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TIME’s Top 100 Albums

Nov 26th, 2006 at 10:53 am by Susie

Geeze, I can’t believe some of the names on here - and the ones who aren’t. Your reaction?

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on 26 Nov 2006 at 11:18 am1Paul

I stopped reading the list to find an Elvis Presley album listed in the 2000’s.

No offense to the King, but come on!
on 26 Nov 2006 at 11:41 am2susan

no Pink Floyd?
on 26 Nov 2006 at 11:46 am3have skunk

This is juat another in an endless train of examples of the Kool Kidz in the mainstream media trying to tell us what’s cool. Redick. This list is to music what the Cheney administration is to diplomacy.
on 26 Nov 2006 at 12:35 pm4Android

I have no strong feelings about the picks… not EXACTLY what I’d pick, but fair enough calls.

I do note, however, that none of Elvis Presley’s albums - you know, the ones HE ACTUALLY MADE IN HIS LIFETIME - are on the list. At the very least, his first RCA LP should have made the list, or perhaps the BLUE HAWAII soundtrack…

A.
on 26 Nov 2006 at 1:04 pm5daniel rubin

there’s no ‘blood on the tracks’
on 26 Nov 2006 at 1:25 pm6daveminnj

silly people, silly choices. how could they pick sgt peppers and leave off a hard day’s night? clueless.
on 26 Nov 2006 at 1:32 pm7daveminnj

not to mention- where’s john wesley harding?
face to face?
forever changes?
two steps from the blues?
tonight’s the night?
another green world?
the circle game?
pretzel logic?
i absolutely cherish otis blue-but how could they then have left off the immortal otis redding?
and if they can pick london calling,then why not x- wild gift?
on 26 Nov 2006 at 1:51 pm8Bladerunner

What a mess. Susie your Sunday morning mix is better put together.
on 26 Nov 2006 at 2:06 pm9Lis Riba

No Queen? Shouldn’t “A Night at the Opera” be partof the list?
on 26 Nov 2006 at 4:06 pm10Izquierdo

Who cares what the current batch of Time
entertainment staffers think?
Why is that worthy of any attention?

And the ignorance/arrogance of them to define
“music” in such a jaw-droppingly limited way
— a grand total of two jazz albums, no classical,
no world music, nothing electronic, no musical
theater, no folk, no music of social protest,
no film music, nothing from the
first six decades
of recording history, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera, as the King of Siam liked to say.
on 26 Nov 2006 at 4:46 pm11Bob Stein

Wow…the 50s looks a little sparse, don’t you think?

Besides that, who appointed these yahoos as the arbiters of musical taste????
on 26 Nov 2006 at 10:17 pm12mikefromtexas

Since a ‘Greatest Hits of’ isn’t a real album, only a lazy wanker would include one, not to mention as many as are on this list.
on 27 Nov 2006 at 2:01 am13Kevin Hayden

Pretty pathetic list. And trying to choose 100 to represent 50 years is kind of lame, too.

Consider who’s been left off:
Buddy Holly
Blind Faith
Cream
Eric Clapton
CSN or CSN&Y
early Stones
Mamas & Papas
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Loving Spoonful
Robert Cray
BB King
Pink Floyd
Moody Blues
Traffic
KD Lang
Temptations
Marianne Faithful
MC Hammer
James Taylor
Herbie Hancock
Ike & Tina (or Tina)
Mariah Carey
Joan Baez
Peter, Paul & Mary
The Righteous Brothers
Barry White
the better albums of Stevie Wonder than the two weak ones they chose
The Police
The Cars
Journey
Eurythmics/Annie Lennox
Arrested Development
Village People
Rare Earth
Leon Russell
Quicksilver
Johnny Cash
Patsy Cline
Foreigner
Yes
Queen
Sarah McLaughlin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jan & Dean
Christina Aguilera
Janis Joplin
ELO
The Supremes
The Four Tops
Gladys Knight
Patti Labelle
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Mothers of Invention
Arlo Guthrie
Pink
Byrds
Yardbirds
Todd Rundgren
Dixie Chicks
Men At Work
Linda Ronstadt
Dionne Warwick
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Los Lonely Boys
Jethro Tull
Donna Summer
Earth, Wind & Fire
Beyonce
Boyz in the Hood
Billy Joel
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Neil Diamond
The Monkees
Boston
The Doors

Any group or individual with ‘Dave’ in the name

etc….

and the inclusion of Hole? That alone displays an incredible lack of appreciation for so many more…
on 27 Nov 2006 at 12:40 pm14misfit

This list demonstrates even less credibility than the Grammy award “morans”. See comment 13.
on 27 Nov 2006 at 1:22 pm15Jo Fish

They said it themselves; No Pink Floyd. What, Dark Side of the Moon was in the Billboard Top 200 albums since it was released for like 30 years. An amazing feat. But they add “greatest hits” albumns (WTF is that about?) and Hole(?), fer crissake.

The list @13 is a good start. I can’t believe no PF, but no Elvis Costello? No Zappa? Waaay too Kool Kidz for me.
on 27 Nov 2006 at 1:24 pm16Jo Fish

Oh, yeah. And Fuck Metallica.
on 27 Nov 2006 at 1:45 pm17Susie

Personally, I can’t take seriously any list that aspires to list the most influential artists and then leaves off Laura Nyro’s “Eli & The 13th Confession.” She’s the only artist the acerbic Joni Mitchell considered a peer, and from her line we can trace writers like Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Roseanne Cash, Fiona Apple, Kate Bush, Todd Rundren, Paula Cole… Not to mention her Carole-King like legacy of pop music: “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “And When I Die,” “Eli’s Coming.”
on 27 Nov 2006 at 4:05 pm18prostratedragon

Yo, #13, you (and TIME) forgot Carlos Santana, “Abraxas”. Aside from that, I think all the posters have said about everything, though the absence of Latin music and the rise of salsa, the music that stays in New York, should be emphasized.
on 28 Nov 2006 at 9:40 am19Volvo Jack

A very amusing list. I shall use it as a gauge for any future “Time picks”. I believe the staff is comprised of senior management and their children.

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