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'''The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time''' is the cover story of a special issue of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine published in November 2003. The list was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums. Various music genres were featured in the list, including pop, rock, soul, blues, folk, jazz, hip hop, and combinations thereof. The accounting firm Ernst & Young devised a point system to weigh votes for 1,600 submitted titles.[1]
The list was released in book form in 2005, with an introduction written by Steven Van Zandt. The book's list was slightly different, explained in the editor's foreword as the removal of some compilation albums and the consolidation of the two LPs of Robert Johnson's ''King of the Delta Blues Singers'' into ''The Complete Recordings'', making room for 8 additional albums on the list. Some differences include the addition of such albums as ''Aquemini'' by OutKast. The order was also rearranged, with Chuck Berry's ''The Great Twenty-Eight'' being lower on the list.
The list's apparent generational bias toward the 1960s and 1970s prompted a response. Following the publicity surrounding the list, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former ''Rolling Stone'' editor, published ''Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics'' (ISBN 1-56980-276-9) in 2004. This featured a number of younger critics arguing against the magazine's high evaluation of various "classic" albums, including DeRogatis taking on ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', which had been ''Rolling Stone's top choice.
# ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', The Beatles
# ''Pet Sounds'', The Beach Boys
# ''Revolver'', The Beatles
# ''Highway 61 Revisited'', Bob Dylan
# ''Rubber Soul'', The Beatles
# ''What's Going On'', Marvin Gaye
# ''Exile on Main St.'', The Rolling Stones
# ''London Calling'', The Clash
# ''Blonde on Blonde'', Bob Dylan
# ''The Beatles (The White Album)'', The Beatles
★ The Beatles (with 4 in the top 10) - 11
★ Bob Dylan (with 2 in the top 10) and The Rolling Stones (with 1 in the top 10) - 10
★ Bruce Springsteen - 8
★ The Who and Neil Young (1 with Buffalo Springfield, 1 with Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) and 5 solo albums - 7
★ Elton John and David Bowie - 6
★ The Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Otis Redding and U2 - 5
★ 1950s or before - 29 albums (5.8%)
★ 1960s - 126 (25.2%) (with 7 of the top 10)
★ 1970s - 183 (36.6%) (with the other 3 of the top 10)
★ 1980s - 88 (17.6%)
★ 1990s - 61 (12.2%)
★ 2000s - 13 (2.6%)
★ Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
★ Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
★ The list on the ''Rolling Stone'' website.
★ MusicChain - RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
★ The list on Rhino.com
1. "It's Certainly a Thrill: Sgt. Pepper Is Best Album", ''USA Today'', November 17, 2003.
'''The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time''' is the cover story of a special issue of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine published in November 2003. The list was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums. Various music genres were featured in the list, including pop, rock, soul, blues, folk, jazz, hip hop, and combinations thereof. The accounting firm Ernst & Young devised a point system to weigh votes for 1,600 submitted titles.[1]
The list was released in book form in 2005, with an introduction written by Steven Van Zandt. The book's list was slightly different, explained in the editor's foreword as the removal of some compilation albums and the consolidation of the two LPs of Robert Johnson's ''King of the Delta Blues Singers'' into ''The Complete Recordings'', making room for 8 additional albums on the list. Some differences include the addition of such albums as ''Aquemini'' by OutKast. The order was also rearranged, with Chuck Berry's ''The Great Twenty-Eight'' being lower on the list.
The list's apparent generational bias toward the 1960s and 1970s prompted a response. Following the publicity surrounding the list, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former ''Rolling Stone'' editor, published ''Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics'' (ISBN 1-56980-276-9) in 2004. This featured a number of younger critics arguing against the magazine's high evaluation of various "classic" albums, including DeRogatis taking on ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', which had been ''Rolling Stone's top choice.
| Contents |
| Statistics |
| Top Ten Albums |
| Artists with the most albums in the list |
| Number of albums from each decade |
| See also |
| External links |
| References |
Statistics
Top Ten Albums
# ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', The Beatles
# ''Pet Sounds'', The Beach Boys
# ''Revolver'', The Beatles
# ''Highway 61 Revisited'', Bob Dylan
# ''Rubber Soul'', The Beatles
# ''What's Going On'', Marvin Gaye
# ''Exile on Main St.'', The Rolling Stones
# ''London Calling'', The Clash
# ''Blonde on Blonde'', Bob Dylan
# ''The Beatles (The White Album)'', The Beatles
Artists with the most albums in the list
★ The Beatles (with 4 in the top 10) - 11
★ Bob Dylan (with 2 in the top 10) and The Rolling Stones (with 1 in the top 10) - 10
★ Bruce Springsteen - 8
★ The Who and Neil Young (1 with Buffalo Springfield, 1 with Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) and 5 solo albums - 7
★ Elton John and David Bowie - 6
★ The Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Otis Redding and U2 - 5
Number of albums from each decade
★ 1950s or before - 29 albums (5.8%)
★ 1960s - 126 (25.2%) (with 7 of the top 10)
★ 1970s - 183 (36.6%) (with the other 3 of the top 10)
★ 1980s - 88 (17.6%)
★ 1990s - 61 (12.2%)
★ 2000s - 13 (2.6%)
See also
★ Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
★ Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
External links
★ The list on the ''Rolling Stone'' website.
★ MusicChain - RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
★ The list on Rhino.com
References
1. "It's Certainly a Thrill: Sgt. Pepper Is Best Album", ''USA Today'', November 17, 2003.
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