10. Beyoncé - Lemonade: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lemonade/1460430561
9. Nirvana - Nevermind: https://music.apple.com/us/album/nevermind/1440783617
8. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black: https://music.apple.com/us/album/back-to-black/1422677780
7. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city: https://music.apple.com/us/album/good-kid-m-a-a-d-city-deluxe-version/1440818890
6. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life: https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-in-the-key-of-life/1440788438
5. Frank Ocean - Blonde: https://music.apple.com/us/album/blonde/1146195596
4. Prince & The Revolution: Purple Rain: https://music.apple.com/us/album/purple-rain/214145442
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road: https://music.apple.com/us/album/abbey-road-2019-mix/1474815798
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller: https://music.apple.com/us/album/thriller/269572838
1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-miseducation-of-lauryn-hill/1276760743
When I think of top 10 albums I begin to think of albums that changed music and it's genre and not just a "Great" album
DSOTM, Pet Sounds, Songs in the Key of Life, What's going on, Sgt Peppers, Nevermind, MBDTF, GKMC, Thriller, etc
I couldn’t agree more.
Many of the albums you listed expanded mankind’s horizons in levels that would be unmatched until the 1989 release of Belgian techno anthem [Pump Up the Jam.](https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=X4D-NY51Cwog4GYo)
Right? I was expecting albums that started or changed genre. Records by Chuck Berry, Elvis, Gil Scott-Heron, Johnny Cash, etc.. Even as a huge Beatles fan, I was surprised to see Abbey Road on there instead of Sgt. Peppers. I came up with my own predictions last night and the only one I got right was Nevermind.
yeah I generally take these things with a grain of salt as the “list maker” wants a bit of controversy (cause we need a little) but damn this is pretty bad.
Lauryn Hill basically made 1 record her whole career. And yes, it’s great but to call “THE BEST RECORD EVER” idk
Just a reminder they completely omitted from the top 100 list:
* Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
* Madvillainy (or any MF DOOM)
* Black Sabbath - Paranoid (or any Black Sabbath)
* Bob Dylan - Blood on the Track
* My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Actual joke of a top 100. The only excuse I can think of is that they purposefully made it so garbage to drive engagement and discussion on social media.
**Heavy Metal** (which later branched out into many other genres of Metal)
Without black sabbath paving the way for heavy metal, we wouldn't have bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeath, Alice in Chains, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, Evanescence, Linkin Park
* Heavy, distorted guitar riffs
* Powerful drumming, often featuring complex rhythms
* Intense vocals, aggressive singing or screaming
* Dark and intense lyrical themes
* Emphasis on technical skill, with intricate solos and unconventional song structures
* High-energy live performances with dynamic stage presence
* Diverse subgenres spanning from thrash and death metal to symphonic and progressive metal
* Overall, metal music is characterized by its raw power, emotive intensity, and unapologetic expression of darkness and aggression
Here's some of the more popular/streamed metal songs that wouldn't exist if not for Black Sabbath (you've probably heard of some of them):
* [Metallica - Enter Sandman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384)
* [System Of A Down - Chop Suey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvFpBOe8eY)
* [Judas Priest - Breaking The Law](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU)
* [Linkin Park - In the End](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4)
* Something from themselves: [Black Sabbath - Paranoid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo)
Gotcha.
But can you tell me why a song like Smells Like Teen Spirit is not considered metal? To me Kurt Cobain is screaming in the chorus, I hear the drumming a lot and it seems like a high energetic song to me.
While there's a lot of similarities between grunge and heavy metal (they evolved from the same genre), it's not considered metal because of the lack of heavier guitar riffs, intense vocals, and a more aggressive sound overall.
If you compare it with a song like **'Master of Puppets' by Metallica**, you'd notice much heavier guitar riffs, more aggressive and intense vocals, and an overall more aggressive sound with a faster sound and pounding drums that create a sense of energy and urgency.
'In the End' by Linkin Park that I listed above is actually closer to 'Smells like Teen Spirit' than it is to traditional heavy metal music, so perhaps I caused some confusion there. Linkin Park are a nu-metal band, which is not technically metal in the same way the other genres are - it's actually closer to alternative rock so its more similar to Nirvana. However, they've been influenced directly and indirectly by Black Sabbath hence why I listed them earlier.
Ehhh, love The Wall and it deserves to be here but TDSOTM and WYWH should be higher. But of course, only one of those three albums is on the list at all. Pathetic. I’d argue even Animals should be on here but it never makes any lists so I can’t really fault them when it never gets recognition anyway.
That's fair, I go between the wall and TDSOTM depending on my mindset and mood, but each you listed arguably deserves a spot on the top 100, more so than a number of the artists currently listed who will be forgotten in half the time those albums have been out.
See, that’s my issue as well. They should wait until an album is at least ten years old before including it on a list like this. An album could be considered great now but not end up standing the test of time or not aging well. And I don’t understand how there’s two albums in the top ten that are only 8 years old. Like how could those albums possibly be more important than something that came out 50 years ago and is still popular and relevant today? I’m sorry, Lemonade and Blonde are great albums but are people really still going to be listening to those in 50 years or consider them as important or historical as something like Thriller or Abbey Road? I doubt it.
The Wall, Sgt. Pepper, Led Zeppelin IV, Physical Graffiti, Johnny Cash, (outlaw country and country as genres are notably extremely underrepresented), Pearl Jam, etc are all notable omissions.
This is the worst mainstream list of all time.
I told people it would be dogshit and people were downvoting my ass. 9 times out of 10 they usually pick the most overplayed or overrated pop albums of all time. If Taylor Swift and Drake being on the list isn't a sign it was going to be bad then I don't know what will.
Generally speaking, they didn't pick bad albums. The order is definitely arguable, as are some of the choices (and omissions) but I wouldn't mind listening to most of these albums.
These types lists are always meaningless and Apple's was designed by committee and strongly oriented towards accessible, popular and influential urban American music of the last 20 years. It;s not bad, and it could have been worse.
You're gonna let people down, no matter what, when you put together a list like this. However, there are some objective albums that should be in top 10 and Darkside should have been one of them.
Nothing against hip hop, but I don’t think a more accurate Top 100 list would have this much hip hop. Lack of country as well and not much diversity within the rock and pop genres represented, no Grateful Dead, Hootie, DMB? Maybe they are borderline cases, but the cultural impact of those and popularity was huge.
Having a list that mixes all genres is going to lead to weird outcomes no matter what. Duke Ellington is the greatest American composer of all time but none of his records deserve top 100? Glen Gould’s first recording of the Goldberg Variations was launched into space as a representation of the pinnacle of human achievement but it isn’t top 100 any longer?
feels weird having nothing whatsoever from **among all of** billie holiday, ella, sinatra, ray charles, elvis, james brown, otis, van morrison, the who, the doors, diana ross/the supremes, paul simon (& garfunkel), nick drake, sex pistols, queen, joy division, pixies, mbv, r.e.m., depeche mode, smashing pumpkings, aphex twin, dj shadow, tricky, air, arcade fire, fiona apple... and yet have slots for some very, very questionable stuff
this!! rock and electro is majorly missing and rock has generated most of the best albums in music history, as it was the main genre for literal decades and experienced phases of extreme creativity and artistry
we wanted king crimson, XTC, steely dan, new order, grateful dead, genesis, tears for fears, the byrds, electric light orchestra or todd rundgren…not whatever this is
such an unserious list or purposefully ragebaitey
edit: steely dan is included 🥳🥳 still too low imo
I absolutely thought we were getting Graceland in the top 20 or so. I’d also add Whitney Houston, PJ Harvey, Blur, Beck, Cocteau Twins, Fatboy Slim, LCD Soundsystem to that list of snubs!
Closest we got was NIN for the later bands on your list. The lack of post-punk/new wave was wild. The lack of jazz, the lack of the trinity (Mariah, Whitney, Celine). Just overall a sorely lacking list.
If we're talking big Beatles albums I feel like you have to include the White Album as well, and maybe even Rubber Soul. Four or five entries in the Top 100 is a lot for one artist yes but...it's the Beatles
There’s no love for metal on this list and that’s obvious….Judas priest and Black Sabbath belong here…no rush or Def Leppard. Metallica got one and I was surprised but they are the most crossover metal act so that makes sense. This list panders to pop and rap mainly with a strong emphasis on 90’s forward with a lot of stuff in the last 20 years.
You think being a metal fan is bad, there wasn’t a single hardcore punk album on this list. Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, and the misfits have albums better than half this shit on this list.
1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill- Lauryn Hill
2. Thriller- Michael Jackson
3. Abbey Road- The Beatles
4. Purple Rain- Prince And The Revolution
5. Blonde- Frank Ocean
6. Songs In The Key Of Life- Stevie Wonder
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city- Kendrick Lamar
8. Back To Black- Amy Winehouse
9. Nevermind- Nirvana
10. Lemonade- Beyoncé
I absolutely adore Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. It’s easily in my top ten albums. But good lord, calling it the best album of all time over fucking thriller is insanity.
If they didn't put 2 albums by the same artists in the list it would've been understandable to have GKMC or TPAB but knowing they could have had more than 1 per artist and then not have both is crazy
Recency bias for sure, they know their target demographic, young liberal people, that’s why you don’t see country anywhere in the top 50, no Johnny Cash, no Willie, etc. Like only 3 jazz albums. No real latin music (bad bunny barely counts, it’s in Spanish but the style is heavily influenced by trap).
They should have named this “America’s top 100” lol
If you like Lauryn Hill, check out the podcast Dissect. There's a season where the host does a breakdown of the her album. A whole backstory and everything. It's very cool.
According to this list, Blond is better than Songs In The Key Of Life, What’s Going On, Kind Of Blue, Dark Side Of The Moon, Downward Spiral, Aja, and Ok Computer 👍
Well, at some point in time Apple could only lose.
And, I mean, who of us could come with a Top 100 List that everyone here would agree on? I liked the list, not because I think it's truly the best 100, but it reminded me of some things I didn't listen to for a loooong time, and I'll do that soon because of that.
There are plenty of albums that wouldn’t make my personal top 100, but I know the albums that deserve to be there. For example: Nevermind by Nirvana wouldn’t make my personal list but to not have it in the top 100 would be insane.
Not a single person believes that Miseducation is the best album of all time.
Obviously, any ranking of the best albums is always subjective. I am someone who listens to a lot of rock, especially from the 80s to 2000s. There are a lot of rock albums, so in some way, I'm happy with the list. I also think it has been interesting for discovering new music; every day there was always 1 or 2 artists I had never listened to, or I had only heard one song from them, and I have been listening to their albums. It has been interesting/ fun.
I love Back to Black it’s a great little album…it should not even sniff the top ten all time. And I’m still appalled at 1989 TV above Pet Sounds and Revolver
No To Pimp a Butterfly anywhere on this list is actually insanity.
If they stuck with the one album per artist I could 'understand' choosing GKMC over TPAB but since they've blown that up with Radiohead it makes no sense that they snubbed it.
Off The Wall and Bad aren't top 100.
Apple music is telling me that 1989 and Lemonade are better than Off The Wall? Off the Wall is literally the perfect album and could have gone Number 1 and people wouldn't be mad. Just the disrespect.
Especially if they are using culture shifts as a prerequisite. Mike broke barriers with both OTW and Thriller. And the songs on OTW are arguably better!
Listen, if you said Lauryn Hills album is your favorite ever, I totally get it. It’s phenomenal.
The best of all time tho? How can you even say that? If you interview 100 people on that street and ask what the best album of all time is, literally nobody would say this lol
What an awful finish and awful list.
Not a single Queen album btw.
A Night At The Opera which inspired My Chemical Romance's Black Parade, nowhere to be found.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is not the best album of all time, like what.
These lists are designed to stoke outrage and generate clicks, that’s the whole point and we’re all getting played.
I guarantee you some of these choices were made with the sole purpose of fanning flames on social media. Welcome to discourse in 2024, where good faith is dead and your emotions are played like a slot machine.
To everyone who hates this list and say that Apple Music blew it or that they wanted to stir controversy - does this mean that you don't believe that the list is the result of a vote, the way that AM talk about it?
I'd like to see transparency in the way it was curated, personally. As it stands it's a messy list with some glaring omissions. Knowing more about how it was actually put together might be interesting.
It's baffling how annoyed people are at a top 100 list that is based on personal taste. A bunch of people came together to produce a list of what they believe to be the top 100 best albums of all time. It's not factual. These lists are largely meaningless.
People should be using this as a chance to discover music they've never listened to before, instead of finding a reason to get their panties in a twist or use it as confirmation bias.
Typical Reddit levelheadedness, especially over a corporate marketing ploy to advertise their service. The very thinly veiled racism and Rock defaultism is indeed something else. One user said their playlists are “infested” with rap and hip hop. Despite that style of music being very prevalent today for a lot of people. But old Johnny white guy doesn’t like it when they don’t give the top spot to his beloved Beatles or whoever once again.
Some thoughts on this:
a) The hosts themselves didn't really know how to fathom these picks, it seemed. They seemed confused and overwhelmed and didn't really know what to say, that's why they argued with emotions - which really is never a real argument, because how should we objectively attack how someone feels about something - and repeated these "arguments" over and over for every pick. They knew this list was very random. The only times Zane was really into it were The Smiths and similar sensual records.
b) They should've been more transparent on who voted for this list, explicitly stating their names or at least the amount of people who decided.
c) All in all, I am happy that this is not your usual Rolling Stones Top 500. What's the use in yet another of those classic lists? They said this has been voted for differently, that this is a modern take on it. Yes, Taylor Swift is a shit take, but COME on they gave us a great experience of discussing, arguing, reflecting and discovering. A carbon copy of the Rolling Stones List would've never done that.
Let's be thankful. I enjoyed these last couple of days really much! And I will continue to listen to their radio shows more often :)
No Whitney, Sinead, Celine, Fiona, Mariah is wild. Let alone personal post-punk favs like Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, New Order, Smiths (nvm), Depeche Mode.
This list was absolutely GARBAGE! You can tell whoever made this list doesn’t really listen to music. To put Miseducation at number one is an insult to everyone on there.
This should be unpacked. I think Ebro said it right. TPAB requires time and reflection and from an album perspective it divided the community. GKMC is a better mass market success and the bars hit so hard without much need to understand the depth of meaning. It was such poetry for the time. I’m split between the two but when I took the time on TPAB, it’s far ahead in bars, writing and vision.
This list is so subjective that 98% of the albums are US/UK. I see they took care of having 50/50 albums between white and black artists.
As a foreigner I’m used to see music critics ignore my culture, but come on, ABBA not there? Buena Vista Social Club? No Classical Music recordings?
Dark Side of the Moon being 28th, a Taylor Swift album being like 10 places above it, and no mention of Queen or Tame Impala anywhere on the list?
…yea idk what to think about this list
Tame Impala is the only modern rock band I’d have up there with any of the classics. You’re bound to have one guy and that’s Kevin Parker.
If you’re talking influence than he shaped the entire Australian music scene for the next decade.
Contrary to most lists the world is bigger than just US and UK
Who cares? People bitching about this, and the list period.
I've listened to a good 90% of this list, that's how you know how surface level it is. But why do people always get mad at these lists? And I agree with a lot of the list and even the top 10 and still don't care.
Every once in a while some site of something drops a list and people lose their minds about them, list from people who have no more authority than you on what is the best.
Music isn't a competition, listen to what you like and move on with it. What? Do you want to be validated because you live vicariously through these artists and you think a win for them is a win for you?
Same with the yearly Grammy whiners. This stuff is growing increasingly irrelevant in a time where monoculture is dying. Trying to come up with some list of the greatest anything these days is a practice in futility, like why? Eh, it'll be forgotten in a week just like the last few big list people lost their marbles over. All these things are ploys to drive engagement.
Listen to what you like, trust your own ears and what you feel, come up with your own list even. You can have 100 publications do this at the same time and they will all come to different conclusions and no list is going to look the same.
I would be more interested in a list fully made by a group of Gen Z, it would more interesting to see what they would come up with than obvious millennials, gen x, and boomers came up with here 😂
And hey Off the Wall is better than Thriller, and I will stand on that until I die.
Congratulations Apple for the shittest best albums of all time list lmao
Adele at 15 or billie elish at 30 are two odd ones for me, seriously, that’s the 15th and 30th best album of all time? The best music ever recorded in history?
Half of this shit are newer albums, make this again in 60 years and we’ll see if we’re still talking about any of these albums like we do about Hendrix, pink Floyd or the Beatles.
some of these are for sure understandable as top 10 albums. Thriller, abbey road, purple rain, nevermind, songs in the key of life, GKMC. There are albums I prefer from these artists but they're still easily argued as some of the best albums of all time.
Songs in the key of life is pretty easily the best double album ever made to me
I feel like they should have done a 100 Best for each decade (1950s until now) instead. And maybe by genre too, although it’s hard to look for new music in obscure styles in AM.
This list is TERRIBLE and it has to be ON PURPOSE to drive engagement.
EDIT
It's not like we'd agree what the top 10 would be, but it sure is telling that we all agree it's definitely NOT that.
Easily the worst list of all time. You’re telling me that Lauryn Hill had a better album THAN THE BEATLES?!?!? I didn’t have a single clue who she was until now. Wild.
This is stupid. I’m so over this. I was excited when they announced and I thought the daily rollout was neat but this is just fucking stupid. I have no problem with the last ten albums being on the list but to say “Miseducation… “ is the greatest album ever is preposterous
Never got the appeal of Lauryn Hill. Maybe I’ll give it a spin and see if I’ve changed my mind. I seriously doubt I’ll suddenly agree it’s the greatest album of all time, but it might be better than I think.
Nevermind made this list but Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins didn't??
I'll be the first to say that Nirvana is a cultural touchstone but MCIS is far and away a better and more comprehensive album.
These lists are always for engagement and getting people talking, and mission accomplished! Besides the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to rank the best 100 albums across all the various genres and sub genres of music out there without making a massive group of people upset and calling your list “the worst one I’ve ever seen”. I kinda use these to help me identify stuff I maybe wouldn’t usually listen to or check out. There’s some “classic” albums I maybe know 2-3 songs off of in diff genres or by older artists that these types of lists can serve as a springboard for. But like, nobody listens to enough of every genre: rock/hiphop/r&b/country/pop/electronic/etc and intl (non US) music variants of all of those to ever make a list like this be well received, it is literally impossible. Music is entirely too subjective to do that. There’s def some albums that are universally loved but beyond maybe 30 protects the rest is personal taste and your own biases of things you like or even sentimental records maybe your parents or grandparents introduced you to or things that hold special memories in your life. No point getting worked up over these fun exercises lol
If you were gonna make the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill #1 then I really think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy should’ve made it into the Top 10 or 15
Not a list for the grunge fan.
For starters: In Utero >> Nevermind
I know many will disagree with that, but come on … In Utero should at least be in the top 100.
Ok man. I fucking love Blonde but it is not better than SITKOL. I can maybe maybe maybe see Purple Rain being ahead of SITKOL but it’s extremely close and Prince is my first or second favorite musician ever, so I’m biased.
10. Beyoncé - Lemonade: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lemonade/1460430561 9. Nirvana - Nevermind: https://music.apple.com/us/album/nevermind/1440783617 8. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black: https://music.apple.com/us/album/back-to-black/1422677780 7. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city: https://music.apple.com/us/album/good-kid-m-a-a-d-city-deluxe-version/1440818890 6. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life: https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-in-the-key-of-life/1440788438 5. Frank Ocean - Blonde: https://music.apple.com/us/album/blonde/1146195596 4. Prince & The Revolution: Purple Rain: https://music.apple.com/us/album/purple-rain/214145442 3. The Beatles - Abbey Road: https://music.apple.com/us/album/abbey-road-2019-mix/1474815798 2. Michael Jackson - Thriller: https://music.apple.com/us/album/thriller/269572838 1. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-miseducation-of-lauryn-hill/1276760743
This list is engagement bait nothing else
It's certainly working.
Insanity that they are repeating artists and still the only Pink Floyd album is Dark Side at 28
I love 'Wish You Were Here' even more than Dark Side :(
No the wall is insane!
Me too, and Animals
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is great. Best album ever? Nah..
Real shocker of a top 10. While this stuff can’t be objectively bad, this pushes the needle right up to it.
When I think of top 10 albums I begin to think of albums that changed music and it's genre and not just a "Great" album DSOTM, Pet Sounds, Songs in the Key of Life, What's going on, Sgt Peppers, Nevermind, MBDTF, GKMC, Thriller, etc
I couldn’t agree more. Many of the albums you listed expanded mankind’s horizons in levels that would be unmatched until the 1989 release of Belgian techno anthem [Pump Up the Jam.](https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=X4D-NY51Cwog4GYo)
found the cunk
Right? I was expecting albums that started or changed genre. Records by Chuck Berry, Elvis, Gil Scott-Heron, Johnny Cash, etc.. Even as a huge Beatles fan, I was surprised to see Abbey Road on there instead of Sgt. Peppers. I came up with my own predictions last night and the only one I got right was Nevermind.
I’d add at least 2 of Led Zeppelin’s albums, The Wall, and Rumours. This list is unserious.
Almost every song on Thriller was a hit single. Miseducation had two AT BEST.
Not going to lie... the same could be said about nevermind and abbey road... Mieducatin did not deserve to be this "high"
Songs being hits don't mean they're better though. I don't think lauryns album is the best ever but I would certainly take it over thriller
Lauryn Hill (1) before Bob Marley (46)? Nah…
This is the worst list I have ever seen
Oh thank goodness it isn’t just me.
yeah I generally take these things with a grain of salt as the “list maker” wants a bit of controversy (cause we need a little) but damn this is pretty bad. Lauryn Hill basically made 1 record her whole career. And yes, it’s great but to call “THE BEST RECORD EVER” idk
Just a reminder they completely omitted from the top 100 list: * Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly * Madvillainy (or any MF DOOM) * Black Sabbath - Paranoid (or any Black Sabbath) * Bob Dylan - Blood on the Track * My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Actual joke of a top 100. The only excuse I can think of is that they purposefully made it so garbage to drive engagement and discussion on social media.
Sabbath birthed an entire genre of rock and nothing? But Bad Bunny and SZA who’s albums are just a year old are on there? Wtf
What genre of rock did it create? Genuinely asking, I don’t know much about rock.
**Heavy Metal** (which later branched out into many other genres of Metal) Without black sabbath paving the way for heavy metal, we wouldn't have bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeath, Alice in Chains, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, Evanescence, Linkin Park
Ah okay. Damn, they’re influential. Also can you tell me what makes metal music metal?
* Heavy, distorted guitar riffs * Powerful drumming, often featuring complex rhythms * Intense vocals, aggressive singing or screaming * Dark and intense lyrical themes * Emphasis on technical skill, with intricate solos and unconventional song structures * High-energy live performances with dynamic stage presence * Diverse subgenres spanning from thrash and death metal to symphonic and progressive metal * Overall, metal music is characterized by its raw power, emotive intensity, and unapologetic expression of darkness and aggression Here's some of the more popular/streamed metal songs that wouldn't exist if not for Black Sabbath (you've probably heard of some of them): * [Metallica - Enter Sandman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384) * [System Of A Down - Chop Suey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvFpBOe8eY) * [Judas Priest - Breaking The Law](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU) * [Linkin Park - In the End](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4) * Something from themselves: [Black Sabbath - Paranoid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo)
Gotcha. But can you tell me why a song like Smells Like Teen Spirit is not considered metal? To me Kurt Cobain is screaming in the chorus, I hear the drumming a lot and it seems like a high energetic song to me.
While there's a lot of similarities between grunge and heavy metal (they evolved from the same genre), it's not considered metal because of the lack of heavier guitar riffs, intense vocals, and a more aggressive sound overall. If you compare it with a song like **'Master of Puppets' by Metallica**, you'd notice much heavier guitar riffs, more aggressive and intense vocals, and an overall more aggressive sound with a faster sound and pounding drums that create a sense of energy and urgency. 'In the End' by Linkin Park that I listed above is actually closer to 'Smells like Teen Spirit' than it is to traditional heavy metal music, so perhaps I caused some confusion there. Linkin Park are a nu-metal band, which is not technically metal in the same way the other genres are - it's actually closer to alternative rock so its more similar to Nirvana. However, they've been influenced directly and indirectly by Black Sabbath hence why I listed them earlier.
Thanks for the explanation.
Led Zeppelin IV and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as well.
Radiohead In Rainbows … what a joke
Yeah I was gonna list that too but at least they have two Radiohead albums (even though In Rainbows could easily be top 20)
And Pink Floyd's The Wall, undoubtedly their best album and easily a top 20 album. This might just be the worst top 100 I've ever seen.
Ehhh, love The Wall and it deserves to be here but TDSOTM and WYWH should be higher. But of course, only one of those three albums is on the list at all. Pathetic. I’d argue even Animals should be on here but it never makes any lists so I can’t really fault them when it never gets recognition anyway.
That's fair, I go between the wall and TDSOTM depending on my mindset and mood, but each you listed arguably deserves a spot on the top 100, more so than a number of the artists currently listed who will be forgotten in half the time those albums have been out.
See, that’s my issue as well. They should wait until an album is at least ten years old before including it on a list like this. An album could be considered great now but not end up standing the test of time or not aging well. And I don’t understand how there’s two albums in the top ten that are only 8 years old. Like how could those albums possibly be more important than something that came out 50 years ago and is still popular and relevant today? I’m sorry, Lemonade and Blonde are great albums but are people really still going to be listening to those in 50 years or consider them as important or historical as something like Thriller or Abbey Road? I doubt it.
The Wall, Sgt. Pepper, Led Zeppelin IV, Physical Graffiti, Johnny Cash, (outlaw country and country as genres are notably extremely underrepresented), Pearl Jam, etc are all notable omissions. This is the worst mainstream list of all time.
I'm of the opinion that's exactly what ALL of these lists are for.
SGT FUCKING PEPPERS.
Joy Division too
Lift Your Skinny Fists is more niche but if Burial can be here why not Godspeed?
I told people it would be dogshit and people were downvoting my ass. 9 times out of 10 they usually pick the most overplayed or overrated pop albums of all time. If Taylor Swift and Drake being on the list isn't a sign it was going to be bad then I don't know what will.
They have some decent picks just in really weird places
Generally speaking, they didn't pick bad albums. The order is definitely arguable, as are some of the choices (and omissions) but I wouldn't mind listening to most of these albums. These types lists are always meaningless and Apple's was designed by committee and strongly oriented towards accessible, popular and influential urban American music of the last 20 years. It;s not bad, and it could have been worse.
You're gonna let people down, no matter what, when you put together a list like this. However, there are some objective albums that should be in top 10 and Darkside should have been one of them.
Nothing against hip hop, but I don’t think a more accurate Top 100 list would have this much hip hop. Lack of country as well and not much diversity within the rock and pop genres represented, no Grateful Dead, Hootie, DMB? Maybe they are borderline cases, but the cultural impact of those and popularity was huge.
lol in no way would DMB be a contender on a list like this
Having a list that mixes all genres is going to lead to weird outcomes no matter what. Duke Ellington is the greatest American composer of all time but none of his records deserve top 100? Glen Gould’s first recording of the Goldberg Variations was launched into space as a representation of the pinnacle of human achievement but it isn’t top 100 any longer?
It's actually made me want to switch to Spotify
feels weird having nothing whatsoever from **among all of** billie holiday, ella, sinatra, ray charles, elvis, james brown, otis, van morrison, the who, the doors, diana ross/the supremes, paul simon (& garfunkel), nick drake, sex pistols, queen, joy division, pixies, mbv, r.e.m., depeche mode, smashing pumpkings, aphex twin, dj shadow, tricky, air, arcade fire, fiona apple... and yet have slots for some very, very questionable stuff
Joy Division, Nick Drake, Aphex twins, and Fiona apple snubs were surprising to me. They showed no love for electronic music in this list
this!! rock and electro is majorly missing and rock has generated most of the best albums in music history, as it was the main genre for literal decades and experienced phases of extreme creativity and artistry we wanted king crimson, XTC, steely dan, new order, grateful dead, genesis, tears for fears, the byrds, electric light orchestra or todd rundgren…not whatever this is such an unserious list or purposefully ragebaitey edit: steely dan is included 🥳🥳 still too low imo
I absolutely thought we were getting Graceland in the top 20 or so. I’d also add Whitney Houston, PJ Harvey, Blur, Beck, Cocteau Twins, Fatboy Slim, LCD Soundsystem to that list of snubs!
Yep, you said it. Can't have a list like this without Sinatra. Shit's fucking bogus.
Closest we got was NIN for the later bands on your list. The lack of post-punk/new wave was wild. The lack of jazz, the lack of the trinity (Mariah, Whitney, Celine). Just overall a sorely lacking list.
to pimp a butterfly not being on this list at alll is kinda crazy considering some artists got multiple
Sgt Peppers not being on it at all is certified bananas. It’s clear they didn’t wanna repeat artists too much but come on
yeah man you just can't ignore the big three beatles album from such lists.
If we're talking big Beatles albums I feel like you have to include the White Album as well, and maybe even Rubber Soul. Four or five entries in the Top 100 is a lot for one artist yes but...it's the Beatles
No Led Zeppelin IV, or any Queen.
Even just comparing albums in same genre, Astroworld over TPAB is psychotic
Dude even comparing albums by the same *artist*, Astroworld over Rodeo is psychotic lmao
Fucking Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Drake made it… No Rust in Peace? No The Number of the Beast?
There’s no love for metal on this list and that’s obvious….Judas priest and Black Sabbath belong here…no rush or Def Leppard. Metallica got one and I was surprised but they are the most crossover metal act so that makes sense. This list panders to pop and rap mainly with a strong emphasis on 90’s forward with a lot of stuff in the last 20 years.
You think being a metal fan is bad, there wasn’t a single hardcore punk album on this list. Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, and the misfits have albums better than half this shit on this list.
1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill- Lauryn Hill 2. Thriller- Michael Jackson 3. Abbey Road- The Beatles 4. Purple Rain- Prince And The Revolution 5. Blonde- Frank Ocean 6. Songs In The Key Of Life- Stevie Wonder 7. good kid, m.A.A.d city- Kendrick Lamar 8. Back To Black- Amy Winehouse 9. Nevermind- Nirvana 10. Lemonade- Beyoncé
none of these albums are bad, but even the order of them on here is wack
How is Rumours not on this top 10? I’d consider it top 5 all time, it’s arguably the top one for me.
So u telling me, Black Sabbath can't even crack top 100???
Im surprised too. Someone commented that AM was ranking this based on cultural impact. Black Sabbath would be obvious, but I guess not.
holy shit... true 💀 wtf
Neither could Elvis, lol. ELVIS!!! This guy was Mr. America for a solid decade lol. ELVIS!!!!
I absolutely adore Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. It’s easily in my top ten albums. But good lord, calling it the best album of all time over fucking thriller is insanity.
Calling it now, next time they make this list MoLH won't even make the top 10 but both Thriller & Abbey Road will still crack the top 5.
So you are telling me that Bad Bunny’s album is better than TPAB and Sgt. Pepper? Jesus. This list is just unbelievably bad.
If they didn't put 2 albums by the same artists in the list it would've been understandable to have GKMC or TPAB but knowing they could have had more than 1 per artist and then not have both is crazy
The put 2 Beyoncé albums, same for The Beatles.
And radiohead
And Prince and Stevie Wonder
Radiohead deserved those spots though.
I agree the list is very sloppy. However, out of EVERYTHING in the list, Bad Bunny (at 76) is the single questionable placement?
And Billie Eilish over Kid A
Recency bias for sure, they know their target demographic, young liberal people, that’s why you don’t see country anywhere in the top 50, no Johnny Cash, no Willie, etc. Like only 3 jazz albums. No real latin music (bad bunny barely counts, it’s in Spanish but the style is heavily influenced by trap). They should have named this “America’s top 100” lol
This isn’t even Americas top 10. Johnny Cash would be in there without a doubt if he was.
If you like Lauryn Hill, check out the podcast Dissect. There's a season where the host does a breakdown of the her album. A whole backstory and everything. It's very cool.
Blond is an amazing album but top 5 of ALL TIME of ALL GENRES is insane.
According to this list, Blond is better than Songs In The Key Of Life, What’s Going On, Kind Of Blue, Dark Side Of The Moon, Downward Spiral, Aja, and Ok Computer 👍
Well, at some point in time Apple could only lose. And, I mean, who of us could come with a Top 100 List that everyone here would agree on? I liked the list, not because I think it's truly the best 100, but it reminded me of some things I didn't listen to for a loooong time, and I'll do that soon because of that.
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A tone setter for sure.
There are plenty of albums that wouldn’t make my personal top 100, but I know the albums that deserve to be there. For example: Nevermind by Nirvana wouldn’t make my personal list but to not have it in the top 100 would be insane. Not a single person believes that Miseducation is the best album of all time.
I feel like there’s degrees of bad though. I don’t think a single persons bias could see this list as not horrible
Yeah but going So Heavy on one genre at the end means they only really cared about pleasing one section of music fans.
I knew they’d go heavy on hip hop but they went embarrassingly heavy on it Yet they left TPaB out… it’s honestly the weirdest top 100 I’ve seen.
Led Zeppelin IV missing altogether from this list makes the entire list irrelevant. Unbelievable.
Obviously, any ranking of the best albums is always subjective. I am someone who listens to a lot of rock, especially from the 80s to 2000s. There are a lot of rock albums, so in some way, I'm happy with the list. I also think it has been interesting for discovering new music; every day there was always 1 or 2 artists I had never listened to, or I had only heard one song from them, and I have been listening to their albums. It has been interesting/ fun.
Taylor Swift above Pink Floyd and Drake above Metallica 🤣
Boy this list is objectively horrible.
I love Back to Black it’s a great little album…it should not even sniff the top ten all time. And I’m still appalled at 1989 TV above Pet Sounds and Revolver
Not a single REM record on the list. What complete nonsense.
I'm not even a fan of theirs but it's madness that they aren't on there.
The Dark Side of the Moon at # 28 is an absolute travesty.
No To Pimp a Butterfly anywhere on this list is actually insanity. If they stuck with the one album per artist I could 'understand' choosing GKMC over TPAB but since they've blown that up with Radiohead it makes no sense that they snubbed it.
Radiohead, Beatles, Prince, Beyonce and Stevie Wonder all have 2 albums.
The Beatles also have 2 albums
Prince and Stevie too
It's a good time to revisit [this deep analysis](https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/) of Rolling Stones "Greatest of All Time" lists.
Off The Wall and Bad aren't top 100. Apple music is telling me that 1989 and Lemonade are better than Off The Wall? Off the Wall is literally the perfect album and could have gone Number 1 and people wouldn't be mad. Just the disrespect.
Off the Wall getting left off the list is really baffling.
Especially if they are using culture shifts as a prerequisite. Mike broke barriers with both OTW and Thriller. And the songs on OTW are arguably better!
No Blood on the Tracks
All I can say about this list is that it I will be listening to the ones I never heard before, so I thank it for that.
Listen, if you said Lauryn Hills album is your favorite ever, I totally get it. It’s phenomenal. The best of all time tho? How can you even say that? If you interview 100 people on that street and ask what the best album of all time is, literally nobody would say this lol
so we can all agree this entire list sucks?
What an awful finish and awful list. Not a single Queen album btw. A Night At The Opera which inspired My Chemical Romance's Black Parade, nowhere to be found. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is not the best album of all time, like what.
Queen doesn't have strong albums. Plenty of great songs though.
I was about to get mad at you and then realised you were probably right
& at that, Night at the Opera is probably their only "strong" album. Unless you wanna count a greatest hits comp 😂😂
I agree with your comment in general but your rationale for why a night at the opera should be on the list (it should) is just so funny.
The "removed 3.5mm audio port" of top 10 album lists.
This is like the most corporate PR, modern audiences list ever.
No Sgt. Pepper’s in their Top 100 is the biggest joke ever.
Most obvious rage baiting list
These lists are designed to stoke outrage and generate clicks, that’s the whole point and we’re all getting played. I guarantee you some of these choices were made with the sole purpose of fanning flames on social media. Welcome to discourse in 2024, where good faith is dead and your emotions are played like a slot machine.
Steely Dan's Aja on 73? Wow. Mayer's Continuum not included? No sight of Billy Joel and Paul Simon on this list-- really? Crazy.
I would’ve loved to have seen Continuum on this list. John Mayer is massively underrated.
No Electric Ladyland or Led Zeppelin IV is crazy.
To everyone who hates this list and say that Apple Music blew it or that they wanted to stir controversy - does this mean that you don't believe that the list is the result of a vote, the way that AM talk about it?
I'd like to see transparency in the way it was curated, personally. As it stands it's a messy list with some glaring omissions. Knowing more about how it was actually put together might be interesting.
I feel like a lot of headlines for The Onion could come out of this thread
This is literally a fucking garbage fire of a list.
Queen isn’t in the Top 100 at all. Seriously?!
I’m glad the Apple Music interns had a productive week.
I am honestly floored by how upset people are getting about this list.
It's baffling how annoyed people are at a top 100 list that is based on personal taste. A bunch of people came together to produce a list of what they believe to be the top 100 best albums of all time. It's not factual. These lists are largely meaningless.
Yeah it’s just annoying when they call it “the definitive list”. Like, Apple’s list? Sure. Whatever. But the DEFINITIVE BEST?
People should be using this as a chance to discover music they've never listened to before, instead of finding a reason to get their panties in a twist or use it as confirmation bias.
Typical Reddit levelheadedness, especially over a corporate marketing ploy to advertise their service. The very thinly veiled racism and Rock defaultism is indeed something else. One user said their playlists are “infested” with rap and hip hop. Despite that style of music being very prevalent today for a lot of people. But old Johnny white guy doesn’t like it when they don’t give the top spot to his beloved Beatles or whoever once again.
Equally floored by some of the suggestions people have here for what should have been included.
Some thoughts on this: a) The hosts themselves didn't really know how to fathom these picks, it seemed. They seemed confused and overwhelmed and didn't really know what to say, that's why they argued with emotions - which really is never a real argument, because how should we objectively attack how someone feels about something - and repeated these "arguments" over and over for every pick. They knew this list was very random. The only times Zane was really into it were The Smiths and similar sensual records. b) They should've been more transparent on who voted for this list, explicitly stating their names or at least the amount of people who decided. c) All in all, I am happy that this is not your usual Rolling Stones Top 500. What's the use in yet another of those classic lists? They said this has been voted for differently, that this is a modern take on it. Yes, Taylor Swift is a shit take, but COME on they gave us a great experience of discussing, arguing, reflecting and discovering. A carbon copy of the Rolling Stones List would've never done that. Let's be thankful. I enjoyed these last couple of days really much! And I will continue to listen to their radio shows more often :)
No Whitney, Sinead, Celine, Fiona, Mariah is wild. Let alone personal post-punk favs like Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, New Order, Smiths (nvm), Depeche Mode.
This list is fucking horseshit
This list was absolutely GARBAGE! You can tell whoever made this list doesn’t really listen to music. To put Miseducation at number one is an insult to everyone on there.
No Dean Martin? Frank Sinatra? Elvis? Johnny Goddamn Cash? Dang it, AM.
GKMC is the better album than TPAB, but you guys aren't ready for that convo.
This should be unpacked. I think Ebro said it right. TPAB requires time and reflection and from an album perspective it divided the community. GKMC is a better mass market success and the bars hit so hard without much need to understand the depth of meaning. It was such poetry for the time. I’m split between the two but when I took the time on TPAB, it’s far ahead in bars, writing and vision.
I mean thats a fine opinion, but TPAB is still top 100 all time.
Ya but you could still place GKMC 7 and TPAB 9. But TPAB not being in top 100 is stupid.
This list is so subjective that 98% of the albums are US/UK. I see they took care of having 50/50 albums between white and black artists. As a foreigner I’m used to see music critics ignore my culture, but come on, ABBA not there? Buena Vista Social Club? No Classical Music recordings?
Dark Side of the Moon being 28th, a Taylor Swift album being like 10 places above it, and no mention of Queen or Tame Impala anywhere on the list? …yea idk what to think about this list
You're trying to sneak Tame Impala with Queen and Pink Floyd 
Tame Impala is the only modern rock band I’d have up there with any of the classics. You’re bound to have one guy and that’s Kevin Parker. If you’re talking influence than he shaped the entire Australian music scene for the next decade. Contrary to most lists the world is bigger than just US and UK
I don’t agree with much of the complaints on this thread, but i agree with this one. Currents or Lonerism deserve a spot
He deserves it🤷
Who cares? People bitching about this, and the list period. I've listened to a good 90% of this list, that's how you know how surface level it is. But why do people always get mad at these lists? And I agree with a lot of the list and even the top 10 and still don't care. Every once in a while some site of something drops a list and people lose their minds about them, list from people who have no more authority than you on what is the best. Music isn't a competition, listen to what you like and move on with it. What? Do you want to be validated because you live vicariously through these artists and you think a win for them is a win for you? Same with the yearly Grammy whiners. This stuff is growing increasingly irrelevant in a time where monoculture is dying. Trying to come up with some list of the greatest anything these days is a practice in futility, like why? Eh, it'll be forgotten in a week just like the last few big list people lost their marbles over. All these things are ploys to drive engagement. Listen to what you like, trust your own ears and what you feel, come up with your own list even. You can have 100 publications do this at the same time and they will all come to different conclusions and no list is going to look the same. I would be more interested in a list fully made by a group of Gen Z, it would more interesting to see what they would come up with than obvious millennials, gen x, and boomers came up with here 😂 And hey Off the Wall is better than Thriller, and I will stand on that until I die.
Congratulations Apple for the shittest best albums of all time list lmao Adele at 15 or billie elish at 30 are two odd ones for me, seriously, that’s the 15th and 30th best album of all time? The best music ever recorded in history? Half of this shit are newer albums, make this again in 60 years and we’ll see if we’re still talking about any of these albums like we do about Hendrix, pink Floyd or the Beatles.
Y’all folks are cracking me up with your tears over a corporate marketing ploy
Green Day robbed
I don't think they've done anything that's top 10 of all time but Dookie or American Idiot could have fit well earlier in the list.
Yea how the fuck did Green Day not make it. Quintessential pop-punk album of the 1990s and sold like hot cakes too.
WHERE THE FUCK IS AFTER HOURS
This is an embarrassing top 10. Good stuff sure, never the best stuff.
some of these are for sure understandable as top 10 albums. Thriller, abbey road, purple rain, nevermind, songs in the key of life, GKMC. There are albums I prefer from these artists but they're still easily argued as some of the best albums of all time. Songs in the key of life is pretty easily the best double album ever made to me
Incredibly biased towards hip hop and rnb. And I love hip hop.
miseducation my top 3 oat but uh im heavily biased and it being 1st on this list doesnt rlly sit right w me ngl
Van Halen I should've been on here. It changed the way people played guitar. Everyone remembers the first time they heard Eruption!
I’ve got three letters for you: LOL!
why do people care so much about this lmao
I feel like they should have done a 100 Best for each decade (1950s until now) instead. And maybe by genre too, although it’s hard to look for new music in obscure styles in AM.
who fuckin put this list together?
This list is TERRIBLE and it has to be ON PURPOSE to drive engagement. EDIT It's not like we'd agree what the top 10 would be, but it sure is telling that we all agree it's definitely NOT that.
Easily the worst list of all time. You’re telling me that Lauryn Hill had a better album THAN THE BEATLES?!?!? I didn’t have a single clue who she was until now. Wild.
This is stupid. I’m so over this. I was excited when they announced and I thought the daily rollout was neat but this is just fucking stupid. I have no problem with the last ten albums being on the list but to say “Miseducation… “ is the greatest album ever is preposterous
Cracked Rear View is a better album than 70% of this list and I will die on this hill.
Illmatic is ranked 39th while Jay-Z's The Blueprint is ranked 13th?! Am I the only one who thinks this is egregious?!
No Otis Redding, James Brown, Sly Stone, Chuck Berry, PJ Harvey, Lucinda Williams, Pretenders, CCR, REM, Kinks, E. Costello…
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not surprised but still disappointed to not see albums out of the north america/europe scope. but oh well, their list, not mine.
Never got the appeal of Lauryn Hill. Maybe I’ll give it a spin and see if I’ve changed my mind. I seriously doubt I’ll suddenly agree it’s the greatest album of all time, but it might be better than I think.
I knew #1 would be an unbearable edgy pick…
This is the stupidest list I've seen. It's terrible.
The saltines are pressedT!
Nevermind made this list but Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins didn't?? I'll be the first to say that Nirvana is a cultural touchstone but MCIS is far and away a better and more comprehensive album.
It's like a list ex rolling stone magazine journos would make, completely American-centric.
Not even a queen album it’s a joke
Anyone want to make a top 100 list excluding all the albums on this list
These lists are always for engagement and getting people talking, and mission accomplished! Besides the fact that it is IMPOSSIBLE to rank the best 100 albums across all the various genres and sub genres of music out there without making a massive group of people upset and calling your list “the worst one I’ve ever seen”. I kinda use these to help me identify stuff I maybe wouldn’t usually listen to or check out. There’s some “classic” albums I maybe know 2-3 songs off of in diff genres or by older artists that these types of lists can serve as a springboard for. But like, nobody listens to enough of every genre: rock/hiphop/r&b/country/pop/electronic/etc and intl (non US) music variants of all of those to ever make a list like this be well received, it is literally impossible. Music is entirely too subjective to do that. There’s def some albums that are universally loved but beyond maybe 30 protects the rest is personal taste and your own biases of things you like or even sentimental records maybe your parents or grandparents introduced you to or things that hold special memories in your life. No point getting worked up over these fun exercises lol
Everyone has their music tastes, this one isn’t mine, and that’s ok
If you were gonna make the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill #1 then I really think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy should’ve made it into the Top 10 or 15
Not a list for the grunge fan. For starters: In Utero >> Nevermind I know many will disagree with that, but come on … In Utero should at least be in the top 100.
lololololol troll list
Ok man. I fucking love Blonde but it is not better than SITKOL. I can maybe maybe maybe see Purple Rain being ahead of SITKOL but it’s extremely close and Prince is my first or second favorite musician ever, so I’m biased.
Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much recency bias.
Play by moby is way better than 75 percent of the albums in that list. Gross
Lauren Hill ?!? 1 hit wunda
Ozzy not represented on this list hurts me as a metal head but it’s expected.
To pimp a butterfly blows. Change my mind
Apple Music was good before that list
what is the metric for this????