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Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

batmagadanleadoff Sep 22 2020 11:17 AM

Rolling Stone Magazine revisits its list of the 500 greatest rock/pop albums of all time. Big shakeup from its last list as lotsa new and younger blood gets to have their say in the latest survey. No spoilers here. Click the link below to check it out for yourselves. Go from 500 to one or from one to 500. Or mix it all up. Do as you like. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/ Plus a trivia question: What was the first rock/pop double album of all original material ever put out by a major artist?

RealityChuck Sep 22 2020 11:57 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=47151 time=1600795046 user_id=68] Plus a trivia question: What was the first rock/pop double album of all original material ever put out by a major artist?

I'll guess Freak Out

batmagadanleadoff Sep 22 2020 12:09 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 23 2020 05:24 AM

=RealityChuck post_id=47157 time=1600797434 user_id=82] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=47151 time=1600795046 user_id=68] Plus a trivia question: What was the first rock/pop double album of all original material ever put out by a major artist?

I'll guess Freak Out


Good guess. Pretty close. But you missed it by that much. The first double album was released exactly one week before Freak Out!

batmagadanleadoff Sep 23 2020 05:20 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

Plus a trivia question: What was the first rock/pop double album of all original material ever put out by a major artist? I'll guess Freak Out Good guess. Pretty close. But you missed it by that much. The first double album was released exactly one week before Freak Out! The answer is Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, pictured below in the "folded open" state. [FIMG=333]https://www.searchingforagem.com/1960s/1960s_Pictures/BOBOutside.JPG[/FIMG] Both Blonde on Blonde and Freak Out! appear on Walter Lockett's 2019 Batman-Mets card, separated by Ike & Tina Turner's River Deep - Mountain High. [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50295391976_c7e30421ab_b.jpg[/FIMG]

Edgy MD Sep 23 2020 12:39 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I know the first hip hop double album.

MFS62 Sep 23 2020 01:55 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I was surprised by the #1 on the top 500 list. But I understand their reasoning. Later

smg58 Sep 23 2020 03:04 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I never expect anybody to agree with my own musical tastes, but I'm always curious as to what still matters to people and why. There's a lot of high-up stuff I can't comment on, and that's OK; I stopped caring all that much by the end of the 90s. I could talk a lot about The Beatles, but that's been done. (The one thing I will say is that I once saw a reviewer say that Revolver would handily beat Sgt. Pepper's in a song-by-song comparison. That's mostly true -- "A Day in the Life" being a hopefully obvious exception -- but it misses the point entirely, and I think it's a reflection of people increasingly treating albums as the sum of their parts rather than as a whole.) I was shocked at the high placing of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I thought at the time that it was a pretty good album being blown out of proportion; I didn't think it was as good as The Fugees' The Score, nor do I think it holds up as well now. I wrote a review at the time where I said people were treating a young and promising performer like she had already reached the pinnacle when in fact she had not, and that it would stunt her artistic growth if she took it to heart. I stand by that statement.

Edgy MD Sep 23 2020 03:44 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

That's the nature of the game, too. Giving a Grammy to Norah Jones for her debut hasn't seemed to help her any. But once the rush to critical consensus started building, it was hard to stop.

cal sharpie Sep 23 2020 06:14 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I do remember an earlier iteration of this from Rolling Stone, probably 30 years ago. Sgt. Pepper and John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band were #1 and #2. This time numbers 24 and 85.

Fman99 Sep 24 2020 06:05 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I looked it up and they have 99 records at a higher rank than "Music from Big Pink," by the Band. Including a bunch of latter-day hacks and turkeys that I would never listen to. I'm too curmudgeonly for this kind of poppycock now.

Johnny Lunchbucket Sep 24 2020 06:07 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

It's sad but I gloss over the stuff I don't recognize

Willets Point Jan 15 2021 09:23 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 15 2021 09:41 AM

My project for this year is to listen to all 500 albums on the list. I'm going to listen to ten albums per week and post my thoughts on Fridays. The first post is up should you be interested.

Johnny Lunchbucket Jan 15 2021 09:36 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

Kudos, WP

whippoorwill Jan 15 2021 09:47 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

=MFS62 post_id=47271 time=1600890959 user_id=60] I was surprised by the #1 on the top 500 list. But I understand their reasoning. Later

What's #1, so I don't have to scroll down?

Willets Point Jan 15 2021 09:59 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Kudos, WP Thanks! I got the whole "listening to a whole bunch of music and writing about it" idea from you.

Willets Point Jan 15 2021 10:11 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I was surprised by the #1 on the top 500 list. But I understand their reasoning. Later What's #1, so I don't have to scroll down? Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On"

whippoorwill Jan 15 2021 10:26 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

Oh I agree! I love that album! Play it to death in my car (CD of course, not vinyl)

ashie62 Jan 15 2021 10:33 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

The Pistols are on it.

whippoorwill Jan 15 2021 10:37 AM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 15 2021 03:57 PM

When the local Corning plant closed in the summer of 2003, I listened to Inner City Blues a lot and the ‘I can't pay my taxes' line really resonated with me I was terrified wondering how we were going to survive and keep our house and put two kids through college Of course we paid our taxes that fall and every fall since and kids are long since through college (still paying those loans) But it made me appreciate what it must be like to be constantly wondering how to meet expenses. I can't begin to say I understand what it feels like, but just that little touch of panic showed me a lot that this privileged white girl would never had felt otherwise

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2021 01:14 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I think Willets is an alien who exists in his own time-space continuum where the days are 100 hours long. How else, with the books and now the music?

Willets Point Jan 15 2021 02:06 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

I listen to music while reading.

whippoorwill Jan 15 2021 03:51 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

:)

MFS62 Jan 15 2021 03:55 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=54037 time=1610741649 user_id=68] I think Willets is an alien who exists in his own time-space continuum where the days are 100 hours long. How else, with the books and now the music?

Does he drive a DeLorean?

Later

Willets Point Jan 15 2021 05:26 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

Seriously, though, listening to two albums every work day over the course of a year is not the huge time commitment you think it is. Some of you watch all of 162 Mets games and still have time to watch other sports which I've never been able to do.

Willets Point Jul 02 2021 07:51 PM Re: Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums

Halfway through as of today.