So, last night I took a deeper look at Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums. Well, as I found out it's not just Rock and Roll, it's Jazz, Hip-Hop, Soul and Country and other musical tastes. There was an introduction to the magazine by Elton John, it seemed more of a commercial for the albums that are in the magazine. ANYWAY, as I used to say to a friend of mine. I looked at all the 500 albums and I counted the that I have and or had, so out of the 500 albums I have/had 133 of them. Not bad, not quite half that list. But my collection is WAY better than the 500 here. LOL!
On another note, the last page of this magazine had a bunch of interesting stats!For instance believe it or not Michael Jackson's "BAD" album had the most number one hits! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!??! Also, another interesting fact is that the Grateful Dead album, "Live Dead" Was released Nov. 10, 1969 and it wasn't until August 24, 2001 that it finally went GOLD! Also, out of this list of the 500 greatest albums the majority of the greatest albums came from the era of the '70's! Like THAT was a surprise!!!!!! LOL!!! The groups or individuals with the most number of albums in the 500 greatest albums was Bob Dylan with 10, The Beatles with 10, the Rolling Stones with 10, Bruce Springsteen with 8 and The Who with 7. Interesting, eh?
I'll give you their top 10.
1. SGT. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band- The Beatles
2. Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys
3. Revolver- The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited- Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul- The Beatles
6. What's Going On- Marvin Gaye
7. Exile On Main St.- The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling- The Clash
9. Blonde On Blonde- Bob Dylan
10. "The White Album"- The Beatles I have the White Album in Parenthesis because we all know the real name of this album is called. "The Beatles". Anyway, That's the top 10 of the greatest 500 Albums of ALL Time! After 10 the list starts going down hill fast! With 11 being an Elvis album a collection of his SUN Records recordings called "Sunrise" which came out in 1999!!!! Guess what? I have never heard of this record. I know of "The Sun Sessions" which surprisingly is on this list as well. Number 12 in Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue". 12! Don't you think it should have been ahead of a repackage of SUN Session recordings??
As, I have said yesterday, once you make list of 500 albums there has to be some clinkers and BOY are there! A band like Arcade Fire is on this list coming in at number 151 with their album "Funeral". I saw them on SNL a while ago and I really didn't like them. But that's just me.
Well, I think that's enough for now. Tomorrow will be part 3, with what I didn't like on the list and maybe someone out there can tell me the opposite and why. Well, cheers and may you always find the hidden track.
Half-Baked Wax
Friday, August 10, 2012
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums.
Recently I picked up Rolling Stone's The Greatest Albums Of All Time. I was curious as to what would be in it and to pick 500 albums! THAT would be an accomplishment even for me! But I don't know what to make of this list, I don't know if it's just Rock albums or something else? I don't know, because the back cover of the magazine says, "Rock's Greatest Albums Come Alive". So, is this just Rock albums or all music? I don't know, but we'll find out together. If anyone has looked at this magazine feel free to comment. Because I think I will break this up in parts.
Now, first 500 albums is a lot of albums and to list them from 1 to 500, is a feat in itself! Plus the fact I could guess that maybe the first 100 or 150 would be the coolest albums then after that I think one would be hard pressed to come up with another 350 of equally cool albums. Maybe it's me. How 'bout you, could anyone out there come up with 500 COOL albums?!?!? Hmmmmm.
I glanced at this list and it was just a casual glance and from that couple of quick looks, I could see right away that some of the albums near the top could be ranked lower and visa-versa.
So, what should I do start at number 500 and work to number one or start at number one and go to 500? That's the question. So, for now, I'll leave it at that and start the list tomorrow. After I give it some thought and take a look at the albums they have listed here and decide from that.
Anyway, cheers for now, see ya tomorrow and may you always find the hidden track!
Half-Baked Wax
Now, first 500 albums is a lot of albums and to list them from 1 to 500, is a feat in itself! Plus the fact I could guess that maybe the first 100 or 150 would be the coolest albums then after that I think one would be hard pressed to come up with another 350 of equally cool albums. Maybe it's me. How 'bout you, could anyone out there come up with 500 COOL albums?!?!? Hmmmmm.
I glanced at this list and it was just a casual glance and from that couple of quick looks, I could see right away that some of the albums near the top could be ranked lower and visa-versa.
So, what should I do start at number 500 and work to number one or start at number one and go to 500? That's the question. So, for now, I'll leave it at that and start the list tomorrow. After I give it some thought and take a look at the albums they have listed here and decide from that.
Anyway, cheers for now, see ya tomorrow and may you always find the hidden track!
Half-Baked Wax
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