Post by sunsetdriver on Jan 10, 2006 1:23:56 GMT 1
source: rollingstone.com
The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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
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68. Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
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202. Bad, Michael Jackson
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Beatles, Beach Boys, Dylan rank high in Rolling Stone's Top 500 book
Best album lists are an ongoing cottage industry in rock journalism, and Rolling Stone recently threw up a small subdivision with the publication of the coffee-table book, "Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (Wenner Books, $35).
Stone compiled its list by polling musicians and critics, including James Hetfield of Metallica, Billie Joe of Green Day, Britney Spears, Pete Seeger, The Edge, Jackson Browne and Yoko Ono.
Perhaps the first thing that leaps out is that it's a very Beatle- centric list. "Sgt. Pepper" is No. 1 as it often is in such lists, but two of the top three albums are by the Beatles, three of the first five and four of the first 10.
If Beatlemania seems to run rampant, it might be worth noting that when VH1 compiled a similar list back in 2001, it put four Beatles albums in the first 10. Interestingly, they put "Sgt. Pepper" at No. 10 and promoted "Revolver" to top billing.
Nathan Brackett, who helped put the book together, acknowledges there's a heavy Beatles tilt.
"I think people kind of thought of their favorite Beatles albums and weren't thinking about things like redundancies. When you have a bunch of critics doing a list like this, they'll say, Oh, we can't do both "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper" in the top 20.' This in a way is a little more honest reflection of what a broader slice of the population likes because they weren't thinking about that kind of stuff. It's not as perfect as maybe a rock critic's list would be."
If not as perfect as a rock critic's list, it's also, depending on your point of view, not as politically correct or as fair minded. Of the top 20 albums, only four are by African-American artists: Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
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Enrico
The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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
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68. Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
.......
202. Bad, Michael Jackson
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Beatles, Beach Boys, Dylan rank high in Rolling Stone's Top 500 book
Best album lists are an ongoing cottage industry in rock journalism, and Rolling Stone recently threw up a small subdivision with the publication of the coffee-table book, "Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (Wenner Books, $35).
Stone compiled its list by polling musicians and critics, including James Hetfield of Metallica, Billie Joe of Green Day, Britney Spears, Pete Seeger, The Edge, Jackson Browne and Yoko Ono.
Perhaps the first thing that leaps out is that it's a very Beatle- centric list. "Sgt. Pepper" is No. 1 as it often is in such lists, but two of the top three albums are by the Beatles, three of the first five and four of the first 10.
If Beatlemania seems to run rampant, it might be worth noting that when VH1 compiled a similar list back in 2001, it put four Beatles albums in the first 10. Interestingly, they put "Sgt. Pepper" at No. 10 and promoted "Revolver" to top billing.
Nathan Brackett, who helped put the book together, acknowledges there's a heavy Beatles tilt.
"I think people kind of thought of their favorite Beatles albums and weren't thinking about things like redundancies. When you have a bunch of critics doing a list like this, they'll say, Oh, we can't do both "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper" in the top 20.' This in a way is a little more honest reflection of what a broader slice of the population likes because they weren't thinking about that kind of stuff. It's not as perfect as maybe a rock critic's list would be."
If not as perfect as a rock critic's list, it's also, depending on your point of view, not as politically correct or as fair minded. Of the top 20 albums, only four are by African-American artists: Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" and Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
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Enrico
