Rolling Stone's 500 Best Albums of All Time (2020)

[Andrew POE!]

So Rolling Stone has a new list up for 500 Best Albums of All Time and....it's interesting:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/arcade-fire-funeral-1062733/

10. Lauryn Hill - the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
9. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
8. Prince - Purple Rain
7. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. The Beatles - Abbey Road
4. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
3. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

My thoughts so far:

A fucking John Mayer album over Black Flag - Damaged and The Stooges' first album? Britney Spears' mildly ok album over David Bowie's Scary Monsters? Billie Ellish even being on the list?

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has no business in the top 10. Boring as piss album and so many better albums before it.

Edited September 24, 2020 by Andrew POE!

[RIPPA]

Tags were eliminated with the last board update. You have to click the eyeball if you want to do spoilers.

And I dont really think you need to use spoilers if you want discussion about the list since it has been all over the news the last few days

[Curt McGirt]

Who gives a fuck what Rolling Stone thinks. They haven't been relevant since the '70s.

[Andrew POE!]

Having typed up the complete list -- oof. I can't really argue with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On as #1 to be honest. I'm not sure I would have Rumours, Nevermind, and Blood on the Tracks in the top 10. I would swap Joni Mitchell's Blue and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life and I would move Abbey Road to #3.

But there are way too many Kanye West (really, The College Dropout and Late Registration are his best works) and Jay-Z albums on there.

There's also no King Crimson, Slint - Spiderland, Husker Du - Zen Arcade, no Genesis, very few Kate Bush (The Kick Inside and her recent 50 Words For Snow are not on the list) and somehow no Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder - Talking Timbutku, Taj Mahal's first album, Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love & Hate, Radiohead - Amnesiac or friggin' Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden or Laughing Stock. Not to mention really good live albums like Cheap Trick - At Budokan, Joni Mitchell - Misles of Aisles, and Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal.

But yet 2 Beyonce albums deserve a spot.

Edited September 24, 2020 by Andrew POE!

[Casey]