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Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Full list here - http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time

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

21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry

22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon

23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder

24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown

25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac

26. The Joshua Tree, U2

27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson

28. Who's Next, The Who

29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin

30. Blue, Joni Mitchell

31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan

32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones

33. Ramones, Ramones

34. Music From Big Pink, The Band

35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie

36. Tapestry, Carole King

37. Hotel California, The Eagles

38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters

39. Please Please Me, The Beatles

40. Forever Changes, Love

41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols

42. The Doors, The Doors

43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

44. Horses, Patti Smith

45. The Band, The Band

46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers

47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane

48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy

49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band

50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard

51. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel

52. Greatest Hits, Al Green

53. The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 - 1959, Ray Charles

54. Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley

56. Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder

57. Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones

58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

59. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles

60. Greatest Hits, Sly and the Family Stone

61. Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses

Rolling Stone is full of shit.

Nirvana's 'Nevermind', #17?!?!?

Give me a fucking break...

well, its number one on MY list ?:beer:

3 years old

It's on the front of their current web page

http://www.rollingstone.com/?pageid=rs.page.home

It says a Special Collectors Issue.



If it is, then mods do your stuff.

That's very slanted... All of the albums in the top 16 are pre-1980?? (Including 4 Beatles albums?!) Gimmie a break. AFD, Joshua Tree (and/or Achtung Baby), Nevermind & PJ's 10 all deserve top 10.

You are never going to please everyone when you make these lists, but I am glad to see it was not like a lot of "Greatest Albums" lists where the top 25 contains like 20 albums released in the past 10 years. It just bugs me when people seem to have short memories when ranking albums.

RS is a joke esp when they didnt even put slash or navarro on their top 100 guitarist. I wont even go into how nevermind isnt even close to being as good as AFD is

That list is a load of shit and we all know it. That kind of thing can NEVER be ranked, nobody could ever agree.

Just another stupid RS top 500 list that means nothing. :yes:

Shit, they placed Exile ABOVE Sticky Fingers?  LAME.

Nobody ever agrees on these lists.  Obviously people will disagree, but IMO, this list is truly absurd. 

wow, what a stupid list.  whoever made that must be really old.  Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band? lmao!  wow wow wow!  Appetite(and Use Your Illusion II) are WAY better than everything on this list(with exception to Nevermind, which isn't better than those 2 GNR albums, but still should be on the top five). 

Al Green, who had 1 single ever?
Little Richard, who never did  anything except yell, be gay, and appear in stupid commercials?
Really, I think the  music print media  has lost its  mind. I realized this in about 1978 when I subscribed to RS and said to myself: self, they do not know what the fuck they are talking about. And it  is still true.

AFD is deffinetly higher than #61, even non-GNR fans know that...
 ::) :P

And its lame that The Beatles take 4 of the top 10. I love The Beatles but they dont deserve 4 spots up there.  :confused:

Just a stupid countdown, we KNOW the truth guys.  ;D ;D

P.S maybe one day we'll see CD up there  :yes:

hopefully by next year we see chinese democracy at #1 album in a bunch of these stupid polls

Actually, I think Led Zeppelin II and IV got screwed over even more than AFD. Both of those albums are top 20 easily.

nevermind don't deserve it
man,nirvana was popular,but you hadn't nothing realy good there
btw cobain was bad guitarist

Yeah this is the same corporate mag that did not even list slash as one of the greatest guitarists to grace rock n roll.  Yeah there is your answer pure and simple, rolling stone has no crediblity of naming anything.  Ha Nirvana at number 17, tools.

hey sorry dave wasnt trying to still your thunder didnt see it.

The Dark Side Of The Moon at #43 ??? ::)

This list is already almost a few years old. This is the same list that came out in the magazine in I think 2004. The list doesn't mean shit. When RS did the top 100 albums of all time, PICKED BY THE FANS, Appetite was number 7 I think. That's what matters, not this shit list.  But I can't disagree with 4 Beatles albums in the top 16 as someone said. The number one album of all time when picked by the fans in that top 100 list was The Beatles "Revolver." Someone had mentioned Joshua Tree from U2 and that was in the top 5 of that list I believe as well, although I'm not a big fan of U2 at all. I think the Illusion albums were in the 40's in that top 100 list. I'm sure it's on RS.com with the rest of their lists they've done.

EDIT:  Here it is. It didn't copy and paste very well,  but it gives you an idea.


Ranking     

Artist / Band
   

Album Title

   Release

1    Beatles, The    Revolver    1966
2    Nirvana    Nevermind    1991
3    Beatles, The    Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band    1967
4    U2    The Joshua Tree    1987
5    Beatles, The    The Beatles (White Album)    1968
6    Beatles, The    Abbey Road    1969
7    Guns N' Roses    Appetite For Destruction    1987
8    Radiohead    OK Computer    1997
9    Led Zeppelin    Led Zeppelin IV    1971
10    U2    Achtung Baby    1991
11    Pink Floyd    Dark Side Of The Moon    1973
12    Jackson, Michael    Thriller    1982
13    Rolling Stones, The    Exile On Main Street    1972
14    Clash, The    London Calling    1979
15    U2    All That You Can't Leave Behind    2000
16    Weezer    Pinkerton    1996
17    Radiohead    The Bends    1995
18    Smashing Pumpkins, The    Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness    1995
19    Pearl Jam    Ten    1991
20    Beach Boys, The    Pet Sounds    1966
21    Weezer    Weezer    1994
22    Nirvana    In Utero    1993
23    Beatles, The    Rubber Soul    1965
24    Eminem    The Eminem Show    2002
25    R.E.M.    Automatic For The People    1992
26    Radiohead    Kid A    2000
27    Tool    Aenima    1996
28    Smashing Pumpkins, The    Siamese Dream    1993
29    Madonna    Ray Of Light    1998
30    Rolling Stones, The    Sticky Fingers    1971
31    Pink Floyd    The Wall    1979
32    Springsteen, Bruce    Born To Run    1975
33    Oasis    (What's The Story) Morning Glory?    1995
34    Dylan, Bob    Blonde On Blonde    1966
35    Red Hot Chili Peppers    Blood Sugar Sex Magik    1991
36    Who, The    Who's Next    1971
37    Eminem    The Marshall Mathers LP    2000
38    Greenday    Dookie    1994
39    Dylan, Bob    Blood On The Tracks    1975
40    Buckley, Jeff    Grace    1994
41    Oasis    Definitely Maybe    1994
42    Metallica    Metallica (Black Album)    1991
43    Fleetwood Mac    Rumours    1977
44    Hendrix, Jimi    Are You Experienced?    1967
45    Red Hot Chili Peppers    Californication    1999
46    Guns N' Roses    Use Your Illusion 1 & 2    1991
47    Morissette, Alanis    Alanis Unplugged    1999
48    Dylan, Bob    Highway 61 Revisited    1965
49    U2    War    1983
50    Pearl Jam    Vs.    1993
51    Led Zeppelin    Led Zeppelin II    1969
52    Madonna    Music    2000
53    U2    The Unforgettable Fire    1984
54    Matthews, Dave (Band)    Crash    1996
55    Nirvana    Unplugged In New York    1994
56    Bowie, David    The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust    1972
57    Strokes, The    Is This It    2001
58    Linkin Park    Hybrid Theory    2000
59    Black Sabbath    Paranoid    1970
60    AC/DC    Back In Black    1980
61    Davis, Miles    Kind Of Blue    1959
62    Madonna    Like A Prayer    1989
63    Springsteen, Bruce    Darkness On The Edge Of Town    1978
64    Springsteen, Bruce    Born In The U.S.A.    1984
65    Who, The    Tommy    1969
66    Prince    Purple Rain    1984
67    Rage Against the Machine    Rage Against The Machine    1992
68    Rolling Stones, The    Let It Bleed    1969
69    Carey, Mariah    Daydream    1995
70    U2    Zooropa    1993
71    Matthews, Dave (Band)    Under The Table And Dreaming    1994
72    System Of A Down    Toxicity    2001
73    Jackson, Michael    Off The Wall    1979
74    Sex Pistols, The    Never Mind The Bollocks    1977
75    Counting Crows    August And Everything After    1993
76    Gaye, Marvin    What's Going On    1971
77    Pixies, The    Doolittle    1989
78    No Doubt    Tragic Kingdom    1995
79    Velvet Underground, The    The Velvet Underground + Nico    1967
80    Soundgarden    Superunknown    1994
81    Depeche Mode    101 (Live)    1989
82    Pearl Jam    Vitalogy    1994
83    Queen    A Night At The Opera    1975
84    Led Zeppelin    Houses Of The Holy    1973
85    Morrison, Van    Astral Weeks    1968
86    Bon Jovi    Slippery When Wet    1986
87    Smiths, The    The Queen Is Dead    1986
88    Metallica    Master Of Puppets    1986
89    Dylan, Bob    Bringing It All Back Home    1965
90    Who, The    Quadrophenia    1973
91    Weezer    Maladroit    2002
92    Garbage    Version 2.0    1998
93    Marley, Bob    Legend    1984
94    Def Leppard    Hysteria    1987
95    Moby    Play    1999
96    Wonder, Stevie    Songs In The Key Of Life    1976
97    Beck    Odelay    1996
98    Hendrix, Jimi    Electric Ladyland    1968
99    Madonna    The Immaculate Collection (Compilation)    1990
100    Pink Floyd    Wish You Were Here    1975


Here's another list from Albumsvote.co.uk

Top 100 albums of all time

   1. Beatles Revolver
   2. Beach Boys Pet Sounds
   3. Nirvana Nevermind
   4. Beatles Abbey Road
   5. Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
   6. Radiohead OK computer
   7. Beatles Sgt Pepper
   8. U2 The Joshua Tree
   9. Oasis Definitely Maybe
  10. Rem Automatic For The People
  11. Radiohead The Bends
  12. Stone Roses The Stone Roses
  13. Beatles The White Album
  14. Clash London Calling
  15. Oasis What's the Story (Morning Glory)
  16. Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
  17. David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
  18. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
  19. Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
  20. Velvet Underground Velvet Underground & Nico
  21. Van Morrison Astral Weeks
  22. Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks
  23. U2 Achtung Baby
  24. Led Zeppelin IV
  25. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
  26. Smiths The Queen Is Dead
  27. Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced
  28. Pearl Jam Ten
  29. Marvin Gaye What's Going On
  30. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
  31. Beatles Rubber Soul
  32. Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible
  33. Jeff Buckley Grace
  34. Pink Floyd The Wall
  35. Fleetwood Mac Rumours
  36. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
  37. Who Who's Next
  38. Doors The Doors
  39. Prince Sign O the Times
  40. Love Forever Changes
  41. Guns'n'Roses Appetite for Destruction
  42. Michael jackson Thriller
  43. Queen A Night at the Opera
  44. David Bowie Hunky Dory
  45. Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
  46. Television Marquee Moon
  47. Coldplay Parachutes
  48. Primal Scream Screamadelica
  49. Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
  50. Allanis Morrisete Jagged Little Pill
  51. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie
  52. Patti Smith Horses
  53. Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go
  54. Clash The Clash
  55. Public Enemy It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
  56. Elvis Presley Sun Collection
  57. Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
  58. Joy Division Closer
  59. Paul Simon Graceland
  60. Pixies Doolittle
  61. Bruce Springsteen darkness on the edge of town
  62. Metallica Black
  63. Joni Mitchell Blue
  64. Nirvana In Utero
  65. Led Zeppelin II
  66. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
  67. Neil Young After the Goldrush
  68. Miles Davies A Kind of Blue
  69. Portishead Dummy
  70. Band The Band
  71. Moby Play
  72. Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
  73. Verve Urban Hymns
  74. Massive Attack Blue Lines
  75. Depeche Mode Violator
  76. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
  77. Radiohead Kid A
  78. Rem Out of Time
  79. Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists
  80. Abba super trooper
  81. Strokes Is This It
  82. Elvis Presley From Elvis in Memphis
  83. AC/DC Back in Black
  84. Counting Crows August and Everything After
  85. Beck Odelay
  86. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
  87. Blur Parklife
  88. Pulp Different Class
  89. Prince Purple Rain
  90. Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
  91. My Bloody Valentine Loveless
  92. Rolling Stones Beggers Banquet
  93. Dire Straits Brother in Arms
  94. Blondie Parallel Lines
  95. Who Quadrophenia
  96. Lou Reed Berlin
  97. Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica
  98. Red Hot Chilli Peppers Blood Suger Sex Magic
  99. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
 100. Lou Reed Transformer

hey. yeah isn't that RS list pretty old, anyway, it aint news

those lists are very irelevant and stupid

i have  list my best albums:

1.gnr-apetite for destruction
2.gnr use your illusion
3.aerosmith get a grip
4.skid row- skid row
5. bon jovi -keep the faith
6.led zepellin-greatests hits
7.gnr lies
8.acdc-back in black
9.pearl jam- teen
10 evanescence-fallen 9girl have a angel voice)

yeah it's just some journalists opinion...

i don't care shit about those kind if lists

How many of the albums on that list have you actually listened to? ?::)

well i didn't hear most of these albums??
how can one nirvana album be on 1000 albums list?
don't get me wrong,nirvana had a big influence but after cobain suicide,but nirvana have never had big tour and real glory and rock and roll style.
cobain was a bad guitar player

yeah nirvana is very overrated, and if cobain would have been alive today i think they wouldn't have been as big as they are today, but still "nevermind" should be on a 100 list i think

I think Nevermind (and Nirvana) are the most over rated album and band ever.

Nevermind is a top album.

Although, people tend to put Nirvana at the top for the sheer impact and change they had on music, not the actual music itself.

I've seen this list before. Didn't remember AFD being? at #61 though.

Never Mind The Bollocks placed lower than Nevermind??

Are you joking? I hope you're not serious. Little Richard influenced just about everybody who ever mattered in rock/ r and b-- the Beatles, James Brown, Prince are only the easiest ones to mention. First the 'man' takes his money now this?

I agree this list is absurd.

Prince Purple Rain isnt on that list???????


Stupid List.

Sticky Fingers is easier for people to like. It's a fucking awesome album, but Exile is the definite Stones album. It has got it all... Blues, soul, R&B, Gospel, Country and Rock and Roll... It took me awhile to get into it, but when I "got" it, then I realized it's the best album ever

I love when people base opinions on music they have never even heard about, let alone heard. It makes so much sense. "If I've never heard it, how can it be good??" That's such an unintelligent way to go through life and is pretty pathetic if you ask me or any other level-headed person.

These lists are just a list of favourites.  Only a few of those artists are there based on talent because imo people in general don't know what talent is.  Don't agree with me?  Look at those lists.  Pure BS.  One even has Eminem above Hendrix, which is uber-lame.

Hip Horray for Nirvanas impact on music. If it weren't for that sad frontman maybe we would have had some real music these days. Maybe if they had just faded away the kids would be influenced by real bands, like Alice In Chains and Guns N' Roses.

How can anyone think Metallica The Black Album is their best?

Actually, Nirvana pretty much began the whole alternative 90s rock movement, which produced a lot of great bands.

And i think GNR's space at 61 is well deserved.  (well, maybe it could be brought down to 50 or so) because a lot of those albums are fucking legendary.

amen to that

and then came the darkness a few years ago just to rub proper rock into the ground even more
GN'R need to save the name of decent rock before it becomes a complete joke

And what bands might those be?

50 or so? Granted, there are alot of great albums to choose from, but AFD is a classic among classics. Atleast in the top 25.

^If you think there's no decent rock out there, open your ears, please.

There's alot of great music out there (Muse, Mars Volta, Tool) but there's not alot of good classic rock in the veins of GN'R, Zeppelin and Aerosmith.

Again, it's just a list and if it wasn't made by you, you obviously won't be happy about it.  If a band or performer is on the list, obviously they have done something right. I would rather be a band on the list and have people talk shit about me on a message board, than to be sitting here on a message board talking shit about a band on the TOP albums list of all time. I'm sure most people would agree. If these lists were even somewhat accurate ALL THE TIME, The Beatles, Zeppelin, The Stones, Dylan, Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Appetite would OWN the first 20 albums.  But they have to be "fair" and spread those great albums out and try to make everyone at least somewhat happy. And...some of you will disagree about what I just said about the top 20 albums, but that's why we have what are called opinions.

It's CLASSIC rock, music evolves in changes.  There's some bands who play the classic rock style (like Jet and Wolfmother, "vintage"-sounding bands.).  Even if there was a good sounding classic rock band they'd just be put off as a copy, like Wolfmother and Jet often are.

But i applaud you for liking the Mars Volta. ;)

That's a sucky list too. Any list where Nevermind is higher than AFD, is an incorrect list.

I agree with everything else there.

^ I never really said they were better lists, but it is better that Appetite is ranked in the top 10 in one of them, compared to the fifties and sixties. I do like Nirvana, but I know Nevermind shouldn't be listed before GN'R. Nevermind shouldn't be listed before any albums by The Beatles or GN'R, but they are and I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. I could name 100 albums that I think are better than Nevermind but it's not my list but seeing GN'R at #7 makes it a better list in my eyes, compared to like #61 or whatever it was.

Agree 100%. Nirvana = overrated.

I can name you a Nirvana album that's better than Nevermind  :P

In Utero owns Nevermind

Have you ever listened to Captain Beefheart, and do you know how many musicians have stated that they've been influenced by his music? Granted, I am more of a fan of Frank Zappa (who has been portrayed inaccurately in RS many times), but I agree with at least having that album on a Top # list.

appetite should be top 10, definatley ahead of Nivana...i dont understand this musical revolution nirvana supposedly started, AFD outsold every nirvana album combined in the U.S....