paste magazine 300 greatest albums of all time

marty robbins and this heat! why not? #thatssorandom

i dunno its normal but its okayzzzzzzzz....

i actually got tired of scrolling. so i don't know what the greatest album of all time is yet...

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/greatest-albums/the-300-greatest-albums-of-all-time-2

its stevie wonder

#spoiler

Fishmans at #7

i tried to listen to new day rising in the car on cd the other day and i couldn't do it. that production i dunno my car didn't like it. and my car is pretty broad-minded when it comes to sound. but yeesh it hurt my ears. i put on chrome by catherine wheel instead. sounded awesome! my car really likes chrome! which makes sense.

this list is making me listen to you're living all over me for the first time.

"(You're Living All Over Me) For the First Time" top 50 hit in 1972 iirc

The world didn’t know how to make music until Stevie Wonder started making it

Okay, let's not go nuts.

Fishmans at #7

― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:41 AM

p good for an album that doesn't actually exist!

This is a much better list than I would have expected from Paste

that's not even the best Stevie Wonder album of the 1970s

But it's a perfectly reasonable consensus #1 for a list like this from Paste

fuck stankonia btw. ildewild is better.

I'm with upper mississippi (Innervisions, Hotter Than July and Fulfillingness are all better than Songs) but ... if that's what it takes to get Stevie into his proper placement at #1, so be it

(Compared to the 20 spots he's still below Arcade Fire over at Acclaimed Music)

I always search for the Shoes, and I'm always disappointed--lyrics from Paul Simon and Van Morrison, and something about God's shoeshine in the Modest Mouse entry.

shit, i haven't listened to acabou chorare in ages

haven't listened to black vinyl shoes in ages either tbh but i'm listening to acabou chorare now

only one of these i don't know at least by reputation is Deulgukhwa: 들국화

everything else is "huh, that's interesting"

i don't have any opinions at all about what albums are "the greatest". it's more like "yep those are 300 good albums alright".

The worst thought I've had about this list is that a good deal of the Paste staff must have RYM accounts.

But any list with Tatsuro Yamashita's For You showing up, can't be bad.

Though this list was one spot away from being a South Park quote.

Not enough Death Grips or video game soundtracks

We get it, they are dismantling the boomer-dominated classic rock canon but only one album by The Who (at 288, Tommy) and none by The Kinks feels like an overcorrection.

Not to mention that, its virtues aside, Tommy is not a great choice over at least three or four other Who albums. (And I hate every Top 10 that Abbey Road lands.)

The Kinks get to be underrated again.

it's impossible for a white british rock group from the mid 60s to be underrated

When did "Abbey Road" become the world's favourite Beatles album? And why?

I always assumed Talking Book was the consensus pick for Stevie

it's impossible for a white british rock group from the mid 60s to be underrated

I don't see the Pretty Things on many lists

xp nah, i think that one's always been running pretty much third-place for decades now

(but then again, I think it's the weakest of the entire early '70s run, so what do I know)

Acabou Chorare and Clube da Esquina ARE classic rock records in a way (and they are way better than Kinks and Who albums – and there's no need to put them down because they are 'dismantling' anything)

it's impossible for a white british rock group from the mid 60s to be underrated

The Creation? The Move? I don't know if they're underrated, but they don't show up on lists like these--or even, I don't think, greatest-ever singles lists, which would be more suitable.

I think the Troggs are pretty underrated tbh

i'm not trying to be trolly here -and thank you all for your responses- but idk, i think bands like those don't require much persuading if you already like that sort of thing and they, subsequently, get rated pretty well by those who hear them.

-i'm more of a new waver obvs, so maybe this is my punk rock mind "I HATE PINK FLOYD TEE SHIRT" irrationallyangry anti-classic rock moment shining through-

idk, i'm more in support of doing stupid things like replacing abbey road with something else on this list and watching the collective squirming. that's way more fun than just expecting certain albums/representatives in specific places.

all that said and totally independent of all this, paste magazine is fucking hilarious, isn't it??? :D

i would love to replace abbey road with sf sorrow. so that more people listen to sf sorrow.

i think bands like those don't require much persuading if you already like that sort of thing and they, subsequently, get rated pretty well by those who hear them.

That's why I'm always reluctant to use the word "underrated" when what you really mean is underheard (or, with films, underseen). I don't think there are many people out there who are familiar with the Creation's "Making Time" and think it's just a so-so song. If you know it, you probably love it; it's that not many people know it (though Rushmore helped in that instance).

The effect of experiencing S.F. Sorrow is feeling like the Loneliest Person in the World, more listeners would just get in the way.

xpost yeah clemenza pretty much, tbh. i know i came off kinda aggro but let me put it into another context--

it's impossible to underrate any 12" single on rawkus records between 1998 and 2000.

(and believe me: i'm just as tired of hearing about "simon says" as i am "waterloo sunset")

My favourite Pretty Things is from the follow-up LP: "What's the Use?" (same effect, though).

long season wildly overrated here lol, not even the best fishmans album though none is 'top 10 of all time' good

disintegration is a weird #2

The real greatest album was all the pop-ups we had to close on the Paste site along the way

the attempt at creating a more international canon here is a bit weird because there's a few japanese, brazilian, etc. picks that are the most distinctive part of this list but there's only a few so they kinda just feel like token picks idk. like the list is better for having them than not but it's odd

ok they also put kuuchuu camp on there which is also not the best fishmans album? bizarre

i'm all for an international canon so we can demolish that one too.

so, on that note, i like token picks. if you have to get through long season to discover that uchu nippon setagaya is better... okay ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

kinda same idea as someone unfamiliar with stevie needing to get through sitkol in order to discover they prefer innervisions. again: i'm very okay with this.

what's notably missing here? can are the first thing that comes to mind. prog in general seems absent apart from dsotm. kid a isn't here. low deserve to have an album or two in a list like this but it's not unusual they're missing

blue rev of all things being the most recent album here is absurd. the 10s/20s picks are generally not great

how is life of pablo the highest kanye album (or here at all) lmao, and how are that and mbdtf the kanye picks?

having a queen album on here at all is pretty ridiculous but jazz is a very strange pick

i know you can do this with any list like this, but this is an especially fun one:

120. Fugees: The Score (1996)
121. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1982)

really puts into perspective how stupid/irrelevant the rankings are.

also thriller TOO LOW

Thriller sucks

Blue Rev rules, tho

velvet rope in the top 20 seems noteworthy.

seems like many of the criticisms levied against canonical boomer entries (overexposed, overrated, ethically questionable behavior, annoying fans) apply as much to Thriller as to someone like the Beatles

the only recent indie rock picks i'd really accept on an all-time list right now would be u.f.o.f. and dragon new warm mountain i believe in you

Album of the year has one but I think it’s pulled from album scores on different sources and not lists:

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/all/1

There is acclaimed music https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/alltime_albums.htm

https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/alltime_songs.htm

The college kids who buy vinyl beg to differ.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

college kids buy vinyl like i buy exercise equipment

or clothes. i have a whole closet full of amazing outfits that i'm too depressed to wear.

They are not depressed enough to not play the copy of Rumours or Dark Side of the Moon for which they paid $25, I assure you.

any prog rock rock album that isn't Moving Pictures.

Ok I guess Dark Side of the Moon is also prog, so that's 2 out of 300. Interesting to me that not a single Yes, Genesis, King Crimson album made it (the first KC album seems to be a token pick these days)

for which they paid $25,

lol no way anyone's finding those albums for that low in 2024

New Copies At Target!

Was there any Black Sabbath on that list? I’m too bored to deal with all the ads to scroll through again.

The Acclaimed Music board posted the text list:

300. Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
299. Rihanna: Anti (2016)
298. Queen: Jazz (1978)
297. Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
296. The Raincoats: The Raincoats (1979)
295. Bad Brains: Bad Brains (1981)
294. Deulgukhwa: 들국화 (1985)
293. Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted (1990)
292. David Bowie: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)
291. Camarón: La leyenda del tiempo (1979)
290. The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World Of… (1984)
289. Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time (1999)
288. The Who: Tommy (1969)
287. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: I See a Darkness (1999)
286. The KLF: Chill Out (1990)
285. Lil’ Kim: Hard Core (1996)
284. Talk Talk: Laughing Stock (1991)
283. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Burnin’ (1973)
282. Brian Eno: Another Green World (1975)
281. Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns: 신중현과 엽전들 (1974)
280. Townes Van Zandt: The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972)
279. Robyn: Body Talk (2010)
278. Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music For Nine Post Cards (1982)
277. Pulp: Different Class (1995)
276. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (2013)
275. Kraftwerk: The Man-Machine (1978)
274. Songs: Ohia: The Magnolia Electric Co. (2003)
273. Neil Young: After the Gold Rush (1970)
272. Blondie: Parallel Lines (1978)
271. Wire: Chairs Missing (1978)
270. Mississippi John Hurt: Today! (1966)
269. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won’t Matter, Cuz You’ll Know That You’re Right (1999)
268. Tom Petty: Wildflowers (1994)
267. Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors (1971)
266. Mahmoud Ahmed: Éthiopiques, Vol. 7: Ere Mèla Mèla (1975)
265. Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak (1976)
264. Stars of the Lid: The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (2001)
263. Alvvays: Blue Rev (2022)
262. Silver Jews: American Water (1998)
261. The Meters: Rejuvenation (1974)
260. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
259. The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
258. Janet Jackson: Control (1987)
257. OutKast: Aquemini (1998)
256. Marty Robbins: Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)
255. Cyndi Lauper: She’s So Unusual (1983)
254. Nico: The Marble Index (1968)
253. George Jones: I Am What I Am (1980)
252. Lorde: Melodrama (2017)
251. Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra (1972)
250. Burial: Untrue (2007)
249. Joni Mitchell: Hejira (1976)
248. Steely Dan: Aja (1977)
247. The Shangri-Las: Leader of the Pack (1965)
246. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver (2007)
245. Eric B. & Rakim: Paid in Full (1987)
244. Four Tet: There Is Love in You (2010)
243. Alice Coltrane: Turiya Sings (1982)
242. The Promise Ring: Nothing Feels Good (1997)
241. Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
240. Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster (2009)
239. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree (2005)
238. Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
237. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition (2016)
236. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (1979)
235. Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace (1972)
234. D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (2014)
233. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Déjà Vu (1970)
232. Portishead: Dummy (1994)
231. Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
230. Carly Rae Jepsen: Emotion (2015)
229. Beck: Odelay (1996)
228. The Avalanches: Since I Left You (2000)
227. Germs: (GI) (1979)
226. Solange: A Seat at the Table (2016)
225. Curtis Mayfield: Super Fly (1972)
224. U2: The Joshua Tree (1987)
223. Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (1982)
222. The Cure: Pornography (1982)
221. The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go (1964)
220. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
219. Jeff Buckley: Grace (1994)
218. The Band: Music from Big Pink (1968)
217. Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville (1993)
216. The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (1999)
215. Led Zeppelin: IV (1971)
214. Joanna Newsom: Ys (2006)
213. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (2008)
212. Grace Jones: Nightclubbing (1981)
211. Fugazi: Repeater (1990)
210. The Blue Nile: Hats (1989)
209. The Stooges: Fun House (1970)
208. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark (1974)
207. Tom Waits: Rain Dogs (1985)
206. American Football: American Football (1999)
205. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica (1969)
204. Janelle Monáe: Dirty Computer (2018)
203. Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
202. Built to Spill: Perfect From Now On (1997)
201. Danger Mouse: The Grey Album (2004)
200. Massive Attack: Blue Lines (1991)
199. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream (2014)
198. Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
197. Slayer: Reign in Blood (1986)
196. Rush: Moving Pictures (1981)
195. Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory (2017)
194. The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground (1969)
193. Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020)
192. Dinosaur Jr.: You’re Living All Over Me (1987)
191. TLC: CrazySexyCool (1994)
190. Pavement: Slanted & Enchanted (1992)
189. The Microphones: The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)
188. Kate Bush: The Dreaming (1982)
187. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
186. Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell (2015)
185. Beyoncé: Beyoncé (2013)
184. The Strokes: Is This It (2001)
183. The Ronettes: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (1964)
182. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (1971)
181. John Prine: John Prine (1971)
180. Missy Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly (1997)
179. Angelo Badalementi: Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (1990)
178. Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)
177. Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour (2018)
176. Nick Drake: Pink Moon (1972)
175. Swans: Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
174. GZA: Liquid Swords (1995)
173. Public Image Ltd: Second Issue / Metal Box (1979)
172. Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
171. Taylor Swift: Red (2012)
170. Guns ‘N Roses: Appetite For Destruction (1987)
169. Talking Heads: Fear of Music (1979)
168. Marvin Gaye: I Want You (1976)
167. X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents (1978)
166. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism (2003)
165. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
164. Aretha Franklin: I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)
163. Pixies: Doolittle (1989)
162. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
161. Oasis: Definitely Maybe (1994)
160. Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator) (2001)
159. Van Halen: Van Halen (1978)
158. Waylon Jennings: Dreaming My Dreams (1975)
157. Sly and the Family Stone: There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971)
156. Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (1969)
155. Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I (1999)
154. Jason Isbell: Southeastern (2013)
153. Fishmans: Kuuchuu Camp (1996)
152. Slowdive: Souvlaki (1993)
151. Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019)
150. Radiohead: OK Computer (1997)
149. Frank Ocean: channel ORANGE (2012)
148. Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
147. Madonna: Erotica (1992)
146. Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt (1996)
145. Belle & Sebastian: If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996)
144. Paul Simon: Graceland (1986)
143. Björk: Homogenic (1997)
142. Boris: Pink (2005)
141. Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch! (1964)
140. Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)
139. Gang of Four: Entertainment! (1979)
138. Sparks: No. 1 in Heaven (1979)
137. James Brown: ‘Live’ at the Apollo (1963)
136. Metallica: Master of Puppets (1986)
135. Tatsuro Yamashita: For You (1982)
134. Elliott Smith: Either/Or (1997)
133. Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti (1975)
132. PJ Harvey: Rid of Me (1993)
131. George Michael: Faith (1987)
130. Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters (1973)
129. Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
128. The Beatles: Rubber Soul (1965)
127. David Bowie: Low (1977)
126. Daft Punk: Discovery (2001)
125. Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
124. R.E.M.: Murmur (1983)
123. Ramones: Ramones (1976)
122. The Breeders: Last Splash (1993)
121. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1982)
120. Fugees: The Score (1996)
119. Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (1988)
118. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced? (1967)
117. Willie Nelson: Red Headed Stranger (1975)
116. Dr. Dre: The Chronic (1992)
115. Lou Reed: Transformer (1972)
114. System of a Down: Toxicity (2001)
113. Madvillain: Madvillainy (2004)
112. Mariah Carey: Music Box (1993)
111. Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)
110. The Smiths: The Queen is Dead (1984)
109. Sleater-Kinney: Dig Met Out (1997)
108. This Heat: Deceit (1981)
107. J Dilla: Donuts (2006)
106. N.W.A.: Straight Outta Compton (1988)
105. Paul & Linda McCartney: Ram (1971)
104. Bruce Springsteen: The River (1980)
103. Sunn O))): Black One (2005)
102. Prince and the Revolution: 1999 (1982)
101. Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
100. B.B. King: Live at the Regal (1965)
99. Grateful Dead: American Beauty (1970)
98. Donna Summer: Bad Girls (1979)
97. Death: Symbolic (1995)
96. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (1979)
95. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
94. Sade: Love Deluxe (1992)
93. War: The World is a Ghetto (1972)
92. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest (2010)
91. Otis Redding: Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
90. The Stooges: Raw Power (1973)
89. Television: Marquee Moon (1977)
88. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (1993)
87. Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (1989)
86. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo (2016)
85. Nina Simone: I Put a Spell on You (1965)
84. SOPHIE: Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides (2018)
83. Pixies: Surfer Rosa (1988)
82. Radiohead: In Rainbows (2007)
81. D’Angelo: Voodoo (2000)
80. Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchidananda (1971)
79. Black Sabbath: Paranoid (1970)
78. Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
77. Erykah Badu: Baduizm (1997)
76. The Replacements: Let It Be (1984)
75. Little Richard: Here’s Little Richard (1957)
74. Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (1966)
73. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Going to a Go-Go (1965)
72. Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012)
71. Madonna: Like a Prayer (1989)
70. my bloody valentine: loveless (1991)
69. Nas: Illmatic (1994)
68. Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul (1968)
67. A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory (1991)
66. Michael Jackson: Off the Wall (1979)
65. Nirvana: Nevermind (1991)
64. Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)
63. Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising (1985)
62. The Beatles: The Beatles (1968)
61. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
60. Hole: Live Through This (1994)
59. Notorious B.I.G.: Ready to Die (1994)
58. Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968)
57. Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969)
56. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (1973)
55. Beyoncé: Lemonade (2016)
54. Wu-Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (1993)
53. R.E.M.: Automatic For the People (1992)
52. Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
51. Novos Baianos: Acabou Chorare (1972)
50. Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison (1968)
49. Frank Ocean: Blonde (2016)
48. Julee Cruise: Floating into the Night (1989)
47. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (1959)
46. The Roots: Things Fall Apart (1999)
45. The Beatles: Revolver (1966)
44. De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
43. Cocteau Twins: Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
42. PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (1995)
41. The Replacements: Tim (1985)
40. Patti Smith: Horses (1975)
39. Neil Young: On the Beach (1974)
38. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois (2005)
37. The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St. (1972)
36. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (2006)
35. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (1964)
34. David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
33. Carole King: Tapestry (1971)
32. Billie Holiday: Lady in Satin (1958)
31. Björk: Post (1995)
30. Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks (1975)
29. Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
28. Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1999)
27. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland (1968)
26. The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
25. Talking Heads: Remain in Light (1980)
24. Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (1985)
23. The Clash: London Calling (1979)
22. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
21. The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Undeground & Nico (1967)
20. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
19. Prince: Purple Rain (1984)
18. Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (1977)
17. Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (1971)
16. Janet Jackson: Velvet Rope (1997)
15. Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run (1975)
14. Joni Mitchell: Blue (1971)
13. Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On (1971)
12. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1970)
11. Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1987)
10. The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (1966)
9. Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges: Clube da Esquina (1972)
8. Nina Simone: Wild is the Wind (1966)
7. Fishmans: Long Season (1996)
6. OutKast: Stankonia (2000)
5. The Beatles: Abbey Road (1969)
4. Prince: Sign o’ the Times (1987)
3. Kate Bush: Hounds of Love (1985)
2. The Cure: Disintegration (1989)
1. Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life

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if you're going to nitpick, it's the multiple inclusions of an artist. as multiple people have mentioned earlier, no Can, but 3 Fiona Apple records made the cut.

still laughing at deerhunter even sniffing this list. they could've picked animal collective!

This list made me listen to I See A Darkness for the first time and I instantly love it, so it’s fine by me.

Wait… There’s no CAN? I just assumed there was. Man. Fuck this list.

Wait… There’s no CAN? I just assumed there was. Man. Fuck this list.

Seconded.

Yes, it's slightly peculiar, are Can on the way out critically I wonder? Also, as I said earlier, there's no reggae or dub beyond one Bob Marley album.

I think you're overestimating the salience of Paste magazine to the critical zeitgeist, if there even is such a thing anymore

if nothing else this list is very American

Well, you expect that from any American magazine tbh.

Comparing this list to the Apple list, this one seems more idiosyncratic, like it is a bunch of people’s favorites, whereas the Apple list is more oriented towards objective landmarks and popularity.

I am enjoying Fishmans, so it has been useful to me.

Well, you expect that from any American magazine tbh.

― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, June 8, 2024 11:20 AM (twenty minutes ago)

and Paste used to be quite literally a magazine about Americana; I'm not sure when that changed

The articles still lean toward singer/songerwriter & Americana: Tyler Childers, Richard Thompson, reports from Merlefest

Never listened to Fishmans before this list, and instantly fell for Long Season. Also want to second Moka's point about album's outside of the canon being included prominently. Beyond Fishmans, a few that stood out to me were: No. 1 in Heaven at 138, The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid at 264, and The Magnolia Electric Co. at 274.

I keep a spreadsheet of lots of lists of albums from ILM, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR, etc. I have over 20 lists logged. And when I sort on the unique names in the Paste list, there are 44 that don't appear on any other list:

263 Alvvays Blue Rev
206 American Football American Football
179 Angelo Badalementi Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
142 Boris Pink
291 Camarón La leyenda del tiempo
201 Danger Mouse The Grey Album
237 Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
97 Death Symbolic
166 Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
294 Deulgukhwa 들국화
193 Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters
153 Fishmans Kuuchuu Camp
7 Fishmans Long Season
96 Fleetwood Mac Tusk
211 Fugazi Repeater
227 Germs (GI)
278 Hiroshi Yoshimura Music For Nine Post Cards
204 Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer
86 Kanye West The Life of Pablo
188 Kate Bush The Dreaming
147 Madonna Erotica
266 Mahmoud Ahmed: Éthiopiques, Vol. 7 Éthiopiques, Vol. 7: Ere Mèla Mèla
112 Mariah Carey Music Box
168 Marvin Gaye I Want You
9 Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges Clube da Esquina
270 Mississippi John Hurt Today!
254 Nico The Marble Index
51 Novos Baianos Acabou Chorare
251 Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra
298 Queen Jazz
281 Shin Joong Hyun & Yup Juns 신중현과 엽전들
152 Slowdive Souvlaki
274 Songs: Ohia The Magnolia Electric Co.
138 Sparks No. 1 in Heaven
103 Sunn O))) Black One
175 Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
114 System of a Down Toxicity
135 Tatsuro Yamashita For You
222 The Cure Pornography
290 The Fall The Wonderful and Frightening World Of…
242 The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good
265 Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
280 Townes Van Zandt The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
195 Vince Staples Big Fish Theory

That magnolia record co album definitely has the most lasting quality of those early 2000 alt country bands. I can’t listen to YHF anymore so insane to me that it’s at 20 here

A little surprising about Tusk

That album is like the alt-country OK Computer, which is also unlistenable

I mean YHF

Definitely Maybe, finally officially better than Rust Never Sleeps

I think I've heard the American Football album a few times and it left zero impression on me. I guess I'll have to try again since it's apparently better than Court & Spark, Fun House and Highway 61 Revisited.

Future archaeologists will be able to date this list with precision by the inclusion of TWO Fishmans albums

That magnolia record co album definitely has the most lasting quality of those early 2000 alt country bands. I can’t listen to YHF anymore so insane to me that it’s at 20 here

― Heez, Monday, June 10, 2024 2:16 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same, that’s done nothing except catapult into my top 10 albums list. Just one stone cold depressing classic after another

american football lp3 >>>>>>>>>> american football lp1

Future archaeologists will be able to date this list with precision by the inclusion of TWO Fishmans albums

I've been listening to Fishmans a lot since this seeing this list and I think their last (studio) album might be their best - and that isn't even on here!

there are conservatively 1000 rap albums that should make the list instead of Dangermouse

On the flip side, there are 146 albums that appear on at least 4 of the lists in my spreadsheet, so call it about 50/50 canon/non.

there are conservatively 1000 rap albums that should make the list instead of The Life of Pablo

that too

yeah, like Kids See Ghosts

Btw to all new Fishmans’ fans. In this thread Austin made several playlists exploring their catalogue:

Decades-old stuff that was fairly unknown in the West but suddenly got very famous online (aka: the Fishmans thread)

american football lp3 >>>>>>>>>> american football lp1

― ivy., Monday, 10 June 2024 19:03 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, but no.

I look forward to the day that Songs: Ohia make the top 10 of a greatest albums ever list

american football lp3 >>>>>>>>>> american football lp1

― ivy., Monday, 10 June 2024 19:03 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, but no.

I look forward to the day that Songs: Ohia make the top 10 of a greatest albums ever list

everyone discovering fishmans needs to listen to their best album uchuu nippon setagaya and their final (13-min, non-album) single "yurameki in the air" which together are their peak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0_q-zU03UI

so i’m discovering fishmans and after a few listens thru kuuchuu i asked my 20 y/o music nerd kid if he knows them and he’s “they go hard, kuuchuu camp is good but you have to check out otakatachino live it’s 2 hrs. maybe check the album talio different band tho.”

with fishmans i’m ok-ish but there’s a 90s frat jamband party sound and vibe i keep feeling, and the talio i’m just “whoa this at times sounds like somewhere between 80s celebrity tv soundtracking and 90s attempts at yacht rock. so i’m trying still and hoping to turn off my feelings a little.

i might be the only music nerd my age who feels like the fishmans live album goes on for about two centuries

their best album is uchuu nippon setagaya, long season and the live album are overrated

ゆらめき

also Hunt3r you're not off― fishmans totally sound like sublime at times.

sidebar af: ya'll ever heard the krs one rmx by long beach dub allstars? sounds like a fishmans beat, huh? lol

also re: the live material
idk, they’re not a jam band but if you like the studio recordings, the live recordings are more like remixes at times (i mean they *literally* play the remix arrangement of 'walking in the rhythm' on one of the live records). i'm a big enough fan to defer to the live recording of "long season" as the definitive. and i mean i'm still living with a partially rockist brain so i have to take all the opportunities i can to hear those dudes play. shinji is one of the most innovative (and tight!) guiarists i've ever heard so i'm more than happy to listen to alternating live recordings of "nightcruising" to hear him do ... exactly that lol.

anyway, polaris is recommended.

TY, will check it