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Time Magazine's Top 100 Music Albums:

 

So here's how we chose the albums for the All-TIME 100. We researched and listened and agonized until we had a list of the greatest and most influential records ever - and then everyone complained because there was no Pink Floyd on it. And that's exactly how it should be. We hope you'll treat the All-TIME 100 as a great musical parlor game. Read and listen to the arguments for the selections, then tell us what we missed or got wrong. Or even possibly what we got right. Article here.

 

Top Albums for the 2000s:

The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years - Hank Williams

The College Dropout - Kanye West

Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964 - Sam Cooke

Elvis: 30 No. 1 Hits - Elvis Presley

The Anthology, 1947 - 1972 - Muddy Waters

Kid A - Radiohead

Stankonia - Outkast

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

 

Top Albums for the 1990s:

Sunrise - Elvis Presley

Car Wheels on a Gravel Raod - Lucinda Williams

OK Computer - Radiohead

Ready to Die - The Notorious B.I.G.

Time Out of Mind - Bob Dylan

Endtroducing... - DJ Shadow

(What's the Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Live Through This - Hole

My Life - Mary J. Blige

Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement

The Chronic - Dr. Dre

Achtung Baby - U2

Nevermind - Nirvana

Out of Time - R.E.M.

Phil Spector, Back to Mono - Various

Ropin' The Wind - Garth Brooks

Star Time - James Brown

The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest

 

Top Albums for the 1980s:

Like a Prayer - Madonna

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

It Takes a Nation of Millions - Public Enemy

Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Document - R.E.M.

Paid in Full - Eric B and Rakim

Sign O' The Times - Prince

The Joshua Tree - U2

Graceland - Paul Simon

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Raising Hell - Run DMC

Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers

Purple Rain - Prince

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads

The Great Twenty-Eight - Chuck Berry

Thriller - Michael Jackson

Back in Black - AC/DC

 

Click here for the rest of the list.... 50s, 60s and 70s.

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So here's how we chose the albums for the All-TIME 100. We researched and listened and agonized until we had a list of the greatest and most influential records ever - and then everyone complained because there was no Pink Floyd on it. And that's exactly how it should be. We hope you'll treat the All-TIME 100 as a great musical parlor game. Read and listen to the arguments for the selections, then tell us what we missed or got wrong. Or even possibly what we got right.

 

WTF!! :lol:

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Top Albums for the 2000s:

The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years - Hank Williams

The College Dropout - Kanye West

Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964 - Sam Cooke

Elvis: 30 No. 1 Hits - Elvis Presley

The Anthology, 1947 - 1972 - Muddy Waters

Kid A - Radiohead

Stankonia - Outkast

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - PJ Harvey

The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

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Anthologies? Collections? What a friggin' joke!

 

It'd be nice if their top albums actually included some albums.

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WTF!!  :lol:

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I think "Dark Side of the Moon" would have made it but it just got bumped to number 101 by "Like a Prayer". It's hard to argue when you're laughing so hard.

 

I'm not a Disco fan but what about The Beegees "Saturday Night Special"?

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They have Read To Die by BIG, but not All Eyez On Me by Pac.  :lol:

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Ready to Die, Biggie's first CD, is a classic. It's up there w/ Nas' Illmatic, Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu, and Tribe's Low End Theory as some of the best hip hop CDs ever. I can't say that for All Eyez on Me. I'd rather listen to 2Pacalypse Now, which is very underrated, or the Makaveli CD than that one.

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Ready to Die, Biggie's first CD, is a classic.  It's up there w/ Nas' Illmatic, Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu, and Tribe's Low End Theory as some of the best hip hop CDs ever.  I can't say that for All Eyez on Me.  I'd rather listen to 2Pacalypse Now, which is very underrated, or the Makaveli CD than that one.

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Can't say I agree there, All eyes on me was his best IMHO and better than the other albums you listed (although I still think they are classics--especially illmatic and Enter the Wu).

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Anthologies?  Collections?  What a friggin' joke!

 

It'd be nice if their top albums actually included some albums.

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Yeah that's what I noticed.... wtf? Kinda takes the "meaning" out of it.

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Achtung Baby - U2

Nevermind - Nirvana

The Joshua Tree - U2

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Back in Black - AC/DC

Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a. Zoso)

Paranoid

 

 

Those are the only ons on that list that I have and would consider having (well, except for some of the albums they have listed from the 60's and 70's). I'm not even a fan of U2 but those were decent albums.

 

Kanye West?, Eminem? The list loses all credibility

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