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Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Back in 2003 Rolling Stone Magazine put together a list of the 500.
Here is the Wiki article discussing the list. Here is the list itself. Following are the top ten albums on the list. 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 Now, looking this over it seems to me the top spots on this list totally favors 60s and 70s rock, at the expense of classic rock, blues, jazz, R&B, country etc. For example, while I certainly love The Beatles do they really deserve four of the top ten spots? And while Pet Sounds certainly has some solid stuff on it I certainly wouldn't call it a top album of all times. I'm curious what others feel about this, what your top ten list might look like, whether genres other than rock should be represented etc. Swede |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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Now, looking this over it seems to me the top spots on this list totally favors 60s and 70s rock, at the expense of classic rock, blues, jazz, R&B, country etc. [/ QUOTE ] How old are you? You see back in the 60's and 70's there really was only one genre so to speak. Mainstream radio which featured Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones etc and a sub genre of Motown. That was it. Nothing else (jazz, country, R+B) was even on the map. Nowadays it's all different. There are so many genres there is no mainstream anymore. The Beatles or Elvis phenominons that took a whole country by storm will never happen again because music is too fragmented for that now. Plus that era was the "album" generation. That was when albums themselves became mainstream. That's my take anyway. A question? What's the difference between 60'/70's rock and classic rock? |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
It's hard for us young guys to understand how much each of these albums meant. Pet Sounds is one of those things that gets picked because of all the production values and whatnot at the time, I have never liked it that much either, I just let it be.
This kind of stuff is pretty meaningless and not worth worrying about... I may use this list for ideas to pick up some lesser known stuff lower down though. NT |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Also, I have always felt that "The Clash" is the best album by the The Clash, and that it's not really close.
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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Also, I have always felt that "The Clash" is the best album by the The Clash, and that it's not really close. NT [/ QUOTE ] rofl |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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[ QUOTE ] Also, I have always felt that "The Clash" is the best album by the The Clash, and that it's not really close. NT [/ QUOTE ] rofl [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for your contribution, care to elaborate? The Clash has probably six or seven of my top ten Clash songs and no really bad songs. It's crisp, brilliant and it was a seminal album in terms of impact on the music biz / music scene. Hundreds of punk bands have made careers out of basically ripping off this one album. NT |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Also, I have always felt that "The Clash" is the best album by the The Clash, and that it's not really close. NT [/ QUOTE ] rofl [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for your contribution, care to elaborate? NT [/ QUOTE ] Basically what I meant is you must really hate London Calling if you don't think it's even close [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]. But that was because you said "best." For "greatest," you can definitely make an argument for their self-titled (UK version is better, btw, IMO) being put ahead of London Calling (although a magazine like Rolling Stone would never do so). The sheer length and range of London Calling forces me to think it is a better album than The Clash, although it being my favorite probably has something to do with that as well. |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Also, I have always felt that "The Clash" is the best album by the The Clash, and that it's not really close. NT [/ QUOTE ] ) rofl [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for your contribution, care to elaborate? The Clash has probably six or seven of my top ten Clash songs and no really bad songs. It's crisp, brilliant and it was a seminal album in terms of impact on the music biz / music scene. Hundreds of punk bands have made careers out of basically ripping off this one album. NT [/ QUOTE ] The Clash is definitely a worthy album, and imo the greatest punk album ever recorded, but London Calling is so much more than punk. I think its not too far fetched to say that you can trace 90% of contemporary rock back to this one album, and lots of music from other genres as well. 9The CLash's impact on hip hop is SO underestimated) |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
mrbaseball:
I'mm 31, so I was definitely not around when all this music peaked. I don't understand what you are saying about country, jazz and blues not being on the map back then, as each of those genres pretty much contributed to rock and roll's formation. If you're recognizing the influence music had on later generations all these genres are hugely influential. By classic rock I was more talking 50s stuff, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, early Elvis etc. NT: I definitely see your point and I don't get worked up about it at all, I merely thought it might make for a good conversation. It just surprises me that a bunch of polled musicians and music critics would focus on little else than 60s and 70s rock when there have been so much other great music made over the decades; these experts, of all people, should know about the other musical styles and their influence. Swede |
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Re: Music Thread - Rolling Stones\' 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Swede,
i think part of Beach Boys/Beatles thing comes from the fact that some of those albums were made in response to each other (at least, that's what I've been told), so there was this whole thing of them trying to out-do each other. it might have been those top 3, come to think of it. the thing is, it's pretty hard to argue against any of those top 10 albums. at best, you could maybe knock Rubber Soul down a few notches and move up Miles Davis or Elvis, but really when you're talking about the top 20 albums of all-time, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between #1 and #20. i find it helps to look at these things in the same way you'd evaluate talent in fantasy football...look at groups of albums (say, 1-20, 21-40, etc.) and not worry about the rankings in those groups. instead wonder if something like Songs in the Key of Life (#56) is in the right grouping. |
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