I knew The Beatles and Nirvana would be in the top 10 but Lauryn Hill at #1? Doing something like this - where you take all popular music from the 50s to today and rank it just seems so subjective as to be completely meaningless.
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Apple Music Reveals Top 10 Albums of All Time
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It absolutely is a ridiculous list.
No Pet Sounds, no Rumors, no lots of things. But I’m not gen Y or Z so my list would be completely different.
Can’t wait for the 🔝 💯 100% AI generated songs next year!
No mention of Rick Astley, the most influential musician in Internet history? This list is nonsense. 😤
Ridiculous.
Purple Rain isn't even the best Prince album.
Lemonade? Lauryn Hill?
This list is not for me.
Courage to Apple for not forcing a Taylor Swift record in the top ten but ruined it with the over rated Beyonce one.
Purple Rain isn't even the best Prince album.
Lemonade? Lauryn Hill?
This list is not for me.
Courage to Apple for not forcing a Taylor Swift record in the top ten but ruined it with the over rated Beyonce one.
I will never get people's obsession with Beyonce. Her music is all incredibly mediocre.
So instead of figuring out "what do people actually enjoy listening to?" they decided to go with the opinion of some industry snobs? That really explains some of the entries on this list.
To get upset about this list is to suggest that such a list could possibly represent some universal notion of "best" album. Nothing of the sort could ever exist.
I did a search on #5.....first response was a wiki link....opened and found:
Blonde (alternatively titled blond) is the second[a] studio album by the American singer Frank Ocean. It was released on August 20, 2016, as a timed exclusive on the iTunes Store and Apple Music,
maybe that helps.
Where is the U2 album that was pushed to all of us?
Blonde (alternatively titled blond) is the second[a] studio album by the American singer Frank Ocean. It was released on August 20, 2016, as a timed exclusive on the iTunes Store and Apple Music,
maybe that helps.
Where is the U2 album that was pushed to all of us?
I used to think lists like this mattered in some way, and would argue about them with my friends. Much like I used to think the Academy Awards mattered in some way.
These lists don't matter. Like what you like. No lists such as this represents anything of any consequence outside of the organization that promotes it trying to sell you something
Rather than using these lists as confirmation bias or getting mad over what’s on or not on it, folks should use it as an opportunity to discover some music they've never listened to before. I discovered Aja thanks to this list and plan on listening to some others, including Lauryn Hill. Hell, I’m no Swifty, but I was listening to 1989 the other day to see what some of her deeper cuts were instead of just the stuff you always hear on the radio.
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"The selection process involved Apple Music experts..."
What exactly are the qualifications to become an "Apple Music expert" ?
What exactly are the qualifications to become an "Apple Music expert" ?
There’s some great albums here, some surprising choices, some stuff that I don’t like but I get why it’s there, but a top 100 without a single mention of Queen? Sorry but that just makes no sense
Thankfully, I have 99% of the music I listen to already purchased and ripped to iTunes Match.
I enjoy listening to it but this is actually true.
These top 10 albums are all just okay. No classical or jazz in the list, these music experts are peasants.
Um... I looked at the list that was presented in the article that is referenced in the post...
Apple Music reveals top 10 albums of all time on 100 Best list
Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums list culminates today with the reveal of the top 10 albums and “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” crowned No. 1.
www.apple.com
I didn't see any mention of the list continuing on... And the list you reference is top 100... so, why would I look at the top 100 when this mentions top 10...?
nr 1 album of all time with a terrible cover of cant take my eyes of you....
if they put Thriller on the number 2 spot i would like everybody to realize that the number one spot was stolen because these day's an album like Thriller would be too much of a risk to come out as the winner. They have to keep in mind that there will be trolls these days regarding MJ and that would have made the discussion about the list too negative.
if they put Thriller on the number 2 spot i would like everybody to realize that the number one spot was stolen because these day's an album like Thriller would be too much of a risk to come out as the winner. They have to keep in mind that there will be trolls these days regarding MJ and that would have made the discussion about the list too negative.
Music tastes are inherently subjective. There’s really no way to be objective unless you start only looking at technicals like ‘fastest rap verse’, ‘longest guitar solo’, ‘most albums sold’ which rather ignores the point of music in the first place which is to stir emotion and bring enjoyment. You don’t have to agree with the list, that’s perfectly fine. But it doesn’t make sense to pretend you have some definitive list that is objectively better, because that’s not possible.
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Lauren Hill is number 1? I don't believe that, that album was garbage.
Exactly. I've always considered In Utero the better album.