I listened to all the albums on the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums!!!!!

What does it say that the Top 500 album’s list ends with albums over forty years old? The Rolling Stone Top 500 list is not a complete list. There are 500 albums but it’s not the best of all time. It’s got several albums that must be there as a joke. It’s got a cross of genres that make no sense. I found that the bulk of the albums come from the 1990s. When they did this list in the 1980s, the list was 1960s heavy. This list is a generational thing.

The top 10 albums are from the 1960s to the 1980s. If the bulk of this list is later year heavy, why the older albums so high?

Was the music better then? Certainly.

Did these albums reputation precede them?

Will there be a day when “Pet Sounds” isn’t considered in the Top 5 albums of all time? Hopefully decades from now.

Will Marvin Gaye still say more about then and now than any current album?

There are always lists in magazines and blogs. It grabs attention. I took on listening to all the albums on this list because I wanted to experience new songs and genres. I found new appreciation for some artists. I won’t spend money on Fiona Apple, but her albums were better than I thought they would be. I never heard of Alice Coltrane, but I’m glad I heard her. I couldn’t make it through Madonna, Beyoncé, Kanye, or Micheal Jackson. Tupac was more interesting. De La Soul were amusing. Madvillany-never heard of them, I play “Rhinestone Cowboy” a lot.