Guardian 100 Greatest Albums

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JMan
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  • Posted: 02/14/2014 16:47
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We talk about Rolling Stone's top 500 a lot, probably due to the size. But there are plenty of websites and magazines with greatest album charts, so why not talk about a different one this time? This thread focuses on Guardians's overall chart.

1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
2. The Beatles - Revolver
3. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
4. Nirvana - Nevermind
5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
6. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
7. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
8. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
9. The Beatles - The White Album
10. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
11. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
12. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
13. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
14. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
15. Radiohead - The Bends
16. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
17. The Clash - London Calling
18. Oasis (What's the Story) - Morning Glory
19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
20. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
21. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
22. The Beatles - Abbey Road
23. Lou Reed - Transformer
24. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
25. The RoIlIng - Stones Exile On Main Street
26. REM - Automatic For The People
27. The RolIIng Stones - Let It Bleed
28. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
29. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
30. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
31. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread
32. Patti Smith - Horses
33. Television - Marquee Moon
34. The Clash - The Clash
35. Joni Mitchell - Blue
36. Portishead - Dummy
37. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
38. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key of Life
39. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
40. The Verve - A Northern Soul
41. John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
42. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
43. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
44. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
45. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
46. Aretha Franklin - Queen of Soul
47. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
48. Alanis Morisette - Jagged little pill
49. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
50. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
51. The Jam - All Mod Cons
52. The Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
53. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
54. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
55. Garbage - Garbage
56. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
57. U2 - The Joshua Tree
58. The Who - Who's Next?
59. The Beastie Boys - Licence To III
60. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
61. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
62. David Bowie - Low
63. Tricky - Maxinquaye
64. Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots And Panties
65. TheRamones - TheRamones
66. The Beach Boys - Sunflower.
67. The Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
68. Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
69. Paul Simon - Graceland
70. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
71. U2 - Achtung Baby
72. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
73. The Smiths - The Smiths
74. James Brown - Live At The Apollo
75. Pulp - Different Class
76. The Doors - The Doors
77. David Bowie - Heroes
78. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
79. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live!
80. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus
81. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
82. Goldie - Timeless
83. The Pixies - Doolittle
84. The Beatles - 1962-66
85. The Cocteau - Twins Treasure
86. Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
87. The Specials - The Specials
88. ABC - Lexicon Of Love
89. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
90. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
91. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
92. Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
93. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For.The Young Soul Rebels
94. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swinging Lover.s
95. Joy Division - Closer.
96. The Pretenders - The Pretenders
97. REM - Out Of Time
98. Stereo - MC's Connected
99. John Lennon - Imagine
100. Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys meets Rockers Uptown

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I like the idea of Marvin at #1 instead of the standard British invasion classic or Dylan. but there's some real head-scratchers also. 2 Oasis albums before Abbey Road? 2 Oasis albums is a problem in itself, but to say 2 of the 21 greatest albums ever made were by Oasis. Wow.

JMan wrote:

18. Oasis (What's the Story) - Morning Glory
19. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
21. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
22. The Beatles - Abbey Road

48. Alanis Morisette - Jagged little pill
55. Garbage - Garbage

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are you being paid or something to advertise this?


I keed, but yeah I don't exactly know why an old list like this specifically needs attention, I guess there are plenty more like these all over the site, I guess a general thread where you can talk about published Greatest Album lists would be more useful (and this list doesn't really offer much that's new or unusual from the standard ilk)

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Standard, mostly boring list. Some satisfying inclusions, but nothing shocking or terribly disappointing.
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Saoirse wrote:
are you being paid or something to advertise this?


I keed, but yeah I don't exactly know why an old list like this specifically needs attention, I guess there are plenty more like these all over the site, I guess a general thread where you can talk about published Greatest Album lists would be more useful (and this list doesn't really offer much that's new or unusual from the usual ilk)


I just feel the other lists are kind of overlooked. I don't like this chart at all, personally. It looks sloppy (and I'm not talking about the punctuation errors from this list I copy-pasted), unorganized, and not very well thought out. What's with all the obscurities I've never even heard of? I think someone just put a chart together hoping it would look new and out-of-this-world. Anyway, that's just my opinion. I want to see other people's thoughts on the forum.

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Kiki
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This list made me buy Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'. Has anyone else had a time when they were fond of that album?
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JMan wrote:
What's with all the obscurities I've never even heard of? I think someone just put a chart together hoping it would look new and out-of-this-world.


Um
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JMan wrote:
What's with all the obscurities I've never even heard of? I think someone just put a chart together hoping it would look new and out-of-this-world.


What obscurities are you talking about?
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Kiki
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It's all fairly standard stuff. I mean 'Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica' is the highest I haven't heard it 49 and number 100 is the only entry I have never heard spoken about regularly on here.

No Manic Street Preachers either.
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots And Panties
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
The Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
The Specials - The Specials
ABC - Lexicon Of Love
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For.The Young Soul Rebels
Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys meets Rockers Uptown
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