🎧rolling stone's 500 greatest albums, the top 20

the 2023 update to the list, ranked in order. i don't agree with all of it, that's the fun part

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What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Blue - Joni Mitchell

side two never misses, i'd bump this to #1

Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Nevermind - Nirvana

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

fleetwood mac got rich off falling apart, that's the whole album

Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

dylan's other one this high and i don't even mind

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill

one album, that's the whole official run and it's still top 10

Revolver - The Beatles

Thriller - Michael Jackson

not top 5 anymore on this update. the list keeps nudging him down a spot every few years

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin

Exile on Main St. - The Rolling Stones

point to this one when someone says the stones are just a singles band

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

people scroll past this one, not on anyone's spotify wrapped. the bomb squad's sampling was ahead of everything else in hip hop that year

London Calling - The Clash

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

above thriller. i said what i said

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

newest one in the top 20, give it ten more years and it climbs higher

Kid A - Radiohead

kid a killed the guitar album on this band's own records, still hard to explain to someone who hasn't heard it

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