hahaha so now TIME magazine has their own "All-TIME 100 Albums" list

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― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, HOW COULD THEY NOT HAVE INCLUDED NEU!

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

That list gets more and more mental as it progresses. The 90s were wtf and the 00s are surely you must be joking.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

You can vote for albums that didn't make the list. Current rankings:

45.3% Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
36.9% Appetite for Destruction, Guns N' Roses
10.1% The Doors, The Doors
2.7% Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt
1.8% The Band, Music From Big Pink
1.3% This Year's Model, Elvis Costello
1.0% Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
0.8% Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i like that Elvis has the best album of the 90's.

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Shockingly, i think that voted-upon list to be more interesting that the actual one.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

HOW MANY US CITIZENS LISTEN TO THE STONE ROSES?!?!?!

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like a time capsule. Where were you when people were still talking about Lucinda Williams?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking to other people about Vic Chesnutt.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I don't post this necessarily as a "less clueless than rolling stone" thing, but more out of interest as how "The 10 CD Crowd" views rock music history. The curious bits are how things like Pavement or DJ Shadow got on there, and how the singles collections are replacements for albums, but usually decades later.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

But music critics for Time are still music critics, not part of the 10 CD Crowd themselves. Critics love Pavement and Shadow, and neither are particularly obscure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

they're precisely what rolling stone has been canonizing -- like album for album -- as long as I can remember. so, so pointless. also, rolling stone, of course, almost never gives new albums "classic" status, but will give almost any re-issue a knee-jerk 5-stars. The Penguins>>>>>any non-mick jagger album of the 90's, or thereabouts.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

re-issue/comp.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

but the music writers for Time are writing for an audience that either includes or is primarily made up of the 10 CD crowd(esp. for a canonical list), are they not?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, but even if they're dumbing down for their audience, it's not a direct reflection of the 10 CD Crowd, it's a reflection of how these writers cater to the 10 CD Crowd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

there needs to be some kind of way to change things with music writing. what was that term stalin used?

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I just...what's the point if you're just gonna reprint every rolling stone list ever? If the ten (12?) CD crowd hasn't bought Sgt. Pepper by this point, they're NOT PAYING ATTENTION. And if they can handle Sgt. Pepper, why not recommend something different for a change? throw some Can at em and watch them WIG.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

These lists always piss me off anyways because I genuinely don't rate Sgt. Pepper. Without checking, I'm assuming that's number one, with Pet Sounds or Revolver giving it a run for its money.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

they're precisely what rolling stone has been canonizing -- like album for album -- as long as I can remember. so, so pointless.

Isn't that the point exactly? You can't build a canon if you're swapping out albums every few years.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus, if the Time writers were completely catering to the 10 CD crowd, you can bet yer sweet bippy Dark Side of the Moon would be on there. I didn't check, was there any Dave Matthews on the list?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

a) fuck a canon, i suppose. b) yes, the canon can change, and the idea that it can't because albums are assigned a number from one to a hundred is depressing. I'm not convinced they are writing for the 10 cd crowd, really. None of my Aunts own Sgt. Pepper. I guess a lot of it, for me, has to do with the fact that this *particular* canon seems to be so dominant and static.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

But, yes, I know what your saying. And I guess for most time readers this list might be news.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Alphabetically:

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
AC/DC - Back in Black
Al Green - Call Me
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Carole King - Tapestry
Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elvis Presley - Elvis: 30 No. 1 Hits
Elvis Presley - Sunrise
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Garth Brooks - Ropin' The Wind
Hank Williams - The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years
Hole - Live Through This
James Brown - Star Time
James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963)
Jimmy Cliff and Various Artists - The Harder They Come
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a. Zoso)
Little Richard - Here's Little Richard
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Mary J. Blige - My Life
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Muddy Waters - The Anthology, 1947 - 1972
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Outkast - Stankonia
Parliament / Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
Patti Smith - Horses
Paul Simon - Graceland
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Prince - Sign O' The Times
Prince - Purple Rain
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
R.E.M. - Out of Time
R.E.M. - Document
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - OK Computer
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
The Band - The Band
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - The Beatles ("The White Album")
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Revolver
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Clash - London Calling
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
The Ramones - Ramones
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Who - Who's Next
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - Moondance
Various Artists - Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969)
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

When in doubt, choose all Beatles albums.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

OASIS, LOL LOL LOL

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't we do this on real ILM already?

― Kali Pachanguero (RSLaRue), Monday, 27 November 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yes. hilarity, um, ensued.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 27 November 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Oasis still tend to place at least one album in the Top 10 in polls voted by British readers, in spite of those albums now being more than 10 years old. Seems like they have become classics after all.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Monday, 27 November 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Metallica - Master of Puppets

This brings me joy, although I think they forgot And Justice for All when they wrote the blurb.

― Sundar S (SundarS), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Look this list is stoopid okay? Someone I don't know very well showed me it and said "you'll probably be interested in this". All I could say was it left a lot to be desired. Still I was impressed they included the Stone Roses. I mean where the hell did that come from? That first album of theirs can't have sold nearly what the rest of these things did.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

What no Ys?

― Heath Pardoe (badg), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The first Stone Roses one sold considerably better than "Velvet Underground & Nico" did first time around.

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

What no Westlife: The Love Album?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Shut up, MC - Geir's dropping knowledge.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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