500 Greatest Albums of All Time

HalloweenJack

For a bit of fun, how many of the 500 "Greatest" albums of all time do you have?

I have 33.

Check the list here:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531

Dark Artist

Six.

Michael Jackson: Off the Wall, Bad, Thriller.
Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope, Rhythm Nation.
Metallica: Master of Puppets.

Lists like this are a load of ****e though.

NIMAN

I was about to open the list, then seen form the above post that Janet Jackson had 2 albums in the Top 500, and at that point I lost interest.

Irish Guitarist

I don't really get the point of these lists but I counted what I have anyway. Unless I miscounted I have 186 of them, including everything by The Byrds, Love, The Beatles and Bob Dylan as well as Live At The Regal by BB King, Straight Outta Compton by NWA, The Chronic by Dr. Dre and too many others to mention.

I have a lot that I bought years ago and wouldn't consider them great now. Since buying The Stone Roses album I've discovered numerous bands I would listen to before I'd dream of playing their album. I haven't felt compelled to play anything by U2 in years. I can't remember the last time I played Thriller either. I have it on cassette which must be about 25 years old (it's the only one I have from the list on cassette rather than CD or record). My cassette has that 'Home Taping Is Killing Music' slogan written inside the cover.

SubBusted

I would have more respect for someone who owned 500 albums that were not on that list.

mosstin

SubBusted wrote: »

I would have more respect for someone who owned 500 albums that were not on that list.

How very indie of you.

Jimmy Iovine

I counted there and got 31. Possibly have more, possibly have less. I was only going by the album covers that I could recognise.

Icaras

57 from looking at album covers.
Going through it, it looked like Bob Dylans Modern times on it twice.

nlgbbbblth

333.

SilverScreen

I've listened to 102. I was almost going to quit when I saw Green Day American Idiot but sure it's only Rolling Stone. I know it's far from being the most essential '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list as most of Rolling Stones' readers tend to be a particular audience.

I still think the Rate Your Music top albums is the closest we can get to a real 'Greatest Albums' list as it's user generated and the website has a larger variety of users. Granted there is a good bit of overlap.

http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

karaokeman

Really not bothered going through that list, but I'd have most of the Beatles, Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, Stones, Wilco and Radiohead records.

Rothko

302

delbertgrady

200, conveniently enough.

These kind of lists are a joke, but in typical Rolling Stone fashion, they make matters worse by allowing compilations to be included. I may have missed a few, but I certainly spotted The Smiths' Louder Than Bombs, Madonna's Immaculate Collection, Abba's Definitive Collection, Elton John's original 1974 Greatest Hits, Buddy Holly's 20 Golden Greats and the Phil Spector box set, Back to Mono. This is absurd. Compilations should never be included in lists such as these, since they're not "proper" albums, recorded as a single body of work.

Technocentral

What a yawn, all the usual suspects in the upper reaches and the top 5 all before 1970, so in other words none of the best 5 albums ever was made in the last 42 years. :rolleyes:

Declan A Walsh

For the record: I have 32 of them, 33 if you count the video of "Stop Making Sense" by Talking Heads. Incidentally, I had 2 of the Top 10 - one of them is the #1 Album - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles).

saintsaltynuts

21 I got.If it wasn't for Neil Young and The Beatles i would of got 5 or 6.

jacksie66

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im invisible

one page per album?? f*ck clicking through all that...

NegativeCreep

I Think I have 44 of them unless I miscounted.

Revolver, Nevermind, Thriller, Led Zeppelin, Appetite for Destruction, Off The Wall, Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin II, Late Registration, Remain In Light, Funeral, Is This It, The Downward Spiral, Bad, Ten, The Queen Is Dead, Doolittle, The Marshall Mathers LP, Tracy Chapman, The Slim Shady LP, Meat Is Murder, The College Dropout, Grace, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, MTV Unplugged In New York, Superunknown, In Rainbows, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Siamese Dream, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Post, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, Elephant, Kala, Californication, Vampire Weekend, In Utero, Back To Black, Live Through This, The Smiths, Vitalogy, Oracular Spectacular, White Blood Cells.

I don't understand why every list has The Beatles at number 1. They're not that great!!
However, I'm biased as I immediately take a disliking to any list that doesn't have Michael Jackson at number one :pac:

NegativeCreep

im invisible wrote: »

one page per album?? f*ck clicking through all that...

Here it is in list form: http://www.discogs.com/lists/500-Greatest-Albums-Rolling-Stone/140759?page=1

Magill

3 Beatles albums in the top 5, yeah... no.

Declan A Walsh

A number of the 32 albums I have in the top 500 are by artistes that I have more than album by in the same countdown:
The Beatles, R.E.M., Nirvana, U2, Pink Floyd. Between them, they must account for nearly half of my total.

Makaveli

38 I think from flicking through the covers at the top. If you took out the rap albums I'd have barely any.

drumslate

this is really interesting

GLaDOS

I've 12

summerskin

64 for me.

trashcan

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I don't understand why every list has The Beatles at number 1. They're not that great!!
However, I'm biased as I immediately take a disliking to any list that doesn't have Michael Jackson at number one :pac:

So, the Beatles are "not that great" while Michael Jackson should be number 1?

Hmmmmmmmn. (In a Marge Simspson voice)

NegativeCreep

trashcan wrote: »

So, the Beatles are "not that great" while Michael Jackson should be number 1?

Hmmmmmmmn. (In a Marge Simspson voice)

Exactly. Michael Jackson is the man