Rolling Stones 50 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[Sargehalo51]

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind, Nirvana
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree, U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
33. Ramones, Ramones
34. Music From Big Pink, The Band
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
39. Please Please Me, The Beatles
40. Forever Changes, Love
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
44. Horses, Patti Smith
45. The Band, The Band
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard

Of course I am pleased, but not surprised, to see The Beatles have six of the top fifty albums of all time.

[theantkid12]

Still wondering why Rolling Stone neglects Boston...

[Sargehalo51]

Yes, Boston does have some awsome music.

[bse523]

And how they think Nevermind is better than Hotel California? Discredits them instantly.

[culturedog]

Marvin Gaye's a little bit too low, but such is life. What's Going On should definitely be in the top four.

[Sargehalo51]

I am glad to see they included some stuff that isn't "mainstream" or very well known in today's world...like Muddy Waters.

[afterstasis]

8. London Calling, The Clash
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols

though my top 50 would look WAY different, the above are the only albums i don't care for so i don't think it's bad at all for a "playing it safe" list.

[sweet-t310]

Never Mind the Bollocks should be much higher...top to bottom punk greatness. Shouldn't be higher than The Ramones, but Ramones 20-25 and Bollocks 25-30 seems more fitting.

[FloodOne]

I'm a little surprised Metallica's "Black Album" didn't make the list... I mean, it DID introduce metal into the mainstream, even tho it was a decidedly(sp?) less metal album than their previous work... but this is Rolling Stone after all....

[topperharley]

Hard on for the Beatles much?

The Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme picks smack of "we should put a couple of jazz albums on the list to show how diverse our list is, and we've heard that those two are totally awesome, so let's go with those".

And #38 is a lazy pick - an anthology? Really?