This might be the greatest live blues recording of all time. Suede, ‘Dog Man Star’ (1994) Nude. David Bowie, Station To Station (1976) RCA. I just find a lot of late 60's early 70's English prog I don't get on that well with. Hole, ‘Live Through This’ (1994) City Slang. Oasis, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ (1995) Creation. 26. In 2012, Rolling Stone published a revised edition, drawing on the original and a later survey of albums released up until the early 2000s. I was getting into punk and the owner of the store was like, ‘You’re trying to get into punk and you don’t know The Clash?’ So he bought the record for me. Joy Division, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ (1979) Factory. My Top 100 Metal Albums of All Time. 100. These are the 20 best-selling albums of all time: Bob Dylan, ‘Blood On The Tracks’ (1975) CBS. The lists presented were compiled based on votes from selected rock musicians, critics, and industry figures, and predominantly feature British and American music from the 1960s and 1970s. What are the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time? These are our top 100 post-punk albums. 40. The White Stripes, ‘De Stijl’ (2000) Sympathy For The Record Industry. Year Released: 1989. Iggy & The Stooges, ‘Raw Power’ (1973) Columbia. A list by Mr_1337 [List53141] | | +4. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Songs of All Time. by CoS Staff. 100 Best Rock Albums of All Time, According to Critics Joni Sweet, Stacker News 10/4/2020 Biden's COVID-19 vaccine plan, Mega Millions jackpot, fast … From left, Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar. The catalyst for her then rapidly increasing fame, and therefore increasing media scrutiny, ‘Back To Black’ ensured Winehouse’s legacy would be more than just unpalatable column inches. Blur, ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ (1993) Food. Eschewing the trends of commercial rap in the early 90s, Nas and DJ Premier combined minimalist production with funk, soul and jazz samples to create an album against which any future rap release would be judged. Marvin Gaye What's Going On (1971) 2: 2. Their music is total crap, and this album is just the cherry on top of the sundae. Oh, and slash is a god. See what music lovers have to say in the ranking below. The 100 Collection: The Stones’ dark high-point is so wrapped in mythology and cult enigma it’s as if the Devil himself was on the desk. ‘Metropolis’. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Soundtracks (Movies / Broadway / TV / Games). The Libertines, ‘The Libertines’. Radiohead, ‘The Bends’ (1995) Parlophone. prev. This chart is not meant to be static and unchanging. 64. A benchmark of claustrophobia and creeping unease, it feels like there’s hardly any room to breathe on Joy Division’s 1979 debut – as though the austere machinery that propels the album along is sucking all the oxygen out of your lungs. Bob Dylan, ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ (1965) Columbia. Their new sound spurred on their breakthrough, inspiring women across the world. The RS 500 was assembled by the editors of Rolling Stone, based on the results of two extensive polls. 50. It was a masterstroke of lyrical poetry, a piece of work that will continue to live through the ages. We based a magazine cover on this album last year and, needless to say, it sold by the bucketload – a testament to the longevity of the record you’ve called the greatest prog album of all time. More than a few break up after their first effort. The rest of their albums are not brilliantly produced and even ‘The Queen Is Dead’ doesn’t have the depth of ‘Hatful of Hollow’.”. 88. ‘Debut’ achieved the remarkable feat of turning an idiosyncratic vocalist from a feted cult band into a significant global pop star, without losing one iota of the experimental mindset and creative cool that made her so special. The Libertines’ graceful romanticism has never shone brighter. We’ve put together a list of the 100 greatest rock albums of all time. A hormone-drenched racket. 75. 67. Cox Content 47,400 views. Hayden Thorpe, Wild Beasts “He’s a hero to me because he’s such an antihero. What distinguishes it as the greatest ever made? ”He’s the PlayStation generation’s William Blake!” they shouted after Mike’s Skinner’s zeitgeist capturing 2002 debut ‘Original Pirate Material’. It’s an album that teeters between rage (‘Southern Man’), resignation (‘Birds’) and resolve (‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’), yet its weary mood never tires, instead creating a sense of warm euphoria. Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ (2006) Domino. The Top 100 Albums of All Time is available at Amazon.com for $13.95 or here on the DMDB website. 52. 30. Mirror Reaper (2017) 98: Meshuggah. Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ (2010) Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam. Neutral Milk Hotel, ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’. By Marty Rosenbaum. Far and away the best album of rock’s Phase One, virtually every one of these 35 minutes brought a fresh revelation, featuring more stylistic and cultural innovation in its first ten minutes than most other bands achieve in their lifespan. Forget the glitter, the Spiders, the weird eyes, it was Bowie’s incredible song-writing gifts on ‘Hunky Dory’ that convinced us he was beamed from the stars. With this new studio-centered dedication, The Beach Boys’ 11th album features not only some of the most beautiful, impressive arrangement of the 1960s, but of all time. 92. 59. Released two months after singer Ian Curtis’ suicide, it’s almost impossible to untangle ‘Closer’ from the events that surrounded it. 96. The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time A definitive ranking voted and debated by our editors, staff writers, and contributors . The 100 Greatest Albums of All Time A definitive ranking voted and debated by our editors, staff writers, and contributors Number Ten: ‘Ska Boo-Da-Ba’ by The Skatalites. If the message of ‘Changes’ was that nothing lasts forever, it’s ironic how that song has gone on to become his most enduring hit, and ‘Hunky Dory’ his most time-tested album. A list by J_blade [List225781] | | +11. The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St.(1972) Rolling Stones. Nas, ‘Illmatic’ (1994) Columbia. 36. In every sense, ‘Pet Sounds’ was a bar-raising record, something which was more complex and sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys – or any of their peers – had previously attempted, an album which represented rock music moving on from adolescent whimsies and into a rich new maturity. Various Artists, 'The Indestructible Beat of Soweto'. Neutral Milk Hotel, ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’ (1998) Merge/Domino. There was a time when Radiohead listeners didn’t need to train their ear in order to appreciate their work. Now credited with inventing post-rock, its hushed-tones cognoscenti-led reputation seems to grow every single year. The King of Pop reigns atop the all-time list of best-selling albums. 34. 69. If the preceding ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ had seen Blur declare war on grunge and meathead American rock, ‘Parklife’ saw them perfect the sound that would put Britain back in the middle of the mid-‘90s cultural map. Thus began the most fruitful musical period in The Stones’ long history. 79. What do we mean by rock? TIME's critics have chosen the 100 greatest and most influential musical compilations since 1954. “Songs are like tattoos”, sings Joni Mitchell on the title track of her fourth album. So with their second album they disowned their yobbish tearaway offspring and crafted something classier; an epic of grit and grandeur, a cathedral of trash. Michael Jackson Off the Wall (1979) 3: 3. The Velvet Underground & Nico has been worn smooth by the years. There’s this strange dilemma going on in that some of the songs are frankly quite horrible. Bob … So ahead of its time it took another four years for ‘The Model’ to reach the UK number one spot. 70. The band’s own favourite Smiths record, ‘Strangeways…’ was a fittingly explosive swansong for a Morrissey/Marr partnership approaching critical mass. Stevie Wonder, ‘Innervisions’ (1973) Tamla. Playful and seductive. It’s the fastest-selling debut album by a British band ever (it shifted over 360,000 copies in its first week) and it’s now gone quadruple-platinum in the UK alone. Pulp, Different Class (1995) Island. While it’s easy to feel like you know every beat of ‘Revolver’ or ‘Abbey Road’, ‘The White Album’ remains The Beatles’ dark continent, vast enough to retain some mystery, varied enough to still surprise. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ (1967) Parlophone. Blood Lust (2011) 96: Аспид . Any song that lists the days of the week pisses me off.”. Having Dave Grohl on drums helped, but ‘Songs For The Deaf’ is all about Josh Homme working his mojo on hip-shaking wonders ‘No One Knows’ and ‘Go With The Flow’. Well, it’s not hip hop, soul, Motown, country, pop or any one of a hundred or so other musical genres. Over the years, it's been the most widely read — and argued over — feature in the history of the magazine (last year, the RS 500 got over 63 million views on the site). 87. But what are the greatest debut albums of all time? Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, Oasis, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, The Sex Pistols, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’, Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’, David Bowie, ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’, Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, Public Enemy, ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’, The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico. With the help Brian Eno, he wound this into an album of driving polyrhythms fired with an ecstatic fervour, nowhere better than on the modern spiritual ‘Once In A Lifetime’. The World Only Ends When You Die 84. 94. View reviews, ratings, news & more regarding your favorite band. If that’s true, ‘Blue’ is the equivalent of flesh inked with the names of ex-lovers, minus the stomach-churning regret. BestEverAlbums.com brings together over 40,000 charts and calculates an overall ranking of the best albums of all time. 2: Scenes From a Memory, The Return of N.EX.T Part 1 - The Being, Images and Words, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II, Defenders of the Faith REM, ‘Murmur’ (1983) IRS. That’s easy. They were one of the first bands to popularize the ska sound, … In all 236 different albums were eligible for the list of greatest albums (#236 was Different Class by Pulp), and they span from the earliest days of rock in the 1950s through today, covering many different genres and styles of music. Bob Dylan, ‘Blonde On Blonde’ (1966) Columbia. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. 47. Slacker pop, psychedelia, new wave, dance: ‘Revolver’ is the fountainhead, and we’re still drinking deep. 32. Today the likes of ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ and ‘A Day In The Life’ endure for their melodic brilliance. 6. Everything was bigger, brighter and more resigned to the grave. 60. RZA’s dirt-encrusted production took hip-hop back to its grimy New York basics after LA’s sun-blasted melodiousness had turned the genre into pop, and the Babel of lyrical styles from the then masked emcees returned some mystique to a music that was lacking those essential qualities. Those who view this record as being about the dissolution of a love affair certainly aren’t wrong, but to see ‘Blood On The Tracks’ simply as “Dylan’s break-up album” is to do the record and its maker a huge disservice. Suicide, 'Suicide'. 63. ADVERTISEMENT. Depending on who you believe, either a monument to the pretension of a pop band overreaching itself, or a beguiling if flawed experiment that reveals itself in a thousand lush layers. 24. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies. It may have inspired legions of rubbish EDM imitators, but classics like ‘One More Time’, ‘Digital Love’ and ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ make ‘Discovery’ the real deal. Miles Davis, ‘Kind Of Blue’ (1959) Columbia. BBC listeners were polled to determine the top 100 albums of all time. At a time when bad boy stars such as Mase and Diddy ruled radio with a pop-friendly sound, X took the dark route. The Clash managed to transcend all kinds of music.”. A ramshackle mess of a record... 98 For one thing, timelessness. 72. These ratings are based on albums’ weekly performance on the Top Country Albums chart from January 1996 to June 2016. Stephen Street: “The Clash proved you didn’t have to be just a one-trick pony – you could do a little bit of rockabilly, some reggae, or something straightforward, punky and rocky. ‘Sound Of Silver’ is humanism made to sound superhuman. The first 100 from Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums of All Time. BestEverAlbums.com brings together over 40,000 charts and calculates an overall ranking of the best albums of all time. 98. The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ (2004) Locked On/679. Destroy Erase Improve (1995) 97: Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. 41.Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’ (1988) Enigma. 1: 1. We say: With seven albums in the Top 100 (that’s one more than Genesis, Floyd and Marillion), it’s perhaps fitting that Yes top the poll with their 1972 classic. Book which includes a list of the top 25 classic rock albums of all time (pages 183-195). As voted for by a panel of judges including Artists, Critics & DJ's from around the world. The Beatles, ‘Rubber Soul’ (1965) Parlophone. You can also start at #100 Axis: Bold as Love by Jimi Hendrix and work your way through the list. There will never be … The Nexus (2013) 99: Bell Witch. Suede, ‘Suede’ (1993) Nude. REM at their most balletic. In 1959, twenty years before hip-hop provided a real voice for voiceless African-Americans, Miles Davis stood proud. 48. Nas Illmatic (1994) 6: 6. With this album, Steven Wilson’s creative surge finally began reaping commercial dividends, propelling himself and the band into the UK Top 40 for the first time. Matlock, Jones and Cook were always better than the “turn up, plug in and play” punk rubric would imply, but Rotten’s performances of some scabrous songs left everyone else playing catch-up. Behold, Yes and The RS 500 was assembled by the editors of Rolling Stone, based on the results of two extensive polls. 1980s Paul’s Boutique. To follow through on that sort of transformation so convincingly is just amazing.”. Neil Young ‘Harvest’ (1972) Reprise. Shields’ magnum opus sounds like an authentic field recording from its author’s – or should that be architect’s? There are great hip-hop albums, and then there's "Illmatic." It was horrible, but Sound Effected Records was its crown jewel. Click through to see the 100 best rock albums of all time, according to the critics. Electric Ladyland. The Smiths, ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984) Rough Trade. By The Beatles (1969); Tracks: Here Comes the Sun, Oh! The band never got higher than the summer of 1991, which they spent holed up in a studio with a mountain of drugs and heads full of music that would combine acid house and rave culture with good ol’ fashioned gospel, blues and the sort of guitar licks that would put a smile across Keith Richards’ craggy face. Worldwide, Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time with a whopping 47 million certified copies sold, six million ahead of Their Greatest Hits. 38. Read Later. 80. It will be updated and recalculated from time-to-time as more data and information is added to the list. Signing to a major label didn’t cost Sonic Youth their soul, ‘Goo’ and ‘Dirty’ are both loftily-ranked in the alt.rock pantheon -but their last album before signing to Geffen is still their most revered. Albert Hammond Jnr: ”That was just the set list we had been playing, it was underneath our fingers and the feeling was one of extreme excitement. 54. On another it’s full of Cocker’s idiosyncratic takes on song-writers fancying people and taking lots of lovely drugs. 90. Loss, love, forced coming-of-age, and fragile generational hope: Arcade Fire’s ... Rufus, Chaka Khan, 'Ask Rufus'. David Bowie, Hunky Dory (1971) RCA. Powered by. Linkin Park's debut studio album "Hybrid Theory" landed in the Record Industry Association of America's top 50 best-selling albums of all time ahead of its 20th anniversary in October. by CoS Staff. Parlophone. Freddie Cowan, The Vaccines: “When I was growing up I used to like skate videos and there was this one where they used ‘Where Is My Mind?’ and it just got me. ‘The Model’. 27. Neutral Milk Hotel, ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’, Queens Of The Stone Age ‘Songs For The Deaf’, The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’, Lauryn Hill, ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’, The Beatles, ‘Sgt. Screeching and visceral, raw with fury and full of desire, it’s chaotic poetry. 29. Amy Winehouse, ‘Back To Black’ (2006) Island. Solidifying his status as the greatest songwriter of the 20th century™, it kicked off with the monumental ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ended with him harking back to his acoustic roots with the epic ‘Desolation Row’. Not everything here works, but when it does – the ramshackle, last-take-of-20 ‘Stuck Inside Of Mobile…’; the mesmeric, magical, magnificent ‘Visions Of Johanna’ – it’s incomparable. At first glance it read like a particularly morbid edition of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, but ‘Aeroplane…’ crystallizes the no-fi psych-folk ethos of the Elephant 6 collective that Mangum emerged from. Young admits to having a love/hate relationship this album – it’s huge sales gave him the freedom to do what he wanted, in spite of that he’s never been able to shake off the ‘country rocker’ mantle. I felt like we were a really cool band playing really cool songs, like we were awesome…”. And "How's It Goin' Down" with Faith Evans showed this dog wasn't all bark. Oasis’ breakthrough album claimed Britpop for the lads and primed the band for Knebworth with such timeless anthems as ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’. Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’ (1991) Geffen. 5. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise),... Abbey Road. Blur, ‘Parklife’ (1994) Food. 4. Noisier than punk, funk only in the most technical sense and with Chuck’s righteous sloganeering spliced between Flavor’s manic cackles and declamations, it redefined the possibilities for rap, rock, soul and beyond. A 19-year-old word wizard, Nas packed potent poetry into 39 minutes, while A-list producers such as DJ Premier and Pete Rock supplied the perfect score. Houses of the Holy. Considered the ultimate achievement of recorded music at the time, the gleam has dulled on ‘Pepper’s…’ medals over time, its psychedelic visuals and flower power sentiments turned corny at the edges. Janelle Monáe: “She was speaking from so many angles – she tied in love, she tied in her love for hip-hop, and it was the first time I saw a black woman who was absolutely cheering to listen to, putting an album together that was a classic, and that every young girl should listen to.”. 10. on September 15, 2010, 11:30am. 24. 91. 86. Share. NEPA Rock 107: “Top 107 Classic Rock Albums of All Time” Radio station list generated by listener votes. Roxy Music, ‘For Your Pleasure’ (1973) Island. Public Enemy, ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ (1990) Def Jam. The Beatles, Revolver (1966). "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring music ranking of the finest albums in history as compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone. The Beatles Sgt. 65. By Josh Tyrangiel Jan. 25, 2010. Manic Street Preachers, ‘The Holy Bible’ (1994) Epic. 42. Radiohead, ‘In Rainbows’ (2007) Self released. The Clash, The Clash (1977) All-TIME 100 Albums. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988) 4: 4. It isn't good at all. But rather than wallowing in it all, they soared above the squalor. Google's Top Hummed Songs 2020; All Year-End Charts; DECADE-END . 46. Guns and roses is just about the worst band ever created on the face of the earth. It’s the one unbroken link that takes you from Richard Hell to The Ramones to Joy Division to The Jesus & Mary Chain to OMD to Pulp to The Strokes to whatever’s happening a week next Tuesday. Public Enemy, ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ (1988) Def Jam. It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. 66. Rubber Soul. Pixies, ‘Surfer Rosa’ (1988) 4AD. Bob Dylan, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ (1965) Columbia. David Bowie, Low (1977) RCA. It’s also much more than that. In other words, a film's commercial success (Oscars & BAFTA Awards), and greatness in direction, screenwriting and production, is how I ranked the … Dusty Springfield, ‘Dusty In Memphis’ (1969) Atlantic. 19. 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