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

I submitted my top 50, finally. Like I was telling Woob, I could be tweaking this list forever. So many great records that were bubbling under.

Anyway, here it is.


1​
Talking HeadsRemain In Light
1980​
2​
The ClashLondon Calling
1979​
3​
Big Star#1 Record
1972​
4​
Marvin GayeWhat's Going On?
1971​
5​
David BowieYoung Americans
1975​
6​
Daft PunkDiscovery
2001​
7​
PrincePurple Rain
1984​
8​
Bob Marley & The WailersExodus
1977​
9​
Fleetwood MacRumors
1977​
10​
The Rolling StonesSticky Fingers
1971​
11​
The BeatlesRevolver
1966​
12​
The CarsThe Cars
1978​
13​
FunkadelicMaggot Brain
1971​
14​
Duran DuranRio
1982​
15​
Creedence Clearwater RevivalCosmo's Factory
1970​
16​
Amy WinehouseBack To Black
2006​
17​
Neil YoungAfter the Goldrush
1970​
18​
David BowieStation To Station
1976​
19​
Tom Petty & The HeartbreakersDamn The Torpedoes
1979​
20​
PulpDifferent Class
1995​
21​
Serge GainsbourgHistoire De Melody Nelson
1971​
22​
NirvanaNevermind
1991​
23​
Depeche ModeViolator
1990​
24​
PrinceSign O The Times
1987​
25​
Elvis CostelloThis Year's Model
1978​
26​
PortisheadDummy
1994​
27​
Sly & The Family StoneThere's A Riot Going On
1971​
28​
White StripesElephant
2003​
29​
TelevisionMarquee Moon
1976​
30​
Led ZeppelinII
1969​
31​
Dusty SpringfieldDusty In Memphis
1969​
32​
The Rolling StonesExile On Main Street
1972​
33​
Jimi HendrixElectric Ladyland
1968​
34​
Iggy PopLust For Life
1977​
35​
Curtis MayfieldSuperfly
1972​
36​
T RexElectric Warrior
1971​
37​
The BeatlesAbbey Road
1970​
38​
RodriguezCold Fact
1970​
39​
Daft PunkRandom Access Memory
2013​
40​
Beastie BoysIll Communication
1994​
41​
The SmithsThe Queen Is Dead
1986​
42​
Fela KutiLive With Ginger Baker
1971​
43​
LCD SoundsystemSounds of Silver
2007​
44​
RadioheadOk Computer
1997​
45​
Pink FloydDark Side Of The Moon
1973​
46​
The Modern LoversThe Modern Lovers
1975​
47​
The CureDisintegration
1989​
48​
Tame ImpalaCurrents
2015​
49​
GorillazPlastic Beach
2010​
50​
New OrderLow Life
1984​
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!!! :love:

@Lee Newman - I low-key wanted to faint onto you when I saw you list Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" at #1!!! ♥️♥️♥️
 
@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!!! 😁
Oh boy that sounds like a time sink lmao. I’ll perhaps give it a try, no promises but thanks for the invitation!
 
My rankings go:
1. Sticky Fingers
2. Beggars Banquet
3. Let It Bleed
4. Exile On Main Street

The only reason I put Exile on the bottom of their iconic 4 is because it's the one I've spent the least time with, which I know needs to be remedied.
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.
 
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.
 
Some really nice lists here and a lot of albums I never heard. Also, congrats to all of you who participated. I can't make a list of my ten favourite album, it would be a different one everyday.
I could make a list again today and it would be pretty different, though with repeat themes. Come on, give it a shot.
Goats Head Soup still takes my top spot as favorite Stones' album, but it is hard to deny the flawlessness of Exile.
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.
 
I use favorite and best interchangeably but I understand your differentiation.


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.”
 
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! ♥️
 
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!
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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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!
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.


#ArtistAlbumGenreYear
1​
RadioheadOK ComputerAlternative / Rock
1997​
2​
BeckSea ChangeAlternative / Rock
2002​
3​
Nine Inch NailsThe Downward SpiralIndustrial
1994​
4​
FugeesThe ScoreRap / Hip Hop
1996​
5​
NasIllmaticRap / Hip Hop
1994​
6​
MadvillainMadvillainyRap / Hip Hop
2004​
7​
A Tribe Called QuestMidnight MaraudersRap / Hip Hop
1993​
8​
Massive AttackMezzanineLeftfield, Trip Hop, Downtempo
1998​
9​
My Bloody ValentineLovelessShoegaze, Alternative Rock
1991​
10​
Amon TobinPermutationLeftfield, Drum n Bass, Future Jazz, Downtempo, Breaks
1998​
11​
AutechreLP5Abstract, IDM, Experimental
1998​
12​
Boards Of CanadaMusic Has The Right To ChildrenIDM, Ambient
1998​
13​
SlowdiveSouvlakiIndie Rock, Shoegaze, Dream Pop
1993​
14​
Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic EchoesVisions Of A New WorldFusion, Jazz-Funk
1975​
15​
The ProdigyMusic For The Jilted GenerationBreakbeat, Techno, Big Beat
1994​
16​
Cocteau TwinsBlue Bell KnollIndie Rock, Dream Pop, Ethereal
1988​
17​
Wu-Tang ClanEnter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)Rap / Hip Hop
1993​
18​
PortisheadPortisheadDowntempo, Trip Hop
1997​
19​
GoldfrappFelt MountainLeftfield, Future Jazz, Downtempo
2000​
20​
2814新しい日の誕生Ambient, Drone, Vaporwave
2015​
21​
Chris ClarkBody RiddleAbstract, IDM
2006​
22​
Boards Of CanadaGeogaddiAbstract, IDM, Ambient
2002​
23​
AIRTalkie WalkieDowntempo, Synth-pop
2003​
24​
School Of Seven BellsDisconnect From DesireShoegaze, Ethereal, Indie Rock
2010​
25​
Sneaker PimpsBecoming XTrip Hop
1996​
26​
Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto Featuring Antonio Carlos JobimGetz / GilbertoBossa Nova, Latin Jazz
1964​
27​
OrbitalSnivilisationElectronic / Techno
1994​
28​
MobyPlayBreakbeat, Leftfield, Downtempo
1999​
29​
Fatboy SlimYou've Come A Long Way, BabyBig Beat
1998​
30​
GarbageGarbageAlternative Rock, Pop Rock
1995​
31​
MGMTOracular SpectacularIndie Rock
2007​
32​
Kanye WestMy Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyRap / Hip Hop
2010​
33​
Nine Inch NailsThe FragileAlternative Rock, Industrial, Ambient
1999​
34​
Tomas DvorakMachinarium SoundtrackExperimental, Ambient, Video Game Music
2009​
35​
BjörkHomogenicElectronic, Pop
1997​
36​
Kendrick LamarGood Kid, M.A.A.d CityRap / Hip Hop
2012​
37​
Erykah BaduBaduizmRnB/Swing, Neo Soul
1996​
38​
Gang StarrFull Clip: A Decade Of Gang StarrRap / Hip Hop
1999​
39​
RadioheadAmnesiacAlternative Rock, Experimental
2001​
40​
M.I.A. (2)ArularBreakbeat, Ragga HipHop, Grime, Electro, Breaks
2005​
41​
M83Before The Dawn Heals UsElectronic, Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze
2005​
42​
Lauryn HillThe Miseducation Of Lauryn HillHop Hop, RnB/Swing, Neo Soul
1998​
43​
SZA (2)CtrlContemporary R&B
2017​
44​
Yeah Yeah YeahsFever To TellIndie Rock
2003​
45​
Talib Kweli & MadlibLiberationRap / Hip Hop
2006​
46​
Beastie BoysHello NastyRap / Hip Hop
1998​
47​
GorillazGorillazLeftfield, Alternative Rock, Lo-Fi, Trip Hop
2001​
48​
Blonde RedheadMisery Is A ButterflyIndie Rock
2004​
49​
BroadcastWork And Non WorkElectronic, Indie Pop, Leftfield
1997​
50​
The AvalanchesSince I Left YouElectronic, Leftfield, Abstract
2000​

 
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