Ranking Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500- An Exploration by AAL2014
In late 2021, I decided to begin a deep dive into the most recent edition of Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of all time. Starting at record number 500 and counting my way down, the records I’ve listened to and the many that I haven’t previously. This chart is going to be edited each time I reach another 10 records, so… it’s gonna look a little weird at first 😂.
I have kind of an idea of some of what is on the list but no idea on the order so I only find out the next record as I’m about to listen to it. I’ve already listened to a few records I may have never gotten to had I not decided to embark on this listening exploration.
-The week of 11/11/21-
- Chart updated: 01/30/2024 22:15
- (Created: 11/12/2021 02:34).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Ranking Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500- An Exploration composition
Decade | Albums | % | |
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1930s | 0 | 0% | |
1940s | 0 | 0% | |
1950s | 2 | 2% | |
1960s | 17 | 17% | |
1970s | 37 | 37% | |
1980s | 13 | 13% | |
1990s | 20 | 20% | |
2000s | 7 | 7% | |
2010s | 4 | 4% | |
2020s | 0 | 0% |
Artist | Albums | % | |
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Bob Dylan | 4 | 4% | |
The Beatles | 4 | 4% | |
David Bowie | 4 | 4% | |
Radiohead | 3 | 3% | |
The Who | 3 | 3% | |
Stevie Wonder | 3 | 3% | |
Nirvana | 2 | 2% | |
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Ranking Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500- An Exploration chart changes
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Up 5 from 78th to 73rd Late Registration by Kanye West |
Up 4 from 89th to 85th John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon |
Up 1 from 95th to 94th Music From Big Pink by The Band |
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Down 5 from 69th to 74th Random Access Memories by Daft Punk |
Down 5 from 70th to 75th The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses |
Down 5 from 71st to 76th Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins |
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Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder |
Abbey Road by The Beatles |
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye |
Blue by Joni Mitchell |
Nevermind by Nirvana |
Leavers |
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Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock |
Ege Bamyası by Can |
Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin |
The Joshua Tree by U2 |
The Stranger by Billy Joel |
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12/25/23- 2 in the morning.
Merry Christmas. To myself and whoever may see this.
Just now returning to this chart after breezing through the last 150 or however many albums and not updating.
Coming down to the wire as I’m currently about to crack the top 25. My most recent listen was #27 Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), one of my favorite albums of all time. It held up, to put it simply.
Making some adjustments and will return with a more intensive recap as I reach the end or possibly the top ten.
Mother’s Day Sunday, May 14th, 2023.
Only now realizing to keep up with my on-going commentary. I thought I would be well finished by this point when I started, but for a handful of different reasons, that’s not exactly the case.
As of now, I’ve passed the half way mark and just updated the list by adding albums from 231-240, some absolutely essential records.
This definitely started out as a fun chart idea to go along with a personal listening goal of hearing all 500 albums from the updated Rolling Stone magazine list, but as time has passed, this chart has become one of my very favorites to work on.
A big part of that is, especially over half way through the 500 now, how difficult it is to figure out which records get cut. I’ll probably end up making parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 charts to illustrate the many great records (and a few not so great) that are missing my take on Rolling Stone’s top 100 albums.
On to the next, I’ll report back after the 200 mark.
This comment was written a while back but just now posting it on 5/14/23, Mother’s Day!
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022. Just now getting through the next batch of 100. Falling behind a little on getting through the list before November rolls back around, but still very much enjoying the process. More listening stones overturned through these last 100, and I’m appreciating more sounds and genres more thoroughly.
Punk rock, especially in its early stages with budding sounds of proto-punk, art-punk, and glam rock, is scattered all over this portion. X-Ray Spex to Wire to X to Roxy Music to the New York Dolls.. all artists with albums I was able to check out through this process and I’m appreciative of that sound more than ever.
The quality of these records collectively went up from the last 100 and there weren’t quite as many head scratchers of choices as the 400’s, however.. I’m sorry to say, albums like Aaliyah’s and Kelis’s did nothing for me.
This last group from 399-300 once again allowed for some much needed revisits to records like On The Beach, Norman Fucking Rockwell!, and The Black Parade. All sorts of albums I didn’t realize were so vital and so close to being favorites already. Shit, even with my adoration of Rush and Moving Pictures (a record that should be 250 slots higher), I was blown away with what a solid full listen with headphones did for my love of that record. My love for /MuCore masterpieces Madvillainy and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea blossomed too. Absolutely a rewarding process.
I look forward to seeing what the 200’s have in store.
Some stats for the records 400-301:
87 unique artists added to the list
1950’s- 3 albums
1960’s- 10 albums
1970’s- 34 albums
1980’s- 15 albums
1990’s- 15 albums
2000’s- 13 albums
2010’s- 10 albums
66/100 albums I hadn’t previously listened to.
Saturday, 01/22/22 . I made it through the first batch of 100 records from 500-401 and have continued into the 300’s.
I’ve really been enjoying this process so far, even sitting through the pretty terrible records was fun for the experience. I gained a lot of knowledge along the way and plenty of new potential favorites, the majority of these records I had never listened to before. With a couple albums (Paul Simon s/t, Alice Coltrane), I was able to give a much needed “after a long time” listen and came away loving them even more.
Some stats for the records 500-401:
95 unique artists
2 by various artists
10 different nationalities
6 by mixed nationality artists
1950’s- 3 albums
1960’s- 13 albums
1970’s- 23 albums
1980’s- 10 albums
1990’s- 17 albums
2000’s- 15 albums
2010’s- 9 albums
85/100 albums I hadn’t previously listened to
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