Time Magazine Top 100 Albums of All-time

[Eddie Bryant]

Can be found here:

http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/


Just found the link, it's not very innovative from anything else, just an interesting read. Not that Time Magazine is world renown for their music coverage. I always hate it when people try to rank albums on such a large scale because music is so diverse, but it's good just as a guide of ideas of music to listen to. I guess I need more Hank Williams, Frank Sinatra, and Little Richard.

Any thoughts?

[Clem]

Alright list I guess. imo, the following don't belong near such a list

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Paul's Boutique
Live Through This
The College Dropout
Stankonia
The Marshall Mathers LP

edit:
This kind of stuff is why I don't take folks seriously.

If you check out the poll the Doors have almost 50 percent. What a cruddy band.

[Breeze 50/50]

who cares? you do realize the Staff at Time is all Old and White

[Clem]

who cares? you do realize the Staff at Time is all Old and White
What impact do you believe this had on the lists construction?

[Eddie Bryant]

I definately agree that you have to take lists with a grain of salt. And with Time Magazine, understand what their biases are. If you tell Pitchfork to make this list, it'll be completely different, Q Magazine will have their list, Mojo will have their list, etc. But that's music, and that's why we argue it; it affects us differently depending on who we are and at what point in our lives we're at. And that's why music means so much to us.

The Time Magazine list might be the biggest bullsh!t list put out, and that's fine too. As I said in the first post, they aren't known for their music reviews. And as I said too, I don't think of any list as right or wrong. I just scan them to see if there's an album I haven't heard of that maybe I should listen to. If it meant something to someone at some point, I want to figure out why and maybe I'll get it too.

[skanky80]

Paul's Boutique

That belongs for sure.

wtf @

The College Dropout-Kanye
Live Through This-Hole

but still, lists like this never matter at all.

[RapMan77]

The problem I have with lists like this in general is when they include greatest hits packages. Greatest hits packages don't belong in a list like this. Albums were created as a release in-and-of-itself to represent a thought or set of feelings to be taken in all at once. Greatest hits are supposed to be an entire career retrospective.
So if for instance you want to list Sam Cooke "Nightbeat" then do so. But don't list Sam Cooke "Portrait Of A Legend," his greatest hits album. I understand that reviewers sometimes feel that the breadth of a particular artist's or group's work can't be reduced. Well if that's how you feel, come up with a list for that then.
That's what really annoys me.

[Paul Mooney]

lol@ these "greatest albums/music/artisits of all time" lists....corny shyt.

Listen to good music, end thread

[Brooklyn329]

Next to The Blueprint, The Marshall Mathers LP may be the single greatest mainstream hip-hop release of this decade so far, so I can understand its inclusion.

[XHaLeS#12]

damn prince got 2 albums on dere from the same decade

[eckohed]

I hate albums lists full of compilations. Lists are fucckin stupid anyway but I guess theyre fun to make/argue with

[TuneOut]

Yeah I could have guessed this was coming.