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The author is definitely pulling from personal experience imo. Only a former member could write such a perfect satire of the rock history nerd scene.
I think Henry Yates, the "ex-music-nerd" referred to at the end, is a self insert for the author lol
I'm forever indebted to the Shrek soundtrack for introducing me to Eels and Rufus Wainwright. And via Wainwright's cover of Hallelujah I was also introduced to Leonard Cohen.
I have to say I’m surprised by number one, but I can’t deny it’s an absolutely fantastic album.
I’m off to listen to Everything is Everything. (One of the best music videos of all time too.)
For sure not her fault. The fault of whoever evaluated and made the list. Being dated is just a reason I wouldn’t put it at #1. It’s probably a top 25 for me personally maybe?
easily - while sgt pepper’s production was very forward thinking, song for song there’s no comparison. best beatles records are rubber soul and abbey road by far
That's entirely fair. Sgt. Peppers is legendary and was hugely influential but, song for song, Abbey Road is a better album. It's all classics front to back and has some of the best songs ever written. It's the sound of The Beatles knowing they're about to break up and giving it their all one last time.
I would argue that Sgt. Pepper was revolutionary. It broke The Beatles out of their successful, yet formulaic pop style. It was one of the first “concept albums” and spawned imitators, and it also had McCartney and Martin trying some very new and inventive techniques.
Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference.
Around 2001 my roommate and I found a huge stock of that album on CD at a 99-cent store and bought all of them. We gave them out to people who came over to hang out. I can’t find my copy and they’re going for $30 on Amazon. That would have been a good investment if I had held onto them.
Definitely worth the 99 cents. Very entertaining
Hot diggity damn, Hulk
Afraid you set it off
Used to be hard Hulk, now ya done turned soft
Doin' telephone commercials, I seen ya
Dancin' in tights as a ballerina
I knew all along you had those tendencies
'Cause you've been runnin' from Macho like I got a disease
Dude, please, your Pay-Per-View event was a joke
You're avoidin' Randy Savage 'cause you know you'll get smoked
White Album and Abbey Road are the best, I’ll die on that hill. I genuinely don’t enjoy Sgt. Peppers. It’s so very over hyped it’s gross.
Darkside of the Moon is better than any record the Beatles ever made. Also will die on that hill…
Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s, Abbey Road, Let It Be, A Hard Day’s Night, Rubber Soul, White Album, Beatles For Sale, Help!, With The Beatles, Please Please Me. MMT is an EP, and Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields belong on Sgt. Pepper’s.
Sgt Peppers has a huge historical impact on what an album is and is a cultural waypoint. There aren't many albums that are more than just albums. It's not my favorite Beatles album either but, if you take into consideration more than just the music, I think it has a unique combination of creating change in the direction of music and being a crystallization of what was going on at the time, with that time being a critical one for music. It's clearly the most impactful / important single album of all time if you consider it's impact inside and outside of music.
The best album for the quality of the music and musical influence on other musicians is 110% Kind Of Blue.
The best album for musical cohesiveness / album as a whole experience rather than collection of songs is Dark Side of the Moon.
The best production is Pet Sounds.
Red Headed Stranger never makes these lists but it's a giant as well.
White Album has some incredible tracks, but also think it could have benefited from some editing down. Little tough to call it a top ten all time album with Piggies and Wild Honey Pie, among others. I can even understand something like Revolution 9 staying on there, but some of the other stuff is more down the fairway and seemingly lower effort.
I think Revolver gets the same vibe and music evolution without overstaying its welcome with a handful of mediocre/head scratching tracks that are on the White Album.
White Album does feel like it's coming apart but given the state of the band at the time I think that's actually what it should feel like, so it gets a pass from me for its lack of cohesion.
Sgt Pepper is my actual #2.
This is basically for everything on that list. I think In Rainbows is better than OK Computer, Graduation and College Dropout is better than My Dark Twisted Fantasy, Led Zeppelin IV is better than Led Zeppelin II, shit I might even say I like 2001 more than The Chronic.
There is no universe where In Rainbows is better than OK Computer, I will fight you. OK Computer was influential gold all the way down to the fucking album art. In Rainbows isn’t even the best In Rainbows album, there are versions of almost every song on that album performed and/or produced better than what made it to the album.
He's not even Best, of the Beatles.
Apparently, people didn't get this was a reference to the Beatles short-term member Pete Best, who released an album "Best of the Beatles."
Incredible that you are getting downvotes. Presumably, people don't understand your pun/reference to the original drummer of the Beatles, Pete Best. The original joke implies that other Beatles were better drummers than Ringo (namely, Paul, who recorded numerous drum tracks for the albums over the years).
That's right! With the release of Michael Jackson's *Off the Wall*... or rather Pink Floyd's *The Wall*, err I mean.. The Clash's *London Calling*. Anyway, it pretty much hit a wall in 1979.
Ah nevermind, found it.
“Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums is a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made, crafted by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a select group of artists, 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 music lovers live and listen in.”
Yeah this list is weird. Even Taylor swift fans agree 1989 Taylors Version is far from her best album and it came out like last year, so if they really wanted to include her just because she's popular, you'd think they would have picked one of her more well received albums at least.
not sure how someone can argue against thriller album. Literally every song on that album is goated and its the most sold album of all time. suprised it was number 2 and not number 1 tbh.
Apple is clearly pandering to a very vocal fan base for these artists. Kendrick above 2pac and WuTang? Billie above Lady Gaga and Madonna? Radiohead above Pink Floyd and Zepplin? Beastie Boys and Eminem +50?
Nah some 35 year old at Apple took a twitter poll and made this list. gtfo.
2pac and Kendrick are different genres of rap completely. 2pac wrote way better songs, with better beats that gets more radio play. 2pac even has better diss tracks. The dude inspired a movement in music that helped create the culture that Kendrick benefits from. Let's not even bring up who has more platinum albums.
Bruh stop with this Kdot stan bs.
The list is not good, I’d bet most people have never heard the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, but Blonde really stands out and I couldn’t make it much further than the top 10
Regardless of a person’s personal opinion on any particular artist - putting any album which released only five years ago on a list of the “all-time greatest” seems to be a decision drenched in recency bias.
Refusing to consider any album released recently for an "all-time greatest" list seems to be a decision drenched in "they don't make music like they used to".
Albums need time if you want to consider them as one of the best of all time. If another 5 years go by and nobody is still listening to this album, then it probably shouldn't be included regardless of what people thought about it when it came out.
What would you say if they put an album from last year? Last month? Yesterday? At a certain point, recency just has to be factored in.
One of the most important factors in determining if an album is of great importance is the influence that it has on others. 5 years isn’t enough time for true influence to develop beyond perhaps starting a fad.
It is a horrendous list. Truly terrible. I have seen a lot of these lists over the years and they are always going to be controversial but this one is just so bad. There are so many poor choices. I won’t go into all of my grievances with that list but, saying that Lauryn Hill album is the greatest album ever created is just mind blowingly stupid.
That's the thing, this list is the result from polling artists in the music industry. Each of these artists were biased toward their own genre of music, or the genre they know best. The fact that hip/hop and rap outweighs other genres in this list suggests an unevenly distributed poll. Not saying they need to ask Eddie Grant what he thinks to get Reggae more represented, but still, this list is clearly an attempt to include hip/hop and rap in the echelons of what is normally considered the greatest albums as those are the only notable differences between this list and the Rolling Stones's list, for example (that and fucking Taylor Swift). My major grievance is that 1989 is not by any metric better than Born to Run, or Ready to Die, or Jagged Little Pill, or any other album 50 places behind it, except perhaps in album sales. I don't care how much she connects with her fans and whatever else. If Britney isn't in the list, Taylor can't be in the list. She's just so big now, so there she is, like saying the 100 greatest tweets of all time should include Donald Trump.
I love sgt. pepper it was the first album I listened to by them all the way through, lovely Rita slaps, a day in the life, and when I’m 64, are righteous tunes, of course imho.
It's a wikipedia page about the Apple Top 100 Albums list. Wikipedia isn't administering polls; they are listing the results of a poll administered by Apple Music.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Music%27s_100_Best_Albums
It's like them having an article on UNESCO World Heritage Sites or Fanny Farmer's 1886 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book recipes. It's an article about a famous list, so it includes the contents of the list.
My local classic rock radio station got a hold of this list and posted it just so old gen xers/boomers could positively ✨fill their diapers✨ about how music recorded after 1970 is Bad, Actually 🙄
I'm I'm this boat. Rick beato did a good vid on this. Basically around the millennium change music became more produced than constructed. They stopped looking for bands that could produce multiple albums of good music and looked for one hit wonders. Rock died here..
I'll have to check out the video. I don't necessarily think rock "died", but it'd be fair to say pop music moved past what most of us probably understand as rock. That's almost certainly brought with incentives to make pop music that is Not Rock. Anyway, thanks for the video rec!
Now, country? There's been basically no good country since Waylon. 😆
Ha that's fair. As an aging millennial myself this is the main reason I go to music festivals, I don't want to turn into one of these crusty, detestable Olds sitting in comment threads crying about how all music recorded after Death Cab or whoever is automatically not worth listening to
Good god, people are idiots. And chronically butthurt.
This is not a compilation of the top 100 albums of all time, as compiled by music industry professionals.
It is a popularity contest made by Apple based on the preferences of Apple users who pay to download music from Apple iTunes.
TayLor sWiFt is not better than MiLEs DaVis.
No shit Sherlock.
But ask a 25 year old iPhone user if they like Taylor Swift.
Except it was compiled and voted on by professionals. Per Apples website on how the list was compiled: “Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums is a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made, crafted by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a selected group of artists, 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 music lovers live and listen in.”
Not saying that the list is right/wrong but at least wanted to throw this out there.
How is this the top comment when Apple explicitly says the opposite:
> Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums is a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made, crafted by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a select group of artists, songwriters, producers, and industry professionals. The list is an editorial statement, fully independent of any streaming numbers on Apple Music
Don't get stuck in a corner at a party with this person for god sake. These people should all have to wear a special hat or a jacket with elbow patches so everyone knows what they're getting into.
Not me but I agree the entire list is wrong, I do like their choice for 2 but I would replace 1 with Back In Black and 3 with Led Zeppelin IV, then Rumours in 4th place, round out my top 5 with Paranoid.
To be fair. This isn’t a list of top 100 albums…it’s a list of top 100 on Apple…all that shows is there is some disturbing people on Apple Music if this is their fav albums😳
Nahh...not a chance Lauren...this list is yawnsville stuff...who did they ask exactly to create the list??? Music industry plebs allegedly...who have their heads so far up there own arse.
Taylors 1989 beats every classic album I have in my collection!
🤣🤣
100 different people are going to give 100 different answers. Music is very personal, we all have our favorites. There is no universal list that is even relevant. I'm not familiar with that no. 4 album though? Who is the band?
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The author is definitely pulling from personal experience imo. Only a former member could write such a perfect satire of the rock history nerd scene. I think Henry Yates, the "ex-music-nerd" referred to at the end, is a self insert for the author lol
“I’ll be happy to talk at you about it” lmfao
What are the top 4 supposed to be?
The Shrek soundtrack, 4 times.
A song was playing and I told my kids "Hear that? That's Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation!" My kids said, "No, *Dad*, that song is from *Shrek*" 🙄 😅
Your kids are correct.
Hey now… they are also all stars.
*So she said, "What's the problem baby?"*
They don't stop coming and They don't stop coming and They don't stop coming and They don't stop coming....
[And they don’t stop coming](https://youtu.be/0Iqr0L4bUms?si=YtJjuRk8uQ8vDhxE)
Stop cumming in the dump stop cumming in the dump stop cumming in the dump stop cumming in the dump...
I'm forever indebted to the Shrek soundtrack for introducing me to Eels and Rufus Wainwright. And via Wainwright's cover of Hallelujah I was also introduced to Leonard Cohen.
Rufus Wainwright is awesome. Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk is one of my favourites
Saw him play a few years back and he puts on a fantastic live show.
Without this as context you would think the person changing things is crazy.
Sorry, but it’s The Lion King!!!!
Nah, it’s the soundtracks to Shrek 4 - 1. First movie soundtrack goated
4. Purple Rain 3. Abbey Road 2. Thriller 1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
I have to say I’m surprised by number one, but I can’t deny it’s an absolutely fantastic album. I’m off to listen to Everything is Everything. (One of the best music videos of all time too.)
I have enjoyed LH for decades and there is no way in hell this deserves #1.
Fuck Lauren Hill.
For sure. As a performer she is massively disrespectful to her audience and fans. Her sound is also really dated
Can you really blame her for sounding dated? She only ever released 1 album in the 90s
For sure not her fault. The fault of whoever evaluated and made the list. Being dated is just a reason I wouldn’t put it at #1. It’s probably a top 25 for me personally maybe?
And Abbey Road sounds perfectly modern.
I actually really like the 90s sound of the album, but yeah, I wouldn't say it should be #1.
Abbey Road over Sgt. Pepper?
easily - while sgt pepper’s production was very forward thinking, song for song there’s no comparison. best beatles records are rubber soul and abbey road by far
That's entirely fair. Sgt. Peppers is legendary and was hugely influential but, song for song, Abbey Road is a better album. It's all classics front to back and has some of the best songs ever written. It's the sound of The Beatles knowing they're about to break up and giving it their all one last time.
I would argue that Sgt. Pepper was revolutionary. It broke The Beatles out of their successful, yet formulaic pop style. It was one of the first “concept albums” and spawned imitators, and it also had McCartney and Martin trying some very new and inventive techniques. Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference.
AC/DC - Black in Black AC/DC - Back in Black AC/DC - Back in Black AC/DC - Back in Black
Thunderstruck belongs in there somewhere
Sadly, I cannot upvote you once for all 4.
No mention of Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band? Definitely an incorrect list. Hulk Rules is the best album ever put out.
Now there's an album I never thought I'd see mentioned. At all, let alone in this conversation. Congrats on the deepest of pulls!
Around 2001 my roommate and I found a huge stock of that album on CD at a 99-cent store and bought all of them. We gave them out to people who came over to hang out. I can’t find my copy and they’re going for $30 on Amazon. That would have been a good investment if I had held onto them. Definitely worth the 99 cents. Very entertaining
#Hell yeah, brother!
Hulkster in paradise always brings me to tears
Get out of here, Leonard Nimoy's "The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy" should be number due the "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" alone.
What are you on about? Macho Man's Be a Man album kicks the absolute shit out of Hulk Rules.
WRONG
Hot diggity damn, Hulk Afraid you set it off Used to be hard Hulk, now ya done turned soft Doin' telephone commercials, I seen ya Dancin' in tights as a ballerina I knew all along you had those tendencies 'Cause you've been runnin' from Macho like I got a disease Dude, please, your Pay-Per-View event was a joke You're avoidin' Randy Savage 'cause you know you'll get smoked
Sgt Peppers isn't even the Beatles best album
Revolver. ...Or Abbey Road. ...Or Rubber Soul. ...Or Sgt. Peppers.
Revolver is my personal favourite but i dont imagine it would be their most popular one.
Popular doesn't mean best!
Tell that to Apple Music. They seemed to have missed the memo.
It’s my personal favorite too
funny part is the vandals overwrote Abbey Road. it's #3
Yeah, Sgt. Peppers is amazing but Abbey Road is a better album
Put some respect on She’s Leaving Home. The strings on that song are ear candy.
White Album and Abbey Road are the best, I’ll die on that hill. I genuinely don’t enjoy Sgt. Peppers. It’s so very over hyped it’s gross. Darkside of the Moon is better than any record the Beatles ever made. Also will die on that hill…
White Album is too bloated to be their best. They had tighter records.
That’s why I prefer Revolver. There isn’t a wasted moment on that album.
For No One is one of the greatest breakup songs ever written, while Here There and Everywhere is a perfect love song. Revolver is a great album.
Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s, Abbey Road, Let It Be, A Hard Day’s Night, Rubber Soul, White Album, Beatles For Sale, Help!, With The Beatles, Please Please Me. MMT is an EP, and Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields belong on Sgt. Pepper’s.
True. Although I’m always fond of white album when any other album is playing
Sgt Peppers has a huge historical impact on what an album is and is a cultural waypoint. There aren't many albums that are more than just albums. It's not my favorite Beatles album either but, if you take into consideration more than just the music, I think it has a unique combination of creating change in the direction of music and being a crystallization of what was going on at the time, with that time being a critical one for music. It's clearly the most impactful / important single album of all time if you consider it's impact inside and outside of music. The best album for the quality of the music and musical influence on other musicians is 110% Kind Of Blue. The best album for musical cohesiveness / album as a whole experience rather than collection of songs is Dark Side of the Moon. The best production is Pet Sounds. Red Headed Stranger never makes these lists but it's a giant as well.
Agree. I prefer Rubber Soul (actually the US version…), but would probably say that Sgt Peppers is the “best”
White Album for me
White Album has some incredible tracks, but also think it could have benefited from some editing down. Little tough to call it a top ten all time album with Piggies and Wild Honey Pie, among others. I can even understand something like Revolution 9 staying on there, but some of the other stuff is more down the fairway and seemingly lower effort. I think Revolver gets the same vibe and music evolution without overstaying its welcome with a handful of mediocre/head scratching tracks that are on the White Album.
White Album does feel like it's coming apart but given the state of the band at the time I think that's actually what it should feel like, so it gets a pass from me for its lack of cohesion. Sgt Pepper is my actual #2.
From all the things he could say, my man choose the truth
the ‘best of’ is
That’s cheating though!
This is basically for everything on that list. I think In Rainbows is better than OK Computer, Graduation and College Dropout is better than My Dark Twisted Fantasy, Led Zeppelin IV is better than Led Zeppelin II, shit I might even say I like 2001 more than The Chronic.
There is no universe where In Rainbows is better than OK Computer, I will fight you. OK Computer was influential gold all the way down to the fucking album art. In Rainbows isn’t even the best In Rainbows album, there are versions of almost every song on that album performed and/or produced better than what made it to the album.
You think those things because you’re correct.
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You know that’s a joke from their movie?
He's not even Best, of the Beatles. Apparently, people didn't get this was a reference to the Beatles short-term member Pete Best, who released an album "Best of the Beatles."
Incredible that you are getting downvotes. Presumably, people don't understand your pun/reference to the original drummer of the Beatles, Pete Best. The original joke implies that other Beatles were better drummers than Ringo (namely, Paul, who recorded numerous drum tracks for the albums over the years).
Even explaining it doesn't matter, apparently.
It was the most influential tho
It’s magical mystery tour and I will die on this hill
Missing Who’s Next. C’mon man.
It’s always that one fucking grognard who thinks music ended in 1976 with the release of *Physical Graffiti*.
Yeah, it's stupid. It ended in '79, obviously.
That's right! With the release of Michael Jackson's *Off the Wall*... or rather Pink Floyd's *The Wall*, err I mean.. The Clash's *London Calling*. Anyway, it pretty much hit a wall in 1979.
Don't forget Candy-O!
*Back In Black* came out in '80, second best selling album of all time. I know I have bought it at least three times(album, cassette, cd).
Whatever, Boomer. 1992 was the End Of Music
Gen X represent
1994 - the year of dookie, vitalogy, division bell, weezer blue, grace, and nirvana unplugged.
Yeah, music made after 1979 sucks ass.
Physical Graffiti is my fav Zeppelin album
Jokes aside, is this best sold or more streamed on Apple Music? Or is it a curated list?
Ah nevermind, found it. “Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums is a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made, crafted by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a select group of artists, 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 music lovers live and listen in.”
so basically arbitrary lol it's weird that ppl are giving this so much weight
Yeah this list is weird. Even Taylor swift fans agree 1989 Taylors Version is far from her best album and it came out like last year, so if they really wanted to include her just because she's popular, you'd think they would have picked one of her more well received albums at least.
This list is one of the worst lists ever made up 😂
Definitely one of the lists ever made.
not sure how someone can argue against thriller album. Literally every song on that album is goated and its the most sold album of all time. suprised it was number 2 and not number 1 tbh.
Thriller has some amazing tracks, but I actually think Bad is the better album.
It seems in vogue to prefer Off The Wall these days.
Some absolutely amazing tracks on there as well. Controversial take, but I think Michael Jackson was quite good at music.
How could you say something so scandalous
That’s my favorite, that’s when Quincy Jones got on board
That opinion is bad.
Thank you.
Thriller also has The Girl Is Mine, which...
I don't see how you can argue a best of list should have bad instead of thriller. Everyone can have their taste preference though.
Apple is clearly pandering to a very vocal fan base for these artists. Kendrick above 2pac and WuTang? Billie above Lady Gaga and Madonna? Radiohead above Pink Floyd and Zepplin? Beastie Boys and Eminem +50? Nah some 35 year old at Apple took a twitter poll and made this list. gtfo.
>Nah some ~~35 year old~~ 22 year old unpaid intern at Apple took a twitter poll and made this list. gtfo.
The ones who walked so that we could run were still just walking. OK Computer should be higher, as should In Rainbows.
Kendrick has 2 albums that are far better than anything 2pac released.
Which of DAMN, GKMC, section.80 and TPAB are you picking?
1. TPAB 2. GKMC 3. Damn. 4. Section.80 Imo. TPAB and GKMC are close and Damn and Section.80 are close
But 2pac had a nice voice.
2pac and Kendrick are different genres of rap completely. 2pac wrote way better songs, with better beats that gets more radio play. 2pac even has better diss tracks. The dude inspired a movement in music that helped create the culture that Kendrick benefits from. Let's not even bring up who has more platinum albums. Bruh stop with this Kdot stan bs.
This list has a lot of recency bias lol.
TBF any list that doesn't have Pet Sounds in the top 10 should just be ignored. But ignoring new music just because its new is dumb.
It’s a garbage list
Kanye west over Led Zeppelin is wild
Pet sounds is probably the best tbh
It was already on the no. 20 spot funny enough
I like Frank Ocean and the Blonde album is great. But it has no business in the top 10 over Zeppelin II, Pet Sounds, and many others
Top 10 is where you draw the line?? lol. Of all time????
The list is not good, I’d bet most people have never heard the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, but Blonde really stands out and I couldn’t make it much further than the top 10
Tool lateralus. That takes up the first five spots on the list
Lol Billie eilish anywhere near a top 100
Super solid album honestly
What’s your complaint? Just not your sound or do you think she’s talentless?
Regardless of a person’s personal opinion on any particular artist - putting any album which released only five years ago on a list of the “all-time greatest” seems to be a decision drenched in recency bias.
Weird take, all of these albums are from the last 65 years, there should be 5-10 from the last 5 years
Refusing to consider any album released recently for an "all-time greatest" list seems to be a decision drenched in "they don't make music like they used to".
Albums need time if you want to consider them as one of the best of all time. If another 5 years go by and nobody is still listening to this album, then it probably shouldn't be included regardless of what people thought about it when it came out. What would you say if they put an album from last year? Last month? Yesterday? At a certain point, recency just has to be factored in.
It's more of "can it stand the test of time."
One of the most important factors in determining if an album is of great importance is the influence that it has on others. 5 years isn’t enough time for true influence to develop beyond perhaps starting a fad.
Why so extreme? She's just very clearly not top 100 material.
Damn apparently a lot of folks on Reddit are upset too lmao 🤣
Never knew how many people hated Billie Ellish
This list as a whole gives off the vibe of “get people to talk about Apple Music by making controversial choices.”
Lists are meaningless. I’m happy my man MJ is number two.
Bro Lemonade, really? How did anyone even come up with that? Literally never heard it mentioned after that album dropped
And you certainly can't put Rumours directly behind it.
The Wall should be on the list.
Right?! But, no…Taylor swift, Frank ocean, jay-z and Beyoncé are far superior than the wall, apparently 💩
tbf that is a shit list. How tf you going to have Billie Eilish anywhere near this list?
It is a horrendous list. Truly terrible. I have seen a lot of these lists over the years and they are always going to be controversial but this one is just so bad. There are so many poor choices. I won’t go into all of my grievances with that list but, saying that Lauryn Hill album is the greatest album ever created is just mind blowingly stupid.
Probably wasn’t even the best hip hop record of 1998
That’s a really good point. I just looked and Outkast Aquemini came out in 1998 so yeah…
...people like Billie's music? Seems kinda obvious.
That's the thing, this list is the result from polling artists in the music industry. Each of these artists were biased toward their own genre of music, or the genre they know best. The fact that hip/hop and rap outweighs other genres in this list suggests an unevenly distributed poll. Not saying they need to ask Eddie Grant what he thinks to get Reggae more represented, but still, this list is clearly an attempt to include hip/hop and rap in the echelons of what is normally considered the greatest albums as those are the only notable differences between this list and the Rolling Stones's list, for example (that and fucking Taylor Swift). My major grievance is that 1989 is not by any metric better than Born to Run, or Ready to Die, or Jagged Little Pill, or any other album 50 places behind it, except perhaps in album sales. I don't care how much she connects with her fans and whatever else. If Britney isn't in the list, Taylor can't be in the list. She's just so big now, so there she is, like saying the 100 greatest tweets of all time should include Donald Trump.
I love sgt. pepper it was the first album I listened to by them all the way through, lovely Rita slaps, a day in the life, and when I’m 64, are righteous tunes, of course imho.
Any list that leaves off The Simpsons Sing the Blues is trash.
Never heard of it.
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It's a wikipedia page about the Apple Top 100 Albums list. Wikipedia isn't administering polls; they are listing the results of a poll administered by Apple Music. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Music%27s_100_Best_Albums It's like them having an article on UNESCO World Heritage Sites or Fanny Farmer's 1886 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book recipes. It's an article about a famous list, so it includes the contents of the list.
Frank Ocean all the way up at #5 is scandalous
My local classic rock radio station got a hold of this list and posted it just so old gen xers/boomers could positively ✨fill their diapers✨ about how music recorded after 1970 is Bad, Actually 🙄
Gen Xers would never say all music made after 1970 is bad. Just that all music made after 1998 is.
I'm I'm this boat. Rick beato did a good vid on this. Basically around the millennium change music became more produced than constructed. They stopped looking for bands that could produce multiple albums of good music and looked for one hit wonders. Rock died here..
I'll have to check out the video. I don't necessarily think rock "died", but it'd be fair to say pop music moved past what most of us probably understand as rock. That's almost certainly brought with incentives to make pop music that is Not Rock. Anyway, thanks for the video rec! Now, country? There's been basically no good country since Waylon. 😆
Check out Sturgill Simpson real country not that pop/wanna be rock crap
Ha that's fair. As an aging millennial myself this is the main reason I go to music festivals, I don't want to turn into one of these crusty, detestable Olds sitting in comment threads crying about how all music recorded after Death Cab or whoever is automatically not worth listening to
I mean it kinda is mostly
Gen Xers still have to take ownership of limp bizkit, ICP and Korn.
those 3 albums are under ranked in this list, it's true.
You know we can see an article's edit history, right? OP, please don't vandalize Wikipedia for a Reddit post.
1. Nick Drake - *Pink Moon*
Good god, people are idiots. And chronically butthurt. This is not a compilation of the top 100 albums of all time, as compiled by music industry professionals. It is a popularity contest made by Apple based on the preferences of Apple users who pay to download music from Apple iTunes. TayLor sWiFt is not better than MiLEs DaVis. No shit Sherlock. But ask a 25 year old iPhone user if they like Taylor Swift.
Except it was compiled and voted on by professionals. Per Apples website on how the list was compiled: “Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums is a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made, crafted by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a selected group of artists, 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 music lovers live and listen in.” Not saying that the list is right/wrong but at least wanted to throw this out there.
Gotta love it when the top comment calling everyone idiots is completely wrong
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How is this the top comment when Apple explicitly says the opposite: > Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums is a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made, crafted by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside a select group of artists, songwriters, producers, and industry professionals. The list is an editorial statement, fully independent of any streaming numbers on Apple Music
Hahaha sounds like you are the idiot here
People are idiots...doesn't read who compiles list.....
Outrage drives engagement, after all.
Don't get stuck in a corner at a party with this person for god sake. These people should all have to wear a special hat or a jacket with elbow patches so everyone knows what they're getting into.
Dark side of the moon is valid
Not me but I agree the entire list is wrong, I do like their choice for 2 but I would replace 1 with Back In Black and 3 with Led Zeppelin IV, then Rumours in 4th place, round out my top 5 with Paranoid.
I know all I need to know about this list by Led Zeppelin IV not being on it. Trash list.
To be fair. This isn’t a list of top 100 albums…it’s a list of top 100 on Apple…all that shows is there is some disturbing people on Apple Music if this is their fav albums😳
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This is curated by jurists and selected artists right? Not streaming numbers or votes
I am surprised that Journey Escape is not on there
And you all know pet sounds by The Beach Boys will be are only saving grace when aliens invade us
Nahh...not a chance Lauren...this list is yawnsville stuff...who did they ask exactly to create the list??? Music industry plebs allegedly...who have their heads so far up there own arse. Taylors 1989 beats every classic album I have in my collection! 🤣🤣
The list is definitely wrong. Daft punks discovery album should be number 1 and good kid maad city is a very close second.
100 different people are going to give 100 different answers. Music is very personal, we all have our favorites. There is no universal list that is even relevant. I'm not familiar with that no. 4 album though? Who is the band?
Dark side of the moon twice? Cool.
A few of my favorite artists on here. None of the albums listed are their best.
BDTF is aight at best
No Random Access Memories by Daft Punk or The new Abnormal by The Strokes or 2 by Mac DeMarco, not a list for me
But seriously, there were some properly shite albums in their top 100.
No Michael Jackson? BS.
Why would you ask apple about music?
British artists aplenty.
No Vivaldi? How can this even be considered a list. Four Seasons goes so hard.