Top 500 albums by Rolling Stone

[spawn]

With all the lists they seem to do I dont know if this is new or not...

The editors at Rolling Stone magazine recently polled an array of musicians, critics, and influential industry figures to come up with these 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Nearly 300 such music experts (including METALLICA's James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, BLACK SABBATH's Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, ANTHRAX's Scott Ian, IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson, THIN LIZZY's John Sykes and SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor) responded, each with a list of 50 albums.

15. Are You Experienced? - THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
17. Nevermind - NIRVANA
29. Led Zeppelin - LED ZEPPELIN
33. Ramones - RAMONES
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - THE SEX PISTOLS
54. Electric Ladyland - THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
61. Appetite for Destruction - GUNS N' ROSES
66. Led Zeppelin IV - LED ZEPPELIN
70. Physical Graffiti - LED ZEPPELIN
73. Back in Black - AC/DC
75. Led Zeppelin II - LED ZEPPELIN
130. Paranoid - BLACK SABBATH
149. Houses of the Holy - LED ZEPPELIN
159. Alive - KISS
167. Master of Puppets - METALLICA
176. Rocks - AEROSMITH
199. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
200. The Downward Spiral - NINE INCH NAILS
228. Toys in the Attic - AEROSMITH
230. A Night at the Opera - QUEEN
241. Black Sabbath - BLACK SABBATH
252. Metallica - METALLICA
298. Master of Reality - BLACK SABBATH
309. Nothing's Shocking - JANE'S ADDICTION
311. MTV Unplugged in New York - NIRVANA
360. Siamese Dream - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
368. Rage Against the Machine - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
384. Pyromania - DEF LEPPARD
415. Van Halen - VAN HALEN
426. The Battle of Los Angeles - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
439. In Utero - NIRVANA
453. Ritual de lo Habitual - JANE'S ADDICTION
460. Love It to Death - ALICE COOPER
472. Hysteria - DEF LEPPARD
496. Destroyer – KISS

See the entire list here.

Well theres obviously a shitload wrong with the list, Hysteria at 472 though? Master Of Puppets at 167?

 

[Winmar]

Those lists are never very good. Ours a couple of months ago was the best!

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

I don't see anything wrong with Puppets being at 167 out of every album ever made in history.

However Hysteria does deesrve to be alot higher, especially considering its in the 20 highest selling albums ever or something.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Oh and Vinnie Vincent Invasion is supposed to be #1, weird. Must be a misprint.

 

[spawn]

I don't see anything wrong with Puppets being at 167 out of every album ever made in history..

Blitzy, could you do the honours again?

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

I think 167 is generous to be honest. That album is very overrated in my opinion. I can't see what makes it any better than the next thrash album. *Shrug*

 

[Southy]

Because your stupid....

 

[Blitzkrieg]

'Master Of Puppets' is a masterpiece. It is the most consistent of Metallica's albums, thus being their best. It is also the greatest metal album of all time, and one of the best albums recorded.

That being said, those lists are fucked, and it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't even list it. Why? Because Rolling Stone is shit.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

I wouldn't list it I'd list Ride The Lightning and the black album though.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Gotta add though, that's coming from an overall music/rock perspective, not a metal perspective. And it isn't a metal list.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I dig all Metallica, but 'Ride The Lightning' and '...And Justice For All' aren't quite as consistent as MoP, and that is one of the things that makes it such a great album IMO. I put it on and it is over so quick, as it is just 100% awesome metal from start to finish.

 

[Goreripper]

Hmmm... well even from a music perspective, I'll say here what I say on another board, and that is that overall, it's a pretty typical Rolling Stone list. Rock music might as well have died in 1979 as far as they are concerned. Even on the edited version that spawny posted, only 13 titles are post-1979. Did anyone happen to notice that they listed both "With the Beatles" and "Meet the Beatles", which are basically the US and UK versions of the SAME ALBUM? Is that a crock of shit, or what? It's like listing "Hell Bent for Leather" AND "Killing Machine" and pretending they're two different albums.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

That is pretty stupid!

 

[Goreripper]

Yeah, but it's Rolling Stone we're talking about here. The magazine that panned all of Zeppelin's albums to the shithouse when they came out and continued to do so for years after they'd split up, and didn't even consider Eddie Van Halen a great enough guitarist to be in the Top 50 best guitarists of all time. As a magazine that is supposed to be the absolute paragon of music journalism, they're a fucking joke.

Oh yeah, and they did a list of Top 200 all time albums about six or seven years ago, and 'Master of Puppets' and 'Black' weren't even on it, but 'Kill 'Em All' was. There was no Kiss, Black Sabbath or Aerosmith on it either. Now suddenly since all of those bands get name-dropped by every overnight sensation that gets plastered on the cover, Rolling Stone thinks they suddenly deserve a place? Get in the fucking ring, motherfucker!

 

[Goreripper]

And if you want my further opinion, "Back in Black" should be wayyyyy higher on that list than 73.

 

[spawn]

I hate Rolling Stone magazine. We should make our own. Maiden Downunder Monthly.

 

[Mark]

Rolling Stone was, is, and always will be a lifestyle magazine that just happens to talk about music. It just had the luck to start at just the right time.