The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!
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gaporter
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NathanRicaud
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NathanRicaud
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Oh my goodness! I think I'm in love with you! This list makes me want to have an endless music listening vinyl session with you!!!
@Lee Newman - I low-key wanted to faint onto you when I saw you list Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" at #1!!!
NathanRicaud
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@Ghost - I'd love you to list your top 50 albums of all-time here (and send them to @Woob_woob afterwards). Even if that's too much, send through your top 20 albums! I know you're a humungous fan of D'Angelo's Voodoo and Al Green's Call Me, so I'd love to see what else you love!!! 
Mine are:
Let it Bleed
Exile
Sticky Fingers
Beggars
Then:
Some Girls
Black and Blue
Goats Head Soup
Oh boy that sounds like a time sink lmao. I’ll perhaps give it a try, no promises but thanks for the invitation!@Ghost - I'd love you to list your top 50 albums of all-time here (and send them to @Woob_woob afterwards). Even if that's too much, send through your top 20 albums! I know you're a humungous fan of D'Angelo's Voodoo and Al Green's Call Me, so I'd love to see what else you love!!!
TenderLovingKiller®
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I was the same way. I had always heard that Exile was their strongest album all the way through but the overall lack of singles always lead me to one of their other albums. A few years ago I finally spent some time with Exile and it hit me much harder than I’d expected. My new found appreciation also sparked an interest in re-examining some of their other later albums specifically Goat Head Soup and Tattoo You both of which; while not at the same caliber as the big 4, I am now quite fond of.
Goats Head Soup still takes my top spot as favorite Stones' album, but it is hard to deny the flawlessness of Exile.
I could make a list again today and it would be pretty different, though with repeat themes. Come on, give it a shot.
Exile is my favorite, probably because I spent so much time listening to it on a loop with Exile in Guyville when I was younger.
TrainFan73
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Exile is my favorite because it’s the one that really got me into the Stones after years of thinking Fingers was the only album worth listening to. I have a hard time saying Exiles is the best though, the production is such a mess.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I use favorite and best interchangeably but I understand your differentiation.
ThePakoBuelna
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25-21
25.- Monsters of Folk "Monsters of Folk" 2004
No spotify link for this one, couldn't find it oddly.
24.- Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" 1975
23.- Ryo Fukui "Scenery" 1976
22.- Anderson Paak "Malibu" 2016
21.- Queens of the Stone Age "...Like Clockwork" 2013
No spotify link for this one, couldn't find it oddly.
24.- Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" 1975
23.- Ryo Fukui "Scenery" 1976
22.- Anderson Paak "Malibu" 2016
21.- Queens of the Stone Age "...Like Clockwork" 2013
Gavaxeman
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Well your all wrong because it’s Satanic Majesties Request ... I have spoken
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The Rolling Stones “Their Satanic Majesties Request “ 1967
The anti piper pepper ...this one is like a meld of 67 Beatles and Floyd ...and for some reason the Stones album I play the most ..it’s of its time ..but it has a strangely sinister yet innocent air ...not quite drugged out and spat out yet ..but on the way..and it’s the Brian Jones show ...he’s everywhere ..and some stockers on this ..2000 light years from home , she’s a rainbow , 2000 man , citadel , gomper ...even a Bill song ...and a 3D sleeve ...which took me years to acquire
Factoid- Bill Wyman “Every day at the studio it was a lottery as to who would turn up and what – if any – positive contribution they would make when they did. Keith would arrive with anywhere up to ten people, Brian with another half-a-dozen and it was the same for Mick. They were assorted girlfriends and friends. I hated it! Then again, so did Andrew (Oldham) and just gave up on it. There were times when I wish I could have done, too.”
NathanRicaud
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My top 50 albums of all-time! This was an absolute treat to make and I really enjoyed spinning a lot of these albums on vinyl! I have pretty much all of these albums on vinyl too, which made the listing experience amazing! I wanted to narrow it only to one album per artist, for diversity!
1. Madvillain – Madvillainy
2. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
4. D’Angelo – Voodoo
5. Michael Jackson – Thriller
6. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
7. Bob Marley – Exodus
8. Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
9. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
10. Prince – Purple Rain
11. The Beatles – Abbey Road
12. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
13. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
14. Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope
15. Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
16. NaS - Illmatic
17. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
18. Joni Mitchell – Blue
19. Dr. Dre – The Chronic 2001
20, Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
21. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
22. Björk – Vespertine
23. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
24. Kanye West – The College Dropout
25. Kate Bush – The Dreaming
26. Frank Ocean – Blonde
27. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
28. The Cure – Disintegration
29. The Avalanches – Since I Left You
30. The Clash – London Calling
31. Radiohead - In Rainbows
32. Fiona Apple – When The Pawn
33. Janelle Monaé – The ArchAndroid
34. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
35. The Doors – The Doors
36. Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
37. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
38. Daft Punk - Discovery
39. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
40. Nirvana – Nevermind
41. M.I.A. – Kala
42. David Bowie – Low
43. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
44. Otis Redding – Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
45. Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
46. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
47. OutKast – Stankonia
48. Jorge Ben – Africa Brasil
49. PJ Harvey - Dry
50. Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
It was tough choosing between Kate Bush's Hounds of Love and The Dreaming. However @Rip_City beautiful explanation as to why The Dreaming ranked high on his list is the same sentiments I feel and was the reason why I placed that album on my list, instead of Hounds Of Love. It was also hard choosing between Prince's Purple Rain and Dirty Mind, especially as Dirty Mind contains my favourite all-time prince song; When You Were Mine. However, Prince Purple Rain is so grand, defining, lavish, rich and colourful; it had to take the spot!
Portishead's Dummy, Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks, Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition, The Roots' Things Fall Apart, Al Green's Call Me, Billie Holiday's Lady Sings The Blues, The Smiths' Queen Is Dead, Britney Spears' Blackout, João Gilberto and Stan Getz' Getz/Gilberto and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon were all albums I adore that all just unfortunately missed the list! Those 10 albums are all runners up!
Thank you so much @Woob_woob for organising this! I love you and your efforts and energy so much!
1. Madvillain – Madvillainy
2. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
3. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
4. D’Angelo – Voodoo
5. Michael Jackson – Thriller
6. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
7. Bob Marley – Exodus
8. Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
9. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
10. Prince – Purple Rain
11. The Beatles – Abbey Road
12. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
13. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
14. Janet Jackson – The Velvet Rope
15. Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
16. NaS - Illmatic
17. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
18. Joni Mitchell – Blue
19. Dr. Dre – The Chronic 2001
20, Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
21. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
22. Björk – Vespertine
23. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
24. Kanye West – The College Dropout
25. Kate Bush – The Dreaming
26. Frank Ocean – Blonde
27. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
28. The Cure – Disintegration
29. The Avalanches – Since I Left You
30. The Clash – London Calling
31. Radiohead - In Rainbows
32. Fiona Apple – When The Pawn
33. Janelle Monaé – The ArchAndroid
34. A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
35. The Doors – The Doors
36. Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
37. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
38. Daft Punk - Discovery
39. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
40. Nirvana – Nevermind
41. M.I.A. – Kala
42. David Bowie – Low
43. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
44. Otis Redding – Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
45. Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
46. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
47. OutKast – Stankonia
48. Jorge Ben – Africa Brasil
49. PJ Harvey - Dry
50. Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds
It was tough choosing between Kate Bush's Hounds of Love and The Dreaming. However @Rip_City beautiful explanation as to why The Dreaming ranked high on his list is the same sentiments I feel and was the reason why I placed that album on my list, instead of Hounds Of Love. It was also hard choosing between Prince's Purple Rain and Dirty Mind, especially as Dirty Mind contains my favourite all-time prince song; When You Were Mine. However, Prince Purple Rain is so grand, defining, lavish, rich and colourful; it had to take the spot!
Portishead's Dummy, Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks, Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition, The Roots' Things Fall Apart, Al Green's Call Me, Billie Holiday's Lady Sings The Blues, The Smiths' Queen Is Dead, Britney Spears' Blackout, João Gilberto and Stan Getz' Getz/Gilberto and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon were all albums I adore that all just unfortunately missed the list! Those 10 albums are all runners up!
Thank you so much @Woob_woob for organising this! I love you and your efforts and energy so much!
kvetcha
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Inspired by @Tys1, I put together a playlist from my top 50, in ranked order.
Since Regina Spektor’s ‘Songs’ is not available anywhere, feel free to look up ‘Consequence of Sound’ and slot it in between Asobi Seksu and Fugazi.
Spotify link
Apple Music link
If anyone else has done something similar, please share!
Since Regina Spektor’s ‘Songs’ is not available anywhere, feel free to look up ‘Consequence of Sound’ and slot it in between Asobi Seksu and Fugazi.
Spotify link
Apple Music link
If anyone else has done something similar, please share!
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This is awesome. I planned on making a N&G Top 500 list (if nobody else does it first) and was just going to post the most popular song from each album represented UNLESS more people make their own top 50 playlist in which case I can add the overall consensus song. I know about half my favorite songs from my favorite albums were never singles.
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kvetcha
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note: had to rebuild the Spotify playlist to adjust a selection. old link may not work, but a new one has been added.
gaporter
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I may have also done a playlist type thing.
Edit: I should note for most of these, i just picked one of my favorite songs on the album and tried to make a playlist that somewhat flowed while still sticking to the descending order of my top 50.
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Got lazy uploading pictures 5 at a time - so no more slow releases... here's 2 GIFs of my top 50 (Some on CDs - I don't own my entire top 50 on records! Scroll to the bottom - you can play my spotify playlist while you watch me flip records/cds.
| # | Artist | Album | Genre | Year |
1 | Radiohead | OK Computer | Alternative / Rock | 1997 |
2 | Beck | Sea Change | Alternative / Rock | 2002 |
3 | Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | Industrial | 1994 |
4 | Fugees | The Score | Rap / Hip Hop | 1996 |
5 | Nas | Illmatic | Rap / Hip Hop | 1994 |
6 | Madvillain | Madvillainy | Rap / Hip Hop | 2004 |
7 | A Tribe Called Quest | Midnight Marauders | Rap / Hip Hop | 1993 |
8 | Massive Attack | Mezzanine | Leftfield, Trip Hop, Downtempo | 1998 |
9 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless | Shoegaze, Alternative Rock | 1991 |
10 | Amon Tobin | Permutation | Leftfield, Drum n Bass, Future Jazz, Downtempo, Breaks | 1998 |
11 | Autechre | LP5 | Abstract, IDM, Experimental | 1998 |
12 | Boards Of Canada | Music Has The Right To Children | IDM, Ambient | 1998 |
13 | Slowdive | Souvlaki | Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Dream Pop | 1993 |
14 | Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes | Visions Of A New World | Fusion, Jazz-Funk | 1975 |
15 | The Prodigy | Music For The Jilted Generation | Breakbeat, Techno, Big Beat | 1994 |
16 | Cocteau Twins | Blue Bell Knoll | Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Ethereal | 1988 |
17 | Wu-Tang Clan | Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Rap / Hip Hop | 1993 |
18 | Portishead | Portishead | Downtempo, Trip Hop | 1997 |
19 | Goldfrapp | Felt Mountain | Leftfield, Future Jazz, Downtempo | 2000 |
20 | 2814 | 新しい日の誕生 | Ambient, Drone, Vaporwave | 2015 |
21 | Chris Clark | Body Riddle | Abstract, IDM | 2006 |
22 | Boards Of Canada | Geogaddi | Abstract, IDM, Ambient | 2002 |
23 | AIR | Talkie Walkie | Downtempo, Synth-pop | 2003 |
24 | School Of Seven Bells | Disconnect From Desire | Shoegaze, Ethereal, Indie Rock | 2010 |
25 | Sneaker Pimps | Becoming X | Trip Hop | 1996 |
26 | Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim | Getz / Gilberto | Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz | 1964 |
27 | Orbital | Snivilisation | Electronic / Techno | 1994 |
28 | Moby | Play | Breakbeat, Leftfield, Downtempo | 1999 |
29 | Fatboy Slim | You've Come A Long Way, Baby | Big Beat | 1998 |
30 | Garbage | Garbage | Alternative Rock, Pop Rock | 1995 |
31 | MGMT | Oracular Spectacular | Indie Rock | 2007 |
32 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Rap / Hip Hop | 2010 |
33 | Nine Inch Nails | The Fragile | Alternative Rock, Industrial, Ambient | 1999 |
34 | Tomas Dvorak | Machinarium Soundtrack | Experimental, Ambient, Video Game Music | 2009 |
35 | Björk | Homogenic | Electronic, Pop | 1997 |
36 | Kendrick Lamar | Good Kid, M.A.A.d City | Rap / Hip Hop | 2012 |
37 | Erykah Badu | Baduizm | RnB/Swing, Neo Soul | 1996 |
38 | Gang Starr | Full Clip: A Decade Of Gang Starr | Rap / Hip Hop | 1999 |
39 | Radiohead | Amnesiac | Alternative Rock, Experimental | 2001 |
40 | M.I.A. (2) | Arular | Breakbeat, Ragga HipHop, Grime, Electro, Breaks | 2005 |
41 | M83 | Before The Dawn Heals Us | Electronic, Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze | 2005 |
42 | Lauryn Hill | The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill | Hop Hop, RnB/Swing, Neo Soul | 1998 |
43 | SZA (2) | Ctrl | Contemporary R&B | 2017 |
44 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever To Tell | Indie Rock | 2003 |
45 | Talib Kweli & Madlib | Liberation | Rap / Hip Hop | 2006 |
46 | Beastie Boys | Hello Nasty | Rap / Hip Hop | 1998 |
47 | Gorillaz | Gorillaz | Leftfield, Alternative Rock, Lo-Fi, Trip Hop | 2001 |
48 | Blonde Redhead | Misery Is A Butterfly | Indie Rock | 2004 |
49 | Broadcast | Work And Non Work | Electronic, Indie Pop, Leftfield | 1997 |
50 | The Avalanches | Since I Left You | Electronic, Leftfield, Abstract | 2000 |
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