It's a sign of our age. When we were all growing up it was a big deal and much more relevant . The same could be said for print media like the New York Times or cable new like CNN. But that was decades ago, and these businesses are a pale shadow of their former statue. TH-camrs routinely draw in larger numbers than CNN shows. Every time I rewatch "Almost Famous" it reminds me of how big a deal RS was back in the 70s. Most of the old icons are gone, and replaced by millennials and zoomers with a very limited scope of context to pull from. For them "the classics" are record from the 90s lol.
Wow. No Sly and at the Family Stone, no Smokey Robinson, no Supremes, no James Brown, no Grand Master Flash, no Elvis Costello, no Who, no real punk, no Wish you were here, no shoegaze, no Sticky Fingers, no Eno, no Jeff Beck. No thank you.
I thought it was really, really hard to come up with a list that makes even less sense than the one from Rolling Stone magazine, but Apple really put an effort into it and succeeded. Some absolutely ridiculous choices and placings.
The choices representing rock and metal are lazy. There are tons and tons of albums in those genres that are as good, or better, than the chosen picks. Slayer’s South Of Heaven, Megadeth’s Rust In Peace, Between The Buried And Me’s Coma Ecliptic, Meshuggah’s Catch 33, Faith No More’s Angel Dust, to name but a few.
It's not even that. Its a political album that attempts to make sure no one is offended by not having their favorite music on the list. Just another "diversity, equity and inclusion" effort.
A simple solution for Apple would have been to make the list "Since 1980", or even "Since 1990". The last 44 or even 34 years gives ample choices without disrespecting the OG's.
The list screams of 'we have to make sure twitter doesn't call us too male, white or out of touch let's make it unassailable on those fronts, once we've got that, we'll sprinkle in some of my Dad's albums'
So, there's not: 1) Bridge Over Troubled Water 2) Damn The Torpedoes 3) Synchronicity 4) Stone Roses (debut) 5) Van Halen (debut) 6) Odessey And Oracle 7) Beggar's Banquet 8) Blood On The Tracks 9) The Cars (debut) 10) Paranoid or Black Sabbath 11) Moving Pictures 12) Moondance 13) Who's Next 14) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Ok.
Album top 10 1. Kendrick Lamar to pump a butterfly 2. Haim day are gone 3. Florence & The Machine Lungs 4. Paramore After Laughter 5. Paramore Riot! 6. frank ocean channel orange 7. Mac Miller Swimming 8. Sa-roc daughter sharecroppers. 9. rapsody laila's wisdom.
I could name 100 metal albums that deserve to be in the list more than the majority presented by Apple. Pathetic. Nice list of overlooked just the same. I could list a thousand. 😜
Wish You Were Here, the White Album, Rubber Soul, Never Mind the Bollocks, Talking Book, an early Chicago album.... Funk, soul, and country are underrepresented
I wonder if the original version of 1989 was what the list makers picked but a higher up made them substitute Taylor's Version so that they didn't piss off Taylor.
Taylor Swift does not belong on this list at all. She deserves to be on a list for top selling artists but musically she is just another bland pop star that is popular only because of her hype and fans. Nothing she does musically makes her an all time great
I'm just glad that the list is finished so that the discourse around it finally stops flooding every social media website I use. No hate towards you guys btw, this video was very reasonable and not overly dramatic like what I've seen everywhere else. Maybe I'm just getting old and apathetic, but I don't get why so many people are acting like it's the end of the world when their favorite album is outside of the top 20. At the end of the day it's a meaningless list thrown together by a billion dollar corporation to drive engagement and get people to talk about them. And it definitely worked Personally, my biggest complaints are the exclusion of Black Sabbath and Joy Division/New Order, and Kacey Musgraves being the sole country representation (why is she here but not Johnny Cash?). Also I think it would've been better if they only had 1 entry per artist. Overall, not the best list imo but it could've been worse. Hopefully it turned some people onto some great music that they otherwise wouldn't have known about
Stop it, rock has always and still is getting its flowers from all of these lists/articles The top 25 or so literally consists of two Beatles albums, Bowie, Dylan, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Beach boys and the rest of the list showcases enough other rock artists as well, stop whining
Stop the cap 🧢🧢. Any top 100 list with Billie Eilish in it is automatically void. For something as big and influential as Apple music, this list is an embarrassment and clearly a joke to just cater to millennials
No Bon Jovi or hair metal, and no corporate country. Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rumours and Aja are all there. I can live with this list, but Lauryn Hill at #1 is a head scratcher.
Highly recommend checking out Burial's Untrue. It's tagged as dubstep, but worth noting the definition of the genre shifted radically in the early 2010s. It's nothing like Skrillex or any of those artists. Very cool, dark and subtle. Expertly produced.
Oh man, please listen to Untrue by Burial. I’m not sure if it will be either of your cups of tea, but it really is just an incredible album. Really creative use of sampling and a great breakup album
Thanks for taking the time to go through the list. When Apple unleashed iTunes (2001), with its $0.99-per-song formula, the unintended consequence was the death of the album. The music industry shifted markedly to be a singles-based medium. Yes, singles have always been important, but albums are where artists would strive to make "a big statement." Given this, how can so many from Apple's list be from the last 20 years? (Of course, the irony that Apple invented the album's demise with iTunes can't be lost on anyone.) The other question I'd ask is "how long does it take for an album to be considered a classic? A year? Five years? Ten?" Sure, there's such a thing as an instant classic, but I think albums need time to prove their mettle and stand the test of time. There are albums on this list that are 50+ years old (and many more missing!) that we still discuss to this day. Will we still be discussing Lorde, say, in 50 years time? Lana Del Rey?
i hate using the word "woke", but once i waddled through the list, i found it incredibly woke and uninspiring. but oh well. most top 100 lists i just laugh at anyways.
No one will ever be completely happy with these lists. They're fun to debate about though. Putting the newer albums on this list is a marketing tool. I remember laughing in the 2000s seeing a mass array of Emo albums being put on these greatest of all-time lists 😂😂 Of course, I knew then what I see now, that Emo wouldn't be recognized in the future.
I mean this is a bit of an exaggeration. 20 of the albums are from the past 15 years while 23 are from the 90s alone. If anything I’d say this is ever so slightly nostalgia biased with most of the modern picks being purely mainstream aside from Untrue
Yeah, they really need to stop calling these lists "greatest" or "best" of all time. They are the nothing more than the favorite albums of the specific people voting for them.
I don't they got the topic. The topic is the TOP 100 OF ALL TIME! Let me repeat the key words - ALL TIME! There are a few albums that qualify, but the majority are not worthy to be on this list. If you pay Apple for this, you're getting ripped off!
Listen Without Prejudice has some nice cuts on it. What we really need is pop music broken into about 30 categories, and the top 1,000 of all time within each of those 30 categories. 30K total.
19:15 Two stars to Dummy ? Really Jason ? Lana del Rey, the Weeknd, Gnars Barkley, Lamb, Hooverphonic, Kanye West will have killed for doing that record
"Dummy" is incredible. A five-star album for sure. I'd say it's the third-best Bristol album after "Mezzanine" and "Maxinquaye"... neither of which made the list at all!
@@edward8597Love all 3, but Dummy is my fave. I was just happy to see trip-hop mentioned at all! There’s never any love shown to Sneaker Pimps/Chris Corner/IAMX period. It’s a cryin’ shame.
i listened to the podcast each day for each group of 10 albums, and it was clear that they wanted this list to be "modern" and have more records from the past 30 years. They also said they had an agenda to include more Hip Hop and Rap, since they consider that to be the dominant genre from the past 25 years. so it's just not a list for anyone over the age of 30. No Police, Van Morrison, REM, Peter Gabriel, The Who, and no Graceland. Just a crazy list.
Where in gods name is Tool on these lists? Dark Side of the Moon and Pet Sounds less of a musical achievement than Taylor Swifts best effort! Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse and Adele higher than Bob Dylan’s only entry. Hard to stomach that Like a Rolling Stone has less of a pop in modern times than Frank frikkin Ocean and his “Nikeeeeeeeeees” These are the new dark ages people! What a disappointment this new millennium has been.
Some thoughts: Why is simplistic rock often higher regarded than technical or heavy? As someone who can appreciate both. I don't get it. I understand that new artists come in. New genres get higher recognition. Different styles come in and out of fashion... But shouldn't quality of the music be main focus? I respect that albums sell lots and I respect that an album invented something... But neither makes them automatically amazing.
A rule of thumb for judging art is give it 15-20 years to see if it stands the test of time. You can't tell while you're living in it. I love The Cure's Disintegration ... but would never have put it on a best of all time list in 1989. That's ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous is 25 rap albums and 1 post punk and 1 metal album. These people live in a very very small internet bubble.
The whole thing is pretty bad but the top 20 is just horrendous. Jason made a good point about artists vs. albums. It seems like they chose their favorite artists and then somewhat arbitrarily selected one of their albums to include.
yeah, led zeppelin II is a good example there. i would never ever include that one. it isnt even the best zeppelin album. give me I , III, houses of the holy, heck even IV over that one.
No Black Sabbath, Smashing Pumpkins, King Gizzard, Charles Mingus, Chuck Berry, Funkadelic, the doors, the who, Living Colour, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Slayer, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Fugazi, Jethro Tull, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison, Iron Maiden, John Lee Hooker, King Crimson, Yes, Dire Straits, Al Green, the Roots, Sepultura, Rush, Ohio Players, Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Prodigy, this list is a great bullshit
- I'd place Off the Wall or Bad over Thriller. - No White Album or The Bends on a top 100 list is ridiculous. - I wouldn't expect these albums to be on there but they're some of my personal favs: English Beat - I just Can't Stop It Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret Ariel Pink - Mature Themes Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
Burial - Untrue is regarded as a very influential album, especially in the electronic music scene. Not in my top 100, but I can definitely understand why it would make the list.
Some albums I think are missing: Faith no more- Angel dust System of a down- Toxicity Black Sabbath- Sabbath bloody sabbath (or any of their other albums) Dr. Dre- 2001 Iron maiden- Number of the beast Gorillaz- Plastic beach Frank Zappa- Hot rats Gojira- From mars to sirius Aphex Twin- Richard D. James album Devin Townsend- Ocean machine Between the buried and me- Colors Death grips- The money store Herbie Hancock- Head hunters Smashing pumpkins- Meloncoly Korn- Issues
I understand the list makers trying to diversify across the music spectrum but, in my opinion, they produced a list with an abundance of albums that haven't stood the test of time. I mean, there are certainly some true classics here, but there are a bunch of newer records that are really just "safe" choices. A lot of these albums are not particularly original. There's a kind of edginess that the best albums have that may not click with listeners for a few years. Or, it isn't until much later that you realize how original it was for the time and you can see its influences. A lot of these newer records are too recent to have settled in.
Love you guys, but I find your persistent and total lack of appreciation for Kraftwerk disturbing: Just put your personal taste aside for one second (you’ve proven that on several occasions*) and at least give them credit for their MASSIVE influence on popular music. Again, myself, I can’t stand Dylan and could never bring myself to put a record of his on for pleasure - but I can acknowledge how damn important he was. Actually, when it comes to influential musical acts, I‘d put Kraftwerk third, behind The Beatles and him. And NO, that’s definitely not national bias talking. 😝 Anyway, everyone out there who feels like I‘m totally wrong, take it up with Andy Edwards here, cos he’s explained all these points way more brilliantly and detailed than I ever could. 😉 *excellent case in point: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO!
Sad to see the omission of Who's Next, Led Zep IV, Sticky Fingers (or Exile), Parallel Lines, Imperial Bedroom, Deja Vu (or Harvest maybe), Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks (better if not more significant than Highway 61), Sergeant Pepper or Rubber Soul (the White Album probably too weird), Unknown Pleasures etc ...but given where we are culturally, and the fact that the list is American, probably not surprising.
The voters likely have literally never listened to any of those. They only included names of albums they absolutely could not get away with leaving off the list. Look at it this way: Taylor Swift ranked higher than Revolver, and all Led Zeppelin albums.
Another great entertaining video boyz!!! The only critique is to be more clear what you mean when you say higher or lower (I know Jason stopped to clarify a couple times). Higher on the list? Meaning a lower number? Or lower on the list meaning a higher number!!! Confusing I know. Keep up the great work
I'm surprised Queen didn't make the list. Apple music skews younger but if there is one Boomer band that remains extremely popular with the cool kids, it's probably Queen.
That's a good point. But Queen don't really have a five-star album, do they? I guess "Night at the Opera" would be the one to include, but it's just as hit-or-miss as every other album of theirs.
@@edward8597 Queen 2 is one of the greatest albums of all-time. Definitely five star. Sheer Heart Attack is really strong too. Actually they might have the most consistent seven album run throughout the 70's.
Besides a few silly choices like 1989 I thought it was an interesting list. I'm fine with its recency bias. I'm tired of all-time lists where half of the albums are boomer rock.
Except that boomer rock is clearly the height of popular music, even eclipsing the post war jazz revival. It's by far the most relevant period in popular music. 80s pop and the 2010s hip hop domination is also culturally relevant but musically poor.
This is a list about albums, and rock 'n roll is the genre that INVENTED the album. Rock did the LP format the most justice. Rap/hip-hop is more of a singles genre than it is an albums genre. It's like making a list of the greatest astronomers and leaving out Galileo Galilei because you're tired of reading his name.
Saying that people don't respect the 60s is very accurate. I'm a Gen Zer and not a lot of them my age would even care about the 60s as much as me. I'm on the minority side of loving music past the 00s. I am very critical for just about everyone. No manner if they are old or young. I criticize everybody. That's just the way I am. Whenever I go to a store with vintage material, I feel like I'm a kid in a candy store. I love seeing old signs of the 50s and 60s and singing Let's Go to the Lobby.
As a fellow Gen Zer, I'm the same way. I don't like how a lot of people our age - not everyone but too many - aren't bothering to appreciate the past. I get we should look forward but we got respect the past too. I love music from 60s-present day. Everything from The Beatles, ABBA, Biggie Smalls, The Killers, The Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Billy Joel, Elton John, Muse, Beyonce, Led Zeppelin, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, etc. There's tons of great stuff in every decade (and bad stuff in every decade too).
What an appalling list! Number 1 is a joke. It does make one valid point though: you guys need to get your heads around the importance of Kraftwerk. How many of the albums on that list were influenced by the crazy German guys? Joy Division weren’t on the list. Shame! 😊
thats the same thing i said. kraftwerk's computer world or man-machine. TEE is overrated in my book. these guys influenced everyone from brian eno and bowie to iggy pop, to joy division, to new order, to depeche mode, to dr dre and the arabian prince in their electro-funk era of NWA, to daft punk, to U2, to many hiphop artists in the 80s and 90s, to dance, to techno, to electronic, to alternative bands, new wave, etc.... they are incredibly and criminally underrated as far as the influence they had on pop, alternative and dance music.
Greatest disappointment about the list is its largely US/ UK myopia. This was a golden opportunity to introduce several classic albums/ sounds from around the world to curious listeners but it was largely squandered. Hopefully they course-correct when they do their singles list.
And how is apple ranking these ? Is it by influence , popularity , critical acclaim I don’t understand . Some inclusions on here are very misplaced . Blond at number 5 ? Come on
I can never usually understand the "old man/cloud"-type moaning about all-time album lists, but this Apple one is particularly stupid. I know lists usually try and reflect "what's popular now and how we got here", a bit of revisionism and retrofitting etc; but the desperation is strong with this one. For a while now there's been an almost-complete eradication of punk/post punk & alternative, as well as the squashing down of classic rock, singer/songwriters and so on. I do generally applaud the destruction of sacred cows and anything that annoys grumbly old men like me, but there comes a tipping point where a list is so short-sighted it's of no earthly use to anyone. Also! no Marquee Moon, Maggot Brain, Zen Arcade, Unknown Pleasures, Ramones, Nevermind the Bollocks, White Album, Led Zep 4, Sticky Fingers, Who's Next... No Black Sabbath, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Zappa, King Crimson, Creedence, Chuck Berry, no Elvises, no Neil Young... Two albums to represent all of jazz, one for metal, no country...even the wrong Kendrick one. I'd have had more respect if the list was pretty much all exactly as it was, but the top 2 were something completely random like Alice Coltrane's Journey to Satchidananda and Van Halen 1. I could go on but I have already boomered myself to death.
Lauren Hill wasn't that good when it came out and it isn't that good now. Its main merit was that it was surprisingly good for a Fugees solo side project. That's it. Now its the greatest album of all time....
Any list that includes any music from the insanely overrated Taylor Swift is by definition, null and void. Unless the category is Top albums full of unmemorable songs. You listen to one of her songs and you have forgotten it, by the time the song ends - sometimes before the song ends.
You can expect to be served legal papers within the next few days. Listening to you guys go through that list gave me a stroke. But seriously. I haven't heard at least half those albums. The last 25 years of mainstream music has been a wash of nothing to me. To me rap is a bunch of garbage that all sounds the same. There might be ten albums in that list that I would include in a top 100. No Sgt Pepper? No Sticky Fingers? Only 1 Zep album? No Deep Purple? No Black Sabbath? No freaking Kinks? What the fuck man?
I'm with you. I was only 23 in 2000, but I'm into a lot of music that's older than me, as well as 90's Rock. WTF has happened to music in the 21st century???!!!???🤮
@@jordanpratt3821 I pick it as I know that album well as a Rock fan and don’t know the other genres listed. I feel I am only in a position to measure quality on what I know.
Album top 10 1. Kendrick Lamar to pump a butterfly 2. Haim day are gone 3. Florence & The Machine Lungs 4. Paramore After Laughter 5. Paramore Riot! 6. frank ocean channel orange 7. Mac Miller Swimming 8. Sa-roc daughter sharecroppers. 9. rapsody laila's wisdom. 10. frank ocean channel orange 11. the beatles sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band 12. the beatles magical mystery tour
Hot take but queen is dead is not the best smiths album . I’m a huge smiths fan and it’s probably the one I return to the least . Never had no one ever is a really mediocre song and although the rest of the album is incredible , queen is dead being one of the best openings to any album ever followed by the wonderful frankly mr shankly and then followed up by one of the best smiths songs ever recorded i know its over . cemetary gates is a pefect song but then being followed by never had no one ever completely kills the flow of the album for me even though its picks up in the second half with the incredible singles , my favourite being the boy with the thorn in his side . i just think the smiths debut is a much better album experience in every single way . reel around the fountain is the best smiths songs theyve ever written and that opening drum beat by mike joyce is incredible its just an otherwordly song the way johnnys guitar intertwines with morrisseys vocals is utter perfection . and the album contains way better singles than the queen is dead with them being this charming man , hand in glove and what difference does it make . and the album resolves way better with suffer little children the it does with some girls are bigger than others . lets be honest some girls has one if the best guitar riffs ever recorded but are utterly undermined by morrissey's pointless lyrics about the varying sizes of women , like really is that the best lyrics he could come up with for that 😂 suffer little children is the perfect closing song as it conveys such a haunting but beautiful message honouring the children who died on the moors of Manchester. i dont see why all the hype is around the queen is dead when the debut is far superior.
iPhone 14 is now fractured! Seemed political to me, love Rap but felt a little over represented, BB King, Muddy Waters? As list evolved expected Bad Bunny ,Harry Styles in Top 10😂
Good comments, and I mostly agree. The list is very US centric and very narrow in terms of generes. But, could there ever be a good list? It essentially boils down to personal taste. Attempts at being objective usually fails because facts are hard to find. How do you prove something is more influential than something else for instance? It's all hearsay.
I could see In Da Club and Royals making a top 5000 songs list but to have 50 cent and Lorde make top 100 albums is insane nevermind Solange. Purple Rain in top 4 pretty good but shame about the 99 other terrible calls.
@@HeelSection3825 Sure 2 is good since the band doesn't have a bad album but it's a bit weird to choose that one when there is two or even 3/4 more obvious choices. Even their debut album would have been a more intuitive choice, hardly their best effort but a great album and it's kind of remarkable that a band, consisting of musicians who didn't know each other a few months prior, could be assembled and produce that record. Led Zeppelin needed no time to get going, they immediately went on a 2 year mad rush and recorded 4 albums where every part fitted perfectly. This is probably the only feat of this kind in rock history.
I don’t get why they did this. How does trafficking in this kind of attention-seeking behavior benefit the music streaming part of their business? I bet some people canceled their Apple Music membership over this 😂
If I were Apple I would of tried to make the top ten where different generations would be happy and can’t be argued like having a Led Zeppelin beetles prince mj stevie wonder but then adding modern albums like nirvanas nevermind Kendrick’s tpab ok computer and Illmatic
Even as someone who "gets" Bad Bunny, reducing all of spanish music to him and (in the RS list) just one of the best salsa singers is condescending as hell. Lots of people here are mixed on that album.
I remember an all-time greatest album list from Rolling Stone, 1997 I think. The top three were Highway 61, Pet Sounds and Exile on Main St. I don‘t remember in which order, though.
@@joachimb5721 Yes, it would be fun to hear a "thirty years later" reaction -- like what albums shouldn't have made the list back then or what newer albums that were added to the list back then have lost favor over the years, etc. etc. etc.
Mine, too. I migrated to that position over a period of a couple decades. If you'd asked me when I was young, I would've said Sgt. Pepper's or Revolver.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Yeah. I'm a second generation Beatles fan. My Mom turned me on to then while I was literally still in the womb. Over the years, my favorite album has constantly rotated between Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road. At 47, I think that Abbey Road is pretty firmly locked into the number one spot.
No Queen. No Rush. No Black Sabbath. No Alice Cooper. No Yes. No Iron Maiden or Judas Priest. No Blondie. No Elvis Costello. No Roxy Music. No Pretenders. The Car's debut album nowhere to be seen. Van Halen's first album nowhere to be seen. No Deep Purple "In Rock". Who's "Who's Next"? Devo “Are We Not Men?" Aerosmith "Rocks"?! And don't get me started on all the great funk and r&b records from the 70's they chose to blatantly ignore in favor of mediocre modern day hip hop and pop. Yeah, this list stinks worse than the Rolling Stone list.
Absolutely terrible list. Probably computer generated based on what's culturally acceptable. No Moondance, Astral Weeks, Quadrophenia, Grace, Van Halen I/1984, Paranoid, Who's Next, Bridge over Troubled Water, Blood on the Tracks or anything by Ray Charles, The Doors, Elliot Smith? The Chronic, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and these no name singers ahead of Revolver and Pet Sounds is truly insane. Those are indisputable top 10s of all time whatever you think of either artist. These artists are just getting put in because of the generation not because they deserve it. All the boomer music is getting trashed by Gen Z - Beatles, Stones, Zep, Hendrix, has lost a lot of recognition from even 15 years ago when I was in college when I remember everyone seemed to at least respect it.
I think Joe gets too hung up on these two words placed closely together: post and punk. I think he’d enjoy more than he realizes. He is a stubborn fella, that one! Nearly as stubborn as Jason with his anti hip-hop stance. Love you guys anyway! We need a Bob Dylan type series for both of you with the aforementioned genres. Please think about it. James Murphy said: “I Can Change”
90's rap is the only kind I can tolerate. It wasn't oversaturated with too many beats and stupid noises. Plus, (and MUCH more importantly) no one thought that rapping in a voice that sounds like you have BRAIN DAMAGE was ACTUALLY cool!!!
Umm, billy woods, clipping, Aesop Rock, McKinley Dixon, Danny Brown? And that’s just a few of the notable contemporary rappers who aren’t putting out stuff with “stupid noises.”
Blood on the Tracks could be the best album ever made. Pet Sounds and Blonde and Blonde are my favorites but Blood on the Tracks hits differently from any album I've ever heard.
Why is Joe constantly referring to the Rolling Stone list as if Rolling Stone were still a meaningful publication?
I can't remember when RS wasn't trash.
The RS list of the past while not great was a lot better, current RS list is not much better than Apple's list.
@@stevemalek2970I agreed, the last RS list give “What’s Going On”:the top spot, what a joke.
It's a sign of our age. When we were all growing up it was a big deal and much more relevant . The same could be said for print media like the New York Times or cable new like CNN. But that was decades ago, and these businesses are a pale shadow of their former statue. TH-camrs routinely draw in larger numbers than CNN shows.
Every time I rewatch "Almost Famous" it reminds me of how big a deal RS was back in the 70s. Most of the old icons are gone, and replaced by millennials and zoomers with a very limited scope of context to pull from. For them "the classics" are record from the 90s lol.
@@kahnliveswhat’s going on is great though. That’s definitely one of the better picks on there.
Wow. No Sly and at the Family Stone, no Smokey Robinson, no Supremes, no James Brown, no Grand Master Flash, no Elvis Costello, no Who, no real punk, no Wish you were here, no shoegaze, no Sticky Fingers, no Eno, no Jeff Beck. No thank you.
No “Piper at the Gates of Dawn”.
Forty of these albums should not have sniffed a Top 100 list.
I thought it was really, really hard to come up with a list that makes even less sense than the one from Rolling Stone magazine, but Apple really put an effort into it and succeeded. Some absolutely ridiculous choices and placings.
The Apple Music Board said: "We are making an editorial statement". Another way to say that is: "We hate Rock, and this list proves it".
Their editorial statement is -our taste in music sucks.
The choices representing rock and metal are lazy. There are tons and tons of albums in those genres that are as good, or better, than the chosen picks. Slayer’s South Of Heaven, Megadeth’s Rust In Peace, Between The Buried And Me’s Coma Ecliptic, Meshuggah’s Catch 33, Faith No More’s Angel Dust, to name but a few.
They don’t hate rock, they just didn’t have many rock musicians on their panel in favor of more modern musicians.
Their picks for rock music, barring a few, are utterly terrible and ignorant.
I can't fathom how they can call it "greatest of all time" it should be called "our favorite albums of all time"
It's not even that. Its a political album that attempts to make sure no one is offended by not having their favorite music on the list. Just another "diversity, equity and inclusion" effort.
@@EF-fc4du Boy oh boy if you don't like Lauryn Hill then that's fine. But shut the fuck up about this DEI bullshit.
A simple solution for Apple would have been to make the list "Since 1980", or even "Since 1990". The last 44 or even 34 years gives ample choices without disrespecting the OG's.
Point ON, differentiate periods of Pop music and the genres that dominated those periods.
Even then it would still be a terrible list.
Winning a Grammy has never meant anything. Look at the list of Best New Artists, they're almost 100% crap, most never heard from again.
The list screams of 'we have to make sure twitter doesn't call us too male, white or out of touch let's make it unassailable on those fronts, once we've got that, we'll sprinkle in some of my Dad's albums'
So, there's not:
1) Bridge Over Troubled Water
2) Damn The Torpedoes
3) Synchronicity
4) Stone Roses (debut)
5) Van Halen (debut)
6) Odessey And Oracle
7) Beggar's Banquet
8) Blood On The Tracks
9) The Cars (debut)
10) Paranoid or Black Sabbath
11) Moving Pictures
12) Moondance
13) Who's Next
14) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Ok.
Album top 10
1. Kendrick Lamar to pump a butterfly
2. Haim day are gone
3. Florence & The Machine Lungs
4. Paramore After Laughter
5. Paramore Riot!
6. frank ocean channel orange
7. Mac Miller Swimming
8. Sa-roc daughter sharecroppers.
9. rapsody laila's wisdom.
I could name 100 metal albums that deserve to be in the list more than the majority presented by Apple. Pathetic.
Nice list of overlooked just the same. I could list a thousand. 😜
I'm cool with Abbey Road instead of Sgt. Important concept album no doubt.
Wish You Were Here, the White Album, Rubber Soul, Never Mind the Bollocks, Talking Book, an early Chicago album.... Funk, soul, and country are underrepresented
@@makeadifference4all country was UNrepresented. Swift and Musgraves aren't country.
I wonder if the original version of 1989 was what the list makers picked but a higher up made them substitute Taylor's Version so that they didn't piss off Taylor.
Distinct possibility.
Taylor Swift does not belong on this list at all. She deserves to be on a list for top selling artists but musically she is just another bland pop star that is popular only because of her hype and fans. Nothing she does musically makes her an all time great
I'm just glad that the list is finished so that the discourse around it finally stops flooding every social media website I use. No hate towards you guys btw, this video was very reasonable and not overly dramatic like what I've seen everywhere else. Maybe I'm just getting old and apathetic, but I don't get why so many people are acting like it's the end of the world when their favorite album is outside of the top 20. At the end of the day it's a meaningless list thrown together by a billion dollar corporation to drive engagement and get people to talk about them. And it definitely worked
Personally, my biggest complaints are the exclusion of Black Sabbath and Joy Division/New Order, and Kacey Musgraves being the sole country representation (why is she here but not Johnny Cash?). Also I think it would've been better if they only had 1 entry per artist. Overall, not the best list imo but it could've been worse. Hopefully it turned some people onto some great music that they otherwise wouldn't have known about
So, did rock and roll like not ever happen ?
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Stop it, rock has always and still is getting its flowers from all of these lists/articles
The top 25 or so literally consists of two Beatles albums, Bowie, Dylan, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Beach boys and the rest of the list showcases enough other rock artists as well, stop whining
You must be blind
Stop the cap 🧢🧢. Any top 100 list with Billie Eilish in it is automatically void. For something as big and influential as Apple music, this list is an embarrassment and clearly a joke to just cater to millennials
Akin to giving a child a telescope and limiting them to a very tiny portion of the universe. I'm embarrassed for them.
No Bon Jovi or hair metal, and no corporate country. Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rumours and Aja are all there. I can live with this list, but Lauryn Hill at #1 is a head scratcher.
Highly recommend checking out Burial's Untrue. It's tagged as dubstep, but worth noting the definition of the genre shifted radically in the early 2010s. It's nothing like Skrillex or any of those artists. Very cool, dark and subtle. Expertly produced.
Man, the lack of Astral Weeks hurts. So many weird choices but that one is just bonkers.
Black Sabbath too
Oh man, please listen to Untrue by Burial. I’m not sure if it will be either of your cups of tea, but it really is just an incredible album. Really creative use of sampling and a great breakup album
its shit
Looks like some of those recently fired DEI staff members from colleges got jobs making lists for Apple Music.
Shocked there’s no room for New Kids On The Block, S Club 7, One Direction, Milli Vanilli or the Cheeky Girls’ debut….
lFMAO.......
Guess I can't comment on a list where I haven't heard any of the albums lol
Thanks for taking the time to go through the list. When Apple unleashed iTunes (2001), with its $0.99-per-song formula, the unintended consequence was the death of the album. The music industry shifted markedly to be a singles-based medium. Yes, singles have always been important, but albums are where artists would strive to make "a big statement." Given this, how can so many from Apple's list be from the last 20 years? (Of course, the irony that Apple invented the album's demise with iTunes can't be lost on anyone.) The other question I'd ask is "how long does it take for an album to be considered a classic? A year? Five years? Ten?" Sure, there's such a thing as an instant classic, but I think albums need time to prove their mettle and stand the test of time. There are albums on this list that are 50+ years old (and many more missing!) that we still discuss to this day. Will we still be discussing Lorde, say, in 50 years time? Lana Del Rey?
i hate using the word "woke", but once i waddled through the list, i found it incredibly woke and uninspiring. but oh well. most top 100 lists i just laugh at anyways.
No Soundgarden superunkown, pearl jams ten, jeff Buckleys Grace or literally ANY Fiona friggin Apple album????
The creators of this list are out to lunch
Their Pretty Vacant.
Apple is out of touch
Arctic Monkeys one step ahead of Velvet Underground & Nico was a real knee-slapper.
If this were my list, VU&N would be number 1
And the fact that they went with that Arctic Monkeys album…
No one will ever be completely happy with these lists. They're fun to debate about though. Putting the newer albums on this list is a marketing tool. I remember laughing in the 2000s seeing a mass array of Emo albums being put on these greatest of all-time lists 😂😂 Of course, I knew then what I see now, that Emo wouldn't be recognized in the future.
This list lacks respect for history. It's an embarrassment.
I mean this is a bit of an exaggeration. 20 of the albums are from the past 15 years while 23 are from the 90s alone. If anything I’d say this is ever so slightly nostalgia biased with most of the modern picks being purely mainstream aside from Untrue
Terrible list it’s missing Ween - The Pod
Yes, as well as Spiderland by Slint and Confusion is Sex by Sonic Youth.
Yes, and St. Anger by Metallica.
I love The Pod but hated it on first listen.
@@canadianstudmuffin I'm glad you came around.
It’s all missing Menometrorrhagia’s Extreme Gore Noise Terror 😝😝
- Hotel California ranked at 99 with Usher ranked above it?!?!?! C’mon man, this list is bllsht!!! I’m already out!!!
Yeah, they really need to stop calling these lists "greatest" or "best" of all time. They are the nothing more than the favorite albums of the specific people voting for them.
The Archies, Partridge Family, Millii Vanilli, etc all sold millions, huge hits ... and total crap.
I don't they got the topic. The topic is the TOP 100 OF ALL TIME! Let me repeat the key words - ALL TIME! There are a few albums that qualify, but the majority are not worthy to be on this list. If you pay Apple for this, you're getting ripped off!
I Hope you Guys do ur Top 100 Album Soon, The World Need It Now More Than Ever🙏
Listen Without Prejudice has some nice cuts on it.
What we really need is pop music broken into about 30 categories, and the top 1,000 of all time within each of those 30 categories. 30K total.
I like this idea. The smaller in scope a list is, the more "accurate" it will be.
19:15 Two stars to Dummy ? Really Jason ? Lana del Rey, the Weeknd, Gnars Barkley, Lamb, Hooverphonic, Kanye West will have killed for doing that record
"Dummy" is incredible. A five-star album for sure. I'd say it's the third-best Bristol album after "Mezzanine" and "Maxinquaye"... neither of which made the list at all!
@@edward8597Love all 3, but Dummy is my fave. I was just happy to see trip-hop mentioned at all! There’s never any love shown to Sneaker Pimps/Chris Corner/IAMX period. It’s a cryin’ shame.
i listened to the podcast each day for each group of 10 albums, and it was clear that they wanted this list to be "modern" and have more records from the past 30 years. They also said they had an agenda to include more Hip Hop and Rap, since they consider that to be the dominant genre from the past 25 years.
so it's just not a list for anyone over the age of 30. No Police, Van Morrison, REM, Peter Gabriel, The Who, and no Graceland. Just a crazy list.
At least they're admitting that they have a bad case of recency bias.
Where in gods name is Tool on these lists?
Dark Side of the Moon and Pet Sounds less of a musical achievement than Taylor Swifts best effort!
Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse and Adele higher than Bob Dylan’s only entry. Hard to stomach that Like a Rolling Stone has less of a pop in modern times than Frank frikkin Ocean and his “Nikeeeeeeeeees”
These are the new dark ages people!
What a disappointment this new millennium has been.
Not a rap fan so yup this is bad for me and not in a cool Jackson way.
Some thoughts:
Why is simplistic rock often higher regarded than technical or heavy? As someone who can appreciate both. I don't get it.
I understand that new artists come in. New genres get higher recognition. Different styles come in and out of fashion... But shouldn't quality of the music be main focus?
I respect that albums sell lots and I respect that an album invented something... But neither makes them automatically amazing.
woof is right
The List is Simply Click Bait
Hilariously bad .
They must be trying to emulate Rolling Stone's formula for making lists ,
Cheers !
Those 90s and OOs ( cds ) are to long. If there are 3 throw away songs by definition they cant be anywhere near the top 100
Yeah cause the beatles never had any filler, throwaway songs on their albums...
I hate all these lists. The only list that makes any sense is my own.
facts...but I already don't like your list
true, .. true..
@@MrUnclesean lol
A rule of thumb for judging art is give it 15-20 years to see if it stands the test of time. You can't tell while you're living in it. I love The Cure's Disintegration ... but would never have put it on a best of all time list in 1989. That's ridiculous. What's even more ridiculous is 25 rap albums and 1 post punk and 1 metal album. These people live in a very very small internet bubble.
I feel like excusing 15 years of recent music to see its ‘impact’ is a little extreme but yeah recency bias can existing the same way as nostalgia
The whole thing is pretty bad but the top 20 is just horrendous.
Jason made a good point about artists vs. albums. It seems like they chose their favorite artists and then somewhat arbitrarily selected one of their albums to include.
yeah, led zeppelin II is a good example there. i would never ever include that one. it isnt even the best zeppelin album. give me I , III, houses of the holy, heck even IV over that one.
No Black Sabbath, Smashing Pumpkins, King Gizzard, Charles Mingus, Chuck Berry, Funkadelic, the doors, the who, Living Colour, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Slayer, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, Fugazi, Jethro Tull, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison, Iron Maiden, John Lee Hooker, King Crimson, Yes, Dire Straits, Al Green, the Roots, Sepultura, Rush, Ohio Players, Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Prodigy, this list is a great bullshit
- I'd place Off the Wall or Bad over Thriller.
- No White Album or The Bends on a top 100 list is ridiculous.
- I wouldn't expect these albums to be on there but they're some of my personal favs:
English Beat - I just Can't Stop It
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
Ariel Pink - Mature Themes
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
“17000 spots too high” should be on a hype sticker on that Solange album from now on
Burial - Untrue is regarded as a very influential album, especially in the electronic music scene. Not in my top 100, but I can definitely understand why it would make the list.
Some albums I think are missing:
Faith no more- Angel dust
System of a down- Toxicity
Black Sabbath- Sabbath bloody sabbath (or any of their other albums)
Dr. Dre- 2001
Iron maiden- Number of the beast
Gorillaz- Plastic beach
Frank Zappa- Hot rats
Gojira- From mars to sirius
Aphex Twin- Richard D. James album
Devin Townsend- Ocean machine
Between the buried and me- Colors
Death grips- The money store
Herbie Hancock- Head hunters
Smashing pumpkins- Meloncoly
Korn- Issues
I understand the list makers trying to diversify across the music spectrum but, in my opinion, they produced a list with an abundance of albums that haven't stood the test of time. I mean, there are certainly some true classics here, but there are a bunch of newer records that are really just "safe" choices. A lot of these albums are not particularly original. There's a kind of edginess that the best albums have that may not click with listeners for a few years. Or, it isn't until much later that you realize how original it was for the time and you can see its influences. A lot of these newer records are too recent to have settled in.
Love you guys, but I find your persistent and total lack of appreciation for Kraftwerk disturbing: Just put your personal taste aside for one second (you’ve proven that on several occasions*) and at least give them credit for their MASSIVE influence on popular music. Again, myself, I can’t stand Dylan and could never bring myself to put a record of his on for pleasure - but I can acknowledge how damn important he was. Actually, when it comes to influential musical acts, I‘d put Kraftwerk third, behind The Beatles and him. And NO, that’s definitely not national bias talking. 😝 Anyway, everyone out there who feels like I‘m totally wrong, take it up with Andy Edwards here, cos he’s explained all these points way more brilliantly and detailed than I ever could. 😉
*excellent case in point: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO!
Kraftwerk is one of the most influential bands ever.
We’ve made too many concessions over the years. We take kraftwerk to the grave. - Joe
Kraftwerk are influential in all the wrong ways. Music is worse today because of them.
Their sound is definitely influential. Melodically, they don't do a whole lot for me.
@@TastesLikeMusic @Joe: Okay, but the next time YOU sir are praising any „delicious bleeps and bloops“, I‘ll be there to say AHA! 🫵🏼
Sad to see the omission of Who's Next, Led Zep IV, Sticky Fingers (or Exile), Parallel Lines, Imperial Bedroom, Deja Vu (or Harvest maybe), Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks (better if not more significant than Highway 61), Sergeant Pepper or Rubber Soul (the White Album probably too weird), Unknown Pleasures etc ...but given where we are culturally, and the fact that the list is American, probably not surprising.
The voters likely have literally never listened to any of those. They only included names of albums they absolutely could not get away with leaving off the list. Look at it this way: Taylor Swift ranked higher than Revolver, and all Led Zeppelin albums.
Exile On Main St is on the list
I can't think of an appropriate word to describe how bad this list is.
Really really really bad. - Joe
Another great entertaining video boyz!!! The only critique is to be more clear what you mean when you say higher or lower (I know Jason stopped to clarify a couple times). Higher on the list? Meaning a lower number? Or lower on the list meaning a higher number!!! Confusing I know. Keep up the great work
Giving Dummy anything less than 4 stars is dumb. Stuart
This list is so wild I can't even. How can they be so right but then also so wrong?
I'm surprised Queen didn't make the list. Apple music skews younger but if there is one Boomer band that remains extremely popular with the cool kids, it's probably Queen.
That's a good point. But Queen don't really have a five-star album, do they? I guess "Night at the Opera" would be the one to include, but it's just as hit-or-miss as every other album of theirs.
It’s Fleetwood Mac, who almost made the top 10
@@edward8597 Queen 2 is one of the greatest albums of all-time. Definitely five star. Sheer Heart Attack is really strong too. Actually they might have the most consistent seven album run throughout the 70's.
@@jasongaylor2232 does rolling stone even put any queen albums on their top 100? maybe a night at the opera?
@@ryrythefryguy4645 I'm not sure. BUT I never go to "Rolling Stone" when it comes to music. They've always been out of touch.
burial ABSOLUTELY deserved to be on here
Easily the worst list of this type I have ever seen and most of these lists are weak.
Besides a few silly choices like 1989 I thought it was an interesting list. I'm fine with its recency bias. I'm tired of all-time lists where half of the albums are boomer rock.
Except that boomer rock is clearly the height of popular music, even eclipsing the post war jazz revival. It's by far the most relevant period in popular music.
80s pop and the 2010s hip hop domination is also culturally relevant but musically poor.
This is a list about albums, and rock 'n roll is the genre that INVENTED the album. Rock did the LP format the most justice. Rap/hip-hop is more of a singles genre than it is an albums genre. It's like making a list of the greatest astronomers and leaving out Galileo Galilei because you're tired of reading his name.
Saying that people don't respect the 60s is very accurate. I'm a Gen Zer and not a lot of them my age would even care about the 60s as much as me. I'm on the minority side of loving music past the 00s. I am very critical for just about everyone. No manner if they are old or young. I criticize everybody. That's just the way I am. Whenever I go to a store with vintage material, I feel like I'm a kid in a candy store. I love seeing old signs of the 50s and 60s and singing Let's Go to the Lobby.
As a fellow Gen Zer, I'm the same way. I don't like how a lot of people our age - not everyone but too many - aren't bothering to appreciate the past. I get we should look forward but we got respect the past too. I love music from 60s-present day. Everything from The Beatles, ABBA, Biggie Smalls, The Killers, The Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Billy Joel, Elton John, Muse, Beyonce, Led Zeppelin, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, etc. There's tons of great stuff in every decade (and bad stuff in every decade too).
What an appalling list! Number 1 is a joke. It does make one valid point though: you guys need to get your heads around the importance of Kraftwerk. How many of the albums on that list were influenced by the crazy German guys? Joy Division weren’t on the list. Shame! 😊
Joy Division missing the list was a rare W for Apple. - Joe
How exactly is The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill at #1 a joke? 💀 bffr
thats the same thing i said. kraftwerk's computer world or man-machine. TEE is overrated in my book. these guys influenced everyone from brian eno and bowie to iggy pop, to joy division, to new order, to depeche mode, to dr dre and the arabian prince in their electro-funk era of NWA, to daft punk, to U2, to many hiphop artists in the 80s and 90s, to dance, to techno, to electronic, to alternative bands, new wave, etc.... they are incredibly and criminally underrated as far as the influence they had on pop, alternative and dance music.
Greatest disappointment about the list is its largely US/ UK myopia. This was a golden opportunity to introduce several classic albums/ sounds from around the world to curious listeners but it was largely squandered. Hopefully they course-correct when they do their singles list.
And how is apple ranking these ? Is it by influence , popularity , critical acclaim I don’t understand . Some inclusions on here are very misplaced . Blond at number 5 ? Come on
Totally agree with Jason about Jagged Little Pill. Most of the singles are great, but the album is pretty meh.
I can never usually understand the "old man/cloud"-type moaning about all-time album lists, but this Apple one is particularly stupid. I know lists usually try and reflect "what's popular now and how we got here", a bit of revisionism and retrofitting etc; but the desperation is strong with this one.
For a while now there's been an almost-complete eradication of punk/post punk & alternative, as well as the squashing down of classic rock, singer/songwriters and so on.
I do generally applaud the destruction of sacred cows and anything that annoys grumbly old men like me, but there comes a tipping point where a list is so short-sighted it's of no earthly use to anyone.
Also! no Marquee Moon, Maggot Brain, Zen Arcade, Unknown Pleasures, Ramones, Nevermind the Bollocks, White Album, Led Zep 4, Sticky Fingers, Who's Next...
No Black Sabbath, James Brown, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Zappa, King Crimson, Creedence, Chuck Berry, no Elvises, no Neil Young...
Two albums to represent all of jazz, one for metal, no country...even the wrong Kendrick one.
I'd have had more respect if the list was pretty much all exactly as it was, but the top 2 were something completely random like Alice Coltrane's Journey to Satchidananda and Van Halen 1.
I could go on but I have already boomered myself to death.
The kids are coming....for our lists!
Lauren Hill wasn't that good when it came out and it isn't that good now. Its main merit was that it was surprisingly good for a Fugees solo side project. That's it. Now its the greatest album of all time....
Honestly although some picks were stupid asf(Taylor swift, frank ocean, artic monkeys, etc) it’s not that bad of a list as y’all were making it.
I guess this list is based on streaming volumes rather than critical acclaim or quality
Any list that includes any music from the insanely overrated Taylor Swift is by definition, null and void. Unless the category is Top albums full of unmemorable songs.
You listen to one of her songs and you have forgotten it, by the time the song ends - sometimes before the song ends.
Lists are shit really aren't they? Either predictable sacred cows or inclusions that annoy people.
A lot of recency bias on that list.
Missing Television - Marquee Moon...
That has no place in top 100 even though it's a good album
@@stevemalek2970I would put it in mine.
@@stevemalek2970 Absolutely does. Wildly considered one of the best albums of the 1970s and has weight for how influential it was.
@@JBrubakerCD Other than the title track the rest of the album didn't feel as strong for me. I guess that's just a me thing then.
You can expect to be served legal papers within the next few days. Listening to you guys go through that list gave me a stroke. But seriously. I haven't heard at least half those albums. The last 25 years of mainstream music has been a wash of nothing to me. To me rap is a bunch of garbage that all sounds the same. There might be ten albums in that list that I would include in a top 100. No Sgt Pepper? No Sticky Fingers? Only 1 Zep album? No Deep Purple? No Black Sabbath? No freaking Kinks? What the fuck man?
I'm with you. I was only 23 in 2000, but I'm into a lot of music that's older than me, as well as 90's Rock. WTF has happened to music in the 21st century???!!!???🤮
Gotta love the old washed up guys who think everything should sound like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.
@@Hi85C EVERYONE thinks that it won't happen to them too! Give it time kid. "Old man yelling at cloud" happens to us all, eventually.
@@HeelSection3825 I'm older than you are, and no it hasn't happened.
@@Hi85C Then act your age and get better taste in music.
Appetite for Destruction above any Black Sabbath is mad. I notice on the genres I like that Apple really have dropped the ball here.
Yeah, metal and hard rock fans need not apply. - Joe
Of all those albums to complain about you pick Appetite?? That's bizarre.
@@jordanpratt3821 I pick it as I know that album well as a Rock fan and don’t know the other genres listed. I feel I am only in a position to measure quality on what I know.
@@TastesLikeMusic we've been cancelled in this new millennium. Future looking scary!
Album top 10
1. Kendrick Lamar to pump a butterfly
2. Haim day are gone
3. Florence & The Machine Lungs
4. Paramore After Laughter
5. Paramore Riot!
6. frank ocean channel orange
7. Mac Miller Swimming
8. Sa-roc daughter sharecroppers.
9. rapsody laila's wisdom.
10. frank ocean channel orange
11. the beatles sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band
12. the beatles magical mystery tour
Hot take but queen is dead is not the best smiths album . I’m a huge smiths fan and it’s probably the one I return to the least . Never had no one ever is a really mediocre song and although the rest of the album is incredible , queen is dead being one of the best openings to any album ever followed by the wonderful frankly mr shankly and then followed up by one of the best smiths songs ever recorded i know its over . cemetary gates is a pefect song but then being followed by never had no one ever completely kills the flow of the album for me even though its picks up in the second half with the incredible singles , my favourite being the boy with the thorn in his side . i just think the smiths debut is a much better album experience in every single way . reel around the fountain is the best smiths songs theyve ever written and that opening drum beat by mike joyce is incredible its just an otherwordly song the way johnnys guitar intertwines with morrisseys vocals is utter perfection . and the album contains way better singles than the queen is dead with them being this charming man , hand in glove and what difference does it make . and the album resolves way better with suffer little children the it does with some girls are bigger than others . lets be honest some girls has one if the best guitar riffs ever recorded but are utterly undermined by morrissey's pointless lyrics about the varying sizes of women , like really is that the best lyrics he could come up with for that 😂 suffer little children is the perfect closing song as it conveys such a haunting but beautiful message honouring the children who died on the moors of Manchester. i dont see why all the hype is around the queen is dead when the debut is far superior.
I would say you’re alone on that album. Even more so when their best song (This Charming Man) isn’t even on it. - Joe
iPhone 14 is now fractured! Seemed political to me, love Rap but felt a little over represented, BB King, Muddy Waters? As list evolved expected Bad Bunny ,Harry Styles in Top 10😂
Good comments, and I mostly agree. The list is very US centric and very narrow in terms of generes. But, could there ever be a good list? It essentially boils down to personal taste. Attempts at being objective usually fails because facts are hard to find. How do you prove something is more influential than something else for instance? It's all hearsay.
I could see In Da Club and Royals making a top 5000 songs list but to have 50 cent and Lorde make top 100 albums is insane nevermind Solange. Purple Rain in top 4 pretty good but shame about the 99 other terrible calls.
Where are…
Simple Minds?
Pixies?
King Crimson?
New Order?
Lloyd Cole?
Mingus?
The Band?
The Sex Pistols??
It’s a ridiculous list.
No Zeppelin 4?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They have 2 ahead of 4 or Physical Graffiti. I wonder what they're smoking.
@@BlunderCity2 is good. But I've always thought it's a bit overrated too. If you're talking early Zep, give me 1!
@@HeelSection3825
Sure 2 is good since the band doesn't have a bad album but it's a bit weird to choose that one when there is two or even 3/4 more obvious choices.
Even their debut album would have been a more intuitive choice, hardly their best effort but a great album and it's kind of remarkable that a band, consisting of musicians who didn't know each other a few months prior, could be assembled and produce that record. Led Zeppelin needed no time to get going, they immediately went on a 2 year mad rush and recorded 4 albums where every part fitted perfectly. This is probably the only feat of this kind in rock history.
@@BlunderCity Well said. It always blows me away when I think about how fast they made those first 4 AMAZING albums!
i would have chosen houses of the holy, or maybe even III over that.
I don’t get why they did this. How does trafficking in this kind of attention-seeking behavior benefit the music streaming part of their business? I bet some people canceled their Apple Music membership over this 😂
If I were Apple I would of tried to make the top ten where different generations would be happy and can’t be argued like having a Led Zeppelin beetles prince mj stevie wonder but then adding modern albums like nirvanas nevermind Kendrick’s tpab ok computer and Illmatic
Nevermind is over 30 years old now which hardly makes it modern
@@mjhbuckeye maybe modern wasn’t the best term but with this list you get something from different decades
Even as someone who "gets" Bad Bunny, reducing all of spanish music to him and (in the RS list) just one of the best salsa singers is condescending as hell. Lots of people here are mixed on that album.
It would be fun if you dug up an old "all-time greatest something or other" from maybe the 90s and reacted to that!
Oh good idea
I remember an all-time greatest album list from Rolling Stone, 1997 I think. The top three were Highway 61, Pet Sounds and Exile on Main St.
I don‘t remember in which order, though.
@@joachimb5721 Yes, it would be fun to hear a "thirty years later" reaction -- like what albums shouldn't have made the list back then or what newer albums that were added to the list back then have lost favor over the years, etc. etc. etc.
It's a REALLY tough choice, but I think that Abbey Road is my favorite Beatles album.
Mine, too. I migrated to that position over a period of a couple decades. If you'd asked me when I was young, I would've said Sgt. Pepper's or Revolver.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Yeah. I'm a second generation Beatles fan. My Mom turned me on to then while I was literally still in the womb. Over the years, my favorite album has constantly rotated between Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road. At 47, I think that Abbey Road is pretty firmly locked into the number one spot.
It's the *sound* of that album. Maybe the best-sounding album ever, and heads and shoulders above every other Beatles album, sonically.
Alas, Maxwell.
@@edward8597 Agreed. Y'know it was brand new recording technology at the time.
Maybe Google, General Electric, Tesla, General Motors, and Mercedes should put a list out.
He hates Lana?? Lana is the one who gave the people he’s talking about inspiration and influence… lol
No Queen. No Rush. No Black Sabbath. No Alice Cooper. No Yes. No Iron Maiden or Judas Priest. No Blondie. No Elvis Costello. No Roxy Music. No Pretenders. The Car's debut album nowhere to be seen. Van Halen's first album nowhere to be seen. No Deep Purple "In Rock". Who's "Who's Next"? Devo “Are We Not Men?" Aerosmith "Rocks"?! And don't get me started on all the great funk and r&b records from the 70's they chose to blatantly ignore in favor of mediocre modern day hip hop and pop.
Yeah, this list stinks worse than the Rolling Stone list.
Absolutely terrible list. Probably computer generated based on what's culturally acceptable.
No Moondance, Astral Weeks, Quadrophenia, Grace, Van Halen I/1984, Paranoid, Who's Next, Bridge over Troubled Water, Blood on the Tracks or anything by Ray Charles, The Doors, Elliot Smith?
The Chronic, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and these no name singers ahead of Revolver and Pet Sounds is truly insane. Those are indisputable top 10s of all time whatever you think of either artist. These artists are just getting put in because of the generation not because they deserve it. All the boomer music is getting trashed by Gen Z - Beatles, Stones, Zep, Hendrix, has lost a lot of recognition from even 15 years ago when I was in college when I remember everyone seemed to at least respect it.
Some classics in there, fair enough. Generally though, Horrendous.
A friend forwarded me this list an hour ago, and my reaction was the same. A total disaster.
Alicia keys showing all of her awards yesterday after apple music released their top 100
I think Joe gets too hung up on these two words placed closely together: post and punk. I think he’d enjoy more than he realizes. He is a stubborn fella, that one! Nearly as stubborn as Jason with his anti hip-hop stance. Love you guys anyway! We need a Bob Dylan type series for both of you with the aforementioned genres. Please think about it. James Murphy said: “I Can Change”
90's rap is the only kind I can tolerate. It wasn't oversaturated with too many beats and stupid noises. Plus, (and MUCH more importantly) no one thought that rapping in a voice that sounds like you have BRAIN DAMAGE was ACTUALLY cool!!!
Umm, billy woods, clipping, Aesop Rock, McKinley Dixon, Danny Brown? And that’s just a few of the notable contemporary rappers who aren’t putting out stuff with “stupid noises.”
@@echosmyron1278 Yeah. I'm sure that I would just love it.👎
Pretty ironic considering everyone over 30 didn't even consider that stuff music during the 90s.
@@JBrubakerCD I wasn't over 30. And I said I could TOLERATE it. I didn't say I liked it.
Must be sad not enjoying the best modern music genre
'Blood On The Tracks is not a great album'. That's the kind of thing this emoji was invented for: 🤯
Blood on the Tracks could be the best album ever made. Pet Sounds and Blonde and Blonde are my favorites but Blood on the Tracks hits differently from any album I've ever heard.