Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All

Time
Ernst & Young devised a point system to weigh votes for
1,600 submitted titles. The list includes a few compilations, and greatest hits collections.[3]
The following authors contributed to the citations made
of each album:
An amended list was released in book form in 2005, with
an introduction written by Steven Van Zandt. As the editors foreword explains, some compilation albums were
removed, and Robert Johnsons The Complete Recordings
was substituted for both of his King of the Delta Blues
Singers volumes, making room for a total of eight new
entries on the list. The Complete Recordings would be reinstated to the list in the 2012 edition.

2 List statistics
Artists with the most albums[4]
10 The Beatles (four in the top 10 including the #1
spot; an additional four from their solo careers make
the list beyond the 10 as a group)[4]

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time magazine

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10 Bob Dylan (ten solo albums and an additional album as Bob Dylan and The Band; two in the top
10)[4]

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2003

special issue of American magazine Rolling Stone, and
a related book published in 2005.[1] The lists presented
were compiled based on votes from selected rock musicians, critics, and industry gures, and predominantly
feature American and British music from the 1960s and
the 1970s. From 2007 onwards, the magazine published
similarly titled lists in other countries around the world.

10 The Rolling Stones (one in the top 10)[4]

8 Bruce Springsteen[4]
8 Eric Clapton (two solo albums, three with Cream,
one with Derek and the Dominos, one with The
Yardbirds and one with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers)[4]

In 2012, Rolling Stone published a revised edition of the

list drawing on the original and a later survey of albums in
the 2000s.[2] It was made available in bookazine format
on newsstands in the US from April 27 to July 25. The
new list contained 38 albums not present in the previous
one, 16 of them released after 2003.

8 Neil Young (four solo albums, two with Crazy

Horse and an additional album with Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young and another with Bualo Springeld)[4]
7 The Who[4]

Background

6 Lou Reed (two solo albums, four with The Velvet

Underground)[4]

The rst version of the list, published as a magazine in

November 2003, was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics, and industry gures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums. The accounting rm

5 David Crosby (three albums with The Byrds, two

with Crosby, Stills & Nash)[4]
5 David Bowie[4]
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5 Elton John[4]

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3 Reception

5 Paul Simon (two solo albums, three with Simon Writing in USA Today newspaper, Edna Gundersen deand Garfunkel)[4]
scribed the list as predictable and weighted toward
testosterone-fueled vintage rock.[3] The Rolling Stone
5 U2[4]
500 has also been criticised for being male-dominated,
outmoded and almost entirely Anglo-American in
5 Bob Marley and the Wailers[4]
focus.[5][6]
5 Led Zeppelin[4]
5 Radiohead[4]
4 Grateful Dead[4]
4 Pink Floyd[4]
4 Prince[4]
4 Sly and the Family Stone[4]
4 Stevie Wonder[4]

Following the publicity surrounding the list, rock critic

Jim DeRogatis, a former Rolling Stone editor, published
Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (ISBN 1-56980-276-9) in 2004.
This featured a number of generally younger critics arguing against the high evaluation of various great albums, some of which had been included in the list, including DeRogatis taking on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts
Club Band, which had been Rolling Stone's top choice.

4 See also

4 Talking Heads[4]

NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, a similar list

4 The Kinks[4]

All Time Top 1000 Albums, a similar list

4 The Byrds[4]

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, also from

Rolling Stone magazine

4 The Police[4]
4 The Smiths

[4]

3 Madonna[4]
3 The Doors[4]
3 Tom Waits[4]
3 R.E.M.[4]
3 Michael Jackson[4]
3 Kanye West[4]
3 Steely Dan[4]
3 Jay-Z[4]
3 Black Sabbath[4]
3 Nick Drake (2003)[4] (1 on the 2012 list)[4]
3 The Beach Boys[4]
3 Nirvana[4]
3 Stephen Stills (two with Crosby, Stills & Nash, one
with Bualo Springeld)[4]

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, a

similar list, ordered by time period

5 References
[1] Levy, Joe; Van Zandt, Steven, eds. (2006) [2005]. Rolling
Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (3rd ed.). London:
Turnaround. ISBN 1-932958-61-4. OCLC 70672814.
Related news articles:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Rolling
Stone (937) (Straight Arrow). December 11, 2003.
pp. 83178. ISSN 0035-791X. OCLC 1787396.
500 Greatest Albums of All Time. rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
[2] Collett-White, Mike (April 27, 2012). Kanye West gets
3 albums on Rolling Stones revised 500 greatest list.
msnbc.com. MSN. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
[3] Its Certainly a Thrill: Sgt. Pepper Is Best Album, USA
Today, November 17, 2003.
[4] Journal de RadioKaKa Rolling Stones 500 Greatest
Albums of all time (2012 Edition) Last.fm. Lastfm.fr.
Retrieved 2012-07-05.
[5] Biron, Dean. 2011. Towards a Popular Music Criticism
of Replenishment. Popular Music & Society, 34/5: 661682.

[6] Schmutz, Vaughan. 2005. Retrospective Critical Consecration in Popular Music: Rolling Stones Greatest Albums of All Time. American Behavioral Scientist, 48/11:
1510-1523.

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