The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!

[Joe Mac]

20-16

20. PJ Harvey - Dry (1992)



19. The Clash - London Calling (1979)



18. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street (1972)



17. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)



16. The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

 

[gaporter]

I guess I should really get cracking on mine...

 

[Joe Mac]

I guess I should really get cracking on mine...

Still a month until it’s due! You don’t have to do a countdown on here or anything, although I’m enjoying doing mine and seeing everyone else’s!

 

[gaporter]

Still a month until it’s due! You don’t have to do a countdown on here or anything, although I’m enjoying doing mine and seeing everyone else’s!

I'll do a countdown! once I've got the damn thing finished...

 

[Joe Mac]

I'll do a countdown! once I've got the damn thing finished...

You’ll get there in the end. I’m very much a go on your gut kinda person with these but there’s nowt wrong with having a good ole ponder on it I suppose.

 

[gaporter]

You’ll get there in the end. I’m very much a go on your gut kinda person with these but there’s nowt wrong with having a good ole ponder on it I suppose.

I wish I could say it was all pondering, I just genuinely have no idea how to go about making mine lmao

actual footage of me trying to put together a list:

 

[supahypeag]

I guess I should really get cracking on mine...

Same

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

I wish I could say it was all pondering, I just genuinely have no idea how to go about making mine lmao

actual footage of me trying to put together a list:
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limiting myself to one per artist really helped me organize my thoughts

 

[gaporter]

limiting myself to one per artist really helped me organize my thoughts

unfortunately i dont think my list would be very accurate if i were to do it that way

 

[bettim84]

I wish I could say it was all pondering, I just genuinely have no idea how to go about making mine lmao

actual footage of me trying to put together a list:
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Meanwhile, I had no idea it was possible to love music and not be obsessed with making lists!

 

[chrb98]

Still making some final adjustments towards the front end of my list, but I think I'm ready to commit to the start of a countdown!

Spoiler: 50 - 46

50. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood



49. Joe Henderson - The Elements



48. Herbie Hancock - Sextant



47. Sun Ra - Lanquidity



46. Clipping - CLPPNG

Can y'all tell what my favorite style of jazz is?

 

[Rip_City]

Still making some final adjustments towards the front end of my list, but I think I'm ready to commit to the start of a countdown!

Spoiler: 50 - 46

50. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

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49. Joe Henderson - The Elements

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48. Herbie Hancock - Sextant

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47. Sun Ra - Lanquidity

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46. Clipping - CLPPNG

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Can y'all tell what my favorite style of jazz is?

Alright... you've convinced me. I was going to exclude jazz albums to my list but seeing your #49 has me going the other way.

 

[chrb98]

Alright... you've convinced me. I was going to exclude jazz albums to my list but seeing your #49 has me going the other way.

It's so damn good. Anything Alice Coltrane touches is gold to me - only one album of hers made it into my top 50 (not counting The Elements), but I easily had five or six in my top 100.

 

[GritNGlitter]

For a second I worried the deadline was November 1

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

unfortunately i dont think my list would be very accurate if i were to do it that way

Yeah, I completely get that. I guess in my eyes- including the same artists would lead to an inaccurate representation of the breadth of music that has impacted me over the years and make it nearly impossible to narrow down. And because I've absorbed so much music over the years- there are only 11 or so albums that it feels completely criminal to leave off.

For example, as much as albums like The Marshal Mathers LP, White Blood Cells, Stankonia or Led Zeppelin I are inherent to my teenage years-- I'm not sure I love them any more (at age 33) than the albums I'm considering at 90-100... and so sense each artist is already represented, why not include something else?

Granted, I am weighing personal impact on the evolution of my taste in music so in that sense it does feel a touch off to not include them.

And on that note...

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

While I continue to chip away at my list, I present you with "The 12 albums that would 100% be on my list if I was allowing multiple entries from the same artist" (some of which I might include in the top 50 I submit to @Woob_woob):

Top 10:

Modest Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica (2001) Indie Rock

Top 25:
Grimes: Art Angels (2015) Art Pop

Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues (1983) Art Rock, New Wave


Top 50:

Van Morrison: Moondance (1970) Soul, Singer / Songwriter


Radiohead: Ok Computer (1997) Alt-Rock

Can: Future Days (1973) Art Rock

Top 75:

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Californication (1999) Alt-Rock


Radiohead: Amnesiac (2000) Alt-Rock, Electronica


Pink Floyd: The Wall (1979) Progressive Rock

Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (1989) Industrial Rock


Top 100:

David Bowie: Blackstar (2016), Art Rock


The Beatles: Rubber Soul (1965) Rock,


Side note- there's a chance a number of these could be swapped in for the other album holding a place on my list. And I initially forgot about Californication.

 

[cbl]

Spoiler: Top Five

5. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On: I first listened to this album after multiple spins of Mos Def's The New Danger...the song "Modern Marvel" always stood out for me so I dug into it a bit and discovered it was a tribute to Marvin and sampled different tracks from What's Going On. The album itself, unfortunately, is as honest, significant and real today as it was in '74.


4. Jeff Buckley - Grace: I will never forget laying on Hope Dickens' dorm room bed as a 19-year old and listening to this album for the first time. that moment was monumental in my musical evolution. a singular voice and talent taken too early.


3. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators: I feel this is probably the most under-appreciated album in the broader arc of musical significance conversations...it literally sparked a genre...and to have a personality like Roky Erickson and his amazing and tragic story as frontman, I'll never understand the lack of universal acclaim.


2. Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star: put simply, my all-time favorite hip-hop album. it's equally social conscious and fun.


1. Sun Kil Moon - April: quite simply, I think it's the prettiest album ever made and the perfect balance of Mark's incredible honest story telling ability with beautiful instrumentation (the latter has slipped considerably for me in recent years). I can admit, this probably found me and resonated at just the right time in my life and thus it's stuck with me more through time, but I can still put this on and every time be drawn in

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

Think I've got my top 50 just about decided. I'm going to try to listen to them all over the next week or two to finalize the order. After the top 5 or so, they're really more in tiers than a specific order.

 

[Poly-Rythmo]

20-11

I actually swapped Otis into the top 10 for Marvin Gaye and changed the order around a bit but I'm too lazy to take another pic.

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10-1

 

[gaporter]

Meanwhile, I had no idea it was possible to love music and not be obsessed with making lists!

I do like to make lists (I used to make lists obsessively when I was younger of fake albums and discographies and whatnot), making a year-end list is one of my favorite things to do to wrap up the year. but there's a lot more weight to making an all-time list than there is to summing up one year in a list... i think that's where my trepidation lies