The Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums

[Alex]

Another nauseatingly predictable list from Rolling Stone, but, should anyone be surprised?

1. Their hip-hop/rap choices are hillarious, almost random.

2. Nevermind at #17? Didn't Nirvana get an undeserved nod in that 100 top guitarists list, too?

3. The Wall absolutely deserves a top fifty placing, if not top twenty.

4. Indie Rock? Even if you're not a fan of the genre, their damn sure should be some great bands on the list.

5. Led Zeppelin's IV was really low, this makes no sense to me at all.

Now, I understand I'm hard to please, hell, anyone is with a list of 500 bands/albums, but this is just terrible. They could've done a much better job.

I would hope that, if the entire staff were to have reviewed their list and provided their input on its oversights, there would have been fewer oversights. Its clear this was not the case and it was the doings of a "select few." (for lack of a better term)

[Stonecutter]

Originally Posted by Alex

Another nauseatingly predictable list from Rolling Stone, but, should anyone be surprised?

1. Their hip-hop/rap choices are hillarious, almost random.

2. Nevermind at #17? Didn't Nirvana get an undeserved nod in that 100 top guitarists list, too?

3. The Wall absolutely deserves a top fifty placing, if not top twenty.

4. Indie Rock? Even if you're not a fan of the genre, their damn sure should be some great bands on the list.

5. Led Zeppelin's IV was really low, this makes no sense to me at all.

Now, I understand I'm hard to please, hell, anyone is with a list of 500 bands/albums, but this is just terrible. They could've done a much better job.

I would hope that, if the entire staff were to have reviewed their list and provided their input on its oversights, there would have been fewer oversights. Its clear this was not the case and it was the doings of a "select few." (for lack of a better term)

Understand when reading this, that I am someone who owns not only two pink floyd T-Shirts, but also a Dark Side of the Moon tie, and a dozen or so floyd albums.

The Wall, while a great album, is not top 20 or top 50 material. Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here are both better albums, and I'd be tempted to say that Meddle is better aswell. There's no way you're going to put 4 albums by one band not named "the beatles" in any top whatever list.

Top 100 or 200, fine, not top 50.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by SlyMoogle

First of all Jagged Little Pill was a very provocative album. No one had ever seen that kind of heart and soul poured out into an album. It's good the whole way through.

Next Eminem opened up areas in rap unopen to us white folk. He's one of the greatest performers ever. He's up there with Elvis and The Beatles. Not to mention the intelligence level of his rap. He's a rapping and rhyming fool. He can spin it better than most African-American rappers.

As for the Strokes... They have done some different things with their music. But I agree that they are sorta a fad band.

Vampyr... Those weren't the top 22 of all time, they were the top 22 of the last 2 decades. Otherwise the beatles, elvis, and nirvana would have been the top three in everything.

Whoa I've looked over this list about 3 times now and maybe I'm retarted but I didn't see L.A. Woman by The Doors anywhere on here? Whoa!

I agree with you about Jagged Little Pill.

I dont like Eminem.

And my mistake about the 22 bands...but Nirvana WAS on all of them...

And if I'm not mistaken...I think I saw "The Doors" on there somewhere. I just dont remember what number.

[TheSlyMoogle]

So yeah the doors were on there I was talking about the album L.A. Woman it's their big album. I just didn't see it anywhere.