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TIME's 100 greatest albums
List season is officially heating up. TIME Magazine has gone beyond simply this year's best (although that will surely come later) and compiled what they find to be the 100 greatest albums ever made. No real rankings; just a list by decade released. Albums it's nice to see such a mainstream mag giving love to: PJ Harvey's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea; DJ Shadow's Endtroducing...; and Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted. R.E.M. lodges two entries on the list, Out of Time and Document, oddly taking the place of what's usually held up as their critical apex, Automatic for the People, and their college rock defining debut, Murmur. The oddest omission has to be Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, especially considering other overplayed '70s FM radio staples like Hotel California and Rumours made the cut.
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what a waste of time.

Aaron

list make me go zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........

Dave Park

The list has compilations and Best Of CDs...aren't those not albums?

Michael

That list fails. As Michael said there are Best-Of, Anthologies, and greatest hits collections on this. Those aren't proper albums.

Redeye

this must have taken five minutes for them to compile.

Matthew Gasteier

[...] Okay, look, I know you know Dark Side, you know I know you know Dark Side, and you know Time Magazine knows Dark Side, since they decided to be so fucking smug about it, while still including this piece of shit and this only slightly smaller piece of shit, along with all of the hip hop albums white people are supposed to like. But even after we know all of this, why does Dark Side still get fucked over when it comes to best of lists? Sure, Wish You Were Here, or Animals, or Meddle, might have a legitimate case for best Pink Floyd record (don’t mention the wall, you Roger Waters dick-riders), but this is Dark Side. It kick-started a movement, changed the way people looked at the commercial potential of rock, and launched a great band into superstar status. Sure, all of these things ended up being for better or worse, but for some reason, this and Thriller were just too big for their own good. Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Now listen to some fucking Doris Troy.            [...]

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