Monday, June 4, 2012

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.

My quest is to listen to all of Rolling Stone's top 500 records of all time that I don't already own. I will mark the ones I already own(and listen to on a regular basis). As for right now, I'm going in order from 1-500, but if a band shows up twice that I really didn't like, I might not listen to their other albums in their entirety or I might skip them altogether.

Albums I own and love: 
#1: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 
#3: The Beatles - Revolver 
 #4: Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 
#9: Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde 
#10: The Beatles - The White Album 

Albums I own but don't listen to often/at all: 
#2: Beach Boys - Pet Sounds: I had never listened to it all the way through, so I decided to. Whenever I want to listen to the Beach Boys, I'd put on Sounds of Summer for nostalgic purposes, which is a greatest hits of sorts. So some of my favorite Beach Boys songs are originally on Pet Sounds, but other than the songs I already knew, I found this album a little slow. I like their Surfin Safari, Help Me Rhonda type sound. So I guess I don't get why this album is number two of ALL TIME. 
#5: The Beatles - Rubber Soul: I actually decided to give this a listen though because it's one of the Beatles records I've listened to the least. I like some songs on it a lot but I've rarely listened to the others. It didn't move up on my list of Beatles records, but it's obviously solid, as they all are.

Albums I added to my Spotify library and listened to: 
#6: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On: You know, honestly, his voice is awesome, but I just don't listen to R&B, so I only listened to a couple of songs and deleted him from my library.
#7: The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street I actually never understood the big hype about the Stones, so I'm glad this one popped up on here. I will admit it was slow to get into, and there were very few I even liked. I'm not saying they are bad. I recognize their talent, but this album isn't my cup of tea. They show up  later on the list, and will give another one of their albums a chance, too.


Albums that weren't on Spotify (and were skipped entirely):
#8: The Clash - London Calling 

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