge lack of love for metal and electronic in general. The list is absurd. The albums are fine, but the exclusions are egregious.
You'd put The Weeknd on a Top 100 Albums of Alltime list? lol.
Weekend in top 100?!!!
No SOAD and MF DOOM is crazy
huge lack of jazz and punk as well
Also zero blues on it. But I understand the lack of MF Doom and the Roots for example, because the list is already VERY HEAVY on the R&B, rap and Hip Hop. I would have loved to see some love for the blues and some more actual indie. I would have expected something like Funeral to be on a list like this.
I’m so glad Anthony mentioned Depeche Mode and New Order’s absence. Like, with how influential it was to multiple sides of rock, electronic, and pop as a whole, I couldn’t believe that Violator wasn’t anywhere on the list…
No Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, J Dilla, Depeche Mode, Pixies, Sufjan Stevens, Smashing Pumpkins, Death Grips etc etc. What a bad list.
Violator is one of the best albums ever and that’s a fact, not an opinion. Queen, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin have 2 albums combined on this list if that’s gives you any indication of its invalidity.
@@forestsunset9617 And no limp biscuit or scat man john. Smh.
😅😊😅😅😅😅😅
@@forestsunset9617j BBB😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊ininiiii😊😊i😊innn I’m in
the steely dan disrespect is actually WILD omfg
i love his righteous anger at the lack of fiona apple
Rightfully so
also Joanna Newsom, smfh
Dawg I'm gonna be 1000% I've heard the name Fiona apple 3 times this year and I still have 0 fucking clue what songs she ever wrote.
@@benamisai-kham5892 she's been making albums since the 90s, if you get into music discourse you'd see people who dig deeper hold her in high regards, listen to "Fetch The Bolt Cutters", and you'll see how experimental and playful she is, the percussions and drums on that album are insane
@@benamisai-kham5892 she’s amazing dude, check her out if you like singer-songwriter stuff or piano heavy 90’s rock
no joy division was the craziest snub to me. unknown pleasures is so prolific im shocking they forgot to include it
I was waiting for a New Order/Joy Division album, at least one.
but there's room for the fucking Strokes???
This was the big miss for me too. You can’t listen to Ian Curtis’s vocals on New Dawn Faded and not realize this is exactly what music would be doing the next 50 years.
LCD Soundsystem also a big snub.
Joy division is more t shirt than band at this point, sorry brah
A goose!! Mr. Goose, have you listened to Ma mère l'oye by Maurice Ravel? Mother Goose suite for orchestra, lovely piece, can recommend.
being named Tanner has been the biggest disappointment of my life
😂
Tanner is a great name tbh
so did you start listening to travis scott when astroworld came out
Well, Guardsman, the Emperor expects you to live beyond your name. Bring glory to the God Emperor and honor to the name of Tanner.
The Emperor Protects
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If a job is worth doing, it is worth filing in triplicate.
F in chat for you my friend
Solange made one of the best 100 albums of all time? Bewildering. I must have missed the last quarter century.
I like When I get home better
A Seat at the Table is an incredible album. It’s aged really well
lmao
This list suggests South America, Africa and Asia collectivelly have not through the years managed to produce a single top-100 record. Not really serious work tbh
this... they can't call this list a top 100 albums of all time if they ignore most albums of all time
@user-mh2wc3tq9s tell me you're not Asian without telling me you're not Asian
@user-mh2wc3tq9sWords of a man who has never heard a song in anything other than English
@user-mh2wc3tq9s "Shit, he's right about me! Gotta change the subject quick!"
@user-mh2wc3tq9slisten to YANKEE by Kenshi Yonezu and get back to me alr
This feels like a "pop" top 100 list, not in that it's all pop, but in that each album and artist was picked because of some explicit cultural moment and not based purely on its importance or influence or even creativity and best listen
i dont agree. There are some highly influential albums on this list. Something being underground can also be influential, but often will a popularity of an album reflect if it's influtenial or not. Most often older albums such as abbey road, modern music doesnt really have the same function i found
Being a Cultural Moment was part of the Criteria
Hmm but if it was based on influence, more Lana albums should be there. Skrillex should be there. More trap should be there. I don’t think they based it on influence alone.
@@meep1809 They based it on music critics influence, what they think had the most "impact" or most "value"
Aja admittedly isn't my favourite work of theirs but my heart is warmed to see so much defence and support of Steely Dan in these comments. I grew up absolutely adoring them (CBAT is one of the few albums where I love every single track) but as time has gone on I've found they seem to divide opinion a fair bit. Really happy to see so much love here and feeling proud to be a Dan stan again 😊
The Dan are amongst the GOATs
:)
their albums were the first i ever owned, and i've listened to each of them hundreds to thousands of times by now. they have been the soundtrack to my life :)
Steely Dan is one of the few bands keeping me alive. I need that shit in my veins
Queen not being on this list anywhere is bananas
Not adding Wish You Were Here, Madvilliany, or Loveless is absolutely vile
MF DOOM is always taking disrespect from these big lists t
TPAB should be in the list also
@@YourLawyer27 are u r3t@rded?
loveless mbv? hell fucking no
RYM top 10 ahh comment
It took me 25 years to realize the Lauryn hill album cover was a school desk
Yeah I just now noticed it
What did you think it was 😂
@@qriofficial1769 just a woodblock carving.
I just realized they ranked Get Rich or Die Trying above TPAB....wth
What💀 they put Kendrick’s albums like 50 levels above 5cent. How did you come to that claim? Lmaoo
@@IsaiahLeos-km9ub tpab is not on this list
@@IsaiahLeos-km9ub Which album made the top 100?
@@jbkrulegkmc
@@MonkeyBoy-o2w I don’t think that’s how this list is…..listed lol. To save room for other artists and albums, they chose only one album from each artist. Everyone knows TPAB is up there w MAAD city, so they decided to pick only one of the two to save a spot
No Simon and Garfunkel and 2 Beyonce records. Like, come on…
Completely man - BOTW is a perfect album.
While where here:
No linkin park
No sufjan stevens
No elliott smith
No system of a down
No queen
No coldplay
No bon iver
No bob dylan
No jeff buckley
No chet baker
No gorrilaz
No vampire weekend
Ok im gonna stop cryin 😢
@@whyisaac Yes Bob Dylan
@@whyisaac Also californication and dirt by alice in chains
@@oliversodomka3651 do you think facelift is better or dirt
@@FentForEnt i like both but personally i prefer dirt. Facelift is different from dirt as layne has more space for his awesome vocal lines, but i just like the dirt riffs more. My favourite song from dirt is probably Rain when i die, such a banger
Love that 2 minutes after talking about how bland steely dan aja is he talks about how creative and inspired the de la soul album is. The main song from de la soul is a steely dan song!!
The irony of the melon
Peg!
I'm not a Steely Dan hater, but you are insane if you don't think that song is more than the Steely Dan interpolation. Also he isn't talking songs, but full albums.
@@carstenmoney920 What I found ironic about the De La Soul/Dan comparison is Melon praising the former for having so much personality, but the latter is bland. What makes Steely Dan unique *is* the personality put into it. The production is deliberately perfect & sterile, but the lyrics & delivery are very idiosyncratic
@@carstenmoney920 I didnt say that, or maybe i implied it idk. I love Eye know, its not just a steely dan interpolation but the main building block of that song was the use of that sample and with melon describing that album as so creative, yet the main element of the main song being so bland, it just strikes an odd chord that maybe his steely dan hate isnt perfectly considered
this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone else acknowledge that Off the Wall is better than Thriller, based
You’d be surprised! Many MJ fans have that take, especially black American fans.
It’s a lot more soulful than Thriller, which is a lot more polished and more poppy. Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough, Rock With You, the title track, and I Can’t Help It are some of MJ’s best work.
Black guy here and Off The Wall to me is EASILY MJs best
Thriller is 3 hit singles plus 1 great album opener and then 1-2 more good songs. It's stalls like 4 times in the flow of it as said. I can't remember being more dissapointed when listening through it all the first time. Bad is also better as an album. Bad also sound more timelessly prestine and punchy. Thriller wasn't ever a gold standard of timeless pop that could last. Too many elements in there needing room so that nothings sounds big. Bad does it better as said but I usually bring up Take A Chance On Me as the right timelessly prestine and full sound pop should have. That's ABBA the album of 1977.
I will die on that hill. Off the wall is a masterpice. Thriller is close tho.
for me even invincible is better
I haven't listened to 80-90% of these albums but it's still interesting to hear Anthony talk about them
Same, the whole time I was just like "Who the heck are these people and why are they on this list?"
then you just need more curiosity, stop youtubers and listen them, you can hear them in a week
Fr
@@zeitok8 dont wanna
@@gamesmaster1060 keep on mediocrity
Why is music a competition? Music is supposed to be therapeutic. Music tastes are subjective. There’s no such thing as a #1 album.
1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣% agree with this take.
W take
No pixies, no elliott smith, no billy joel
No Depeche Mode wtf
Buttt buttt. You got two Beyoncé albums and a Taylor swift album !! That should make up for it right ? 🥹
@Christian-nj8di including Taylor Swift on this list is an insult to humanity. Literally a war crime.
Upvote, upvote...what?
No Daniel Johnston what the fuck
No 100 gecs in the top 1? You are telling me there are zero gecs in the #1 spot? Wow, what has this world come to.
You could take basically every single spot in this list and multiply it by 0 and thats how many gecs there are in that spot. Inexcusable.
Who the fuck cares??
@@flybeep1661joke has clearly flown over your head
Woke list (w take Gecs r goated)
@@newdelhiman3083
Bro how did they forget the Peppa Pig album?
Seriously and it's higher that ptsd (ttpd)
I know I want the STEPPA PIG album by Peggy and Danny.
Not the name@@TTV5
*snort snort*
@@alphalax7747 I disagree
As someone who loves Radiohead and Kid A to death, I 100% agree that they probably should’ve just had Ok Computer, Kid A should be replaced by something by Aphex Twin.
As a certified Swiftie…1989 was not the right album and an 18 placement is crazy.
RIGHT? I am also a swiftie and I went on a whole rant in my head about how the only reason 1989 is there is because of the influence it had on pop culture. If I were to choose a Taylor album to put on top 100, it would have been folklore or speak now.
honestly most artists here dont deserve any place here IMHO including taylor obviously@@aliceinbookland1
@@aliceinbookland1I have the same exact thoughts!! Those two are perfection 🤌
@@aliceinbookland1or Red! I get why 1989 is on there though. It’s a solid Pop record for what it is. Its one of the better Pop albums from the 2010s. Not Taylor’s best album though.
Yeah, even the biggest fan would have to admit that was a bit silly, lol.. like come on
Anthony Fantano is mad that Hood Hottest Princess by Sexxy Red isn't at least number 10 on the top 100 albums of all time and as a result is coping
No Simon and Garfunkel truly shocked me
Bookends is easily Top 50
Legendary stuff for sure
Unbelievable that there’s no Bridge Over Troubled Water nor Bookends.. or even Graceland
I AGREE. I would have been OK with Greatest Hits. I know its chagrin for the fans but in popular culture that album has taken a life of it's own. And I would put it in top 10. Let alone top 100.
There’s better jazz, rock, pop albums than Aja, sure. But it’s the only jazz rock/pop album, i don’t even know any other jazz fusion that’s this radio friendly. Zappa, Weather Report, Miles and the rest did make better fusion, but they were never pop.
As someone who loves Taylor and loves 1989… 18???? That album shouldn’t be higher than like 90 if even on the list
I love seeing someone who loves Tay, but still disagrees with the position like me. 1989 isn't top 100 for me. folklore and evermore are far better
Reputation was like 10x better as an album lol
@@Phoenix0F8no. 1989 will forever be her best mainstream pop album. i don’t think it deserved a spot so high tho.
No only that, but it's the Taylor's version of the record which is vastly inferior to the original
@@noitsbecky.4291It’s funny how opinions on Taylor’s albums are so different from whoever you ask. To me, Lover is her best Pop record by a slim margin because the concept and production interests me more than 1989 does. I also believe Lover holds the stronger tracks in her discography.
1989 is more cohesive as a whole album, but I don’t think a lot of the deep cuts on 1989 are among some of her best songs. We do have Out Of The Woods, I Know Places and Clean, but I don’t believe Welcome To New York, All You Had To Do Was Stay, This Love, or How You Get The Girl are among her best songs. Lover has The Archer, Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince, Death By A Thousand Cuts, Cornelia Street, False God and Daylight.
the fuck is that stance on The Dan
RIGHT? wtf was that
Out of nowhere
Gorillaz should've been on like the 90s with Demon Days or Plastic Beach, fight me
No argument here, I was totally sure they would be in there somewhere but not a single mention, smh
Self-titled or Demon Days, personally speaking.
Now that u said it I've notice there's no Gorillaz on the list... wtf
how dare they not put demon days on there, demon days has no bad songs, like ZERO bad songs
I like plastic beach more but Demon Days is the most classic Gorillaz. I am shocked they are not on the list and even more shocked that Fantano didn’t mention them
I gotta disagree with your comments on The Blueprint by Jay Z. Even as a Nas super fan, what Jay managed to do on The Blueprint was something I don't think any other artist could've done. Aiding the cultural transition of rock to rap as pops default sound and filling the power vacuum left by the 2Pac v Biggie aka West v East feuds before the South (Bling era) took over in the aughts was what The Blueprint accomplished (I mean think of the albums name, Hov was setting the "blue prints" for the culture, it was the bridge that divided the conscious hardcore rap fans of the 90's and the ignorant, dirty crunk wave that was about to hit the 00's). Even without getting too deep into what it symbolised, Jay himself sounded fresh, wasn't tacky, fostered one of the greatest artists early production (Kanye) yet kept a chip on his shoulder for what he wanted to gain, which made it still sound hungry and innovative. Even if the Takeover v Ether beef stains peoples memories of this album, The Blueprint is a flagship in hip-hop/rap history.
I was not aware that Anthony was a Steely Dan hater….
He’s a bum
I just watched that part and went into the comments to see if anyone else knew lol
he needs to listen to "Countdown to Ecstacy" i think he'd change his mind
@@jacobburghart8125 every god damn album they dropped was good imo bro. Aja Katy lied the royal scam perfect records. Countdown to ecstasy pretzel logic awesome.cant buy a thrill all bangers
Rightfully so
I refuse to buy the narrative that nearly all of the best albums ever made come from 2 or 3 english speaking countries
Underrated Comment
@user-mh2wc3tq9s Superior in what way? Culturally? I mean, if that's what you are arguing for, I can kinda see why you would think that: People all over the world listen to our music, while we listen to none of their music, therefore ours is better. But then again unless you are making some weird quality = popularity argument; you can't ever sincerely defend your cultural supereority when it's obvious you are not engaging with any of the cultures you claim to be superior to.
@user-mh2wc3tq9s this feels racist lol
@@chao3948 No, they're superior athletically, which allows them to get into the list quicker
@@eX1st4132 athletically? wdym
The Aja disrespect is just absurd. It’s not jazz Anthony it’s yacht rock. And the golden standard at that
Let’s not get it twisted. Michael McDonald is the gold standard of yacht rock.
I stopped listening after his disrespect towards steely dan. For someone constantly talking about production as well...
@@PJTC_BLANKhe literally sings on this Steely Dan album
I prefer Royal Scam over Aja, but anyway Fantano dissing the Dan was unnecessary.
Could not be more obvious with his personal bias to hate the popular thing because it's cool to be contrarian
No Radiohead in the top 10 is beyond ridiculous. Cant believe Melon made this list.
I'm in disbelief that Unknown Pleasures didn't even make the list. It doesn't even seem possible...
It's literally one of the most influential records of all time in that its emblematic of post-punk/goth rock, and without it we wouldn't have new order. Both 'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Power Corruption and lies' should be on a top 100 list
Considering that one of the best songwriters of all time says that Joy Division was the best thing he has ever seen … I'm talking about Robert Smith from the Cure, here. And I hope Disintegration is on this list. If not, it's toilet paper. - EDIT: Disintegration at 56 is okay, I guess.
Imagine including Drake, Arctic Monkeys, Taylor Swift, SZA (with an album from 2022, like hello? Classics from ALL TIME?), 50 Cents, Lorde and not including Unknown Pleasures. 😐
@@ohana9238 And also Blueprint over illmatic just to p*ss off Hip Hop fans.
@@ohana9238unreal
No shoegaze, barely any metal, barely any prog, no idm. Kinda ridiculous how under represented some genres are, when others like hip hop gets so many mentions. Pretty clear that apple music just gave up on trying to have a more objective list and just listed the best selling albums instead. Madvillainy was robbed too and it's especially criminal too since this list already had so many hip hop inclusions, many of which you wouldn't dream placing above it.
No Black Sabbath
I mean, you have freaking J Balvin and Pharell Williams (still understandable him, even though a bit ridicolous) as music reviewers on the list.
Indie as a whole is just snubbed from this list, pretty much 99% of these picks are major label releases, I can't help but to look at these kinds of lists as a massive music industry circle jerk
@@andrei11dr And foreign music, I'll never see X Japan for example on one of these lists
Calling Aja bland is such a horrible take, it's such a vibey and yet instrumentally complex album.
ESPECIALLY if we're considering influence,
I agree, this was a lame take. Aja has such incredible performances on it
Nah it's boring. Anthony got it right
@@narddog2151 YOU'RE BORING!!!!!!!!
Complaining Aja is on the list and Hot Rats isn’t. Hate to say it but Zappa has better albums, and I adore Hot Rats
Man, you cannot put a Billie Eilish album here after ignoring both the rock and punk scenes of the 90s and 2000s that inspired her. You have Nirvana and nothing else
Hating on Steely Dan's Aja is one of the most appalling things I've ever witnessed.
that fuckin hurt, my favourite record of all time
Aja and Back In Black comments us going to make audioengineers put drag him to court and put him at audio Arkham
Dude I cant agree more. I was listened to him name Zappa and Mahuvishu Orchestra and I'm like you're gonna dis Steely Dan when you have projects like The Royal Scam compared to Franks Garage or Hot Rats????? Wth??
And then immediately defends SZA’s placement one spot later I’m turning this off lmao
You're watching the wrong bald guy - @NorthernLion
Fantano acting like Black Cow (which MF DOOM samples on Gas Drawls), Peg (sampled by De La Soul on Eye Know), Deacon Blues, and Josie aren’t iconic Steely Dan bangers. They clearly influenced other genres and got mainstream audiences into jazz. Cmon melon
Also acting as if all the more creative and influential jazz players he mentions don’t feature throughout the album 😂
Worst fantano take of all time?
really don't understand his irrational fear of steely dan lmao. just hates for the sake of hating cuz how can you not at least like steely dan?
Thank you
Embarrassing blind spot tbr
I do think that Steely Dan has one or two better albums than Aja but like… I just don’t understand how you can trash it like this. Like not only is the composition transcendent but the contributions of Wayne Shorter, Steve Gadd, Michael McDonald, Chuck Rainey, Bernard Purdie… it’s like a who’s who of jazz greats just hanging out on a record.
Yeah, I agree. I'd rate Countdown to Ecstasy and Can't Buy a Thrill ahead of Aja, but Steely Dan certainly deserves to be on the list.
Countdown to Ecstasy and Katie Lied for me lol
You just know melon was fuming seeing MBDTF on this list
The lack of post punk/punk is what I really hate about this list
Like no Ramones? Dead Kennedys? Bad Brains? Wire??? Joy Division???????????
So many modern rock albums don't exist with punk's influence and to have London Calling be the sole representative is gross
😂 right!? & multiple Beyoncé albums like wtf
Ramones stink
No Iggy, no Buzzcocks, no Husker Du, no Pixies, no Sonic Youth
@@zondaboy6493 Wild take
The cultural impact of artists like dead Kennedys versus Adele is insane, they really just ignored so many genres to fill the list with pop from the past 10 years
Not only is 1989 being being ranked so high on this list ridiculous, they picked that over folklore....
fr bro, folklore is a better written record
I would’ve been more happy with Folklore or Evermore
@@raecat9228the thing about those two is that they don't even have a legacy/huge hits like 1989, Folklore was successful, Evermore isn't, and this list clearly shows that it also takes impact and commercial perfomance accountable.
@@Tomasfjksjyes even tho folklore is her best album Red would be the best pick because it has huge hits and is more loved by music critics than 1989.
@@ilovesthisred is fucking lit idfk
The Steely Dan rant was my personal Vultures moment
calling aja “bland” is so fucking funny to me
i’m guessing he more so doesn’t mess with donald fagen’s voice then the actual musicality of the record and hasn’t listened to it recently
Preach
One of his worst takes
Him calling the playing on Aja bland is ludicrous. The title track alone on that LP has one of the most inventive and innovative drumming ever.
Objectively a wrong opinion.
can we some how get your playlist you have a lot of insight into music and i feel like id find alot a songs ive never heard
Anthony you can't say 'should be higher' for most of the albums, there can't be 100 albums in the top 30
The more I listen to music I realize that making such list is nearly impossible while being true to even yourself. There are so many classic, influential and just flawless albums spread across so many genres, that it's just hard comparing them, let alone putting on such list. The only way of making a list like this would be either splitting it into genres or make some albums share some spots on the list, maybe even put a few albums of some artist or few artists from same era on one spot as general contribution.
Like, I don't know. Back in the day I used to be curious about lists like this, back when I wanted to know what people consider as classics, but now it's just like "yeah, whatever". I can't be mad at somebody liking something over something else. Yeah, there may be some obvious duds here and there, that make a lot of people scratch their head but apart from that it's just fine.
the fact Is that this list Just Takes popular albums, not booking at the actual quality or content, Just some mainstream choices (some are obviously good),
Lists like these are completely pointless for any medium. People have too many personal preferences, and your list is never going to satisfy any of them. Also influence and quality should be separate. Either make the top whatever most influential or the top best; don't make both at the same time if you have to make a list at all.
The production on Aja was revolutionary, not Steely Dan's best but certainly influential. Steely Dan is top 100 worthy for sure... no Hot Rats is also criminal.
His hate on Steely Dan was criminal to me. I also feel like Zappa is a very acquires taste lol
@@brunobro6572 yeah fair enough, hot rats is pretty widely regarded though
No black Sabbath? No Depeche Mode? No Johnny Cash? Apatite for destruction over master of puppets? Wtf?
Absolutely bonkers Steely Dan take
Aja is obviously a tentpole in the Yacht Rock movement (indulged only by Aja and later SD studio albums) but is sadly not even the best Steely Dan album.
Fantano's unhinged Steely Dan rant is absolutely fatherless behaviour.
my issue is just that it mostly has nothing interesting to say. it’s the same albums we all think are good. mostly inoffensive except for specific placements (which are gonna get people mad regardless).
i’m reminded of tyler the creator speaking about people on twitter making these “top whatever artists” lists without any thought behind personal feeling and context, etc, which is admittedly difficult to do when you’re a faceless conglomerate like apple, but alas.
“i think the sky is blue”
“isnt that kind of cliche?”
You answered it yourself at the end there. A faceless conglomerate's list can't really be based
Somewhat yeah, but putting Miseducation number one was actually a pretty bold and refreshing take.
@@Amaling yeah pretty much. it is what it is tho
@@arvaakuka8568 for a corporation? yeah, i suppose so
Californication - RHCP
Automatic For The People - REM
Ten - Pearl Jam
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Toxicity - SOAD
Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
ngl the velvet underground being right above AM was hilarious
Deserved
The fact that DJ Shadow Endtroducing didn't make the cut is criminal. Nothing from J Dilla or MF Doom either...
“The fact that it’s not like every list ever is criminal” have you not had enough of mf doom being on every best album list ever? I can get J Dilla deserving a spot because his music is way better than Endtroducing
Leave DOOM off it. It’s more authentic.
Oh and fam-a-lam, it’s DOOM
I’m surprised there was no Selena. She was one of the first Spanish speaking artists to be huge in the US. She also lifted an entire genre (tejano) to the highest of highs and that genre was been stagnant since she left.
Lol
whats funny... weirdo @@RJS1974
This is gold lol
1:24 bro don't expose me like that wtf😭
No prog except Pink Floyd
No metal except Metallica
No Jazz except Miles Davis and Coltrane
No synthpop except Kraftwerk
Only three electronica albums
And the worst thing as always in this lists, is that is completely anglocentric . Apparently, music by artists that don't sing in english is not worthy. The only artist here that doesn't sing primarily in english is Bad Bunny.
It's like if artists from Latin America doesn't exist, artists from Asia doesn't exist, artists from Africa doesn't exist and the only artists from Europe that exist outside the british isles are the ones that make music in english (Björk, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk).
It's not a west biased list, is an anglo biased list (anglo as in angloesphere: the english speakong countries, not as an ethnic group). And music is the only art form in that thing happens oftenly and nobody complains about it.
They hate drumming and miss to give credit to the original programmers.
Yeah that's why I hate these lists, Rollingstone does it too. Only English speaking and they label it "greatest of all time"
I mean, of course it is...Citizens of the USA only cares if it's big in America :/
Well bud most people who speak english want to hear music in english.
And Bad Bunny is shit, from all of the music that they could have chosen for the list they went with him. That's an insult.
The Steely Dan disrespect is insane
Seems he is abgry because steely dan "robbed" the AOTY to Kid A
@carlosvazquez7173 🤣🤣🤣 is that actually why? I will say I haven't listened to that era of Steely Dan but I haven't heard good things 💀 sucks there grammy win was far after there peak
not sure what is more ridiculous, this top 100 list itself, or his dislike of this album. ask the greatest musicians of the past 70 years and they pretty much will all have Aja in their top 10. goes to show there is a difference between being "knowledgeable" and "knowing a lot of stuff".
Insane.
when somebody says that Aja is "one of the blendest albums ever" you can tell that he knows anything about music itself. lost ny respect totally here.
Miseducation of lauryn hill is a great record but number 1? Lol
I feel like I’m the only one that was like REALLY? for that placement. It’s a fantastic album, deserves to be on the list….but NUMBER 1?
Tbh Ok Computer/TPAB should be no.1
@@SKIECLASSESRajbagh me when I can’t formulate my own opinions:
@@Ismael-kc3ry huh, what is the no. 1 for you then Tay Tay Swift 14 year old slam book albums?
@@SKIECLASSESRajbagh the fact that you can’t wrap your head around someone both not liking the most boring, mainstream music and also not copy and pasting their own opinions off of Rate Your Music tells me everything I need to know about you. You’re a walking stereotype.
Melon vs. Apple - let's get fruity 😂
The lack of jazz on this list is painful
The lack of pretty much everything except rap and rnb is painful
Where’s my chet baker sings bro
I know right? Although a lot of great jazz came before long player albums, not including Monk, Mingus, Ellington, Armstrong is criminal.
immensely!!
That Aja disrespect was wholly unnecessary
3:36 imagine being back in 2011 after the goblin review and someone telling you that in the future fantano would be saying Tyler should be higher in the top 100 albums of all time. The evolution is Crazy
No bullshit the Goblin review was the first I watched from Anthony at the end of 2011. I felt this comment!
No To Pimp A Butterfly is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever seen, watched this video for half an hour waiting for it to land at #1 for nothing.
kendrick is heavily overrated in general.
@@bananajoelikesbananthat's a lie