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Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Albums of All Time"
Rolling Stone Magazine ^
| 03/19/02
Posted on 03/20/2002 8:20:09 PM PST by socal_parrot
Top 50 Coolest Albums of All Time
1. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
2. Rolling Stones - Aftermath
3. James Brown - Live at the Apollo
4. Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
5. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
6. Blondie - Parallel Lines
7. Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark
8. Massive Attack - Protection
9. Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
10. The Beatles - Revolver
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Fresh
12. Pavement - Wowee Zowee!
13. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
14. Prince - 1999
15. Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
16. Bjork - Vespertine
17. Various - Heavyweight Sound: Blood and Fire Sampler
18. Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
19. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
20. Chic - Real People
21. David Bowie - Station to Station
22. Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil
23. Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
24. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
25. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
26. Brides of Funkenstein - Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy
27. Beck - Odelay
28. The Ronettes - Best of the Ronettes
29. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
30. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
31. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
32. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
33. Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf
34. White Stripes - De Stijl
35. Various - Super Bad is Back
36. Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
37. Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature
38. Alexander Spence - Oar
39. Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
40. Bikini Kill - Reject All American
41. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Anthology
42. Merle Haggard - Songs I'll Always Sing
43. Roxanne Shante - Bad Sister
44. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
45. Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip
46. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
47. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
48. Aphex Twin - Classics
49. The Strokes - Is This It
50. Madonna - You Can Dance
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To: SamAdams76
And Beck ... BECK! ... coolest?????
To: Gumption
And Beck ... BECK! ... coolest?????
Only if "Beck" is preceded by "Jeff"!
To: BluesDuke
Why didn't they just put Devo in there and be done with it? No Eagles, no Floyd?
(I do have 1999 though)
To: Gumption
The Eagles? Cool? Except for Hotel California and a couple of singles (like "Witchy Woman"), I don't think so...
To: BluesDuke
Buffalo Springfield... Again
Procol Harum...A Salty Dog
Linda Ronstadt...Don't Cry Now
Willie Nelson...Red Headed Stranger
Neil Young...After The Gold Rush
Allman Brothers...Idlewild South
Rodney Crowell...Ain't Living Long Like This
Otis Redding...Live In Europe
Michael Tilson Thomas...Rhapsody In Blue
Jimi Hendrix...Axis Bold As Love
To: eddie willers
Michael Tilson Thomas...Rhapsody In Blue - Only if you speak of the one performed with Gershwin himself at the piano (through the courtesy of his 1925 piano roll). As for Idlewild South, it's just plain impossible to rate any Allman Brothers Band album over The Fillmore Concerts, by any criteria.
To: BluesDuke
Ahhh...but grooving on a copy of Idlewild South loooong before Fillmore when they were just a regional band?
Waaayy Cool.
To: BluesDuke
The Eagles? Cool? I won't argue with you cuz I know it's just a matter of taste but, Life In The Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight, Already Gone, Seven Bridges Road, I Can't Tell You Why, Peaceful Easy Feeling, The Long Run ...
To: BluesDuke
A toast to the little, local, college station that fills my ears with the wonderful sound of older blues.
And yes, the Eagles were cool.
"I love the way your sparkling earrings lay, against your skin so brown."
"I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight."
"Peaceful Easy Feeling"
To: eddie willers
I thought the first album was a little smoother than Idlewild South. Then again, I thought "It's Not My Cross To Bear" was the best piece of original blues Gregg Allman ever wrote. And I still do.
To: Gumption
Actually, I'd have put "Desperado" (the single) astride "Witchy Woman". The Long Run was a colossal waste of time and money considering that the album wasn't even close to Hotel California. And the earlier Eagles, for my ears, were mostly a real snooze.
To: BluesDuke
I love the song Desperado and sing along with it every time it plays -- which totally annoys my kids.
To: ValerieUSA
*heh-heh-heh-heh-heh* The eight-year-old under my jurisdiction, ever since seeing Godzilla, begs me at least three times a week to play him Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir". The dear boy - he's yet to figure out that (while the entire Physical Graffiti rates) the tracks which especially personify cool are, of course, "In My Time of Dyin'," "Houses of the Holy," "Trampled Under Foot," "Black Country Woman," "Boogie With Stu," and "Ten Years Gone"...
To: BluesDuke
If a really really old grown-up (that would be YOU *L*) thinks it is cool, then to an 8 yr old, it can't possibly be cool. In fact, it is doomed to uncooldom.
To: ValerieUSA
If a really really old grown-up...
I resemble that remark!
To: BluesDuke
don't we all?
To: socal_parrot
I don't know what's missing but I certainly know that what is included is mostly crap IMHO.
To: RangeRatt
What do you mean we, white man? ;)
To: mn12
what about umma gumma? so many quaalude nights were spent with pink floyd and velvet underground.
To: contessa machiaveli
Umma Gumma. Now that's cool. Anything pre Dark Side is cool.
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