Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums

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1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind, Nirvana
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree, U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
33. Ramones, Ramones
34. Music From Big Pink, The Band
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
39. Please Please Me, The Beatles
40. Forever Changes, Love
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
44. Horses, Patti Smith
45. The Band, The Band
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...s_of_all_time/

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1. Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
2. Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
3. Imagine, John Lennon
4. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
5. Respect, Aretha Franklin
6. Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys
7. Johnny B. Goode, Chuck Berry
8. Hey Jude, The Beatles
9. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
10. What'd I Say, Ray Charles
11. My Generation, The Who
12. A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke
13. Yesterday, The Beatles
14. Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan
15. London Calling, The Clash
16. I Want to Hold Your Hand, The Beatles
17. Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix
18. Maybellene, Chuck Berry
19. Hound Dog, Elvis Presley
20. Let It Be, The Beatles
21. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
22. Be My Baby, The Ronettes
23. In My Life, The Beatles
24. People Get Ready, The Impressions
25. God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
26. A Day in the Life, The Beatles
27. Layla, Derek and the Dominos
28. (Sittin on) the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
29. Help!, The Beatles
30. I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash
31. Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin
32. Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones
33. River Deep - Mountain High, Ike and Tina Turner
34. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', The Righteous Brothers
35. Light My Fire, The Doors
36. One, U2
37. No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley and the Wailers
38. Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones
39. That'll Be the Day, Buddy Holly and the Crickets
40. Dancing in the Street, Martha and the Vandellas
41. The Weight, The Band
42. Waterloo Sunset, The Kinks
43. Tutti-Frutti, Little Richard
44. Georgia on My Mind, Ray Charles
45. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley
46. Heroes, David Bowie
47. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
48. All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix
49. Hotel California, The Eagles
50. The Tracks of My Tears, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/cov...00songs/page/1

[Kaylore]

Smells like teen spirit at number 9? What a freaking joke.

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1. The birth of MTV
Aug. 1, 1981

2. Kiss comes clean
Sept. 18, 1983

3. Ghouls galore
Dec. 2, 1983

4. Not like a virgin
Sept. 14, 1984

5. A united front
Dec. 15, 1984

6. A united front 2
July 13, 1985

7. Beach blanket bingo?
March 21, 1986

8. 'Sledgehammer' breaks out
Sept. 11, 1987

9. 'Remote' turns us on
Dec. 7, 1987

10. That's a rap
Aug. 6, 1988

11. Pee-wee returns
Sept. 5, 1991

12. Get 'Real'
May 21, 1992

13. Commander in briefs
April 20, 1993

14. No strings attached
Nov. 18, 1993

15. A kiss is just a kiss?
Sept. 8, 1994

16. Cornholio is born
July 15, 1994

17. You gotta Love it
Sept. 4, 1996

18. A big lil' stunt
Sept. 9, 1999

19. 'Jackass': Tipped off
April 12, 2000

20. Gross-out for good
May 23, 2000

21. 'Glitter' isn't gold
July 19, 2001

22. Diary of a mad family
March 5, 2002

23. TV's new honeymooners
Aug. 19, 2003

24. Girl meets girl
Aug. 28, 2003

25. Nipplegate
Feb. 1, 2004

http://www.usatoday.com/life/televis...tv-cover_x.htm

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"You get older, while MTV happily and wisely regresses. You watch in slack-jawed horror as it takes you into the details of a $200,000 16th-birthday party for another irreparably spoiled spawn of the baby boomers or, after that, stay tuned as MTV takes you on a bus with five 19- or 20-year-old women, all with tramp-stamp tattoos on their tailbones, as they find themselves "Next"-ed by a finicky, shirtless, overmuscled dipwad. You watch the entire "Making the Video" with Jessica Simpson's new video and feel a combination of loathing and rapt fascination. MTV guarantees you a lifetime pass into someone else's spring break."

"What, after all, would be the point of being MTV if it were still pleasing to the Gen-X eye? I need now for MTV to disgust me even as it lures me in. I rely on it now as the cleanest, surest path to the American teenage id. The worst that could happen to MTV is also the best that could happen: Everyone older than 30 finds it boring, or too different, or irrelevant, or a barrage of immaturity. And whenever MTV reaches a milestone, people whine that it lost its juice long ago by abandoning its original format -- music videos day and night, eased along by VJs wearing bigger and bigger shoulder pads, with higher and higher hair. "Remember when MTV played videos?" asked the front page of Friday's USA Today, waving its cane."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...073101296.html

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[Kaylore]

Christina Aguilera is a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't care how slutty she acts - I want to jump her bones.

[watermock]

Hotel California 49? Bridge over Troubled Water 47? It's all subjective anyway.

MTV is a propoganda machine. I never had much use for Rolling Stone magazine so no biggie.

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The Best of the Worst Song Titles
(Yes, these are REAL.)



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Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye
Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure
How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?
I Been Roped And Thrown By Jesus In The Holy Ghost Corral
I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life
I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling
I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me
I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart.
I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You
I Wanna Whip Your Cow
I Would Have Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck!
I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win
I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy
I'm Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life
I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised
I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
I've Got The Hungries For Your Love And I'm Waiting In Your Welfare Line
If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You
If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low
If My Nose Were Full of Nickels, I'd Blow It All On You
If You Don't Leave Me Alone, I'll Go And Find Someone Else Who Will
If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)
My Every Day Silver Is Plastic
My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus
My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart
My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him
Oh, I've Got Hair Oil On My Ears And My Glasses Are Slipping Down, But Baby I Can See Through You
Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill
She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft
She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger
She Made Toothpicks Out Of The Timber Of My Heart
She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty
Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone
They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out
Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart
When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I'll Think You're Walking In
You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat
You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Bannister Of Life
You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly
Here's a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares

[JCMElway]

OK, I'm pretty dumb. When I first read this thread I thought, "Wait a minute. The Stones haven't done 500 Albums!"

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They have been around about 500 years too long, though.

Pull the bloody plug already!

[WABronco]

Originally Posted by Kaylore

Smells like teen spirit at number 9? What a freaking joke.

Now now...don't be hatin' on Nirvana!

[WABronco]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

They have been around about 500 years too long, though.

Pull the bloody plug already!

No...please don't. I want to see Mick Jagger disintegrate into a pile of dust and leather pants at the next Super Bowl halftime show...

[BroncoBuff]

I've always hated Rolling Stone's anti-Led Zeppelin bias.


Look at the list - it's so obvious.

[BroncoBuff]

And where's Black Sabbath's first album? They're not my favorite, but that record changed rock music.

And what's with "Plastic Ono Band"?! Jeez, Pearl Jam's "Ten" or Soundgarden's "superunknown" deserve it much more.... and John Coltrane? Robert Johnson? Muddy Waters? Come on ... those are blues/jazz artists, not rock. To include those three, and Patty Smith's "Horses," but leave out Led Zeppelin IV? Van Halen? Get real ..........

[Killericon]

Dark Side fo the Moon at #43?

Talentless Hacks.

[epicSocialism4tw]

Pink Floyd's Dark Side is waaaaaay to low. The Wall is down in the 80-somethings. Both of those albums influenced as many up-and-coming songwriters as anything Zeppelin did. Led Zeppelin is also waaaaay to low. People forget how prolific they were, and how great all of their albums are during their prolific period.

It's hard to rank these things, but I like to go on the impact they leave on other musicians. Every lyricist wants to write as poingiantly as Bob Dylan, but every guitar player wants to include Page and Gilmour in their tone. Both of those guys created entire genres of rock with their playing. Cant say the same for Dylan. He was a great lyricist, but a horrrrible vocalist.

Paul Simon's Graceland should be in the top 25. Otis Redding should be up there in front of Marvin Gaye.

Velvet Underground is way to high (both literally and figuratively).

Run DMC is ranked higher than Bob Marley.

U2's Joshua Tree should be in the top 5. No other band has been as prolific as they have been since the major European rock outfits fizzled out in the early 80's. U2 has been the greatest rock act of the last two-and-a-half decades and continues roll on. Joshua Tree defined a couple of generations.

Notorious BIG's album is ranked ahead of BB King, Steely Dan, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Santana, Howlin Wolf, The Who, Aerosmith, Parliament, Willie Nelson, Peter Gabriel, REM, Pearl Jam, and Nine Inch Nails. A little oversight maybe?

Pearl Jam's "Ten" is ranked 207? Was it that much worse than "Nevermind"? No.

Pavement appears twice? I love Pavement, but they are certainly no Pixies, who's "Doolittle" appear way down the list at 226. The Pixies were ahead in melody, impact, musicianship, lyrical proficiency, meaning, overall presentation, etc. The Pixies were superior in every facet.

Patsy Cline appears waaaay the heck down the list at 234, and they chose a crappy best-of to represent her albums. She is very underrated here. Maybe the most influential female artist of all time.

Jerry Lewis makes his appearance way down the list too. Same with Zappa. Both underrated.

Jay-Z made the list? Are you kidding me?

Ray Charles doesnt appear until after Jay-Z. Travesty.

Mary J. Blige made it before the Cars?

Weezer's Blue Album is certainly better than 297. That one is great for its duration and compares well against any era. It will be remembered as a record that defined a generation.

Red Hot Chili Peppers' BloodSugarSexMagik is ranked too low.

Liz Phair made the list? Are you serious? Ahead of Sonic Youth nonetheless.

Depeche Mode's "Violator" is too low also.

Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" is 351? Ugh. Too low.

Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream is also embarrasingly low.

Everything by CCR is too low.

Alright! Mike Watt/D Boon's Minutemen made the list. There's one I agree with.

Radiohead's Kid A is too low. That is one great work of art. Beautiful stuff all the way through, great lyrical approach, great melodys, great haunting Thom Yorkeisms, greatness. Radiohead's best work, IMO. Their other great work OK Computer is also not given the credit it deserves.

Okay. Shoot me. Hole's "Live Through This" made the list. Pitiful.

Cyndi Lauper is too low.

[epicSocialism4tw]

Here's my pop top 10 for what it's worth:

1- Beatles - Sgt Peppers
2- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3- Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
4- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5- U2 - Joshua Tree
6- Beatles - White Album
7- Eagles - Hotel California
8- Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
9- Pearl Jam - Ten
10 - Peter Gabriel - So

Here are my top 10 based on the albums themselves without popular sales taken into consideration:

1 Beatles - White Album
2 Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3 Peter Gabriel - So
4 Yes - Close to the Edge
5 Rich Mullins -A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
6 Paul Simon - Graceland
7 Radiohead - Kid A
8 Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
9 Pink Floyd - Dark Side...
10 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

[ClevelandBronco]

Originally Posted by -Slap-

They have been around about 500 years too long, though.

Pull the bloody plug already!

Are you out of your mind? Legends of the blues/rock fusion are done?

Then let's finally kill off the guys who came before them.

Hey, old blues guys (who might have influenced the Stones): If you managed to get to this stage in your life without dying and you're still doing music, thanks for all you did to create a new way to listen, but would you finally just SHUT UP AND DIE, ONCE AND FOR ALL?

Look, if you can't die, at least keep the noise down. Slap's trying to watch TVLand.

[Pontius Pirate]

What a surprise. Rolling Stone rolling out a "top ten thousand let's lick our own nuts" edition. Yawn. Might as well just have a "let's never cover new music ever again" edition.

[watermock]

Originally Posted by angryllama

Here's my pop top 10 for what it's worth:

1- Beatles - Sgt Peppers
2- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
3- Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
4- Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
5- U2 - Joshua Tree
6- Beatles - White Album
7- Eagles - Hotel California
8- Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
9- Pearl Jam - Ten
10 - Peter Gabriel - So

Here are my top 10 based on the albums themselves without popular sales taken into consideration:

1 Beatles - White Album
2 Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3 Peter Gabriel - So
4 Yes - Close to the Edge
5 Rich Mullins -A Liturgy, a Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band
6 Paul Simon - Graceland
7 Radiohead - Kid A
8 Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
9 Pink Floyd - Dark Side...
10 Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

that's more along my thinking altho I honestly think most music now is unlistenable. Not because it's the classic offensive tag, but because it's berefrit of any melodic content.

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Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

Are you out of your mind? Legends of the blues/rock fusion are done?

Then let's finally kill off the guys who came before them.

Hey, old blues guys (who might have influenced the Stones): If you managed to get to this stage in your life without dying and you're still doing music, thanks for all you did to create a new way to listen, but would you finally just SHUT UP AND DIE, ONCE AND FOR ALL?

Look, if you can't die, at least keep the noise down. Slap's trying to watch TVLand.

Yeah, compare those old guys who never made any money and got ripped off left and right* to these washed up dinosaurs who are worth a billion dollars each. I guess I missed those old blues guys during their lucrative Super Bowl halftime gigs.

You gotta be kidding me.



* I mean, influenced

[Northman]

More proof that Rolling Stone doesnt know jack **** about good music.

[Jesterhole]

What a load of crap. Sounds more like a Beatles fan circle jerk session than anything else.

And rating anything U2 has done over anything Floyd or Led Zeppelin is injustice. Seriously, I have lost any respect I've ever had for Rolling Stone.