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Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums in History" list is an important, albeit controversial, cultural institution.
It was first created in 2003 in order to rate exactly what its name implies, and even then it was considered problematic by music lovers, who are known to be the most argumentative and difficult-to-please population.
In 2012, the American magazine published another list, adapted to the spirit of the time and in addition to the albums that have been released since.
It is now coming out in a third, with no less than 154 albums not appearing on any of the previous lists.
We'll spare you the last 400 places, because to be honest - music is a matter of taste and it's a pretty Sisyphean weighting of opinions on the part of label managers, musicians and various radio broadcasters.
If we add to this the fact that the concept of the album knew better decades and the claim that we live in times that are difficult to produce classics (of any kind - whether musical, literary or cinematic), it seems that all we are left with are the pre-known classics, plus some very successful works. Such as the one that defines more the artist who recorded them and his successful career, than the collection of songs itself.
De Band's Music from the Big Pink from 1968 reached the 100th place.
It was followed by 99th place, none other than Taylor Swift's fourth album "Red" from 2012, which contains pop hits such as "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Togather" and "I Knew You Were Trouble".
Not exactly a classic, and yet an album that distills the spirit of the period and the sound of the beginning of the previous decade in international pop.
Other notable names in this section of the list include Metallica's iconic album "Master of Puppets" (97), RIM's "Automatic for the People".
(96), The Stooges' "Fun House" (94), Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" (90), "The Doors" (86 "and John Lennon's" Plastic Ono Band "(85) ).
Also included are some more anticipated (but equally requested) albums by: DC / AC, Dusty Springfield, The Sex Pistols, Elvis Presley, De Ho, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Alanis Morissette, Kate Bush, John Coltrane, C James Brown, Ganz N 'Roses, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimmy Hendrix and David Bowie.
Among the surprises in this section of the list are rapper Frank Ocean's "Blonde" from 2016 (79), and Beyonce's "Beyonce" album of course from 2013 (81).
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The 50 Greatest Albums section on the list also contains some surprises.
Along with albums such as Jay-Z's Blu-Print "The Blueprint" from 2001 (50), the album named after the band The Ramones (47), Paul Simon's Folk "Graceland" (46) and "OK Computer" by Radiohead (42), also included a number of albums that will at least raise an eyebrow and in more extreme cases - a lot of rage.
For example, Beyonce's "Lemonade" from 2016 is in 32nd place (bypassing the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" which reached 35th place, as well as you - and this is really outrageous, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" by Bowie , Who came in 40th and odd place).
The millennial taste of decision makers has gone into particularly high gear in its decision to stroke Kernik Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" from 2015 in 19th place, bypassing a round of timeless classics like Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" (21), an album The Banana of the Velvet Underground (23), "Horses" by Patti Smith (26) or "Kid A" by Radiohead, which is considered a world-changing album and sound at the time of its release and will soon mark 20 years.
In fact, the same Kendrick Lamar oddly topped the list, if not outrageously, even the Beatles' "white album," which settled for 29th place.
The rest of the list is routine and quite worthy, and good for that.
Amy Winehouse's 'Back to Black' came in at number 33 (on the 2012 list, by the way, it was rated at 451) and Kenya West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy "came in at number 17.
Also on the list: "The London Calling" by the Clash (16), "Exile on Main Street" by the Rolling Stones (14), "Thriller" by Michael Jackson (12) and "Revolver" by the Beatles (11).
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The top ten contains mostly veteran names and legendary records whose location here is hard to argue about.
Prince and Revolution's Purple Rain came in 8th, Fleetwood Mac's Rumors (7) and Nirvana's Nevermind (6).
Fifth on the list came the Beatles' "Abby Road."
Stevie Wonder's "Song in the Key of Life" ranked fourth, while Johnny Mitchell's "Blue" manned third.
In second place is, of course, the harmonious and beautiful "Pet Sounds" of the Beach Boys, and in first place on this problematic and illogical list came "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye.