The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!

[Poly-Rythmo]

I think the biggest casualty of the one album per artist orthodoxy was Bowie, I would definitely have expected him to have an album higher. I suppose he suffered from having such a run of great albums that people chose from a spread of them rather than there being a standout concentrating the votes.

Dunno - could argue the same for Led Zeppelin (and Radiohead showed it didn't hurt everyone).

A fun list - I look forward to checking out some of the albums (although I was happy to have 59 of the top 100). One thing - Counting Crows' August and Everything After is listed twice (430 and 395)

 

[Thackeraye]

Thanks @Woob_woob! I'm sure the combination of sleep deprivation and spreadsheets isn't a great mix, so thanks for doing this.

 

[BjorgenFjorgen]

No I didn’t because I thought it was dumb, some artists are better and it’s not my top 50 without all the albums of theirs that I like.

It did feel like the majority of the published lists did though.

I didn't either; I had a ton of multiples. Not gonna penalize Dylan for making too many great records!

 

[Woob_woob]

Nice work! Curious to know how many people contributed.

From a quick count, looks like we had 61 participants

 

[Woob_woob]

was there EVER any doubt about the number 1?

Not only was it #1, it was #1 by a massive margin.

 

[waruv]

Welp, my assumption is that I am the only person who had that particular album in my top 50 (unless @Goatfish included it). It was #16 on my top 50. So one person including it in their top 20 was at least enough to get it placed at #500.

Three cheers for the outliers!

I don't think this is the case as I had some items in my Top 10 not make the list at all (unless my list was missed).

 

[waruv]

I'll add on my list. Lots of female artists and recent items on here. Given this is the second mention of Rilo Kiley on this thread and it didn't make Top 500 I'm super curious what the cut off was.

Rank	Artist	Album	Points
1	Amy Winehouse	Back to Black	50
2	Jason Isbell	Southeastern	49
3	The xx	xx	48
4	Sarah Jarosz	Follow Me Down	47
5	Rilo Kiley	More Adventurous	46
6	Carly Rae Jepsen	Emotion	45
7	A Fine Frenzy	One Cell in the Sea	44
8	Grateful Dead	American Beauty	43
9	Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	42
10	Neko Case	Middle Cyclone	41
11	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	40
12	The Beatles	Abbey Road	39
13	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	38
14	Kanye West	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	37
15	Carole King	Tapestry	36
16	Norah Jones	Come Away With Me	35
17	Radiohead	The Bends	34
18	Arcade Fire	The Suburbs	33
19	Oasis	(What's The Story) Morning Glory	32
20	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	31
21	Lorde	Melodrama	30
22	Death Cab For Cutie	Plans	29
23	Metric	Fantasies	28
24	First Aid Kit	The Lion's Roar	27
25	Daft Punk	Discovery	26
26	Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins	Rabbit Fur Coat	25
27	Phoebe Bridgers	Punisher	24
28	Girl Talk	Feed The Animals	23
29	Taylor Swift	1989	22
30	Kacey Musgraves	Same Trailer, Different Park	21
31	Robyn	Body Talk	20
32	Michael Jackson	Thriller	19
33	CHVRCHES	Every Open Eye	18
34	Fitz and the Tantrums	Pickin Up The Pieces	17
35	The Lonely Island	Incredibad	16
36	Lake Street Dive	Bad Self Portraits	15
37	Wet	Don't You	14
38	Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	13
39	James Taylor	Sweet Baby James	12
40	Jack Johnson	Brushfire Fairyales	11
41	Courtney Barnett	Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit	10
42	Matt and Kim	Grand	9
43	Elton John	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	8
44	Dessa	Parts of Speech	7
45	No Doubt	Tragic Kingdom	6
46	The Mowglis	Waiting for the Dawn	5
47	Kendrick Lamar	Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City	4
48	Jessie Buckley	Wild Rose (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	3
49	Vince Guaraldi Trio	A Charlie Brown Christmas	2
50	Caroline Spence	Mint Condition	1

 

[bettim84]

Welp, my assumption is that I am the only person who had that particular album in my top 50 (unless @Goatfish included it). It was #16 on my top 50. So one person including it in their top 20 was at least enough to get it placed at #500.

Three cheers for the outliers!

Then I fear that my list was not counted, because there are SEVERAL albums from my top 10 that did not make the Top 500.

 

[Tyr]

Oh no! What have I started.

If there are calls for a recount I will immediately step down and resign my post as.....as.....um.....

/me sprints from the room

 

[Joe Mac]

Oh no! What have I started.

If there are calls for a recount I will immediately step down and resign my post as.....as.....um.....

/me sprints from the room

I don’t think I even need post the GIF this time...

 

[gaporter]

Welp, my assumption is that I am the only person who had that particular album in my top 50 (unless @Goatfish included it). It was #16 on my top 50. So one person including it in their top 20 was at least enough to get it placed at #500.

Three cheers for the outliers!

I count a few albums that I'm fairly sure I'm solely responsible for having a spot on the list.

488. MGMT - Congratulations
348. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry.
322. Laura Stevenson - Cocksure
303. Mitski - Be the Cowboy (nobody else had this?! )
273. Death Grips - Year of the Snitch

And unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like it might have been the only person with Portishead's Third on my list and me having it at number 1 was enough to get it to 235. The only assumption I have there is that the one-artist led to most people picking Dummy over it because the alternative is that people don't love an album that I do and as we all know, this is just scientifically impossible.

 

[gaporter]

Also me and @duke86fan managing to get Clarence Clarity to number 215 makes me very happy

 

[bettim84]

I count a few albums that I'm fairly sure I'm solely responsible for having a spot on the list.

488. MGMT - Congratulations
348. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry.
322. Laura Stevenson - Cocksure
303. Mitski - Be the Cowboy (nobody else had this?! )
273. Death Grips - Year of the Snitch

And unless my eyes deceive me, it looks like it might have been the only person with Portishead's Third on my list and me having it at number 1 was enough to get it to 235. The only assumption I have there is that the one-artist led to most people picking Dummy over it because the alternative is that people don't love an album that I do and as we all know, this is just scientifically impossible.

Not everyone shared their lists on the thread, so we can’t know for sure whether any one of us was to only person to list a specific album.

The reason I’m curious about the point cutoff is because I had two Belle and Sebastian albums in my top 5, plus another in the mid-20s (If You’re Feeling Sinister) that appeared on at least two other lists and would’ve had more than 50 points if they were all counted. Yet the Top 500 features none of them.

Another one I ranked very high is PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, and that appeared on at least five shared lists (positions 6, 19, 22, 26, and 43 = 139 points)... and yet it’s not in the top 500.

 

[duke86fan]

Also me and @duke86fan managing to get Clarence Clarity to number 215 makes me very happy

i am pretty sure i am the ONLY reason the black parade is so high since i basically gave it 49 points


i wonder how many of these were ties there were on here... i feel like i cant have been exclusively responsible for this one

 

[Crabbers]

Welp, my assumption is that I am the only person who had that particular album in my top 50 (unless @Goatfish included it). It was #16 on my top 50. So one person including it in their top 20 was at least enough to get it placed at #500.

Three cheers for the outliers!

My PUSA is the reason for how high it is...outliers indeed need a

 

[Crabbers]

Dunno - could argue the same for Led Zeppelin (and Radiohead showed it didn't hurt everyone).

A fun list - I look forward to checking out some of the albums (although I was happy to have 59 of the top 100). One thing - Counting Crows' August and Everything After is listed twice (430 and 395)

So is Otis blue but oh well

 

[neuorder]

So is Otis blue but oh well

So is Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (#11 and #378). Any other duplicates? Maybe we can make room for a few other albums that barely didn’t make it

Edit: Grammar.

 

[waruv]

Not everyone shared their lists on the thread, so we can’t know for sure whether any one of us was to only person to list a specific album.

The reason I’m curious about the point cutoff is because I had two Belle and Sebastian albums in my top 5, plus another in the mid-20s (If You’re Feeling Sinister) that appeared on at least two other lists and would’ve had more than 50 points if they were all counted. Yet the Top 500 features none of them.

Another one I ranked very high is PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, and that appeared on at least five shared lists (positions 6, 19, 22, 26, and 43 = 139 points)... and yet it’s not in the top 500.

With 62 entries I think it’s possible for the cutoff to be above 139 but it’s really unlikely, so either someone didn’t submit their list or one or more lists got missed...understandable given the sheer volume involved.

 

[Ericj32]

So is Pink Floyd - Wish You We’re Here (#11 and #378). Any other duplicates? Maybe we can make room for a few other albums that barely didn’t make it

stevie wonder - songs in the key of life was at 201 and 471.

 

[Gavaxeman]

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