Greatest Albums/Rock Albums of All Time lists

[cliff]

For some reason i have been checking out all of these "Greatest Albums of All Time" lists. Like the one from Rolling Stone magazine.

While there are alot of great great albums on there usually, there are just too many of the same bands. There's usually like 7 or 8 Beatles albums, a handful of Rolling Stones albums, and even multiple Eagles albums for christ sakes!!! There is even a few best of albums and for the love of god, I've seen a "Best of Girl Groups Vol. 1 and 2" (what a joke).

I mean, a ton of albums and artists deserve to be in there over stuff like... ... wait for it... ... wait for it... ... Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt!!! Believe it or not, Rolling Stone called this one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!! So... Don Caballero doesn't make the cut, but No Doubt is all over the place?

I think maybe the people who make these lists just have a very limited taste or exposure to music, especially maybe the underground. So maybe I shouldn't treat them as an authority on this matter. It's just an insult though.

Maybe I'm beating a dead horse, but these lists stink! I'm considering making my own 100 Greatest Rock Albums of All Time list!

[cliff]

Oh yeah... and happy birthday CAK!

[FauxAssNonsense]

i've had a lot of conversations with people about this.
it's pretty annoying.
look at any list by Rolling Stone (or any thing like that) and it's all ways the same pool of bands.
i guarantee that the same bands you see on the "50 Hardest Rocking Bands of All Time" list will be on the "25 Bands that Changed Music Forever" list, albeit in a different order.
it's not some thing to get angry at, it should just further confirm for you the ineptitude of mainstream music review.

[hospitalcomedian]

one of the music channels on the telly over here keeps showing all these "fifty worst songs of the eighties" and "worst number one's ever" style things. fucking ridiculous. having said all that, i've thinking of doing a list of fifty albums everyone should hear. not necessarily the fifty best ever, but stuff to get people into the kind of things i like without throwing them in at the deep end.

[cliff]

sounds good... do it!

[hospitalcomedian]

aww no...... the pressure's on. give me a month or so.

[CAK]

Oh yeah... and happy birthday CAK!

LOL... thanks Cliff, though my bday is actually a m/d/y later than the forum says.

"Greatest albums" lists are sometimes interesting to look at but mean nothing to me. I like what I like and that's it. It's encouraging to find alternative/indie lists with albums I like, but no single list of any kind is going to include Hella, Shonen Knife, and "A Love Supreme". And mainstream lists typically are biased towards the 60s/70s, men, vocals, and albums that made some kind of dent on the charts.
Oh yeah, and the Eagles. Fuck the Eagles.

[hospitalcomedian]

the eagles never really get a look in over here. nobody really cares, unless there's a guitar at a party; then it's hotel california time.

[hospitalcomedian]

fifty titles for your consideration. not the best ever albums ever by any means, but a fucking solid list of quality music to open ears and stuff.

1. 5ive - the telestic disfracture
2. …and you will know us by the trail of dead - Madonna
3. alumbrados - a generation of vipers
4. animal collective - spirit they’re gone, spirit they’ve vanished
5. asa-chang and junray - jun ray song chang
6. at the drive-in - relationship of command
7. boredoms - super roots 7
8. can - tago mago
9. miles davis - birth of the cool
10. don caballero - what burns never returns
11. earth - a legacy of dissolution
12. efterklang - tripper
13. eluvium - an accidental memory in the case of death
14. flaming lips - the soft bulletin
15. fourtet - everything ecstatic
16. godspeed you! black emperor - levez vos skinny fists comme antennas to heaven
17. jimi hendrix - electric ladyland
18. iggy and the stooges - raw power
19. isis - oceanic
20. jesus and mary chain - psychocandy
21. lcd soundsystem - lcd soundsystem
22. led zeppelin - houses of the holy
23. mansun - attack of the grey lantern
24. mercury rev - deserter's songs
25. minus story - no rest for ghosts
26. mogwai - mogwai young team
27. van morrison - astral weeks
28. my bloody valentine - loveless
29. oxbow - love that's last
30. pixies - doolittle
31. queens of the stone age - queens of the stone age
32. radiohead - amnesiac
33. dizzee rascal - boy in da corner
34. sigur rós - ágætis byrjun
35. six by seven - the things we make
36. smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
37. sonic youth - daydream nation
38. spacemen 3 - playing with fire
39. sparklehorse - good morning spider
40. stars of the lid - the ballasted orchestra
41. subtle - a new white
42. sunn o))) & boris - altar
43. super furry animals - rings around the world
44. the books - the lemon of pink
45. the chemical brothers - dig your own hole
46. the velvet underground - white light/white heat
47. tom waits - blood money
48. wilco - a ghost is born
49. wolf eyes & black dice - s/t split
50. neil young - harvest

i know it took a little longer than i said, but i reckon yous can all forgive me for that. see what you think and then we can start arguing about it. probably.

[fvgazi]

this list could use a good zeuhl group.

[hospitalcomedian]

guh?

[fvgazi]

magma, koenjihyakkei, z's, art zoyd, etc.

[chud]

fvgazi said:

koenjihyakkei

I love listening to them and I have no idea why.

[FauxAssNonsense]

these lists are SO subjective that it's ridiculous to ever give any one such a title as "GREATEST __ EVER."
suggested ammendment: "..ACCORDING TO ME (and perhaps a poll with a heavy bias in favor of a certain pool of contenders)."
that would certainly make them a lot less offensive.

[cliff]

exactly!