Apple Music reveals its 100 best albums of all time

[Villavic]

I guess somebody will be happy knowing Apple put Rumours in N.11 and Hotel California in N.99.

By the way, who is Lauryn Hill? :lol:

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
2. Thriller - Michael Jackson
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
5. Blonde - Frank Ocean
6. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Version) - Kendrick Lamar
8. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
9. Nevermind - Nirvana
10. Lemonade - Beyoncé
11. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
12. OK Computer - Radiohead
13. The Blueprint - JAY-Z
14. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
15. 21 - Adele
15. Blue - Joni Mitchell
17. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
18. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift
19. The Chronic - Dr. Dre
20. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
21. Revolver - The Beatles
22. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
23. Discovery - Daft Punk
24. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
25. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
26. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
27. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
28. The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
29. The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
30. WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? - Billie Eilish
31. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
32. Ready to Die - The Notorious B.I.G.
33. Kid A - Radiohead
34. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
35. London Calling - The Clash
36. BEYONCÉ - Beyoncé
37. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) - Wu-Tang Clan
38. Tapestry - Carole King
39. Illmatic - Nas
40. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
41. Aquemini - Outkast
42. Control - Janet Jackson
43. Remain in Light - Talking Heads
44. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
45. Homogenic - Björk
46. Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
47. Take Care - Drake
48. Paul’s Boutique - Beastie Boys
49. The Joshua Tree - U2
50. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
51. Sign O’ the Times - Prince
52. Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
53. Exile on Main St. - The Rolling Stones
54. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
55. ANTI - Rihanna
56. Disintegration - The Cure
57. Voodoo - D'Angelo
58. (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
59. AM - Arctic Monkeys
60. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
61. Love Deluxe - Sade
62. All Eyez on Me - 2Pac
63. Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
64. Baduizm - Erykah Badu
65. 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
66. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
67. Dummy - Portishead
68. Is This It - The Strokes
69. Master of Puppets - Metallica
70. Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A
71. Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
72. SOS - SZA
73. Aja - Steely Dan
74. The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
75. Supa Dupa Fly - Missy Elliott
76. Un Verano Sin Ti - Bad Bunny
77. Like a Prayer - Madonna
78. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
79. Norman ****ing Rockwell! - Lana Del Rey
80. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
81. After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
82. Get Rich or Die Tryin' - 50 Cent
83. Horses - Patti Smith
84. Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg
85. Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves
86. My Life - Mary J. Blige
87. Blue Lines - Massive Attack
88. I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone
89. The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) - Lady Gaga
90. Back in Black - AC/DC
91. Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 - George Michael
92. Flower Boy - Tyler, The Creator
93. A Seat at the Table - Solange
94. Untrue - Burial
95. Confessions - USHER
96. Pure Heroine - Lorde
97. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
98. ASTROWORLD - Travis Scott
99. Hotel California - Eagles
100. Body Talk - Robyn

[Macfan4life]

Hotel California #99

Yeah, ok
:lol:

Only 1 Rolling Stones album too

[HomerMcvie]

That list is a piece of caca. The end.

[DownOnRodeo]

By the way, who is Lauryn Hill? :lol:

She did a cover of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly.:shrug:
Don't ask me who Frank Ocean is.

[Villavic]

There are 34 names I hadn't heard in my whole life. There are others whose music I haven't heard, but at least I know they exist. Am I getting older?

[HomerMcvie]

There are 34 names I hadn't heard in my whole life. There are others whose music I haven't heard, but at least I know they exist. Am I getting older?

Well, at your age, pops, I think you just like starting new threads. :laugh:

[Villavic]

Well, at your age, pops, I think you just like starting new threads. :laugh:

Or resurrect others.

Actually I don't listen radio (including Spotify or any aired or online music) since circa 2008. There are few specific "recent" artists like Bruno Mars or Daft Punk (some songs) that caught my attention when I heard them in tv shows or movies, but they are just a few. My 5907 songs in my private storage are enough to enjoy.

But I admit those lists like this catch my attention just for fun, I never take them that seriously.

[FuzzyPlum]

Nearly all of these are famous. No idea who Burial or Solange are.
A decent collective list, but a curious order.
Lauren Hill at #1? Wtf? Based on what?
(She was in the Fugees)

[HomerMcvie]

Nearly all of these are famous. No idea who Burial or Solange are.
A decent collective list, but a curious order.
Lauren Hill at #1? Wtf? Based on what?
(She was in the Fugees)

Yeah, this is someone's PERSONAL list of favorites.

[Macfan4life]

There are 34 names I hadn't heard in my whole life. There are others whose music I haven't heard, but at least I know they exist. Am I getting older?
Read the book!

[Villavic]

Feeling angry about Apple’s ranking of the 100 best albums of all time, are you? Good. That’s exactly how you’re supposed to feel.

Yes, Apple’s 100 Best Albums List Is Ridiculous and Exists Almost Expressly to Make You Mad (https://variety.com/2024/music/columns/apple-100-greatest-albums-ridiculous-1236014068/)

[HomerMcvie]

Feeling angry about Apple’s ranking of the 100 best albums of all time, are you? Good. That’s exactly how you’re supposed to feel.

Yes, Apple’s 100 Best Albums List Is Ridiculous and Exists Almost Expressly to Make You Mad (https://variety.com/2024/music/columns/apple-100-greatest-albums-ridiculous-1236014068/)

You know, I have no regrets that I've never never given a flying fukc about what other people like.:laugh:

[FuzzyPlum]

You know, I have no regrets that I've never never given a flying fukc about what other people like.:laugh:

Some people like Stevie Nicks :thumbsup:

[David]

I don’t mind a list of personal favorites from someone-or-other. In fact, I love the window into someone’s soul.

It’s the dishonesty I don’t like — dishonesty in the name of ecumenicism or inclusion or whatever is driving this person to want to be falsely applauded for being a jazz listener. It’s quite obvious that this person is not a jazz listener and is only pretending to be one. The whole list has TWO jazz standards — Miles Davis Kind of Blue and Coltrane A Love Supreme, and they seem arbitrarily (or maybe strategically) listed at 25 and 54, respectively. Anybody who likes and knows jazz enough to add jazz to a list that is almost entirely pop and rock would do one of two things:

— Either put a more cutting-edge critical and popular Miles Davis favorite in place of Kind of Blue, like Bitches Brew (which had a far greater influence on rock) or Birth of the Cool

— Or throw in additional great jazz albums that had every bit the influence on the culture that these two albums did, just to sort of balance out the list or make the statement that a true jazz aficionado would make: “Jazz played a much bigger role in music during this same time period than the list indicates” — Mingus Ah Um, Rollins The Bridge, Ellington at Newport, Oscar Peterson Trio Night Train, Amazing Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon Go, Gillespie Afro, etc.

If you’re going to throw in two jazz albums out of 100 to tell the world that you’re a cool dude, either beef it up to a perfectly reasonable eight or ten albums or substitute an album that has more oomph than Kind of Blue (the Rumours of the jazz catalogue — mainstream, safe, sweet, huge seller).

[Macfan4life]

There are some great albums on that list and deserve to be in the top 100 but most of this list is crap. The albums that are on this list that I would rank high are:

Back In Black
Tapestry
Rumours
Hotel California
Aja
Jagged Little Pill
Master of Puppets
Songs In The Key of Life
(a big variety and I know those albums are superb)

What's missing?
I think more than one Stones album should be on this list. But there are so many good ones. I am partial to Tattoo You.
I also think Love At First Sting is an awesome album by the Scorpions and should be in the top 100
I think Bella Donna should be in the top 100 too.


But most important. Behind the Mask and The Other Side of The Mirror should be on this list !!!!!!

[FuzzyPlum]

Two Radiohead albums which is great. But personally I’d place The Bends in there ahead of both of them. And Ten by Pearl Jam

[Villavic]

I'm still outraged because they didn't include The Original Disco Duck. Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots were the best.

[HomerMcvie]

Some people like Stevie Nicks :thumbsup:

Her mother's dead.

[mylittledemon]

That list is a piece of caca. The end.

I second that (bowel) motion. :laugh:

[HomerMcvie]

I second that (bowel) motion. :laugh:

I'll mark that down as #2.

[Villavic]

I found an article that says According to Apple, the list was crafted by “a team of experts alongside a select group of artists, including Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, J Balvin, Charli XCX, Mark Hoppus, Honey Dijon, and Nia Archives, as well as songwriters, producers, and industry professionals. The list is an editorial statement, fully independent of any streaming numbers on Apple Music — a love letter to the records that have shaped the world we live and listen in.”

But it also says Lists are very much subjective and designed to rouse a reaction. I obviously agree with that.

https://consequence.net/2024/05/apple-music-100-best-albums/

But the way, I remember an old peruvian local radio that issued it's own top 100 of the year. I remember among their top #1s were Year of the Cat, Sailing, and How Deep is Your Love. Obviously it was a pop and fans oriented list of each year. And they were mainly songs in enlgish (by the 80s the scenary was more combined with spanish rock) But the curious thing was that in 1979 they issued the top 100 of the DECADE. I found it absurd, but it was a cool opportunity to listen old songs, and learn about artists and songs that I didn't know (I was 4 in 1970). What song became N.1 of the decade? Band on the Run. :shrug:

[mylittledemon]

I'll mark that down as #2.

Definitely a number 2. I can feel it. :lol:

[Villavic]

After an afternoon of absolute reflection, I have come to the conclusion that if Apple releases its top 100 singles list, this would be N.1 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

[jbrownsjr]

Some people like Stevie Nicks :thumbsup:

A lotta lotta people adore her. That's just a fact.