magazin Rolling Stone objavio je listu od 500 najboljih albuma svih vremena, a u njezinoj kreaciji sudjelovali su mnogobrojni američki stručnjaci i poznavatelji zadanog predmeta. Interesantno je da je "najmlađi" album među prvih 50 Nirvanin "Nevermind", a po istom časopisu album Sex Pistolsa "Never Mind The Bollocks" koji je 1986. zauzeo 2. mjesto, sada je rangiran na poziciju 41.
1.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - THE BEATLES
2.Pet Sounds - THE BEACH BOYS
3.Revolver - THE BEATLES
4.Highway 61 Revisited - BOB DYLAN
5.Rubber Soul - THE BEATLES
6.What's Going On - MARVIN GAYE
7.Exile On Main Street - THE ROLLING STONE
8.London Calling - THE CLASH
9.Blonde On Blonde - BOB DYLAN
10.White Album - THE BEATLES
11.The Sun Sessions - ELVIS PRESLEY
12.Kind Of Blue - MILES DAVIS
13.Velvet Underground And Nico - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
14.Abbey Road - THE BEATLES
15.Are You Experienced? - THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
16.Blood On Tracks - BOB DYLAN
17.Nevermind - NIRVANA
18.Born To Run - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
19.Astral Weeks - VAN MORRISON
20.Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON
21.The Great 28 - CHUCK BERRY
22.Plastic Ono Band - JOHN LENNON
23.Innervisions - STEVE WONDER
24.Live At Apollo (1963) - JAMES BROWN
25.Rumours - FLEETWOOD MAC
26.The Joshua Tree - U2
27.King Of The Delta Blues Singers, vol.1 - ROBERT JOHNSON
28.Who's Next - THE WHO
29.Led Zeppelin 1 - LED ZEPPELIN
30.Blue - JONI MITCHELL
31.Bringing It All Back Home - BOB DYLAN
32.Let It Bleed - THE ROLLING STONES
33.Ramones - RAMONES
34.Music From Big Pink - THE BAND
35.The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And Spider From Mars - DAVID BOWIE
36.Tapestry - CAROLE KING
37.Hotel California - THE EAGLES
38.The Anthology 1947 - 1972 - MUDDY WATERS
39.Please, Please Me - THE BEATLES
40.Forever Changes - LOVE
41.Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The - SEX PISTOLS
42.The Doors - THE DOORS
43.The Dark Side Of The Moon - PINK FLOYD
44.Horses - PATTI SMITH
45.The Band - THE BAND
46.Legend - BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
47.A Love Supreme - JOHN COLTRANE
48.It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back - PUBLIC ENEMY
49.At Filmore East - THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
50.Here's The Little Richard - LITTLE RICHARD
51.Bridge Over Troubled Water - SIMON AND GARFUNKEL
52.Greatest Hits - AL GREEN
53.The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm And Blues Recordings 1952-1959 - RAY CHARLES
54.Electric Ladyland - THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
55.Elvis Presley - ELVIS PRESLEY
56.Songs In The Key Of Life - STEVE WONDER
57.Beggars Banquet - THE ROLLING STONES
58.Trout Mask Replica - CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND
59.Meet The Beatles - THE BEATLES
60.Greatest Hits - SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
61.Appetite for Destruction - GUNS'N'ROSES
62.Achtung Baby - U2
63.Sticky Fingers - THE ROLLING STONES
64.Phil Spector Back To Mono (1958 - 1969) - VARIOUS ARTISTS
65.Moondance - VAN MORRISON
66.Led Zeppelin 4 - LED ZEPPELIN
67.The Stranger - BILLY JOEL
68.Off The Wall - MICHAEL JACKSON
69.Superfly - CURTIS MAYFIELD
70.Physical Graffiti - LED ZEPPELIN
71.After The Gold Rush - NEIL YOUNG
72.Purple Rain - PRINCE
73.Back In Black - AC/DC
74.Otis Blue - OTIS REDDING
75.Led Zappelin 2 - LED ZEPPELIN
76.Imagine - JOHN LENNON
77.The Clash - THE CLASH
78.Harvest - NEIL YOUNG
79.Star Time - JAMES BROWN
80.Odessey And Oracle - THE ZOMBIES
81.Graceland - PAUL SIMON
82.Axis: Bold As Love - THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
83.I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You - ARETHA FRANKLIN
84.Lady Soul - ARETHA FRANKLIN
85.Born In The USA - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
86.Let It Be - THE BEATLES
87.The Wall - PINK FLOYD
88.At Folsom Prison - JOHNNY CASH
89.Dusty In Memphis - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
90.Talking Book - STEVE WONDER
91.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - ELTON JOHN
92.20 Golden Greats - BUDDY HOLLY
93.Sign'O'the Times - PRINCE
94.Bitches Brew - MILES DAVIES
95.Green River - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
96.Tommy - THE WHO
97.The Freewheelin' - BOB DYLAN
98.This Year's Model - ELVIS COSTELLO
99.There's A Riot Goin' On - SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
100.In The Wee Small Hours - FRANK SINATRA
Već sam pogled na navedeni top 100 u mnogo čemu je uzburkao kritičarske stavove evropljana - brojka od 37 evropska albuma djeluje solidno, no jadniji je podatak da je od toga 8 albuma Beatlesa, 4 Stonesa i Zeppelina što je već skoro polovina ove cifre. Po 2 evropska albuma imaju Floydi, Van Morrison, The Who, Lennon, The Clash i U2, a sa po jednim zastupljeni su Bowie, Costello, Elton John, The Zombies (tko se njih samo sjetio?), Pistolsi, te bivši evropejci, kasnije naturalizirani ameri Fleetwood Mac i Dusty Springfield. Čast neameričkih izvođača na ovoj listi spasili su kanađani Neil Young s dva i Joni Mitchell s jednim, te australski AC/DC i zvijezda reggaea jamajčanin Bob Marley s po jednim albumom. Ostalih 58 otpada na čisti američki korijenski produkt u kojem prednjače ostvarenja Bob Dylana, Jimi Hendrixa i Steve Wondera, a jedini "friškiji" albumi osim Nirvane su Guns'N'Roses "Appetite for destruction" i Public Enemy "It Takes A Nation..." iz daleke 1987., odnosno 1988. godine, što će reći da se za kremu Rolling Stonea u glazbi ništa interesantno nije desilo dobrih dvadesetak ljeta. Bez obzira na relikvijske vrijednosti navedenih ploča koje su u svakom slučaju ovjekovječile period razvoja rocka, pogotovo u pedesetim, šezdesetim i sedamdesetim godinama prošlog stoljeća, evidentno je da je sam Rolling Stone nakon pojave prvih sintesajzera, irokez frizura, ziherica i uličnog breakdancea počeo zapadati u tvrdoglavu ustrajnost da zadrži stare temeljne oblike rocka naglašavajući prije svega samo onog izvođača koji bi u sebi imao taj njima toliko dragocjen duh prošlog vremena. Ne zovu se uzalud Rolling Stone, ne?
Pon 9 Jun - 13:20
