The Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums

Yoda9864 · 12-01-2003, 11:48 AM

Yeah, the Beatles rocked that list. Bob Dylan also represented pretty good.

No Weird Al??!?

Shadow_Link · 12-01-2003, 12:33 PM

Sorry, that list is terrible, sure alot of the stuff on there is correct and deserves to be there, but the order in which they are put in is appauling. And some of the albums on there just DON'T deserve to be there.

For a start, Jimi's best album was electric ladyland, everyone knows that! And
Revolver was The Beatles best album... (IMO)
And one of the biggest mistakes is not putting Jeff Buckley's Grace in the top 100.....

Glad they put U2's old stuff there, but where the hell is Sound Garden's A-Sides? Pearl Jam's Ten should have been much higher, atleast a place next to Nevermind, and much further away from Eminem!

GameMaster · 12-01-2003, 07:21 PM

I though the White Album was considered to be the Beatle's best album?

Perfect Stu · 12-01-2003, 08:48 PM

^^^ I like Sgt. Pepper's and Revolver better

Stonecutter · 12-01-2003, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GameMaster

I though the White Album was considered to be the Beatle's best album?

NO ****ING WAY.

White album was an ABORTION.

Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
Revolver
Let it Be
Abby Road

In any order are all way, way better.

There are two different bands called "The Beatles" Imo. There's the real beatles IE: on drugs and making good music, and then there's the early 60's sucky pop crap beatles.

Beatles - LSD = Suck.

Perfect Stu · 12-02-2003, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

NO ****ING WAY.

White album was an ABORTION.

Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
Revolver
Let it Be
Abby Road

In any order are all way, way better.

There are two different bands called "The Beatles" Imo. There's the real beatles IE: on drugs and making good music, and then there's the early 60's sucky pop crap beatles.

Beatles - LSD = Suck.

I disagree

The Beatles were great in both eras...and they evolved music in each era, too...which makes me sad they broke up.

Songs like

Help!
Please Please Me
Yesterday
Penny Lane

are all great IMO. but I also love songs like While My Guitar Gently Weeps and A Day in the Life. So I get the best of both worlds

DimHalo · 12-02-2003, 06:06 PM

I haven't read the whole list... just the first 100 but so far looks like a pretty good list. While I agree that some might think that the order is a little off, this list is not based on the minority opinion, so keep that in mind.

PS: I'm happy to see Billy Joel and The Clash and the 70's bands like SEx Pistols and the Doors on the first page. They had a lot of talent (even if I don't listen to the music that much)

ZebraRampage · 12-02-2003, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

NO ****ING WAY.

White album was an ABORTION.

Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
Revolver
Let it Be
Abby Road

In any order are all way, way better.

There are two different bands called "The Beatles" Imo. There's the real beatles IE: on drugs and making good music, and then there's the early 60's sucky pop crap beatles.

Beatles - LSD = Suck.

I agree with Stonecutter on this, I loved those 5 albums the most too. Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album would come next. I also agree with Shadow Link that they didn't order these very well, but..I mean come on Tommy at 96?! But after looking at the whole list I realized that you can't really make a best 500 albums list in a particular order, most of the albums on there are great, and it's all based off opinion. They should just call it the best 500 albums ever, instead of listing them in order from best to worst.