I only listed the top 20 But there's a link to the rest

Top 500 Albums

Top 20

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

I think Revolver Should be number 1,its just a perfect album

What are your thoughts on the list!!!

All of these lists are stupid because they always list albums by their pop standards. Nevermind is above In Utero for instance. Plus the fact that there's no Pink Floyd in the top ten or Tom Waits in the top 30 automatically proves it's worthlessness.

I think the list put together by the so called "Experts"

There's no such thing as an expert when it comes to art.

Hell, everybody thinks that they are fricken experts.
Just look at some of the blowhard posts that people post around these boards!
Then there are those that have to post everything they find or read on the Internet. :rolleyes:
Sit back and relax, it is all good.

How Thriller is not number one I will never understand.

Exactly!
Rolling Stone published this as a way to sell copies of itself, and to reinforce its credentials as the "definitive" journal of R&R. :p Their list could qualify as a roster of albums that might be the most popular, or that might have been big sellers of their era. But we, as individuals, determine the "best" (and worst) in music. No one can substitute for our taste, our feelings, our likes/dislikes.

Speaking for myself, the album I've listened to most often is Hendrix's "Axis: Bold as Love." Does that make it the "best" album of all time? I dunno. I liked a lot of the albums in the supposed "Top Twenty," especially "Rubber Soul," "Revolver," "Abbey Road," "Astral Weeks," "London Calling" and "Highway 61 Revisted." I also listened a lot to "The Doors," "In Search of the Lost Chord" (Moodies), "Stonedhenge" (Ten Years After); "Live at Leeds," "Quadrophenia," "Odds and Sods," and "Who's Next" (The Who); "Electric Ladyland," "Hendrix in the West," "The Concerts," "Hendrix Blues," "Band of Gypsies" and "Stages" (Hendrix); and "Let it Bleed," "High Tide and Green Grass," "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out," "Love You Live" and "Sticky Fingers" (Stones). Are these the "Top" albums of all time? I dunno--but I liked them.
Today I listen to Leontyne Price, Jussi Bjoerling, Anna Moffo, Joan Sutherland, Giuseppe DiStefano, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Renata Tebaldi. Are they the greatest singers of all time? I dunno--but I like them.

I checked this out from the library just for a quick flip through. Its all personal prefrence though, if you remember that, its not so irrataing. Me personally, I dont think the Beatles are all that good to begin w/.

I can appreciate The Beatles for their importance and innovation, but their music does absolutely nothing for me.

glad to see London Calling there, but these lists blow, not to mention that they make it 3 or 4 times an year nowadays, there's really no fun anymore.

the guy above says he doesn't understand how Thriller is not number one. I can't understand how Dead Kennedy's "Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables" is not number one, too!

I can appreciate The Beatles for their importance and innovation, but their music does absolutely nothing for me. [/b][/quote]My sentiments exactly. Though some of thier "stoner stuff" I do like

I can appreciate The Beatles for their importance and innovation, but their music does absolutely nothing for me. [/b][/quote]My sentiments exactly. Though some of thier "stoner stuff" I do like [/b][/quote]You mean, "experimental"? :rolleyes:

Hey man, I am not one to classify music...at all. Thats what other people have refered to it as, and everyone knows whaat you're talking about when you say that.

No, that's what teenagers who've heard three Pink Floyd songs and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" "classify" it as.

I hate progressive music being called stoner music, especially Pink Floyd. Everyone thinks "Comfortably Numb" is a drug song because of this.

I hate labeling and pigonholing any sort of music, whatsoever. "Experimental" and "Progressive" I especially dont like, because all music is(read: should be) an experiment.

How the hell is Darkside of the moon not in the top 3?

Well, you know how conservatives are always crying about the east coast media outlets? They're half-right.

Except its not the news. Fuck the news, the bias comes from certain outlets' own art sections. New York Times has film critics that are among the biggest pretentious fuckheads I've read that don't reside in France.

Now Rolling Stone....yeah, there is a reason why rock fans mostly don't take their reviews seriously anymore.

Remember, they shat on Floyd's WISH YOU WERE HERE. Now its on that silly list of theirs. :rolleyes:

BTW, I agree.....how Dark Side of the Moon wasn't higher, fuck if I know.

P.S. - "Stoner music?" I still know fuckheads that think both the movie and album of THE WALL is such a term. Really, I support public flogging of idiots. It should be on the ballot in November.

I agree. Just because a particular band or movie is greatly enhanced by being high doesnt mean it should be labeled for a certain group of people. Yes pot smokers seem to like Floyd, but so do many non pot smokers. And btw, ALL music sounds better when your high, not just Pink Floyd, Hendrix and Phish

I think public flogging of people who do drugs should be on the ballot in November as well. That's one thing I've always wondered about these "stoners". They are so anti-establishment they must always go against the norm, yet they always end up liking the exact same things, thereby creating an entirely different norm that they saught to seperate themselves from in the first place.

Heres another one for you...

100 greatest songs of all time in Q magazine poll of music fans.

OASIS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Look, I know its a British rag and all, but fucking Oasis?

"Comfortably Numb" as the highest-ranking Pink Floyd tune, thats cool I guess, but getting outranked by Robbie Williams is fucking embarrasing, but what am I gonna do?

Shit, just re-read the list again....OASIS has the first two spots?

Its an English Mag so all the votes are from the readers etc and Oasis have been massive for the past 10 years here.

Not everyone agrees with your films list etc,it just the same with this,you could argue about these things forever

That list is AWFUl but I am happy to see certain songs on it i.e. "Shine on you crazy Diamond," "Gimme Shelter," and "Hallelujia."

No offense, but that Q list seems to have little to no merit whatsoever

Again this is people's opions

Yeah, thats true. Thats why I said no offense

And None Taken

Those lists fucking blow.

Just looked at the "Top 100". I don't care for figures beyond that, especially since it's another click away.

Where's Grooverider's Mysteries of Funk? Leftfield's Leftism or Rhythm and Stealth? Aphex Twin's Drukqs? DJ Shadow's Endtroducing...? Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac? Slowblow? Popol Vuh? Dylan's Desire? Waits' Swordfish Trombones? De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising?

And on and on...