AOTY Top 50 Albums of All Time | Tier List Tuesday Ep 4
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Today we're ranking the 50 greatest albums of all time, according to aoty.org
Let us know what you think of the list, our ranking, and what you would do differently. Thanks for watching!
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Another Green World is pioneering electronic masterpiece. Along with Before & After Science & Taking Tiger Mountain it forms incredible experimental trilogy.
That's a weird way of looking at it (ignoring Warm Jets?) but we agree they are phenomenal albums, so thumbs up.
Forgot Warm Jets. Another Green World the bridge between Warm Jets and the 2 I mentioned. Before And After is my actual fav of all of them.
@@miketomlin6040 Wow, there's another wild opinion. Ambient 4 is more of a collection of sounds/atmospheres than actual music.
Remain in Light and Blue in B tier is crazy.
Never had understood the love for Remain In Light. IMO it's the second-worst Talking Heads album.
Remain in Light is an easy S for me! Love it!
Can’t have more than S tier to be fair. My five S would be the two Dylan albums, Songs in the key or life, pink flag and dark side of the moon. But only hwy 61 revisited would be in my personal top five from this list
You guys are sleepwalking through these videos. Christ, find a third guy to inject some energy. AND...the tier list is supposed to be symmetrical; make the hard choices. Joe, stop getting pushed around. Finally, Born to Run is the greatest American rock album ever produced. Get some rest and come back hungry!
Achtung in F
Not even gonna mention Eno
Kram is prolly screaming at a computer screen watching this
He ain’t watching
@@TastesLikeMusicwhat happened with yall 💀
He got bored and left
@@TastesLikeMusic you guys & Kram helped keep a lot of music lovers sane throughout the pandemic
A proper send off woulda been cool but hey
All the best
We would have loved that, but he didn’t give us the option. He truly didn’t care about the internet. - Joe
Leonard Cohens first album is a 10/10 for me.😌
Greetings from Leipzig/ germany
Some notes typed out while following the episode:
'Pet Sounds' is of vital importance historically, but overrated artistically (I should stress I don't dislike the album, I just think it's overrated).
'Kind of Blue' is very possibly the single most significant jazz album ever released, with Miles one of the greatest jazz musicians, so it deserves a higher ranking than D.
'Blonde on Blonde', arguably Bob Dylan's single most important LP, is an egregious omission by AOTY.
It's hard to take this list seriously when no work by Elton John is included.
Prog is underrepresented here; if only one group could be included, I would go with King Crimson, with 'In the Court of the Crimson King' their most historically important LP, and 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic' their overall best artistically.
Don’t get me started on Blonde on Blonde. Sorry, not nearly in the class of Hwy61revisited. I’m a big Dylanophile, and BoB is overrated. Although Visions of Johanna is the greatest of all his songs, and maybe if all songs
@@painless465 I confess I am actually not a particular Dylanophile, so I concede to your greater passion for his undeniable artistry. But 'Blonde on Blonde' seems to me an indispensable album, with its pioneering format and the beautiful lyrical visions of such songs as "Visions of Johanna" and "Just Like a Woman", among others, underscoring Dylan's genuine gift as a poet (relatively rare among rock and pop lyricists). It is arguably Dylan's single most iconic LP, if not necessarily his best.
If only one Dylan album could appear in a top-fifty list such as discussed here, would 'Highway 61 Revisited' be your choice?
@@barrymoore4470yes. Absolutely Hwy 61.
Blonde on Blonde is by far Dylan's best LP, which is saying a lot. Any Top 50 that doesn't include it is a joke. As for Kind of Blue, it speaks volumes about the severe limitations of Tastes Like Music's tastes (or knowledge?) that the most popular and among the most acclaimed works in a major genre ranks no more highly than a grudging, condescending C or D.
Like you guys and agree with you a lot, but your critique of Kind of Blue sounds so dopey. “I don’t like jazz all that much” and “I don’t listen to this as much as others” is pretty lazy commentary.
What do you want us to say about it
@TastesLikeMusic that you like jazz? Idk why they are demanding you lie. Enjoy what you want. I think I like jazz a little more than most people, but I still think it's an overrated genre.
@@TastesLikeMusic Nothing. Just say you don't know enough about it to proffer an opinion.
I feel like the differences between this list and the RYM list average out in the same way. This corrects RYM's recency bias and love for niche genres. But it's not any better to have 20% of the top 50 occupied by Beatles (+ All Things Must Pass) and Elvis Presley. And while this list does at least acknowledge that country music exists, it ignores jazz even more than the RYM list does. Gun to my head, I'm picking the RYM list between the two but I would never tell anyone its a definitive or even a good list by any means.
I think a fun way to force yourselves into tough decisions and discussions would be to put limits on each tier so that it forces you have to create that bell curve. Something like:
S max 5 albums
A max 12 albums
B max 18 albums
C max 18 albums
D max 12 albums
F max 5 albums
It adds up to more than 50 but it leaves you some wiggle room if you feel really strongly about something being up and down a specific tier.
I generally agree with what you're sayin. But I'd definitely rather have 20% of the list taken up by Beatles/Elvis albums than have 20% of the list taken up by Radiohead albums.
I have no problem with 20% of a Top 50 list being the Beatles. They happen to be that good. Where the problems come in with both lists is the other 80%. In each case, there is lots in that 80% that should not be there and lots left out of it that should be.
This list is greatly flawed and most people go by the AOTY user best rated rather than the critic best rated. The user based one has much more interesting picks than this list.
@@johnmurphy9385 - Yes. I don't think many people would have a problem with the top 20%. It's the lower 80% that brings literally hundreds of albums into play.
Very interesting list (don't even heard to all of them), even though I miss some hip hop stuff and Radiohead. Achtung Baby very surprising. Not Top 3 U2 for me.
How is Astral Weeks not on any of these best album of all time lists..? 🤔 It certainly should be. As should Bryter Layter, London Calling, Daydream Nation, Good Kid MAAD City, and Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. Meh.. lists are inherently a bit silly, lbr. That is all.
Astral Weeks might be in my top 10 of all time; it's bound to show up on one of these lists. Can I assume you are a fan of the film Cutter's Way? An underseen classic.
That's a considerably better list than Rate Your Music's.
Pet Sounds is way too high compared with these other albums. No way is it close to being the best album of this list. It's the best Beach Boys album, but I'd probably put it in low C compared with the others here.
I completely agree. The most overrated album in the canon. Surfs up is a better Beach Boys album
All Beach Boys albums suck.
the critic top 100 is definitely the best out of any top 100 you can find
I like that you put "Thriller" in its place. This album is a little overrated.🙂
The user's list would be more representative of the actual site. This is just an aggregate of critics, with some albums only having 5 scores/reviews to their name.
Rubber Soul > Sgt Peppers
Hmm no. Buts it’s close-ish. - Joe
rubber soul is my top beatles album
Correct. Sgt Peppers falls apart in the middle, Rubber Soul is continuously and consistently great.
Way better
You got them the wrong way around, sillllyyy. 😛
What I like so much about the user aggregated list for aoty is that it's a decent balance between old classics and modern ones. It's so cool seeing the likes of To Pimp a Butterfly holding esteem awarded to the likes of Electric Ladyland and when you look just one spot before that, you'll get System of a Down's Toxicity. All legendary albums for their eras in their own right.
Just focusing on the critic choices, while far closer to your tastes, feels a bit reductive and safe. Although, it is cool to see a far different take in comparison to RYM.
Fr they should definitely do users score for websites after this way more interesting list in my opinion🖤
You guys should do the AOTY best albums by user rating tier list as well. The you are doing is the critic one which is just heavily biased due to survivor bias. Most critic ratings on that site are the words of 5 people whereas the user based list has a much larger and more reliable sample size.
Also the album choices are way more interesting. The critics list is heavily biased towards mainstream rock of the 60s and 70s whereas the user based list has a spicy variety of genre's like soul, jazz, rock, art pop, heavy metal and other stuff from various eras throughout history.
Your take on Kind of Blue is ridiculous. Love your channel, though.
We know
Five Beatles albums, 3 LZ albums and two Pixies albums??? But no Stones, Who, Neil Young, Sabbath , Velvet Underground? Shocked Ok Computer or Nevermind not on this as well. Marginally better than the RYM list , but not great
Holy moly you haven’t heard Elvis Presley’s best albums???
He’s a singles artist for me. Have never had much interest beyond that. - Jason
@@TastesLikeMusic He's a singles artist for you because you don't know his work well. Listening to Elvis but not the '69 Memphis sessions is like listening to the Beatles but not Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road or listening to Bob Dylan but not Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks.
Joe, at least check out "St. Elmo's Fire" from Another Green World before you go dismissing that album. The Robert Fripp solo is out of this world!
At first , I thought you met the forgettable film from the 80's !! 😆 🤣
Totally agree
And Everything Merges With The Night. Another Green World is my least favorite of the four "rock" lps, but it's still a great record. I'm just more partial to Eno's mutant pop, gift for melody and I love his voice.
Another Green World is sublime. The Big Ship, Sombre Reptiles and Over Fire Island as well
Terrible list, heh, not a single album more recent than 1993. So many great albums have come out since then. It's as if time stopped for 30 years.
Missing for me: Exile on Main Street, Astral Weeks, Close to the Edge, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Completely agree on the first 3 you listed, and Exile would be my #1 S tier album. Astral and CTTE are S as well
Why do people not love “Fear of a Black Planet”? It’s the best PE album.
Their fear of black music, I guess.
I think so because Wu Tang being in C is absolutely insane@@echosmyron1278
This is a top 50 of all-time and they had two Public Enemy albums there. I think that’s probably enough public enemy.
@@TastesLikeMusic no I understand that, I just mean some of these choices on these original lists are so random, and others are so…sacred cow. I think it would be a lot more interesting if these things like RYM or Pitchfork would limit themselves to one album by each artist. For example, I would definitely pick “Physical Graffiti” as the Zeppelin album or “Astral Weeks” for Van. It would make things really controversial too. You guys need to do an all time list yourselves. Someday…
I love Pixies but Surfer Rosa is not top 50. Stooges.. no chance. Is this leading up to a Joe and Jason Top 50 of all time? that could break the internet.
Guys....From Elvis in Memphis is a fantastic album. Give it a listen!
All of those Beatles albums in the S-tier. You lads couldn't get any whiter if you tried, lol.
I’d rank Revolver in the S-tier, and *maybe* Rubber Soul (even though I think it’s 4 1/2 stars instead of 5). No other album comes close.
Just terrible opinion
It’s pretty much guaranteed that every critic on earth will have the same. At least we knocked one down
Doesn't matter what the color of your skin is. Great music is great music. Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and Abbey Road all belong in the S tier. The White Album would be there too if it had been a single album with the best stuff.
It's because the Beatles are so "white" that so many r 'n' b and jazz musicians have covered their songs: Count Basie, George Benson, Booker T. and the MG's, Ray Charles, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Al Green, Herbie Hancock, Donny Hathaway, Isaac Hayes, Stanley Jordan, Ramsay Lewis, The Meters, Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Nina Simone, Ike and Tina Turner, Stanley Turrentine, McCoy Tyner, Sara Vaughn, Cassandra Wilson, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, and the list goes on and on and on.
Whoa whoa whoa! Achtung Baby an F?! Outrageous!! 😩😜😮
Where is Kramzer when I need him? Lol
SSSSSSSS!! Top tier S! Otherwise not bad gents. ✌🏼
It’s just become cool to hate U2. Achtung Baby is a great album, and would certainly make the upper quarter of this list for me.
Another Green World at F??? That makes me so sad. Jason - do you not like the instrumentals? I hope you'd agree songs like Golden Hours are wonderful.
The Beach Boys are usually super underrated so it was good to see them included in this list by aoty!
I do feel like there is a lot of rock in here, and maybe that is because it was the dominant genre for a while and there are loads of different types of rock, so it makes sense. But, if you look at how things have changed recently in the music scene (since the late 00s), hip-hop has been the dominant genre, so with time, lists like these might start becoming hip-hop heavy as older music becomes forgotten.
My Top 5 on this list are This Years Model - Elvis Costello , Pet Sounds - Beach Boys , It Takes A Nation Of Millons To Hold Us Back - Public Enemy , Remain In Light - The Talking Heads & Doolittle by The Pixies. Had 154 by Wire been here instead of Pink Flag it would have made the list. The WTF is 3rd by Big Star over the first two ! Hey , Sly was right " Different Strokes For Different Folks " Good Day Gentlemen.
Speaking of Sly, it's also crazy that I haven't seen any Sly and the Family Stone LPs on these lists, so far. They made a series of great records in a short period of time. I'd love to see a ranking here.
@@johnlefsky8731I agree , Sly is really under the radar.
@@davidellis5141 In the past couple of years there's been a Sly and the Family Stone oral history book, Sly's autobiography and Questlove is making a Sly Stone documentary, so I expect his profile to get, um HIGHER!
@johnlefsky8731 In the late 70's he was a DJ on KROQ with his show running just before The Mayor Of The Sunset Strip Rodney Bingenheimer ... He was very odd at that time & show didn't last long unfortunately.
I miss Kram. You guys are great, his personality is missed very much. His personality complimented both of yours. I hope he's doing well.
We all miss him. He’s doing fine btw.
Man, I love the Stooges, MC 5, Blue Cheer among other hard rock bands that pushed the limits. Rock & Roll was an outlaw art form from the start. Nothing wrong with melodic, lyrical pop-rock either but it seems like these days hard rock is undervalued.
These tier lists can be tricky. I can tell you that two of my most overrated albums are on this list in Thriller and Born in the USA as fans of both of those artists, and Aja would definitely not be my choice for Steely Dan. I think the Big Star pick is trendy; I do like it a lot, but not like the first two. A little surprised (pleasantly) to see Pink Flag here; that's just one of those albums that blew me out of my seat when I first heard and continues to do so. Great stuff and thanks for the upload.
Good watch, 36 chambers, Fun House, Aja, Horses, Remain in Light too low for my taste. Darkside, Zep 1, Grace land too high.
9:30. Inner City Blues is my favorite Marvin Gaye song too 😌
I still don‘t get why A Hard Day‘s Night is rated so high. There are too many songs on it that are mediocre at best.
Never demand or expect logic from Swifties and Beatles fans. Someone in the comments below told me that, while he thinks that The White Album has around 10 weak songs (out of 30), he still rates it 5 stars.
Its all subjective, my list would vary greatly from yours. For starters I would move all the Beatles albums to C or D.
Another Green World in F and Fun House in D is a travesty! I love those records!
"Apocalypse 91" is an odd choice for top 50 albums of all time...I love it. It's probably my favorite hip-hop album and the one I've listened to most, but I always figured "Bum Rush The Show" and "Fear of A Black Planet" were far more beloved.
Check out "Lost At Birth" my favorite hip-hop song ever. Actually, the first half of the album (or more) is one great track after another.
Hard to imagine "Purple Rain" didn't make the list.
Putting "Thriller" and "Tapestry" at B-Tier is highly suspect. Putting "Kind of Blue" at D-Tier is criminal - and though it might only make my top 10 Miles albums, it's still criminal. If you guys put your "gotta listen to everything that comes out" powers into jazz more, your lives would be made better, I think. Just guessing. If you'd like, I'm sure I could forward 100 recommendations your way, for starters.
Did you drop those albums from A to B for aesthetic reasons? A lot of those are "A" or "S-Tier." (Come on, Joe...you need to fight for "Aja" here. That album is perfect.)
By definition a tier list has to have tiers. If you put my top 500 albums in a tier list, some would end up on F even though they’re 5-stars.
@@TastesLikeMusic Your lists would be better if you put not only things you haven't listened to at all into the "Haven't Heard It" tier, but also things you haven't listened to long enough, closely enough, or with sufficiently open hears to have an opinion with weight. Rather than embarrassing yourselves over jazz, for example, by putting all of it in the C or D tiers, you could just acknowledge that you don't really know it or don't really get it and put it all in the "Haven't Heard It" tier. You've listened to a little bit of jazz, but haven't heard it at all. And that applies to a number of other styles that you rank without much basis or authority.
70s and 80s alt rock very under represented on this list. Kinda bland... still better than the RYM list though. Agree with most of what you guys have... but Wire and Eno in F? 😢💔... but I'm surely in the minority there. Bruce stinks BTW.... totally F tier. 😂
It's better in some ways than the RYM one, but still nothing by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Nirvana or The Clash, not much rap, country or electronic stuff and no metal. And it's based on handfuls of reviews.
Achtung Baby should be above Rumours. It was a great achievement and there is nothing wrong with the production.
Miles Davis being so low is ludicrous. One of the greatest works of art of the 20th century.
Abbey Road is excellent but not in the same league as Pet Sounds, Blood On The Tracks or Sign O The Times, each of which were the vision of a single artist. It has less energy than the White Album and is not as creative as Sgt Pepper.
Can’t believe neither of you has listened to From Elvis In Memphis. His most soulful album.
There's no universe in which Kind of Blue, Five Leaves Left, and Big Star's Third aren't S-tier albums. No sane one at least. PS: You've made a BIG mistake by sleeping on Elvis's '69 comeback sessions. They're the best thing he ever did. S-Tier, for sure.
Not compared to those other albums they ain’t.
@@TastesLikeMusic No one is better qualified than you to inform jazz listeners that they've been wrong all along about Kind of Blue. Your expertise is similar in the areas of folk and non-metal rock. And the fact that you have not heard the '69 Elvis comeback sessions shows how broad your knowledge is.
Most of the list is S under any metric
That’s not how tiers list work though…
I get it.. still too low.. I'd put ATMP at like D or C at best in the framework you have..
@@TastesLikeMusic
Michael Jackson, Joni MItchell, Bruce Springsteen, and Public Enemy are C-Tier at best -- and greatly inferior to Leonard Cohen, The Stooges, Curtis Mayfield, and Wire.
No chance
@@TastesLikeMusic No chance with someone unwilling to give one to things outside his own box. Every chance in the world with those with open ears.
Definitely an old man list. I don't think there's anything from later than 1991.
And Highway 61 should have stayed in S. Because I'm an old man.
Hi, broadly agree, apart from your F list. Achtung Baby is my fav U2 album, easy 5 star. How can you think the production is awful when its Eno, Lanois and Flood?? And Another Green World and Pink Flag are 5 star too, even just for how influential they were...I can live much of the rest your order, lol. Stuart
I don’t rate anything based on influence. Couldn’t care less what other people think of something.
Was just one example of why both albums are great imo... brilliant in so many ways, which explains why they are so influential.
Yeah, to be criticizing the production on Achtung Baby is a head scratcher. A better argument, in my view, is that The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree are slightly better in terms of iconic songwriting.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 yeah is better argument, but though I love UF and JT, Achtung Baby is just perfect imo - 5 awesome singles and the whole album just stacked with classic songs. Led to the iconic Zoo TV tour too, U2 at their live peak (again imo). After all, they're playing the whole album at the Vegas Sphere right now!
A top 50 with no Blonde on Blonde, Quadrophenia or Purple Rain? Those albums are incredible. All timers.
Hard days night so underrated S all the way.. glad to see it in the list
I think you can make the argument that A Hard Day's Night is the Beatles album that most deserves to be called "perfect."
I never got The Beatles hysteria to be honest. I have several of the albums. Think there are good tracks on all of them. None would rank S tier for me. Historical importance doesn't really mean so much to me. I think Paul, John and George are good singers but I can't say I love every song they sing on. An album like Rubber Soul would be C-Tier for me example.
Are all the songs good? Do I want to play it often? I don't reach for any The Beatles album that often even though I like quite a few songs whenever I listen.
Fairly good list I must say, and a lot of overlap with my personal Top 50. But Kind of Blue a D ! I'm gonna go cry now... My own Top 50 has 12 jazz albums in it, and the number is growing with each revision.
You're killing me with Pink Flag.
I hear you!
And Another Green World, and Sister Lovers, and Superfly, and Horses, and...
Remember, this is a tier list. Even if it’s in F it’s just in comparison with the other things on the list.
Really?
That in the rule book?
That's fair I guess. At least I didn't complain about your jazz rankings last week, which also killed me.@@TastesLikeMusic
@@TastesLikeMusicI agree. But if I put Pink flag in S tier and Pet Sounds in D or F, I would’ve gotten laughed off the channel( but that is the way I feel). Tier Tuesday is a great concept guys!
Oi! Jason went in the middle with Joni, but automatically put both Bob Dylan albums in S tier! Joe would've put them much lower! Justic for Joe!
"Tapestry" by Carole King is an "A" without a doubt!!!😄
A better list to work with, but not so much fun.
No Radiohead, has everyone forgotten London Calling? Too many Beatles albums in S tier and no Who.
Looking forward to the next one.
I think it's refreshing these days to find an "all-time albums" list that's not overloaded with Radiohead albums, especially the ones *not* named OK Computer.
The Beatles are certainly the #1 band, but having 7 Beatles-related albums in the top 50 does seem like overkill.
London Calling is deserving, but I've always felt it would have been even better had it been trimmed down to a single disc.
Surprised that London Calling didn’t make the Top 50. For that matter, and I’m showing my age here with some of these, where are Exile on Main Street, Who’s Next, Pimp a Butterfly, Marquee Moon, Kid A, OK Computer, Odelay, Automatic for the People, Astral Weeks, Electric Ladyland?
@@markphillips3186Marquee Moon would be in my personal top 10. Exile is #1
flawed list, although I suppose it is better than the rym tier list.
Every record is 30+ years old
Apocalypse 91 is my favorite PE album, but I’m shocked Fear of a Black Planet isn’t here
oh my sweet lord , All things must pass not a S -tier , ugh itsn it a pity🐯
I agree 👍🎶💜💜
George was finally let loose !
@@weirddebbiem1619 great minds💜💜
@@davidellis5141 agreed a top album for me🐯
Horses is the best album on this whole list...and most anything else.
That’s the critics’ chart though…
Yes. The people can’t be trusted
Blue in B tier is heresy. Nice video though.
No Rolling Stones?
Highly disagree on Achtung. That´s a kickass album.
Many people do
You took the critics list not the user rating list which is far more representative of the site. Some of these albums made the list solely based on like 5 reviews.
We are aware
You act like Tool doesn’t exist!
This AOTY list is right up my alley. I give the list as a whole an "A." I give the ranking of the list a "C."
I give your rating of our ranking an F
Massive Led Zeppelin fan. But I cannot get through LZ II without needing to skip Living Loving Maid
Thats one of the least sensible things I’ve heard today and I spend a lot of time in the comments section. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic you’re right Joe. My initial comment was a bit severe. That album loses me with that song, sorry to say.
@@JJ-ez3tr That song is great. What's wrong with you?
I'm not big Fan of led zeppelin 2 album Led Zeppelin 4 Physical graffiti are superior
S - Pet Sounds,, Beatles White, Revolver, Abbey Road, Ziggy Stardust, Blood on The Tracks, Born To Run, What's Goin On,
A - Rumours, Sgt Pepper, Dark Side of The Moon,, Five Leaves Left, Tapestry, Blue, Remain in Light, Surfer Rosa
B - Songs in The Key of Life, Innervisions, Led Zeppelin I, Rubber Soul, Doolittle, Graceland, A Kind of Blue, Sign O The Times,
C - Led Zeppelin II, Court and Spark, A Hard Day's Night, Songs of Leonard Cohen,,This Year's Model, Highway61 Revisited, Another Green World, All Things Must Pass,
D - Horses, Aja, Achtung Baby, Pink Flag, Elvis in Memphis, Elvis Presley, Thriller, Superfly, Willie Nelson, It Takes A million...,,
F - Big Star Third, Working Man's Dead, Apocalypse 91, Born in The USA, Abraxis, The Stooges, Wu Tang Clan,
These are some absolute horrid takes. Thriller in D? Born in the USA F? Led Zep 2 in C?
@@classiccarfanatic - They can't all be in S. Don't think any of those albums are close to top 50.
This is a great format but perhaps the letters should be replaced with numbers or some other rating. The D and F ratings come across as a bit harsh for some of the albums.
True
Fun House and Songs of Leonard Cohen would be the easiest S-Tier albums ever for me, both in my top 5
A albums: Forever Changes - Love Buffalo Springfield Again - Buffalo Springfield
Live Rust Concert - Neil Young Decade - Neil Young Tim - The Replacements Let it Be - The Replacements Astral Weeks - Van Morrison The Doors - The Doors
Revolver The Beatles This Years Model - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Get Happy! Elvis C and the Attractions The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
Revolver - The Beatles Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan Hunky Dory - Bowie The X Album - Lloyd Cole Where you Been - Dinosaur Jr Heat Treatment - Graham Parker and the Rumour After the Goldrush - Neil Young Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Banana album - Velvet Underground and Nico Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Eponymous - R.E.M. 80s Aliens Lanes - Guided By Voices 90s Field Day - Marshal Crenshaw Sky Blue Sky - Wilco 2007 The Who Sell Out - The Who
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs
A Hard Days Night - The Beatles The Pretenders debut
Where’s S
@@TastesLikeMusic ?
@@oppothumbs1 "A" is only the second best tier, you know... So, yeah, where's S?
@@slaydesaid8741 I will do better in the future if and when I listen to these videos.
This is a bit of a weird list in some ways but overall prefer the selections to the RYM list. Don't agree with all your placements here but I guess I get it even if some things were painful to watch. The balance between personal feelings and context within a top 50 is tough.
Of course there are always gonna be titles missing from these lists, so I can only go by what's there; I'm sure that future lists will satisfy some of us more and some less. The only way I can judge a list like this is by how often I'm likely to play an LP on this list. I grew up with the Beatles and admit their majesty, but how often do I feel the need to listen to one of these? Honestly I find Sgt Pepper to be uneven and prefer Magical Mystery Tour. I have tried, and still try, to like Led Zeppelin, but I find getting through a whole album to be a chore. I like some individual songs, mostly when Plant is holding back. The only album here I find unlistenable is U2-Actung Baby. And I like early Steely Dan before they entered their Weather Channel jazz phase. I have 12 titles under S; my only criteria is that I'm likely to play it several times a year, maybe even a month. 1. Horses-Patti Smith. "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine." She totally shattered my teenage mind, evolving my views on sex, rock and roll, beauty, poetry. Saw her on SNL one week and then live a week later.
2. Innervisions-Stevie Wonder. A perfect LP. Besides just being a great set of songs, Innervisions is a beautifully sequenced album.
3. Five Leaves Left-Nick Drake. I love Pink Moon and much of the overproduced Bryter Later (the horns and backup vocals gotta go), but I love the production here. And his guitar playing is amazing.
4. Blue-Joni Mitchell. River is the only Christmas song for me.
5. Songs Of Leonard Cohen-Leonard Cohen. New Skin For An Old Ceremony is my fave LC, but this is my next choice. And I can relate to another Jew with a fascination with Christian imagery. (I'm talking about me, not Dylan.) Plus many of the songs are forever intwined with McCabe and Mrs. Miller, one of my top 3 films of all time.
6. Sister Lovers-Big Star. Really a Chilton solo emotional meltdown more than a Big Star LP. If you don't like these versions, check out covers by This Mortal Coil, Jeff Buckley and others.
7. The Beatles-A Hard Days Night. In Mono.
8. Highway 61-Bob Dylan. Was off Dylan for awhile, but the Dylan/Joe videos got me back on board.
9. Red Headed Stranger-Willie Nelson. Just Wille and next to no production.
10. Funhouse-The Stooges. Iggy's scream at the start on TV Eye is a bracing hot cup of something.
11. Another Green World-Eno. My fourth favorite out of the first four "rock" LPs, but still remarkable. And, yeah, Fripp is invaluable.
12. Pink Flag-Wire. Chairs Missing is my usual go to, but this gets me going.
There are many more that I play every so often, as well as artists I'd sub out different titles: Curtis for Superfly, Darkness At The Edge Of Town or The Wild , The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle for either Bruce, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn for Dark Side, Man Who Sold The World or Hunky Dory for Ziggy (I love it but it's overplayed). Yada yada. To flip Beckett ,I'll go on, I can't go on.
Your list is a little too anti-establishment for my taste. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Just about every record here was on a major label, bought and paid for by The Man!!! But seriously. growing up when I did I got bored by alot of classic rock. I think half of my list is pretty mainstream, though. Looking forward to your Best of 1984; I'll have plenty more ant-establishment opinions. And, lastly, Kick Out The Jams, Motherfucker! R.I.P. Wayne Kramer.
No Queen. No Rush. No Yes. No Black Sabbath. No Kate Bush? Who comes up with these lists? And some of these albums are so overrated. Darkness on the Edge of Town is better than Born in the USA! I think these lists are more about popularity as opposed to artistic merit.
Of course they are about popularity. That is how they are made. No one „came up“ with them - they are generated by users‘ ratings. One could say: swarm intelligence says you‘re wrong about Born To Run.
@@joachimb5721 Born to Run is a great album. However Born in the USA is nowhere near as good as Darkness on the Edge of Town.
The White album is overrated
Absolutely. I’m not going to bother tiering all 50 albums like I did last week, but I would put it in the C tier (equivalent to 3 stars). But no Beatle fan can actually defend that record on a song-by-song basis, so they like to talk about The White Album in general terms.
“Oh, that’s the time those geniuses went in the studio and just recorded whatever the hell came to mind, and because they were the most talented songwriters ever, everything on that album turned out absolutely perfect!!!111”
@@echosmyron1278my exact sentiment
@@echosmyron1278 It's things like The White Album defenders that make people call The Beatles overrated
@@echosmyron1278 every song on that albums is great. it would be heralded as the best beatles album period if it weren't for "Revolution 9".
No. It’s great, S tier
14:00 half of the video and "S" is packed already😂
That Wire album is S tier on any list. Another Green World is an A as well
Why did you delete my comment? Because I blasphemed against Dylan? He's not a god, you know.
Must have been Jason
@@TastesLikeMusic I figured. I was just joking around. I didn't mean to offend him personally and I'm sorry if I did.
You should a tier list video for the songs that comprise The White Album. There are 30 of them (and I’m assuming that you’re very familiar with each one), which should be more than enough for a full-sized video. Let’s see how the true Beatle fanatics defend tracks like “Honey Pie,” “Goodnight” and “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” in the comments.
I'll happily defend "Goodnight," it's an affecting little lullaby. The thing about the White Album is that even if you cut all the filler, you would still have almost 20 drop-dead classics. What other album in the history of the world has that many classics? I'm betting you can't name one.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Firstly, I disagree that TWA has “almost 20” classic songs. The only song on it that might contend for a top 10 Beatles song list is “Helter Skelter.” There are other very good compositions like “Dear Prudence,” “Blackbird,” “Happiness…,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” and “Birthday,” yet for various reasons none of them can truly contend with the best songs on Rubber Soul/Revolver/Magical Mystery/Peppers.
By the way, I think that the amount of filler tracks on TWA is closer to 15 than 10. Half the album is filler, with one of the biggest offenders clocking in at over 8 minutes.
And to answer your question, 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields blows TWA outta the water. There are over 30 (probably over 40, really) outstanding and immediate pop songs on that classic record. Much better lyrics, too.
For your convenience, here’s a lot of 40 objectively great pop songs from 69 Love Songs. I didn’t go with any of the shorter/weirder tracks from that album (some of which I love), for the sake of keeping the tradition-loving Beatles fans happy.
1. I Don’t Believe in the Sun
2. All My Little Words
3. A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
5. I Don’t Want to Get Over You
6. Come Back from Sun Francisco
7. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
8. Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
9. I Think I Need a New Heart
10. The Book of Love
11. The One You Really Love
12. Parades Go By
13. My Sentimental Melody
14. Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
15. Sweet-Lovin’ Man
16. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
17. Grand Canyon
18. No One Will Ever Love You
19. If You Don’t Cry
20. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
21. Promises of Eternity
22. You’re My Only Home
23. Washington D.C.
24. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
25. Papa Was a Rodeo
26. Epitaph for My Heart
27. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
28. The Way You Say Goodnight
29. Underwear
30. It’s a Crime
31. Busby Berkeley Dream
32. I’m Sorry I Love You
33. Acoustic Guitar
34. Death of Ferdinand De Saussure
35. Bitter Tears
36. Yeah! Oh Yeah!
37. Meaningless
38. I Can’t Touch You Anymore
39. How to Say Goodbye
40. The Night You Can’t Remember
@@echosmyron1278 At this point in my life, I'd rate "Julia" ahead of all those songs except maybe "Guitar Gently Weeps." You're also forgetting the likes of "Dear Prudence," "Sexy Sadie," "Revolution," "Mother Nature's Son," "I'm So Tired," and "Back in the USSR."
I really like about a third of 69 Love Songs, but I'll never be convinced those songs are as good as the classics on the White Album.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Even though “Julia” is probably the closest they came to writing an indie folk song, I’ve never found that song interesting from a melodic standpoint. It doesn’t have a central hook to keep the whole thing together.
The version of “Revolution” on TWA is far inferior (and quite lifeless) to the one found on Past Masters, making its inclusion on the album completely pointless.
“Sexy Sadie” and “I’m also Tired” are middling songs with so-so hooks. Seriously, why are all of these melodies significantly inferior to the ones they were writing just a couple years earlier on Revolver and Rubber Soul?
This is why I refuse to participate in the uncritical worshipping of the Beatles as an entity. TWA is a rushed project, with tons of tracks that required more fine-tuning. Also, many of the lyrics are unimpressive gibberish that are occasionally embarrassing. No wonder Beatles lyrics rarely ever get quoted anywhere.
We love the Beatles!!!
15:54 First time I saw that you can enlarge a row😂.
Waiting patiently for your Inner Circle Zoom Meeting song ratings and ranking Joe. 🙏
Oh yeah
@@TastesLikeMusic It's the shortest list of songs we've had in a long while, so it should be easy to get through.
Good job / well explained! Hope you get less hate on this one
Great video! I really enjoyed watching this!
I would recommend checking out BestEverAlbums too, and do a tier list on the top 50 albums there!
I'd say the Best Ever Albums list is better than the RTM list, but it still suffers from quite a bit of recency bias.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 It's based on 60 000 charts from different music critics, so it's not biased in the same way, at least. The Beatles, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, David Bowie and Bob Dylan are the highest-ranked artists by albums, so it would probably fit Joe's and Jason's tastes better than RYM!
@@markuskosmoAbsolutely, I agree. And I realize no one individual's taste is going to line up perfectly with an aggregated critics list. That's just the way lists are.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 I've been using BEA to discover new music, and I usually like what I hear, so it's at least an indicator of acclaimed and well-made albums!
That is my favorite evaluatory scheme on the web, even if it doesn’t reflect my tastes precisely. Far closer than anything else I’ve found.
MJ “he’s not a nice person” hysterical 😂Really, Tapestry didn’t get an A? Love Asia, it gets a (D)? “Inner visions” “Talking Book”, “Fulfillingness first finale”were heralded as Master Works Standards…isn’t Carlos Santana considered one of the elite guitarists?
You should only really have 5 out of 50 S tier for it really to be “ S” tier. For me, it’s the two Dylan albums, Songs in the Key of Life, Dark Side of the Moon and Wire -Pink Flag. Only Hwy 61 would be in my personal top 5 from this list
Such a middle of the road list! Where was Kate Bush, Radiohead, Joy Division… But great that Remain in Light made it on the list - it is in my top ten so would have to be an S - extraordinary album and the only one on this list that I ran out and bought on the day it was released!
It's a critics list biased towards mainstream rock of the 60s and 70s. The user list is way better.
Much prefered the RYM list tbh but I'm more of a modern music guy overall and find a lot of these classics to be fairly overrated, so no surprise there
Gosh, I'm just the opposite. Almost all of the post-1980s LPs that regularly appear on these "all-time albums" lists are overrated.
Interesting picks. The placements make sense. For sure some great albums/bands/musicians are missing from the top 50 and affect the placement. I agree with Joe, Joni & Stevie albums are "S" tier for me.
For the standouts of what I would do differently: Fun House is my favorite album ever made so that would be top of S. It Takes A Nation Of Millions, and Surfer Rosa would be the next two. I don't care about the Beatles so I would have spread their albums out more. I don't like Graceland and I think outside of the nostaltalgia factor Thriller has aged quite badly so I would put those at the bottom.
As far as how you did: I think you did a great job of having your own opinion and balancing it with the albums' general reputations and influence.
I could be way off here, but weren’t all the songs on “What’s Going On” supposed to sound the same? It’s one of the greatest “concept” albums because (along with other reasons) it just flows perfectly, I think.
Yeah it’s a song cycle but that doesn’t mean it’s as good as people think it is. - Joe
Good tier list overall. Feels like you underrated All Things Must Pass and Tapestry, both A tier albums.
Seeing the AOTY choices there are some undeniably great albums there, but overall it seems like they were playing it safe but somehow ended up with a pretty uneven roster to choose from -- making your job tough from the start.
Losing all credibility dropping Miles Davis
We knowwwwwww how will we get our jazz credibility back
@@TastesLikeMusic did you have jazz credibility 😎🤣🤣
Heck no
Good to see Leonard Cohen and Nick Drakes debuts on this list. Two of the best debuts of all time. I would also add in Jeff Buckley as the best debuts among others.
Suprised to see Drakes debut but not the other two!
@KRAM_valentina Pink Moon is usually the one that gets the most love. I got into him because I read somewhere that he sounded like Beck's Sea Change, an album I really loved at the time.
Now I see my confusion with the RYM ranking. Thats what I get for jumping past the intro lol. Well done on this one boys
Ideas for next band ranking:
1. Ween
2. The Mars Volta
3. Can
4. Xiu Xiu
Ween is coming up