OT Rolling Stone Mag's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

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That was fun. I went through the whole list. Can't say they got even one album ranked correctly, but there is some good music, and some I had forgotten about.

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Is Cricklewood Green by the Kinks, and several Simon & Garfunkle albums, on the list? I like an album in which every single song has a tune I hum for 50 years. Yesterday I was singing the words to Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall, about how I'm a-gonna die.
 
Before rock & roll died...In the 10-year decade of the 60s, from the mid-50s to mid-70s (ha ha), my generation was gifted with a hundred excellent new tunes per year, slowly parsed out to us. So I know the words to 2000 songs. Well actually, when I look up some nowadays on the internet, I may find discrepancies...I had to patch bridges between understandable lyrics...I think mine are better and I'm not about to change them now.
 
BigGameDamian said:
The Doors: The Doors album at #82. What kinda shit is that?
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I agree. I'm a Doors fan and the disrespect pisses me off.
Rolling Stone's Jan Werner instituted the RnR HOF. He and his induction committee minion never had criteria, and the common sense that derives from it. I don't respect album or musician lists because of these fools telling us bands like the "Cure" and especially rap genre were celebrated as members of the HOF. It's BOGUS!'
Great bands and musicians like the Doobie Brothers, Little Feat and Los Lobos are in their parking lot, not invited, not included. Being inducted so late in their careers,( as is the case of the 2020 Doobies) is an insult. Others that deserved attention are Paul Revere and the Raiders, Deep Purple, William Clarke (the great harmonica player who died in '96 at age 45). The day they induct Cindi Lauper or that chick that sings Betty Davis eyes ?? is the day the world will end.
 
tlongII said:
Horrible rankings. But music is different to different people. They should just say top 500 without assigning any rankings in my opinion.
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That's right! They don't have criteria and the best list is non numerical. They pick their friends rather than deploy the objective task of producing an expert's opinion.
 
RR7 said:
It's not aging well
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Is that sarcasm? I can't tell.

I like Marvin Gaye, just not sure that his album is the best of all time. It felt like a hipster 'woah, this is totally relevant' choice.
 
If psychedelic music is done well like Prunetang's, I can dig non-hummable sounds. As long as it isn't jazz.

Some albums like Sgt. Pepper are famous because they weirdly broke the mold, the half-decade's ruling paradigm. A generation later when half the music has imitated it and that style is now the default, everyone asks, what was the big deal about that album? Kind of like Julius Erving. All pros have his moves now.
 
DSOTM, #55?....Please.

"Turrible, just turrible". (Charles Barkley voice)
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Classical music wasn't released in an album format.
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Sure it was. I've got Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overature, Swan Lake Ballet and The Nutcracker Suite all in album format. I've also got all 12 of Beethoven's symphonies on albums. I have numerous classical works on albums.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Your argument works better if it were a list of the 500 greatest songs. Then you should include classical and other genres.
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Wouldn't work. Some meathead would beat out the greatest composer of all time, Beethoven.
 
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