Top 100 Greatest Music Albums
by limowreck_69

So I came here expecting to see an awful chart b/c MMLP is so high on it (as I learned from the MMLP page which I planned to troll some more). I was just curious what other trash someone who likes MMLP might like.

However, I briefly considered apologizing for this false assumption upon seeing your chart but knew I was too lazy for such a thing and wouldn't have even commented at all if not for that ridiculous Beatles commentary. Bah, now that I'm here, w/e, sorry for the bad assumption. I was wrong, I admit it. Anyway....

Show me another band with music as varying as "Love You To," "Hey Bulldog," "For No One," "Helter Skelter," "Glass Onion," "Revolution," "Eleanor Rigby," "A Day In The Life," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Yer Blues," and yes the simple stuff like "Can't Buy Me Love." No other band has this much variety. Anyone who's never heard those songs wouldn't believe they're from the same band if they heard them all right now. To believe it and call them "simple"?

MAYBE I'd believe you actually were familiar with them and were just a pretentious cock if your list was full of classical and jazz, but as it is? DUDE, YOUR CHART IS FULL OF BANDS THAT ARE NOWHERE NEAR AS COMPLEX AS THE BEATLES.

The Beatles invented multiple styles and to this day have only been rivaled by Radiohead. You're out of your mind if you can listen to all of those songs and think for a second that this is a "simple band with simple melodies."

They must've utilized every instrument at some point, to near perfection at that. You've never heard Revolver, Abbey Road, Sgt Peppers, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, Let It Be, The White Album, Help, A Hard Day's Night... how many classic albums does 1 band need? They comprise 60% of our overall top 5 for a reason.

Nobody truly dislikes the Beatles, you're being willfully ignorant or trolling or trying some edgy fad that you'll hopefully grow out of. Listen to those songs already and see if you can back up your statements. You have "verse, chorus, verse, chorus" structured s*&^ in your chart and call the Beatles simple, get out of here.

From Boogn1sh 04/06/2012 18:05 | #39588

I can agree with your idea that its kind of redundant and unnecessary to see the Beatles on every chart, to each his own, I can't agree that all they wrote were "simple songs with simple rhythms and simple melodies". Up until 65'-ish maybe...but to call something like Norwegian Wood or Tomorrow Never Knows a simple song with simple melodies is just patently ignorant. Try to pick up a guitar and play something like this, you'll have a much easier time with the typical major chords of something by Arcade Fire, Audioslave, or especially Oasis. I don't disagree with your stance, just the supporting evidence you used to get there.

Just to answer a few of the comments,I see how it might seem a bit self contradictory slagging off the beatles for being sick of seeing them everywhere and then having 4 radiohead albums, when Ok Computer has topped the poll on this site and many others.

The way I see it the difference between the two bands is this, I've grown up constantly being told how great the Beatles were while not seeing how they were any better than the bands I've been listening to, and The Beatles have been pedestalised to the point where anyone who makes any negative comment about them (that isn't to do with Ringo's drumming) is automatically considered wrong. Radiohead on the other hand, in spite of all their critical acclaim, are constantly criticised for being pretentious,boring and generally crap, and this is great because people SHOULD be able to have different opinions on music.

I know other people's opinion on music shouldn't determine yours but apart from this, listening to the Beatles' music has never really done anything for me, making me think they're an average band who people are afraid to criticise. I am however more than willing to be proved wrong about this

From CharlieBarley 02/08/2019 03:22 | #231545

Really nice chart with some good commentary. And a lot of good albums. I just bought Number of the Beast, I like that album and many albums on here. Holy Bible is heavy you are right. I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

I am one of those people with multiple Beatles albums in his top ten. Guilty as charged. But I accept that some people don't like the Beatles. Two of my closest friends don't like 'em and I am a mega-fan. But diversity is a good thing. It would be damn boring if we all agreed and all liked the same thing.

I enjoyed reading your chart.

Apart from never having really been much into metal so having a fundamental difference and never getting past Are You Gonna be My Girl being a rip off of Lust For Life with Jet I think this chart is pretty damn good. Particularly nice to see some love (and squalor) for We Are Scientists. Have you tried Relationship of Command by At the Drive-in? It strikes me as something you'd like.