Top 500 Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone (2005) 
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California. These are their best albums of all time. Rolling Stone is an American magazine devoted to music and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967. In 2003, Rolling Stone published an article describing what it considered to be the top 500 music albums of all time. In 2005, this list was updated and released as a book.
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Top 500 Albums of All Time composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1960s | 36 | 36% | |
| 1970s | 43 | 43% | |
| 1980s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1990s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2000s | 1 | 1% | |
| 2010s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Beatles | 8 | 8% | |
| Bob Dylan | 5 | 5% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 4 | 4% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 4% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 3% | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 3 | 3% | |
| The Who | 2 | 2% | |
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Similaire au 2003
Too many compilations, as well as a strong focus on 60s and 70s. Otherwise, these are all excellent choices.
Jackwx you are the ofensive one, your chart is offensilevy trash.
tgarritsen 02/11/2014 17:16
Pretty nice overview of music even though it's perhaps to focused on 60's and 70's music.
Slight improvement over the other one.
list is ok, nothing spectacular
The List was a little bet better this time around, but still too narrow in it's focus. And still too many greatest hits and compilation albums, although a few of the most un-necessary we're removed. Still, it's a very dissapointing list, especially given the hype.
A little better than the 2003 list.
cannychub1 04/19/2012 11:22
RS have definitely got a hard on for the Beatles.
A little better than their previous greatest album list but this one is still bad. How can anyone truly believe that the 60s and 70s had all of the good music. That is ignorance at its finest. What about bands like Nirvana, Radiohead, Kraftwerk, Blur, The Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Beach House, Beastie boys, Beck, Outkast, the Black Keys, Bjork, Bloc Party, Built to spill, Daft Punk, Kanye West, Jay-Z, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Pavement, Fugazi, Black Flag, Joy Division, Meat Puppets, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, Interpol, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, M83, Public Enemy, Nas, N.W.A., A Tribe Called Quest, Modest Mouse and many many many many many many more. I'm just tired of typing now but I could go on forever with great 80s 90s and 2000s artists.
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| Best Artists of the 1970s | |
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| 1. Pink Floyd | |
| 2. David Bowie | |
| 3. Led Zeppelin | |
| 4. Neil Young | |
| 5. The Rolling Stones | |
| 6. The Clash | |
| 7. Fleetwood Mac | |
| 8. Black Sabbath | |
| 9. The Who | |
| 10. Stevie Wonder | |
| 11. Genesis | |
| 12. Joni Mitchell | |
| 13. Paul McCartney | |
| 14. Bob Dylan | |
| 15. Yes | |
| 16. Bob Marley | |
| 17. Bruce Springsteen | |
| 18. Brian Eno | |
| 19. Nick Drake | |
| 20. Marvin Gaye |