TIME Mag's 100 Greatest Albums of All Time - NOT!!!!

[Bake]

I am so pissed. This "list" is a travesty. The 100 greatest albums of all time and what's missing? Dark Side of the Moon? Anything at all by the Allman Brothers, or Clapton/Cream/Derek & The Dominos, etc. Meanwhile, Run-DMC is ON the list! OASIS, fer cryin' out loud, is on the list! Hole -- on the list (take a moment and let that one sink in).

Here's the link:

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

What other travesties do you see, either by making "the list" or being left out? Meanwhile, I'm going to go shoot myself in the damn head!

Bake

[LynneSin]

1. Who, the the mightly good lord's name, was influenced by Hole?

Seriously!

[ironflange]

16. Of course Hole is a big influence

Not like that loser Buddy Holly. Good thing he's not there. :eyes:

[spillthebeans]

2. I think Time has no authority in the field of Music

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time

Rolling Stone did a 500 Greatest Albums of all time story

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. this has got to be the prelude to some new

Time-Life box set that leads into a 'continue until you cancel' type subscription to the 1x10^25 Best Songs of all time starting with Power Ballads of the 80's.

sP

[spillthebeans]

5. Time Life has it's magazine and the White House has FOX-News nt

[Richardo]

4. Score one for Oasis (IBTLZP*)

*In before the LoZoccolo post :eyes:

[PVnRT]

6. Oasis invented rock music

In five years they will invent a time machine, go back to the 1800's when slaves were freed, and teach them the beginnings of blues. Then they will jump ahead to the 1950's and start opening up blues records stores in the South and in London, paving the way for rock-n-roll as we know it.

Once, I cut my finger and Noel Gallagher kissed it. It healed immediately.

[Richardo]

7. I read about the Oasis time journey 6 years from now.

It was awesome!!!!1!!

[Mad_Dem_X]

8. LMAO!

I never knew Noel had such powers!

[PVnRT]

9. I once saw Him revive a wounded swan

Noel is love.

[Phillycat]

11. .

*chokes*

[MrCoffee]

17. .

:rofl::rofl::rofl::spray::spray:

[KamaAina]

20. 'Tis the season...

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel!
Born is the king of prete-e-ensious pop...

:P

[Ariana Celeste]

13. ...

:spray:

[Shakespeare]

14. !!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:yourock:

[Initech]

10. How could they not include any Floyd or Crimson?

[NashVegas]

15. Pretty Easy

Critics tend to not care for prog-rock very much. Sure, it sounds cool, but you don't hear very many players say that listening to "Elephant Talk" or "Long Distance Runaround," inspired them to pick up an instrument.

[taterguy]

12. The Violent Femmes debut is a glaring omission

I don't know why that album rarely makes the "Best of" lists. Sure there's nothing that extraordinary about it from a musical standpoint but the attitude was a revelation. All the millions of kids who wondered why they couldn't get just one fuck now realized that others wondered the same thing.

I can't tell you how many times I was feeling awkward at a party humming some of the lyrics from this album to myself thinking: "This is exactly how I feel right now."

A couple years before Nirvana broke I realized that the musical times were about to change, when I heard this blasting from a Porsche.

But what the fuck does Time know anyway?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Not a lot to argue with.

Except for a few, examples being Hole, Oasis, and a Hank Williams collector's set from the 2000's.

[Gatchaman]

19. How do collections count as great albums?

Especially when they're from artists who have been dead for decades? Four of the 9 albums from the 2000s are from artists who are long departed. I know music in the 2000s sucks pretty hard, but come on!

Most of these lists have a high bullshit factor, but this one sets a new standard for crappiness.

[Radical Activist]

38. That really annoys me

This decade hasn't been the best for music but there is good stuff that could be honored. The White Stripes at the very least.

[RetroLounge]

21. I suggest someone looks into what labels

are now owned by Time Warner...

This list is bullshit...

But that's what happens when the list-makers are young enough to think Nirvana was original and think Rap is actually music.

:puke:

RL

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. Gotta correct you on the rap thing.

There's a LOT of good rap out there -- you just tend not to see it on MTV or hear it on the radio.

[RetroLounge]

27. Can't correct what is an opinion...

but I know where you're coming from...

There's bad rap, there's bad rock...

Then there's Oasis :rofl:

RL

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. Gotcha.

I thought you were making one of the blanket statements about rap so common in the Lounge. :rofl:

My mistake. :hi:

[Mendocino]

22. I won't attempt a top hundred..so a top ten listed in order 1 to 10

Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
Layla-Derek and the Dominoes
Live at the Fillmore East-Allman Brothers
Blonde on Blonde-Bob Dylan
Beggars Banquet-Stones
Live at Leeds-Who
Mr Tambourine Man-Byrds
Highway 61 Revisted-Bob Dylan
The Band-The Band
Moondance-Van Morrison

[LoZoccolo]

23. Oasis actually recieved greatest album of all time from NME.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-22769595-details/Oasis+album+is+greatest+ever/article.do

[donheld]

25. Easily one of the dumbest lists I've ever seen.

The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years
Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964
Elvis: 30 No. 1 Hits
The Anthology, 1947 - 1972
They call these from the 2000s. Yes the CD's were released in the 2000s but ALL of that music is from earlier eras.

As for Hole - "Live Through This" all I can say is OH PLEASE. There were many many albums better that that.

[NashVegas]

30. I Assume That's a Statement on the State of the Recording Industry

And I'd say it's a pretty accurate one.

Just about all of the albums on the list (that aren't rehashes) were in some way groundbreaking.

How many out there now are doing anything remotely trail-blazing?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. Greatest hits albums shouldn't count.

It's an unfair advantage, too.

[enigmatic]

26. The list doesn't start to get really horrible until the 80's and on

Forget about what records I'd have on the list; I'm stunned by some of the selections of the bands they included ("Document" over "Murmur"??) and what the fuck is Hole and Outkast doing on this?

Oh well, it's all subjective...

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. Not on the list, and should be:

1950's: Duke Ellington, Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1956

1960's: Captain Beefheart - "Trout Mask Replica"

1970's: Kraftwerk - "Trans-Europe Express"

David Bowie - "Low", "Heroes"

Joy Division - "Unknown Pleasures"

Television - "Marquee Moon"

1980's: Pixies - "Surfer Rosa"

Tom Waits - "Rain Dogs"

1990's: Massive Attack - "Blue Lines"

Liz Phair - "Exile In Guyville"

PJ Harvey - "Rid Of Me"

and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting right now...

[NashVegas]

31. I Was Shocked That 'Rain Dogs' Wasn't On There

Considering how everyone fell over it when it came out. It still holds up.

Rid of Me - too much controversy over Albini.
Exile in Guyville - rock critics still haven't forgiven Liz for making a pop album.

[Zomby Woof]

32. There are some gems on the list

They suck for leaving out Zappa, Beefheart, Skynyrd, Floyd, and the Allmans ("Live at the Fillmore East", anyone?). And from the 70's, they omit Dylan's best work.

At least they got SOME things right. But the anthologies do not fit. Most of them are really good, but not emblematic of the period.

Glad they recognized "Master of Puppets" and "Straight Outta Compton" on the 80's list. But it's Time magazine, which sucks ass anyway.

[Omphaloskepsis]

33. So the crap you like isn't on the list...

Where is J Church, Jawbreaker, and Fifteen... I demand representation. I can't feign sympathy on this one.

[Bassic]

34. The OP has a good point when it comes to Dark Side of the Moon

What other album managed to stay in the Billboard top 200 for 14 years?

[dajoki]

35. I can't believe they skipped...

Blind Faith

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

36. much better than rolling stone's lists

which seems to have the criteria of:

did jan wenner grow up on this band?
are members of the band personal friends of jan wenner?
did this band or artist peak prior to 1970?

if yes to any of these questions, then add to the list

[Floogeldy]

39. Well, there you have it.

You know more about albums and which ones are the best better than anyone else on the planet. You know this information so well that you are entitled to get pissed about it. Damn. The greatest music critic evar!

;)

[chknltl]

40. "I Got You Babe" got no mention!!!!.....

WTF!!!! Cancel my subscription!

[carpetbagger]

41. There's a definite bias against psychedelic-prog rock.

I didn't expect to see Crimson or even Yes, but I did expect to see something other than a Beatles album on the list from the general quadrant of through-composed, full-sounding, psychedelicoid music. It's not that Pink Floyd isn't on the list; the list seems to give extra credit to "seminal albums". Dark Side of the Moon was a climactic album of its type. It's that neither a Pink Floyd album NOR Days of Future Passed NOR Brain Salad Surgery make the list. The weak links they make room for are multiple albums from Van Morrison and David Bowie, at least in the rock field.

[Mythsaje]

42. Nor Rush 2112 nor Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime...

Just saying...