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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums

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TheFuriousWombat:
I have around 30 of the albums on the list. Overall it's pretty terrible. These albums are by no means the best, and in many cases not even "important" or "influention." Seriously, Outkast? Moby? Randy Newman...twice? Did Eminem really make two of the best albums ever? Should Madonna be on such a list more times than I care to count? And sure, I like the Beatles as much as the next guy but come on, this is just ridiculous. Are all those albums of theirs on the list really some of the best ever made? Same thing with Bob Dylan. He's a pretty brilliant guy but christ, put on one or two of his albums, not 6 or whatever the fuck is on here. And then there's odd things like not only including Radiohead (another band I like a lot but again, overkill here) three times, but putting The Bends, one of their more uninteresting releases and one rarely mentioned anywhere as their best, ahead of the others. The silly choices continue far beyond the aforementioned. KISS? Really? People still take those guys seriously? I thought everybody knew they were awful! George Michael? That pop doofus? I'll restrain myself but I could continue. The list attempts to do too much. The placement of most of the albums seems totally arbitrary. RS bit off more than they could chew here and the results are, to me, pretty laughable.

ThePianoMan:
Geez - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as the best album of all time? I mean, it's great, but as much for historical as musical reasons - and pretty inconsistent in terms of quality. And FOUR Beatles albums in the top ten? And none of them is Abbey Road? And...ah, screw it. There's too much to whine about.

I own 17 of the albums, 18 if you count Bookends, which my dad bought at one point but which is now basically mine, and there are a bunch that I've been meaning to buy, such as the Bowie albums. Terrible list, though.

SilentJ:
I was kinda weird about which albums I counted as mine- I get some of my music from my brother and my dad, so albums they own that I've copied to my computer, I counted.  Using that system I got 49.

I think I remember reading somewhere that this list was based upon the opinions of like 300 musicians that they interviewed, asking for their top 25 albums, and then weighted the submissions somehow and came up with this list, or something like that.  So it's not necessarily just Rolling Stone, apparently other people in the music biz are pretty retarded as well.  (Three Eminem albums?  Really?)

Brian Majestic:
I have 87 of those albums listed. Looking through the list about 20 of those were cassettes and cds I bought during the early 90s alternative boom.

There's lots of crap listed to be sure, but there's Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry (though a best of? Really), James Brown, Stooges, etc etc etc as ell.

Caspian:
The fact that Ride the Lightning and MoP aren't on there is as good a reason as any to declare it a bullshit list.

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