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The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time (www.pastemagazine.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key of Life
Disintegration - The Cure
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Sign 'o the Times - Prince
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Stankonia - OutKast
Long Season - Fishmans
Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone
Clube da Esquina - Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I saw this one the other day. To me it seems silly to make a ranking list for something this expansive. But I'm sure it gets more clicks than if they were to name the article "300 great albums in no particular order"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They acknowledge the futility of the exercise and basically say they're doing it for fun and clicks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They haven't even loosely defined greatest, so trying to argue on an albums placement is impossible.

That being said to an absolute rube like me it looks like a decent list. The only weird placement for me was Big Fish Theory at 195. Maybe I missed the hype on that album but I'm not sure a lot of people would even place it top 100 hip hop album of all time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Oh cool! I own some of these! :)

The Replacements Let It Be is lower ranked than Tim?

Insanity!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

My take on this is that any listicle is there for the clicks. Most of them, you can read in a minute, then discard. Listicles seem to be one of Paste's modus operandi, but they aren't alone in this.

What made me want to post this one is that for me, there are definitely some interesting additions and that it seems that quite a bit of thought and effort went into it.

Of course, each one of us might quibble with what's in there or not in there, or what order things are in, and so on. I don't care about that debate, really. I like discovering things that are new to me, and there are quite a few on there that I will add to my "to listen" playlist, that I hadn't considered or heard of before.