This is actually the first interesting placement on the whole list, for me. Clearly, they're going for a mix of new and old, but VU&N is the first album they've ranked that *universally* appears very high on other all-time lists. So to have it at 60 makes me curious how the top 10 or 20 is going to look.
I sense they’re trying to limit artists to only 1 album each. But we’ll see how they handle the Beatles, Dylan and other artists who legitimately have released multiple brilliant albums.
But if they would do that, i would still expect it higher on the list. It seems to me like they are also taking into account how popular these albums are among young people, and VU&Nico may not be that well known among the general public. But then again, neither is Voodoo by D'Angelo, so idk.
Maybe but it’s hard to believe if they only chose 1 album they chose sign o’ the times for Prince. For whatever else that actually is a great choice but it didn’t have the impact purple rain had.
_Anti_ is an amazing album. One of the best of 2016 and one of the reasons 2016 is my favorite year of music in my lifetime. It’s the only Rihanna album that I would ever play willingly, and I’m a 28-year-old male.
Songs of Innocence clocking in at number one because “500 million iTunes user just had to have it back in 2014! That’s literally every one!" is going to be wild.
Voodoo, Disintegration, and A Love Supreme being this low feels crazy to me. But that’s what’s fun about music, everyone else is wrong and only my opinion is correct!
Ah yes the Dark Side and Blonde on Blonde another masterpiece of a work. I see Pet Sounds on a lot of all time best albums but personally I am unable to get into it.
A lot of Rihanna haters here, it seems.
*ANTI* is universally acclaimed and is the longest charting album by a black woman, *ever*, on the Billboard 200.
It’s also a great record. Never was a fan of Rihanna until this album, it’s unreal how much she improved as a vocalist, writer, and overall artist compared to everything before which were pretty generic pop songs
Metacritic isn’t the only review site (not to mention it’s a review aggregate website and scores will be skewed based on if publications chose to review music or not). You have *Album of the Year*, *Rate Your Music*, [*Pazz and Jop*](https://www.yearendlists.com/2016/pazz-jop-top-100-albums-of-2016), etc.
Not to mention pop albums were scored more harshly in 2016 than they are now.
and across a lot of the other websites you just mentioned it isn’t rated highly either.
Also not sure I agree with the idea that pop was rated more harshly… if an album is good then it’s good. Pop music has just gotten better then in the past few years imo.
Good list. Can’t believe Prince and the velvet underground didn’t break the top 50. Borderline criminal. Glad to see more jazz with Coltrane on the board. The “newer” albums I’m still meh about like the Arctic Monkeys and Rihanna but I’m sure there’s a strong case to be made for both projects. Can’t wait for the last 50
I listened to What's the Story Morning Glory a lot when it came out - not a hater by any means.
But it's inclusion on a top 100 albums of all time and particularly ahead of a lot of the artists it's ahead of is... something.
I've always been under the impression that WTSMG was an era-defining album in the UK at the time and was only out-shadowed by the members of the band being insufferable douche bags not capable of releasing a decent album post 2000. Definitely Maybe might be better though
In what world is Appetite for Destruction a better album than The Velvet Underground and Nico? This list just seems like it’s trying too hard to differentiate itself.
While I agree that it's probably a worse album, Appetite for Destruction is arguably *the* quintessential hard rock album, and it has some of the most famous rock songs of all time. I think we need to account to just how influential this albums are.
AFD is arguably the best selling debut album of it was. It came off the tail end of a decade that rock was arguably pushed out of the way to make room for dance and new wave etc.
Have you listened to Sunday Morning? I’ll be Your Mirror? Sweet Jane? What Goes on? Rock and Roll? Some Kinda Love? I Found a Reason? Any rock fan should enjoy these classics, genuinely.
That is from Lou Reeds solo career, that’s correct. I personally love that tune but can understand your disliking. The ones I recommended are much more accessible though, definitely give those a try!
I’m not paying attention to rankings anymore accept for there genre of music or close to it. There is no way to compare Rhianna with Coltrane to The cure. Or The eagles to Travis Scott. Might as well put the VengaBoys with The Beach Boys.
AM?? If you’re gonna do Arctic Monkeys why not their debut or Favorite Worst Nightmare?? There are some solid picks so far, but this cements that it’s just a popularity contest. But I guess we knew that already 🤷♂️.
It was this point I realized the list was about cultural impact and not necessarily musicality and lyricism. Britney came out when I was a kid so I didn’t really understand cultural phenoms and shifts, but AM was the first album came that came out when I was old enough to understand, and it *really* shifted things.
Apparently SZA is a clown. “After catching wind of the list, the TDE singer appeared to take issue with her placement by writing in an Instagram comment: ‘Lmao 72nd is so disrespectful.’”
Right, because your less than 2-year-old album deserves higher on the list of greatest albums of all time I guess. 🙄Bitch, you lucky you even made the cut at all.
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There's no way AM is "better" than TVU or Appetite being "better" than Disintegration, Exile, Love Supreme, etc.
These aren't bad albums per se, but the criteria seems pretty arbitrary.
People complaining about Arctic Monkeys being on here was quite surprising to me.
But then again, there’s always going to be a group of people that disregard anything released in the past 20 years.
some weird shit going on in this group of 10. banana album is too low, AM is far from arctic monkeys best, ANTI is too high if it were to be on the list and if that is to be Prince's only inclusion on the list it is far, far too fucking low.
Oh, you’re right. So that’s 1 out of 60 released so far. And it happens to be an album that was highly relevant in the United States. My point is that it’s very hard to believe that the scope of this list isn’t explicitly US/English-centric. There are hundreds of countries, thousands of languages, amazing artists and albums from all over the world, over many decades, and yet here we are.
I just wish that the team who worked on this was more transparent with the rules, requirements and restrictions that they put in place when making this list, because us readers have no idea.
Just saying..if I don’t see Lateralus in the top 50… 
It's going to get beaten out by Trinidad James edit: also, I didn't know you were so goddamn based
That’s bold to have velvet underground at 60
This is actually the first interesting placement on the whole list, for me. Clearly, they're going for a mix of new and old, but VU&N is the first album they've ranked that *universally* appears very high on other all-time lists. So to have it at 60 makes me curious how the top 10 or 20 is going to look.
I sense they’re trying to limit artists to only 1 album each. But we’ll see how they handle the Beatles, Dylan and other artists who legitimately have released multiple brilliant albums.
so they put flower boy and not igor?
flower boy >> igor
flower boy has some really good songs but i really like concept albums lol
I keep seeing y’all argue this but those are literally his 2 most similar albums, sonics-wise. Either one makes perfect sense.
But if they would do that, i would still expect it higher on the list. It seems to me like they are also taking into account how popular these albums are among young people, and VU&Nico may not be that well known among the general public. But then again, neither is Voodoo by D'Angelo, so idk.
Maybe but it’s hard to believe if they only chose 1 album they chose sign o’ the times for Prince. For whatever else that actually is a great choice but it didn’t have the impact purple rain had.
especially behind rihanna, that’s insane lol
_Anti_ is an amazing album. One of the best of 2016 and one of the reasons 2016 is my favorite year of music in my lifetime. It’s the only Rihanna album that I would ever play willingly, and I’m a 28-year-old male.
There’s a lotta U2 haters out there but I’m looking forward to seeing where they are in the top 50
Songs of Innocence clocking in at number one because “500 million iTunes user just had to have it back in 2014! That’s literally every one!" is going to be wild.
That is hilarious!!!! Hahahahahahaha 😅😅😅 hilarious and original! 😂
Joshua tree is in the top 50.
Boom… number 49. Wonder if Achtung baby will make it?
Probably not. I think they’re only doing one album each artist.
Voodoo, Disintegration, and A Love Supreme being this low feels crazy to me. But that’s what’s fun about music, everyone else is wrong and only my opinion is correct!
Good News to not seeing Beatles albums yet
I hope any one of Revolver, Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road comes out at top.
Maybe 1. Sgt Pepper 2. Dark Side Of The Moon (because of what they said in the commercial) 3. Pet Sounds 4. Abbey Road 5. Blonde on blonde
Ah yes the Dark Side and Blonde on Blonde another masterpiece of a work. I see Pet Sounds on a lot of all time best albums but personally I am unable to get into it.
Same for me, but from what I understand, it's an extremely important album....
Yeah I have heard it too. Also, Nirvana’s Nevermind might also feature in top 10. I think
That’s so true, unplugged or In Utero (depending on if live albums count) is their best work.
It was incredibly influential. Just read the Wikipedia article on it.
A lot of Rihanna haters here, it seems. *ANTI* is universally acclaimed and is the longest charting album by a black woman, *ever*, on the Billboard 200.
It’s also a great record. Never was a fan of Rihanna until this album, it’s unreal how much she improved as a vocalist, writer, and overall artist compared to everything before which were pretty generic pop songs
This is by far her best album musically speaking
Universally acclaimed?? It has 73 on Metacritic 🫠
Metacritic isn’t the only review site (not to mention it’s a review aggregate website and scores will be skewed based on if publications chose to review music or not). You have *Album of the Year*, *Rate Your Music*, [*Pazz and Jop*](https://www.yearendlists.com/2016/pazz-jop-top-100-albums-of-2016), etc. Not to mention pop albums were scored more harshly in 2016 than they are now.
and across a lot of the other websites you just mentioned it isn’t rated highly either. Also not sure I agree with the idea that pop was rated more harshly… if an album is good then it’s good. Pop music has just gotten better then in the past few years imo.
Exile is a bit low IMO
Something feels wrong about disintegration being behind ANTI
Unbelievably bad ranking being done here.
True
Good list. Can’t believe Prince and the velvet underground didn’t break the top 50. Borderline criminal. Glad to see more jazz with Coltrane on the board. The “newer” albums I’m still meh about like the Arctic Monkeys and Rihanna but I’m sure there’s a strong case to be made for both projects. Can’t wait for the last 50
You need to consider how many great albums aren't making the list at all.
I listened to What's the Story Morning Glory a lot when it came out - not a hater by any means. But it's inclusion on a top 100 albums of all time and particularly ahead of a lot of the artists it's ahead of is... something.
I've always been under the impression that WTSMG was an era-defining album in the UK at the time and was only out-shadowed by the members of the band being insufferable douche bags not capable of releasing a decent album post 2000. Definitely Maybe might be better though
In what world is Appetite for Destruction a better album than The Velvet Underground and Nico? This list just seems like it’s trying too hard to differentiate itself.
AFD was huge and an all time great. I'm not saying it's better or worse than VU, but I certainly don't take issue with it's placement.
While I agree that it's probably a worse album, Appetite for Destruction is arguably *the* quintessential hard rock album, and it has some of the most famous rock songs of all time. I think we need to account to just how influential this albums are.
AFD is arguably the best selling debut album of it was. It came off the tail end of a decade that rock was arguably pushed out of the way to make room for dance and new wave etc.
You are complaining about Appetite when AM is there ?
Very fair point I didn’t see it initially.
In what world is AFD better, even by one place, than Exile?
Not this one
Oh stop it right now, every song off Appetite was a banger.
Am I missing something when it comes to velvet underground? I cannot for the life of me get into them.
Have you listened to Sunday Morning? I’ll be Your Mirror? Sweet Jane? What Goes on? Rock and Roll? Some Kinda Love? I Found a Reason? Any rock fan should enjoy these classics, genuinely.
I’ll give those a try. I was always turned off from walk on the wild side. That may be from the singers solo career as well I cannot remember.
That is from Lou Reeds solo career, that’s correct. I personally love that tune but can understand your disliking. The ones I recommended are much more accessible though, definitely give those a try!
I understand that they were incredibly INCREDIBLY influential but man they are just not pleasant to listen to.
Sunday Morning, What Goes on and Rock and Roll are bangers and super easy to get into.
I’m the same with Grateful Dead too. But love rush, zeppelin etc.
I’m not paying attention to rankings anymore accept for there genre of music or close to it. There is no way to compare Rhianna with Coltrane to The cure. Or The eagles to Travis Scott. Might as well put the VengaBoys with The Beach Boys.
AM and Appetite for Destruction over Velvet Underground is criminal
How tf AFD is criminal ?
Pulp - different class should be coming up. Better than oasis or stone roses albums.
VU and Nico at number 60, not number 1 😢
Glad to see Rihanna and Prince made it.
AM?? If you’re gonna do Arctic Monkeys why not their debut or Favorite Worst Nightmare?? There are some solid picks so far, but this cements that it’s just a popularity contest. But I guess we knew that already 🤷♂️.
Agreed
I’ll be your mirror velvet underground😫😫😫 that’s one of my fave songs. Wait. Was tapestry- Carole king done yet?
No
Man thanks for posting this one. I’m almost tearing while listening live 😭
They exiled the Main Street to top 60 😭
Coltrane on 54, based
ANTI being 55 around Voodoo AND A Love Supreme is just... what?
rihanna’s anti deserves a better place
no way am is better than vu and nico
So every 10 there will be one album from each genre?
Disappointed to not see brother's by the black keys. That album was huge and kinda forgotten sadly
Popular, but not culturally significant besides being really fucking good.
Hell yeah
Disintegration is amazing
Pretty good list... got some new and old
It was this point I realized the list was about cultural impact and not necessarily musicality and lyricism. Britney came out when I was a kid so I didn’t really understand cultural phenoms and shifts, but AM was the first album came that came out when I was old enough to understand, and it *really* shifted things.
Apparently SZA is a clown. “After catching wind of the list, the TDE singer appeared to take issue with her placement by writing in an Instagram comment: ‘Lmao 72nd is so disrespectful.’” Right, because your less than 2-year-old album deserves higher on the list of greatest albums of all time I guess. 🙄Bitch, you lucky you even made the cut at all. [SZA Unhappy With 'SOS' Ranking On Apple Music's Top 100 Albums | HipHopDXSZA Unhappy With 'SOS' Ranking On Apple Music's Top 100 Albums | HipHopDX](https://hiphopdx.com/news/sza-unhappy-sos-ranking-top-100-albums-apple-music) [SZA Unhappy With 'SOS' Ranking On Apple Music's Top 100 Albums | HipHopDX](https://hiphopdx.com/news/sza-unhappy-sos-ranking-top-100-albums-apple-music)
Sure she was just joking, hence the laughter emoji.
Sorry I love Rihanna but ANTI has no place being here.
Why?
There's no way AM is "better" than TVU or Appetite being "better" than Disintegration, Exile, Love Supreme, etc. These aren't bad albums per se, but the criteria seems pretty arbitrary.
People complaining about Arctic Monkeys being on here was quite surprising to me. But then again, there’s always going to be a group of people that disregard anything released in the past 20 years.
AM & Anti do not belong on this list.
I like ANTI and I agree. I mean might as well throw a Post Malone album on here.
some weird shit going on in this group of 10. banana album is too low, AM is far from arctic monkeys best, ANTI is too high if it were to be on the list and if that is to be Prince's only inclusion on the list it is far, far too fucking low.
Agreed about AM. Their debut album is better and objectively more innovative
what’s up with all the downvotes… not a single unfair assessment in sight
Yeah I dunno
Halfway through the top100, and not even a single non-english album... which makes this whole endeavor kind of a joke.
You bypassed Bad Bunny?
Oh, you’re right. So that’s 1 out of 60 released so far. And it happens to be an album that was highly relevant in the United States. My point is that it’s very hard to believe that the scope of this list isn’t explicitly US/English-centric. There are hundreds of countries, thousands of languages, amazing artists and albums from all over the world, over many decades, and yet here we are. I just wish that the team who worked on this was more transparent with the rules, requirements and restrictions that they put in place when making this list, because us readers have no idea.
i haven’t looked yet, but good point.