OMG, HOW COULD THEY NOT HAVE INCLUDED NEU!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Talking to other people about Vic Chesnutt.

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.

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.

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.

re-issue/comp.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

OASIS, LOL LOL LOL

Didn’t we do this on real ILM already?

yes. hilarity, um, ensued.

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.

Metallica—Master of Puppets

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

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.

What no Ys?

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

What no Westlife: The Love Album?

Shut up, MC—Geir’s dropping knowledge.