500 greatest albums of all time

[longtimefirsttime]

The list:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time/

[Seeker]

No way!

I want to know who voted.

Obie Wan...check this list out.
Some of it is really bogus.

[obiefan]

I'm with you dude!

I think yoko ono and her peace weenies had something to do with it!

I mean, Come on... The Who (28), Led Zeppelin (29) and Pink floyd (43) ?

Please!!

No way!

I want to know who voted.

Obie Wan...check this list out.
Some of it is really bogus.

[GrowlingTiger87]

First of all, consider the source: Rolling Stone Magazine

Secondly, how in the hell can Hotel California be 37th, and behind some turkey's like Nirvana and The Clash...The Clash??? Give me a break. They had "Rock the Casbah". Whoopedee doo!

[pigskinmccarthy]

AC/DC BACK IN BLACK by far the best!

[Seeker]

How could Bowie's Hunky Dory be at 107?
and Janis Joplin's Pearl at 122?
and CSNY's Deja Vu at 148?
and the Byrd's Greatest Hts at 178?

The Mamas and the Papas' Greatest Hits is at 423.

and did I miss Supertramp's Breakfast in America?

Every one of these should at least be in the top 50!

[longtimefirsttime]

I knew the list would raise the blood pressure of a few. Just don't shoot the messenger.

[DAWGH8R]

:doh2: Is this by sales, or just a 60 year olds opinion??????????//

[Seeker]

I knew the list would raise the blood pressure of a few. Just don't shoot the messenger.

Never.
What makes me the angriest is that this just brings home the point of how our popular music has been sinking into the pits since the first day of MTV.

Good original music doesn't stand a chance anymore.
(Prince's Purple Rain and Sugar Ray's 14:59 notwithstanding.)

[longtimefirsttime]

I know I will sound like an "old fogey" but music ISN'T what it used to be. When you're using children's nursery rhymes and hooks from older songs, you've run out of ideas.

[Seeker]

:doh2: Is this by sales, or just a 60 year olds opinion??????????//

It's def not sales, or else Tapestry would have been near the top.

As far as your 60 year old comment, I regret that!

Seriously, the voters must have been 25-35 and not people who have lived the music.

[Obie Wan]

I know I will sound like an "old fogey" but music ISN'T what it used to be. When you're using children's nursery rhymes and hooks from older songs, you've run out of ideas.
Let's put that in perspective. Just yesterday I was listening to a bootleg of a 1969 Zeppelin concert. About 8:00 into an extended version of 'How Many More Times', Plant starts repeatedly singing "Here we go round the mulberry bush." You might also remember that Zeppelin was successfully sued for copyright infringement, and that many of the songs on Led Zeppelin II are direct ripoffs and/or uncredited covers of seminal works by Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf.

[DAWGH8R]

IMHO, I've said for YEARS that MTV is the downfall of all future generations !!! Glorification of thug life, disrepecting females, pants around your knees, drug activity, etc... It's like a CULT thing !!!

Next they'll be told to "drink the kool-aid" !!!

[longtimefirsttime]

I understand that the classic rock artists got their inspiration form a variety of sources (other artists and often visions from hallucinogenic drugs). However I don't recall them using a child's nursey rhyme as the entire basis of a song. Maybe I am a fogey.

[MR EMPTY PANTS]

what a joke of a list. i`m a jazz fan and 1 jazz album makes the top 100. where`s john coltrane, charlie parker, and thelonius monk.

JAZZ: an artform that actually takes musical talent.

i do agree with the beatles white album in top 5 though

[TxTiger]

What?! No Xanadu soundtrack?!

List is rigged.

[TigerBuckeye313]

From an 18 year old perspective: MTV is garbage.

Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc...

[American Eagle]

"right said fred" has a awesome album. "i'm to sexy" was a hit!

[TigerCoach]

Boston's "More Than A Feeling" (not even listed) is my favorite. The Eagles "Hotel California" (#37) is a close second, with The Chipmunks Christmas Album coming in third. I also liked, but didn't see "Thriller" by Michael Jackson and Parliment's "Tear The Roof Off The Sucka". What a joke!

[TigerLily]

I don’t know if I would put Sgt. Pepper at #1 -- preferred Abbey Road and Rubber Soul much more.

Guess everyone has their own favorites, but for me, what kind of list doesn’t include the Bee Gee’s or the Moody Blues?

Oh yeah…. also “My Son the Nut” by Allen Sherman (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah) and Ray Stevens Greatest Hits (The Streak) -- they just have no taste in music.


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