Rolling Stones List of Greatest Albums of All Time AFD #61

[polluxlm]

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.

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.

[WeHeldTogether]

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

[polluxlm]

^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.

[lennonisgod]

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.

[WeHeldTogether]

^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.

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.

[The Legend]

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

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

I agree with everything else there.

[lennonisgod]

^ 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.

[The Legend]

^ 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.

[Eduardo]

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

In Utero owns Nevermind

[directionality]

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). 

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.

[Bodhi]

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....