gacked from strippedhalo

[grissecon]

I went through Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums list and picked out the ones that I've owned. Notice the tense. I have a tendency to sell CDs when in need of cash, so most of these are no longer with me.


London Calling, The Clash
Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
Nevermind, Nirvana
Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
Hotel California, The Eagles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles
Revolver, The Beatles
The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
Abbey Road, The Beatles
Please Please Me, The Beatles
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
The Doors, The Doors
Meet the Beatles, The Beatles
Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses
Achtung Baby, U2
Purple Rain, Prince
Otis Blue, Otis Redding
The Clash, The Clash
Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
Let It Be, The Beatles
In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra
Raw Power, The Stooges
Paranoid, Black Sabbath
Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology, Otis Redding
Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin
Santana, Santana
Pretenders, The Pretenders
Closer, Joy Division
Alive, Kiss
Master of Puppets, Metallica
The Stooges, The Stooges
Funhouse, The Stooges
The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails
The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths
Doolittle, Pixies
Rhythm Nation 1814, Janet Jackson
The Immaculate Collection, Madonna
Meat Is Murder, The Smiths
Ghost in the Machine, The Police
Disintegration, The Cure
Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette
Help!, The Beatles
Violator, Depeche Mode
Louder Than Bombs, The Smiths
Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine
Pyromania, Def Leppard
A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles
Mezzanine, Massive Attack
Dummy, Portishead
Boys Don't Cry, The Cure
Synchronicity, The Police
Hysteria, Def Leppard
Faith, George Michael
The Smiths, The Smiths
Entertainment!, Gang of Four
She's So Unusual, Cyndi Lauper


It's impressive that some of these are even on the list, but seriously what were they thinking including Madonna's Music? Specially considering that NIN only got The Downward Spiral on the entire list. I don't know anyone who thinks that Music is a better album than The Fragile.