The Top 50 Albums of All Time by Sound & Vision Magazine (2010)
Sound & Vision is an American magazine, purchased by AVTech Media Ltd. in March 2018, covering home theater, audio, video and multimedia consumer products. Before 2000, it had been published for most of its history as Stereo Review. The magazine is headquartered in New York City. These are their best albums of all time. To help celebrate Sound & Vision Magazine's 50th-anniversary year, the editors and critics selected their "Top 50 Albums of All Time".
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The Top 50 Albums of All Time composition
Decade | Albums | % | |
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 0 | 0% | |
1960s | 21 | 42% | |
1970s | 22 | 44% | |
1980s | 5 | 10% | |
1990s | 2 | 4% | |
2000s | 0 | 0% | |
2010s | 0 | 0% | |
2020s | 0 | 0% |
Artist | Albums | % | |
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The Beatles | 4 | 8% | |
The Rolling Stones | 4 | 8% | |
The Who | 3 | 6% | |
Led Zeppelin | 2 | 4% | |
The Band | 2 | 4% | |
Bob Dylan | 2 | 4% | |
The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 2 | 4% | |
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Another magazine list that focuses on the ground breaking albums, not the great ones, (a subtle but important difference).
You won´t discover anything here.
Lo mismo de siempre
This is suppose to be all time but yet they have 42% for the 60's and 44% for the 70's... Anyone who loves this pole is clearly biased to these decades. There's plenty of albums as good as these decades worth.
Too routine and lacking any surprises, but at the same time free of most ludicrously overrated records.
Easily the best of the critics/writers polls that I've seen.
Decent
60's and 70's biased for a mag... Editors and critics need replacing now.
Are You Experienced it´shy far the best Jimi Hendrix album, Why Electric Ladyland
I love 60´s, but repeats same bands far too much.
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