Even if Bloc Party's Silent Alarm isn't in the top 20, it's easily in my personal top 10
Apple Music unveiling their own "Top 100 Albums of All Time" List. (Full list now)
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I mean it's fun but everyone gets all worked up over any top 100 movies, music, games, etc list as if it's something that can be solved and proven.
Like Born to Run is a top 15 album for me but if I poll 25,000 people under 30 how many of them might have it in the top 100? I'm guessing very little. Billie Eilish might be higher than it on almost everyone under 30.
We all have biases and these are often for fun or sometimes probably deliberately picked to be a little controversial for the engagement.
I used to post some form of this on every list type thread that was argued.
This list is bullshit. I can't believe they have (insert album I don't love) so high. This list is bullshit. I can't believe they have (insert album I love) so low.
Like Born to Run is a top 15 album for me but if I poll 25,000 people under 30 how many of them might have it in the top 100? I'm guessing very little. Billie Eilish might be higher than it on almost everyone under 30.
We all have biases and these are often for fun or sometimes probably deliberately picked to be a little controversial for the engagement.
I used to post some form of this on every list type thread that was argued.
This list is bullshit. I can't believe they have (insert album I don't love) so high. This list is bullshit. I can't believe they have (insert album I love) so low.
They made this just to get people riled up and now everyone is checking Apple music.
As much as Taylor swift is popular, she just can't touch The Beatles or Michael Jackson as a musician.
As much as Taylor swift is popular, she just can't touch The Beatles or Michael Jackson as a musician.
Is Bloc Party really a lock? REM & Pavement haven't had a record yet and they're way more seminal and influential to indie/alt. Was Closer or Unknown Pleasures on here? Man what a bad list lol
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There are not 5 rap albums better than Illmatic.
and even if it is, Ready to Die, while great is not close to being one of them.
and even if it is, Ready to Die, while great is not close to being one of them.
Funnily enough Silent Alarm is my most listened to album of all time based on Last.fm and would likely be in my personal top 10 as well, but I don't see Apple putting it on this list. It was basically the perfect album for me to transition from pop-punk (Blink 182, Saves the Day, Taking Back Sunday) into "indie" rock.
Bloc Party was a flash in the pan and don't think they've been relevant enough in the past 15 years for a broad list like this to mention them. I'd be pleasantly surprised though.
The most offensive thing about the list might be having Robyn's Body Talk at 100 below so many weaker and less influential pop albums.
Lot of the list feels like a popularity contest, especially when it comes to hip hop and pop. Surely there are better rap albums for a list like this than Get Rich or Die Tryin' or Take Care picks or better pop than Pure Heroine or Anti.
Lot of the list feels like a popularity contest, especially when it comes to hip hop and pop. Surely there are better rap albums for a list like this than Get Rich or Die Tryin' or Take Care picks or better pop than Pure Heroine or Anti.
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Daaaamn, I really thought Revolver would be top 10.
I've been listening to the unveil show every day... all these lists are stupid no matter who does them, but this one is a little more fun just by virtue of the slow rollout
Yeah, The Chronic will be in the top 20 for sure. So will Rumors, Nevermind, To Pimp a Butterfly and Pet Sounds.Those are 100% locks. Lauren Hill will be there too, either as Miseducation or The Score (I'm betting the latter). Adele 21 will probably show up.
Taylor will be on there too - Folklore is what it should be, but it'll more likely be Red.
I've been listening to the unveil show every day... all these lists are stupid no matter who does them, but this one is a little more fun just by virtue of the slow rollout
Yeah, The Chronic will be in the top 20 for sure. So will Rumors, Nevermind, To Pimp a Butterfly and Pet Sounds.Those are 100% locks. Lauren Hill will be there too, either as Miseducation or The Score (I'm betting the latter). Adele 21 will probably show up.
Taylor will be on there too - Folklore is what it should be, but it'll more likely be Red.
Billie Eilish already beat Radiohead and the Velvet Underground
The delicious sound of everyone doing exactly what a company hoped they would do with the information.
My personal complaints about the list aside, it is worth noting how much more modern this lists leans. It's also interesting to note how much more modern albums are about production rather than the collective instrumentation or singing from artists.
If aliens landed and you had to explain what hip hop was without using words you would play Illmatic. No fillers just classic songs. No skits.
I'm assuming they're not going to include any famous artist's stuff that aren't on Apple Music, right? So, no Garth Brooks?
Feeling pretty poptimist with a small attempt to appeal to rockism. The top 20 is going to have to do some heavy lifting in my mind for this to be good.
It's a perfect album.
I might have Ready to Die or The Chronic above it but nothing else. Don't think The Blueprint or TPAB (or GKMC) should be above it, which looks to be the case for this list.
Also Beatles outside of the top 20 is a hot fucking take.
The top 20 needs at this point to include: The Beach Boys (probably Pet Sounds), Sonic Youth (Daydream Nation), Arcade Fire (Funeral), Joy Division (Unknown Pleasures) or New Order (Power, Corruption & Lies), Nirvana (Nevermind), My Bloody Valentine (Loveless), and that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.
i honestly think this is 1 album per artist. i wished it wasn't the case. The Beatles career spans so much variety in music that they honestly deserve more than 1. Same with Bowie. Prince having only Sign o the Times and no Purple Rain is kinda crazy. I like Kid A more than OK Computer personally, but also not seeing WHY Kid A would be on here over OKC considering how influential and more conventional OKC is...
I just realized Loveless wasn't on here either lol
Watch it not even make the top 20, but Folklore will.
By reading the topic and the Lorde diss I was going to comment that Melodrama is better than 80% of Taylor's albums and than I opened the list and saw that it is Pure Heroin....a wild choice if its a single album per artist since Melodrama far surpasses that album in all legit statistics
There's no way these lists will align with my taste at all lol, but they're amusing to see.
Honestly the only albums there I care for is Alanis in #31, Kate Bush at #50 and Pink Floyd at #28. (maybe, maybe Discovery at #23, but it's not even my favourite from them tbh)
Honestly the only albums there I care for is Alanis in #31, Kate Bush at #50 and Pink Floyd at #28. (maybe, maybe Discovery at #23, but it's not even my favourite from them tbh)
Yep, I wouldn't complain about Melodrama. I wasn't even aware that Pure Heroine > Melodrama was an opinion anyone would have.
The key to enjoying a list like this is to not take it seriously.
There are some great albums here, and of course plenty of stuff I am meh about or don't know at all.
I wish they had a real text list and not that horrible interface though.
There are some great albums here, and of course plenty of stuff I am meh about or don't know at all.
I wish they had a real text list and not that horrible interface though.
This list of "locks" is just as bizarre as the list itself so far. Maybe that was your point :P
Statistics? lol
To be fair Apple Music would make the type of list where they think that statistics have any relationship to quality
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill landing before the likes of Illmatic, Low End Theory, Ready 2 Die, and even The Score is madness.
She shouldn't even be on this list at all. What are we talking about here. Has the whole world gone mad??
The Rolling Stones are at 53. Lauryn Hill is probably a lock. That album is ridiculously overrated nowadays.
Paul Simon/Simon & Garfunkel or Amy Winehouse could be possible.