The New Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums List • Page 23

This is true. But one of them is good and one of them is Korn.

At LEAST make the case for Untouchables

 

1. It was not a serious post, but

2. Untouchables is a great album, but Follow The Leader was Korn's breakout album and absolutely one of the albums that put the nu-metal genre on the map. If we're equating greatness with influence, and I feel like we are in some cases, then Follow The Leader is by far the more influential of their albums. Whether Untouchables is better is neither here nor there.

 

Hey now, Deftones aren’t good either!

 

St. Louis represent

 

Notice how nobody liked this post you weapon

 

Love the idea of "weapon" as an insult.

"You miserable weapon!" "Just a fucking weapon of a human being."

weapon - a person who assaults all five senses with their bullshit

 

It apparently is an insult in the uk? Hence why I was being cheeky with Spo and using it.

 

I stand by it!

 

Those crazy Brits.

Edit: Wait, my bad, this one article says it's Scottish.

 

Hole's "Live Through This" being that high seems a bit try-hardy. Good record but not even the best alt-rock album of 1994.

 

(opens article)
(searches for Linkin Park)
(finds sole mention in a write-up about The Strokes)

 

I haven’t gone through it yet but Townes, Talk Talk and Hiroshi Yoshimura are all excellent additions

 

Blue Nile baby

 

Bonnie Prince Billy, Silver Jews, and Songs:Ohia are all albums that are in my personal top 20 so I’m pumped to see them make the paste list.

 

I’m sorry, what?!

 

That is funnier/dumber than anything on the Apple list.

 

It isn’t, but it is dumb

 

Paste Magazine's 300 Greatest Albums of All Time • forum.chorus.fm

 

the life of Pablo is a great album

 

but of course we have a problem with where the black artist is and not the white women *sniper takes me out*

 

I’d have trouble going to bat for Kanye at all in 2024, but if I were to do that, there are six albums that make more sense as Top 100 of All Time candidates. I think TLOP is genuinely bad, and only looks less bad in retrospect because everything he’s touched since has been much, much worse.

 

TLOP is great, but it's a bizarre choice for this list when multiple others are both better AND more influential. And while I'd call it the last great Kanye release, that era of his career for lack of a better word feels as much like the beginning of the being a (publically) real shitty guy as it does the end of being relatively defendable, so it's odd placement in 2024 in that regard, too.